uh, not true. Which of the aforementioned hit number one? Maybe the Shirelles, but not the others. Louie Louie was a party/dance favorite.... every band had to know it, including my pitiful high school garage band. There was even "the dirty bop" you might wish to do when the song was playing
@@seauke1 My freshman English class circa 1965: we read Catcher in the Rye... far more explosive. Teacher could not directly assign it, more a "suggestion" but we all jumped on it and universally loved it.. exp Ockley farting in church bit
@@thomasjordan5578 Recently I watched a show about musicians that exposed their private parts in public. Jim Morrison was arrested in Miami for exposing his junk. But that's another video review.
The elephant in the room was the BBC's Top of the Pops audience - almost all from the early teens target audience, effectively groomed for the predatory presenters.
I remember the huge issue there was with "American Woman" by The Guess Who. Many radio stations refused to play it because of lyrics they found offensive. It was a bit of an anthem up here though.
Perhaps better to say they had a high percentage of memorable songs. compared to post 90’ AKA the hip hop era My kids still sing along to The Beatles. Don’t hear them ever sing their eras music
"Je t'aime... moi non plus" by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg (1969) - it was banned in a number of countries for its naughty lyrics, which boosted its sales.
Yep. But they only banned airplay in the UK. As a rocker (in those days) it wasn't my kind of music, but I bought the record simply because I was (and remain) largely anti-censorship.
Thank you! Been trying to track the song and title for some time. Extraordinary beautiful song. Remember when it came out and was subsequently banned on my local at least Michigan station.
Je t'aime was banned just about everywhere in the US. Not because of naughty lyrics - I don't think the censors understood them. It was the sighing and heavy breathing that got them. I was about to embark on a trip to France,where I walked into a record shop in Nice and bought it. I carried it in my backpack across Europe but lost it along with my luggage in Yugoslavia.
1969 WET DREAM, Max Romeo. Banned by the BBC and reached number 10. Alan Freemans Sunday afternoon top 40 show on the BBC and when he came to the number ten position he simply said "at number ten a record by Max Romeo" It was part of the 1969 reggae invasion from Jamaica. Same year Wonderful world beautiful people- Jimmy Cliff, Liquidator- Harry J All-stars, Return of D'jango- Upsetters, Hold me tight- Johnny Nash, All had top twenty and top 10 hits. For a period the BBC radio 1 banned all reggae music.
This is awesome!!! God Only Knows banned??? It's a beautiful song. Certain people have sticks up their ***! Lola I can understand, and good for Lennon! This is super fun!!! It must have taken hours and hours to get all this info!! It's so cool that I "met" you. You are definitely *my* favorite RUclips 'old guy'! 😄
I don't know why folks just can't turn the channel if they find something offensive. Like books, no one is forcing you to listen or read what you find offensive.
@@dennismirac6603 True - BUT - That's exactly the reason that local radio program directors banned songs - they didn't want to lose audience ears. In the radio biz, every ear listening is a revenue stream for ad placement. The BBC bans were moral judgements for the most part, but some were monetary policy.
My dad owned a radio station in a small town. When "One Toke Over tne Line" by Brewer and Shipley was popular, it received extensive airplay. Then one morning before he left for work, Dad received a phone call from the vice squad of the local police department informing him that "toke" was a drug term. The song was banned after that. Another song he banned was "Lay Lady Lay" by Bob Dylan for objectionable lyrics. What I find interesting about this is that Ferrante and Teicher made an instrumental version which was played as long as the name of the song was not mentioned.
@bobmarlowe3390. Never knew about it until now, so I just watched it. I guess ole Lawrence should have gotten a call from the vice squad just like Dad did!
Great episode. In 1958, Link Wray’s Instrumental Hit “Rumble” was widely banned in many commercial radio markets due to the song influencing gang fights and juvenile delinquency. That didn’t stop the song from reaching number 16 on the Billboard Pop Chart. To the best of my knowledge, it was the only pop instrumental record to ever be banned from airplay.
WRONG "Rumble" was NOT banned. It was played daily on every top 40 station in the country. I'm in my 70's and my father owned the biggest record store in Bakersfield ca, We sold at least 300 copies of the record, If it was banned how did it become such a huge hit reaching no 16 on Billboards HOT 100? Dick Clark played it daily on American Bandstand. He even had Link Wray on his Saturday night show performing the song to millions of his viewers So can you be more specific as to where it was banned? Or are you just repeating unfounded rumors?
@@jonnychingas5757 From an archived Rolling Stone article: “It was banned in several US radio markets, because the term 'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency.[10] The record is the only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the United States.[12][13]” Please go on Wikipedia and change the entry, lol.
@@MartysPopParty I don't care what Rolling Stone writers say None of them were around back then I was there, and I lived it. I speak from experience not hearsay. There are countless errors on Wikipedia, just because it's on Wikipedia it doesn't make it true. So again, correct me if I'm wrong and tell me where and on what station or stations it was banned? It's a simple question. You've made more errors in your video, but I wouldn't go into that LOL
Can you do a video about Censors that went overboard? I'm thinking of The Mothers Of Invention's "Let's make the water turn black", from the "We're only in it for the money" album. One of the lyrics is singing about Ronnie's Mother, who works at "Ed's Café", however, the person who censored the song, thought that the lyric "And I still remember Momma with her Apron and her PAD, feeding all the boys at Ed's Café", was saying that Momma's "Pad" was a Feminine Hygiene product, rather than a paper pad to write down food orders on. The Censor was the person who had the twisted mind, not the people who would be listening to it.
If the censor really thought that - (weird as it is) they would ban it. I can remember when these products were only advertised in women's magazines - Never newspapers and certainly not TV.
@@markjohnson4962 Where did anybody mention "Pop Radio"? Back in the day they actually censored the actual VINYL RECORDINGS, that's what I was talking about.
"Timothy" by the Buoys was written specifically to be banned to work around the fact that the record label wasn't willing to spend any money to promote whatever the band turned out. The guy who wrote the pina colada song was the producer and songwriter and used the hint of cannibalism to create some buzz. Great little record!
Actually Rupert Holmes who did the Escape (Pina colada song ) wrote it. The Buoys were from my town of Wilkes Barre Pa then. An okay song, overplayed I got tired it quickly
@@carlc5748 I worked at KRLA in Pasadena as an intern when I was attending UCLA in the early 1980s. Among other things, I interviewed Hispanic kids attending local high schools; their two favorite songs at the time were "The Wanderer" (Donna Summer) and "Whip It" (Devo). While at KRLA, I once went bowling with the staff, including the legendary Art Laboe. I provided Johnny Hayes with some themed song suggestions. Fun times!
@@martiniangoldberg Wow, what a great legacy that you have, I really appreciate you telling about your internship at KRLA! I imagine you have many other true stories of meeting, and interacting with other radio greats. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley in the 1960's and 1970's during what I term, "the golden years of growth, and opportunity", in that area. I graduated from Granada Hills H.S. in 1975, "Leave it to Beaver's", Jerry Mathers, real life father, Norman Mathers was the Principal at our school in 1975.
"Gloria" by Them was banned because of the line "...then she comes up to my room, then she makes me feel alright." The Shadows of Knight version was played in its place in many cities. In my town, Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" had the line "making love in the green grass" altered.
Oh yeah. That one too. I think I was 9 years old. I loved that song but did not understand why people didn’t like it back then. I did not understand why it was on the 6 o clock news ? HA so I only heard it maybe 3 times. Until a few years later and someone had the record at their house.
A good example is "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by The Beatles. It was banned by some DJs for the use of the word "Christ" and for its reference to crucifixion.
Thank you, banned songs is such a fun topic. I have two to add: 1) Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, Je t'aime moi non plus, 2) David Bowie, Space Oddity. Space Oddity was banned because it was released before the moon landing and the fate of Major Tom was unclear but dark, they unbanned it after the landing took place. Serge was a naughty, naughty man and this song doesn't disappoint with Jane's orgasmic moaning. The song translates as "I love you, nor do I". The A&R man was ex-communicated, and the publisher was jailed for two months in Italy. It was banned in many countries, it was originally released on Phillips but they pulled it while at #2 -- another company picked up the reigns and distributed it during this stage it went to #1. These were both from 1969.
@@flitsertheo That was unfortunate for the 18 year old France Gall. Pushing boundaries is part of pop tradition. I blame Serge but I also blame everyone one involved in that production including Gall's father.
The song "Give Him A Great Big Kiss" by the Shangri-Las caught a lot of controversy. When asked how her boyfriend dances, the lead vocalist responded with "Close. Very very close". That line resulted in some clutched pearls.
How silly. It was a delightful record. People "close-danced" to slow songs in that era so I don't know whey anyone would complain but prudes look for sex in everything and don't get much in the bedroom.
The Beatles had "A Day In The Life" banned because of it's supposed drug reference ("I'd love to turn you on".) Great video sir - enjoyed it very much!
Another 2 that slipped by are Arnold Layne a hit single by PINK FLOYD about an actual person who was in the newspapers, arrested for stealing womens underwear from clotheslines and allegedly liked wearing them. The other is C.C. RIDER, a hit adaptation of an old blues song done by Elvis, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit wheels, Animals, Chuck Berry, and countless other bands. Mitch Ryder's medly of it with devil with the blue dress got tons of airplay. It's a song about injecting and becoming addicted to heroin the cc referring to the measurements on a hypodermic needle "oh cc, cc rider oh see what you have done now, you've made me love you, oh now now see what you have done" etc.
