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They "seemed to inhabit another world," writes Ben Fong-Torres of the old Top 40 disc jockeys in "The Hits Just Keep on Coming," his history of rock radio. "They gave away cash and prizes on the air, and they presided over sock hops and 'Bandstand'-style shows on local television. They were like Dick Clark. Only they lived in your town...
...Clark walked into, and deftly out of, his own scandal, when in 1959 the House Oversight Committee investigated payola, the record industry's system of bribing disc jockeys and program managers in return for airplay. It ended the career of Alan Freed, the man credited with applying the black sexual term rock-and-roll to jump music. (By the way, that's a lie; the phrase goes back much earlier than Freed. In the 1941 film "Swing for Your Supper" young Dorothy Dandridge sings of her musical education: "They made me rock 'n roll ... brought me up on good...
...acknowledged that he owned a startling 27% investment in records he had played on "Bandstand." He didn't say any of this was kosher; he just said it wasn't against the law. As he noted later in "Rock, Roll & Remember," his autobiography: "A record company could give a disc jockey $100,000, a list of records with how often to play each one, and it wasn't illegal." He informed the committee that he had divested himself of all outside interests. More important, he was courteous and efficient throughout. At the end, Chairman Orrin Harris called him "A fine...
Pick up the needle. Drop it on the record. Craze's life is a spinning disc, always changing speeds. Track No. 1: Nicaragua. This is a fast number. "I don't remember much," says Craze, who was born in Managua. "There was a war going on and s___." Track No. 2: Change. When he was three, Craze's parents moved to San Francisco and then to Miami. Track No. 3: Discovery. Craze didn't have much as a kid--not much money, not much direction. But then, when he was 13, his brother brought home a set of turntables...
STORE MORE Remember those funky old 5 1/4-in. floppy discs that looked like roof tiles and held a paltry 800 kilobytes of data? Well, forget 'em. Iomega has a new disc called Peerless that stores 20 gigabytes--more than most hard drives. Granted, a Peerless disc drive costs $400, but that's for enough space to fit your entire PC on a single disc. And you can probably fit all those back issues of National Geographic you've been keeping in the attic...