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[DISCLAIMER: This episode of Cocaine & Rhinestones touches on a topic that will be upsetting for some listeners and readers. If abortion is a particularly sensitive subject for y'all, proceed with caution.]
Maybe you lot already know Loretta Lynn's 1975 song nearly birth control, "The Pill," was banned from radio upon release.
But practise yous know why?
The real answer is not what many would assume.
This episode of Cocaine & Rhinestones examines the history of contraceptive laws in America, before moving on to uncover the staggering inequality of morality applied to women in country music versus that applied to men in country music.
If your mind isn't blown by the evidence laid out here, then it'due south but considering you're jaded, because, on some level, you lot've e'er known this is true and grown resigned to it equally fact. Even and so, your capacity for amazement may surprise you.
Recommended if you similar: Kitty Wells, Webb Pierce, Jimmie Rodgers, Dixie Chicks, Conway Twitty, KT Oslin, Garth Brooks, Sunday Sharpe, Lorene Isle of mann, Jeannie C. Riley, Hank Thompson and feminism.
As well recommended if you don't like: Barbra Streisand.
Contents (Click/Tap to Whorl)
- Primary Sources – books, documentaries, etc.
- Transcript of Episode – for the readers
- Liner Notes – listing of featured music, online sources, farther commentary
Chief Sources
In addition to The Library, these books were used for this episode:
Transcript of Episode
The Streisand Effect
The California Coastal Records Project is an try to acquire and maintain upwardly-to-date photographs of the entire California coastline. They began doing this in 1997 before we had things like Google Earth. It's a husband and wife team. She flies a helicopter and he takes the pictures.
The affair about the California coast is a whole lot of rich and famous people own houses on information technology – beachfront property. In 2002, one of those people was Barbra Streisand. In 2003, she sued the project. One of the pictures on their website had her house in it. The moving-picture show isn't some paparazzi closeup on her backyard. They didn't add an arrow pointing to her dwelling with text saying BABS LIVES Hither! It'due south a picture of a beach with some large houses in the background.
I know this because I've seen the motion-picture show. You tin go see the picture, also, on the California Coastal Records projection website. Barbra Streisand'south lawsuit was dismissed by the state of California. She had to pay over $150,000 to cover the projection's legal fees.
Only here'southward the existent kicker: when the suit was filed, the offending photograph had just been downloaded six times and two of those were from Streisand's own attorneys. The publicity from the lawsuit sent virtually one-half a one thousand thousand people to the website within one month. That pic has now surely been seen millions of times more than information technology would have been if Streisand hadn't filed her lawsuit. Her attempt to hide a thing from the world caused many more than people to come across that affair than if she'd ignored the matter.
The Streisand Event Photo
She accomplished the opposite of her goal and then successfully that today nosotros call this phenomenon, The Streisand Upshot, though yous tin can find examples of information technology that predate the Streisand case.
Like Loretta Lynn's 1975 hit song, "The Pill"…
Loretta is no stranger to controversy. Several of her singles had people riled upwards when they were released and "The Pill" wasn't the starting time. Just "The Pill" was released 15 years afterwards birth control pills were introduced to the Usa. So what was it specifically that radio programmers found unacceptable in this song?
Why was "The Pill" banned?
And how did banning "The Pill" help it go Loretta Lynn's best-selling unmarried at that betoken in her discography?
A Coal Miner'southward Daughter
A lot of songs have full lives of their own. Information technology would take too much time to really get into those songs in the centre of regular shows about the artists. And so I'm giving songs like this an episode all to themselves.
This is a song episode and that's why we won't spend very much time on Loretta Lynn's personal history today. She wrote a neat autobiography called Coal Miner'southward Girl that's equally close to the truth as anyone will ever get, even if she did apply it to shave 3 years off her real age…
Nigh of you have seen the motion picture based on the book.
The absurd thing near Loretta's music is that yous really don't take to go read that volume or run across that movie to know her background. Information technology's all in the songs. The lyrics of "Coal Miner's Daughter" tell yous nigh everything you need to know. She was born a coal miner'south girl… in a motel… on a hill… in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. Picture the kind of place that would exist named "Butcher Holler." It was precisely like that.
She married young, moved to the other side of the state and started having kids – lots of 'em. Her hubby heard her singing one day, idea she sounded pretty damn good, so he bought her a guitar and pushed her towards music. The residual is history that nearly of yous already know.
