• 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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  • Payola, in the music industry, is the name given to the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing...
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    album Higher. Payolas – In a Place Like This (1981) Payolas – No Stranger to Danger (1982) Strange Advance – Worlds Away (1982) Payolas – Hammer on a...
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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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  • reformed as The Payolas. An EP called "Missing Links" was released for a charitable foundation, consisting of previously-unreleased Payolas songs and demos...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    his production work appears on albums by more obscure artists, such as Payolas, Phil Rambow and Los Illegals, The Mundanes, the Italian band Moda and...
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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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  • whom appeared in the film. Songs by Bonnie Hayes, Modern English, and Payolas also featured prominently. Many of the songs used were minor chart hits...
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  • which contains demos from the Testify recording sessions, a cover of the Payola$ song, "Eyes Of A Stranger," and live versions of "Wildfire" and "Boom"...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • (surname) Viscount Langford Baron Langford Langford (Part One), 2007 EP by the Payolas Langford cultural tradition of the Oneota cultural complex Langford pairing...
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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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  • learn from the more experienced artists. In order to avoid accusations of payola should DJs play too many records from the original Tamla label, Gordy formed...
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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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    incident. She accused Cardi of building "her career off of sympathy and payola", bribing DJs and radios with sex to play her records, and not writing her...
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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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    mentally-challenged houseguest in Digging to China and as a disc jockey corrupted by payola in Telling Lies in America. As the executive producer of Wild Things (1998)...
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    fight. She accused Cardi B of building "her career off of sympathy and payola" and of bribing DJs and radio outlets with sex to play her records. Minaj...
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  • actors during the early days of the newspaper. Such terms as "boffo", "payola", and "striptease" are attributed to the magazine. In 1934, founder Sime...
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