The Messed Up Truth About The 1950s Music Industry
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- The social landscape in the early 1950s was shifting. The end of WWII signaled a time of economic growth, and technology was advancing - TVs were becoming commonplace in homes, opening up a whole new world of entertainment. Music, too, was changing, and the big band sounds of the 1940s were waning, while rock ’n’ roll was taking over.
The 1950s gave us some of the greatest music acts of all time, including Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry. But there was a dark side to the industry, too. From stiffing Black artists on royalties to artists getting involved with underaged girls, this is the messed up truth about the 1950s music industry.
#Elvis #Music #RockNRoll
Missing royalties | 0:00
Segregated concerts | 1:30
Subject to Jim Crow | 2:39
Stolen hits | 3:51
Touring takes its toll | 4:58
Billie Holiday's tragic death | 6:12
Underaged girls | 7:24
Little Richard's bad deal | 8:39
Pay to play | 9:41
American Bandstand's dark beginnings | 10:59
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What are your impressions of the 1950s music industry?
Guess what? While you are trashing Elvis, the real child molester is Michael Jackson.Elvis was never charged with anything but Michawl Jackon was. He went on tv and said sleeping with a child, though someone else's, is very natural and an act of love. The FBI raided his house. In a civil suit, Jackson lost because of enough evidence to prove he was a child molester. He paid countless millions to the children he molested. More and more people are showing up and are accusing Michael of molesting them. The numbers are growing. Soom it will be the number equalling Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby accusers. You are evidently jealous of Elvis. I bet you are one ugly man. I know you are a liar.
@Ian Salyer Millions of people believe Jackson was a molester. He was the correct color and fame for the correct color jury to find him not guilty but you are overlooking the fact that he lost the civil suit? Why? The evidence used in his criminal trial supported the findings in the civll.suit. You are also overlooking the fact that several victims have recently come out telling about him molesting them. They said Jackson threatened to have them killed if they came forth. So as time passes, countless victims will come forward. They are the tip of the iceberg. It took thirty years for most of Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby's victims to come forward. When they do, nobofy can say he was innocent. But this is the point. Elvis was never criminally charged. Jackson was. So why is Grunge going after Elvis? There are plenty of people he could try to ruin. Elvis treated women with respect. His girlfriends all testify to how much a gentleman he was. People try to attach false information to Elvis. They run the other way when it comes to Jackson. Believe what you will about Jackson. I saw the nauseating interview where he said it was the most natural thing to sleep with a child. He said it was a show of love. Pedophile will always be a part of his legacy. It will follow him into the next century if he is still remembered.He may well be forgotten in 40 years. Who knows?
Terrible. I knew this ahead of time after hearing "Swindler's Lust", a song off Public Enemy's 1999 album "There's A Poison Goin On...." in which the reference "Little Richard barely gettin' half a penny for his recordings" was heard.
sing your arse out boi...
"50s Music Industry" The 'Industry' in the 60s pretty much the same. With a few tweaks to contracts they got round the Alan Freed scandal(?)
Record labels are snakes til this day. Independent is the way to go
Yes they are
The Whole Corporate World is a Snake.
@@alfching2499 I remember seeing a documentary on Ani DeFranco, the pioneering artist of independent music. She said she would get offers from major labels who pointed out to her that she could sell more records, but she'd tell them, "I may sell fewer records on my own, but I'm making a lot more money off the records I do sell."
The difference today is that both this information is available to artist, they aren’t as naive, and they have choices and opportunities to go small or Indy. However, except for very instances, they don’t make much or even any money and it’s twice, three times the work to run and produce and market your own creative work. It’s more about freedom and control. Some artist rather rake the sure money or put forth all your efforts to the creative side but give up publishing rights and thrr red ability to control where your product goes. Not an easy choice.
Either sell yourself and get fame by joining a Major Record Label or retain your creative integrity while having a slimmer chance of fame by joining an independent record label.
Fun fact about Little Richard. Michael Jackson bought his musical catalog and gifted it to him so he owned the rights.
Aw🥺!
Then later on both died soon as they own there music rights ….something else to think 🤔 about??
Bless him. He wanted to uplift black musicians when he was alive.
@@ZeddZilla7360 YEAH HOW ABOUT THAT MICHAEL BUYS THE BEATLES CATALOG, MCCARTNEY IS FUMING HE CAME LATE TO THE PARTY TOO BAD YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE. WELL MICHAEL DIES MCCARTNEY GETS HIS SONGS BACK. HMMM
@@makingthecoin3647 how about MJ, Whitney Houston and a chunk of Prince's catalog is owned by the same company. All died under sketchy circumstances.
Listening to old music is bittersweet. It pains me to think of how black artists were treated despite their fantastic talent...
@The Pilgrim
Really? How many white artist weren’t allowed to play in clubs??
@The Pilgrim yup
@The Pilgrim White artist weren’t threatened, chased, attacked, etc for breaking Jim Crow laws, white artists weren’t beaten to the point of hospitalization because 3 black girls snuck into their show, nor was their music stolen by black ppl so PLEASE don’t try to compare what white artists experienced to what black artists went through because the FBI didn’t frame, ruin & kill white female artists like they did Billy Holiday
@The Pilgrim you're a DF!!! Why don't you go somewhere and read a book!
The same thing happened to
white artists as well.
As powerful & beautiful as the music was from the 50's era, it's every bit as painful knowing who these artists, musicians & songwriters were 'raped' by greedy evil blood sucking leeches. The music industry is pure evil. But it's not the only industry. RIP to the incredible performers who enriched our lives with their talents.
It’s not just Black people who get shafted either
@@norakat You are absolutely correct. But a disproportionate amount of black artists, from that era in particular, died broke while the thieves who robbed them lived in luxury off of their talent & hard work.
@@norakat well when you look at the ratio of white record label owners compared to white ones, then add the number of black and white artist, in this case white people were not doing bad as a whole in the 50s
Growing up in this period of music, inside I cringed coming to know gradually what was going on behind the scenes....JN Baroque Hearted
Did anyone watch the documentary on Black Sabbath? It's a good one.
