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Subject: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 12/13/05 at 12:19 am
Why were certain songs and song lyrics BANNED in some countries in the 1960's? I came across a supposedly BANNED version of Paul Revere and the Raiders' "Hungry"..when I listened to it I heard nothing really naughty in the lyrics...Were people that prudish in the 1960's, to ban certain stuff that even hinted at naughtiness?
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 12/13/05 at 12:25 am
They were very prudish. Just the implication of something risque was frowned upon. I remember controversy when the song Cherry Hill Park released, because it sang about a promisicous girl named Mary Hill. I think the vile lyrics were "In the day Mary Hill was a teaser, but come the night she was, oh what a pleaser, cause Mary Hill used to hang out after dark, in Cherry Hill Park" as youngster approaching our Wonder Years we found that slightly provocative.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Paul on 12/13/05 at 7:29 am
One of the strangest bans that I've ever come across over in Britain was Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's 'Monster Mash'...
When it was originally released in 1962, it was banned by the BBC for being 'in poor taste'...I'm not certain what offended them!
Anyway, tastes must have changed a few years later as it eventually became a hit here (and made the BBC's playlists) in 1973 when re-issued...
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/05 at 7:49 am
One of the strangest bans that I've ever come across over in Britain was Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's 'Monster Mash'...
When it was originally released in 1962, it was banned by the BBC for being 'in poor taste'...I'm not certain what offended them!
Anyway, tastes must have changed a few years later as it eventually became a hit here (and made the BBC's playlists) in 1973 when re-issued...
I even heard Steve Wright play it the other week, probably around Halloween.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: holicman on 12/14/05 at 5:09 am
The Rolling Stones once performed on the Ed Sullivan Show.
They performed their then "latest hit" - Lets spend the night Together",
Ed Sullivan asked them to change the lyric to something like "lets spend some time together"
I suppose back in the time the lyrics were rather provocative.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/05 at 9:57 am
The Beatles had a banned song called Suzy Parker from the Get Back Sessions in 1969, used in the Let It Be film, but on researching more I cannot locate the lyrics used.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 12/14/05 at 11:09 am
Oliver Stone's movie The Doors has that scene where they are getting ready to do the Ed Sullivan show and the producer advises them they can't use the word "Higher" on network tv from the song Light My Fire, so he suggets instead of Girl we couldn't get much "Higher" to girl we can't get much better.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: barefootrobin on 12/14/05 at 1:15 pm
Wasn't Rock n Roll a term for S.E.X. in the 40s?
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/05 at 1:18 pm
Wasn't Rock n Roll a term for S.E.X. in the 40s?
With all that jitterbugging?
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Marian on 12/14/05 at 8:24 pm
I believe a .,lot of the "death "songs like Ebony Eyes and Teen Angel were banned from British airwaves.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 12/14/05 at 8:31 pm
Why were certain songs and song lyrics BANNED in some countries in the 1960's? I came across a supposedly BANNED version of Paul Revere and the Raiders' "Hungry"..when I listened to it I heard nothing really naughty in the lyrics...Were people that prudish in the 1960's, to ban certain stuff that even hinted at naughtiness?
yeah, now that I think of it, "Hungry" did have some pretty randy, provocative lyrics, especially the way Mark Lindsay sang them!
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: La Sine Pesroh on 12/14/05 at 9:05 pm
They were very prudish. Just the implication of something risque was frowned upon.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: alyceclover on 12/14/05 at 11:58 pm
Gary & the US Bonds..Quarter To Three was banned....listened to it over & over & could not find out why...Dylan did that tune about the times they are a changing...and they sure did....4 out of 5 doctors who smoked preferred Doral's...I think the old ad went
:o
FYI for the youngsters...the Senior Dress Down Day was cancelled..the Principal thought the taxpayers would be upset to see the boys come to school in jeans and the girls in slacks....neither was allowed...2 years after I graduated the girls were allowed to wear pants to school (before that it was only dresses & skirts....we'd have suprise length checks...we had to kneel on the floor and if the skirt (dress) hem didn't touch it, got sent home to change...did you see 2005's micro-mini's???
...in Junior High a boy got suspended for dying his hair green on St Patrick's day (he was of Irish descent)...
...so with that being the Norm adult attitude, not suprising Songs were banned for being improper...
