The program debuted on May 4, 1957, four months before American Bandstand, making it the United States' "first nationally-televised rock 'n roll dance show".
Guest stars included Connie Francis, the Everly Brothers, Don Rondo, Andy Williams, Chuck Berry, Bobby Darin, Fats Domino, Clyde McPhatter, Gogi Grant, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
[4] The fourth episode caused an uproar 1957 when it showed Frankie Lymon, a black teen star, dancing with a white woman.
On July 19, 1957, New York-based American Black teen singer Frankie Lymon was dancing with a white girl, causing the outrage with TV stations in the Southern states.
[10] Regardless of the controversies among Southern Americans who were working in TV stations, Freed was inducted along with Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "in its very first class" in 1986 because he promoted the interracial dance.