Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma
Oh my god. Talk about giving me a big-time flashback. In elementary school, a friend of mine and me came up with our own version of this called "Look What They've Done to My Parrot, Ma". We actually sang this in chorus once. Heh. Good times.
::makes out with empress::
I flashed back when I ran across the title too, Frank, because it's one of the songs I learned when I was taking guitar lessons, as a kid.
How did THAT get on the radio?
First video banned by MTV?
You can go back quite a way with double entendre lyrics.
Well, he walked up to me and asked me if I wanted to dance
He looked kinda nice and so I said I might take a chance
When we danced he held me tight
Then he walked me home that night
All the stars were shining bright
And then he kissed me.
...
He kissed me in a way that I've never been kissed before
He kissed me in a way that I wanna be kissed forevermore.
And by the end of the '60s, there was a Top 10 hit about a bisexual love triangle.
First video banned by MTV?
I was trying to work out if the video was banned in Britain. Since I can't remember it, it might have. I Want Your Sex was banned too (but it's about monogamy! insists George), but I remember that video very very clearly.
First video banned by MTV?
Couldn't have been. It was MTV all the time.
Everytime the Who's "Who are You" plays, and that line "Who the fuck are you!" plays, Hubby and I just shake our heads. I've never heard it bleeped, and I'm wondering if the censors have all gone deaf or zoned out by the time that part plays.