Talk:Alan Freed
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Who did coin the phrase "Rock and Roll"? PMelvilleAustin 11:37 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)
I've heard that there is a connection between Freed's "Moondog Coronation Ball" and the musician Moondog. Does anyone know more about this? McGravin 00:00 Mar 3, 2004
Very POV
This needs lots of work as it is very pro-Freed POV and not at all objective (even though I very much agree with a majority of the points made). I'm not going to "tag" it yet, but it certainly needs lots more work to come up to Wikipedia standards — as currently written it is just a defense of Freed and not an encyclopedia article. Rlquall 00:20, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
- I tend to agree.
- I've been with R&R at least since Alan came up to the desert, and before; and I don't think the whole story is told here.
- What about the bit with Morris Levy, the Music Mafia dude? That's where he really got ripped off.
- They told me that they only made $10.00 out of all that; even the Jews themselves spoke out against Morris Levy, he was a real schmuck.
- And I don't think Clark faired that well either, as I remember. He really got stuck when they literally forbade him to own his own stuff; he got around it, though, with some kind of by-proxy ownership thing or something.
- And then there was Peter Tripp. They really socked it to him, but like Freed and Clark, he moved out to California where "miraculously" Rock & Roll was reborn.
- As for as the name "Moondog"; he was sued back in 1953 for stealing that name from some blind dude: Louis "Moondog" Hardin who was a street poet who had been going by that name for at least 10 years. Alan apologized and changed the name to "rock & roll", but Louis has never been properly credited for his accomplishments, including being the true father of "Moondog Music" as Alan had at first called it.
- WB2 06:18, 27 May 2005 (UTC)