This DJ insisted on playing original R&B songs by African-American artists while his counterparts played the often more heavily-promoted covers by white artists, but was the first to be indicted by a Congressional committee on payola in the record industry.

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This DJ insisted on playing original R&B songs by African-American artists while his counterparts played the often more heavily-promoted covers by white artists, but was the first to be indicted by a Congressional committee on payola in the record industry.

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Milton Cooke · Answer 1

The correct answer is E) Alan Freed.

The other options of the question were A) Wolfman Jack. B) Ryan Seacrest. C) Harry Caray. D) D*ck Clark.

This DJ insisted on playing original R&B songs by African-American artists while his counterparts played the often more heavily-promoted covers by white artists, but was the first to be indicted by a Congressional committee on payola in the record industry. We are talking about Alan Freed.

In the 1960s, Alan Freed, a famous DJ in the United States was the first to be indicted by a Congressional committee on payola in the record industry. This payola term means that big record companies paid a lot of money to DJ's in order to get their artists on the radio. So the issue was that people believed that the DJ was playing the song many times during the day because it was very popular, but in reality, record companies paid a large sum of many to play the music at different times of the day.