banned songs

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: ollaimh
Date: 13 Jul 13 - 12:03 AM

hey wolfgang and tim jaques, back in the seventies to the ninties, there was a german "folk singer" who used to sing hitler youth songs. he introduced them as "songs I learned in a german youth group". I found he failed de nazification so came to Canada to become a doctor. he couldn't be a doctor having failed de nazification heaqrings, at least not in Germany.

this was at the Vancouver folk song society. he sang them for years. for a while I couldn't believe it was happening but when I did no one cared. a jewish friend who spoke Yiddish and german, went with me one might and confirmed he was singing the hilter youth versions. these were based on german folk music but twisted and perverted. his family are still influential in folk circles and have the ear of joe offer who has many times banned me talking about the Nazi folk singer in Vancouver. he won't let me name him any more. we'll see if he deletes this message.

amaxingly the nice anglo/germans on the Vancouver folk ss were uite happy to let him sing Nazi songs for decades. this same group used to ban all irish rebel songs. although I made a point of singing a few, however they never let me get on their stage again.

they accepted his lies that he was 14 or 16 at the wars end. after his death his obit showed he was 27 at wars end. and they accepted his story they were deutchland party and part of the pa=thfinder youth group and then the sthalhelm(a deutchland party sreety marching group). in fact the dvp was part of the coalition that brought hitler to power in the hartzzberg forest agreement, and the path finders merged into the hilter youth in 1932/33 after that agreement, and the stahlhelm was were they drafted the first ss officers as part of the deal. they bought every rationalization for singing Nazi songs as joe offer buys these rationalizations now. this is second generation holocaust denial. to me incomprehensible to any ethical person.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: PHJim
Date: 12 Jul 13 - 12:13 AM

Sorry, Please change the word "din't" to "didn't". I wish there was an edit feature here.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: PHJim
Date: 12 Jul 13 - 12:11 AM

I din't read the whole thread, and I'm sorry that Rick's not around to see this, but Beans In My Ears, a kids' song written by Len Chandler was banned in Pittsburgh and Boston because doctors protested that many children were actually putting beans in their ears after hearing the song.

Pete Seeger sings Len Chandler's "Beans In My Ears"

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Gutcher
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 11:37 PM

I know exactly what you mean Jim, with me and my sibblings it manifests it!s self in the fact we never swear.
Had absorbed all types of songs as a child with the very air I breathed in and was only persuaded to sing the song mentioned as collectors had only ever found the chorus and being a green country chap I never ever imagined it would appear on the CD.
Thus I have not, until fairly recent times, "fathered" the recording and if asked at any time where the CD can be obtained I have copied it on this machine with that one removed and gifted it to the interested party

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Jim McLean
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 03:44 PM

You might be right, Jack. My Calvanism used to kick in when Hamish sang his bawdy songs, which to me were more akin to rugby, puerile smut, and knowing that his kilt swung the other way, it was a pleasure to leave his company.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 07:27 AM

I reckon the piece in that book that the NLS is most likely to have had a problem with was "You Can't Fuck Fatima Unless You Pay Farouk". I'm sure Hamish had a hand in polishing that one up. And I can't see it getting an airing on the Beeb (or, perhaps, any broadcast network) right now.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Jim McLean
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 06:56 AM

Eddie1, Morris Blythman wrote the Coronation Coronach, not Hamish Henderson and I think the lyrics as well as the tune may have something to do with it not being aired.
Nothing Hamish wrote could ever have been banned as he steered clear of any specific nationalist or republican line. His songs were generally socialist and broadly internationalist, British.
A slight exception to this was his Men of Knoydart but, although it had an anti English slant, I don't think it was 'bannable' material.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 06:49 AM

