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Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:51 pm
Posted by TurdAndChavis
Member since Aug 2019
227 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:51 pm
Can anyone explain why Cleveland gets to have the Rock n Roll hall of fame and not New Orleans?
Posted by pmacneworleans
Member since Dec 2013
2166 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 3:21 am to
Ohio and Cleveland provided way more in financial incentives. The public reason announced was that the so-called first rock n' roll disc jokey (and promoter), Allen Freed, hailed from Cleveland. If La and the city had met or exceeded what Ohio/Cleveland offered, it would have been in NO.
Posted by Bayou
Boudin, LA
Member since Feb 2005
41690 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 6:44 am to
New Orleans would be capitol to a different type of music than rock
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
67594 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:51 am to
Cosimo Matassa and Dave Bartholomew are as responsible for rock and roll as anyone in the country,
and it would make sense for the HOF
to be located in New Orleans…

Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
17656 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 10:12 am to
Because nobody assiciates the birth of rock and roll with New Orleans. However I don't associate Cleveland with it either.
Posted by pmacneworleans
Member since Dec 2013
2166 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 11:26 am to
Undoubtedly, and I would add Fats Domino to that list. It should have been in NO, but the "esteemed" minds of the tourism bureaus in the city and state did not think it would significantly add to tourism (and, they were dead wrong). There is hope that a La. Music Hall of Fame will get built, but it was part of that development on Convention Center Blvd that has fizzled out, so its now homeless.
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
61633 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:41 pm to
quote:

Can anyone explain why Cleveland gets to have the Rock n Roll hall of fame and not New Orleans?

Because some local DJ coined the term in Cleveland and they were able to gather million of dollars to kick it off.

Who thinks of New Orleans and rock-n-roll? It would have to overcome the Birthplace of Jazz.
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