Was Watching An Hour Of 60S Music

[Bobbisox1]

Last night on Spotlight TV, AT 8pm and my era, there were two songs on there that were quite prophetic in their content, one was Melting Pot by Blue Mink, one line being Oh Lordy,Lordy ,mixed with yellow ch*****s which would definitely not be allowed now ,and the other was Zager and Evans ,In the year 25-25, all of which has came true

[tonyav]

Do they still play Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army on the radio ?

[Bobbisox1]

I agree Pixie and censoring most things very often drives people to want to hear it or see it, a bit like Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood , the BBC censored that too and going even further back,Elvis was only allowed to be filmed from the waist up as it thought his gyrating hips were too provocative , haha

[Bobbisox1]

Not sure Tonyav,is there something in that?
Strangely enough I hear it a lot at Xmas

[DTCwordfan]

well, that was an hour of your life lost! Just joshing.....

[Bobbisox1]

DT I'm a real 50s/ 60s music lover

[tonyav]

Have a listen to the lyrics at 1:11, Bobbi.

[Bobbisox1]

I will after OH watches the news or I'll get a grimace haha

[DTCwordfan]

such as this...

[Bobbisox1]

Oops my word , he uses the N word, I never knew that Tony

[tonyav]

Yep, but he does put White in front of it !

[Bobbisox1]

I had my iPad jammed to my ear so the white bit, I missed

[JimF]

Apparently, Christian band Sixpence None the Richer covered The LAs "There She Goes" without realising it was about taking heroin.

[Bobbisox1]

I'm on a learning curve tonight now lol
Similarly , A Whiter Shade of Pale ?

[JimF]

Whiter Shade of Pale is a lot harder. Keith Reid is alleged to have written the lyrics whilst on acid, and who would argue, but there doesn't seem to be anything in them which advocates anything unsavoury.

Plus it's one of the greatest songs ever written, and John Lennon's favourite song of the 60s.

[Bobbisox1]

I agree, one of my all time faves Jim

[JimF]

Plus, most people who aren't die-hard Procol Harum fans like me don't realise that there are actually two more verses which didn't make it onto the original recording. The band does the the third occasionally and the fourth extremely rarely:

https://procolharum.com/w/w9901.htm

[andy-hughes]

tonyav - // Do they still play Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army on the radio ? //

If you listen to local community station The HitMix, based in Alsager's Bank, they do play Oliver's Army, but they have edited the contentious line out of their version.

To their credit, the edit is seamless, if you didn't know the original, you wouldn't notice the splice, but it is there, and I for one object to protest songs being censored without good reason.

[tonyav]

but it is there, and I for one object to protest songs being censored without good reason.

So do I, however can't be using that N word on the radio can they.

[pixie374]

Absolute Radio play Oliver's Army, but they have only just started blanking out the relevant word over the last couple of months.

[JimF]

Or the idiots who censor Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" by suppressing the F-word in the line "And are you thinking of me when you fork her?"

Or the 60s censor who bleeped the word "make" in the line from I Can't Get No Satisfaction "...and I'm trying to make some girl" which, of course, looked far worse than it was! "... and I'm trying to ... some girl..." :-)