Hamish Henderson's "Songs and Ballads of World War 2" was until recently kept in the "Phi Collection" at the National Library of Scotland. This was a rather miscellaneous selection of material they didn't want the casual public looking at - you needed to use it in the Rare Book Room, and the catalogue was a small notebook rather than the general card index. In most cases the reasons for the categorization was sexual explicitness, but there was one item in the collection I never did figure out. It was published in the 1940s, titled "CuO". It seemed to be a survey of the world market in copper oxide. Maybe it has pornographic annotations. It seems not be in the NLS at all now.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Gutcher
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 06:02 AM

My good friend Diva"s budding career as a radio presenter was nipped in the bud when she played a recording of the bawdie bothy ballad "She Wadna Dae It". As far as I am aware she was never invited back.   I always feel a bit guilty about this as I only recorded the song for academic purposes.
For those of you with an "academic" interest the song can be found on MTCD 313.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Deckman
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 04:08 AM

In 1962, for the six month run of the "Seattle World's Fair", the whole region went nuts with fair fever. Of course the Seattle Space Needle, which was built for the fair, was the highlight of the event.

A very popular trio, "The Shaggy Gorillas and One Buffalo Fish", wrote a song titled "The Day The Needle Fell." It was an instant hit and was played for three weeks solid on all the Seattle area radio stations.

Suddenly, it was never heard ANYWHERE again ... overnight. It had been banned by the major powers to be that ran the World's Fair because it might give folks the impression that the Needle could actually fall.

Maggie Savage, a member of the group, gave me a copy of the record recently. btw ... the Needle is still standing ... bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 08:41 PM

I have read that Ewan MacColl's "Second Front Song" was banned during W.W. II because it led to riots in pubs where there were US and British soldiers.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Joybell
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 06:11 PM

In the 1970s my True-love lived in Asia for a while. When he sang on radio he had to submit all the words to the songs he planned to sing. The result was that the Beatles songs were banned outright. Blues lines like, "...the pillow where my good gal used to lay..." were cut. "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was out because it was obvious the singer shared a bed with his "girlfriend". Hank Williams and many country songs from others were a problem. The list went on.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: eddie1
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 01:19 PM

Certainly in the West of Scotland, any song that smacked of sectarianism was "banned", two examples being "Kevin Barry" and "The Sash my Father Wore" This resulted in the banning of Hamish Henderson's wonderful "Coronation Coronach" because it used the tune of "The Sash"!

Some clever musicologist - wish I knew who cos I'd like to shake his hand, discovered you could sing "Kevin Barry" to the tune of "The Sash" thus being banned on two opposing grounds! What a triumph!

Eddie

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 11:28 AM

The BBC has a magnificent in-house catalogue of it's folk music material - thousands of items, all annotated and given a reference number.
Two of those numbers are prefixed with an 'S' - not sure if it actually stands for anything specific (secret maybe?), but both items are Irish; 'St Peter's day Was Dawning' and 'Lord Leitrim'.
I understand that both have to be cleared by 'them upstairs' before they can be played on the air.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST,Musket getting his tuppence worth
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 10:36 AM

Banned songs would be an arbitrary decision by the proprietor of the radio or tv station but since this thread started, some songs would fall foul of UK legislation to prevent incitement of hate.

Back on Local decisions, I was a volunteer on hospital radio many years ago. We banned songs in bad taste, anything overtly political or the records aimed at maternity, such as Who's Sorry Now and Shotgun Wedding.

I'd have banned The Old Rugged Cross, but only because it was the most popular request and we were all word perfect!

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 10:21 AM

That seems to be a link that works only for 'mobile' devices. Some of us old fogies still listen to stuff on our big, clunky desktop computers.


But while we are reviving memories of "Transfusion", I remember sitting in a car at a drive-in restaurant....with real carhops... about 1957... when the loudspeaker system played "Transfusion".
As the verse with the line "shoot the juice to me, Bruce" ended, a shrill female voice from some other car across the parking area yelled: "I wish someone would shoot ME the juice!"
There was appropriate raucous laughter and commentary.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 04:26 AM

A newer link to Transfusion that works.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=euaH8mUiFHs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeuaH8mUiFHs.


