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Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the acceptance of payola is legal. (Only the nonreporting of it would be illegal.)
Born Ruby Rebecca Blevins in a log cabin in the Arkansas Ozarks in 1908, Patsy Montana began her musical career performing in the 1920s with the Montana Cowgirls. She went solo in 1936 and became the first female country and western singer to sell one million records.