[78-L] Ol' Man Mose link

[David Lennick]

This is true. The withdrawal, that is. Why risk all those mildly irate letters 
to the editor? Ye BBC even banned Jack Jackson from playing the second half of 
"John and Marsha" before banning the whole thing.

dl

On 1/19/2011 12:11 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> PS--That's referring to Parlophone in the UK of course.
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Royal Pemberton<ampex354 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Rust, in the AMERICAN RECORD LABEL BOOK, in the chapter on Parlophone:
>> 'In November 1938, Parlophone issued Eddy Duchin's 'Ol' Man Mose'.  It was
>> instantly withdrawn on the grounds that the vocalist, Patricia Norman, used
>> an Anglo-Saxon expletive repeatedly throughout.'
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:30 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>>
>>> Just about to say the same thing. While Victor's execs just couldn't hear
>>> "sh*thead" in Barnacle Bill, they'd have jumped on this one immediately if
>>> "phuquit" had been uttered. Records were pulled off the market for far
>>> less by
>>> major labels. Decca recut "My Sweet Hunk o' Trash" even though the word
>>> might
>>> or might not have been there..why tempt fate?
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 1/19/2011 11:22 AM, Tim Huskisson wrote:
>>>> I hadn't heard of Willie Farmer. Nice band.
>>>> But I don't hear the 'F' word in this version any more than in the Eddy
>>>> Duchin version. The idea that a solo vocalist - exposed as it is, would
>>> ever
>>>> have got away with using an expletive seems absurd to me.
>>>>
>>>> Tim Huskisson
>>>>
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