Nervous Norvus died in 1968 of cirrhosis of the liver, aged 56.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: alanabit
Date: 04 May 05 - 05:42 AM

"Banning in our societies is due to commercial radio protecting its revenue streams." That is one of the most telling sentences which I have read on this thread. We have been talking mainly about songs which have been pulled because their content offended listeners. In effect, most artists are denied access to airplay because they are not on playlists, for the reason Robomatic gave. Because playlists exist and are subject to scrutiny, to guarantee advertising revenue, most artists who are not already famous, or have no major company behind them, have no access to radio plays. The stations do not describe this as a ban, but the effect is just the same.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST
Date: 04 May 05 - 05:25 AM

I am astounded that the Aussies on this forum did not think to mention the Skyhooks "Living In The Seventies" album (OK, OK, I know it's not folk music - but there have been a lot of non-folkie songs mentioned despite that)

The Livng In The Seventies album consisted of ten tracks and was the first album to receive an 'A' classification on SEVEN of them - this meant that the government department (Broadcasting Commission - or whoever it was) in charge of OK-ing recorded material for airplay in those days banned seven of those ten tracks from airplay.

In fact, the only reason why there weren't eight tracks banned is because in the title song; songwriter / bassist, Greg MacAinsh had the lead singer sing the line "I feel like a good time that's never been had" instead of the original line which was written as "I feel like a call-girl who's never been had".

I believe (though I may be wrong) that this is still a record (pardon the pun) for any album anywhere in the world.

Mind you - that "A" listing virtually ensured the record achieving (again, pardon the pun) record sales - I think it was the first Australian made album to go platinum (and it went triple platinum in the end)

Mutt

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: nutty
Date: 01 May 05 - 06:50 AM

I think all Tom Lehrer songs were banned by the BBC as was (if I remember rightly ) that horrendous song "Johhny come back to me".
I think, of all the radio stations, the Beeb probably holds the record for banning the largest number of anti-establishment songs.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST,Hazzle
Date: 30 Apr 05 - 02:22 PM

Anybody know of a song that supposely came out in the 1960's that sang of a plane crash in graphic detail and was banned? I was told the title was D. O. A.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Billy Suggers
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 08:16 AM

Hot damn!

All this talk of banned stuff & not one mention of Jeremy Taylor.

tsk tsk tsk

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 07:16 AM

nice one Jim!

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Jim McLean
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 05:01 AM

In 1960 I wrote a satirical song about the marriage between Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Josh McRae was banned from singing it in Glasgow and a Scottish MP mentioned it in the House of Commons '.... a scurrilous piece of anti royalty propaganda'!!

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST,barrie roberts
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 06:22 PM

The late Lonnie Donegan not only got banned by the BBC for 'Nobody Loves Like An Irishman', but also for 'Digging My Potatoes'. Around the same time, the Beeb would only play 'The Foggy, Foggy Dew' on the old Third Programme (the 'intellectual' network') and not on popular channels. Later they banned Leon Roseelson's 'Tim McGuire' after a complaint from the Chairman of West Bromwich Fire Committee. My 'Nine Miles from Gundagai' got blacklisted in 1966 (because it was dirty) and another track on the same EP, 'Riding Down the Castlereagh', was treated the same because it might offend Chinese people.
The first time I broadcast live on 'Folk on Two' i had a letter warning me to sing 'nothing controversial'! A few years later Radio Beacon (Wolverhampton) recorded a charity concert which included me and bleeped two of my songs.
'Expressions of support' for proscribed organisations are banned in the UK by the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which I suppose makes IRA songs illegal.
Never mind --- the banned play on!

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: sapper82
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 04:57 PM

To rick fielding -
The song "Soldier" was based on the sacrifice of Sgt Willets of the Parachute Regiment in The Springfield Road Police Station in 1972.
Cut and paste http://www.psni.police.uk/index/media_centre/press_releases/press_release_detail.htm?PRID=994
for details.
Also C&P on http://www.tietacs.org.uk/index_files/News.htm
How the hell do you do blue clicky things???
Another point on the song, whilst it was banned by the BBC, it was frequently played on BFBS in Germany throught the mid '70s

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: robomatic
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 03:26 PM

I have no idea why anything by Nervous Norvous would ever be banned. Dr. Demento played his stuff freely in the 70's.