When Elvis first appeared on TV, he was filmed from the waist up.....that's just the way things were back then...
::)
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: belladonna on 12/18/05 at 3:51 am
FYI for the youngsters...the Senior Dress Down Day was cancelled..the Principal thought the taxpayers would be upset to see the boys come to school in jeans and the girls in slacks....neither was allowed...2 years after I graduated the girls were allowed to wear pants to school (before that it was only dresses & skirts....we'd have suprise length checks...we had to kneel on the floor and if the skirt (dress) hem didn't touch it, got sent home to change...did you see 2005's micro-mini's???
Yep, I remember this. Up until 4th or 5th grade the only time we were allowed to wear pants was in the winter; you wore them under your skirt if you had to walk to school and you had to take them off once you got in the building. Once the dress code was changed you almost never saw me in a dress.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 12/18/05 at 9:40 pm
Gary & the US Bonds..Quarter To Three was banned....listened to it over & over & could not find out why...Dylan did that tune about the times they are a changing...and they sure did....4 out of 5 doctors who smoked preferred Doral's...I think the old ad went
:o
FYI for the youngsters...the Senior Dress Down Day was cancelled..the Principal thought the taxpayers would be upset to see the boys come to school in jeans and the girls in slacks....neither was allowed...2 years after I graduated the girls were allowed to wear pants to school (before that it was only dresses & skirts....we'd have suprise length checks...we had to kneel on the floor and if the skirt (dress) hem didn't touch it, got sent home to change...did you see 2005's micro-mini's???
...in Junior High a boy got suspended for dying his hair green on St Patrick's day (he was of Irish descent)...
...so with that being the Norm adult attitude, not suprising Songs were banned for being improper...
When Elvis first appeared on TV, he was filmed from the waist up.....that's just the way things were back then...
::)
I remember when I was in kindergarten, which was 1966, we had to wear dresses...I've always wondered what difference did it make what little kids wore to school as long as it was neat and clean..Come on. Kids will be kids no matter what they wear. But it was the 1960's, when the so-called GENERATION GAP was in effect....
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: GREEN67 on 12/19/05 at 12:35 pm
Oliver Stone's movie The Doors has that scene where they are getting ready to do the Ed Sullivan show and the producer advises them they can't use the word "Higher" on network tv from the song Light My Fire, so he suggets instead of Girl we couldn't get much "Higher" to girl we can't get much better.
8) Yep! my mom and dad were watching the real thing when Morrison sang " Higher" anyway! mom and dad really got a kick outta that! Ed Sullivan FREAKED! My parents were hippies so they thought it was cool....also I remember mom talking about the song " Louie Louie" most of us remember it from Animal House..LOL...There was apparently some controversy about that song...I dunno...I never understood any of the words EXCEPT Louie Louie...LOL
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: cables on 12/20/05 at 2:45 pm
8)
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 12/20/05 at 3:35 pm
8)
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 12/21/05 at 1:47 am
There was a politician in the state of Washington who tried to make 'Louie Louie' the official state anthem!
Someone needs to post the lyrics if they can find them
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/05 at 3:11 am
Someone needs to post the lyrics if they can find them
Courtesy of http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/louielouielyrics.html
Louie Louie Lyrics
CHORUS:
Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go
Fine little girl waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home
CHORUS
Three nights and days I sail the sea
Think of girl, constantly
On that ship, I dream she's there
I smell the rose in her hair.
CHORUS
Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now!
GUITAR SOLO
See Jamaica, the moon above
It won't be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
Tell her I'll never leave again
CHORUS
Let's take it on outa here now
Let's go!!
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 12/21/05 at 3:30 am
Courtesy of http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/louielouielyrics.html
Louie Louie Lyrics
CHORUS:
Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go
Fine little girl waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home
CHORUS
Three nights and days I sail the sea
Think of girl, constantly
On that ship, I dream she's there
I smell the rose in her hair.
CHORUS
Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now!
GUITAR SOLO
See Jamaica, the moon above
It won't be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
Tell her I'll never leave again
CHORUS
Let's take it on outa here now
Let's go!!
