“You can't make a hit record out of nothing. … It's baseless to think you can make any recording a hit, just by playing it over and over and over again.”

—  Dick Clark

Responding to payola charges, Pop Chronicles, Show 12 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Rock 'n' roll in the late fifties. Part 2 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19761/m1/, interview recorded 3.11.1968 http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/index-to-interviews.

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