Alan Fredericks (September 11, 1934 – July 31, 2005) was an American disc jockey and award-winning travel editor and journalist.
[3] He began using the name Alan Fredericks as a twenty-year-old disc jockey in 1954.
[2][5] In later years, he would sometimes be a guest host on WCBS-FM on Don K. Reed's "Doo-Wop Shop," and also participated in several of the station's radio greats reunions.
[2] Fredericks changed careers from radio to the print media in 1966 and was hired by the Associated Press wire service, where he was assigned to the rewrite desk.
[3] Fredericks died of cancer at age 70 at his home in Old Bridge, New Jersey.