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Thread #76250   Message #1349565
Posted By: LadyJean
06-Dec-04 - 11:42 PM
Thread Name: Songs that offend you
Subject: RE: Songs that offend you
A lot of top 40 songs from the 60s were offensive, but few more so than one called "Sweet Cream Ladies", a tribute to prostitutes. It was parodied to advertise Jell-o Cream pies, which amused me no end.
In the 70s, there was a song called "We Got to Get You a Woman", which included the line, "They may be stupid but they sure are fun." I didn't care much for that.
Also in the 70s, the Transylvania College choral union was doing a medley of Stephen Foster songs. The Baritone we called Sugar Bear, because he was a big man with a voice like warm honey, began his solo:

"Oh the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky Home.
'Tis summer, the dar--young folks are gay".

An on the spot rewrite.

The holy people doesn't encompass all the Jews. Protestants learn that Jesus was opposed by the "Scribes and Pharisees, religious leaders more interested in secular power than real faith, and those bad old Romans.