Celler Blames Payola For Rise of Rock’n'Roll
I’ve been looking at the history of payola and I thought that this article was almost humorous. In 1960 Emanuel Celler and US rep. thought that payola was the cause of the popularity of rock’n'roll. Which may have a sense of truth to it. If popular music is only music that has air time because people paid for that air time then essentially any popular music (due to radio influence) is because of payola. Celler was very cynical about rock’n'roll which was funny to look at now. This article was from the New York Times March 28, 1960 and I got it from proquest Historical Newspapers.