[PRCo] Re: The Good Old Days(tm)

[Fred Schneider]

robert netzlof wrote:

> --- Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com> wrote:
> >
> > Derrick:
> >
> > I'm with you.  Every generation had its own music, its own slang,
> > and its own music.  But at least in the 1950s we didn't have to be
> > ashamed to let our parents hear the lyrics in our music,...
>
> Ahem. I recall a few songs of the mid-50's which many radio stations
> would not play. To name three:
>
> "Rent Man Blues"
> "Roll With Me Henry", cleaned up as "Dance With Me Henry"
> "Sixty Minute Man"
>
> The really amusing part was that WXYZ would refuse to play 1 and 2,
> but would play 3; WABC 2 and 3 but not 1, and so on.

Bravo for the censors, and the facts that the courts hadn't yet told us
we need crap.

>
>
> > ...every sentence wasn't punctuated with explitives,
> > and we dressed with creases in our pants.  And the girls tempted us
> > but didn't walk around half naked.
>
> Yes, but the see-through blouse enjoyed considerable popularity in
> some circles.

Usually they wore two garments underneath it.  The slip covered that
other "unmentionable."

>
>
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