Hello everybody this is the king of rock and roll

and the big beat in popular music in America so gather the gang around for a

rock and good time with our own big rock and roll bands. If it weren't for Alan Freed,

we certainly wouldn't call it rock and roll.

And we probably would have a very different take

on what popular music is supposed to sound like. Hey, it'sation, payola and what happens next.

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Alan Freed lived a heroic, short, and controversial life in the public eye.

Many people credit him with popularizing the term rock and roll.

He nurtured and built the careers of many artists.

His show, which would have been a total breakthrough

for him on television, turning him into the first Casey Kacum slash Dick Clark,

was cancelled after four weeks because it featured a black musician dancing with a white woman.

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