Wednesday, March 21, 2018

My Walk Through Life 3/21/2018

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I love music and go to concerts whenever possible. Location and price of tickets put a damper on that most of the time, but I have seen some great shows. My first concert was in the Aloha Stadium in Hawaii: Cecelio and Kapono, Kalapana, and Country Comfort. top Hawaiian pop performers of the 70s.
  The first rock concert was set to go on this day, 21 Mar 1952. No one had heard of a rock concert and rock and roll was still trying to find its place in the music world. 
   In Cleveland on the AM radio station WJW, there was a legendary disk jockey Alan Freed, the host of the "Moondog Show"
Freed started as the host of a classical music program, but a record store owner, Leo Mintz, realized that his young customers were extremely interested in the rhythm and blues music of the black artists. Mintz sponsored a three hour spot on WJW and Freed was given the job of host. Freed changed his radio persona to fit the music, using hip lingo and coined the phrase "rock and roll" to describe the popular music.
  As the show became more popular, Freed and Mintz decided on a promotion stunt that had never been done before. They decided to hold a live dance event that featured artists that were played on the radio program, such as the Rocking Highlanders (a black instrumental group that performed in kilts), Tony Grimes, the Dominoes to name a few. The dance was called "The Moondog Coronation Ball". The demand for tickets became the undoing of the event.
  An estimated 20,000-25,000 fans showed up for the dance. This was due to ticket counterfeiting and overbooking by the sponsors. Unfortunately, the arena held only 10,000. The overflow of the crowd broke the barrier gates and the police had to move in to stop the show, in less than an hour. 
   The next evening, Freed apologized over the radio to the listeners that tried to attend the cancelled event. He said "If anyone..had told us that some 20 or 25,000 people would try to get into a dance---I suppose you would have been just like me. You would have laughed and said they were crazy."

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