So, let's acquire about birth control pills…
Supervising the Morality of The Public
To understand the atmosphere around birth control and sex in 1970s America, we have to wait all the fashion dorsum to the belatedly 1800s when this unabridged country went to hell in a hand basket. Prostitution had hit a serious growth spurt during the Ceremonious War. Photograph technology was the best thing to happen to pornography since paper. So, there was the rise popularity of a Free Love movement, protesting the very concept of matrimony itself. People were flaunting their sexuality with no shame or remorse. Information technology really freaked out the squares, especially this US Postal Inspector named Anthony Comstock.
Comstock seems to me like the most uptight guy to ever live. His morals were and then severe that he formed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873, in order to "supervise the morality of The Public."
That same year, he influenced Congress to pass the Comstock Laws – new legislation prohibiting the production, publication or employ of the mail service for transportation of any obscene materials. Oh, and he was the 1 who got to define what was considered obscene since he personally enforced the laws.
Hither's a curt list of things considered obscene past Anthony Comstock: whatever and every form of sex education whatsoever, tools or methods to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, tools or methods to terminate a pregnancy and tools or methods to prevent a pregnancy.
If that sounds fine to y'all, consider that, under Comstock's standards, medical students were no longer allowed to have anatomy textbooks sent to them since they were viewed as pornographic. I don't know almost you lot but I want my doctors and surgeons to have a thorough understanding of human anatomy.
These laws practical to everyone. It didn't matter if you lot were a single person or a happily married couple, trying to acquire how to make a baby or keep from making ane.
Pieces of the Comstock laws stayed on the books in America for over 100 years – into the 1990s – despite national surveys showing that, as early as 1937, over lxx% of the population supported use of contraception and wanted to overturn these laws.
What happens when you have laws that 70% of your population disagrees with is that people break those laws. Yous tin't throw seventy% of the land in jail. One woman who broke Comstock laws as often and as publicly as possible was Margaret Sanger, the founder of what we telephone call Planned Parenthood today.
There was a certain satisfaction in doing something that was going to alleviate the sufferings – of women, in particular, and I was quite a feminist at the time […] and I naturally didn't want to run into women take all the suffering of childbearing and of pregnancies. Then it was a pleasure, in a sense, to think that you were striking at an archaic law, which information technology was. [Information technology was] put on the statute books by Anthony Comstock some years agone and no i had stood up against it. No one had tried to change the laws. And at that fourth dimension not even a dr. had the right to apply the United States mails and common carriers for books, for learning, for anything that he had to practise with this question. It was considered obscene. –Margaret Sanger
She published pamphlets, opened the first nascence control dispensary in America and, eventually, convinced a wealthy philanthropist to fund the cosmos of the beginning birth control pill.
Contraception in America
Here's a brief timeline of relevant events leading up to the release of Loretta Lynn's 1975 vocal, "The Pill."
In the 1950s, Comstock laws are still on the books in 30 states. In some of those states, married women are getting hysterectomies after delivering a baby and so they can continue having sex without risking pregnancy. It'southward the i legal form of contraception available to them.
1960: the 1st birth control pill is canonical for contraceptive use by the FDA.
1962: there are over one one thousand thousand women on the pill.
1963: a pharmaceutical researcher named Pecker Baird is conducting clinical research at Harlem Hospital when he witnesses the bloody decease of a woman who tried to give herself an abortion with a glaze hanger. This causes him to become a social abet for reproductive rights.
1965: Griswold vs Connecticut – the Supreme Courtroom rules that information technology is an unconstitutional violation of the correct to privacy for our government to prohibit married couples from using birth control. It is still illegal for single women to accept the pill in 26 states, due to Comstock laws.
1967: The Pill is on the encompass of Time magazine. Bill Baird is arrested for handing out condoms and contraceptive cream at a voice communication in Boston. He faces 10 years in jail.
1970: Congress removes references to contraception from federal anti-obscenity laws.
1972: Deep Pharynx is released, receiving more than mainstream attention than whatsoever porno film ever. Bill Baird'due south case for his arrest in Boston makes it all the way to the Supreme Court, where the legalization of birth control is extended to all American citizens, regardless of marital status. Loretta Lynn records "The Pill."
1973: Roe vs Wade – the Supreme Court rules that a adult female'southward correct to privacy includes the determination to take an ballgame – with some caveats. Anyone who's paid whatever attention to American politics in the last 50 years knows that nosotros've been arguing about Roe v Wade since that twenty-four hours.
