Origins of rock and roll but it was used by the early 20th century, both to describe a spiritual fervor and as a sexual analogy. Various gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase before it became used more frequently – but still intermittently – in the late 1930s and 1940s, principally on recordings and in reviews of what became known as "rhythm and blues" music aimed at black audiences. In 1951, Cleveland-based disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the term "rock and roll" to describe it. Various recordings that date back to the 1940s have been named as the
TV Disc Jockey is not known if any of the live episodes were recorded, and the series is possibly lost ("Hit Parade", a Seven Network series which started 1957 in which hit recordings were danced to and lip-synced by the cast, does have preserved episodes, as do later 1950s variety series like "The Bobby Limb Show" (1959-1961) which featured live music). TV Disc Jockey TV Disc Jockey was an early Australian television music program which is notable as it later evolved to become the Australian version of "Bandstand". It aired on the Nine Network's TCN-9 from 1957 to 1958. The series originally consisted