Banned Records - (Not what you think)

hollydolly said:
me too I have a big box in the loft of Vinyl 45's I bought when I was a teen. Stupidly when CD's first arrived on the scene and no--one had a record player any more , I got rid of all my albums.. thinking they would never be played again..
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Yes - I knew a lot of people who did the same - I kept mine, and picked up a couple of record players (cos people were gettting shut of them on the cheap) - Gosh they can cost a pretty penny these days !
I've also got a few 'Videos' (and a Video player to watch a film or two on there too)
Ultimately, - if you look after your stuff, You can stiff enjoy a longevity of enjoyment ... IMO
 

WOLF ANGEL said:
Yes - I knew a lot of people who did the same - I kept mine, and picked up a couple of record players (cos people were gettting shut of them on the cheap) - Gosh they can cost a pretty penny these days !
I've also got a few 'Videos' (and a Video player to watch a film or two on there too)
Ultimately, - if you look after your stuff, You can stiff enjoy a longevity of enjoyment ... IMO
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I'm very good at looking after things.. nothing gets damaged in my house, small items or large.. but of course we believed that we would never be able to play the albums again and most of us thought that was true sadly...

Anyway..I don't ultimately know what I'll do with all those 45's in the attic... none are valuable... just records basically from the 60's and 70's...

I did get a hold of a record player eventually, but the 45's sound so terrible compared to CD's or Youtube now .. that it's not really enjoyable to listen to them
 
Pepper said:
Have several hundred 45s. The collection was started by my sister, 4 & a half years older than me. I have quite a few albums, enough to be stuffed in a big box. I keep thinking I will play them, but of course never do.
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It seems so much easier these days not to have to manually go through the process of selecting and playing songs - especially singles, though I have started to have (monthly) time to do such - albeit LP's.
- I've found listening to vinyl provides to be a different, deeper toned richer sound - Go on treat yourself - pick out a few hours and give then a spin
 

1959
Even though it has no lyrics what so ever, the guitar instrumental "Rumble", by Link Wray was banned by many U.S. radio stations, who feared the title would promote teen violence.


- -Despite the boycott, the song would still sell over a million copies and Link would follow it with a tune called ..... "Jack The Ripper".
 
StarSong said:
That was banned? I remember it well on NY radio stations.
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It was; as I understand it, that the Record labels initially rejected the song,- with many radio stations following suit and refusing to play it.
Ian faced constant death threats and negative comments from audiences and journalists who faced consequences for engaging with the song.
- I'm guessing that it was 'the Bible belt' and Southern (U.S.) States to whom this was more of an issue than the Northern ones?

I remember in the U.K. that whilst it was not played regularly by the mainstay radio stations - (FAB) 208 Radio and (Pirate Radio) Caroline did.
- The song's controversy eventually led to its national breakthrough after Ian's performance on a Leonard Bernstein television special.
 
1964
Capitol Records released a song called "Letter To The Beatles" by The Four Preps.


The lyrics describe a boy lamenting the fact that he's lost his girlfriend to The Fab Four.
On its first day, the record shot to #85 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it looked like

The Preps were going to have another hit on their hands.
- Unfortunately they had included a few bars from "I Want To Hold Your Hand" without permission.
The Preps were threatened with a lawsuit by Beatles' manager Brian Epstein.
Capitol was forced to withdraw the single and employees were enlisted to smash copies of the single with sledgehammers.
 
Pepper said:
She would be boo-ed at concerts by racists who deliberately attended to cause ruckus at song, which did not receive radio attention depending on the state. Just saw a biography on PBS.
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I didn't know that - how very sad. And, as I realize in retrospect, how sadly predictable. Did you know she was only 14 when she wrote and recorded "Society's Child"? And only 16 when she released the wrenching "Janey's Blues" about child abuse? People weren't talking about these things back in those days.

Since hearing "Society's Child" the first time in the mid-60s, I've been a big fan of Janis Ian's works. In my opinion, her album, "Between the Lines" was a seminal work. It included her monster hit describing female teenage angst, "At Seventeen," but IMHO every song on the album offers equally tender insights into girl's/women's lives.
 
1965
Former New Christie Minstrel, Barry McGuire has his first solo hit "Eve of Destruction" taken off of retail store shelves and many radio stations play lists, because of its "end of the world" theme and anti-government lyrics.
--- "How time (don't) change"

 
WOLF ANGEL said:
1960
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"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" by The Shirelles was the first record by an all girl group to top the US charts, but the Goffin- King , song's apparent references to a sexual tryst got it banned at some stations.


The song explores anxieties about the future of a relationship after a romantic encounter, questioning if the love will last or is just "a moment's pleasure".

It has been covered by numerous artists, including Carole King herself in a 1971 version that was more melancholy, and was recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the greatest songs of all time.
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I was 14 when this song came out, and it never occurred to me it was a sexual song, even tho sex is all my friends and I talked about. I just got it a few years ago!
 
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