If you're on Student Radio and you get on well with the music director you can pretty much play what you want. In theory there are things you could broadcast for which you as DJ and other station executives can go to jail, but if you haven't flagrantly flouted the FCC's rules and can demonstrate redeeming social/ artistic content you are safe. If you simply hurl obscenities into the microphone you are not safe. I had a show for a few years and no one from the station ever gave me any trouble or review because the show started at 10 PM and ended at 1 AM. They were in bed!

Banning in our societies is due to commercial radio protecting its revenue streams. I find this understandable and yet pathetic.

Public radio in the US wants to be considered a valuable community resource, so typically exercises caution, including warning listeners that a particular portion of a broadcast may consider language that could be considered objectionable. On the other hand, it is perfectly appropriate to air a show on banned music and in so doing, air the banned music.

The CBC seems to be much less concerned with for example quotations of on-the-street interviews. It so happened that the public broadcasting station in Anchorage stopped carrying CBC Sunday morning because of the language it carried. (This was chicken behavior on the part of the local NPR program director). But the point is, these things come down primarilly as judgement calls as to what is best for a particular station or network.

The current reaction to 'nipplegate' is still in effect, and is mostly kneejerk cowardice on the part of radio executives. Again, commercial interest maintains. They are perfectly happy for Howard Stern to broadcast when the income outstrips the damage. They are perfectly happy to be 'shocked, shocked' that this sort of thing has been going on, when the worm turns.

Having said that, there are worse things out there than commercial self interest.

If you live in a city with a university station, you are more likely to hear all sorts of banned stuff. Not only did we have no commercial interests to protect, we wanted listeners to tune in to hear stuff they would no way hear on the main airwaves. There is also a late night 'safe harbor' period where we can air, well, pretty much anything. I got away with the Rudy Schwartz Project which was very very rude to Tipper Gore in very plain language (on account of her attempt to have rock lyrics banned and her head-to-head confrontation, so to speak, with Frank Zappa). I could have aired George Carlin's Seven Deadly Words as long as I inserted a warning.

I love the subject of what you can and can't broadcast. The power of language is such that you can state perfectly obscene concepts without using any obscene language. You can state it such that it is a violation of FCC regulations, and you can state it such that is isn't. Remember the Monty Python skit with the man you couldn't say the letter 'c'. The other man says, well, why can't you use the letter 'k'? "Why, yes, I kan, what a silly bunt!"

(I never actually heard that one on the air, though)

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 01:58 PM

Just before this last Christmas, I wrote a song. My wife said that's a terrible song - it will upset people, forget it.

A few weeks later I come across the words on a bit of paper - I thought, that's not bad. I'll record it on the portastudio this morning and then that afternoon I sent it to the radio station at Cork University along with one or two other Irish Universities.

Anyway I won't go into the title but suffice to say I did it under the name Barney O'Bollox.

A few weeks later I get a phone call - some guy from Radio Cork. And this guy starts talking to me about the song, and says it stands out from the weeks other releases. i said yes well it would, but please don't play it as it wasn't meant for mainstream radio stations because it will offend people.

He says , too late I already played it and we've had a big response. I said, you did what.....

And he says careful now, you're on the air - please don't swear or anything

I said please don't play it again - it will offend people and he says okay, if you feel like that.

What I'm trying to say is, perhaps its better not to have these thoughts in the first place. I wish I didn't write songs that upset people. I really do.

Anybody else had similar experiences?

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 12:22 PM

Amazing! there is someone else alive out there who remembers "ape call"! Someone in our class had a copy, and always got it played at school dances in junior high & early high school; that's the only place I ever heard it. I think even then we thought it was gosh-awful,
and threw it in mainly for that reason. I think the flip side was
"Wild Dogs of Kentucky"; so bad we didn't even bother with it. Oops, afraid I let my age show, and ruined my chances for seducing pubescent
beauties here...

