… a legend in his time …
[Description by Dave Smith]LIVE performances from Count Basie and his Orchestra, Laverne Baker, The Platters, Chuck Berry and Bill Haley and the Comets headline this lightning-sprinkled genuine off-the-air aircheck. We hope that Joe Donvoan will contribute the original recording, (sans static) for our non-profit Repository. In the meantime, our thanks to Dave Smith for sharing this treasure with REELRADIO visitors.
This recording of Alan Freed for the AFRTS was rebroadcast on Joe Donovan’s Friday Night Revival on WHAS/Louisville on September 23, 1988. Joe introduces it as produced for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service in 1956.
The program appears to be a “highlight” show as it was produced with many obvious edits. It was recorded on a Hammerlund HQ-140X communications receiver in Kensington, MD, so the bandwidth and quality is subject to those conditions