I asked Charlie Daniels about that very edit last week when he was here for a concert. Charlie said 2 versions of the song were recorded. This was to maximize airplay. Edgy stations could play theirs and others could play it safe. By the way, this was a business decision that worked. It was Charlie's most successful ever!
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Kluv and The Eagles "Life in the fast lane"
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The beauty of small market radio used to be it's unpredictability -- stations in small markets would end up playing a song for no discernible reason, and sometimes the results could be rather interesting.
It's one more thing that I miss as a result of the consolidation and homogenization of radio.
It's one more thing that I miss as a result of the consolidation and homogenization of radio.
dfwupallnight said:
I remember when it was actually big enough to make the news that a station was playing the "unedited" version.
I'm assuming it was a slow news day.
TexasTom said:
I miss those days too. Too many small town stations are running satellite programming with no local personality.
I worked at several small town stations in the eighties where if the staff liked a record, we give it a few spins (sometimes a lot) and didn't care if it was on a big label or if the big city stations were playing it.
Lemmiwinks said:
Charlie Daniels already had experience with editing lyrics. He had a hit with "Uneasy Rider" back in 1973 where they had to edit or beep out the offending word in the line "Like their heads was on fire and their asses was catchin' " for radio. It was around a 5 minute song and I think promo copies also had a 3 minute radio version that cut the whole section out. I dont have the store 45 so I dont know if it had the edited version.
Also I remember hearing an radio edit of "Kodachrome" where "crap" was replaced by "girls" which was edited in from a later line in the song.
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billyg said:
In the song "Jet Airliner" what is Steve Miller saying, "Funky Shit" or "Funky Kicks"?
charles123 said:
Can't help but think you might have been listening to KDSX/950 am (aka "NewsRadio 95".) It and KRRV at 910 were both playing Top 40 at night. I was news director at KDSX in 1970-71. The station was then owned by B.V. Hammond and Lofton Hendrix, both long-dead. BOTH leaned so far to the "right", they could walk normal in a hurricane. They made Atilla-the-Hun seem like a bloody-nosed liberal. Those edits were just the tip of the iceberg! EVERY song played had to be personally approved by Hammond, who just could NOT understand musical artistic license! Very strange times in radio...much like some of the goofy management we still see today. They were just ahead of their time!
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Sgt. Hans G. Schultz said:
Pretty close. I spent my teenage years in Bartlesville Ok from 1974-86, growing up on Tulsa's KELi, KAKC, KMOD and KKUL-KTFX "Superfox 103" in the seventies.
It might have been KELi that played that edit. They played a edit of Hall & Oates "Rich Girl" where the line "It's a b--tch girl" was replaced with "You're a Rich Girl". Made it sound as repetitive as any KC & The Sunshine Band 45.
Lemmiwinks said:
Reminds me of this kerfuffel from earlier this year:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/17/dire-straits-money-nothing-banned
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Sgt. Hans G. Schultz said:
thanks
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lfede9 said:
I am glad KLUV edited the song. The unedited version is offensive to Christians, and Christians comprise a very large percentage of their listeners. When somebody starts up with the gd's, I am offended and politely remind them that they are being insensitive to the Christian faith. Most people do not realize they are being offensive and politely stop. In fact, most profanity is offensive, and the same couple of dozen words or so are over used. The English language has close to a million words, if somebody is unintelligent enough they have to resort to the same two dozen or so to express strong emotion, I feel sorry for them.
Sometimes I wonder if artists put bad words into songs just to be edgy sometimes...help sell records. Life In the Fast Lane doesn't need the words in question to get across the point of the song. And a lot of other songs by other artists I think are that way. But if it causes a little controversy, like the old saying goes...any publicity is good publicity, right?
billyg said:
Wow, that would certainly produce a nonsensical result: "When I think back on all the girls I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all" just doesn't say as much as "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all".
Basketballfan said:
It used to be Rappers and some metal and alternative bands were just swearing on the albums, but now you have pop stars like Justin Timberlake swearing to show their audience they're "hard".
Cee Lo Green got a lot of "buzz" on the internet for the YouTube video of "F-- You" before the clean version "Forget You" was released to radio.
And I remember the controversy Zak Brown got on country radio for "Toes" for just singing "@$$ in the Sand", but it got peoples attention and got him his first hit.
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