'60s Songs You Don't Hear Anymore for Obvious Reasons...

[jfrancispastirchak]

Is it just me or does Ian Matthews kind of sound like Rita Coolidge?

... or K.D. Lange

[Jay F]

I recently heard Lou Reed-Walk On The Wild Side. The song does nothing for me because I heard it too many times (although I like other Lou Reed and Velvet Underground songs). That song could never be a hit today because of politically incorrect lyrcs such as "colored girls".

Was "giving head" played unedited from this song as a current in 1973? I don't remember. The ironic thing is that even if our nations moral values are much worse compared to 1973 I don't think there is any way there could be a CHR hit today with "giving head" in the lyrics.

[CTListener]

I recently heard Lou Reed-Walk On The Wild Side. The song does nothing for me because I heard it too many times (although I like other Lou Reed and Velvet Underground songs). That song could never be a hit today because of politically incorrect lyrcs such as "colored girls".

Was "giving head" played unedited from this song as a current in 1973? I don't remember. The ironic thing is that even if our nations moral values are much worse compared to 1973 I don't think there is any way there could be a CHR hit today with "giving head" in the lyrics.

Generally, AOR stations played the "giving head" version, CHRs played a version with that entire verse excised. "Colored girls" was left untouched in both.

[LibertyNT]

Both Walk The Wild Side and Kodachrome when heard in DFW are uncut.

[CTListener]

Both Walk The Wild Side and Kodachrome when heard in DFW are uncut.

I'd be surprised if anyone is chopping the "crap" out of "Kodachrome" now. You've got to remember that in the early '70s, "damned" was a big deal when Judy Collins sang it in "Someday Soon," so you can see how "crap" could offend the sensibilities of some in station management. Neither causes as much as a raised eyebrow these days, when even little kids routinely say something they don't like "sucks."

[deltas69]

we never edited anything as far as i know..had to fight the manager like heck to play "Ramblin Man" by the Allmans..he was convinced it was country...

[jfrancispastirchak]

I recently heard Lou Reed-Walk On The Wild Side. The song does nothing for me because I heard it too many times (although I like other Lou Reed and Velvet Underground songs). That song could never be a hit today because of politically incorrect lyrcs such as "colored girls".

Was "giving head" played unedited from this song as a current in 1973? I don't remember. The ironic thing is that even if our nations moral values are much worse compared to 1973 I don't think there is any way there could be a CHR hit today with "giving head" in the lyrics.

Another view: As I remember, political correctness heaped plenty of pressure indeed on American culture, even in 1973.  I was working C/W back then, and remember doing a double take at the "colored girls" lyric.  As an exile from New York's so-called Village scene and it's steely embrace of the "FUGS", along with Frank Zappa's "She's Only 13", I felt no shock at hearing "the "head" lyric. 

[Kurt Toy]

Both Walk The Wild Side and Kodachrome when heard in DFW are uncut.

I'd be surprised if anyone is chopping the "crap" out of "Kodachrome" now. You've got to remember that in the early '70s, "damned" was a big deal when Judy Collins sang it in "Someday Soon," so you can see how "crap" could offend the sensibilities of some in station management. Neither causes as much as a raised eyebrow these days, when even little kids routinely say something they don't like "sucks."

Another tune you don't hear anymore, "Someday Soon".

[CTListener]

Both Walk The Wild Side and Kodachrome when heard in DFW are uncut.

I'd be surprised if anyone is chopping the "crap" out of "Kodachrome" now. You've got to remember that in the early '70s, "damned" was a big deal when Judy Collins sang it in "Someday Soon," so you can see how "crap" could offend the sensibilities of some in station management. Neither causes as much as a raised eyebrow these days, when even little kids routinely say something they don't like "sucks."

Another tune you don't hear anymore, "Someday Soon".

Probably not because of the "damned," but because it wasn't that big a hit to begin with. I think the oldies/classic hits format has been happy with playing two folk-country-sounding songs for a couple of decades now ("Teach Your Children" and "Different Drum") and isn't about to start adding more. "Both Sides Now" was a bigger hit for Collins, and you're not hearing that these days either.

[firepoint525]

I remember back when I was working at the old carrier current college AM station on campus (the station that only got as far as the dorms, if it even got that far!) back in the '80s, we got all the old records that were cast off by the FM station (the station that actually got heard!).  There were two that I recall that had "DON'T PLAY" written on them.  One was "Bitch" by the Rolling Stones, and the other was "Go All the Way" by the Raspberries.  The first one, I could understand, given that I had only heard on AOR, if there, but the second one, I had been hearing on the radio for YEARS prior to that!  I later realized that the "DON'T PLAY" admonitions had probably been written on those records back in the early '70s, when those records were brand new.  Of course, even if I had played it over that carrier-current station, it's unlikely that anyone would have heard it.