Then there was the time that the Ed Sullivan producers insisted that Jim Morrison and the Doors exclude the phrase 'we couldn't get much higher' from their performance. They went ahead and used the phrase anyway and they were never allowed on the Sullivan show again.
Oh yeah - and, although I don’t think they were banned from the show, I still get a chuckle out of Ed hoping to stretch a segment by briefly interviewing the members of Steppenwolf after the finished “Born To Be Wild”. Ed: “What is your favorite combo?” I don’t recall who says it, but one of the guys says “The Fugs”. Thanks for the view! Please help spread the love 💕 by sharing the video!!
Leave it up to Jim and they'd get banned from the world. And yes, they were banned from the Ed Sullivan show after he did that (or didn't do what they told him to do)..
@@eddieboggs8306 Hi Eddie! Well - like a lot of Elton John stuff, that song has little published about it except who wrote it who played on it, and where they recorded it. I couldn’t dredge any really interesting stuff about it.
Heres a few from the 50's. "Sixty Minute Man" by The Dominos, "Wake up Little Susie" by the Everly Brothers, "Its Late" by Ricky Nelson and from the 60's, Yummy, yummy, Yommy (Ive Got Love in my Tummy) by Ohio Express.
I always hear Wake Up Little Suzie was banned in Boston, but that's not true. I grew up in the area and it got a ton of airplay on all the major radio stations that played the top 40 hits. The misunderstanding comes from one person who attempted to get it banned, the Catholic Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. He called for a ban on the song, but there were only a small few radio stations that voluntarily stopped playing it. There was never a actual ban on it, any station that wanted to play it was free to do so and the vast majority did. Of course I can only clarify what happened in Boston. I don't know if it may have been banned in other parts of the country.
Thanks for sharing that. I was six when the song came out. I have read about and seen footage of attempts to stop tock and roll in it's infancy. The movie "American Hot Wax" chronicling Alan Freed and his efforts to do Rock & Roll traveling shows delves into the resistance he met at the time. Many great and legendary stories came from those days . Yet here we are 70 years later still listening and rocking.
@@garyfaught3769 Yes, I was 8 when Elvis became popular and I remember the newsreels of groups of parents burning and smashing piles of rock and roll records taken from their kids too. We were definitely born in the right era to experience a very interesting musical journey!
1967 Je t'aime was banned just about everywhere for donkeys years, another that was instantly banned (but was continuously played in certain venues) was wings "give Ireland back to the Irish" and also by the same group the second time it went into the charts if I remember rightly was "Hi HI HI".
You've forgotten "The Pusher" (written by Hoyt Axton recorded by Steppenwolf) It peaked at No.2 on some of the Charts. (I used to get in trouble for even listening to it. So I played my album while the parental units were gone. Pretty daring for an 11 yr old kid in 1968.)
@bluesingmusic3443 - My 7th grade English teacher one day passionately praised "The Pusher" in a lecture. In a small town in rural upstate New York, that was pretty daring for 1968!
“ Lola “ I am 66 Loved that song in my youth and yes I was one that did not pay any attention to the lyrics.. my BF just told me recently about the song.. I said “Not-uh ? “ “rU Sure?” He told me about the controversy back in the day. I meant to check this information out and now you’re here telling me “ Yup” ? LOL That’s enough for me to hit that subscribe button 👍🏼
@@ricksaunders8074 I always wondered how Lola got on the air. Well Respected Man was pretty out there, too, making fun of conservative people. Sunny Afternoon also took chances. :) Definitely bad influences. :) I guess now the oldies channels think we are past saving.
1,000 years ago I was an unpaid engineer and clueless hanger-on at WYBC, the college radio station of Yale University. I never went to school there, but I lived nearby. I got to witness a minor tumult in Studio A over a threat from the FCC concerning the puzzling (to me, anyway) "One Toke Over the Line." They threatened to take the radio station to Federal court over this. That would have terrified any other radio station, but this was Yale. Everyone in charge of anything then was a graduate of Yale College or Yale Law School, e.g., Bill and Hillary, Clarence Thomas and much of the rest of the Supreme Court, and approx. every third Federal judge plus much of the Federal Communications Commission itself. I believe that the Yale Broadcasting Company, our owner, told them to go right ahead and sue. They never did.
1969's "Something In the Air" by Thunderclap Newman was a #1 Hit in England for 3 weeks while here in the U.S. it barely made the top forty chart. From what I have read, it was banned by a number of stations due to its suggestive lyrics for violence and revolution. The song also was prominently included in 2 movies released at that time "The Magic Christian" with Peter Sellers & Ringo Starr along with "The Strawberry Statement". Great Song!!!
DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE had songs "I LIKE MARIJUANA" (1968) and "THE POPE SMOKES DOPE" (1972) that were banned from radio airplay due to its promoting drug use mainly . When the song "THE POPE SMOKES DOPE" (1972) came out , there were a lot of newspaper and magazine articles slamming DAVID PEEL for accusing the catholic Pope of smoking dope .
' Satisfaction' was another case in the US. Offence was taken to the lyric "...trying to make some girl" While playing the record on the air 'make' was comically beeped out leaving the listener to puzzle out what word the beep covered! "...trying to (beep) some girl" It's not going to be 'make' is it?
@@the_guitar_trooperThe girl's reason for putting the singer off was something you simply did not even mention in polite company at the time, let alone sing about it on the radio.
Mellow Yellow wasn't shunned because the "Electrical Banana" verse was inspired by a vibrator. Donovan didn’t reveal that it came from a newspaper ad that he and Keith Richards saw and got a laugh from until around 2010, more than forty years after the song released. I didn’t know it got banned anywhere, but I know it was widely suspected to be some type of hidden drug reference, even to the point that many young people were drying out banana peels and smoking them to see if they would get high, which of course they didnt. If it was banned anywhere, that might have been the reason. Another reason could be the "I'm just mad about fourteen" line. I saw him live on his Mellow Yellow tour in 1967 and he actually added "year old girls" to the end of that line when he performed the song.
I just saw a RUclips video from Professor of Rock. The Association were scheduled to play Disneyland but gate guards banned them as "Along Comes Mary" was about drugs--but during the discussion a group of nuns came by and lavished praise on the group for making a song about Mary---the Virgin Mary!
Ya. That song also has the legacy of double versions. The last line as written in the original lyric was “Here lies one hell of a man, big John“ And the second version that was most often heard on top 40 stations was “here lies a big big man, big John“
Sixteen Tons was also banned in a lot of the coal mining areas for making the mining company owners look like greedy tyrants, which the were & that in itself wasn't going to change how they were perceived already. The Peabody Coal Company went after Tennessee Ernie Ford for the song as well as Paradise by John Prine
First time coming across this channel. Very interesting. There are 3 songs that stick in my mind: Lou Reed - “Take a walk on the Wild Side”, Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah - “Lake Shore Drive “.1971 [ I know this was banned. In St.Louis, there was only 1 Rock station that played “whatever they wanted “. Album Rock Station: KSHE-95. I used to listen to radio stations from all over the, WLS, KAAY, and local stations. Only KSHE. Another song was : “The Devil Went Down To Georgia “. Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker, and others were not considered “Country “ by Country Music people. The original version had, of course “… I told you once you son of a b****,….” Only our KSHE played the song. A few weeks later, a “son of a Gun” version was played on the other stations.[ that was 1979]. Those 3 are the only ones I can think of . Interesting channel. I’m subscribing. 📻🙂
For those unfamiliar with the song/group, "Lake Shore Drive" is a major street in Chicago, which was home to band members Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah. But during the song they abbreviated the song title with the acronym "L.S.D."
Loads of songs got shunned in Brittan by the BBC because of their content but most of the kids in the mid sixties listened to the pirate radio stations who usually played them so it was a pointless exercise anyway. It was crazy, the Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-las gets banned for morbid content, but Delilah, a song about a guy murdering his girlfriend, by Tom Jones doesn't. Some of the promo films ( for runners of videos ) were also barred, the Rolling Stones " Have You Seen Your Mother Standing in the Shadows" where they were all in drag didn't go down well, neither did Dead End Street by the Kinks were the band, dressed as undertakers, were carrying a coffin through a poor area of London, stopping for a smoke on the way. All in terribly bad taste according to the BBC.
I grew up in the 50/60's in Podunk, OK. We had an AM station that would, of course, report the cotton/wheat/hog belly prices in the morning; some news; then when the "teens" got out of school, they'd play a couple of hours of "pop music." It always irked me when they'd play a, say, Smokey or Supremes song and follow that with....you can't make this stuff up!!!!.... "In keeping with our promise to all the parents out there, we here at K__V radio station are limiting our Coloured songs to one an hour." Are you kidding me??? Until the Beatles came along, we absolutely craved the so-called Coloured songs!
It’s interesting to examine such things. It’s a social barometer. Thanks for the view and comment! Please help me spread the love 💕 by sharing the video!
In Mount pleasant Texas I had to sneak my a.m. radio to listen to wolfman Jack and all the songs by black artists. Back in the day when they still had segregated water fountains and bathrooms and seating in movie theaters. I'm 72 years old
Paul Simon's "Kodachrome" was banned by the BBC because it was considered product placement. Not only the title "Kodachrome" that's repeated several times, but also because another brand, Nikon , is also repeated in the song.. In the UK and elsewhere two songs were also banned for political reasons - "Luck of the Irish" by John Lennon, and "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Paul McCartney.