I was in high school in 1954-57. During that time several of my friends and I became enamored of Rhythm and Blues. I would come home after school & turn my radio to an AM station that played black R & B. We danced to this stuff at noon at school. Maybe 1955 our black DJ was murdered. I can't recall his name, but all of a sudden our R&B station disappeared. For a while
we continued to get a few R&b songs, but that disappeared before the end of 1955. Covers of black songs replaced by white songs started appearing. Pat Boone did a bunch of them. I really
remember Annie Had A Baby, which was replaced by an inane title I have forgotten. There was Rock around the Clock, which was a white song, but was defanged from it's original feisty beat.
Elvis did a bunch of covers, but Elvis also loved country songs & continued to use them. I never got over losing that wonderful and danceable music. Oakland CA 2022
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I'm young but very much obsessed with oldies music. Their voice and instruments just feels real and genuine.
So I heard. Horrendous and unbelievable SMH
You ever search UA-cam for the radio station recordings?
Thank you for sharing.❤️
I appreciate your story. 👍
Saddest part is we had the best music and music , culture, fashion all of it has been stolen
😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️☠️
They couldn’t duplicate us if it slapped them in there face.
@@saintandretheenormous6093 devil☠️ 💯🔥👺🔥💯☠️
And sold
@@saintandretheenormous6093 mad
Man the 50s was a real F'd up decade hearing these stories especially about what happened to Billie Holiday is just heartbreaking.
But it continued in the 60's - 2000's
@@marcomustang876 True
Music Misery and Madness. Jheeze! For me, I am glad I didn't think to enter this profession. Feel so sad and sorry for many of the artists in this video. Some great artists aswell. Born in the 80's however my music vault goes back to the 30/40s up to mid 2000s. Sad, very sad indeed. We had some truly brilliant brilliant artists that have gone through something that ought to bring nothing but peace love and happiness. Far removed from the true origins of music. Sad!
P.E.A.C.E
Hell the 2020's are still F'ed up
@@averyce2 Oh believe me I know
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S. Thompson.
Terrible SMH
Real
@Adrienne Robinson true
RIP HUNTER.fear and loathing
Lenny Kravitz once said
it's hard being black and
playing rock music.
#jimihendrix 🎸
He ain't fully black, ya know what l'm saying?😒
Please believe that.
His father was white and his
mother was black.
@@toneyisaiah3556 like I had said, half don't equal Whole!👎
They have the nerd to talk about R-Kelly and under age girls? Talk about throwing rocks and hiding their hands🤦🏽♀️
no matter who does it, it is wrong. Chuck Berry was a huge child molester. Not 13 year olds, he liked 8 and 9 year olds
Oh yeah it's sick. One of my favorite rockers I found out was dating underage girls. Oh and let's not forget Ted Nugent
@@lyricberlin Elvis was also a pedophile
YEAH SOUNDS ABOUT WHITE I MEAN RITE
Add Prince to the list! I’m not even done with the video so who knows if they mentioned it. But yeah, he courted with a 14yr old foreign girl and then moved her and her mom to the US when she was 16. Then married her on her 18th birthday
Things didn't really change in the music industry untill the early 2000's when artists started producing and owning their songs and selling them thru the internet(Prince fought with Warner Bros over ownership of his music from the 70s and 80s) The R/B group TLC had the number 1 album in the country around the late 1990s yet they were flat broke! The old artist-record company contract mainly benefitted the record labels forcing the artist to tour to make a respectable living.Besides maybe Madonna,Janet Jackson or Ray Charles many artist were ripped off because they didn't own their masters...Heck even The Beatles lost ownership of their records thru bad contracts!
Yes Terrible SMH
Music industry does not discriminate , they get everyone's money
I heard Michael Jackson was a gangsta when it came dealing with the industry, it is said that's why he was being accused of a pedophile and yet there was never concrete evidence that he was ,, I'm sure he fucked the moms though I would not doubt it ,
@@6688ya This.💯
And they killed him
I’m a simple man. I see Little Richard, I click. Such a tragic story.
Question: How did his masters end up being owned by others?
Richard ended up getting paid. He was worth several million at the time of his death
Me too. He's a true legend.
I once heard that when Michael Jackson bought the Beatles catalog, he also bought Little Richard's masters.
And, I heard that he gave Little Richard his masters back free of charge!!!
@@MrJP75 yeah I heard that story. I think he did the same to Sly Stone, of Sly and the Family Stone. He bought their catalog and gave it back to Stone.
It's still messed up. My band signed with Universal and what should have been an amazing experience was the opposite. Horrible deals, label politics and unwanted sexual advances from industry people I trusted.
I bet it wasn't own by black people !
Man, that is a shame.
So sorry.
Really Sorry to hear this
W
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At u doing now
Wow, some really eye opening details here, especially about Billie Holliday and the beginnings of American Bandstand. Thanks for this
Saw somewhere Dick Clark was a snake!
Yeah I agree I wish the journalists at grunge would expand and be more thorough, very interesting.
@@makingthecoin3647 They cover a wide range of subjects, which I appreciate
Frankie lymon was screwed so bad that he developed a heroin addiction and died at 25.
Frankie Lymon had a tremendous voice. He would have been bigger than Sinatra. Listen to "Goody, Goody" and tell me I'm wrong.
@@nadezhdawall-rossi2864 You should hear the song my girl by him.
FRANKIE WAS DEFINITELY SCREWED AND YES HE WAS AS TALENTED AS ANYONE. BUT I AM NOTICING HOW EVERY BIG BLACK STAR THAT DIED CAME AT THE HANDS OF RECORD MOGULS, PRODUCERS. MICHAEL, WHITNEY, PRINCE, SAM COOKE ETC. NOW I READ HERE FRANKIE GOT ADDICTED TO HEROIN AFTER HE WAS SCREWED OVER. BUT SEVERAL MEMOIRS BY DOO WOP PERFORMERS, WRITERS HAD SIMILAR STORIES THAT HE WAS USING WAY BEFORE. POOR MAN WAS DOOMED EARLY IN LIFE. NO ONE BETTER THAN FRANKIE LYMON.
