Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pampered jades of Asia had turned up in Miami Beach last week they might have melted with envy. One of the most pampered trades in the U.S.-the disk jockeys-had come to town 2,500 strong, and Big Daddy, in the shape of U.S. record companies, was there to take care of them. Officially, the jocks were attending the Second International Radio Programing Seminar and Pop Music Disk Jockey Convention. Actually, the convention was attending them...
...Dead Without You." At least 50 other record companies had a finger in the gaudy handout. ABC-Paramount paid for all taxi rides. Columbia made tapes of D.J.s interviewing celebrities and gave them to the jocks to play on the air at home. There were free bus trips, promised airborne junkets to Mexico. Squads of local beach girls in Bikinis were relieved by company-strength detachments flown in from New York. A Texas firm gave away eight pairs of sunglasses with built-in transistor radios (proud flacks claimed they cost $5,000 apiece...
Headquarters for most companies were in the Lanai suites of the Americana hotel. There the lordly jocks drifted from backslapper to backslapper, soaked up booze from novel dispensers-Panama Records had a machine with faucets for martinis and Manhattans. And everywhere a D.J. went, record company promoters kept telling him: "Without you we're dead...
...says he wants to see the city. What are you going to tell him-to pay for it himself? You pay for his hotel and his meals and his liquor, and if he wants a girl you pay for that. An average New York weekend will cost the record company $500 to $1,000, and if you don't pay it there's another company that will...
After his off-the-record chat with State Representative Steve Dolley one day last week, Reporter Paul Crooke of North Carolina's daily Gastonia Gazette (circ. 20,491) tossed a memo on the crowded desk of Managing Editor Bob Hallman. Gist of the memo: Dolley, a onetime Gazette staffer, was only pleasing officials of nearby Bessemer City when he introduced a bill to reorganize their courts, had "no desire that the bill pass," was convinced that "it has no chance whatever"-and wanted the Gazette to kill any stories about it. Somehow, in the deadline shuffle, the memo...