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST,mick
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 09:52 AM

I always thought the most pathetic act of censorship was the self censorship perpetrated by the holier than thou sixties group The Bachelors .Anyone remember them? When recording their cover of Paul Simon's I am a Rock , instead of singing "Hiding in my room/ safe within my womb" they sang "Hiding in my room /safe within my room".

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST,Sasamack
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 09:16 AM

'Relax' by Frankie goes to Hollywood was actually banned because of the video.
This showed the bandmembers entering an erotic club and watching S&M - complete with gimps. Eventually the lead singer is being urinated on by the people in the club. You will very rarely see this video as a replacement one was hastily shot which showed various laser beams and things. After banning the video, the bbc went the whole hog and banned the song. The original video became the stuff of urban legend - people began to doubt that it had ever really existed.
It did exist, however, and you may occasionaly catch it very late at night.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST,JHadji
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 08:57 AM

Loved Transfusion & Ape Call from Nervous Norvis. I think I still have both in 45.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Nemesis
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 03:14 PM

Allan C .. way up the threads there: Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkle) was also banned in Malawi, Central Africa .. the Official Hostess to His Excellency, The Ngwazi, Dr H. Kamuzu Banda was Madame Cecilia Kadzamira ... it was a gaolable offence . or worse..

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: freda underhill
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 08:12 AM

hi Bob & thanks, I've now checked out the threads.
'haven't been chewing cookies - at work i log in a s a guest..

enjoy Cobargo, it doesn't look like I'll be making it, unless a miracle happens..

fred

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 07:52 AM

Cant think how I missed this thread the first time round. The best 'Song Banning' I know of was in Singapore in 1970, where I was serving in the R A F. Lee Kwan Yu in his infinite wisdom banned a lot of 'Drug Orientated' songs - The Beatles lost several- but the classic was The Rooftop Singers recording of Walk Right In , which just happenned to be the signature tune of The British Forces Broadcsting Services Folk Music programme. Also on the Banned List was Peter Paul and Mary's 'Puff The Magic Dragon'

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: s&r
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 03:57 AM

There have been sanitised versions of songs for the benefit of the Beeb for years:

Sixteen Tons (lyrics changed from 'St Peter' to 'Say Brother' -blasphemy?)

Answer me (lyrics changed from 'Answer me Lord Above' to 'Answer me oh my love' - also blasphemy?)

Beautiful South ('Don't marry her f*ck me' to 'Don't marry her have me' obscene?)

Seem to remember the Animals House of the Rising Sun being a huge hit in part because the Beeb thought it was too long, so only played half of it - if you wanted the full version you needed to buy the record or listen to Radio Luxembourg 208 metres on the medium waveband.

Stu

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: LadyJean
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 12:48 AM

Anne Feeny, a local folk singer, has a collection she calls "7 Songs You Can't Sing In Edgewood". Edgewood is a charming suburb, where, as my mother who grew up there used to say, "Even the Democrats are Republicans".
I don't know how Ms. Feeney found out she couldn't sing those 7 songs in Edgewood. I do know that one of them, "A Lecture From Your Mother" with it's refrain, "It's from them that I'd expect to see that F Word, not from you!" gave mother a great deal of pleasure.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 09:53 PM

G'day Freda (Underhill? ... Been munching your cookie lately ... ?),

We had a thread (or two) running on Suvla/Suda Bay in recent years. I think Bill Scott remarks, in The Second Penguin Australian Songbook on the wartime (WW II, in the case of the Suda Bay version he quotes) ban on this song - for its effect on morale, as you noted.

