First song on the radio you heard with swearing

If you count "damn," it would be Sultans of Swing in 1979. My 6th grade music teacher sure counted "damn" as a swear word. For "hear and tell," and we could bring our own music in for classmates to hear in music class, a friend of mine brought the 45 in, and as soon as Knopfler sang "don't give a damn," she yanked the needle off the turntable so quickly I thought she had killed his 45.

The same year, stations played the album version of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, for about a week. It was "I told you once you son of a gun" after that.....

 

The Who-Who Are You

 

"You're gonna hear from me" by Dory & André Previn, c. 1965.

 

Steve Miller - Jet Airliner
Funky sxxt going down in the city.
That was the FM radio version.
On AM radio it was:
Funky chicks going down in the city.

 

Money by Pink Floyd.

 

Oh War! By Max Webster

On Q107 Toronto

 

Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"

 

I think the first one I was consciously aware of being somewhat "naughty" was "It's a bitch, girl" in "Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates. Even though he's not directly calling her one, it was still a bit shocking to my 4-year-old mind.

 

Louie Louie by The Kingsmen

There is an f-bomb in the background before the second verse. It reportedly was the drummer, who was unhappy that his stick didn't come down on the snare properly.

 

I always heard the AM version as "funky kicks".

 

Same.

 

The single/radio version says "funky kicks".
"Funky chicks going down in the city" would be the most explicit/suggestive of all!

 

"A Boy Named Sue" - Johnny Cash - 1969

 

"**** the Casbah" probably, in terms of no editing.

 

The Spinners "One Of A Kind (Love Affair)"

 

Pretty sure the first "damn" to hit AM radio was in "Shaft." The next relatively naughty words to hit AM were in "Kodachrome" and "The Bitch is Back" (which WABC in New York played without saying the title!) The S and F words never really made it to AM, though of course FM played 'em all before things tightened up.

 

Feel Like Homemade **** aka My Baby Done Left Me - The Fugs

jerol

 

F-bombs are generally bleeped out on mainstream radio stations, but the one on 'Who Are You' usually makes it through, I guess because it's more subtly ensconced than most.

 

I've heard about that but have never been able to hear it - I hear "rock", clear as a bell, every time.

For me, maybe "Money" by Pink Floyd?

 

Live With Me- Rolling Stones........the W word used to describe a certain type of naughty girl.

 

And James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" had the "go away then damn you" line....

 

I think he does call her one at the end.

 

.......I'll go American Express is profanity?

Great tune.

 

B*tch by The Rolling Stones

 

Lawyers, guns and money