Category: Rock and Roll History
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American Disc Jockey Alan Freed is Fired From WABC Radio Station in New York City for His Role in the Payola Scandal. November 21, 1959.
Image: Alan Freed, 1958. (Public Domain) On this day in history, November 21, 1958, American disc jockey Alan Freed is fired from WABC radio station in New York City for his role in the payola scandal. Though payola – paying a DJ to play a song on the radio to promote it – was not…
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History Daily: August 13
“HOUND DOG” IS RECORDED FOR THE FIRST TIME BY BIG MAMA THORNTON. AUGUST 13, 1952 Image: Big Mama Thornton (Wikimedia Commons) Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” (1956) is one of Rock and Roll’s most identifiable songs. It’s a song so closely associated with Presley that many have incorrectly accepted that Presley recorded it first. The story…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 