1959-12-03 — Page 6

both As the world of the disc jockey on sides of the Atlantic is rocked by charges of bribery the China Mail goes on record with.......

The facts about PAYOLA

New York, Monday.

THE

HE deeper the TV investigators dig the more malodorous the mess. The other day one dise jockey after another stepped forward and said he had accepted payola, which means a bribe in cash or kind for plug- ging a record to boost its popularity on American radio and television net- works.

The disc jockeys, known as Deejays, said: "This storm is not merely national but international." They indicated that what investigators were calling a scandal is accepted practice among squads of jocks wherever there is a radio or television station.

The American public

thinks

differently. It is believes

hopping mad. It

it has been duped und

fooled, and it: children. particularly the teenagers have been let down.

by DON IDDON

Other disc jockey-they earn they have been harmed by the

much as $60.COM a year lost few days exposures. To day the national arm to accepting cath fees for got bigger and plegging songs. Sydney Nathan, kument noisier. Time magazine, the hand of King Ricords, says: which had sternly, nd 1 hald $1,800 a month to the monished the television in jocks.. It was gimane all the dustry for its rigged quiz time."

cheapjack hows and the content

television of its

The jocks took the loot in Was de bank notes of small domina- programmes,

Did they pay tax on this nounced by the chairman tion.

Don't dig that re- Brond- "income"? of the National casting Company, Mr card. Robert Sarnoff, as carrying A quiz programmes and low almost mentality shows on Time's own networks while it was loftily from the

lecturing

Tulpit.

This is the

winter of

America's discontent, and idols are toppling all over

the place. but particularly

in the radio and television studios.

Pioneer

LAN FREED. pioneer

pen-

A n roll, has

just be tired from his disc- Piper jockey job. The Fird

of the college kids has refused to sign a statement saying that

he has never received payola.

the

strange now glossary, the language of

like

DICK CLARK

Worshipped by youth and embraced by the Church

Freed said the statement way an insult to my repudalion for Integrity." Anyway, he is out

underworld, has

Krown und as likely that he will

out of payola, "Dead Preskients'

Andrew ifis network, The new $20 ru.

nous with American Broadcasting Com- Jackson's portrait or $50 notes pany, say they had no alterna- with Ulysses Grant's picture. tive but to re him.

The 'King'

all the THE most famous of

dife

the Jockeys and acknowledged king of the air- way is the all-American boy. Dick Clark, the young man with the clean-cut face and the choirboy manner. Dick insists his record and his records are although the rlean,

payola probers say: "Dick could be on both sides of the record."

Clark, who worshipped by teenagers and embraced by the Church for his true-blooded 100 c. Americanism, is gutling vid of his extensive interest - the radio and television, cluding a one-third interest in Swan Records.

Thes

days past few Yorker. one particularly young one, have been

in-

New tho

going around saying "No! Dick Clark. Nol Our Dick. Not the king, Not that sweet boy, that lovely Joy"

Say it lan't so. Joe!

1

I hope Dick Clark gets clean bill of health. because it he doesn't no teenager will have Day faith lett,

con-

old- Some of the big-name timers Jack Benny, George Jessel, Bing Crosby and the big-name new-timers - Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra-will go 10 tortuous lengths to plug 1 product, but they do not accept speelal fee for this practice. They are fulalling their tract as they see it with their sponsors. "It's accepted prae- The bribe involved in payola tice," everybody in Beverly Hills Maybe, but it is hardly Fred was and all is a here is called "bread." "Ferbie" says. to hundreds of thousands

mans giving a record boost pure ethics, the or plug without receiving any payola, Hyping a platter" is "Homb" over-selling a record. means a terrible record.

rock 'u craze o11

CHE

He is rulers.

the college campus Now he said: "The music bus THAN is the lowest business in the world, but I've never been bribed or aspected of bribed."

being

There aru.

many

of course, honest men in the business, but

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER. §, 1989, 7

“Madam would go a long way towards improving her public relationship with the police if she would kindly remove her car from my fool."

