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Message: [QUOTE="Bestiarius, post: 2027406, member: 1939"] My friends and I attended the first Alan Freed Rock & Roll show at the Brooklyn Paramount and some of the subsequent shows. It was scary to attend that first show. We were from Northern NJ and took the bus to the NY Port Authority terminal at the George Washington bridge, then the subway to Brooklyn from there. All this was new and exotic to us, and we worried about being accosted by teen-aged gangs in the big city. All went smoothly, but we were uncomfortable being out of our element. The 1st show was great, but the subsequent shows were better because increasingly they included the R&B groups we were interested in - The Flamingos, Cleftones, Cadillacs, etc. By 1957, the shows were truly great, so many acts! The backup band for all these shows was the same. Heavy on the Sax and they were great musicians. We were totally not into the pop acts of the day. When Pat Boone covered Little Richard songs like Tutti Frutti, we were outraged. I still have all the old 45 RPM records, most of which weren't carried in our local record stores. The 50's, a great time to grow up. [/QUOTE]