POP/ROCK - April 24, 1987

From the “how quickly they forget” file, a spokesman for U.S. Sen. (and Presidential hopeful) Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) told Billboard magazine the investigation into allegations of payola by independent record promoters is “way on the back burner,” and that the chief investigator in the case has taken a job in the private sector. The unnamed Gore staffer also told Billboard that the senator’s efforts to switch the investigation from the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to the Consumer Subcommittee--which Gore now heads--also has been put on hold.