Oh yeah. That one too. 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.
@@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.
"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!
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!
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.)
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.
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. Real close". That line resulted in some clutched pearls.
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."
The song was also released backward on the B side of the single, as "Yawa Em Ekat ot Gnimoc Er'yeht". Back then you could do that and get away with it.😁🤪🤪
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
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!
@@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.
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)..
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 .
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Some of the controversial songs I can remember are.. Steve Miller saying "s**t going down in the city", The Who saying "who the f**k are you", and Shipley and Brewer singing " one toke over the line". And I loved all these songs!!😜
' 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.
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...
There are a couple of songs that I wondered how that got away with it. Grace Jones "Pull up to the Bumper" and Salt-N-Pepper " Push it. " Drive it in between and Building up a sweat at night. Best Dave
“ 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 👍🏼
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.
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.
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!
LOL...I heard all of these on the radio when they came out. I guess San Antonio was literally more open than I thought. A favorite of mine not mentioned from the 70s - Lady Marmalade. I guess because the "offensive" line was in French, it was OK. But we all quickly got it translated.
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 CZcams '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.
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.
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"
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!
There's always Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side" that had part of a verse edited out of the promotional 45's sent to radio stations. Progressive rock stations played the album version and "even when she was giving head" was being broadcast back in 1972. A lot of people never knew about The Buoys song "Timothy" about a small group of 3 miners trapped in a cave-in. Three went in, but only 2 came out and those 2 had full bellies and Timothy was never found. The funniest part of all this was the record company, Scepter, had the picture sleeve over the 45 with men (assuming the band members) at the entrance of a dilapidated mine along with a mule. Supposedly, the mule was named Timothy. Lastly, the song "One Toke Over The Line" created issues due to it's reference of smoking cannabis. Recorded by Brewer & Shipley for Kama Sutra records in 1971, Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead fame, played lead guitar on the song. As an odd sideline to this song, it was performed on The Lawrence Welk show. It was introduced by a guy who referred to it as "one of our newer songs, but after it was performed, Lawrence Welk himself said, "There you heard a modern spiritual by Gail and Dale." I guess somehow, the whole idea of smoking a joint of stuff good enough to put you "One Toke Over The Line" went right over their heads. They need to get out more often. By the way, I usually play that video about once every two years when I need a good laugh.
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. 📻🙂
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.
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.
There Coming to Take Me Away by Napoleon the XIV, at first it was aired, but the 2 big Top 40 stations in NYC 57WMCA and 77WABC would ban the song by request and complaints from Mental Institutions.
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_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'.
He is talking about Lola, and how some radio stations just faded it out before the last li… And then an advert kicks in, and you guessed it, faded him out, as he said ‘last line.’
I do recall from the Spring of 1967 that the following 2 singles were banned from the BBC : 1. MY FRIEND JACK (The Smoke) about a "so called" drug aspect; and 2. DESDEMONA (John's Children) for the line : "Lift up your skirt and...fly".
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.
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.
Max Romero and "Wet Dream" even the name of the song was absent from its chart place announcement on "Pick of the Pops" just announced "A song by Max Romero". Also "Doctor Kitch" by Lord Kitchener, proportedly about a doctor giving a lady and injection with the lyrics "Lie down girl let me push it up" and her complaining about the size of his needle!! . Both were played on the "Pirate Radio" stations in the UK though.
Early releases of Hang On Sloopy by the Vibrations, Yardbirds and McCoys caused concern for those who worried "sloopy" might be slang for something dirty.
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.
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.
"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.
The BBC also didn't like a song that referenced Rolling Stone magazine, when the band sang on "The Old Grey Whistle Test" it was changed to Radio Times the BBC's own weekly magazine
Berry McGuire - "eve of destruction" (1965)- banned in the South this protest anthem covers more territory in three minutes than Dylan did on his first three albums. Janis Ian - "society's child" (1967) - again, banned in the South (aka former CSA) since it deals with inter-racial dating! MC5 -"kick out the jams" (1969)- "KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS" helped get them booted off Elektra Records.
I'm not sure of the veracity of this, but I was living in New Hampshire when "The Air That I Breathe" was out. I'd heard from my older siblings that the song was actually banned in Boston because of what it's implying, "Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you...." I guess we must've had to hear it on a NH station then!
Wild Tiger Woman , written by Roy Wood, a single from The Move, was banned by BBC radio and TV because Of the lyric : "Tied to the bed, she's waiting to be fed". It was a great rock song. Hear it on youtube.
The Velvet Underground & Nico, _Venus in Furs._ Also, _Heroin._ Gotta love Lou Reed. I don't know if they were banned anywhere but it wouldn't surprise me.
