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Moondoggers
- 1989: “The Paul McCartney World Tour 1989” Lifelines by Linda McCartney: (“I listened to the Alan Freed rock ‘n’ roll show on radio every night of the week, 7 to 10. He never played a bad record.â€)
- 1998: Linda McCartney, “Wide Prairie” CD, written by Paul McCartney: (The Fifties original of Poison Ivy by the Coasters was one of Linda’s favourites. She had a lasting affection for the doo-wop music of her youth, having spent many hours under the bedclothes with a transistor radio glued to her ear, listening to Alan Freed’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Showâ€)
- 11-15-1999: “Jack Hooke, 83, Manager of Pop Musicians,” The New York Times by Joan Nassivera: (Jacob Horowitz, Juggy Gayles, Freed’s manager and right-hand man)
- 2-14-2000: “Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, 70, Rock’s Wild Man,” The New York Times by Jon Pareles: (disc jockey and promoter Alan Freed got the idea of bringing Mr Hawkins onstage in a coffin for a Cleveland Concert)
- 12-14-2012: Friesen / Moss