Donald Peers's

message

I'LL SEND YOU ROSES FROM VENICE

A MEDAL FROM ROME

THEN YOU'LL KNOW I MISS YOU

WHEN I'M FAR FROM HOME

for the eight million he lost

BY PETER EVANS

I' send you roses from

Venice

A medal from Rome Then you'll know I miss

you

When I'm far from

home.

ON

But it is a long time since this short, chubby, cheerful singer was swooned over and

3,000 letters received

A tweek

and gave a one-man concert at the Royal Albert Hall. And it is all of Ave years since he made a disc.

Can he click again with the kind of material that put him at the top a decade ago

"You ace, you can only ride of hard experience behind me. and missed meals the tide. You can's fight it. It Hard times was the grand age of rock 'n' and depression. So when faluro knew roll, and my kind of song and followed my success. I voice was out.

how to handle it.

out into the rain hard is

20 years' wait

the

"Now. well,

feeling is that it might be on the way in again. **

We were talking in a pub paltern and Pecs traced

ย

As we walked street again, the

D

our faces and cold, he said: "It's

had times like this I wish I

I once had two, you car again. know."

His lesson

paces, We walked a few Green jade from China, in the spilled beer on the bar.

Suddenly for a taxi. Then: "I once read an article looking Silk from Slam,

"But, you now, I've dangers of having he said: aboul the So you'll know I love you success 100 soon. I was 40 years learned how to live in the past Wherever I am.

old when I first bit the show few years.

Twenty years for a lot," business jackpot,

N this slender, curiously dated lyric Donald Peers is building his comeback hopes. For in this rock 'n' roll age,

Will the rock-filled Julte boxes when a star's success of 1959 be belting this out in often begins and ends in the coming weeks? The future of Donald Peers depends on the his teens, 50-year-old answer to that question. Peers believes that the [ talked to Peeri about 8,000,000 people

who his once bought his records said: "If are still there.

Will it click?

ogan.

He future. past and

doesn't ellese I'll try You see, my philosophy When I is very simple really.

starting man young 3 Was out in show business 30 years 21.0 I

hoad having was struggle.

asked someone for "And I Now they are lost in a wilder- ness of guitar-beating frenzy, advice. I said I was at the end hoping to hear again the kind of my tether. He told me. Tie the rope and hang Roof The American public tz

philosophy ("Powder a knot in aroused that the politicians now Your Free With Sunshine") and on." promise a full-scule top-to-bot-wet-eyed sentiment ("Daddy's "Well, during the last dve tom investigation of the TV in Little Girl") that earned Feers years, I've tied a knot In dustry. It will almost certainly fame and a sizeable Tortune 10 rope and been hanging on. I'll go on hanging on if necessary. be televised.

years ago.

casy

The marines have a

A

Moscow.

TALL officer towers over his elegant dancing partner, he is in his scarlet and gold mess kit, she in a confection of lace and tulle. They dance to soft music, the candlelight flickering over her bare shoulders.

U.S. LEATHERNECKS HAVE SOFT LIGHTS AND SWEET MUSIC AT THE EMBASSY

From CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

ball

"Just fine," answered

"We

had

the

And that counts

New machine

thrombosis in minutes'

By PETER FAIRLEY

London Exprema Servies.

I've seen the · Seven

wonders,

the "I've sailed

seven

sens, I've even searched for

castles in Spain.

But all of the magle my

have seen eyes

will

fade when I hold you again.*

I wish Mr Peers lots of luck.

I really do.

• Publishers: Franels Day and KXunter.

(London Express Service).

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He said, "This unit makes the patient sweat violently. But he is able to stand the fantastic ram heat because his brain-- which

be would otherwise

supply damaged and his air are kept cool.

"His skin sweats and breathes, allowing extra oxygen to reach the blood which can then clr- culate treely again."

The

blue-painted prototype go on trial in London next

LUFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Dr Eric St John will

University Hospital Lyburn, of Tunbridge Wells, has invented a month "steam refrigerator" which; he says, can thrombosis, the blood clotting disease, in minutes.

