Re: "Kodachrome" (was CHRISTINA AGUILERA)

[Rich Appel <jjrappel@verizon.net>]

It was also censored on...WBZ-FM.
-r

"elipolo@earthlink.net" wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:24:41 -0500
> > From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>
> > Subject: Re: CHRISTINA AGUILERA
> >
> > On 30 Jan 2003 at 14:16, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> >
> > > Like I said we come a long way since WBZ censored Kodachrome.
> >
> > WBZ censored what?
>
> To finally clarify this, the song "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon, a major
> hit in summer 1973, began with the line: "When I think back on all the
> crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I could think at all...".
>
> The word "crap" was censored on WBZ (and maybe elsewhere, but I don't
> recall it being censored anywhere else here in Boston).
>
> I was in high school at the time, I remember hearing the beginning and
> thinking, "Cool, a high school put-down song!"
>
> But the rest of the song after the first line is lyrically quite benign.
>
> Eli Polonsky
>
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