The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Recording Industry
America’s tinkerers and entrepreneurs took a business machine and turned it into a billion-dollar entertainment industry.
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Sexy, Simply, Sad: How Mitch Miller Defined Pop Music in the 1950s
1956: “Mitch ‘The Beard’ Miller produces more hit records than any other man in the business.” The Post explained the secret of his success.
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The Post Discovers Country Music… in 1944
“Uncle Art Satherley seeks out country music in the bayous, canebrakes and hills, and brings it back twangin’ and sobbin’ to 25,000,000 addicts.”
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How Heroes are Made
“The embodiment of granted prayer” was how George W. Trendle envisioned the Lone Ranger, created to build an audience for his low-budget, independent radio station in 1933. Trendle used all the stock virtues of heroes, but in such high quantities that there was no space left for personality. The Lone Ranger was a paragon of justice, and extremely popular.
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Diane Rehm Biased?
How can you write in your Nov./Dec. 2008 issue that Diane Rehm “gives equal time to all sides of an issue and both sides of the aisle” when newspapers she reads and the broadcast media she watches and listens to all have clearly liberal views with an extreme left-wing bias? Had she said she also ... More
