Origins of rock and roll that inspired Alan Freed to coin the phrase "rock and roll" to refer to the music he played. Freed first started playing the music in 1951, and by 1953 the phrase "rock and roll" was becoming used much more widely to market the music beyond its initial black audience. The practitioners of the music were young black artists, appealing to the post-war community's need for excitement, dancing and increasing social freedoms, but the music also became very attractive to white teenagers. As well as "rocking" rhythm and blues songs, such as the massively successful and influential "Rocket 88" recorded by
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