• MMHP Season 5 Ep:7--Mel Kanar: Behind the Scenes With A Motown Record Middle Man Part 2 of 2

  • Nov 14 2024
  • Length: 50 mins
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MMHP Season 5 Ep:7--Mel Kanar: Behind the Scenes With A Motown Record Middle Man Part 2 of 2

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  • Mel Kanar was the supplier. He knew the bands, the songs, the CEO and the DJ's. What music fans don't know is how large of a roll he played on charting early rock and roll on radio throughout suburban Detroit and beyond. The sounds you heard, you favored, you loved, smash or trashed, Mel was the delivery man and the polisher for the companies that needed their palms greased in order to get the next big song on the radio.

    You've heard it all about payola, the rags to riches, the gravity of the unknown coming to light. Mel was the lynchpin in all of it for Michigan and mid-west early rock and roll. He knew Barry Gordy, he knew the big DJs, he knew the clubs and he drove the bands.

    Here in Part 2, Mel digs into payola, blues, the English music invasion, insurance sales, and his money saving toilet ideas that he has invested in. A living, walking legend from the top of the pops, to the flushing lows...it's all here! Turn it up...
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