The Big Beat (TV show)

The Big Beat is a television show broadcast on the ABC Network in the 1950s[1] hosted by Alan Freed and subsequently Richard Hayes. The show was cancelled in 1957 when it showed Frankie Lymon, a black man, dancing with a white woman.[1] A local version continued on WNEW-TV New York.

References

  1. 1 2 Altman, Billy. Brooklyn: A State of Mind. Workman Publishing Company. p. 160. ISBN 978-0761116356.
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