top-40 in 1957

[Ron Bello]

Just heard this version on WCTK today

It amazes me how often the works "sucks" is used on both TV and radio



On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Bob DeMattia <bob.bosra@demattia.net>
wrote:

> And much more recently (2009), the Zac Brown Band's country hit, where
> theoriginal lyrics are "Toes in the water, ass in the sand".  Atlantic
> recordmade a radio edit version of the song where the lyrics become "Toes
> in the water, toes in the sand".
> Also in the radio edit, later in the song ,the phrase  "roll a big fat
> one"is blurred out.
>
>
> http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2009/09/02/zac-brown-bands-toes-challenges-radio-programmers-with-lyrics/
>
> -Bob
>
> > Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 08:01:01 -0400
> > Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: top-40 in 1957
> > From: raccoonradio@gmail.com
> > To: joe@attorneyross.com
> > CC: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
> >
> > There have been songs that got 'cleaned up' a bit-- WBUR used to run a
> show
> > called Kids America and they'd play Steve Martin's hit "King Tut".
> Instead
> > of the line saying "He's my favorite honky" they re-ran "Did you do the
> > monkey?" Meaning, as in do a dance by that name, we'd hope. While the
> album
> > version of Charlie Daniels' "Devil Went Down to Georgia" contains "son
> of a
> > bitch", the single and radio version says "son of a gun".
> >
> > The 80s song Never Say Never by Romeo Void had a line with the F word:
> > "That man could give a F about the grin..." It was replaced on a radio
> edit
> > by a drumbeat. Rap and rock songs had 'clean' versions where swears were
> > bleeped out or the swear was "reverse masked". And of course Van
> Morrison's
> > "Brown Eyed Girl" had a line about "makin' love in the green grass" which
> > was substituted with "laughin' and a runnin'" again, and when the Stones
> > did "Let's Spend the Night Together" on Sullivan show, they were supposed
> > to sing "Let's Spend Some Time Together" (supposedly Mick sang something
> > like Let's Spend Some Mmm Together)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 2:12 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On 5/31/2014 1:04 AM, A Joseph Ross wrote:
> > >
> > >  I think I remember something about a passage from Disney's "Snow White
> > >> and the Seven Dwarfs" being banned.  I don't remember noticing the
> > >> passage when I saw the movie sometime around 7th grade, but I remember
> > >> it from a Little Golden Record, which I still have.  Grumpy sings,
> "The
> > >> minute after I was born, I didn't have a nightie.  So I tied my
> whiskers
> > >> round my legs and used 'em for a dighty."
> > >>
> > >
> > > That should read 2nd grade.
> > >
> > >
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