Which American disc jockey is credited with putting the name to 'Rock 'n' Roll' music?
"""Rock and Roll Inn"" in South Merchantville, New Jersey, was established as a music venue. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the phrase to describe it. The origins of rock and roll have been fiercely debated by commentators and historians of music. There is general agreement that it arose in the Southern United States – a region that would produce most of the major early rock and roll acts – through the meeting of various influences that embodied a merging of the African musical tradition with European instrumentation. The migration of"
"Alan Freed Albert James ""Alan"" Freed (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965) was an American disc jockey. He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country, rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll. His career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry in the early 1960s. Freed was born to a Russian Jewish immigrant father, Charles S. Freed, and Welsh-American mother, Maude Palmer, in Windber, Pennsylvania. In 1933, Freed's family moved to Salem, Ohio, where Freed attended Salem High School,"
"roll, with major contributions to jazz, funk, and R&B, and even new subgenres such as the Motown Sound and techno from Detroit or house music from Chicago. In the 1920s, South Side Chicago was the base for Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941). Kansas City developed its own jazz style. The electrified Chicago blues sound exemplifies the genre, as popularized by record labels Chess and Alligator and portrayed in such films as ""The Blues Brothers"", ""Godfathers and Sons"", and ""Adventures in Babysitting"". Rock and roll music was first identified as a new genre in 1951 by Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who"
"roll was set by disc jockey Alan Freed's use of the term in his groundbreaking ""The Rock and Roll Show"" on New York's WINS in late 1954, as well as at his ""Rock and Roll Jubilee Balls"" at St. Nicholas Arena in January 1955, they chose to judge their candidates according to the music Freed spotlighted: R&B combos, black vocal groups, honking saxophonists, blues belters, and several white artists playing in the authentic R&B style (Bill Haley, Elvis Presley). The artists who appeared at Freed's earliest shows included orchestra leader Buddy Johnson, the Clovers, Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, the"
"began playing this music style while popularizing the term ""rock and roll"" to describe it. By the mid-1950s, rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States, deriving most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, boogie woogie, jazz, and swing music, and was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music. Freed's contribution in identifying rock as a new genre helped establish the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located in Cleveland. Chuck Berry, a Midwesterner from St. Louis, was among the first"
"of Alan Freed − the Cleveland disc jockey credited with first using and popularizing the term ""rock and roll"" to describe the music genre. News/talk station WHK was one of the first radio stations to broadcast in the United States and the first in Ohio; its former sister station, rock station WMMS, dominated Cleveland radio in the 1970s and 1980s and was at that time one of the highest rated radio stations in the country. In 1972, WMMS program director Billy Bass coined the phrase ""The Rock and Roll Capital of the World"" to describe Cleveland. In 1987, ""Playboy"" named"
"Martin Block Martin Block (February 3, 1903 – September 18, 1967) was an American disc jockey. Walter Winchell is said to have invented the term ""disk jockey"" as a means of describing Block's radio work. A native of Los Angeles, Block began working in radio in Tijuana, Mexico; before that, he sold small household items and appliances. At the age of only 13, he became an office boy at General Electric. When his career had stalled in Los Angeles, Block moved his family to New York; he was only there for a week before he got an announcing job. Block"
"Pop. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase ""rock and roll"" to describe the music. The 1950s saw the growth in popularity of the electric guitar (developed and popularized by Les Paul). Paul's hit records like ""How High the Moon"", and ""The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"", helped lead to the development of a specifically rock and roll style of playing of such exponents as Chuck Berry, Link Wray, and Scotty Moore. Chuck Berry, who is considered to be one"
"Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and pianist, often known by his nickname, The Killer. He has been described as ""rock & roll's first great wild man."" A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis. ""Crazy Arms"" sold 300,000 copies in the South, but it was his 1957 hit ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"" that shot Lewis to fame worldwide. He followed this with ""Great Balls of Fire"", ""Breathless"" and ""High School Confidential"". However, Lewis's rock and roll"
"Johnnie Ray John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett called Ray the ""father of rock and roll,"" and historians have noted him as a pioneering figure in the development of the genre. Raised in Oregon, Ray, who was partially deaf, began singing professionally at age fifteen on Portland radio stations. He would later"
"he became a local favorite for playing hot jazz and pop recordings. Freed enjoyed listening to these new styles because he liked the rhythms and tunes. Freed is commonly referred to as the ""father of rock 'n' roll"" due to his promotion of the style of music, and his introduction of the phrase ""rock and roll"", in reference to the musical genre, on mainstream radio in the early 1950s. He helped bridge the gap of segregation among young teenage Americans, presenting music by African-American artists (rather than cover versions by white artists) on his radio program, and arranging live concerts"
