In the years before World War II, the powerful American Federation of Musicians prohibited records from being played on the radio in the States. The union had no problem with records being sold to consumers or being played on jukeboxes. Consumers paid for the right to play them at home as often as they wished, and jukeboxes required nickles each time re…
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