Archives: Rock ‘n’ Roll (1954-1959) – Press Coverage

Archives: Rock ‘n’ Roll (1954-1959) – Press Coverage

MAGAZINE

Life Magazine:

• 4-18-1955: Rock ‘N Roll – A Frenzied Teen-Aged Music Craze Kicks Up a Big Fuss  (Police Chief Francis McManus, Herbert Hardesty, Al Jarvis, Fats Domino) ~9MB pdf
• 4-18-1955: Brooklyn Paramount – “A Question of Questionable Meanings” (Brooklyn Paramount, Arthur Murray) ~9MB pdf
• 5-20-1957: A “Rock ‘N’ Roll Beat” at Youth Rally in Chicago Stadium (~10MB pdf)
• 12-22-1958: Life Magazine – Rock ‘N’ Roll Rolls On ‘N’ On (Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, Sal Mineo, Bobby Darin, Frankie Avalon, Sal Mineo, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Danny and the Juniors, Connie Francis) ~70MB pdf

Additional Magazine:

• 1954: Alan Freed May Have Invented Rock N Roll Radio But He Had Help: (Randy Wood, Gene Nobles, Gallatin, “race artists”, WCLA, John Richbourg, Bill Hoss Allen, Randy’s Record Mart)
• 9-19-1956: Down Beat by Alan Freed:  Alan Freed Says: I Told You So… (George Armand, K. Leslie, The Rock N Roll Rhapsody, Joe Reisman, WJW, Sam the Man Taylor, Rock N Roll Dance Party, LaVerne Baker, Della Reese, Red Prysock, Big Al Sears, Ivory Joe Hunter, Mitch Miller)
• 10-1956: Teenage Rock and Roll Review: A Story You Helped Write, (CBS radio, WINS King of Rock and Roll, Nephrosis Foundation, Dr. Henry W. Kaessler, Rock and Roll Parties, WCBS, WINS, Count Basie, Joe Newman, KATZ, WEBB) (44 pages/~33MB)
• 2-1957: Rock and Roll Roundup: A Salute to Alan Freed
• 7-1957: Pageant: Rock N Roll N Alan Freed, Rock N Roll Madness – Or Fun? read what its inventor-Alan Freed-has to say (Gilbert Youth Research Survey, telephone book, Blow man blow!”, Prof. Sigmunt A. Piotrowski, N.Y.U., Dr. Karl Bowman, Ohio State, Leo Mintz, race records, Negro, Cleveland Arena, St. Nicholas Arena, colored people, nigger-lover, Stamford, Conn., Beethoven’s Pastorale, Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique, cotton fields, Dr. J. Macalister Brew, Paul Whiteman, King of Jazz, Bishop of Dubuque, Elvis Presley: “Not a genuine rock n roller-hill-billy, I wish he’d shave off his sideburns.”)
• 8-1957: Wonderful World Of Rock Song Craze
• 1-1958: Cool Magazine: Alan Freed (King of Rock N Roll) (hispsters, WINS, Johnny Brantley, Paul Sherman, John Halonka, Paramount, Mister Rock & Roll, R & R)
• 8-10-1958: TV and Radio Magazine: The Case For And Against Rock  n  Roll
• 10-1958: People: What Alan Freed Really Thinks About Rock n Roll (juvenile delinquency, Jack Hook, Negroes, Elvis, Atom Bomb, WKST, New Castle Pennsylvania, Bach, Jimmy Van Heusen, Ricky Nelson, The Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis)

NEWSPAPER:

WINS:

