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scandal. The Big Beat scandal was a national television controversy in the United States, mainly concerned with the racial issue focusing on Black American and White individuals dancing interracially while The Big Beat was broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Network, which was hosted by Alan Freed.
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Two more episodes were aired [4] but the show was suddenly cancelled. A local version continued on WNEW-TV New York . The Wall Street Journal summarized the end of the program as follows.
- Alan Freed
- The Fateful Show
- Two Arrests
- Banned in Boston
Alan Freed, born Dec. 13, 1921, in Windber, Pa., started out playing hot jazz and pop music on small radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio. By 1951 he played rhythm and blues on Cleveland’s WJW station under the name ‘Moondog.’ He staged the first rock concert in March 1952 at the Cleveland Arena. Twenty thousand fans crashed the gates (the Arena...
In Boston that Saturday night in May, 20 police were on hand for the 5,000 rock ‘n roll fans who jammed into the Arena. The first half of the show went smoothly. But during the second half, police interrupted the show several times, forcing Freed to quiet the audience. Jerry Lee Lewis and his bands had the kids dancing in the aisles, but the police...
What happened next is unclear. The newspapers reported stabbings, sluggings, robberies and rapes. Jack Hooke, Berry’s manager, remembers walking out of the Arena a half hour after the show ended and seeing nobody. The neighborhood surrounding the Arena was then a rough part of town with frequent muggings. A lawyer for Alan Freed said the police sim...
A few days after the concert, a Suffolk County grand jury indicted Alan Freed for inciting a riot. Suffolk County District Attorney Gabriel Byrne justified the indictments. He said the ‘attitudes of the adults sponsoring the shows’ inspired the ‘juvenile outbreaks.’ Alan Freed, he said, put ’emotional TNT on their turntables.’ On Thursday, Alan Fre...
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Frankie Lymon performs on Alan Freed’s ”Big Beat Show” and when Frankie is shown dancing with a white girl who jumps up on the stage, angry and upset reactions started flooding in, and when ABC’s business affiliates in the south were upset and offended, ABC officially cancelled Big Beat to save the situation which in 1957 became known ...
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