Wednesday, 25 December 2019
Alan Freed, August 1954
August 1954, Alan Freed took his R&B revue show to New York. On August 1, 1954, Freed's "Moondog Jubilee Of Stars Under the Stars" was held at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field Ebbets, New York, then still home of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers. On the bill at that concert were the Dominoes, the Clovers, the Orioles, Fats Domino, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Count Basie's Orchestra, and Buddy Johnson's Orchestra.
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