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.
Played Walk on the Wild side for my kids. They didnt know how to react to the song or album. But it wasnt on the radio for several yrs after the album was made. I listened to Lou Reed starting when I was 10yrs old.(brother was 7yrs older). Then T. Rex bang a gong was played nothing else. Great ablum though. He taught Bowie how to play and write music. Bolan was killed in the 70's in a car wreck
the sex pistols were banned from the BBC not for song lyrics etc but because john lydon outed jimmy saville in a pre recorded radio interview that wasn't aired at the time but now can be heard on youtube
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.
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!
yeah! Ya missed one from around 1966 with the Hollies song, "Bus Stop"..... the big rock AM station in Dallas was KLIF and it was owned by "the old Scotchman" Gordon McClendon and when he heard that song, he was convinced that "sharing my umbrella" was a veiled reference to drugs and he banned it from his station..... and no, do not know a single freak who ever got that one!
There was a song in 1965 about a man and his girl friend (dog). "They are taking me away ha ha", by Napolean XIV. Ths song referred to the man in an insane asylum and because of his girl friend (dog). I lived in Garden City, Kansas at the time and picked up a radio station in Larned Kansas on my radio. Well song was banned from the radio station because the man became crazy because of his girl friend (dog) and was taken away to an insane asylum. The State Mental Hospital in Larnerd complained about the song bothering the mentally ill patients.
The Stones were notoriously skilled at skating the edge with the censors. “Satisfaction” is not the strongest example of this, but it doesn’t take much imagination to construe it. Thanks for the view and comment! Please help me spread the love 💕 by sharing the video!
Gayle Garnett had to rerecord a lyric in "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" from "love you every night" to "kiss you every night". The original is on YT. "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon was also banned by the BBC for product placement reasons. "A Day in the Life" was banned by the BBC for drug references although The Small Faces slipped one by with "Here Comes the Nice", "The Nice" being slang for a drug dealer. The Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" was banned on radio and TV in the US, UK and Australia for suggestive lyrics. It sold well nonetheless.
Speaking of The Beatles, the song "I Am The Walrus" was banned by the BBC for the lyric " Man you've been a naughty boy you let your knickers down". in the song. "With A Little Help From My Friends" also banned because of the lyric ' I get high with a little help from my friends". In America, "The Ballad of John And Yoko" was edited due to the lyric "Christ, you know it ain't easy". Radio stations tried to blurt out the word "Christ". That coming three years after John Lennon's remarks about The Beatles being more popular than Jesus Christ.
But also because of John's lyric, "Christ, you know it ain't easy, you know how hard it can be." My local radio station played a version where "Christ" gets played backwards so you can't understand it.
Rhapsody in the rain by Lou Christie was banned for saying making out in the rain! Let’s live for today was changed for airplay. The line got to feel you inside of me was changed to feel you beside me. Brown eyed girl, Van Morrison had laughing and a running hey hey in place of making love in the green grass. But the tune cinnamon by Derrick aka Johnny cymbal from 1967 evaded the censors with the line” coming inside girl here I come girl! And cherry pie by skip and flip from 1959 is a total sex fest that got by the censors.
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CHuck Berry's "My Ding-A-Ling"
😂I love that song
That was in 1972.
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Getting banned by radio was usually the fastest way to no.1 on the music charts.
right on!
“Afternoon Delight’ remains a huge hilarious catchy and well performed hit.
Oh yeah. That one too. 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.
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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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 the were pretty damned bad.
@@TheBarkinFrogEsp in the '80s. Imho.
"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.
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.
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.)
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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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. Real close". That line resulted in some clutched pearls.
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31 months investigating Louie, Louie? That's a GOOD use of Tax Payer resources.
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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.
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."
"They're Coming To Take Me Away"" by Napoleon XIV.
Hahahohohehe
The song was also released backward on the B side of the single, as "Yawa Em Ekat ot Gnimoc Er'yeht". Back then you could do that and get away with it.😁🤪🤪
Why? That song sucked
That could win a contest in being the FASTEST banned 'song' in America.
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.
"Working in a Coal Mine," "Sixteen Tons" were coal-mining protest songs.
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!
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.
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)..
The title "Light My Fire," should have told old Ed that whole song was ripe for censoring by his standards, haha.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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.
"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.
This brings back many wonderful memories. Thank you, Guitar Trooper!
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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.
Some of the controversial songs I can remember are.. Steve Miller saying "s**t going down in the city", The Who saying "who the f**k are you", and Shipley and Brewer singing " one toke over the line". And I loved all these songs!!😜
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"Black Day In July" during the infamous Long Hot Summer.