1975: Loretta Lynn'southward record visitor finally releases "The Pill" after sitting on the recording for years. Anybody loses their mind.
Banning "The Pill"
Again, Loretta Lynn's best songs are autobiographical, whether she wrote them or not. Nearly every online commodity I read for this episode mistakenly credits Loretta for writing the song. It's an easy mistake. We all know she writes about the events of her life. Nosotros all know she married immature and started making babies correct away. Still, she did not write "The Pill." It was written by Lorene Allen, Don McHan and T.D. Bayless.
French Ad for The Pill by Loretta Lynn
And Loretta was never on the pill, either. She gave nascence to six children earlier convincing her husband to have a vasectomy done. The year the song came out, she told People magazine that if the pill had been around when she was having babies, she'd have taken 'em like popcorn.
"I wouldn't trade my kids for anyone's just I wouldn't necessarily have had six and I certain would accept spaced 'em better." –Loretta Lynn
That article in People magazine opens with the scene of a preacher condemning Loretta'due south single to his congregation in her home land of Kentucky. A different writer published this statement in the New York Times: "The new type of state vocal separates sex from joy, undercuts marital love and fidelity and debases women. Information technology creates a vision of the world as a swamp of sin…" He goes on to praise the tradition of artists like Hank Williams, which is deeply contradictory if you lot know anything about Hank Williams. I don't know virtually the other songs he was listening to but what "The Pill" really did achieve was the verbal opposite of everything that author said.
The vocal is not virtually a adult female who gets a birth control prescription and then she can joylessly cheat on her husband with every human in town now that she won't get knocked up. It'south nigh a wife telling her husband that she's at present costless to truly enjoy their sex life because she'due south in command of her torso and no longer has to stifle fear or feet over calculation some other human existence to their family unit. She knows he's gone out and partied some when she wasn't in the mood before but now she's complimentary to throw on a miniskirt and have a adept time with her husband.
Yeah, information technology'southward pretty sassy and at that place's plenty of innuendo. She tells him he'due south "set this craven" for the last time and her "incubator is overused" from him keeping it filled…
…and those are the only lines in the song that could possibly be considered obscene, since merely referencing contraception hasn't been obscene since that 1970 act of Congress. The only fashion those lines could exist considered obscene is if existence pregnant while married is obscene. That's what those lines are describing. A set chicken. A full incubator. Metaphors for pregnancy. Banned by threescore radio stations in the United States. Sixty. More than i per land in the union.
All they accomplished past banning the song was to send record sales through the roof while artificially harming the single's performance on the charts. Remember, we're talking about an America where 70% of the population supports the utilise of contraceptives. Every time the vocal was publicly shamed, information technology's statistically authentic to say that seven of the 10 people present went out and found a way to heed to the song. Plenty of them liked what they heard plenty to buy the album.
When stations were put in the position of having to play the song or lose listeners to other stations that would, the vocal finally rose to #5 on the country charts and #70 on the popular charts – Loretta's best performance on the pop charts to this day.
So why had they banned information technology?
It was either a genu jerk reaction to a country song nigh nascency control or information technology was something else. And I'1000 about to testify it wasn't a knee wiggle reaction to a country vocal about birth control.
In 1971, Chet Atkins produced a song by Lorene Mann with song accompaniment by The Jordanaires. The title of that song is "Hibernate My Sin" and and then, spelled out letter of the alphabet-by-letter in parentheses, the words "Abortion New York." That's the title of the song. The Jordanaires sing out the letters to spell "Abortion New York" in the groundwork, so in that location'southward no missing it. The female person narrator sings the sad story of an abortion she'south already had and regrets. The song came out in 1972 on RCA records, three years before "The Pill." It was not banned.
All the songs used for background music in this episode make reference to birth control. Every one of them came out earlier "The Pill" by Loretta Lynn. Non a single one was banned from radio play in the Us. Here's a fiddling quick info on two of 'em.
1972: Harry Chapin releases "Adult female Child" with lyrics about a groupie having an ballgame that he says he isn't even certain is his. Information technology's pretty gross but it was not banned.
