Harlem

For the FIRST TIME in 50 Years!

HARLEM presents LIVE vintage performances by the top rhythm and blues acts of 1956 as performed on Alan Freed’s Rock N’ Roll Dance Party Radio show.

Alan Freed was the most important and influential DJ of the 1950s by exposing a mass white audience to the as-yet undiscovered sounds of rhythm and blues. In 1956, Freed hosted a summer replacement series over CBS Radio called The Rock and Roll Dance Party. Each week, he’d feature the top R&B; groups, backed by Count Basie’s orchestra and Sam “The Man” Taylor. Joe Williams even sang with the band on some of the shows. For the first time in 50 years, these performances will air on national radio as HARLEM dedicates a solid hour to these wonderful, forgotten live gems. Live recordings are very rare from the 1950s, so this week’s HARLEM is quite a milestone.

HARLEM airs on the 50s on 5:
Monday 11/20 @ 1pm over NYC
Tuesday 11/21 @ 9pm over LA – Midnight over Newark
Friday 11/24 @ 6pm over Boston (where a 1957 rock n’ roll show put on by Freed caused a riot)
Sunday 11/26 @ 11am over Atlanta

Shimmy, Shout, Knock Yo’self OUT….

Jump Blues

On

Harlem

This week, it’s a full hour of hand clappin’ and foot stomping as HARLEM features nothing but JUMP BLUES. You’ll hear jivin’ instrumentals by Red Prysock and Tommy Ridgley along with glorious blues shoutin’ from Big T Tyler and Rockin’ Roy Brown. Prepare to Lindy Hop til you drop with Matt The Cat, this week on HARLEM.

Harlem Airs on The 50s on 5:

Monday 11/13 @ 1pm over NYC

Tusday 11/14 @ 9pm PST / Midnight EST

Friday 11/17 @ 6pm over Baltimore

Sunady 11/19 @ 11am over Philly

-MTC

DINAH WASHINGTON
This week Harlem traces the career of one of the most distinctive voices in blues, jazz and R&B; Dinah Washington. They called her the “Queen of the Juke Boxes” because she sold so many records, first with Lionel Hampton’s Band and later as a solo artist. Her biographer, Nadine Cohodas joins Matt The Cat to reveal the story behind the story of this true music legend.

Harlem Airs on The 50s on 5:
Monday 11/6 @ 1pm over NYC
Tuesday 11/7 @ 9pm over LA & Midnight over NYC
Friday 11/10 @ 6pm over Baltimore
Sunday 11/12 @ 11am over Miami