re: #168 wrenchwench

Nevertheless, the Payola scandal didn’t serve ASCAP’s and many others main purpose, and that was to eliminate rock and roll. After a brief victory by the powers to be and a three year period of some really dreadful pop music, rock and roll music came back strong in the mid-1960’s with the help of the British Invasion and has been riding high ever since. No rock and roll was no fad it was here to stay.

That doesn’t explain how shit like “The Archies” made it to the top and stayed there, which was after the Payola affair was over. Payola still going on in the late ‘60’s when the Beatles & Stones were at their peak?