• 8-1954: Billboard Magazine, by Josephine Jablons:  Moondog,  Blues, Jazz Disk Ace, Gets NY Show (WINS, Billboard, Muddy Waters, Guitar Slim, Little Walter, Joe Turner, Moondog is imaginery character – Harvey The Rabbit, Moondoggers, Moonpuppies, NYC blind street musician, Martin Block, Make Believe Ballroom, Bob Smith)
• 8-1954: On The Air, by George E. Condon:  King of the Moondogs  Quits WJW to Sign with New York Station (Cleveland, WINS, New York, Billboard, WJW William Lemmon, WAKR, WXEL-TV, Moondog Ball WNJR Newark NJ, Shaker Heights, Sieglinde)
• 1955: The Pittsburgh Courier, by Izzy Rowe: “The BigBeat,” (WINS, Abel Green, Leerics, Negro)
• 1955: “Early In 1950 Alan Was Signed To WXEL-TV”
• 1-1955: “Alan Freed’s ‘Rock-N-Roll’ Music Thrills New Yorkers” (Salem, Ohio, Charles Freed, WINS, St. Nicholas Arena, Variety, Lew Platt, WJW, WNJR, Long Island, Alana, Lanny, Sieglinde, Charles Freed, jr, Don Freed)
• 3-1955: By Ray Parris: “Our Kids Want Good, Wholesome Rock” (WINS, Magistrate Alex Del Giorno)
• 6-20-1956: Sues to Put Muzzle on ‘Moondog’ by Mark D. Gleisser (New Yorker, Louis Harden, Lakeside Courthouse, muzzle)
• 4-13-1957: The Cleveland Press, by Milt Freudenheim: “Alan Freed Cashes In On 2 R’s,” (Connecticut, Stamford, “Rock Around The Clock”, Australia, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Brooklyn Paramount, WAKR, WXEL, WJW-TV, Moondog Rock and Roll Party)
• 4-13-1957: By Earl Wilson: Alan Freed, Rock-Roll Exponent, Boosting Rock-a-Billy in Gotham” (Elvis Presley, rock-a-billy, The Record Rendezvous, Cleveland, Joe Mintz, Akron, Rock n Roll Dance Party, WJW, Buckeye, Arthur Murray Studios, Salem, WJW, WNJR Newark, Tommy Sands)

Newark Armory:

• 5-1-1954: Billboard Magazine, by Tom O’Connell: “Alan Freed Hosts Moondog Affair Tonight in Newark” (WJW, Moondogg, Sussex Avenue Armory, WNJR, Muddy Waters, The Harptones, R.C.A. Victor)
• 8-1954: Our World: Dear Mr. Moondog Allen Freed’s Coronation Ball packs 11000 into Newark Armory (Clovers, Harptones, blind New Yorker nick-named Moondog, Pee Wee’s, Bamberger’s)

St. Nicholas Arena:

• 1-11-1955: “‘Rock ‘n Roll’ Ball” (St. Nicholas Arena, ex-Mr. Moondog, WINS, Buddy and Ella Johnson, Dakota Staton, Al Sears, Fats Domino, Red Prysock, Harptones, The Drifters, Clovers, Moonglows)
• 1-29-1955: The Cash Box: “The Alan Freed ‘Rock-n-Roll’ Ball Held at the St. Nicholas Arena,” (New York, St. Nicholas Arena, Joe Turner, Fats Domino, Juke Box Trophy)

Brooklyn Paramount:

• 1955: “A Wildly Cheering Crowd of Teenagers” (Brooklyn Paramount)
• 1955: The Cash Box: “Alan Freed Rocks ‘N’ Rolls To The Tune of $178,000…,” (Brooklyn Paramount, WINS, Red Prysock, Harptones, Chuck Berry, Chess, Tony Bennett, Sam Taylor, Al Sears, Lillian Briggs)
• 4-8-1955: “Mr. Freed’s Rock and Roll Show” (Lou Platt , Brooklyn Paramount, Easter)
• 9-14-55: Variety: “$155,000 One Week’s Gross – Paramount Theatre,” (Brooklyn)
• 9-18-55: Sunday News, by Robert Sullivan: “Rock ‘n’ Roll – ‘n’ Riot”
• 9-20-55: “Deejay Freed Has Himself A Busy Week” (New York, September 10, Brooklyn Paramount, WINS, Roxy, Morris Levy, Bob Smith, Arnett Cobb)

Fox Paramount:

• 2-23-1956: “Rock ‘N’ Roll Orgy Surges, Theater Grosses $29,000” (Police, New york, Times Square, Great White Way, Paramount,  Don’t Knock The Rock)
• 2-23-1957 From The NY Times, by Edith Evens Asbury: “Rock ‘n’ Roll Teen-Agers Tie Up the Times Square Area,” (Paramount Theatre, coining phrase rock ‘n’ roll, levees, plantations, crooners)
• 2-23-1957: The NY Times, by Alexander R. Hammer: Fad Also Rocks Cash Registers (R.C.A. Elvis, Columbia, Rock Around the Clock, Paramount, Coca-Cola, Arthur Murray)

