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Posted By: Bill Kline on: 10/02/2006 15:09:36 EDT Subject: |
Knowing Bob wants a clean forum here, I will try to keep this topic that way. I was listening to one of the archived shows, one from 1963, and heard the song "Greenback Dollar", in which the word "damn" appears. If my fading memory serves me well, Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" in 1961 originally had the phrase "one hell of a man", but it had to be changed to "a big, big man" before radio stations would even play it. Of course, in this day and age where just about anything goes, this seems quite innocent. But I was wondering if "Greenback Dollar" might have been the first song to get airplay with such language? In the past few years I have seen both Mitch Ryder and Lou Christe in concert. Both mentioned that they had songs in 1966 that were moving up the charts, then all of a sudden fell off, as radio stations received heat for playing them because of supposed sexual connotations. These songswere "Sock It To Me" and "Rhapsody In The Rain" (because it contained the phrase "making love in the rain"). In just over a year later, "sock it to me" would become the big phrase on the #1 television show "Laugh In". Of course, I live in Indiana, where the govenor in 1963 banned radio stations from playing "Louie, Louie", a song that no one could decipher the words to!...LOL |