1974: Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby," widely regarded as i of the worst songs of all time, has lyrics that say he's glad a woman wants to have his baby because he knows she she didn't have to keep it. He would have been cool with the abortion and it would have been all over and so merely having the baby is totally crawly too. Non banned. A country vocalizer named Sunday Sharpe covers this song as shortly as it comes out. Her cover of the vocal with lyrics changed to the female perspective went to number 11 on the land music charts in October of 1974, less than a twelvemonth before Loretta's song came out. Non banned.
So, what the hell?
Double Standards in Country Music
The standards applied to male person artists and female person artists in land music are different and they ever have been. Men have to go fashion over the line. All women have to do is get near it.
Permit me remind you lot that this prove is about country music in the 1900s and let me be clear that I'k speaking only of major label singles intended for airplay that were banned by radio stations. I'm not talking about clean radio edits or songs that had curse words bleeped out for airplay.
In the 1900s, female person state artists had exponentially more songs banned from radio than men did. In fact, I know of just five singles by male artists banned from country radio before the year 2000, which is fewer than Loretta Lynn had banned from radio by herself.
In 1931, Jimmie Rodgers had the song "What'south It?" banned considering the "what's it" in the championship lives in his girlfriend'southward underwear. Webb Pierce had "There Stands the Drinking glass" banned in 1953 for being such a blatant ode to alcoholism. Conway Twitty's "Y'all've Never Been This Far Before" would probably still make some parents close off the stereo. So information technology's not that surprising that it was banned by a few stations, though merely a few. Information technology was on the country charts for 16 weeks and stayed at #1 for three weeks. Tim McGraw had his song "Indian Outlaw" banned from radio. It's essentially lyrical redface.
The only other pre-Y2K country song by a man that I know was banned from some radio stations was Merle Haggard'due south "Okie from Muskogee" – and that one'south complicated enough to deserve its own episode down the road…
"The Pill" wasn't banned from land radio because it was a song near birth control. It was banned considering the woman in the song proudly and happily sings about the liberty birth command gives her to live her life on her terms, regardless of what men think almost information technology.
If she was ashamed to be on birth control or embarrassed to exist on birth control then the song would not accept been banned. If "The Pill" had been recorded by a male artist and the gender PoV changed to "She'south Got the Pill," a celebration of how much the pill has improved the marriage and the sex for him, information technology would not have been banned.
Female person artists have their songs banned simply for standing up to society or for fighting dorsum. "Harper Valley PTA" is a perfect instance. There isn't anything scandalous about that song. It's about a single mother telling some people off for not minding their ain business and for being hypocrites. It was banned from several radio stations.
Kitty Wells
Kitty Wells' "Information technology Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is a song about how she's tired of married men acting like they're single and women getting blamed for information technology. It was a directly response to Hank Thompson's hit "The Wild Side of Life." – a song about cheating women which spent 15 weeks at #1 and caused zero controversy the whole fourth dimension. Kitty'south song was banned from radio.
Johnny Cash tin sing about shooting a man simply to watch him die in 1955. When Dixie Chicks release "Goodbye Earl" in 1999? We can't have a song about a woman who's tried every way of escaping an abusive husband except finally killing him. Banned from radio. Their characterization almost wouldn't let them release information technology every bit a single, only allowing it after the girls played the song at the Grammy awards without the earth ending.
I can even show you an instance of a male artist existence banned for depicting a woman fighting back. "The Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks has a third verse that his producer talked him out of recording. In that third poetry, the wife of the cheating married man in the song gets a gun out of a drawer and tells herself this is the last time. Garth saved those lines for alive performances of the vocal. When it came time to make the music video, he decided to include that image from the third verse. The wife gets the gun and she uses it.
Y'all know what happened next, correct?
The Thunder Rolls music video
The day subsequently information technology was released, TNN banned the video and then CMT banned the video.
I should mention that TNN said they'd put the video back in rotation if Garth filmed a disclaimer to run with it. TNN had a script made for the disclaimer they wanted and sent it over to Garth, who read it. I don't know what that disclaimer said but Garth refused. One of his managers said Garth refused considering the disclaimer would have made it seem like Garth was apologizing for making the video.
Information technology'due south a good thing Loretta Lynn had the foresight to release nearly naught but Meridian x singles for a decade earlier "The Pill" came out or we may never have heard information technology.
Here's what happened to KT Oslin…
Her first single went to #72 on the country charts in 1981. She followed it up just months later with a song called "Younger Men." It was about how men her age, around forty years old, were either uninterested or unable to run at her speed, so to speak. This was mode before that other pill, Viagra, so she's decided to try out a younger guy – peradventure a xix year onetime.