Tours:

• 3-19-1955: by Izzy Rowe: “Michigan’s Governor Lauds Courier Benefit Show”: (New York, Waldorf Astoria, Gov. G. Mennen Williams, Juvenile Delinquency, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, Errol Garner, Count Basie, Wild Bill Davis, Ruth Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni James, Dinah Washington, Dorothy Bandridge, Nat Cole, Sammy Davis, Eartha Kitt, Harold Jackson)
• 3-19-1955: They Plan to Be There (above Izzy Rowe story, better image)
• 6-20-1956: The Miami Herald: “New Music ‘Too Bad to Continue Indefinitely,’ Says Disc Executive,” (Dade County Auditorium, Mitch Miller, Negro, WHDH, Boston, Judge John J. Connolly, Nat King Cole)
• 1957: Another big nitespot planned for Broadway (Broadway Sugar Bowl, Ted Straeter)
• 4-4-1957: Dayton Ohio Journal Herald: Freed’s Big Beat Show At Memorial Hall Tonight
• 8-26-1957: New York World Telegram & Sun, Brooklyn Section, by Jay Fulton: Grant, Kerr Teamed In Comedy at Albee (Little Richard, The Del Vikings, The Diamonds)
• 8-26-1957: Billboard Cincinnati, Ohio: “Alan Freed and All-Star Lineup Planed to England,” (Bill Haley, Columbia Pictures, Sam Katzman)
• 11-16-1957 From The Cash Box: “Alan Freed Pacted For Six Week Tour” (New Haven, “Big Beat”, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, Danny and The Juniors, The Chantels, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Sam The Man Taylor, Milt Shaw)
• 12-31-1957: Globe-Democrat St. Louis, MO. by Associated Press: “Theater Boom Puzzles Broadway Showmen,” (Great White Way, Paramount)
• 1-1-1958: Hartford Times: “Alan Freed Reopens State Theater,” (“King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, Chuck Berry, Bill Justis, Moonglows, Sam the Man Taylor)
• 1-3-1958: The New York Post: “Freed Breaks All Records,” (Paramount, Bob Shapiro)
• 1-4-1958: “Freed To Start 6 Week Tour of US March 28,” The Cash Box (Shaw Artists Corp., Milton Shaw)
• 1-11-1958: The Cash Box: Freed Sets Records at N.Y. Paramount New York (Paramount Theatre, WINS, Dean Martin, Johnnie Ray, Hartford )
• 3-3-1958: Bartlesville, Oklahoma Examiner-Enterprise: Show Coming (Paramount Theatre, Big Beat, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Danny and the Juniors)
• 3-16-1958: Variety New York: Philadelphia (“Big Beat, Convention Hall)
• 3-21-1958: Kalamazoo, Michigan Gazette: Rock n Roll Stars to Be In Show Here Jerry Lee Lewis, The Crickets, The Diamonds, Central High School, “The Big Beat”)
• 3-23-1958: Philadelphia PA. Inquirer: Big Beat Show Features Top Hits (Convention Hall, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Danny and The Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford and The Thunderbirds, The Chantels, Dicky Doo and the Don’s, Larry Williams Orchestra, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Pastels, Jo Ann Campbell, Sam The Man Taylor)
• 3-26-1958: Variety New York: “Alan Freed’s ‘Big Beat’ show Booked Into Convention Hall,” (Chess Records, Chicago, “Big Beat”)
• 3-26-1958: Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Star by John Gardiner: The Theatre and It’s People (Windsor Arena, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, The Crickets, Chuck Berry, the Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, The Chantels, Dicky Doo and The Don’ts, Larry Williams and Orchestra, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Pastels, Jo Ann Campbell, Big Rockin’ Band, Sam the Man Taylor, Canadian, Canada)
• 3-30-1958: American, Baltimore, MD.: “‘Big Beat’ Due Here,” (Colliseum, Jerry Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Chantels, Larry Williams, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Sam the Man Taylor)
• 3-30-1958: Bartlesville Okla. Examiner-Enterprise: Show Coming (Civic Center, April 21, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, the Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Danny and The Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford)
• 4-1958: Ohio Post: “Disc Jockey Alan Freed Brings ‘Big Beat’ Music Show,” (Cincinnati Garden)
• 4-1-1958: New York World-Telegram & Sun: Rock and Roll Show (New York Coliseum, Producer Phil Landwehr)
• 4-2-1958: Journal American New York: “Freed Booked Into Coliseum (first Rock n Roll show, famed coliseum)
• 4-4-1958: Cincinnati Ohio Post: Disc Jockey Alan Freed Big Beat Cincinnati Garden)
• 4-4-1958: Canton Ohio Repository: Local Talent Scheduled in Rock n Roll Program (Canton’s Memorial Auditorium, Bill Hamaker, SCMW, Vince Risko, Ernie Roth, Phil McLean, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Danny and the Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, The Chantels, Dicky Doo and the Don’ts, Larry Williams Orchestra, Screamin Jay Hawkins, the Pastels, Jo Ann Campbell, Sam The Man Taylor)