Big mama has to be one of the saddest stories of blues. When I was a little kid growing up I had no idea that Elvis Presley did not write or have anything to do with the origins of that song. Big mama was a huge mover and shaker in the blues and the early rock ‘n’ roll movement but yet she gets no credit whatsoever.I mean I love Elvis Presley he really did have a beautiful voice but so many black artists from the 50s 60s 40s were just ignored robbed cheated it was sad
Big mama didn’t write hound either it was Lieber & Stoller
@@scouseronthewirral One white artist who covered Big Mama Thornton and gave her the credit and royalties she deserved was Janis Joplin. She learned the song "Ball and Chain" from seeing Big Mama perform it live, since her record of it for the small Bay-Tone label was never released. When Janis recorded the song she made sure label credit went to "W. M. Thornton" (after her legal name, Willie Mae Thornton) and she got her full share of the songwriting royalties (though Bay-Tone retained the publishing rights and royalty income from a song they had refused to release). The record often passed off as "Big Mama Thornton's original 'Ball and Chain'" was a remake for Chris Strachwitz' Arhoolie Records from 1969, one year AFTER Janis's version. And though she didn't make the money either Elvis or Janis did, Big Mama Thornton got her revenge by outliving both of them.
@@mgconlan But Janis give her credit
Bigg Mamma Thornton tried to claim she wrote hound Dog, she was a thief. She was the first person to sing the song hound Dog yes. Her version was more of a blues version of the song, the song writers were actually white Jewish men called Lieber and stroller. When they heard Evis version of hound Dog and made them heaps of money loved Elvis version even more. If she had a sad life sorry for her, Elvis life was also very sad. Do your research!!
@@SODMGGOKU your the troll not me, do some research!!
The latest scummy practice by the music industry against performers and songwriters is called "streaming," and it\'s perfectly legal. Artists and writers of songs that are streamed received virtually nothing. When Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You? became the most streamed holiday song of 2021, she issued a public statement thanking people for liking the song but saying she'd made almost no money from the streams. Carey was lucky enough to have made it to stardom when most music was still being sold as physical media; other more recent performers have not been. And one shining example of a major music act that stood up to racism was the Beatles: they had it in their tour contracts, "Artists will not be required to perform to a segregated audience." They enforced it, too: when the Beatles played the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964, the venue was racially integrated for the first time in its history.
Very good with your Musical history. I hope your young, keep musical history alive and correct.
The name of the song that Billie Holiday sang about lynching its titled “Strange Fruit”. In my opinion, along with “God Bless the Child”are Billie Holiday‘s best songs.
What was happening in the music industry in the 1950s was a reflection of the times. In the south and the north racism was everywhere. And people talk about the good old days. What a crock.
The older generations put on blinders when it comes to certain things. People in in general tend to view the past in a nostalgic way. These comment sections are filled with comments about how everything was “better” back in the day and that no one has talent anymore. They need a new line.
Cortland Hunter In many ways things were better. We could play outside without fear of being abducted or shot. Drugs were available but were not rempant like today. Music was cleaner without the F or hole word and profanity. Life passed by at a slowypace also.
Very different. But there was racism and I saw it. Didn’t like it but it was there. . You would’ve have had to been there. I’ll take that rather than the nonsense out in society today.;
they considered the song incendiary and too graphic.
@@DavidSmith-sf4rl you are sick
Lyric Berlin And you are perhaps ignorant and short sighted.
The music industry and Hollywood is a evil place to be in
Who pays someone HALF A PENNY for each record?????? So sad
White people and Jewish record execs
The Big Crooked Boss!
Satan's children does.
"According to the first record contract signed with EMI's Parlophone label in 1962, The Beatles were entitled to only one penny for each record sold within the UK. For international sales, it was even less - just one-half of a penny. Those pennies had to be split four ways."
Apple pays the artist .007 cents per stream or something ridiculously low like that. Conversely they pay the label 55% of streaming revenue.
Buddy holly is in his grave right now because his music producer, Norman Petty, decided to screw him out of his royalties. So he had to go the road and he ended up dying in an Iowa cornfield in 1959.
My God
Shocking 😲
That was a very impactful day, and helped spawn the song "American Pie".
Modern mega-sized radio station owners (iheart radio and Audacy) are suppressing music and controlling what is being broadcasted these days. Radio is horrible now. I miss independent radio stations.
Check out the 60's artist Rodriguez from Detroit and his great documentary called Searching for Sugarman. His two albums didn't fare well in the States so he lived as a laborer in Detroit all the while his records were selling like crazy in Australia and South Africa. He didn't earn a penny from them.
During the Beatles' first tour in 1963, they refused to play to segregated audiences. Pretty great for 20-22-year-olds.
Rodriguez did not get paid because they were pirating his records in South Africa
The British couldn’t be racist...they were just like the kids who listen to rap today...they wanna emulate these black folks
Some of this was interesting but it was all over the place. One thing it got wrong was when Bob Horn hosted the show it was not called American Bandstand. It was a local Philadelphia show broadcasted on WFIL and called Bandstand. When Dick Clark took it over it became a national show on the ABC tv network and the name was changed to American Bandstand.
Sam Cookes murder makes my blood boil thinking about it, he was murdered and his record label was stolen from his family with forged signatures, disgusting
He was starting his own label. He saw the deal and decided he wasn’t going to die broke. This freaked out music executives who felt others would follow breaking their virtual monopoly on the $$$. So he got taken out.
What? I didn't know this
SOMETHING WAS VERY FISHY about His death.Very Tragic .RIH Sam Cooke
@@Biggdoom344 I believe what you are saying. Ugh
@@adriennerobinson1180 there is a documentary on either Amazon prime or Hulu. He was definitely murdered but outside of starting his own label, there was no motivation other than robbery but he wasn’t robbed. He was also found in a seedy hotel but it appears he was killed somewhere else then taken there. Nobody saw or heard anything.
@@Biggdoom344 Ok,Well why did they claim the older Black hotel clerk killed him? And she admitted that she did shot Sam Cooke
UGH
My mother briefly sang with the Bobbettes (Mr. Lee), in the 90's/00's, during their 50's reunion shows. When I grew up in Spanish Harlem in the 60's, my elders were friends with some of the artists from the 50's. None of them were rich, or wealthy, but they were known, and admired, in the neighborhood.
The record contracts during the 50s-70s were a disgrace,the comp got millions while the artists got very little (2 cents a rec sold)some of the artists mgrs were just as bad taking large fees and paying their clients almost nothing claiming"expenses"
Who ever heard of cutting a penny in half - Little Richard
Sad but True SMH
99% were what color though = WHITE !
