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Pat Boone: Pat Boone Rocks

Todd Everett, Bear Family Records, 2009

UNWILLING TO meet the increased rent imposed by the managers of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, New York City disc jockey Alan Freed moved his hugely successful 'Rock 'n' Roll Holiday Jubilee' to the Academy of Music in Manhattan.

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