50 Plus
10 = 1956
Wow—how
did we get here?! Not only another year gone, but … 50 Years Ago this Month!!
Searching
for December 1966 radio and music news and views, turned up a rather placid time
in Rock Radio.
The top
five songs on KFRC/San Francisco’s “Big 30” (12/14/66) for
example, glorified and vilified love—nothing new there.
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But
every December, here at Blast
from Your Past, we choose to celebrate the birthing day of Alan Freed
(December 15, 1921)—the “father of Rock & Roll Radio DJs.”
This
month, we add ten years to our 50
Years Ago this Month writings to venerate Mr. Freed. We owe our fifty
years-plus-ten mantra to the man who first thundered, “Let’s Rock & Roll!!”?
1955’s
Blackboard Jungle film, which featured Bill Haley &
His Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock, inspired tons of teens to dance in the
theater aisles.
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As
it’s said on Wiki, “In the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock,
Freed tells the audience that ‘Rock and Roll is a river of music that has
absorbed many streams: rhythm and blues, jazz, rag time, cowboy songs, country
songs, folk songs. All have contributed to the big beat.’"
Featured Radio Survey: The
closest KFRC’s December 1966 chart came to offering a 1956 Rockin’ song
sound-alike was at #5, Mitch Ryder’s “Devil with the Blue Dress On.” The rest of
the chart lineup went like this …
Celebrate DECEMBER 50 Years Ago
… and Rock On!
* Sonny and Cher hit the January 1967
charts with “The Beat Goes On.” See ya 50
Years Ago 2017!
Grab some Old "Time" Rock & Roll for yourself and your Rockin' friends on Santa's list, at Blast from Your Past Gifts! Fun stuff for everyone ... Rock On!
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