MP3 of the Day

The Moondog Coronation Ball was a concert held in Cleveland, Ohio at the Cleveland Arena on this day in 1952. It is generally accepted as the first major rock and roll concert. The show was organized by Lew Platt and Alan Freed, a disc jockey who coined the term "Rock and Roll" at WJW-Radio. More tickets were printed than the arena's actual capacity, in part due to counterfeiting. With an estimated 20,000 individuals trying to crowd into an arena that held slightly more than half that - and worries that a riot might break out as people tried to crowd in - the fire authorities shut down the concert after the first song by Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams ended. Today we have the song A New City Life by PANTS YELL! Happy Friday.