{"id":178,"date":"2007-09-13T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=178"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:56:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:56:35","slug":"harlem-week-of-91707-alan-freed-live-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/09\/13\/harlem-week-of-91707-alan-freed-live-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem: Week Of 9\/17\/07 &#8211; Alan Freed &#8211; Live &#8217;56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/uploaded_images\/freedwabc-791985.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/uploaded_images\/freedwabc-790811.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;\"><em>For the FIRST TIME in 50 Years!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;\"><strong>ALAN FREED: Live 1956<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#33cc00;\">HARLEM presents LIVE vintage performances by the top rhythm and blues acts of 1956 as performed on Alan Freed&#8217;s Rock N&#8217; Roll Dance Party Radio show.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;d feature the top R&B; groups, backed by Count Basie&#8217;s orchestra and Sam &#8220;The Man&#8221; Taylor. Joe Williams even sang with the band on some of the shows. For the first time in 49 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&#8217;s HARLEM is quite a milestone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">HARLEM airs on the 50s on 5:<\/span><br \/>Monday @ 1pm over NYC<br \/>Tuesday @ midnight over Boston (where a 1957 rock n&#8217; roll show put on by Freed caused a riot) Friday @ 6pm over Philly<br \/>Sunday @ 11am over Atlanta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the FIRST TIME in 50 Years! ALAN FREED: Live 1956 HARLEM presents LIVE vintage performances by the top rhythm and blues acts of 1956 as performed on Alan Freed&#8217;s Rock N&#8217; Roll Dance Party Radio show. Alan Freed was the most important and influential DJ of the 1950s by exposing a mass white audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}