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The commercial plugs have it!

Yes, I'm getting off the original topic here, but the lyrics of Pink's Get The Party Started include "Boulevard is freakin' as I'm comin' up fast; I'll be burnin' rubber, you'll be kissin' my ass." Before Radio Disney could play the song, those last five words were replaced with "If you know what I mean" from an earlier verse. It didn't rhyme but at least it was clean.
 
I mentioned Mel Tillis's Coca-Cola Cowboy. "The Real Thing" is also mentioned in Sam Cooke's Having A Party (The Cokes are in the icebox") and the Beatles' Come Together ("He got monkey fingers, he shoot Coca-Cola").
 
LARadioRewind said:
Yes, I'm getting off the original topic here, but the lyrics of Pink's Get The Party Started include "Boulevard is freakin' as I'm comin' up fast; I'll be burnin' rubber, you'll be kissin' my ass." Before Radio Disney could play the song, those last five words were replaced with "If you know what I mean" from an earlier verse. It didn't rhyme but at least it was clean.
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Radio Disney also has a customized version of Olly Murs' "Dance With Me Tonight," replacing "the whole damn night" with "right through the night." God forbid those innocent young ears hear that nasty d-word!
 
That explains why Radio Disney never plays Give A Damn or Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover. When two of the four Beatles released Ballad Of John & Yoko as a single, KABC-FM (predecessor of KLOS) cut the word "Christ" from the beginning of each chorus. The cuts ruined the meter but at least the song was clean. And before you say anything, this was long before Disney owned the station!
 
CTListener said:
Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" mentions Studebaker, Edsel, Disneyland and a bunch of TV shows and movies.
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Similarly, Billy Joel's "Keeping the Faith" mentioned quite a few products. A mint called Sen-Sen (sp?), a fresh pack of Luckys, old man's Trojans and his Old Spice aftershave.

And "We Didn't Start the Fire" always reminds me of "Life Is a Rock" by Reunion, with its rapid-fire mention of items and events. A few record labels get mentioned on that one.
 
Greenback Dollar by The Kingston Trio had "I Don't give a damn 'bout a greenback dollar" on the records, but the radio version replaced the D-word with an over-loud guitar strum. Says something about the USA in 1963 that they fell a need to give a damn about that word.

The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels Band (1979) had two versions I heard on the radio in the day - "I told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm the best there's ever been" on some stations, "....son of a gun...." on others.
 
Wow, this thread flew off the rails in a hurry! No mention of product endorsements in that last message. Maybe all of the "have-its" have finally "had it"!

At any rate, there were a couple of groups whose names were takeoffs on product endorsements. Band Aid, the mostly British supergroup who recorded the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Wonder how the BBC got around the group's name?) And then there was the '70s band Rose Royce (of "Car Wash" fame) whose name is a takeoff on Rolls Royce. Maybe the luxury car maker had no problem with the group's name, since they changed the "Rolls" to "Rose."
 
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