I suspect you would never find any printed notice of this banning ... but it was well accepted that songs that reflected the truth of war were not to be played in public.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 09:10 PM

this song was reputed to be banned, as it would adversely affect troop morale. the version i learnt from my father goes like this:

Suvla Bay

Twas an old Australian homestead with roses round the door,
A young girl got a message, twas a message from the war.
With her mother's arm around her she gave way to sobs and sighs,
and as she read the message, the tears flowed from her eyes.
Chorus:
Why do I weep? Why do I pray?
My love's asleep so far away.
He played his part that April day
And now he sleeps 'neath Suvla Bay.

She joined a band of sister beneath the cross of red
And there she gave life's sustenance to the wounded and the dead.
She never forgot her soldier lying so far away
Her soldier who lay sleeping neath the sands of Suvla Bay,
Chorus:
Why do I weep? Why do I pray?
My love's asleep so far away.
He played his part that April day
And now he sleeps 'neath Suvla Bay.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 08:55 PM

only if you put it on vinyl...

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: chordstrangler
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 08:44 PM

I have had the distinction of having two songs banned from the playlists of both RTE (Irish National Radio) and BBC Northern Ireland. The first song was "Only Our Rivers Run Free" and the second one was called "The Famous Five".
In relation to "The Famous Five" I got a letter from the BBC saying that it could cause offence to the British Army, gays, animal lovers, reformed criminals, persons of diminished intellectual capacity, South Africans, persons with addictions and those involved in the anti-apartheid movement.
Could this be a record?

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: michaelr
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 06:50 PM

Clear Channel banned the Dixie Chicks last year after their singer announced from the stage that she was embarrassed to be from the same state as Resident Bush. Don't know if that ban is still in effect.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Amergin
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 05:36 PM

Christy Moore's song The Never Came Home was banned by the courts...on St. Valentine's Day many years ago...there was a fire at the Stardust in Dublin...48 people were killed most of them teenagers or in their young 20's...the owners had all the emergency exits shained shut...so people could not escape...Christy Moore was the only one to go to court over it when the owners dragged him in to get an injunction against his song...the families of the victims NEVER were compensated.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Com Seangan
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 05:08 PM

Mind you BigPinkLad - I could kinda empathise with your Dad banning all Pink Floyd! Only joking !!!During the troubles in the North, THE MEN BEHIND THE WIRE was banned. But not only that but Gerry Adams was banned from reading his short stories on Radio and that was at this side of the Border.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 05:01 PM

My Dad banned all Pink Floyd from our house.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 04:34 PM

Not quite 'banned' but Jasper Carrott's "Magic Roundabout" wasn't played by the BBC.
Their DJs could not understand why a song "Funky Moped" was doing so well in the pop charts. Of course it was selling for the other side which was a hilarious take on "The Magic Roundabout"

Also banned by the BBC "Deep in the Heart of Texas" from afternoon programming during the war as the banging and clapping was distracting workers in the munitions factories (true/uban myth?)

Nigel

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: GUEST,tarra
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 12:38 PM

Hi
thanks for all the info! I am in Spain doing a piece on banned songs you all have helped and not only information but refreshing to hear people care about life outside the box!

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Oct 00 - 10:02 PM

refresh to answer new thread

Spaw

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: rick fielding
Date: 28 Jan 99 - 12:20 PM

I've not only enjoyed the responses to this thread but have learned a hell of a lot as well. Last Monday I had another insight on how a song might get "banned".

After having played "The Soldier", by Harvey Andrews, a few weeks ago on my show, I thought I'd play his song "England", which is a SATIRE!. Yup, got two outraged calls, with both listeners telling me not to play such "chauvinistic crap".(they phrased it more graphically) Both missed the song's point completely. Watch it songwriters, there are Philistines everywhere.

Subject: RE: banned songs
From: Wolfgang
Date: 27 Jan 99 - 02:38 PM

Tim,
I meant the old folksong, not the Horst Wessel version in my response. You would get sentenced for sure for the Horst Wessel version, you would get sentenced too for just whistling the tune, so (just my guess) you might get sentenced for singing the old folksong. I'd love to know..

Wolfgang