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Congressman Calls for the FCC to investigate Super Bowl Show by going after NFL and NBC Sports

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CTListener said:
Ah, the old "hot-blooded Latino" stereotype! Vincent J. McMahon, who ran the wrestling promotion now known as WWE before passing it on to his son Vincent K., famously chose the Philadelphia Arena over Madison Square Garden when it was time for Puerto Rican Pedro Morales to lose his title, fearing a riot by New Yorricans in attendance at MSG. Even with the change of venue, McMahon ordered the finish of the match to be deliberately unclear (both men's shoulders on the mat simultaneously) and the ring announcer not, under any circumstances, to announce the winner. Instead, he said "Let's hear it for a great champion, Pedro Morales." No belt was awarded in the ring, either. No riot ensued.

Of course, McMahon was spooked by an incident in Boston about a year earlier, when a Latino Morales fan rushed the ring with a knife and opened a gash in the leg of Morales' opponent before the match even started. That's the way stereotypes take hold.
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Said opponent in Boston was Blackjack Mulligan and MSG requested WWE to switch the World title from Morales because of threats of MSG riots if Morales ever lost (Pedro did lose in 1983 his IC title but by then the crowds mostly was a mixture of fans from the city and suburbs by then )
 
ted chittenden said:
I don't know if either of you remember (or know) this but in 1972, El Chicano, the Los Angeles-based Hispanic band, had a minor national hit with a cover of Van Morrison's "Brown-eyed Girl." What is relevant here is that between the second and final verses of the song during a drum-and-bass solo, the lead singer is heard yelling (with joy, I believe) "BRRR KaKa." The places that played the song (including radio stations in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson, and other cities with large Hispanic populations) did not edit the song's lyrics and I don't believe the FCC ever got a complaint (or fined any stations) for playing a song with a profane (kaka is the Spanish term for s**t).



It would seem that times have changed (or not).
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A similar scenario was the reason cited years ago when the owner of then-KKHJ Los Angeles requested to return to the frequency's historic KHJ call letters. Spelling out the call letters of KKHJ in Spanish was... awkward.
 
Fighting Irish said:
A similar scenario was the reason cited years ago when the owner of then-KKHJ Los Angeles requested to return to the historic KHJ. Spelling out the call letters in Spanish was... awkward.
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Which they never did.

The legal ID was given in English. The call letters weren't said elsewhere in the hour. The station brand was La Ranchera.

 
michael hagerty said:
It was their excuse. It was quite literally ca-ca, but the FCC bought it.

As for radio geeks being happy to hear a two-second voice saying "KHJ, Los Angeles" instead of "KKHJ, Los Angeles" at the top of every hour on a station with a Regional Mexican format...

Dude.
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Yeah, I know. It isn't Boss Radio, but it's kinda cool for the dorkiest among us who like the old three letter call signs.
 
Fighting Irish said:
A similar scenario was the reason cited years ago when the owner of then-KKHJ Los Angeles requested to return to the frequency's historic KHJ call letters. Spelling out the call letters of KKHJ in Spanish was... awkward.
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michael hagerty said:
Which they never did.

The legal ID was given in English. The call letters weren't said elsewhere in the hour. The station brand was La Ranchera.
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Fighting Irish said:
That was allegedly their excuse. And it probably made plenty of radio geeks happy. šŸ˜
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One thing is certain: The current owners wouldn't have had the same "dilemma".

KHJ has been owned by Relevant Radio since 2014, when their predecessor Immaculate Heart Radio purchased it from Liberman (who was responsible for that "little whie lie"). It's not likely Catholic programming would ever say "ca-ca" on the air.
 
K.M. Richards said:
One thing is certain: The current owners wouldn't have had the same "dilemma".

KHJ has been owned by Relevant Radio since 2014, when their predecessor Immaculate Heart Radio purchased it from Liberman (who was responsible for that "little whie lie"). It's not likely Catholic programming would ever say "ca-ca" on the air.
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KHJ = Kome Hear Jesus

I'll see myself out
 
CTListener said:
Why would "BRRR KaKa" be an expression of joy?
I remember El Chicano, but not their Morrison cover. They had a hit called "Tell Her She's Lovely," in which they sounded like a cross between Santana and War, leaning more toward War.
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Responding to your second comment first, El Chicano had two U.S. top 40 entries on Billboard: the vocal "Tell Her She's Lovely," that reached #40 in January of 1974 and the instrumental "Viva Tirado (Part 1)" that reached (if memory serves) the top 20 in May of 1970.

Regarding your first comment (and @michael hagerty's after you), my best guess was that the vocalist was enjoying the song so much that he just blurted out the first words that came into his head during that instrumental break. Of course, I'm making a lot of assumptions here (not the least of which being the assumption that the song's instrumental and vocal tracks were recorded at the same time) but I really have no other explanation for what is heard during the song's bass-and-drum bridge.

And @davideduardo, thank you for the explanation of the word "caca". While I had taken two years of Spanish in high school (to get around the required Latin in that parochial setting), we never discussed the Mexican (for that was what was being taught) Spanish profanities. (Well almost never. During my second year of Spanish, the teacher said some of the Spanish words and drew pictures on the blackboard during one session--no help to me, I'm afraid.)
 
ted chittenden said:
Responding to your second comment first, El Chicano had two U.S. top 40 entries on Billboard: the vocal "Tell Her She's Lovely," that reached #40 in January of 1974 and the instrumental "Viva Tirado (Part 1)" that reached (if memory serves) the top 20 in May of 1970.
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"Viva Tirado" stiffed at #28 in Billboard, but those of us who grew up in Southern California would have sworn it was a big hit. It was #1 for three weeks at KHJ.
 
michael hagerty said:
"Viva Tirado" stiffed at #28 in Billboard, but those of us who grew up in Southern California would have sworn it was a big hit. It was #1 for three weeks at KHJ.
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It (and "Tell Her She's Lovely") is still big among the Latino cruiser crowd, along with anything War recorded, and "Suavecito" by Malo.
 
ted chittenden said:
And @davideduardo, thank you for the explanation of the word "caca". While I had taken two years of Spanish in high school (to get around the required Latin in that parochial setting), we never discussed the Mexican (for that was what was being taught) Spanish profanities. (Well almost never. During my second year of Spanish, the teacher said some of the Spanish words and drew pictures on the blackboard during one session--no help to me, I'm afraid.)
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"Caca" and "m--rda" are the same words throughout Latin America and the U.S. Latino community.

However, the words for the male and female organs and the sex act itself are different in almost every country.

And in some places a specific word has different meanings in different nations. The word for "baby" or "infant" in Ecuador is the word for "bus" in Puerto Rico.
 
K.M. Richards said:
It (and "Tell Her She's Lovely") is still big among the Latino cruiser crowd, along with anything War recorded, and "Suavecito" by Malo.
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I remember hearing "Tell Her She's Lovely" on WOLF in Syracuse, a market with a negligible Latino population in the mid-'70s, and a cruising season that lasts only three months or so.
 
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