"Last Train to Clarksville" made it past the censors and was featured in the Monkees prime time show. It's about a soldier about the go off the Vietnam and wants his girlfriend to spend one more night with him before he goes, because he may not be coming back. This is per Boyce and Hart, the writers. The sexual content was so understated few picked it up.
Another excellent and extremely interesting video Guitar Trooper Thank you. I have often used the real reason for Lola being banned as a teaser questionn to my work mates i.e "Coca Cola" being used rather than the actual subject of the song. Hard to believe its more tha 50 years old now!
My late husband came to the States from Scotland in 1964. He brought with him a Rolling Stones song that was banned. I believe it was titled Queen Bee, and the "alarming" phrase was "let me buzz around your hive."!
@@ImYourOverlord As a long time atheist, I have often said "God only knows" when something perplexes me! I follow up with "and she's only guessing" Peace and all best wishes
In my home state, we had double censorship - we had a federal censor and a state level censor who couldn't actually *ban* a song but would let radio stations know that they would not be paid to carry any advertising from the State Government. One such edict was issued over "Let's Spend The Night Together". The record still got to #3 without being played on the radio AT ALL. When the censor realised this, he threatened to boycott the newspapers that published Top 40 charts that listed the song. The newspapers, in a rare moment of standing up to the Government, told the censor to shove it.
Yes. the original was "Kick out the jams (prominent expletive deleted). The one put out for public consumption was "Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters."
Hi. I have been on RUclips since it was owned by itself, so 19 years for me. This man is the best I have seen, for voice, knowledge, politeness and accuracy, that I have ever seen. Thank you
There’s no indication that “Love Child” was banned, at least not tenough to be documented. Thanks for the view and comment! Please help me spread the love 💕 by sharing the video!
While Lemmy Kilmister's usual singing voice sounded like he'd gargled with broken glass and rotgut, Motorhead's version of 'Louie, Louie' from 1978 was perfectly clear and was the band's first charting single in the UK.
Also It was never on a regular release . It was a"new" song to go on their first(I think)Compilation of MANY. " "NO REMORSE" My first Motorhead Album.Man It was hard to get where I live. The other "new" song was "Killed By Death"
St. Cecillian song called " leap up and down wave your knickers in the air" it was still a big 'ish: hit in 1971 I think it reached n.o.14 in the chart's. Even though it was still band by the B.B.C.
In the '70s, there was "Jungle Fever" by The Chakachas, which was an instrumental containing breaks where a woman speaks in Spanish and appears to be in the throes of sexual passion. And from the '50s there was "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus (1956), which was banned in a lot of the country but still managed to get to #8 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. If the song hadn't been banned, it might've made it all the way to #1.
1974 Queen's "March of the Black Queen" is still banned on the radio. I even asked one of the heavy metal radio stations why they won't play it. I was told it was "still to controversial to be played on the air". What a shame.
@@MBC1955 Originally the audience didn't, and the song was shooting up the Top 40. When it was found out, the balloon popped. The song otherwise might have made the top 5.
@@mitchellbaker9434 I'll take your word for that, but I don't remember Radio 1 stopping playing it until it dropped out of the Top Thirty, in the usual way, and I was listening to the radio all day every day back then.
Some observations from being a teenager in the suburbs of Washington, DC, in 1967: 1. When "Let's Spend the Night Together" first came out that January, it got heavy rotation on the local radio stations, especially WPGC and WEAM. But after Ed Sullivan spoke up, it was removed from local radio. WPGC flipped it over and played the B-side, "Ruby Tuesday". WEAM refused to do that, though, due to not wanting to play the B-side of a banned song. Most stations must have done what WPGC did because it became a #1 record nationally. 2. Two national hits of that summer did not get played on Washington area radio: "Brown-Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison and "Let It Out" by the Hombres. The former was due to the lines, "Making love in the green grass / Behind the stadium." As a naive 15-year-old girl, I had no idea then regarding the latter, but I can imagine it now.
Great post! “Brown Eyed Girl” and Van have a very interesting backstory, too. I have him on the list for this year. Thanks for the view! Please help spread the love 💕 by sharing the video!!
@@the_guitar_trooper I was too exhausted to finish this last night. I wanted to also say that, from a tune/music/melody perspective, "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" was no great loss, but "Brown-Eyed Girl" has a great melody that I still love today. I read somewhere in the early days of my being on the internet that some people considered it to be the most overplayed oldie. Not I! I have to make up for all of that lost time in the summer of 1967, when I only got to hear it on out-of-town radio stations I listened to a night. And I listened to A LOT of local Top 40 radio that year. There were very few hits that year that I missed. I have to confess that I missed some r&b sings because I didn't listen the 3 DC soul stations. In particular, there was one by Bettye Swann that went to #1 on the Billboard r&b chart that July that I didn't discover until 2022 and like a lot.
I also grew up in the D,.C. area and remember when WWDC was also a budding Top-40 station. As for banned songs, we can't forget "Je' t'aime (Mon Non Plus) by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. First time I heard that on-air was in 1980 in O3 in Wien! But Paul Bicknell (Davy Jones, on-air) did a spoof of it at WPGC. Which was supposedly why he ended-up at WMAL-FM...
Sullivan also wanted the Doors to change "Girl we couldn't get much higher," but when it came time Morrison stuck his face right in the camera and sang the line anyway.
You failed to mention that although "God Only Knows" may have only peaked at #39, the other side of the record, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" peaked at #8. I know a great deal about pop music trivia, and to my recollection, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" was the intended Aside in the states and in the UK.
I was a college disc jockey and eventually program director in 1970 - 71. We limited the Woodstock version of Country Joe's FISH cheer, and the Fugs "I feel Like Homemade Sh*t" and "Wide Wide River" to after 10 PM.
Not a song, but an instrumental by Link Ray called "Rumble" was also banned by USA radio stations as the music was deemed disturbing. Crazy really when Cliff Richard and The Shadows would of been proud to release a catchy tune such as that.
@the_guitar_trooper after some weeks, the main DJ, JOS, James Oliver Stagg, for a few days prior, said on the air that he would play it at a certain time. The time came & he played it 8 times repeatedly, at the 8th, the program director Dave Wood, burst into the studio, ripped the 45 off the turntable, broke it, fired JOS, all on the air. A set up? Maybe. A few years later, DW took over another local station, 1280, WGBF, using a R&R format, WJPS went to a CW, Country Western format.
One of my favorite songs was banned. Mind Excursion by The Tradewinds was perceived to be about drugs. We would call KISN radio in Portland, OR and request it but they wouldn't play it.
That fits right into the Kama Sutra records idiom. The main offices for that label were not exactly traditional business attire, if you get my drift. Thanks for the view and the comments! Please help spread the love by sharing the videos!
Were The Tradewinds the same boy group who did "New York's a Lonely Town (When You're the Only Surfer Boy Around)"? It was on the Red Bird label as I recall.
I certainly expected that song coming up in this video - instead I learned about songs being banned for much more ridiculous reasons. But possibly times/society had changed a lot between ~1965 and 1969.
They're Coming to take me away by Napoleon XIV was baanned for a long time. People were offended thinking it was making fun of people in mental institutions.
I believe Billie-Jo Spears' country classic "Blanket on the Ground" was [briefly] banned by the BBC in the mid-70s. Meanwhile, George Formby's celebrated "Little Stick of Blackpool Rock" remains one to chew over ...
What about, Me And Jullio Down By The Schoolyard .... If any simon & Garfunkel song got banned that would have been it. Or , God Bless You Please Mrs. Robinson .
@@ThePlataf Some people thought the line "sail on silver girl" referred to a needle "all your dreams are on their way" and so on, but silver girl was actually the nick name of Paul Simon's girlfriend, and had nothing to do with drugs.
Two more examples: I don't recall any censorship of The Kinks' "All Day And All Of The Night" lyrics: "I'm not content to be with you in the daytime / Girl, I want to be with you all of the time / The only time I feel alright is by your side / Girl, I want to be with you all of the time - all day and all of the night". There's nothing vague here. 2nd example: Product placement of "The Daily Mail" (a real British newspaper) in The Beatles' "Paperback Writer", which was not banned anywhere, that I'm aware of. Good vid, "_Guitar_Trooper". Thanks! 👍
I hear ya. Oh there were at least a dozen others. I didn’t want this to get much longer than it was, because trying for an exhaustive list was futile and ran the risk of losing viewers as well. I opted for sparking conversation with some seed ideas.
Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces. These were the lines that got it banned: What did you do there? I got high What did you feel there? Well I cried But why the tears there? I'll tell you why [Chorus] It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful
Perhaps make a video about mondegreens if you haven't already. One of the most well-known mondegreens is Creedence Clearwater Revival "There's a Bad Moon on the Rise" which has been misinterpreted as "There's a Bathroom on the Right".
Don't know if it was banned, but "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison has 2 sets of lyrincs. In the final verse, Making love in the green grass" is sometimes changed to a repeat from the first verse "Laughin'' and a runnin', hey hey.." I've heard both versions on the radio
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Here in North Carolina, they played the original version for a long time, then all of a sudden the censored version. We had sung it a million times as kids and no one batted an eye, so we were like HUH? So weird.
While not the 60's, the most bizarre censorship of a recording has to be when the Fred Meyer department stores, put their own "Explicit Lyrics" sticker on Frank Zappa's recording, Jazz From Hell, an all-instrumental album. However, the sticker did not prevent the album from selling and receiving a Grammy award. richard --
Us kids would just dance because it had a nice beat, like on American Bandstand. Hey Joe reminded me of Nam. A lot of my sister's guy friends never came back home or came back with 'Shell shock,' as it was called back then for PTSD. We didn't know any better as kids we called one of the guys who came back 'Billy bang bang'. Whenever Billy would hear fireworks or a car backfire he would fall to the ground like he was back in the war in Nam. They sent him back home to his mom. The lyrics went over our heads. Thanks for the video.
