Payola - The $50 Handshake | 1
American Scandal
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Jerry Wexler and the Brill Building
Jerry Wexler is credited with inventing the term rhythm and blues to describe black popular music. Since joining Atlantic Records, he's overseen the release of Landmark singles by Ray Charles,. The Drifters, and Big Joe Turner. His boss Amant Aragon sent him here to pay off Allen Freed. He said it's the only way Atlantic can keep producing hits.
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