Re: Market Research)

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

This business of censoring records has a fairly long history.  I 
remember some songs back in the 1950s where some stations objected 
to playing records that mentioned a commercial product.  For example, 
the song "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" apparently had a version preferred 
by some stations where it was "A Rose and a Candy Bar."  Another 
song, "Rum and Coca Cola" apparently wasn't played on some stations 
which objected to promoting a product that wasn't paying for the 
promotion.

In the early 1960s, there was a song called "My Boomerang Won't 
Come Back," which attributed the following words to an Australian 
aborigine:

    I've waved the thing all over the place,
    Practiced till I was black in the face.
    I'm a big disgrace to the Aborigine race;
    My boomerang won't come back.
    
After the song had been on for a few weeks, a new version appeared, 
substituting "blue" for "black."



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