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Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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3. He Got Shafted Over Payola

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 05:25 PM

Dec 15

It may have been unethical, but wasn't illegal when he got involved with it.
The conviction in 1962 was pretty close to ex post facto, because the money involved between '60 & '62 was a pittance.
I cut him far less slack on his attempts to give himself songwriting credit for tunes he had nothing to do with.
Drank himself to death at a very young age.

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On 12/15/21, DJ Alan Freed was born. [View all] ificandream Dec 15 OP

As I understood it, Freed popularized an already existing term, rock and roll, Aristus Dec 15 #1

Sounds very likely. ificandream Dec 15 #2

He Got Shafted Over Payola ProfessorGAC Dec 15 #3