@@marcomustang876 Regardless of what color they were,these people not only had no scruples about fleecing artists,they had no conscience either,look at the mgrs of Del Shannon,Gilbert O Sullivan,The Mojo's,etc the troubles these artists had with their mgrs was shocking,fighting to get royalties,recieving very little money,legal battles,etc
Chuck Berry remembers that Russ Fratto, a 3rd rate record store owner, got songwriting credit on some of his songs. Mr. Fratto made a fortune. He couldn't read music! No wonder Mr. Berry was bitter!
“Good golly miss Molly!
Sure likes to ball. When she’s a rock in’ and a rollin’, she can’t hear her momma call”.
Let that sink in.
No wonder parents were freaked.
Wow!!! I like that !!!
I TOTALLY get it….
I was 2nd year high school pupil when I first heard Little Richard. Lyrics in songs such as ".. Miss Molly", "Tutti Frutti", "Lucille", etc. Didn't mean a lot, more as to how they were sang. Later, when I was older and more informed, re: 'the birds and bees', etc. I was then aware of the innuendo contained in the lyrics. It's 'laughable' now to think that back then, with the rise in popularity of artists like Richard, Elvis, Buddy and others, 'Conservative' America went into total "meltdown". Fk! the 'youth of American' are being corrupted with the 'devils music'. All you Jazz, RnR and RnB people are on the road to hell. And such like BS. They referred to Afro-American Rhythm and Blues as 'race music'. And marginalised it. Thanks to white artist such as, Elvis, Buddy, who said f.. k you to the 'establishment' and sang RnR and RnB irrespective. It took a meteoric journey from then. "All Round the World": the title of a1958 Little Richard song. "Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll, deliver us from the days of old" Chuck Berry. 😘😘
And ppl still don’t believe that Michael, Whitney and Prince were actually murdered 😒🙄
You could make a really good season of American Horror Story based on these factual events.
Yes 🙌
that pay to play thing still exists they just got extremely good at hiding it through loopholes and with streaming services it went from paying djs to spin the record to paying curators to put your song in a playlist.
These racist attitudes were maintained by MTV right into the 80s.
TRUTH BE TOLD,THE RECORD INDUSTRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SHADY IN ALL THE DECADES SO FAR,NOT JUST IN THE 1950'S.
Seeing videos like these makes me excited to be such a huge fan of Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. True game changers as we all know. As well as Luther Vandross and Ray Charles. All shrewd businessmen to the fullest
Ppl downplay Jay-Z but he did it his way
He still doesnt own his masters
The 50s was my favourite decade for music and it’s really sad knowing all the shit that happened to the artists. Little Richard deserved a lot more than he got. Even feel bad for Elvis as he gets credited with being a ‘culture vulture’ and all that when it was his manager doing all the business behind his back. Sad times
Pat Boone is getting away with murder he never liked Rock and roll and his covers were cringe that was in direct competition with the originals and in most cases outsold them, at least Elvis loved the music and covered a song years after and was mostly album tracks and not single releases. The bile should be spewed at Pat Boone but Because Elvis is bigger he gets it by the ignorant and uneducated white bashers by people who wasn’t even around back then
@@scouseronthewirral I’ve never liked pat boone because of that. For elvis he only did it for the joy of creating music, while Boone just wanted money. Absolute prick in my opinion
@@scouseronthewirral hear, hear, 👍 Well said, Scouser 👏👏☺️
@@scouseronthewirral sorry to break it to you but elvis was a culture vulture.
@@lyricberlin At least Elvis had studied Black music and had enough soul of his own to sing it effectively. Pat Boone was totally clueless.
“Industry Rule #4080: Record Company people are SHADY!!!!!!” - Q-Tip
Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest said it best. "Industry rule # 4080 record company people are shady."
Jesse belvins tires didn’t blow his brakes were cut.
Little Richard, is the true King of Rock & Roll. They stolen that title of King Of Rock & Roll from him and have given it to Elvis Presley who didn't deserve it. Jim Crow back then isn't any different from Jim Crow today.
Chuck Berry is the true king of rock & roll. He came before Elvis & Richard.
@George Prince I agree!
Plus Elvis gave credit to the original artist.
@George Prince I wouldn't give him that credit mainly with Jim Crow have stolen it and gave it to Elvis. The Jim Crow era was about making white people Superior to all races mainly African Americans so if you agree with that you agree with the statement I have made. Black people didn't have any say so. So of course white people can take that crown from a black man and crown a hound dog with fleas as king and nothing black people couldn't do about it. You just made yourself a perfect example as to why we desperately need critical race thinking in this country. White people remain ignorant to the history and the accomplishments of African Americans and other non-white minorities I'm this country. There to business trying to pretend that everything in prefect in this country and hide it with either white lies or pretend that the big problem doesn't exist.
@George Prince Nope wrong again! Chuck Berry Didn't Invent Rock n' Roll, But He Turned It Into an Attitude That Changed the World. Chuck Berry, who died at 90 on March 17, 2017, is rightly hailed as the forefather of rock n' roll, a distinctly American art form that significantly impacted culture and music across the globe.Mar 18, 2017
@@hendrixmonroe8333 Little Richard will Always be King of Rock and Roll to the African American community and that those that knows the truth about the music industry during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights era. Who knows that, Little Richard is the real, King Of Rock and Roll.
🤵🏽🎸🎹
That Jackie Wilson and Jessie Belvin story is different than how I heard it. I heard the crash was caused by Jessie’s driver as they were tailing Jackie to another city out of Arkansas. The driver was said to not rest during performances and he would often fall asleep behind the wheel. The story told here is even more frightening.
I can tell that the first story is clearly a cover up. When you watch biopics like Little Richard, The Temptations, or the 5 Heart Beats, you can tell that white southerners were the most vindictive of their race. Truly evil behinds. Hell look at the show US. It’s no joke that they were snatching blk children and hanging them on their own family tress so their parents would see the swinging bodies first thing in the morning
SAME HEAR. THERE WAS EVEN ARGUMENTS BECAUSE THIS PROBLEM OCCURED A FEW TIMES .
ritchie valens was a classic example of borderline racism in the 50s. his birth last name was valenzuela, but the record label made him go by valens. it's so sad and heartbreaking how shitty record labels were, and still are to this day. hearing all these other stories is so heart shattering. i never knew how vile record labels were back then. :(
I agree with you on that record label are 🐍 and don't want there artists to be paid and they're were racist back then as well treating black people like myself as slaves and get arrested and still racism right today
Maybe you should look at Ray Charles’s interview with Bob Costas about Elvis.