• 4-5-1958: Dayton Ohio Journal Herald:Rock n Roll Show Wows ‘Em“ They Were Dancing in Aisles! (Get Hep-Go, Man, Go)
• 4-6-1958: Akron Ohio Beacon Journal: “Canton Has Alan Freed (Monday, Canton Memorial Auditorium, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, the Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, the Diamonds, Danny and the Juniors, Billie and Lillie, Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, the Chantels, Dickey Doo and the Don’ts, Larry Williams Orchestra, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, the Pastels, Sam Taylor)
• 4-6-1958: Morning Eagle Wichita Kansas: 17 Recording Stars in Big Beat Show (Wichita Forum, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, Diamonds, Danny and the Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, Chantels, Dicky doo and the Don’t, Larry Williams and his Orchestra, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Jo Ann Cambell, Alan Freed Rockin Coral Recording Band featuring Sam the Man Taylor)
• 4-7-1958: Cleveland Ohio Press: Sights and Sounds by Milt Widder (Public Hall)
• 4-9-1958: Variety, New York: Freed’s R&R Sugar Bowl For Miami  (WINS, Miami Beach Club, Ralph Watkins, Vagabonds, Sugar Bowls)
• 4-11-1958: Milwaukee Wis. Journal by Arthur M. Uhlmann: Big Beat Makes Big Hit With Rock N Roll Fans (Riverside Theater)
• 4-13-1958: Hartford Conn. Times: Alan Freed Reopens State Jan. 11-12 (Chuck Berry, Bill Justis and Band, Lee Andrews and Hearts, Moonglows, Jo-Ann Cambell, Sam the Man Taylor, King Curtis)
• 4-13-1958: Des Moines, Iowa Register: Rock Stars For Waterloo (Hippodrome Auditorium, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, the Crickets, Chuck Berry, the Diamonds, Danny and the Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Sam the Man Taylor, the Chantels, Frankie Lymon)
• 4-13-1958: Kansas City, MO. Star: Rock N Roll Night (Municipal Auditorium, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon)
• 4-13-1958: Milwaukee Wis. Sentinel: Alan Freed (Riverside Theatre, Frankie Lymon, Dicky Doo and the Dont’s, Chuck Berry, The Diamonds, The Crickets, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Danny and the Juniors, Jo Ann Campbell, The Pastels, WAKR, Akron, WINS, St. Nicholas Arena, Europe, ABC Television, Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, Paramount Theatre)
• 4-13-1958: Chicago, ILL. Tribune: Recording Stars to Present Jazz Show on April 26 (Opera House, Jerry Lee Lewis, Danny and the Juniors, The Diamonds, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Billie and Lillie, Buddy Holly, Dicky Doo and the Dont’s, the Crickets, Sam The Man Taylor, Billy Ford and his Thunderbirds)
• 4-20-1958: Kansas City, MO. Star: An Event to 7000 (Municipal Auditorium, Jerry Lee Lewis, Diamonds)
• 4-25-1958: Milwaukee Wis. Journal, by Loren Oshman: 6200 Rock Addicts Find Big Beat (Riverside Theatre, songobatics, Jerry Lee Lewis)
• 4-27-1958: Allentown, PA. Call-Chronicle:  17 top Name Acts, Four Bands In Six-Hour  Big Beat Show (Allentown Fairgrounds, Agricultural Bldg., Jerry Lee Lewis, Louisiana, Steve Allen Show, Buddy Holly, The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Danny and the Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, The Chantels, Larry Williams Orchestra, The Pastels, Dicky Doo and the Don’ts, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Jo Ann Campbell, Ed Townsend, Coral Records, Sam The Man Taylor)
• 4-27-1958: Akron Ohio Beacon Journal: Alan Freed Plays Here (WAKR, Scott Muni, WCUE, Art Roberts, Armory, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, the Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, the Diamonds, Danny and the Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, the Chantels, Dicky Doo and the Don’ts, Larry Williams Orchestra, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, the Pastels, Jo Ann Cambell, Sam Taylor, Richman’s)
• 4-29-1958: Easton PA. Express: Six-Hour Show To Mark Opening of New Ballroom (Allentown Fairgrounds, A.J. Perry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Danny and The Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford and The Thunderbirds, The Chantels, Dicky Doo and the Don’ts, Larry Williams, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Pastels, Jo Ann Campbell, Sam the Man Taylor)
• 5-1958: Waterbury Conn. Republican: Alan Freed Show At Arena Thursday (New Haven Arena, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Danny and The Juniors, Billy and Lillie, Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, The Chantels, Dicky Doo and the Don’ts, Larry Williams Orchestra, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Pastels, Jo Ann Campbell, Coral Recording Band, SamThe Man Taylor)

