Seymour Stein: 'Shellac in His Veins'
Seymour Stein was helping create music industry history when he was only 14 years old.
That was in 1957, when he began working for Billboard as the assistant to Tommy Noonan, then head of Billboard charts. When Noonan decided that the music industry needed a speedier, more current hits chart, Stein helped him pull it together.
Today, 53 years later, that chart, the Billboard Hot 100, unveiled in August 1958, is still the industry's barometer.
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