"and roll previously had limited mainstream success, and some observers at the time believed that a white performer who could credibly sing in an R&B and country style would be a success. Sam Phillips, of Memphis, Tennessee's Sun Records, found such a performer in Elvis Presley, who became one of the best-selling musicians in history, and brought rock and roll to audiences across the world. Presley's success was preceded by Bill Haley, a white performer whose ""Rock Around the Clock"" is sometimes pointed to as the start of the rock era. However, Haley's music was ""more arranged"" and ""more calculated"""
"Rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s from musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, along with country music. While elements of what was to become rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. According to Greg Kot, ""rock and roll"" refers to"
"that fused country music, blues, and swing genre to produce the earliest examples of ""rock and roll."" The coining of the phrase, ""rock and roll,"" is often attributed to American, Alan Freed, a disk jockey and concert promoter who organized many of the first major rock concerts. Since then, the rock concert has become a staple of entertainment not only in the United States, but around the world. The term 'rock concert' is also occasionally used to refer to live performances by distinctly non-rock acts. Live performances by pop, hip-hop, and R&B bands may not be rock concerts in the"
"rock, both predominantly black originated genres, rock ‘n’ roll can be traced back to black musicians in the 1920s. Rock ‘n’ roll started out as the ever so popular genres of rhythm and blues and became popular with world-famous musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, Sylvester Stewart, and Prince. Unfortunately for black rock ‘n’ roll musicians, white kids began finding an interest in the genre. When Elvis Presley became famous and popularized rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, famous black musicians such as Fats Domino, Ray Charles and Big Mama Thornton, and, of course, Little Richard, were already making rock music."
"Little Richard Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known as Little Richard, is an American recording artist, singer-songwriter and actor. A pop music and culture icon, Little Richard's most-celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship presaged the rise of rock and roll. His music influenced many other popular music genres, including soul, funk and hip hop and shaped generations of rhythm and blues artists. Little Richard has been honored by many institutions. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986."
"it promoted cultural diversity and disc jockeys were less inclined to indulge their own personal and racial biases. Alan Freed, a disc jockey and early supporter of rock and roll (and also widely credited for actually coining the term), had his career and reputation greatly harmed by a payola scandal. Dick Clark's early career was nearly derailed by a payola scandal, but he avoided trouble by selling his stake in a record company and cooperating with authorities. Attempts were made to link all payola with rock and roll music. In 1976, inner-city urban soul DJ Frankie Crocker was indicted in"
"Stan Freberg's song ""Rock Around Stephen Foster"" the record producer threatens ""You want me to tear up your autographed pictures of Hunter Hancock?"". Hunter Hancock Hunter Hancock (1916 – August 4, 2004) was a white American disc jockey regarded as the first in the Western United States to play rhythm and blues records on the radio, and among the first to broadcast rock and roll. He was born in Uvalde, Texas, and raised away in San Antonio. After school, he took on many jobs, including singing in a vaudeville troupe and a stint at a Massachusetts burlesque club. After moving"
"August 27, 2017. Guests on his final CISL-AM show: longtime friends Bruce Allen and Pat O'Day. Red Robinson Dr. Robert ""Red"" Robinson OBC (born March 30, 1937 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian disc jockey. He was the first disc jockey to play rock and roll music, in Vancouver, British Columbia. While still in high school in 1954, Robinson started working as a disc jockey at the age of 16 at radio station CJOR. His first record 'spun' as a professional DJ was ""Marie"" by The Four Tunes. He was one of the first DJs to play Elvis Presley,"
"time and understand that in his day, his style of announcing was popular. Because of his importance in that pre-rock music era, the staff of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland has included him in a display about the most influential disc jockeys in history. Symphony Sid Sid Torin (born Sidney Tarnopol, December 14, 1909 – September 14, 1984), known professionally as ""Symphony Sid"", was a long-time jazz disc jockey in the United States. Many critics have credited him with introducing bebop to the mass audience. Sidney Tarnopol was born in New York City into a Jewish"
"Bill Haley William John Clifton Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as ""Rock Around the Clock"", ""See You Later, Alligator"", ""Shake, Rattle and Roll"", ""Rocket 88"", ""Skinny Minnie"", and ""Razzle Dazzle"". He has sold over 60 million records worldwide and has been described as the greatest musical pioneer of the 20th century. Bill Haley was born July 6, 1925 in Highland Park,"
"Lin Brehmer Lin Brehmer (born August 19, 1954) is a disc jockey and radio personality at WXRT in Chicago, Illinois. Brehmer has been serving as the morning-drive slot disc jockey since 1991. Brehmer began working professionally in radio in January 1977. His first disc jockey job was in Albany, New York at WQBK-FM, where he earned the nickname, ""The Reverend of Rock and Roll."" After seven years at WQBK, Brehmer left the position and moved to Chicago to work for WXRT as music director beginning in October 1984. During the six years at WXRT, Brehmer was named ""Music Director of"