Wow, there were real "intelligible"words to that song, & I thought the Kingsmen were just sounding drunk. Thanks Philip
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/05 at 2:50 pm
Wow, there were real "intelligible"words to that song, & I thought the Kingsmen were just sounding drunk. Thanks Philip
Remember on these Lyrics Boards that it can be one person interpretation of the words and may not necessary be the true words song in the song.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 12/22/05 at 12:15 am
Remember on these Lyrics Boards that it can be one person interpretation of the words and may not necessary be the true words song in the song.
rule # 1 (trust no one)
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/05 at 3:12 am
rule # 1 (trust no one)
In truth, I do not take everything on the Internet as read.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: spaceace on 01/19/06 at 3:01 pm
A little FYI. There was a Monkees song who title had to be changed because of censorship reasons. The name of the song is called "Randy Scouse Git" It means (in British lingo. . . Sex crazed jerk from Liverpool) They were told to come up with an alternate title. So they did. The song is now officially know as "Alternate Title"
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: La Sine Pesroh on 01/19/06 at 5:47 pm
Courtesy of http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/louielouielyrics.html
Louie Louie Lyrics
CHORUS:
Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go
Fine little girl waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home
CHORUS
Three nights and days I sail the sea
Think of girl, constantly
On that ship, I dream she's there
I smell the rose in her hair.
CHORUS
Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now!
GUITAR SOLO
See Jamaica, the moon above
It won't be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
Tell her I'll never leave again
CHORUS
Let's take it on outa here now
Let's go!!
I once read a book that was dedicated entirely to the "Louie, Louie" phenomenon, written by rock critic Dave Marsh. Although the song was originally released in 1963, it charted again in 1966. Marsh claims that this was because of the controversy surrounding the song, and that people were buying the single to try and decipher the lyrics and to see what the fuss was all about.
In the book, Marsh recalls an incident when he was in junior high, and on the way to school one day some of the older kids on the bus were handing out papers that supposedly had the "real" lyrics to "Louie, Louie":
CHORUS:
Oh, Louie Louie, oh no
Get her way down low
Oh, Louie Louie, oh baby
Get her down low
A fine little girl a-waiting for me
She's just a girl across the way
We'll take her and park all alone
She's never a girl I lay at home
CHORUS
Each night at ten I lay her again
F*ck you girl, oh all the way
Oh my bed and I lay her there
I felt my bone, ah, in her hair
Okay, let's give it to them right now!
GUITAR SOLO
She's got a rag on I'll move above
It won't be long she'll slip it off
I'll take her in my arms again
I'll tell her I'll never leave again
CHORUS
Get that broad out of here!
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: schmartypantz on 01/21/06 at 11:37 pm
hahahahha..those lyrics would air on todays stations without much of a problem ;D
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: cables on 01/30/06 at 3:07 pm
Each night at ten I lay her again
She's got a rag on I'll move above
It won't be long she'll slip it off
I've seen Iggy Pop on stage singing Those lyrics.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: danootaandme on 02/01/06 at 8:03 am
A little FYI. There was a Monkees song who title had to be changed because of censorship reasons. The name of the song is called "Randy Scouse Git" It means (in British lingo. . . Sex crazed jerk from Liverpool) They were told to come up with an alternate title. So they did. The song is now officially know as "Alternate Title"
One song that the Monkees made popular, "Daydream Believer" had a lyric change. The original(and much, much better) version written and sung by John Stewart(not the one on the TV show) a country western singer, was "You once thought of me as a white knight on a steed, Now you know how funky I can be" The Monkees changed it to "happy", funky being one of those words not yet considered acceptable in polite society.
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 02/04/06 at 6:32 pm
I still wanna know what's offensive about the original lyrics to "Hungry" by Paul Revere and the Raiders....http://www.lyricsdownload.com/paul-revere-and-the-raiders-hungry-lyrics.html....Sounds pretty innocent considering today's stuff!
Subject: Re: Why were certain song lyrics BANNED in the 1960's?
Written By: danootaandme on 02/04/06 at 6:37 pm
I still wanna know what's offensive about the original lyrics to "Hungry" by Paul Revere and the Raiders....http://www.lyricsdownload.com/paul-revere-and-the-raiders-hungry-lyrics.html....Sounds pretty innocent considering today's stuff!
It wasn't so much the lyrics as the way he panted when singing, right before "I can almost taste it" The censors didn't like that part of it.