[78-L] Ol' Man Mose link ^

[David Lennick]

On 1/19/2011 11:08 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> From: "Julian Vein"<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
>> Royal Pemberton 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 instantly withdrawn on the grounds that the vocalist, Patricia Norman,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 the other hand, records extolling the pleasures of drug-taking were
>> perfectly acceptable!
>>
> It is worth noting that these "recreational" drugs were generally legal at
> that time...!
>
> Steven C. Barr
> (who was in the USAF at that time [1967-70] and recalls well all the
> "tourists" who were hitchhiking around Europe in search of cheap and
> generally legal hashish...! And yes, I DID inhale...!)
>
> ____________________________

Time to exhale!

dl