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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 24, 2021 4:01:35 GMT -5
I remember the radios not playing certain parts of Olivia Newton Johns " let's get physical", back in the 80's. MTV refused to play it at first (because of "the gay" stuff).
but then it became a HUGE hit, and they started putting it in rotation. .tho it never got a lot of heavy play.
if you've never seen it:
I wasn’t aware that there was any references to being gay. I thought some of the lyrics about “let’s get animal” was the problem because they cut that out of the song when it as played. Also , it didn’t go down right that John was seen as a wholesome figure before this song. |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 24, 2021 6:37:12 GMT -5
My mum told me back in the late 80s, George Michael's 'I want your sex' was banned on the radio....but I hear it on our retro-stations now without any bother. Well, it was certainly banned by the BBC here in Britain. Not sure whether other radio stations like Capitol or other TV stations like ITV of Chanel 4 banned it though. But yes, it does get play now, but then so does Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax", so there you go. Actually, the BBC says that it doesn't ban any songs nowadays, but they certainly indirectly ban certain controversial songs by simply not playing them: when "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" reached the Top 10 following Margaret Thatcher's death, the BBC didn't play it on the chart show on the grounds that it was in bad taste. Does anyone else remember "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV? Came out in the summer of '66. Raced into the Top Five and plummeted just as quickly, but this one dropped even faster than most novelty songs because it was dropped from playlists all over the country, even in NYC. www.songfacts.com/image/napoleon-xiv/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-haaaI think it may have been banned in Britain, too. I know of it. It was a Top 5 hit over here. Not sure it was actually banned by the BBC though (though it may've been). |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 24, 2021 8:37:15 GMT -5
Does anyone else remember "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV? Came out in the summer of '66. Raced into the Top Five and plummeted just as quickly, but this one dropped even faster than most novelty songs because it was dropped from playlists all over the country, even in NYC. www.songfacts.com/image/napoleon-xiv/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-haaaI think it may have been banned in Britain, too. Any self-respecting Dementite or Dementoid knows that song. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 24, 2021 8:40:42 GMT -5
Nobody has mentioned Chuck Berry and his song I want you to play with my ding-a-ling? That was written and originally recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952. The Bees released a version called "Toy Bell" in 1954. There were issues with radio play for all versions. |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Mar 24, 2021 9:26:18 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 24, 2021 9:29:15 GMT -5
Does anyone else remember "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV? Came out in the summer of '66. Raced into the Top Five and plummeted just as quickly, but this one dropped even faster than most novelty songs because it was dropped from playlists all over the country, even in NYC. www.songfacts.com/image/napoleon-xiv/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-haaaI think it may have been banned in Britain, too. They actually play that song on our curated music channel at work during Halloween. They also play "Welcome To My Nightmare" by Alice Cooper, which I feel is a strange choice considering that the lyrics deal with drugs and not literal horrors
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 24, 2021 9:30:58 GMT -5
Well, basically any song with "rock" in the lyrics or title is open to interpretation.
Which makes even Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" a hot little number.
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Post by impulse on Mar 24, 2021 11:00:47 GMT -5
It's almost like humans enjoy sex as much as they enjoy music, and they really like it when the combine them, and then we can feign moral outrage every decade about whatever new music style also combines music with sex, because we also like patterns and repeating ourselves and butting into other people's business.
Also, I will concede that Dunkin coffee is MUCH better when you get it closer to the source than from the many pop-up small stores distributed throughout the US.
Oh, also on the topic, if anyone thinks Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man" is a pious song, they are in for disappointment if they ever look up the lyrics.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2021 12:51:08 GMT -5
MTV refused to play it at first (because of "the gay" stuff).
but then it became a HUGE hit, and they started putting it in rotation. .tho it never got a lot of heavy play.
if you've never seen it:
I wasn’t aware that there was any references to being gay. I thought some of the lyrics about “let’s get animal” was the problem because they cut that out of the song when it as played. Also , it didn’t go down right that John was seen as a wholesome figure before this song. the Video was "the gay" issue. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 24, 2021 12:54:08 GMT -5
Well, basically any song with "rock" in the lyrics or title is open to interpretation. Which makes even Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" a hot little number.
Yes, and Rock and Roll music in general was vilified by conservative US church groups in the early days for the sexual connotations of the term, and what they saw as the animalistic sexuality of the music itself - they called it "jungle music", with the racist implications of that word fully intended to be understood.
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Post by impulse on Mar 24, 2021 13:25:01 GMT -5
the animalistic sexuality of the music itself - Well, duh, that's why people liked it.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 24, 2021 15:39:28 GMT -5
In 1967 there was a "safe for radio" version of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl". It replaced the line "Making love in the green grass / Behind the stadium" with a repeat of a line from another verse.
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Post by berkley on Mar 24, 2021 16:18:38 GMT -5
In 1967 there was a "safe for radio" version of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl". It replaced the line "Making love in the green grass / Behind the stadium" with a repeat of a line from another verse. And wasn't Morrison forced to change the title from "Brown Skinned Girl"? |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Mar 24, 2021 16:54:04 GMT -5
In 1967 there was a "safe for radio" version of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl". It replaced the line "Making love in the green grass / Behind the stadium" with a repeat of a line from another verse. And wasn't Morrison forced to change the title from "Brown Skinned Girl"? In his 1996 bio, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, John Collis quotes Van Morrison as saying that the working title of the song was indeed "Brown-Skinned Girl" but that he absentmindedly changed it himself at some point during the writing/recording process ("It just slipped my mind that I changed the title."). |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 24, 2021 17:00:49 GMT -5
In 1967 there was a "safe for radio" version of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl". It replaced the line "Making love in the green grass / Behind the stadium" with a repeat of a line from another verse. Well I never... I've always wondered why their are two otherwise identical versions of that song, just with that different couplet. Now I know!  |
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