MUSI 1530 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Jamie Records, Frankie Avalon, Cynthia Weil
3 Dec 2016
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Lesson 8 teen styled rock music in the early 1960s. The face of rock and roll music began to change in the early 1960s. The payola scandal effectively ended alan freed"s career, along with many other disc jockeys who had promoted rock and roll in the 1950s. With the rise of shows such as american. Bandstand and the promotion of pop-oriented artists such as frankie avalon, fabian. Forte, bobby vee, and leslie gore, rock had changed from a forbidden fruit to an everyday commodity. Studios were cranking out songs in mass quantities that were then attached to teen idol singers who had been molded by a recorded label into an ideal pop star. Major record labels faced a serious problem at the end of the 1950s. Throughout the decade, they had considered rock and roll to be trashy, nothing more than a passing fad that would eventually go away on its own.
