Archives: Payola (1959-1962) – Dick Clark
Dick Clark:
- 1960: Dick Clark Hauled In 500G (Variety)
- 1960: DA legal notes – Dick Clark, WABC-TV (The Dick Clark Show, Little Theatre, Drexel Productions, Inc., American Bandstand Show, Click Corp)
- 1960: ABC Denies Aiding Clark_(Journal American)
- 5-4-1960: Variety Music Biz’s Cleanup Change-3 articles (Mamarella’s Secret Success Saga: ON 9 Disk Co. Payrolls for ‘Advice’, Anthony Mamarella, American Bandstand Producer, Harris subcommittee, Jan 27-28, admitted receiving payments from; Chess Records, Cosnat Distributing Co, Gotham Record Distributing, Barasky Distributors, David Rosen Co., Marnel Distributing Co., Duke Records, Future Records, Universal Distributing Co., Swan Records, Wildcat Music, Anita Pressing, Startime Industries, Lawn Records, Milton Kellem Music, Bernard Lowe, Cameo label, Clark ‘Excuses’ Hit As Danger, Pittsburgh May 3, Mitch Miller, Columbia Records, Kaufman’s Department Store, Jim Winaton, Miller admitted the whole industry was at fault in the payola business, Nick Lomakin, Columbia, RCA, Voctor, Decca, Capitol, Machinery Ready To Work by Abel Green, Music Publisher’s Protective Assn., behind the probe is not just the smacking of the Dick Clarks and the Alan Freeds, aimed at their bosses, station owners)
- 6-21-1981: “The Enigma Behind The ‘Bandstand’,” Los Angeles Times by Lee Grant: (My father felt bitter about Dick Clark-in hospital three weeks and word got out the he was broke and needed help, I recall my stepmother saying, “Would you believe Dick Clark never returned by call?”)
- 8-3-1997: Dick Clark letters, Los Angeles Times Magazine (Letter to the Editor, Judith Fisher Freed)
- 9-21-1997: American Bandstand book review, The New York Times by Fred Goodman: (Clark proved a slippery witness despite taking many gifts from record companies-including enough valuable copyrights to stock a significant music publishing company)
- 9-21-1997: American Bandstand book review, Los Angeles Times by Jon Wiener (owned the rights to 160 songs, 143 given to him, ownership of records he plugged n shows was conflict of interest, At The Hop, owning publishing-played it 51 times)