Marvin Gaye and M.L. King speak to the power of Urban Radio and how it was dismantled under payola.

Payola was bad for many disc jockeys, but not Dick Clark or American Bandstand

For Dick Clark, 1960 was a pivotal year. As 1959 wound down and the Congressional hearings on payola in the music business were heating up, Clark stayed one step ahead of the feds by divesting himself of virtually all of his music business holdings.

It was a monumental gamble by a rising 30-year-old television star whose early fortune was built on his musical connections. But Clark had nothing to fear. In a Newsweek story on May 2, 1960, a teen dancer from American Bandstand was quoted as saying, "Even if I found out that Dick Clark took payola, it wouldn't make any difference. He makes us teenagers happy." Not only was Clark cleared of any payola sins, he apparently inoculated himself from further charges with his appearance before Congress.

Just three weeks later, Philadelphia Collections Commissioner Morton E. Rotman subpoenaed business records from four Philadelphia music publishing and record companies while searching for evidence of payola dating back to 1956. In June 1960, District Attorney Victor H. Blanc reopened an investigation into payola that included 15 popular radio disc jockeys from Philadelphia, including Ed Hurst, Joe Grady, Hy Lit, Tony Mammarella, Sid Marks, Joe Niagara, Lloyd Fatman, Mitchell Thomas, Kae Williams, and Georgie Woods.

Marvin Gaye and M.L. King dropped seeds early in their careers about what was taking place to Urban Broadcasters and artists.

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