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Hooked on an edit

deltas69 said:
not so much and edit as a blackball..former station manager would not let us play "yellow river" by christie in 1970..said it was about herion...the mgr..tall, thin, skinny tie, button down shirt, always gave the lost pet show by saying..."now from the dog gone dept'..yes we had a lost pet segment..just after the moment of meditation :-*..and just before swap and shop :eek:..ahhh..those golden days of radio...riviting.. ::)
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So was "The Obituary Column of the Air" on before the lost pet segment or after the swap shop?

But seriously? Heroin? Was he on the spike? It's about a guy getting out of the service 'cause the war's over and going home to his girl.

And it was a great song.
 
In one of Wilson Bryan Key's books (either Subliminal Seduction or Media Sexploitation), he stated that what Blue Swede was actually chanting instead of "hooga shaka" was "who got sucked off?" Key was the guy who claimed to have found "sex" in Ritz crackers.

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Another censorship edit was in Jimmy Buffett's "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes":
Original: "Good times and riches, and son of a bitches"(sic)
Censored: "Good times and riches, some bruises and stitches..."

And then there was an edit of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" that Gulf 104 (which played "Who Are You" with the F-bomb intact) played well into the last decade; it omitted the "making love in the green grass" line by cutting and pasting "laughin' and a-runnin' hey, hey" from the first verse over it.

One of the oddest edits was to Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music," in which the words "white boy" were deleted. The chorus goes "play that funky music, hey, funky music, play that funky music right..."

I read that the lyric change in the Kinks' "Lola" from Coca-Cola to cherry cola was for British airplay; the BBC has never allowed mentions of products in songs. Similarly, in Jimmy Buffett's "Come Monday," the line "I got my Hush Puppies on" was altered for the UK to "I got my hiking boots on..."


Charlie Daniels' "Uneasy Rider" not only had the "I had them all out there steppin' and fetchin' like their heads were on fire and their asses was catchin'..." line removed, but in two or three places in the song, the first part of one verse would be spliced onto the second part of the following verse, losing the rhymes.

At WJAD, we had an engineer who was a whiz with tape editing. One of my fellow jocks said of him, "he could cut the dot off an i." The GM would not add George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" (despite growing requests for it) till an edit was issued. Since there was no official label edit, our engineer came up with his own, called "I Want Your Love," which we played instead. (He also concocted a custom edit of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" which I thought sounded better than the original. Wish I had a tape of that.)
 
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