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In a feature in the Toronto Star, Clyde Cohen writes "It's been a strange year for popular music. The emergence of rock and roll ["beat music"], which the cultural academia profess to be a 'fad', is gaining momentum. Even a cursory look at the CHUM Radio Top 100 reveals an uneasy commingling of traditional performers - such as Perry Como and Patti Page - with more eccentric appellations, be they Bill Haley And The Comets, Elvis Presley, or Dusty Carr. What's going on?"
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