"and Fats Domino. His style of music combined with black influences created controversy during a turbulent time in history but that did not stop them from creating what we call Rock n Roll. Many other popular rock and roll singers of the time, such as Fats Domino and Little Richard, came out of the black rhythm and blues tradition, making the music attractive to white audiences, and are not usually classed as ""rockabilly"". Bill Flagg who is a Connecticut resident, began referring to his mix of hillbilly and rock 'n' roll music as rockabilly around 1953. His song ""Guitar Rock"""
"a specifically rock and roll style of playing of such exponents as Chuck Berry, Link Wray, and Scotty Moore. Chuck Berry, who is considered to be one of the pioneers of Rock and roll music, refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. Artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Joe Turner, and Gene Vincent released the initial rhythm and blues-influenced early rock and roll hits. Rock and"
"Don Steele Don Steele (born Donald Steele Revert; April 1, 1936 – August 5, 1997) was one of the most popular disc jockeys in the United States, from the middle of the 1960s until his retirement (for health reasons) in May 1997. He was known as ""The Real Don Steele,"" a name given to him by his program director, Steve Brown, in Omaha, Nebraska, who hoped the moniker would click with listeners and make him stand out from other radio personalities. Born in Hollywood, California, Steele graduated from Hollywood High School, served in the United States Air Force and then"
"and roll. The word ""rock"", originally black slang for coitus, began to be popularly used in its musical sense in the early 1940s. Following Jordan, many other small bands began achieving success, including Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers and Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, while single acts such as Big Joe Turner, Ivory Joe Hunter, T-Bone Walker and Wynonie Harris travelled the circuit without bands. In the 1940s, Jordan released dozens of hit songs, including the swinging ""Saturday Night Fish Fry"" (one of the earliest and most powerful contenders for the title of first rock and roll record), ""Blue Light Boogie"","
"Hunter Hancock Hunter Hancock (1916 – August 4, 2004) was a white American disc jockey regarded as the first in the Western United States to play rhythm and blues records on the radio, and among the first to broadcast rock and roll. He was born in Uvalde, Texas, and raised away in San Antonio. After school, he took on many jobs, including singing in a vaudeville troupe and a stint at a Massachusetts burlesque club. After moving to Los Angeles in the early 1940s he entered radio and was heard on the following stations there: KFVD (1947–1951), KFOX (1951–1954), KFVD/KPOP"
"1957 In 1982, Haley's ""Rock Around the Clock"" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings at least 25 years old and with ""qualitative or historical significance"". In December 2017, Haley was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Hall Of Fame. Bill Haley William John Clifton Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such"
"blues and gospel music; with country and western and Pop. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase ""rock and roll"" to describe the music, though the terms ""rocking"" and ""rolling"" were being used in boogie-woogie and religious music for decades before that. The 1950s saw the growth in popularity of the electric guitar (developed and popularized by Les Paul). Paul's hit records like ""How High the Moon,"" and ""The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise,"" helped lead to the development of"
"as the BBC's Brian Matthew and Alan Freeman, Radio London's John Peel, Radio Caroline's Tony Blackburn, and Radio Luxembourg's Jimmy Savile. Alan Freed is commonly referred to as the ""father of rock and roll"" due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the term rock and roll on radio in the early 1950s. Freed also made a practice of presenting music by African-American artists rather than cover versions by white artists on his radio program. Freed's career ended when it was shown that he had accepted payola, a practice that was highly controversial at the time, resulting"
"Red Robinson Dr. Robert ""Red"" Robinson OBC (born March 30, 1937 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian disc jockey. He was the first disc jockey to play rock and roll music, in Vancouver, British Columbia. While still in high school in 1954, Robinson started working as a disc jockey at the age of 16 at radio station CJOR. His first record 'spun' as a professional DJ was ""Marie"" by The Four Tunes. He was one of the first DJs to play Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and other Rock and Roll artists on a regular basis in Canada. In 1956,"
"and still start their noon hour with the ""12 o'clock Beatles Block"". Muni was inducted into the Rock Radio Hall of Fame in the ""Legends of Rock Radio-Programming"" category for his work at WNEW in 2014. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2015. Scott Muni Scott Muni (May 10, 1930 – September 28, 2004) was an American disc jockey, who worked at the heyday of the AM Top 40 format and then was a pioneer of FM progressive rock radio. ""Rolling Stone"" magazine termed him ""legendary"". Born Donald Allen Muñoz in Wichita, Kansas, Muni grew"
"Benny Goodman who became known as ""The King of Jazz"" and ""The King of Swing"" respectively, despite there being more highly regarded contemporary African-American artists. These patterns of naming were transferred to rock and roll when it emerged in the 1950s. There was a series of attempts to find (and a number of claimants to be) the ""King of Rock 'n' Roll"", a title that became most associated with Elvis Presley. This has been characterized as part of a process of the appropriation of credit for innovation of the then new music by a white establishment. Different honorifics have been"