[78-L] Red Scare - McCarthy era songs. Lennick replies

[78-L Mail List]

On 14/05/14 20:03, 78-L Mail List wrote:
> THE RED BOOGIE..MORRIE GOODSON & SONNY VALE (on Charter, I recall)
> (It's in the big Bear Family box..probably lots of other appropriate ones as well)
>
> And the opening to Stan Freberg's LITTLE BLUE RIDING HOOD (Only the color has
> been changed to prevent an investigation).
>
> For that matter, Freberg's "Point of Order" lampooned the whole McCarthy/Army
> Hearings.
>
> dlennick
>
> On 5/14/2014 1:39 PM, 78-L Mail List wrote:
>> A friend sent me this request and of course I open it up to discussion.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I'm looking for a song from the Red Scare" era about
>> either McCarthy himself or ,HUAC. There are 2 verses in "Wasn't that a
>> Time?" and a verse in Malvina Reynolds' "Quiz Show," but I can't think
>> of any others. What am I not remembering?
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I recall listening to Radio Moscow's American service in the early 50s. 
There was a programme about how evidence was supposedly manufactured 
against people suspected of being "Communists". They would tap and 
record a phone call, and if someone said something like "I like the Red 
Sox", the tape would be edited by removing "ox", so it came out as "I 
like the Reds"!

      Julian Vein