Late 1966, Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" was shunned and banned by conservative radio stations because of the fourth verse, "Electrical banana Is gonna be a sudden craze Electrical banana Is bound to be the very next phase" was apparently about a woman's vibrator. Then one could do a whole rant about Steppenwolf's 1968 songs "The Pusher" and "Magic Carpet Ride" being banned from air play (sadly). Yet lead singer John Kay denies that Magic Carpet Ride was about 'banned substances' and that he only may have had a funny smoke when writing the song.
Irrespective of the final product, “magic carpet ride“ started out as a set of lyrics literally about a new stereo system that he had purchased. “The pusher“ probably deserved to be limited because of the direct curse word in it, if not because of the explicit drug use references. There were just too many targets in that lyric.
"Je t'aime" by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsborough was banned from radio in a lot of European countries. One (German) channel cheekily played it backwards, so listeners could tape it an re-reverse it.
You have “HeyJoe” but I recall “Foxy Lady” being banned for “ Move o er Rove4 / and let Jimi take over”. Got an A I. us History in FDR High a school writing a paper on this topic.
The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service banned Donovan's song, "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" as lyrics referred to a guy being drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight instead of permitting him to work at his skilled trade.
@@the_guitar_trooper It was Ray Davies of the Kinks and the song was 'Lola'. Apparently Coca-Cola took offence at "...Where they drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola'".... So Ray had to insert 'Cherry' to replace 'Coca'.
Given the grounds that some of these songs were banned on it's a wonder Jailhouse Rock wasn't banned for the line "No 47 said to No 3 you the cutest jailbird I ever did see". It could be taken as implying that either it was a co-ed prison or there was homosexual activity going on, and I doubt there were co-ed prisons in the 50s.
Great show as always Guitar Trooper. Your mention of the BBC banning songs due to actual product references, reminded me of the Beep Beep song by the Playmates. Although the Playmates had four other top 40 hits in the US, none came close to the number four hit that Beep Beep would become. As everyone knows, that song references both the Nash Rambler and the mighty Cadillac. Well, the BBC wouldn't have any of that, so the Playmates re-recorded the song for the UK market and changed Cadillac to "limousine" and Nash Rambler to "bubble car." Sales of the AMC's Rambler increased somewhat even though car sales in general dipped during the period following the release of the song in late '58. General Motors wasn't exactly thrilled with the US version.
From 1962: Greenback Dollar by The Kingston Trio. The song has the line: "I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar." In order to get airplay the group had to make an alternate version with the profane word omitted. Pre 1960s: Rumble (1958) by Link Wray, the only instrumental to be banned by radio stations. The title was enough to get it banned. Post 1960s: Do You Remember These (1972) by The Statler Brothers. It has a reference to "Knickers to your knees", meaning short pants worn by boys. But in the UK knickers means a women's underwear. UK radio stations wouldn't play it. Cover Of The Rolling Stone (1972) by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. The BBC banned it for the same reason as Lola; it referenced a commercial brand. Rich Men North Of Richmond (2023) by Oliver Anthony. No airplay whatsoever. It still debuted at #1.
Before I commented I wanted to see if someone else mentioned Greenback Dollar. Saying "damn" was a no-no back then but the song was very popular. The Kingston Trio started the Folk Song re-birth that died the moment the Beatles came in 1964.
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Getting banned by radio was usually the fastest way to no.1 on the music charts.
right on!
Same with books. Tom Sawyer was a banned book in most schools in the sixties and was one of the most read books in most schools
Your right
uh, not true. Which of the aforementioned hit number one? Maybe the Shirelles, but not the others. Louie Louie was a party/dance favorite.... every band had to know it, including my pitiful high school garage band. There was even "the dirty bop" you might wish to do when the song was playing
@@seauke1 My freshman English class circa 1965: we read Catcher in the Rye... far more explosive. Teacher could not directly assign it, more a "suggestion" but we all jumped on it and universally loved it.. exp Ockley farting in church bit
The Doors were also banned from the Ed Sullivan Show because Jim Morrison did not change the words "get much higher" from the song "Light my fire".
Frank Rizzo Philadelphia Police Commissioner or Mayor also banned the Doors.
One guy (like that) in those days could do that.
@@thomasjordan5578 Recently I watched a show about musicians that exposed their private parts in public. Jim Morrison was arrested in Miami for exposing his junk. But that's another video review.
@@luisfernandomunoz6315except it was his thumb…it just looked like something else.
Jim settled Ed's hash but good 😁
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The elephant in the room was the BBC's Top of the Pops audience - almost all from the early teens target audience, effectively groomed for the predatory presenters.
This brings back many wonderful memories. Thank you, Guitar Trooper!
Glad you enjoyed it, Susan!
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I remember the huge issue there was with "American Woman" by The Guess Who. Many radio stations refused to play it because of lyrics they found offensive. It was a bit of an anthem up here though.
I grew up in the 50’s,60’s and 70’s.The songs in those days were GOOD.They
all had LYRICS.I loved the 80’s as well.❤️.
I grew up in the same time period. Not all of the songs in those days were good. Some of them were pretty damned bad.
@@TheBarkinFrogEsp in the '80s. Imho.
@@waynej2608 I know you think you're clever, but we weren't speaking about the 80s
Not Louie, Louie...😂
Perhaps better to say they had a high percentage of memorable songs. compared to post 90’ AKA the hip hop era
My kids still sing along to The Beatles. Don’t hear them ever sing their eras music
I grew up in South Texas, if the local am station banned a recording for some reason, Louie Louie comes to mind, we would tune in The Wolfman Jack.😅
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I used to listen to Wolfman Jack in NZ back then as well
My friends and I would get together and Blast Wolfman Jack’s entire show. Loved it!
"Je t'aime... moi non plus" by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg (1969) - it was banned in a number of countries for its naughty lyrics, which boosted its sales.
Yep. But they only banned airplay in the UK. As a rocker (in those days) it wasn't my kind of music, but I bought the record simply because I was (and remain) largely anti-censorship.
@@timrobertson1571I remember they banned it on at least some Michigan stations.
Thank you! Been trying to track the song and title for some time. Extraordinary beautiful song. Remember when it came out and was subsequently banned on my local at least Michigan station.
Je t'aime was banned just about everywhere in the US. Not because of naughty lyrics - I don't think the censors understood them. It was the sighing and heavy breathing that got them. I was about to embark on a trip to France,where I walked into a record shop in Nice and bought it. I carried it in my backpack across Europe but lost it along with my luggage in Yugoslavia.
@@Arkybark I remember it well. They played it, but then took it off the air where I was in Michigan.
1969 WET DREAM, Max Romeo. Banned by the BBC and reached number 10. Alan Freemans Sunday afternoon top 40 show on the BBC and when he came to the number ten position he simply said "at number ten a record by Max Romeo" It was part of the 1969 reggae invasion from Jamaica. Same year Wonderful world beautiful people- Jimmy Cliff, Liquidator- Harry J All-stars, Return of D'jango- Upsetters, Hold me tight- Johnny Nash, All had top twenty and top 10 hits. For a period the BBC radio 1 banned all reggae music.
This is awesome!!! God Only Knows banned??? It's a beautiful song. Certain people have sticks up their ***!
Lola I can understand, and good for Lennon!
This is super fun!!! It must have taken hours and hours to get all this info!!
It's so cool that I "met" you. You are definitely *my* favorite RUclips 'old guy'! 😄
Thanks!
And. Yes it did take hours. Fine research and production total was about 16 man hours.
I hope that the populace likes it. You never know.
@@the_guitar_trooper Wowza!!!!!
I can't imagine anyone not liking this!!!
I don't know why folks just can't turn the channel if they find something offensive. Like books, no one is forcing you to listen or read what you find offensive.
@@dennismirac6603 True - BUT - That's exactly the reason that local radio program directors banned songs - they didn't want to lose audience ears. In the radio biz, every ear listening is a revenue stream for ad placement.
The BBC bans were moral judgements for the most part, but some were monetary policy.
@@dennismirac6603 absolutely!!! But some people seem to think if they don't like it no one else should.
My dad owned a radio station in a small town. When "One Toke Over tne Line" by Brewer and Shipley was popular, it received extensive airplay. Then one morning before he left for work, Dad received a phone call from the vice squad of the local police department informing him that "toke" was a drug term. The song was banned after that. Another song he banned was "Lay Lady Lay" by Bob Dylan for objectionable lyrics. What I find interesting about this is that Ferrante and Teicher made an instrumental version which was played as long as the name of the song was not mentioned.
The disco song by the studio band Musique, _(Push Push) In The Bush_ comes to mind as a song banned from radio.
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I assume you've seen the video of "One Toke Over the Line" being performed on 'The Lawrence Welk Show'. 😁
@bobmarlowe3390. Never knew about it until now, so I just watched it. I guess ole Lawrence should have gotten a call from the vice squad just like Dad did!
The best part was when Bobby convinced Lawrence Welk to let them sing it on his show. When he later found out the lyrics….boy! He was pissed.
