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The practice of paying cash or giving gifts in exchange for radio airplay is called: - correct answer
✔✔Payola
The two targets of the Payola Hearings were: - correct answer ✔✔Alan Freed and Dick Clark
This show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music. At least one popular musical act would
usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles where it would be rated by the
kids in the crowd: - correct answer ✔✔American Bandstand
The success of young rock stars like Elvis Presley as well as the wider emergence of youth
subcultures led promoters to the creation of singers who deliberately cultivated a safer and less
sexual image than that of the previous era's rebellious rockabilly stars. These singers were
called: - correct answer ✔✔Teen Idols
Who among these singers would NOT be considered one of the "teen idols"? - correct answer
✔✔Fabian
Little Richard quit the music business to pursue a career as a: - correct answer ✔✔Minister
His marriage to his 13 year old cousin Myra Gale effectively killed his rock 'n' roll career: -
correct answer ✔✔Jerry Lee Lewis
The plane crash that resulted in the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson
outside of Clear Lake, Iowa is often referred to as: - correct answer ✔✔The Day The Music Died