[Description by Larry Ware]
This is very classic, very enthusiastic Alan Freed on WINS/New York. He sings along with most of the songs, answers letters, relays messages to and from listeners, plays his cow bell, encourages his teenage audience, and spins all those “original” recordings – great stuff.
It’s obvious from listening to this aircheck that Mr. Freed thoroughly enjoyed the music he played and loved his work in radio. Most often he names the record label along with the title and artist and “bops” along to the beat.
At 36:26 into this aircheck, Alan talks about a dance on March 25th to raise money for “World Service” and gives us some insight as to how much he loved his audience.
It’s tragic that in only 4 years from this recording that Alan Freed would be on his way down with the Payola scandal of ’59 and eventually die at an early age of 43.