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Re: Top 40 on WBZ (Was First with Rock)



On Wed, 7 May 1997, Martin J. Waters wrote:

> But, to me, the key thing is that there were no top-40 hits that it
> "wouldn't" play -- except of course for "Eve of Destruction," which
> Westinghouse headquarters pulled off all its stations AFTER it was number
> one on Dave Maynard's weekly countdown. 

Really?  Why was that?  I recall, in the early 70s, there was a song (I
forget who did it) that began, "When I think of all the crap I learned in
high school ..."  And WBZ aired the song, but somehow modified it to
eliminate that line.


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