Part of that might have been racism. But keep in mind changing the name of entertainers has been a common practice in show business throughout the entire history of the 20th century.
For example, John Wayne’s real name was Marion Morrison. You can’t get more white than John Wayne.
Cary Grant‘s real name was Archibald Leach.
Jack Benny’s real name was Benny Cabelsky.
George Burns‘s real name was Nathan Birnbaum.
Bob Hopes real name was Leslie Townes Hope.
That’s enough. I think I made my point.
Come on. You want a list of the number of white people made to change names? It was pretty much standard across the industry. To make something easier to pronounce or more catchy or easier to remember. Hollywood and the music industry hated long names and tried to mold you to an image no matter what your background.
As Bob Keane (real name "Kuhn") once famously said: "Last names are like wives. They get changed all the time." It wasn't about "racism" with Ritchie Valens.... he was not forced or coerced in any way shape or form. You're applying some strange logic there. Bob was right. Nobody would buy a record with "Valenzuela" on it because they would have thought it to be some traditional Mexican music. Ritchie was asked about changing his last name, and while hesitant, he did agree that his last name was not marketable. It was the 1950's and even a lot of WHITE artists had to change their names to sound more marketable.
Even me. I hate my name. If I ever get famous, I will totally change it simply because my last name is very ethnic and my first name coupled with my last name makes it sound even worse. Is it RACIST that I want to change my own name?
Black musicians didn’t just get Robbed by white labels. Motown cleaned them out too. Mainly because they never wrote their own songs. He had a group of song writers on salary and he kept the rest because Motown records owned the rights to all the music. Martha Reeves of Martha and the vandellas died broke living in the projects. So did a few members of the supremes. Hell, Earth Wind and Fire stole the emotions royalties for boogie wonderland. Imagine not getting a dime for your biggest hit. Today the music industry is still dirty. Tu Pac owed death row records 2 million when he got killed despite multiple platinum albums. How does that happen?? Just a bunch of sharks regardless of color.
I just started learning this in school, i think that 1950s rock n roll were really catchy
The most underrated Music Person in the history of the Music Industry. and the most Robbed ...is the Music Arranger. Music Arrangers only get a flat fee on the Music/Records, they work on. And get NO royalties on record sells. It is the Music Arrangers Music, that go on to help to make those Records Better, and become BIG HITS.
True!
Elvis didn’t write his songs but he basically arranged them and produced them and they all came out sounding how he wanted! He made every song his own unique style! Guy was a genius and if he had a bit more confidence I’m sure he could write a song but it was different times
Don da mon He was far from being a genius, but he certainly was a child molester who gets away with it just because he is white. If he had been black sleeping with a 14 year old would have got him cancelled long ago
no he did not. elvis was a culture vulture. own up to it.
Lyric Berlin And you must be a parrot
Lies lies and more lies , Bumps Blackwell wrote /arraigned most of his early songs not Elvis - you can UA-cam him on the David Letterman show telling him so ...this is why you people need CRT in schools and on the streets , because you know lies and exaggerated fairy tales !
@@lyricberlin really how so????
There was nothing messed up about the music It was the promoters, managers and record companies. Dick Clark made millions off singers. Alan Freed played records by Black artists but was brought down by Payola. The performers were great but it wasn't until the 90s that they actually saw back royalties .
How do you explain how TLC went bankrupt???
@@MrJP75 I think he means the artists from the 50s and 60s finally started seeing their royalties by the 90s
The " Race Records" of the early to mid 50's...is what birthed Rock & Roll..." Rock & Roll" was blues musician slang for sex ...as in she likes to rock & roll...the music industry executive created genres to control and segregate their target audiences...from the radio stations to record stores...like Ray Charles once said " There are only two kinds of music...good and bad"...a good song should be listened to without prejudice!
The mafia also had its bloody fingers in the music pie. Probably still does.
Mort Levy's goons beat Jimmy Rogers almost to death for having the gall to try and collect his royalties and when the shoe was on the other foot, Tommy James had to go into hiding because Mort's enemies viewed him as his primary revenue stream.
What color are they again ?
You KNOW it!
It amazes me how many scandals there were in the music industry in the fifties. TY for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.
One of the biggest cons of the era: white producers etc would insist that black artists let them add or change a line or a couple lyrics or bars on their songs so they could claim co writing credits and royalties.
Black artists who started stealing over to white country and hip hop stealing and changing pop and rock songs Let’s call it equal Give and take eh?
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@@scouseronthewirral Lol, just because someone is referencing a time when one group of people were treated bad shouldn't make you upset. I'm black and I've always had white friends my whole life. White people have been treated very badly too throughout history, not just black people. It's nothing to get upset about. Don't feel like you have to defend something or react because you feel unfairly slighted, at the end of the day it's just another story in humanity..Black people treat black people terribly to the point where you're more likely to be killed/robbed by a fellow black person, white people treat white people terribly w/ pedophilia and etc, all you have to do is just shrug it off. Don't let the politics of today make you an extremist my man, at the end of the day, we're all Americans and we have the luxury of taking about what "used to be", thankfully life is much better now. It's not a competition to see who's ancestors treated others the worse, it's just important to know these things, You gotta learn how to chill out and stop defining who you are based on politics/ideology/history. Your identity is not linked to what happened 70 years ago in the Jim Crow era, you weren't even there. Just like you weren't there when Romans were enslaving other white people. These issues still exist in Africa/Asia/etc, issues of tribalism, in America we are fortunate enough to just be Americans, and as a young country under 300 years old, we've learned from our mistakes quicker than countries that have been here for 6,000 years. Be proud, not a angry
A sad history that needs to be remembered!
It is were the rock and roll life style came from. Having to take uppers to perform and drive to the next gig and then downers to get what sleep they could where they could and then uppers to wake back up and do it all over again.
Hatred is so unnecessary
Tell that to the Government.
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Imagine if black artists started their own label and poured money into their own communities.
Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and James Brown tried to do just that, 2 of the men ended up dead.
God I’m glad things changed…. I couldn’t imagine growing up like that
Things haven't changed all that much, unfortunately. Independent is definitely the way to go........
@@winterwrathkm that sucks….. at least there’s not separate drinking fountains.
@@sab3295 nobody drinks from drinking fountains anymore
@@ArtisanWindchimes exactly
I believe Sam Cooke was killed, because certain entities felt he was getting to powerful!
Oh Sammy boy, he got himself into a situation where he got out of control and broke down the door to the motel managers office and got smoked.
Nothing to do with him being powerful, but his music was dope. He’s still #1 in my Musial rotation.
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When Black Sabbath started out, the managers owned it all.
Country legend Waylon Jennings played guitar for Buddy Holly on that tour, but opted to travel by bus to that show. Before boarding the plane, Holly jokingly said to Jennings, "Hope your bus breaks down!" and Jennings responded, "Hope your plane crashes!" Jennings was very superstitious and a firm believer in curses, omens, bad luck, etc. He blamed himself for years afterward.
(Like a lot of people, I normally write "Fun Fact" before dropping a tidbit of trivia like that in the comments... but there's nothing fun about that fact.)
Preciate the upload
What is it with Hollywierd, & Pedophilia ????
And if you think about it: these same tactics are still being used!!! Which leads me to this question: Who made out better with Cherrelle's song "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"? Cherrelle? Or Robert Palmer?
Damn I love that Robert Palmer song.
Or Loco-Motion by Little Eva.
Good point
True. I ❤️ both versions
The song; SINCERELY, Disc Jockey, Alan Freed put his name as the Writer & Never penned a single musical Note. One of Jackei Wilson had a hit song that the Producer at Brunswick records put his unborn child as the Writer.
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Thank you for clearing up what happened to Billie Holliday. i read that Billie was suffering so from withdrawals and handcuffed to her bed. Frank Sinatra came to see her in the hospital before she passed away. She begged him to get her some heroin. He tried but was unable to get any back to her in time before she passed away. She and Frank were good friends and he always mentioned that she gave him some tips on how to sing which he used for the rest of his career. No wonder she was begging for the heroin. She was not receiving her methadone treatment. So cruel. That should have been against the law to withhold a lifesaving treatment like that.
Smh this just ain't right.
One may want to hear Public Enemy's 1999 album "There's A Poison Goin On....." that this assumption of the music industry back in the 50s and 60s has been no stranger to controversy. "Swindler's Lust" references the line "Little Richard barely gettin half a penny from his recordings" and "Crayola" aims directly at Dick Clark escaping from getting caught in the record company payola scandal at the turn of the decade by selling out all his songs even if it meant having to lose $8 million out of his own pocket money. The line Chuck D shouts at Dick Clark went "Missed what I said cause he don't own their damn hits!" Clark was extremely hurt by this and felt at the time that he was being fooled by people like Chuck D from Public Enemy. As Chuck D states in the end, "Funny that s**t don't last.....!"
The crusade against Payola (which wasn't even illegal at the time) was a crusade against black music. R&B was mostly on small labels and the bribes the labels were paying to DJ's helped break these songs over the Wonderbread music the major labels had been churning out since the end of WWII.
BLA BLA BLA and Colonel Parker stole half of Elvis' money! What a hit piece!
Leonard Chess and his brother stole from their artists. Glad to know that they were sued in the 1970s.
The music industry needs to be shut down, especially what's going on today with these new artists
No just throw the weasels out
Lol and we cry about discrimination and hatred today... Mann they had resilience!!
Thank you, Grunge. There's many details I didn't know... Maybe not surprising... but nonetheless 💔ing.
Wow!crazy seems like the music/movie industry still does all this….
Im glad i didnt live on the 1950s the music was great but everything else sucked
Not if ur white, best time 2 be alive lol
@@milanmesa8300 Not really, no. Not every white person is racist, Milan. There were a lot of mixed couples that couldn't be together, and we'd have to see the injustices that you guys would be subjected to on the daily. And the only thing you couldn't do as a white person was to stop it. I could on, but basically, more equality is always better for everyone.
The 50s music industry was full of appalling facts, zero argument there. But the 21st century music industry is completely under THREE mega-conglomerates and don’t give a damn about anything but profit and stock performances. Both the artists AND fans and buyers are mere annoyances in that landscape. There are scores upon scores of music being forgotten, plowed under and left for dead, even in the computer era we’re in. Some are even predicting music on the internet will eventually be taken out of “free” status as a whole, put under tight lock and key and be put beneath a paywall…no different from a cable subscription. ALL of it. Yeah, that’s a fabulous future to look forward to.
If she's 13 years old, "affair" is not the right word.
That's just the way it is. Some things will never change 🎶 🎶
The very words ROCK and ROLL didnt exist until Little Richard Penniman had the hit song Good Golly Miss Molly. As for the threat of mixing races, I personally felt the same when a friend of mine took me to an all black bar. I didnt dare ask any women to dance or talk with . My friend wanted to show me why he was like that in the white bars we went to.
Rock n Roll was a euphemism for fucking
Rock n roll didn’t exist until a song from 1958 and this claim gets dozens of likes? The video was somewhat more accurate but still misleading. Elvis’ Hound Dog sounds nothing like Big Mama’s but very close to the Freddy Bell and the Bellboys version.
LMAO 🤣
Does ANYONE think of the Pat Boone versions of "Ain't That a Shame" & "Tootie Fruitie"???
Actually, now that i think of it; who the hell IS Pat Boone?
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He's a goofball
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Actually, he wanted to change the ungramatical lyric Ain't that a shame to ISN'T that a shame but they talked him out of it! He said teenagers shouldn't be subjected to bad grammar.
Well, he's a descendant on Daniel Boone, subjected the world to his daughter Debbie Boone and lived next door to Ozzy Osbourne during the first few seasons.
Joel, it might do you some good to learn some music histiry. Pat Boone was huge. His voice is beautiful.. Still living.
