MOONDOG BACKSTORY

And so it was, back in 1954 that a disc jockey on a radio station in Cleveland, Ohio dubbed the music that had begun to affect unsuspecting teenagers with a chronic tapping of the feet and gyration of the hips –“ Rock n’ Roll”. No one is really sure exactly when he began using the term but it is pretty much acknowledged as fact that Alan Freed was the man who coined the phrase. And the name of the show that he broadcast was “The Moondog show”.