[78-L] ^some guys have all the luck

[David Lennick]

On the other hand, Quality Records' president George Struth was appalled at 
what was on the National Lampoon Radio Dinner album and had the whole freakin' 
thing bleeped, not just the DJ version. Magical Misery Tour was fifty percent 
BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

At least when Randy Wood refused to issue an album he wouldn't let his family 
listen to, he turned the master over to another label (the Jack Kerouac-Steve 
Allen LP).

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> In both cases it was special DJ copies that were bleeped, and normal LPs
> should be OK.  They may have done bleeping on stock 45s or issued copies
> with both versions.  I have a censored DJ version of a comedy album
> about marijuana.  This all came during the era of FCC Chair Dean Burch
> and Pres Noxin, as did my station's obscenity complaints.  Free Speech? 
> Bah Humbug!!!  We have the most backwards puritanical country in the
> Western World, and as a reaction have the foulest mouths on city streets
> like here in NYC, the likes of which you never hear in the rest of the
> more advanced countries.    
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> 
> 
> From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> 
>> In Charlie Daniel's recording of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia," the line
> near the end of the song goes, "I told you once you (beep), I'm the best
> there ever was." I've always assumed the "beep" covered up the words "
> son-of-a-bitch" since the meter of the line would indicate this. Is
> there a
> recording somewhere that has the beeped phrase left intact? Or, how
> about
> Johnny Cash's recording of "A Boy Named Sue," where he sings a line that
> goes, "I'm the (beep) that named you Sue?" Sounds to me like the same
> epitaph was covered up here.
> 
> Bud 
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: Steven C. Barr
> Date: 06/06/09 00:33:10
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] ^some guys have all the luck
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Or a genius tech and a genius assistant producer could note
>>> the time where a bad word had been uttered and be ready to
>>> bleep it when it was being re-fed..I kid you not. This didn't
>>> always work, leaving listeners to say "Boy, what did he really
>>> say if they let THAT go through?"
> When I FIRST arrived up here in Canada, I was rather astounded
> (having grown up in the US Of A, where the Kingston Trio sang
> [on air] "Well, I don't give a <curious pause> about a greenback
> dollar") to hear, ON AIR, a complete and UNexpurgated recording
> by Firesign Theatre...which included most, if not ALL, of George
> Carlin's "Seven Words...!"
>  
> Curious...we now have the "seven-second delay," but I'm not sure
> if anyone actually gives a <F-word> about whether mere "d**ns"
> or "h*lls", let alone more "serious" obscenities, grace the airwaves?!
>  
> I have personally heard pre-school tykes rattle off series of "bad
> words" that would have done honour to my USAF Drill Instructor!?
>  
> ...stevenc
> (mean mutha fer ya?!)
>