Great episode. In 1958, Link Wray’s Instrumental Hit “Rumble” was widely banned in many commercial radio markets due to the song influencing gang fights and juvenile delinquency. That didn’t stop the song from reaching number 16 on the Billboard Pop Chart. To the best of my knowledge, it was the only pop instrumental record to ever be banned from airplay.
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@MartysPopParty, that's the first song that came to my mind.
WRONG "Rumble" was NOT banned. It was played daily on every top 40 station in the country. I'm in my 70's and my father owned the biggest record store in Bakersfield ca, We sold at least 300 copies of the record, If it was banned how did it become such a huge hit reaching no 16 on Billboards HOT 100? Dick Clark played it daily on American Bandstand. He even had Link Wray on his Saturday night show performing the song to millions of his viewers So can you be more specific as to where it was banned? Or are you just repeating unfounded rumors?
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From an archived Rolling Stone article:
“It was banned in several US radio markets, because the term 'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency.[10] The record is the only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the United States.[12][13]” Please go on Wikipedia and change the entry, lol.
@@MartysPopParty I don't care what Rolling Stone writers say None of them were around back then I was there, and I lived it. I speak from experience not hearsay. There are countless errors on Wikipedia, just because it's on Wikipedia it doesn't make it true. So again, correct me if I'm wrong and tell me where and on what station or stations it was banned? It's a simple question. You've made more errors in your video, but I wouldn't go into that LOL
Can you do a video about Censors that went overboard? I'm thinking of The Mothers Of Invention's "Let's make the water turn black", from the "We're only in it for the money" album.
One of the lyrics is singing about Ronnie's Mother, who works at "Ed's Café", however, the person who censored the song, thought that the lyric "And I still remember Momma with her Apron and her PAD, feeding all the boys at Ed's Café", was saying that Momma's "Pad" was a Feminine Hygiene product, rather than a paper pad to write down food orders on. The Censor was the person who had the twisted mind, not the people who would be listening to it.
That’s a good idea. Sometimes it’s comical. I’ll make a note of it!
If the censor really thought that - (weird as it is) they would ban it. I can remember when these products were only advertised in women's magazines - Never newspapers and certainly not TV.
Frank Zappa was the opposite of pop radio.
@@markjohnson4962 Where did anybody mention "Pop Radio"? Back in the day they actually censored the actual VINYL RECORDINGS, that's what I was talking about.
The BBC also banned The Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire. It promptly went to the top of the chart in the UK
31 months investigating Louie, Louie? That's a GOOD use of Tax Payer resources.
Thanks for watching! See my video “The Song That Drew The FBI Eye”
Exactly what I thought too. Our tax dollars at work. 🙄
Wanna hear a version of "Louie Louie" that would have gotten the FBI all hot n bothered? Check out Iggy's 1974 live cover...!!
And they're still wasting our tax money 60 years on. 😂
Sounds exactly like something Hoover would do.
"Timothy" by the Buoys was written specifically to be banned to work around the fact that the record label wasn't willing to spend any money to promote whatever the band turned out. The guy who wrote the pina colada song was the producer and songwriter and used the hint of cannibalism to create some buzz. Great little record!
You are talking about Rupert Holmes.
I bought that song!
The Who made stuttering cool!
Actually Rupert Holmes who did the Escape (Pina colada song ) wrote it. The Buoys were from my town of Wilkes Barre Pa then. An okay song, overplayed I got tired it quickly
@@donnahilton471I have the 45 still.
Janice Ian's "Society's child" comes to mind. One radio station in L.A. apologized for their ban on the song.
Which station?, @carlc5748 ?
@@martiniangoldberg As I recall, I believe that it was KRLA, are you familiar with them?
@@carlc5748 I worked at KRLA in Pasadena as an intern when I was attending UCLA in the early 1980s. Among other things, I interviewed Hispanic kids attending local high schools; their two favorite songs at the time were "The Wanderer" (Donna Summer) and "Whip It" (Devo). While at KRLA, I once went bowling with the staff, including the legendary Art Laboe. I provided Johnny Hayes with some themed song suggestions. Fun times!
@@martiniangoldberg Wow, what a great legacy that you have, I really appreciate you telling about your internship at KRLA! I imagine you have many other true stories of meeting, and interacting with other radio greats. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley in the 1960's and 1970's during what I term, "the golden years of growth, and opportunity", in that area. I graduated from Granada Hills H.S. in 1975, "Leave it to Beaver's", Jerry Mathers, real life father, Norman Mathers was the Principal at our school in 1975.
"Gloria" by Them was banned because of the line "...then she comes up to my room, then she makes me feel alright." The Shadows of Knight version was played in its place in many cities. In my town, Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" had the line "making love in the green grass" altered.
“Afternoon Delight’ remains a huge hilarious catchy and well performed hit.
Oh yeah. That one too. I think I was 9 years old. I loved that song but did not understand why people didn’t like it back then. I did not understand why it was on the 6 o clock news ? HA so I only heard it maybe 3 times. Until a few years later and someone had the record at their house.
i have the album.. Vinyl, of course.
Agreed! I was too naive to "understand" it back then! But yeah! It's got a real catchy tune!
Loved this song!!!
Won a Grammy too didn't they?
John Denver has them perform it on his show. I think he sponsored it. Here and gone in a flash.
A good example is "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by The Beatles. It was banned by some DJs for the use of the word "Christ" and for its reference to crucifixion.
It’s been said that ‘religion’ was invented when the first conman met the first fool.
Thank you, banned songs is such a fun topic. I have two to add: 1) Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, Je t'aime moi non plus, 2) David Bowie, Space Oddity. Space Oddity was banned because it was released before the moon landing and the fate of Major Tom was unclear but dark, they unbanned it after the landing took place. Serge was a naughty, naughty man and this song doesn't disappoint with Jane's orgasmic moaning. The song translates as "I love you, nor do I". The A&R man was ex-communicated, and the publisher was jailed for two months in Italy. It was banned in many countries, it was originally released on Phillips but they pulled it while at #2 -- another company picked up the reigns and distributed it during this stage it went to #1. These were both from 1969.
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Thanks for this. I'd forgotten all about 'Je t'aime ...'
So I just opened another tab and listened to the song on RUclips. Still as good as ever!
About 2 years before Gainsbourg fooled the innocent France Gall by having her sing "Les Sucettes"
@@flitsertheo That was unfortunate for the 18 year old France Gall. Pushing boundaries is part of pop tradition. I blame Serge but I also blame everyone one involved in that production including Gall's father.
@@rumi9005 Serge's genius cannot be denied.
The song "Give Him A Great Big Kiss" by the Shangri-Las caught a lot of controversy. When asked how her boyfriend dances, the lead vocalist responded with "Close. Very very close". That line resulted in some clutched pearls.
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How silly. It was a delightful record. People "close-danced" to slow songs in that era so I don't know whey anyone would complain but prudes look for sex in everything and don't get much in the bedroom.
The Beatles had "A Day In The Life" banned because of it's supposed drug reference ("I'd love to turn you on".) Great video sir - enjoyed it very much!
What about Paul McCartney's 'Give Ireland back to the Irish'. Banned by the BBC and still banned 50 years later.
Another 2 that slipped by are Arnold Layne a hit single by PINK FLOYD about an actual person who was in the newspapers, arrested for stealing womens underwear from clotheslines and allegedly liked wearing them. The other is C.C. RIDER, a hit adaptation of an old blues song done by Elvis, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit wheels, Animals, Chuck Berry, and countless other bands. Mitch Ryder's medly of it with devil with the blue dress got tons of airplay. It's a song about injecting and becoming addicted to heroin the cc referring to the measurements on a hypodermic needle "oh cc, cc rider oh see what you have done now, you've made me love you, oh now now see what you have done" etc.
the doors as a band was banned in 13 states in 69 all concerts canceled but still had gold albums with no radio airplay or live performances
Yep
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Yes that was after his Miami concert in 69 where he was alleged to expose himself on stage.
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Horse with no name. In this case horse with no name is slang for heroine.
Jungle fever as not banned and it has no words , just sexual moaning.
Then there was the time that the Ed Sullivan producers insisted that Jim Morrison and the Doors exclude the phrase 'we couldn't get much higher' from their performance. They went ahead and used the phrase anyway and they were never allowed on the Sullivan show again.
Oh yeah - and, although I don’t think they were banned from the show, I still get a chuckle out of Ed hoping to stretch a segment by briefly interviewing the members of Steppenwolf after the finished “Born To Be Wild”.
Ed: “What is your favorite combo?”
I don’t recall who says it, but one of the guys says “The Fugs”.
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I recall when Ed told Jim they would not be allowed on the show and Jim replied "we were already on the show"
Leave it up to Jim and they'd get banned from the world. And yes, they were banned from the Ed Sullivan show after he did that (or didn't do what they told him to do)..
Bo Diddley was supposed to perform Sixteen Tons but he pissed off Ed Sullivan by playing Bo Diddley.
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The censors would have had a field day if Elton John's "All The Young Girls Love Alice" had come out during that era! Great video.
Yep!
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I didn't think that was a single.
What about, The Sun Going Down On Me.
@@eddieboggs8306 Hi Eddie!
Well - like a lot of Elton John stuff, that song has little published about it except who wrote it who played on it, and where they recorded it. I couldn’t dredge any really interesting stuff about it.
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Ok.
Heres a few from the 50's. "Sixty Minute Man" by The Dominos, "Wake up Little Susie" by the Everly Brothers, "Its Late" by Ricky Nelson and from the 60's, Yummy, yummy, Yommy (Ive Got Love in my Tummy) by Ohio Express.
