RADIO-TV BACKSTAGE AIan Freed Hosts Moondog Affair Tonight in Newark By Tom O’Connell the mayor himself on a pro- WJW's Alan FRED appears gram entitled "Tell It to the Mayor," which gets under way on the verge of adding another May 11. plume to the cap he wears as The public is invited to chief of the Moondoggers. write to Mayor Anthony Cele- That latest decoration could brezze specifying topics for be forthcoming as early as this discussion. evening when he * * * stages the East- John Lund’s most prized fan ern Moondog letter came from a young lady Coronation Ball who wrote: “I listen to your ra- at Sussex Ave- dio show, Yours Truly, Johnny nue Armory in Dollar, every Tuesday night. It’s Newark, N. J. my favorite show. Please clear your throat.” Freed first * * made his pres- George Hancin, WEWS film ence felt in this man and early morning director, community about and his wife, Maxine, WEWS two years ago, traffic manager, whose marriage when, after only about 18 months ago culminated follr months on the station’s first office romance, the air, he at- move into their new six-room tracted 25,OOO to the Cleveland house in Cleveland Heights this Arena to attend the Western week end. Coronation Ball. Likewise, Tommy Edwards. His stature in the field of WERE dee jay, and his wife, rhythm and blues continued to Anne, become mortgage holders grow until a couple of weeks for the first time when they ago Billboard magazine named move into their new Parma him the top R&B disk jockey in home. the country. Although tapes of Freed’s WJW programs are carried over Newark’s WNJR, this will be his first personal appearance in the New York area. Success is assured by the fact that advance sale of tickets has already exceeded 6,000. The Sussex Armory will hold 13,000. Among the rhythms and blues artists slated to appear tonight are Buddy Johnson and his or- chestra and Vocalist Ella John- son; The Clovers, a vocal quar- tet; Roost Bonnemera and his Mambo Band; Nolan Lewis, Mercury recording star; Sam Butera, jazz, saxophonist; Muddy Waters, blues guilar player; the Harptones and Charles Brown. A special train carrying Cleve- landers to the event had to be canceled because-of all things -there were too many rather than not enough requests for ac- ALAN FREED commodations. Disappointed local fans will find partial coverage of the affair available at a later date, however. R. C. A. Victor plans to record the entire show for a special Moondog LP Album and 0ur World magazine is covering the event for an eventual ‘pic- torial story..