' 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....'
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
Great info. Back in the day I used to play all those songs as a DJ to under 18s discos
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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.
They’re coming to take me away!!
HaHa!
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Ha, Ha!
@@southernoregoncatmom6519 One of the weirdest songs ever
There are a couple of songs that I wondered how that got away with it. Grace Jones "Pull up to the Bumper" and Salt-N-Pepper " Push it. " Drive it in between and Building up a sweat at night. Best Dave
“ 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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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.
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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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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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...."
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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LOL...I heard all of these on the radio when they came out. I guess San Antonio was literally more open than I thought. A favorite of mine not mentioned from the 70s - Lady Marmalade. I guess because the "offensive" line was in French, it was OK. But we all quickly got it translated.
Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price. The original version mentioned "the two men who was gambling the dark..." Gambling" was changed to "arguing."
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 CZcams '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.
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.
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A reggae singer Judge Dread had nearly all his songs banned from the BBC.
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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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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Society's Child by Janis Ian should be included.
Good pick!
There's always Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side" that had part of a verse edited out of the promotional 45's sent to radio stations. Progressive rock stations played the album version and "even when she was giving head" was being broadcast back in 1972. A lot of people never knew about The Buoys song "Timothy" about a small group of 3 miners trapped in a cave-in. Three went in, but only 2 came out and those 2 had full bellies and Timothy was never found. The funniest part of all this was the record company, Scepter, had the picture sleeve over the 45 with men (assuming the band members) at the entrance of a dilapidated mine along with a mule. Supposedly, the mule was named Timothy. Lastly, the song "One Toke Over The Line" created issues due to it's reference of smoking cannabis. Recorded by Brewer & Shipley for Kama Sutra records in 1971, Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead fame, played lead guitar on the song. As an odd sideline to this song, it was performed on The Lawrence Welk show. It was introduced by a guy who referred to it as "one of our newer songs, but after it was performed, Lawrence Welk himself said, "There you heard a modern spiritual by Gail and Dale." I guess somehow, the whole idea of smoking a joint of stuff good enough to put you "One Toke Over The Line" went right over their heads. They need to get out more often. By the way, I usually play that video about once every two years when I need a good laugh.
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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 .
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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.
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.
There Coming to Take Me Away by Napoleon the XIV, at first it was aired, but the 2 big Top 40 stations in NYC 57WMCA and 77WABC would ban the song by request and complaints from Mental Institutions.
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
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) by The Crystals,1962.
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!
He is talking about Lola, and how some radio stations just faded it out before the last li…
And then an advert kicks in, and you guessed it, faded him out, as he said ‘last line.’
I do recall from the Spring of 1967 that the following 2 singles were banned from the BBC : 1. MY FRIEND JACK (The Smoke) about a "so called" drug aspect; and 2. DESDEMONA (John's Children) for the line : "Lift up your skirt and...fly".
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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1981, Australian group Mondo Rock the song Come Said The Boy. Can't remember if it was banned or was close to being banned.
The Doors couldn't use higher on the Sullivan but still did and band from the show
'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...
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!
Good job!
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Max Romero and "Wet Dream" even the name of the song was absent from its chart place announcement on "Pick of the Pops" just announced "A song by Max Romero". Also "Doctor Kitch" by Lord Kitchener, proportedly about a doctor giving a lady and injection with the lyrics "Lie down girl let me push it up" and her complaining about the size of his needle!! . Both were played on the "Pirate Radio" stations in the UK though.
Some American To; 40 stations banned I Think We're Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondells for suggestive lyrics.
Yeah, some did, but not enough to really hurt the song I think.
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Early releases of Hang On Sloopy by the Vibrations, Yardbirds and McCoys caused concern for those who worried "sloopy" might be slang for something dirty.
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.
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.
"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.
The BBC also didn't like a song that referenced Rolling Stone magazine, when the band sang on "The Old Grey Whistle Test" it was changed to Radio Times the BBC's own weekly magazine
The Kink's song Lola also had another problem .... Thr chsmpange that tastes like coca cola
Berry McGuire - "eve of destruction" (1965)- banned in the South this protest anthem covers more territory in three minutes than Dylan did on his first three albums.
Janis Ian - "society's child" (1967) - again, banned in the South (aka former CSA) since it deals with inter-racial dating!
MC5 -"kick out the jams" (1969)- "KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS" helped get them booted off Elektra Records.
I'm not sure of the veracity of this, but I was living in New Hampshire when "The Air That I Breathe" was out. I'd heard from my older siblings that the song was actually banned in Boston because of what it's implying, "Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you...." I guess we must've had to hear it on a NH station then!