I heard once that "Lady Sings the Blues" was about as close to truth as anyone knows it, raw and uncut. I love-hate'd the story; makes you happy and sad for every event of her life 😪
That movie was majorly inaccurate.
oh the good old days our grandparents reminisce on
The "Money Men" (that's ALL they cared about) have ALWAYS seen Artists as scum, trash, the Bottom of the Barrel. I was a lifelong Musician/Singer/Songwriter/Entertainer since 1965. I worked with several big name Artists in various capacities. I opened for, or played with a Wide variety of Singers, Bands, Artists, etc. Later I owned a Sound Company and ran sound for all sorts of names. I saw how they were all treated until they "made it big", and then they were USED by the same people who wouldn't have spit on them if they were on fire. You have to truly LOVE what you do to continue doing it in the face of such utter disrespect. I Loved what I did, and didn't care who said what. Although there were definitely times that it cut to the bone. If you are an Artist, just starting out, do yourself a Huge favor, and realize that as an "Industry", you are in a snake pit and make up your mind not to let it control you. The "Money Men" don't have a creative bone in their body.
I told my mom & grandmother about Elvis & although they are black women they wanted to slap the shit outta me. The 3 ppl you were never supposed to say a bad thing against was Jesus, James Brown, & Elvis when I went to school & gathered the proof & printed it out & gave it to them, my mom cried & my grandmother wouldn't talk to anyone for weeks. She's 77 now with dementia & has forgotten what I told her & 27 y/o me is not about to make the same mistake that 13 y/o me made. I didn't know that both my grandmother & my mother were SA'd by older men when they were teens. So telling them that Elvis committed statutory "R" meant he was just like the monsters that had done the same to them. For 4 generations we've all been SA'd. Me & my sister (although we've never told anyone bcz it hurts too much), my mother, my grandmother, & my great-grandmother. Music was all that kept us alive along with God. To tell my Nana & my mom about Elvis was the equivalent to a pastor finding out his daughter is now a famous pornstar. It was a lot of hurt & anger. But my grandmother lives with my mom now & I go to see them everyday, my Nana & I like the same music. And I try to hide the Elvis records bcz although Nan has forgotten, my mom is 58 with perfect memory. But Nan always finds them. We were having a great time the other day & Nan wanted to put on some music on the record player I got her...she put in Elvis. My mother's laugh immediately ceased & her smile vanished & she slowly walked out of the front door. I know her pain bcz I felt the same when I found out R Kelly had done the same to Aaliyah & other teenage girls. What I've learned about music & the music industry is it is the most beautiful & horribly ugly thing in the world today. I used to love hearing Chuck Berry "Sweet Little Sixteen" before finding out the lyrics "everybody wants to dance with sweet lil sixteen" had a very real & horrid truth linked to it. It's amazing how we praise ppl for talents that God gave them. Ultimately everyone will prove to you that nearly no one is worth the praise they get.
Don't let facts get in the way of a good story,maybe do some real research before you talk crap.
Hey thanks 4 being unbiased and just telling it like it is.
To quote the late Clarence Williams the Third: "Whitey, is SOMETHING else!"😁
Some disgusting details from the 50s music industry going on here, especially that Elvis one. But trust me these “fans” of his are still gonna flock to go watch that new Elvis movie. And those same fans will defend his wrongdoings & are gonna die on that hill defending his perverted history with young girls & his opportunist hold on the music industry at the expense of black artists of the time who deserved credit for his musical triumphs.
Racist
stop with that “woke” nonsense 😂 you think you’re some expert or God that knows every wrongdoing of Elvis?? He was human and had his flaws, but saying he stole music shows how ignorant you are about Elvis’s true history. Do you honestly believe that an uneducated 19 year old Elvis, who just got out of high school, really had the intention of stealing black folks music? He was doing what he loved, he had been studying black and white music (blues, country, gospel, jazz, etc), and he was trying to provide for his family and loved ones. Watch “Elvis and the Black Community: The Echo Will Never Die” here on UA-cam for some simple information that debunks he was ever racist.
NOWHERE IT SHOWS HE STOLE A SONG THAT WAS ALSO SUNG BY SEVERAL OTHERS. BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE ENJOYED HIS SONG WELL LIVE WITH IT. MAKE UP B.S. IS YOUR ONLY WAY TO ARGUE. PATHETIC. ELVIS ALSO SANG FATS DOMINO, CHUCK BERRY, PAUL SIMON SONGS ETC CALLED COVERS LIKE TODAY. WHY IN THE WORLD THE NEIGHBORHOOD DID NOT KNOW UNTIL DECADES LATER THAT I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU WAS NOT WHITNEYS SONG? THE UA-cam REACTIONS BY BLACKS HEARING THE AUTHOR DOLLY PARTON SING THAT SONG HAD A SLEW OF PRICELESS EXPRESSIONS AND REMARKS. I WATCH THEM EVERY NOW AND THEN TO HAVE A GOOD LAUGH.
YOU NEED TO EXAGGERATE OR JUST OUTRIGHT SPEW B.S. YOU SHOULD HAVE GATHERED YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHEN PETER PAN WAS ALIVE AND BRING HIM RELIGION TO STOP HIM GATHERING HIS HAREM OF BOYS IN HIS BEDROOM THAT LED TO PETER PAN PAYING OFF FAMILY AFTER FAMILY TO SHUT UP AND DISAPPEAR. BY THE WAY MAYBE NEXT TIME TO FEEL BETTER YOU CAN MAKE UP MORE B.S. HOW THE KING PAID OFF THE CHEERING GIRLS. MAYBE THEN WE SHOULD GET INTO THE QUEEN OF CRACK.
@@marilynpresley2am Never said he was racist but profiting off of Black music/artists as a White singer has always been something that has been easily accessible to people such as Elvis during his era. I don’t believe he was racist but he was capable of building a career off rhythm & blues because he was WHITE. He was privileged during a time of racially charged segregation even within the music industry. DJs would not push Black music into radio or even television syndication due to prejudice. I’m definitely not God i’m stating facts that you can find yourself with some research & without bias.
If you’re a fan of Elvis just say that. If you’re willing to negate the existence of White privilege in an era of Racism then so be it. To give you credit though he did acknowledge some Black artists along the way but that doesn’t make a difference when the music industry back then was shitty.
The extra exposure in 2002 will have helped change minds, certainly. That, and the continued efforts of Elvis' black acquaintances.
