Word: mammarella
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...Jamie Records, other record companies, a talent agency, a record-pressing plant, and a production company named Clarkfeld.) Faced with the ABC ultimatum, Clark decided to "divest" himself of his interests in various music firms (he did not specify how). His TV producer and partner in Swan Records, Tony Mammarella, decided to quit ABC in order to stay with the Clark company...
...publishing firms, why did ABC take action against Clark? Obviously, to avoid the charge that Clark was "riding" or "hyping" songs published and recorded by his firms on the Bandstand program. Although Bandstand played some of Clark's own tunes that became hits (Tallahassie Lassie, Okefenokee), he and Mammarella insist that they were played only because they were popular already. But Clark has also spun his Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, which is just now beginning to climb into the big time. Clark insists that he has never taken payola in any form, and many support him, including...
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