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Wild Tiger Woman , written by Roy Wood, a single from The Move, was banned by BBC radio and TV because
Of the lyric : "Tied to the bed, she's waiting to be fed". It was a great rock song. Hear it on youtube.
How about The Bouys' "Timothy"? Heard it in NY, but my station in FL didn't play it.
The Byrds “Eight Miles High”
Yep. But not everywhere, thankfully!
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They claimed it was about flying in a plane at 40,000 feet.
The Velvet Underground & Nico, _Venus in Furs._ Also, _Heroin._ Gotta love Lou Reed. I don't know if they were banned anywhere but it wouldn't surprise me.
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Radio is just an audio sales device, but decades ago, there was an effort of creativity w/personality djs. But that isn't cost effective eventually.
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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Played Walk on the Wild side for my kids. They didnt know how to react to the song or album. But it wasnt on the radio for several yrs after the album was made. I listened to Lou Reed starting when I was 10yrs old.(brother was 7yrs older). Then T. Rex bang a gong was played nothing else. Great ablum though. He taught Bowie how to play and write music. Bolan was killed in the 70's in a car wreck
the sex pistols were banned from the BBC not for song lyrics etc but because john lydon outed jimmy saville in a pre recorded radio interview that wasn't aired at the time but now can be heard on youtube
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.
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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I wondered what old DJs got up to. Now I know.
yeah! Ya missed one from around 1966 with the Hollies song, "Bus Stop"..... the big rock AM station in Dallas was KLIF and it was owned by "the old Scotchman" Gordon McClendon and when he heard that song, he was convinced that "sharing my umbrella" was a veiled reference to drugs and he banned it from his station..... and no, do not know a single freak who ever got that one!
There was a song in 1965 about a man and his girl friend (dog). "They are taking me away ha ha", by Napolean XIV. Ths song referred to the man in an insane asylum and because of his girl friend (dog). I lived in Garden City, Kansas at the time and picked up a radio station in Larned Kansas on my radio. Well song was banned from the radio station because the man became crazy because of his girl friend (dog) and was taken away to an insane asylum. The State Mental Hospital in Larnerd complained about the song bothering the mentally ill patients.
"They're coming to take me away" was very popular but was removed from the airwaves. Granted, that's a bit too easy.
"Rumble" was an instrumental banned on US radio stations in some cities.
But Rumble was released in '58, so almost a '60s tune.
Rolling Stones “Satisfaction” was banned somewhere, I believe ”
The Stones were notoriously skilled at skating the edge with the censors. “Satisfaction” is not the strongest example of this, but it doesn’t take much imagination to construe it.
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Gayle Garnett had to rerecord a lyric in "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" from "love you every night" to "kiss you every night". The original is on YT. "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon was also banned by the BBC for product placement reasons. "A Day in the Life" was banned by the BBC for drug references although The Small Faces slipped one by with "Here Comes the Nice", "The Nice" being slang for a drug dealer. The Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" was banned on radio and TV in the US, UK and Australia for suggestive lyrics. It sold well nonetheless.
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Speaking of The Beatles, the song "I Am The Walrus" was banned by the BBC for the lyric " Man you've been a naughty boy you let your knickers down". in the song. "With A Little Help From My Friends" also banned because of the lyric ' I get high with a little help from my friends". In America, "The Ballad of John And Yoko" was edited due to the lyric "Christ, you know it ain't easy". Radio stations tried to blurt out the word "Christ". That coming three years after John Lennon's remarks about The Beatles being more popular than Jesus Christ.
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"...Naughty _,girl_ you let your knickers down..."
"...Naughty boy you let your face grow long..."
Ballad of John and Yoko by the Beatles was also banneed in many markets. Mostly because of the crucufiction reference.
Yeah. That was a tough sell.
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But also because of John's lyric, "Christ, you know it ain't easy, you know how hard it can be." My local radio station played a version where "Christ" gets played backwards so you can't understand it.
Rhapsody in the rain by Lou Christie was banned for saying making out in the rain! Let’s live for today was changed for airplay. The line got to feel you inside of me was changed to feel you beside me. Brown eyed girl, Van Morrison had laughing and a running hey hey in place of making love in the green grass. But the tune cinnamon by Derrick aka Johnny cymbal from 1967 evaded the censors with the line” coming inside girl here I come girl! And cherry pie by skip and flip from 1959 is a total sex fest that got by the censors.
And then there’s “Honey Don’t”, which was played freely in 1956, even though it is no task to decode those lyrics.