Before his death, Rufus Thomas gave an interview to the TV program American Routes, which aired yesterday on WKNO. The former WDIA disc jockey and legendary Stax singer said: 'Well a lot of people said Elvis stole our music. Stole the black man's music. The black man, white man, has got no music of their own. Music belongs to the universe'.
Thomas went on to say that he played Elvis' tunes on the radio until the program manager told him to stop because black people didn't want to hear them. Then Elvis showed up at a WDIA fund-raising event for black handicapped children.
'When Elvis wiggled that leg, the crowd went nuts. He walked right off the stage and people were storming that stage. The next day I started back to playing Elvis again. Going to show you that no one person can tell you what another group might like'.
- How Did Elvis Get Turned into a Racist? - By Peter Guralnick
Quotes about Elvis
'Elvis was my close personal friend. He came to my Deer Lake training camp about two years before he died. He told us he didn't want nobody to bother us. He wanted peace and quiet and I gave him a cabin in my camp and nobody even knew it. When the cameras started watching me train, he was up on the hill sleeping in the cabin. Elvis had a robe made for me. I don't admire nobody, but Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know'. - Muhammad Ali
'A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis'. - Jackie Wilson
'I wasn't just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him. Last time I saw him was at Graceland. We sang Old Blind Barnabus together, a gospel song. I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There'll never be another like that soul brother'. - James Brown
'That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe'. - Eddie Murphy
'I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness'. - B.B. King
'Elvis was an integrator. Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn't let Black music through. He opened the door for Black music'. - Little Richard
'Early on somebody told me that Elvis was black. And I said 'No, he's white but he's down-home'. And that is what it's all about. Not being black or white it's being 'down-home' and which part of down-home you come from'. - Sammy Davis Jnr
'I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I want to know is, 'Was he my friend?', 'Did I enjoy him as a performer?', 'Did he give the world of entertainment something?' - and the answer is YES on all accounts. The other jazz just don't matter'. - Sammy Davis Jnr
'On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven'. - Sammy Davis Jnr
'Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is, or will ever be'. - Chuck Berry
'Elvis loved gospel music. He was raised on it. And he really did know what he was talking about. He was singing Gospel all the time - almost anything he did had that flavour. You can't get away from what your roots are'. - Cissy Houston
He was a mild tempered, quiet, nice guy. He treated everyone the same. There have been rumors about him, saying that he said 'The only thing blacks can do for me is shine my shoes'. Now, I don't believe that. I never saw him act in anyway like that'. 'I overheard one of Elvis' friends at the time ask Elvis 'Why do you call him 'mister' -- he's just a barbecue guy?' Elvis looked at him and said 'He's a man'. ' 'That', Withers says, 'Was the humility in his temperament'. - Ernest Withers
'Elvis was a great man and did more for civil rights than people know. To call him a racist is an insult to us all'. - Ernest Withers
Vulture
sorry to break it to you but elvis was a culture vulture.
Maybe if he was a segregationist, he wouldn't have been a vulture. "Rock and roll phenomenon cracked Memphis's segregation laws. " (Memphis World News, 1956) "The truth about that Elvis Presley rumor." (Louie Robinson. Jet Magazine interview August 1957), Charlotte Observer interview, Vancouver interview 1957 he gave credit and admiration. People coud have capitalized from those interviews and events some legends would have received more attention back then instead they pushed that Sepja Magazine rumor. "We loved Elvis and Elvis loved us." Shake Rag receives it's Mississippi Blues Trail Mark in Tupelo Mississippi. John Lee Hooker dedicated his song Tupelo to Elvis, he was in Big Mama Thornton's band. Elvis was never sued for copywrite. They went after Rufus Thomas's answer back to Hounddog Beat Cat. Plus Elvis did more than Rythm and Blues. His Grammys were for gospel.
Even though Elvis hated James Brown. The godfather of Soul still gave him props is the reason why i love JB so much.
@@GarwinWayne Elvis didn't hate James brown. They were good friends
Preach brother
The music business is terrible... every artist just needs to make and distribute their own music without any contract from any distribution company.
Yes, there was a lot of prejudice back then, but Colonel Parker took financial advantage of Elvis too, which just goes to show that people can be greedy and life isn't fair.
50% of the revenue when the industry standard was 10-15%. And Parker forced songwriters to fork over half their royalties to have Elvis perform one of their songs. This went on until Elvis started wondering why he was only getting crap songs in the 60's. When he found out, he stopped that policy and got some good songs again, like In The Ghetto and Suspicious Minds.
Shhhhh don’t break the myth that it was only minorities taken to the cleaners. I’ve heard of many across the spectrum taken to the cleaners. Poor contacts, taking advantage of youth or naivety, specially in early years. I mean even the Beatles didn’t keep control of their own early songs because they were stitched up. They became more savvy the more experienced they got.
@@seed_drill7135 Parker and his hanger on’s were leeches who helped destroy Elvis and hated Priscilla. It’s kinda sad Elvis, being an adult was so slow in picking up on this until it was too late.
Parker wouldn’t even let Elvis tour abroad, where he was immensely popular, because he was an illegal alien and afraid to leave the country himself, but too scared of losing control to hand Elvis off to manage a world tour.
Yep. Little Richard actually gave interview in an Austin Texas 1984 newspaper talking about this about how Elvis was even getting screwed over by his manager.
Little Richard actually called out Tom Parker ❗
THAT'S how shady Parker was.
Well little Richard gave his life to Jesus
He changed his life and did let them pull him back in he was so hilarious telling how he was sounding and how he put on all that make up on how Jay-Z them tried to get him to perform and he refused . Great testimony
One of the reasons one must give esteem to Berry Gordy Jr et al, they knew what they were doing and were rewarded, as were their artists.
Whoever heard of cutting a penny in half - Little Richard
When odds are stacked this high against you and still manage to make the most beautiful music. African Americans are very inspiring.
Payola is alive and well in todays Country Music radio . Dick Clark was slime he rolled over on other DJs of the time who were recieving payola like himself, he rolled over on Alan Freed. Freed died broke and Dick Clark didn't.
it is huge in rap
That’s why you go independent.
Best route to go and you choose your own destiny.
Tougher grind but the industry is wicked.
Gotta be willing to invest in yourself!
Interesting. Where was Chuck Berry’s name in this video…?
Some people are such losers. 😡🤦♀️
Stop stealing and lying about it