The "refrigerator": ft-high cabin

in which

between an to

patient sig for 20 minutes, Steam at 120 degrees Fahren

cure

"I believe it will prove to be a few a life-saver," said Dr Lyburn.

"We can curu thrombosis, which la killing thousands every

four and a degrees of frost.

DT Lyburn. head of

the heit is pumped into the lower

chlof

a. Jap with section. The top part, round and neck, is frozen sukiyaki the other day, and an his head Englishman

with

Yorkshire pudding, last week."

Curious, the officer- asked: "Have

exten ever you Marine??

On the floor ':-

A waiter discreetly opens another bottle of champagne. Bright military uniforms, civilians in dinner jackets, and richly dressed women swirl and Edward G. Robinson with sador and the youngest member in horror.

his wito handsome woman, of their contingent.. round the dance floor in a kaleidoscope of colour.

Cigar amoke hangs blue in the candlelight under the chande Kers and mingles with nuances of fine perfumes,

the

J

The chief threw up his hands "A Marinet Hove you ever tried to clean one of They are here for an' Americ The ambassador, a tall, spare those guys?" can film' exhibition and

man, congratulated them on The came

a piquant touch, thetr 184th birthday it was given in Spase House arrived at the party after

The news had come through showing of "Marty." The

not appearing that cut-Colonel Les Dulscki, which, like much of Moscow's Russians liked the film

and apologised for

but the

Marines commanding Anest architecture, - wag the liked Edward G. Hobinson even "in the proper form, home of * merchant prince.

returned from holiday. It was hail colonel. where special in Hickey-land Now the American Ambasador, more, for he made a speech in explained: "I have only just officer, had been promoted to

very expensive and I have not London, Rome, Paris, Monte Llewelyn Thompson, Ilves there,

yet been able to get the suit out Carlo.

of hock."

It could have been some-

But it wasn't. Muscow,

It

TEL.

It is spacious and furnished 'Suit in hock'

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for опсо

Imagine a British Ambassador saying that.

So there, on the dance floor in that Rudaiats 'manalon in the heart of Moscow, surrounded by beautiful Women and elegant men, Leo Dulacki, Colonel of

with C taste and economy was in of choice that gives an over-

Copper was his usual taciturn home of Socialist whelming impression of riches.' realism where bare shoultera The Marine, nicknamed the self, yupping" and "noping" just as if it were "High Noon." are indecent and dimmer Jackets Leathernecks,

Rokinon on the other hand Then he toki a story in praise Marines, had the instead of his dressed to kill, socially, filled it

lettes by the disgustingly bourgeois.

American Western decadence" with their friends who live in chattered away-about arti his of the Marines vaunted tough- new rank pinned to his epat-

It was about the Marine of greal love, apart from his wife ness.

Ambassador. was on diupiny bocmim it was Moscow-Westemers all of course,

offeer who, during the.. war

We went, pt with lise" party. of the birthday the United them, for the Marines have no

#commibal friends -- and some At 11 p.m. there was a faptaro went to call on

after that and got home in, tras the Russian Loughest troops, States

of bugles and the Marines chieftain in New Guinea

Hickey e with the Masowy Murines, who form the guard American visitors..

"How

thing

milkman in the morni embukay", at the

And the dary Cooper was there with wheeled in their hopy birthday

-{London"Express his wife Marines were having a batt.

and pretty daughter, culce to be cut by the smbgs- asked the officer.

This

14 year, in a matter of minutes and keup it clear. All vascular discases are relieved and kept

A

physiological research centre relieved.” at Tunbridge Wells, showed It might help to overcome the

conditions of man his cabin for the first time at ugcing Eritish Medical Association arterio-sclerosis and headquarters in London today, of the liver and kidneys, -

Mid Week Selection

by Friell

"I think wa-ban how slow, then, to hold an

ADULTER SHOULD BE

CRIME

“This is certainly going to help

conditions