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I always hear Wake Up Little Suzie was banned in Boston, but that's not true. I grew up in the area and it got a ton of airplay on all the major radio stations that played the top 40 hits.
The misunderstanding comes from one person who attempted to get it banned, the Catholic Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. He called for a ban on the song, but there were only a small few radio stations that voluntarily stopped playing it. There was never a actual ban on it, any station that wanted to play it was free to do so and the vast majority did.
Of course I can only clarify what happened in Boston. I don't know if it may have been banned in other parts of the country.
Thanks for sharing that. I was six when the song came out. I have read about and seen footage of attempts to stop tock and roll in it's infancy.
The movie "American Hot Wax" chronicling Alan Freed and his efforts to do Rock & Roll traveling shows delves into the resistance he met at the time. Many great and legendary stories came from those days . Yet here we are 70 years later still listening and rocking.
I first heard "60 Minute Man" back in the early 70s, on KADI FM, St. Louis, on their Sunday Original Oldies show!
@@garyfaught3769 Yes, I was 8 when Elvis became popular and I remember the newsreels of groups of parents burning and smashing piles of rock and roll records taken from their kids too. We were definitely born in the right era to experience a very interesting musical journey!
Just found your channel - great stuff Trooper - thanks so much
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1967 Je t'aime was banned just about everywhere for donkeys years, another that was instantly banned (but was continuously played in certain venues) was wings "give Ireland back to the Irish" and also by the same group the second time it went into the charts if I remember rightly was "Hi HI HI".
You've forgotten "The Pusher" (written by Hoyt Axton recorded by Steppenwolf) It peaked at No.2 on some of the Charts. (I used to get in trouble for even listening to it. So I played my album while the parental units were gone. Pretty daring for an 11 yr old kid in 1968.)
i got reprimanded for 'sookie sookie' too, sounded like 'sukme sukme'
@@paulvaultguy My God plus LET IT HANG OUT BABY....Yikes
The way he's saying it is not profanity.
He's saying may God actually damn the pusher.
@bluesingmusic3443 - My 7th grade English teacher one day passionately praised "The Pusher" in a lecture. In a small town in rural upstate New York, that was pretty daring for 1968!
@@eddieboggs8306 True, but that mattered little to my parents. LOL
“ Lola “ I am 66 Loved that song in my youth and yes I was one that did not pay any attention to the lyrics..
my BF just told me recently about the song.. I said “Not-uh ? “ “rU Sure?” He told me about the controversy back in the day. I meant to check this information out and now you’re here telling me “ Yup” ?
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I had no clue what the song was about tell about a year ago
It makes me laugh now
A drag queen
How anyone missed that line I don't know I was 17 when this came out I loved it
@@RedPhone-mz5lv I missed it I just like the song
I guess I just never paid attention
@@ricksaunders8074 I always wondered how Lola got on the air. Well Respected Man was pretty out there, too, making fun of conservative people. Sunny Afternoon also took chances. :) Definitely bad influences. :) I guess now the oldies channels think we are past saving.
1,000 years ago I was an unpaid engineer and clueless hanger-on at WYBC, the college radio station of Yale University. I never went to school there, but I lived nearby. I got to witness a minor tumult in Studio A over a threat from the FCC concerning the puzzling (to me, anyway) "One Toke Over the Line." They threatened to take the radio station to Federal court over this. That would have terrified any other radio station, but this was Yale. Everyone in charge of anything then was a graduate of Yale College or Yale Law School, e.g., Bill and Hillary, Clarence Thomas and much of the rest of the Supreme Court, and approx. every third Federal judge plus much of the Federal Communications Commission itself. I believe that the Yale Broadcasting Company, our owner, told them to go right ahead and sue. They never did.
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Somebody sang that on the Lawrence Welk show. I think the Jesus part is what got the song in.
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I once bought a Judge Dread album because all his songs were banned by the BBC and I was curious to know what all the fuss was about.
I still have his greatest hits CD. Glad to know other fans still exist. He died far too young.
A reggae singer Judge Dread had nearly all his songs banned from the BBC.
Even though I'm from that era (born in '54, Amsterdam), I can't believe how prudish US and UK people were back then.
HA! Must be in the water?
1969's "Something In the Air" by Thunderclap Newman was a #1 Hit in England for 3 weeks while here in the U.S. it barely made the top forty chart. From what I have read, it was banned by a number of stations due to its suggestive lyrics for violence and revolution. The song also was prominently included in 2 movies released at that time "The Magic Christian" with Peter Sellers & Ringo Starr along with "The Strawberry Statement". Great Song!!!
DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE had songs "I LIKE MARIJUANA" (1968) and "THE POPE SMOKES DOPE"
(1972) that were banned from radio airplay due to its promoting drug use mainly . When the song "THE POPE
SMOKES DOPE" (1972) came out , there were a lot of newspaper and magazine articles slamming DAVID PEEL
for accusing the catholic Pope of smoking dope .
Up against the wall MF. God can't be no pot smoker. God don't smoke pot. Hey Mr. Draft board, I don't want to go❤
I remember those guys.
I've still got all of my David Peel Albums. They sound as funny now as they did back in the '60's
John Lennon used Peel's lyrics for his song New York City. Peel was delighted, of course.
he should've done a duet with Sinead O' Connor!
' Satisfaction' was another case in the US. Offence was taken to the lyric "...trying to make some girl" While playing the record on the air 'make' was comically beeped out leaving the listener to puzzle out what word the beep covered! "...trying to (beep) some girl" It's not going to be 'make' is it?
The Stones were experts at pushing the censorship edge, no doubt.
@@the_guitar_trooperThe girl's reason for putting the singer off was something you simply did not even mention in polite company at the time, let alone sing about it on the radio.
If it would have made any difference, that wasn't the end of the sentence in the lyric (as I recall): "...trying to make some girl love me."
@@johng423actually it's:
And I'm tryin to make some girl
who tells me 'baby better come back....'
Come on, we all knew the lyrics by heart and could sing along!
Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price. The original version mentioned "the two men who was gambling the dark..." Gambling" was changed to "arguing."
Mellow Yellow wasn't shunned because the "Electrical Banana" verse was inspired by a vibrator. Donovan didn’t reveal that it came from a newspaper ad that he and Keith Richards saw and got a laugh from until around 2010, more than forty years after the song released.
I didn’t know it got banned anywhere, but I know it was widely suspected to be some type of hidden drug reference, even to the point that many young people were drying out banana peels and smoking them to see if they would get high, which of course they didnt.
If it was banned anywhere, that might have been the reason. Another reason could be the "I'm just mad about fourteen" line. I saw him live on his Mellow Yellow tour in 1967 and he actually added "year old girls" to the end of that line when he performed the song.
I just saw a RUclips video from Professor of Rock. The Association were scheduled to play Disneyland but gate guards banned them as "Along Comes Mary" was about drugs--but during the discussion a group of nuns came by and lavished praise on the group for making a song about Mary---the Virgin Mary!
Love the Professor! Yeah - “Along Comes Mary” caused them some grief, alright.
CHuck Berry's "My Ding-A-Ling"
😂I love that song
That was in 1972.
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I did three concerts with Chuck and I was embarrassed playing that song, but the crowds loved it.
Jim Morrison didn't give a rodent's sphincter about being banned from Sullivan. Love it!! 😻
You missed a big one. Jimmy Dean's Big John was banned in many coal mining areas of the country due to sensitivity relating to mine disasters.
Ya. That song also has the legacy of double versions. The last line as written in the original lyric was
“Here lies one hell of a man, big John“
And the second version that was most often heard on top 40 stations was
“here lies a big big man, big John“
Sixteen Tons was also banned in a lot of the coal mining areas for making the mining company owners look like greedy tyrants, which the were & that in itself wasn't going to change how they were perceived already. The Peabody Coal Company went after Tennessee Ernie Ford for the song as well as Paradise by John Prine
New York Mining Disaster by the Bee Gees.
@@the_guitar_trooper There was also a parody song called Big bad Bruce...(a hair dresser) 🤣🤣
Very popular, though, in the mining area of Yorkshire where I grew up. So was '16 Tons'. Still popular later when I worked in the pit.
First time coming across this channel. Very interesting.
There are 3 songs that stick in my mind:
Lou Reed - “Take a walk on the Wild Side”,
Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah -
“Lake Shore Drive “.1971
[ I know this was banned. In St.Louis, there was only 1 Rock station that played “whatever they wanted “. Album Rock Station: KSHE-95. I used to listen to radio stations from all over the, WLS, KAAY, and local stations. Only KSHE.
Another song was : “The Devil Went Down To Georgia “.
Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker, and others were not considered “Country “ by Country Music people. The original version had, of course “… I told you once you son of a b****,….” Only our KSHE played the song. A few weeks later, a “son of a Gun” version was played on the other stations.[ that was 1979].
Those 3 are the only ones I can think of .
Interesting channel. I’m subscribing.
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For those unfamiliar with the song/group, "Lake Shore Drive" is a major street in Chicago, which was home to band members Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah. But during the song they abbreviated the song title with the acronym "L.S.D."
Loads of songs got shunned in Brittan by the BBC because of their content but most of the kids in the mid sixties listened to the pirate radio stations who usually played them so it was a pointless exercise anyway. It was crazy, the Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-las gets banned for morbid content, but Delilah, a song about a guy murdering his girlfriend, by Tom Jones doesn't.
