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...wildly imagistic liner notes by Poet Louis Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...
With Congress bearing down and the F.T.C. getting ready to open hearings, the disk jockeys faced a lean future: no more cash off the record, no more palmy free vacations on the fly-now-payola-later plan, and for some, no more jobs...
...instrumentalists making their way to the stage of St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium ranged in age from 13 to 60. Some of them were housewives, others were students, disk jockeys, dentists, engineers. But when Guest Conductor Edouard van Remoortel rapped them to silence and led them into Beethoven's Egmont Overture, housewife and teen-ager played with astonishing competence. At the start of its 100th season, the St. Louis Philharmonic demonstrated again what its admirers have long claimed-that it is the finest non-professional orchestra in the world...
...make the mistake of thinking those TV cameras are branches of the United States Mint. Dollar bills don't come out of them like bread from a bakery oven." This advice by Disk Jockey Dick Clark appears in a new book, Your Happiest Years (Rosho Corp.; $2.95), aiming sound moral advice at teenagers. Yet in a mere three years, ever since he took over the local Philadelphia show that grew into ABC's American Bandstand, Dick Clark has found plenty of bread in the oven. Among the loaves: three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column...
Widening Search. While the subcommittee was trying to get the facts on Musicman Clark, investigators were widening their search. New York County D.A. Frank Hogan subpoenaed the financial records of eleven record companies; one owner immediately announced that he had a pile of canceled $100 checks endorsed by disk jockeys. The story would take some time to unfold. "The last thing most people in this industry want is to clean it up," admitted one musicman. "It's too lucrative for too many people...