Motion Pictures:

• Rock Around the Clock:
  • 4-17-1956: Disc Jockey Plays Self In T-D Film, Oakland Tribune, WINS, Rock Around the Clock, Bill Haley and his Comets, musical craze, sweeping country, Ernie Freeman Combo, Toni Martinez, Freddie Bell and his Bellboys, Johnny Johnston, Alix Talton)
• ROCK, ROCK, ROCK!:
• Don’t Knock the Rock:
• Mister Rock and Roll:
• GO, Johnny, GO!:

Big Beat Rock N Roll Dance Party (Television):

• 1-6-1956: by Alan Freed in Photoplay: “I Happened to be Born With the Name of Freed,” (WNEW-TV, The Big Beat, Johnny Ray, Fats Dominoe, Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, Tommy Sands, Ed Townsend, Gino & Gina)
• 4-28-1957: New York, NY Sunday News by Kay Gardella: “Rock ‘n’ Roll Gets Ready for TV,” (May 4, 7:30pm, ABC, Tin Pan Alley, Cashbox, prejudice, Brooklyn Paramount, dungaree brigade, Rock ‘n’ Roll Party, WINS)
• 5-10-1958: TV-What
• 7-12-1957: NJ News by Roland E. Lindbloom: “TV Big Beat Rocks ‘n’ Rolls Tonight,” (“The Big Beat”, ABC Television Center, West 67th St Manhahttan, “The Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue”, 18-piece orchestra, Sam the Man Taylor, Big Al Sears, Connie Francis, Everly Brothers, Andy Williams, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lyman and the Teen-agers, Bobby Darin)
• 7-12-1957: Huntington, W.VA Advertiser: “‘The Big Beat’ Debuts Tonight,” (WHTN-TV, emcee)
• 4-27-1957: New York Sunday News by Kay Gardella: “Rock N Roll Gets Ready for TV” (Tin Pan Alley, Cashbox, Guy Mitchell, June Valli, Sal Mineo, Martha Carson, The Dell Vikings, The Clovers, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman)
• 7-12-1957: Huntington W.VA. Advertiser: The Big Beat Debuts Tonight (The Big Beat, WHTN-TV)
• 4-4-1958: Earl Wilson Milwaukee Wisconsin Sentinel, NBC-TV’s Garroway Show Detroit)
• 4-10-1958: Atlanta GA Constitution: On Television (Dave Garroway, Today Show, Detroit)
• 11-1958: TV Radio Mirror: The Big Beat Is Here To Stay, (Harry Belafonte, one-two beat, John, Philip Sousa, Al Jolson, Harry Richman, Eddie Cantor, Paul Whiteman)
• 12-1958: Hit Parader: Daddy Of The Big Beat Alan Freed, (Channel 5-WNEW New York, swingin’est, WABC, Ed Townsend, Big Beat, Frankie Avalon, Connie Francis)