Some of the promo films ( for runners of videos ) were also barred, the Rolling Stones " Have You Seen Your Mother Standing in the Shadows" where they were all in drag didn't go down well, neither did Dead End Street by the Kinks were the band, dressed as undertakers, were carrying a coffin through a poor area of London, stopping for a smoke on the way. All in terribly bad taste according to the BBC.
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I grew up in the 50/60's in Podunk, OK. We had an AM station that would, of course, report the cotton/wheat/hog belly prices in the morning; some news; then when the "teens" got out of school, they'd play a couple of hours of "pop music." It always irked me when they'd play a, say, Smokey or Supremes song and follow that with....you can't make this stuff up!!!!.... "In keeping with our promise to all the parents out there, we here at K__V radio station are limiting our Coloured songs to one an hour." Are you kidding me??? Until the Beatles came along, we absolutely craved the so-called Coloured songs!
It’s interesting to examine such things. It’s a social barometer.
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I wouldn’t expect anything less coming out of that redneck state.
How ridiculous but not surprising.
Was it WKY or KOMA? I'm from OKC.
In Mount pleasant Texas I had to sneak my a.m. radio to listen to wolfman Jack and all the songs by black artists. Back in the day when they still had segregated water fountains and bathrooms and seating in movie theaters. I'm 72 years old
Paul Simon's "Kodachrome" was banned by the BBC because it was considered product placement. Not only the title "Kodachrome" that's repeated several times, but also because another brand, Nikon , is also repeated in the song..
In the UK and elsewhere two songs were also banned for political reasons - "Luck of the Irish" by John Lennon, and "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Paul McCartney.
"Last Train to Clarksville" made it past the censors and was featured in the Monkees prime time show. It's about a soldier about the go off the Vietnam and wants his girlfriend to spend one more night with him before he goes, because he may not be coming back. This is per Boyce and Hart, the writers. The sexual content was so understated few picked it up.
Yeah. That went right on through.
Since none of that was actually in the lyrics and the authors had to explain their thinking, yeah, amazing it got past everyone!
Another excellent and extremely interesting video Guitar Trooper Thank you.
I have often used the real reason for Lola being banned as a teaser questionn to my work mates i.e "Coca Cola" being used rather than the actual subject of the song. Hard to believe its more tha 50 years old now!
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My late husband came to the States from Scotland in 1964. He brought with him a Rolling Stones song that was banned. I believe it was titled Queen Bee, and the "alarming" phrase was "let me buzz around your hive."!
the song is "I'm A King Bee"
@@robchapman7996Thank you for clarifying that.
'God only knows' was a figure of speech use by both those who were devout or just regular folks...
Good point, Trooper Fellow !
It makes no sense to reference beings one doesn't believe in as a figure of speech.
@@ImYourOverlord Let me write that down, on second thought...
@@ImYourOverlord As a long time atheist, I have often said "God only knows" when something perplexes me! I follow up with "and she's only guessing" Peace and all best wishes
In my home state, we had double censorship - we had a federal censor and a state level censor who couldn't actually *ban* a song but would let radio stations know that they would not be paid to carry any advertising from the State Government. One such edict was issued over "Let's Spend The Night Together". The record still got to #3 without being played on the radio AT ALL. When the censor realised this, he threatened to boycott the newspapers that published Top 40 charts that listed the song. The newspapers, in a rare moment of standing up to the Government, told the censor to shove it.
Hi Quince! Now THAT’S a story!
The MC5's Kick Out The Jams was banned by radio stations where I grew up.
Yes. the original was "Kick out the jams (prominent expletive deleted). The one put out for public consumption was "Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters."
I remember that song.I’m from Michigan that’s were the band was from.
I forgot about that one. KUDL in Kansas City played it. Never heard it anywhere else.
Hi. I have been on RUclips since it was owned by itself, so 19 years for me. This man is the best I have seen, for voice, knowledge, politeness and accuracy, that I have ever seen. Thank you
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Was "Love Child" by Diana Ross and the Supremes banned, rejected, or turned down on any radio stations??
There’s no indication that “Love Child” was banned, at least not tenough to be documented.
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While Lemmy Kilmister's usual singing voice sounded like he'd gargled with broken glass and rotgut, Motorhead's version of 'Louie, Louie' from 1978 was perfectly clear and was the band's first charting single in the UK.
Also It was never on a regular release . It was a"new" song to go on their first(I think)Compilation of MANY. "
"NO REMORSE" My first Motorhead Album.Man It was hard to get where I live. The other "new" song was "Killed By Death"
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Great info. Back in the day I used to play all those songs as a DJ to under 18s discos
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St. Cecillian song called " leap up and down wave your knickers in the air" it was still a big 'ish: hit in 1971 I think it reached n.o.14 in the chart's. Even though it was still band by the B.B.C.
In the '70s, there was "Jungle Fever" by The Chakachas, which was an instrumental containing breaks where a woman speaks in Spanish and appears to be in the throes of sexual passion. And from the '50s there was "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus (1956), which was banned in a lot of the country but still managed to get to #8 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. If the song hadn't been banned, it might've made it all the way to #1.
"Give me some blood, Bud"!
@@cavecookie1 Pour the crimson in me, Jimson...🎶
@@ernestcruz6316 Hey, Daddy-o, Make that Type O!
1974 Queen's "March of the Black Queen" is still banned on the radio. I even asked one of the heavy metal radio stations why they won't play it. I was told it was "still to controversial to be played on the air". What a shame.
If any song belongs on that list, certainly Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" (Lou Reed) is one of them!
Oh yeah- although it did get plenty of airplay.
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Radio 1 didn't ban it because the controller didn't know what it meant. i'm sure the audience did...
U gotbthat right brother
@@MBC1955 Originally the audience didn't, and the song was shooting up the Top 40. When it was found out, the balloon popped. The song otherwise might have made the top 5.
@@mitchellbaker9434 I'll take your word for that, but I don't remember Radio 1 stopping playing it until it dropped out of the Top Thirty, in the usual way, and I was listening to the radio all day every day back then.
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Thanks a MILLION, Joan!
Some observations from being a teenager in the suburbs of Washington, DC, in 1967:
1. When "Let's Spend the Night Together" first came out that January, it got heavy rotation on the local radio stations, especially WPGC and WEAM. But after Ed Sullivan spoke up, it was removed from local radio. WPGC flipped it over and played the B-side, "Ruby Tuesday". WEAM refused to do that, though, due to not wanting to play the B-side of a banned song. Most stations must have done what WPGC did because it became a #1 record nationally.
2. Two national hits of that summer did not get played on Washington area radio: "Brown-Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison and "Let It Out" by the Hombres. The former was due to the lines, "Making love in the green grass / Behind the stadium." As a naive 15-year-old girl, I had no idea then regarding the latter, but I can imagine it now.
Great post! “Brown Eyed Girl” and Van have a very interesting backstory, too. I have him on the list for this year.
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@@the_guitar_trooper I was too exhausted to finish this last night. I wanted to also say that, from a tune/music/melody perspective, "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" was no great loss, but "Brown-Eyed Girl" has a great melody that I still love today. I read somewhere in the early days of my being on the internet that some people considered it to be the most overplayed oldie. Not I! I have to make up for all of that lost time in the summer of 1967, when I only got to hear it on out-of-town radio stations I listened to a night. And I listened to A LOT of local Top 40 radio that year.
There were very few hits that year that I missed. I have to confess that I missed some r&b sings because I didn't listen the 3 DC soul stations. In particular, there was one by Bettye Swann that went to #1 on the Billboard r&b chart that July that I didn't discover until 2022 and like a lot.
I also grew up in the D,.C. area and remember when WWDC was also a budding Top-40 station. As for banned songs, we can't forget "Je' t'aime (Mon Non Plus) by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. First time I heard that on-air was in 1980 in O3 in Wien! But Paul Bicknell (Davy Jones, on-air) did a spoof of it at WPGC. Which was supposedly why he ended-up at WMAL-FM...
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The Stones knew who Ruby Tuesday was: a well known groupie, the sensors caught wind on that, every1 still listened to that song though.
Sullivan also wanted the Doors to change "Girl we couldn't get much higher," but when it came time Morrison stuck his face right in the camera and sang the line anyway.
You failed to mention that although "God Only Knows" may have only peaked at #39, the other side of the record, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" peaked at #8. I know a great deal about pop music trivia, and to my recollection, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" was the intended Aside in the states and in the UK.
Vat is dis man doing here??? 🤣Great YT pseudonym, as is my YT name.
That's right. I had the single, and I liked the B side (God Only Knows) better. To me that record is magic!
I was a college disc jockey and eventually program director in 1970 - 71. We limited the Woodstock version of Country Joe's FISH cheer, and the Fugs "I feel Like Homemade Sh*t" and "Wide Wide River" to after 10 PM.
THE ‘70’s DID loosen up a bit alright. “Feel Like I’m Fixing To Die Rag”. I never heard it until I saw the movie. LOL
Whenever I start Let's Spend the Night Together's "na-na-na-na..." intro, it blends in my mind right into the Banana Splits theme.
One banana two banana three banana four
HA!
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Not a song, but an instrumental by Link Ray called "Rumble" was also banned by USA radio stations as the music was deemed disturbing. Crazy really when Cliff Richard and The Shadows would of been proud to release a catchy tune such as that.
Wedding Bell Blues by the 5th Dimension was banned by WJPS, 1330 am, in Evansville, Ind.
Wow. Never would’ve thunk that.
