RE: censorship in the 60s?

[Roger Kirk <rkirk@mail1.videoserver.com>]

Donna Halper wrote:

>Do any of you recall whether or not the Doors' song "Light My Fire" was   
ever
>censored by Boston radio because of alleged drug references?  Somebody   
asked
>me, and I told them I couldn't recall-- my recollection is that AM radio
>only played the 2 minute 52 second edit of the song, but they did play   
it;
>FM of course would have played the entire thing...

If any station did censor it, it wasn't one I listened to.  Of course, I   
listened exclusively to AM (I didn't own an FM radio) and I heard it   
played beaucoup times.  The Short and Speeded-Up single version, of   
course.

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