To keep the pop-music business popping, record makers and agents nurture promising young singers with the elaborate care that race-track trainers lavish on two-year-olds. When young singers are signed, they usually get new, tongue—tempting names, are advised how to dress and behave before the great public and carted off to woo the hit-making disk jockeys in a well-traveled circuit of key pop cities: Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh (neither New York nor Washington is regarded as a reliable pop town). If, as a result, a singer "lights the board" in a...
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