College stations and bad language

[SteveOrdinetz]

  Bob Nelson wrote:
>--- "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>
> > On altered versions of songs, I remember a song in
> > the early 60s called "My Boomerang
> > Won't Come Back,"
>
>Yup, have heard about the altered version via Dr.
>Demento!


That's the way the original 45 was released.  I never heard the "black in 
the face" version until the 80s.  Indeed, that's the first time I'd even 
heard the term, though "blue in the face" is quite common.




>Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" had the line "making
>love in the green grass behind the stadium with you,"
>which got changed to "laughin' and a runnin', hey hey,
>behind the stadium..."

The single had the "makin' love..." lyrics.  Supposedly some of the albums 
contained the edit.  I never heard that version until I picked up a "best 
of" album in the early 80s.  A few oldies stations play the edit, others 
the "dirty" version.



>And an altered lyric that had nothing to do with
>cuss words: John Fogerty "got back" at Fantasy
>Records mogul Saul Zaentz with "Zanz can't dance
>but he'll steal your money; watch him or he'll
>rob you blind", which was supposedly about a dancing
>pig. It was changed to "Vanz Can't Danz".


Yeah, there was a dancing pig in the video.  I think early pressings of his 
"Centerfield" album had the "Zanz" version, later pressing had the 
remake.  Somewhere I have a promo copy of the single with the "Zanz" lyrics.