Fact #11983
When:
Short story:
Described as 'the single most influential person' in the pop music
industry, Dick
Clark testifies to the US Congressional Committee investigating
payola.
Despite admitting that he had a financial interest in many of the records he played on his tv show, American
Bandstand, he is told by chairman Oren Harris, 'You're not the inventor of the system, or even its architect. You're a product of
it. Obviously, you're a fine young man.'
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