Do you remember when radio stations banned the song by the Kinks called, "Lola?"

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Ridiculous.

Wasn't banned on the Left coast. One that was though is BLOODROCK - D.O.A./EVERY BODY'S NIGHTMARE. Not in all markets just some. They found that kids were driving too fast listening to it, or at least that's what they said. One of the songs we discussed in "Contemporary Lyrics and Poetry". Had some guy come in and do a two hour demonstration on how music effects people. I never got how it could affect folks like that.

I don't know about that song, but I remember when they banned the song. "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha"

When was this one banned. It was like the theme song to a Saturday morning kids variety show.

It was in the sixties.

http://www.madmusic.com/song_...

Hmm, just different parts of the country I guess.

Really? I don't remember that song being banned where I lived, but I don't doubt that some did. After all around that same era many stations banned J Geils Give it to Me yet still played Chuck Berry's My Dingaling...go figure?

I know the song so I looked it up. It was no 2 in the charts and featured on Top of the Pops. No ban, but the BBC made them change "Coca Cola" to "Cherry Cola" to avoid advertising
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I don't think that any Northern Ohio rock stations ever banned that song. In 1958, they did ban this one for inciting violence, and it's an instrumental !
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Soon after, Wray began concentrating on guitar, since an earlier bout with tuberculosis began to make singing increasingly difficult. He then developed his guitar style: a slow drag across distorted strings in a simple chord progression. This led to his recording of "Rumble," which cracked the U.S. top 20, despite being banned by some radio stations because its title connoted gang violence. The Wrays then signed to Epic Records after disagreeing with their original label, Cadence, which wanted to tone down the tough image
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Classic, first tune I learned all the way through on guitar!!!

They didn't ban it in Southern Ohio either.

I vaguely remember it. We were all too busy playing it on our boom boxes in the park to care.

We've come a long way since then! Hope we keep moving forward!

Must have just been in the states because I remember hearing it on the radio over here!

Don't know why nobody's added this yet!

OOPS beat me to it !

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though I have to admit, when it was released (1970) I was 18 and didn't actually understand the meaning entirely until a few years later...

I also remember Brewer & Shipley's "One Toke Over The Line" which also made the charts, yet caused a stink on radio stations nationwide. Hell, the VP at the time (Agnew) called it "subversive"!! LOL!!

Ah, it was still popular in the eighties and played on the radio now and then, though not much. I forgot what happened with that one.

cool song...

Yea, crazy times back then.

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