• Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment....
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  • Payolas (stylized as Payola$) was a Canadian rock band that was most prominent in the 1980s. Evolving from a new wave sound toward mainstream pop rock...
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  • Look up payola in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Payola is a legal term for a payment or fund. Payola may also refer to: Payolas, a Canadian rock band...
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    rock and roll". In the early 1960s, Freed's career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry, as well as by allegations of...
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  • Payola is the second studio album by the American rock band Desaparecidos, released on June 23, 2015, through Epitaph Records. While Read Music/Speak Spanish...
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  • and therefore was grateful to him. Payola was not illegal at the time and Clark sold the song prior to the 1960 payola hearings. Frankie Avalon, Chubby...
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  • No Stranger to Danger is the second album by Payolas, released in 1982. It contains the hit "Eyes of a Stranger". The album is only available on vinyl...
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  • know what payola is and there are different kinds of payola; there is payola where the artist puts his money into it, and there is payola where the record...
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  • a Hyde Place: The Best of Payola$ is a greatest hits album by the Payola$, released in 1987 after A&M had dropped the Payola$ from the label, and after...
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    Payola are a six-piece folk/rock/soul band from Auckland, New Zealand. The group's first release was the album Gone To Ground in 2005. Lead vocalist Solomon...
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  • contract after the 2010 broadcast because they raised ethical concerns over payola with him, including allegations that HFPA members took bribes for nominations...
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  • a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter. He co-founded the rock band Payola$ with Bob Rock, serving as the band's main lyricist and vocalist. He later...
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    I helped keep it alive. In 1960, the United States Senate investigated payola, the practice of music-producing companies paying broadcasting companies...
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  • Payola, 2002 - 2012 is a 2013 compilation album by The Cribs, released on 12 March 2013. It features the previously unreleased "Leather Jacket Love Song"...
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  • Krisztián (in Hungarian) Dick Asher, Veteran Music Executive Who Fought Radio Payola, Dies Charlotte Hornets Statement On The Passing Of Pat Doughty. Muere la...
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    school graduation, Rock left Victoria and became the co-founder of the Payolas, who became well known with the success of their 1980s hit, "Eyes of a...
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    as "...of the night", with random phrases or names as a descriptor. The payola scandal which enveloped Alan Freed's career emerged after Kasem joined WJW;[citation...
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    (Get Down and Boogie) (1975). Crocker was indicted as a result of a 1976 payola investigation. Under the cloud of charges, the radio station fired him....
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    original on January 13, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2019. "Universal settles payola probe". USA Today. May 11, 2006. Archived from the original on May 14, 2021...
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    broadcast became known in the music industry as "payola". The first major United States Senate payola investigation occurred in 1959. Nationally renowned...
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  • Forgery Fraud Gambling Intellectual property violation Larceny Looting Payola Pickpocketing Possessing stolen property Robbery Smuggling Tax evasion Theft...
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  • In the 1980s, Isgro was at the center of investigations into the role of payola in the music industry. Isgro was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He...
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  • prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry and the breaking of the payola scandal (which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery...
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  • li. Retrieved 2011-05-15. Rocket in the Pocket (Media notes). Payola Records. 1998. Payola A4. John, Bush. Rocket in the Pocket > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved...
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    In 1997 the debut album Pan Or Ama was released on the Weilheim label Payola. In 1999 Console followed with 14 Zero Zero, his most successful single...
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    CD release "Payola: The Demos". This companion disc to "Payola" featured demo versions of most of the significant songs featured on "Payola", as well as...
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