Boston Riot, May 4, 1958 

Press Coverage:

• 5-5-1958:“After the Brawl Was Over,” Times, Woburn, Mass. (Boston, “Alan Freed barred n in Boston”, Paramount Theatre, “I guess the police here in Boston don’t want you kids to have a good time”, bedeviled into gangsterism”)
• 5-5-1958: “Boston Bans ‘Rock’ Rallies,” Ohio Press, Cleveland, Ohio: (Mayor John B. Hynes, rock and roll banned in public halls, “Big Beat”, sluggings, stabbings)
• 5-5-1958: “After the Brawl Was Over,” Times, Woburn, Mass. (Rock ‘n’ Roll Brawl, Boston, “Alan Freed barred from Boston”, Paramount Theatre, “I guess the police here in Boston don’t want you kids to have a good time” Bostonians, bedeviled into gangsterism”)
• 5-5-1958: “Boston Bans ‘Rock’ Rallies,” Ohio Press, Cleveland, Ohio: (Mayor John B. Hynes, rock and roll banned in public halls, “Big Beat”, sluggings, stabbings)
• 5-5-1958: Freed Caused Riot Here, Too (Chief Frank W. Story, no shenanigans)
• 5-5-1958: Rock N Roll Music Lovers Slug, Stab 15- Boston Youths Go Wild at Freed Show (Roxbury, Back Bay, I guess the Police don’t want you kids to have a good time)
• 5-6-1958: “Two New England Cities Ban Rock ‘N’ Roll Jam Sessions,” News & Courier, Charleston, S.C. by Dick Sinnott (Boston, New Haven, Negroes attack Whites,  Police Lt. Arthur Quinn, racial violence, Mayor John B. Hynes, Paul Brown, “It looks like the police in Boston don’t want you kids to have any fun”, “Big Beat”, Providence R.I.)
• 5-6-1958: Sour-Note Parade (Boston, “It looks like the Police in Boston don’t want you kids to have a good time, hoodlums with jungle instincts)
• 5-6-1958: “Two New England Cities Ban Rock ‘N’ Roll Jam Sessions,” News & Courier, Charleston, S.C. by Dick Sinnott (Boston, New Haven, Riot, Negroes attack Whites,  gangs, Police Lt. Arthur Quinn, racial violence, Mayor John B. Hynes, Paul Brown, “It looks like the police in Boston don’t want you kids to have any fun”, “Big Beat”, Providence R.I.)
• 5-7-1958: “Cities Ban Rock ‘n’ Roll as a Result of Boston” (New Haven Conn,  “father of rock ‘n’ roll”, “world’s most popular music”, U.S. Supreme Court,  anti-rock ‘n’ roll Legislation, Dist. Atty. Garrett H. Byrne, Freed, riot, “Big Beat”, Senator William D. Fleming)
• 5-7-1958: “Cities Ban Rock ‘n’ Roll as a Result of Boston” (New Haven Conn,   “father of rock ‘n’ roll”, “world’s most popular music”, U.S. Supreme Court, anti-rock ‘n’ roll Legislation, Dist. Atty. Garrett H. Byrne, “Big Beat”, Senator William D. Fleming)
• 5-8-1958: Indicted Freed Quits Job As N.Y. Disc Jockey (rockin’ and reelin’  letter of resignation, stand behind my policies and principles)
• 5-8-1958: “New Haven Shall Not Be Freed, Court Rules (canceled scheduled performance, Common Pleas, Judge Sidney A. Johnson)
• 5-9-1958: “Alan Freed Quits Radio Station in Rock N Roll Row Jamaica Press N.Y. (Indicted, quit WINS, hard thing to swallow, Jack Hooke, Jock Fearnhead)
• 5-9-1958: Good! (Boston Jam, yanked him up, offending public taste)
• 5-9-1958: Indicted Disc Jockey Quits N.Y. Station New Leader, Richmond VA. (failed to give him any support after a riot in Boston, hard thing to swallow, Jack Hooke, wishy-washy, Jock Fernehead)
• 5-10-1958: “Rock ‘n Rollers Behave in Hershey, Lock Haven P.A. Express (2500 persons, Hershey Arena)
• 5-10-1958: TV What’s On? by Ben Gross, TV Guide (Quit WINS, Jock Fearnhead veepee, deal expired, Art Ford’s WNTA)
• 5-15-1958: Trial Deferred (Suffolk County Superior Court)
• 5-16-1958: Alan Freed Out on Bail (pleading innocent Suffolk Superior Court, May 3, Boston Arena, Freed’s attorney Paul Smith)
• 5-18-1958: “Long Island,” L.I. Press Jamaica, N.Y. (Walter Kaner, Lido Beach’s Malibu Shore Club, indictment, WINS, Jack Lacey, Paul Sherman)

