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

[Malcolm Rockwell]

That might be worth having a copy of in itself!
Mal

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David Lennick wrote:
> 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?!)
>>
>>