Re: Brown Eyed Girl -- "Turn up the radio" (Was Re: Market Research)

[Chuckigo@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/16/99 3:12:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu writes:

<<         Regarding the censoring edit: I don't remember ever hearing that on
 the radio in Boston when the song was fresh, and I was already a huge Van
 Morrison fan. I first found that edit on a German pressing of the "T.B.
 Sheets" album that looked like it was from the mid or late 1970s. Not a
 very good tape edit, either, at least on that album. The censor edit seems
 to show up randomly now on some U.S. oldies station, so maybe it got loose
 again on some CD. WDRC-FM in Hartford had that version coming up some of
 the times they played the song for awhile, although I think it's gone now.
 Does anyone know whether the censored version (which drops in a repeat of a
 line from the first verse in place of the "offending" line in the last
 verse) was made for U.S. radio in 1967? >>

so i'm up late every night... and found this on the web.  thought it was 
germaine...

1970 interview with Van Morrison
by Danny Goldberg
Transcribed by Michael Burns 
from Jazz&Pop magazine, December 1970

Van: Do you know that on the Bang album cut of "Brown-eyed Girl" the line 
"making love in the green grass" was blipped?
Danny: Really?
Van: I just don't believe that anyone could find that obscene.
Danny: What does it sound like?
Van: They took a line from another verse and stuck it in. That was when I 
decided to leave the company.  
Dan:  How anybody could find that line obscene is just obscene.  They didn't 
even tell me about it. It was pretty heavy. Then they did this other trip, 
they took the rhythm track from it and sent it up to Canada and had some guy 
sing it in French and released it.
Dan: As Van Morrison?
Van: No, they just used my tracks.

so it sounds to me like it was Bang records fault...  and Van didn't 
appreciate it.  the whole interview, with use of the word "groovy"  is 
available at:
http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/reviews/1970_jazzpop.html

as far as being a "heavy" request... not here in Boston, as of this writing, 
at least.  we actually get more requests for "Into the Mystic"...  (must be 
something in the water)

chuck igo

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