@the_guitar_trooper after some weeks, the main DJ, JOS, James Oliver Stagg, for a few days prior, said on the air that he would play it at a certain time. The time came & he played it 8 times repeatedly, at the 8th, the program director Dave Wood, burst into the studio, ripped the 45 off the turntable, broke it, fired JOS, all on the air. A set up? Maybe. A few years later, DW took over another local station, 1280, WGBF, using a R&R format, WJPS went to a CW, Country Western format.
@@T-Babbbldot That sounds like theatrics alright. Still very intriguing story! Thanks for posting!!
One of my favorite songs was banned. Mind Excursion by The Tradewinds was perceived to be about drugs. We would call KISN radio in Portland, OR and request it but they wouldn't play it.
That fits right into the Kama Sutra records idiom. The main offices for that label were not exactly traditional business attire, if you get my drift.
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Were The Tradewinds the same boy group who did "New York's a Lonely Town (When You're the Only Surfer Boy Around)"? It was on the Red Bird label as I recall.
@@FriendofDorothy YES...Both songs were favorites of mine. They had a great sound.
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" should be the flip side to "Paradise by rhe Dashboard Light."
The Kink's song Lola also had another problem .... Thr chsmpange that tastes like coca cola
On the video.
I'm very pleased to say that I have a copy of the original version. 😊😊😊
Cherry cola updated!
The ones I remember in the UK are 'Je t'aime, moi non plus' and Max Romeo's 'Wet Dream'
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin who sang the duet Je t'aime... moi non plus was quite the scandal, both in lyrics and heavy breathing. 1969
Part of the song is still used in commercials today.
I certainly expected that song coming up in this video - instead I learned about songs being banned for much more ridiculous reasons. But possibly times/society had changed a lot between ~1965 and 1969.
The Troggs - Little Girl. It was about a baby born to a single mother "A little girl was born today..."
In a house not far away from where I live
They're Coming to take me away by Napoleon XIV was baanned for a long time. People were offended thinking it was making fun of people in mental institutions.
Do you remember what was on the flip side?
I believe Billie-Jo Spears' country classic "Blanket on the Ground" was [briefly] banned by the BBC in the mid-70s. Meanwhile, George Formby's celebrated "Little Stick of Blackpool Rock" remains one to chew over ...
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Don’t forget Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Puff the Magic Dragon” and in the 70s Simon and Garfunkel “bridge over troubled water”
Bridge over troubled water???????
Seriously? Where, when and why?
What about, Me And Jullio Down By The Schoolyard .... If any simon & Garfunkel song got banned that would have been it. Or , God Bless You Please Mrs. Robinson .
@@ThePlataf Yes, that's ridiculous. Church groups sang that, for pete's sake!
@@653j521 unbelievable! It was the most beautiful song of 1970.
Who in their right mind would ban it?
@@ThePlataf Some people thought the line "sail on silver girl" referred to a needle "all your dreams are on their way" and so on, but silver girl was actually the nick name of Paul Simon's girlfriend, and had nothing to do with drugs.
Two more examples: I don't recall any censorship of The Kinks' "All Day And All Of The Night" lyrics: "I'm not content to be with you in the daytime / Girl, I want to be with you all of the time / The only time I feel alright is by your side / Girl, I want to be with you all of the time - all day and all of the night". There's nothing vague here.
2nd example: Product placement of "The Daily Mail" (a real British newspaper) in The Beatles' "Paperback Writer", which was not banned anywhere, that I'm aware of.
Good vid, "_Guitar_Trooper". Thanks! 👍
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The BYRDS "8 Miles High"....how could you miss this ?
I hear ya.
Oh there were at least a dozen others. I didn’t want this to get much longer than it was, because trying for an exhaustive list was futile and ran the risk of losing viewers as well. I opted for sparking conversation with some seed ideas.
Spot on.I even found it difficult to find a record store selling it! Should have been a number one but these problems "did" for it.A travisty.
Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces. These were the lines that got it banned:
What did you do there?
I got high
What did you feel there?
Well I cried
But why the tears there?
I'll tell you why
[Chorus]
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
The BBC didn't like Paul Simon's 1973 song "Kodachrome" either.
Of course! No way they could overlook THAT!
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although Duncan was much more explicit ....... "just thanking the lord for my fingers...."
Perhaps make a video about mondegreens if you haven't already. One of the most well-known mondegreens is Creedence Clearwater Revival "There's a Bad Moon on the Rise" which has been misinterpreted as "There's a Bathroom on the Right".
Ha! Great idea! Thanks!
How about "There coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha"? I know it was banned from NYC stations, and perhaps nationwide.
Hoho hehe.
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One of the worst things ever released.
@@jasonbeard4713 hahaahaahhaha not to this teenager (at the time)
I loved that song. The adults needed a sense of humor.
@@jasonbeard4713 the bird is the word. The worst.
Don't know if it was banned, but "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison has 2 sets of lyrincs. In the final verse, Making love in the green grass" is sometimes changed to a repeat from the first verse "Laughin'' and a runnin', hey hey.." I've heard both versions on the radio
Yep - and that was just part of the stuff about the song and Van.
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Here in North Carolina, they played the original version for a long time, then all of a sudden the censored version. We had sung it a million times as kids and no one batted an eye, so we were like HUH? So weird.
HA!! That's just silly. How dare they mess with Van the Man!
While not the 60's, the most bizarre censorship of a recording has to be when the Fred Meyer department stores, put their own "Explicit Lyrics" sticker on Frank Zappa's recording, Jazz From Hell, an all-instrumental album. However, the sticker did not prevent the album from selling and receiving a Grammy award.
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Us kids would just dance because it had a nice beat, like on American Bandstand. Hey Joe reminded me of Nam. A lot of my sister's guy friends never came back home or came back with 'Shell shock,' as it was called back then for PTSD. We didn't know any better as kids we called one of the guys who came back 'Billy bang bang'. Whenever Billy would hear fireworks or a car backfire he would fall to the ground like he was back in the war in Nam. They sent him back home to his mom. The lyrics went over our heads. Thanks for the video.
Late 1966, Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" was shunned and banned by conservative radio stations because of the fourth verse,
"Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase"
was apparently about a woman's vibrator.
Then one could do a whole rant about Steppenwolf's 1968 songs "The Pusher" and "Magic Carpet Ride" being banned from air play (sadly). Yet lead singer John Kay denies that Magic Carpet Ride was about 'banned substances' and that he only may have had a funny smoke when writing the song.
Irrespective of the final product, “magic carpet ride“ started out as a set of lyrics literally about a new stereo system that he had purchased.
“The pusher“ probably deserved to be limited because of the direct curse word in it, if not because of the explicit drug use references. There were just too many targets in that lyric.
"Je t'aime" by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsborough was banned from radio in a lot of European countries. One (German) channel cheekily played it backwards, so listeners could tape it an re-reverse it.
You have “HeyJoe” but I recall “Foxy Lady” being banned for “
Move o er Rove4 / and let Jimi take over”. Got an A I. us History in FDR High a school writing a paper on this topic.
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The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service banned Donovan's song, "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" as lyrics referred to a guy being drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight instead of permitting him to work at his skilled trade.
They couldn't get someone in Britan to sing the word "cherry" and punch it in?
You got me there.
@@the_guitar_trooper It was Ray Davies of the Kinks and the song was 'Lola'. Apparently Coca-Cola took offence at "...Where they drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola'".... So Ray had to insert 'Cherry' to replace 'Coca'.
well, no other voice COULD do Ray Davies!
@@No1Armadillo That’s gotta be it!
@@phildavies6020 That was in the video. Didn't anyone watch it?
Given the grounds that some of these songs were banned on it's a wonder Jailhouse Rock wasn't banned for the line "No 47 said to No 3 you the cutest jailbird I ever did see". It could be taken as implying that either it was a co-ed prison or there was homosexual activity going on, and I doubt there were co-ed prisons in the 50s.
Always wondered about that😂
Great show as always Guitar Trooper. Your mention of the BBC banning songs
due to actual product references, reminded me of the Beep Beep song by the Playmates. Although the Playmates had four other top 40 hits in the US, none came close to the number four hit that Beep Beep would become. As everyone knows, that song references both the Nash Rambler and the mighty Cadillac. Well, the BBC wouldn't have any of that, so the Playmates re-recorded the song for the UK market and changed Cadillac to "limousine" and Nash Rambler to "bubble car."
Sales of the AMC's Rambler increased somewhat even though car sales in general dipped during the period following the release of the song in late '58. General Motors wasn't exactly thrilled with the US version.
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From 1962: Greenback Dollar by The Kingston Trio. The song has the line: "I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar." In order to get airplay the group had to make an alternate version with the profane word omitted.
Pre 1960s:
Rumble (1958) by Link Wray, the only instrumental to be banned by radio stations. The title was enough to get it banned.
Post 1960s:
Do You Remember These (1972) by The Statler Brothers. It has a reference to "Knickers to your knees", meaning short pants worn by boys. But in the UK knickers means a women's underwear. UK radio stations wouldn't play it.
Cover Of The Rolling Stone (1972) by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. The BBC banned it for the same reason as Lola; it referenced a commercial brand.
Rich Men North Of Richmond (2023) by Oliver Anthony. No airplay whatsoever. It still debuted at #1.
Before I commented I wanted to see if someone else mentioned Greenback Dollar. Saying "damn" was a no-no back then but the song was very popular. The Kingston Trio started the Folk Song re-birth that died the moment the Beatles came in 1964.
What about " Eight Miles High"?
Yeah. The justification of that one was kinda parenthetical and weak, but it did get the axe in several places.