WABC:

• 5-20-1958: “Indicted Disc Jockey Takes Job With ABC,” Herald Denison, Tex. (inciting a riot, spinning his records, American Broadcasting Co.)
• 5-20-1958: “Freed Given ABC Spot In New York,” Traveler Boston, Mass. ( rock ‘n’ roll disc jockey, indicted, Boston, spin his records, American Broadcasting Co.)

Personal:

• 1955: “Freed’s attorney, gets 10 per cent of all Freed makes over $75,000” (Thomas Vastola, Stanford White House, Wallach’s Point, Stamford, Conn.)
• 2-11-1958: “Alan Freed Just Bought Winter Home,” Dateline Miami by Herb Rau (“King of Rock ‘n Roll”, $65,000, Miami Beach)
• 5-30-1958: The Smart Set News Dispatch Shamokin PA by Cholly Knickerbocker (Miami Beach Mansion, Stamford, NY apartment)
• 12-4-1959: Freed Gets Mortgage New York (Jerry Blaine said he lent Alan Freed $11,000 in return for a mortgage on home, gave back interest, transferred to Roulette Record Company, monthly installments)

Additional:

• 1955: by Ace Adams: “Alan Freed Story, Truth Told On ‘Rock ‘N Roll'” (Negro songsters, Injustice, White vocalists making money)
• 10-5-1956: New York Post by Charles Gruenberg: “The Rock and Roll Story,” (Elvis Presley, Norman Orleck, Cashbox, Negro, Charles Sidney Freed, Jewish, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, trombonist, Sultans of Swing, Ohio State, Army, WKST, New Castle, WAKR, WXEL-TV, WJW, Leo Mintz, telephone book, Betty Lou Bean, Alana, Lance, Sieglinde, Alan Jr, Negro, car crash, 260 stitches)
• 3-27-1957: Billboard Cincinatti Ohio: Freed-Levy Team in Harness
• 5-27-1957: Billboard: “Freed-Levy Team Back in Harness,” (Morris Levy, Phil Kahl, Ralph Serpe, George Goldner)
• 6-1-1957: The Cash Box: “Alan Freed Again Names Morris Levy His Manager,” (ABC-TV, GAC, Peter Kahl)
• 7-1957: Pageant by Theodore Irwin: Rock N Roll Alan Freed, (coined the phrase rock and roll, Elvis Presley, Columbia, Paramount, King of rock n roll, Times Square, Stamford, WINS, Rock Around The Clock, Sincerely, The King, spieler)
• 7-29-1957: Show Business, NY: Alan Freed Aids R&R Performers (Columbia Movie, TV series, Paramount Theatre, Gene Autry’s Flying A Prod. European junket)
• 10-23-1957: Variety New York: Joyce Pacts Alan Freed (Philadelphia, Jolly Joyce, Columbia, the Coast, Paramount)
• 11-10-1957: New York, N.Y. Journal-American: “Theatre Spotlight“ “A Nice Week’s Pay,” (“Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue”, Paramount Theatre, Columbia Pictures, Sam Katzman)
• 11-16-1957: New York Daily Mirror: Katzman Signs Freed (Paramount Christmas Day, Columbia, third movie, Sam Katzman production untitled)
• 4-14-1958: Dayton Ohio News, by Gee Mitchell: Alan Freed Teen-Club To Get Miami Tryout (Memorial Hall, Vagaonds Club, Miami Beach, Sugar Bowl, Dayton)
• 5-1958: The Cash Box New York: Hooke Joins Hanover (Jack Hooke, Len Levy’s Hanover Record Company, Roost Records)
• 4-13-1958: Petersburg, VA. Progress-Index by Earl Wilson: It Happened Last Night (I was A Teen-Age Teen-Ager Ricky Nelson)