Now, I've never met a 19 year old guy in charge of deciding what songs aren't immune to be played on a radio station. I've met enough of 40 yr former guys who are. "Younger Men" didn't hit the country charts. It wasn't banned. Radio stations simply chose non to play it.
KT's next unmarried came out v years later and went to #40. Her following iii singles made it in the Top 10 because they didn't injure the feelings of radio programmers.
In 1987, she re-recorded "Younger Men" and put it out as a single again in 1988. No airplay, once more. No charts, over again. Her following single broke the Tiptop twenty and the three afterward that all hit Top 5.
Younger Men 1988 single
I could do this all day but I think I've proven my point.
Walking the Line – Or Not
If yous were a woman making country music in the 20th century so you'd improve have some serious momentum built up earlier taking the car off road or y'all were liable to get stuck.
Loretta Lynn may tell yous she's had as many as fourteen songs banned from radio stations. Every bit far every bit I tin tell, the real number is closer to ix. Some of the women mentioned in this episode were victims of an unfair organization. Loretta Lynn was not ane of them. Her "aw shucks" hillbilly personality is authentic but in that location'southward a deeply perceptive person behind it.
She knew exactly what she was doing.
Maybe non the first fourth dimension it happened but certainly the next fourth dimension and the i later on that so on. Revisit the timeline from earlier. Loretta recorded "The Pill" in 1972, the twelvemonth the Supreme Courtroom made the nativity control pill legal for all American citizens. The tape visitor held her back for three years but Loretta was trying to push the envelope even earlier than she did.
The lyrics Loretta wrote for "Don't Come Domicile Drinkin with Lovin on Your Heed" ruffled some feathers. For the offset time in her career, a song she'd written herself was existence treated as scandalous. And for the kickoff time in her career she had a #ane striking single.
She'd already started recording her next album 4 months before "Don't Come Dwelling house Drinkin" was a hit. So skip that ane and the side by side Loretta Lynn album you have with singles released from it is a record called Fist Metropolis. The championship track was banned and information technology was her second #1 single.
It's an easy pattern to spot and it's held up over her entire career. Once she became a large plenty star that the public response and the industry response to her new albums were newsworthy, Loretta Lynn was able to consistently exploit The Streisand Effect to her benefit before we even had a name for information technology.
Years later, Loretta would joke that she could always tell how well her songs were doing by looking at how many radio stations had banned them.
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Next week, I'm telling a story that, well… it may have legitimately traumatized me. But time will tell. It could be the darkest stain on the history of country music. Of form, I'm talking nearly Spade Cooley'due south dominance of the California country music scene and the horrific style it ended with the brutal torture and murder of his married woman. I've seen many people get this story incorrect over the years and I didn't know how wrong until I looked into information technology for myself. It's tough… There's just no way around information technology. It's very hard to listen to… So, yeah, make certain you grab that i and so yous can have nightmares for three weeks like I did! I don't listen to the "murder podcasts" but I approximate if y'all like those then perhaps you volition like this upcoming episode. I discover information technology pretty rough going.
-TMC
Liner Notes
Excerpted Music
This episode featured excerpts from the following songs, in this social club:
- Harry Chapin – "Woman Child" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Loretta Lynn – "The Pill" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Loretta Lynn – "Coal Miner'due south Daughter" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Soeur Sourire – "La pilule d'or" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Paul Anka – "(Yous're) Having My Infant" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Lloyd Terrell [Lloyd Charmers] – "Birth Command" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Lorene Mann ft. The Jordanaires – "Hide My Sin (A-b-o-r-t-i-o-n N-e-w Y-o-r-k)" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Sunday Sharpe – "I'one thousand Having Your Baby" [Amazon / Apple tree Music]
- Jimmie Rodgers – "What'southward It?" [Amazon / Apple tree Music]
- Webb Pierce – "At that place Stands the Drinking glass" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Conway Twitty – "You've Never Been This Far Earlier" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Tim McGraw – "Indian Outlaw" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Matt McGinn – "The Pill" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Jeannie C. Riley – "Harper Valley PTA" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Kitty Wells – "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Hank Thompson – "The Wild Side of Life" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Garth Brooks – "The Thunder Rolls" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- KT Oslin – "Younger Men" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Loretta Lynn – "Don't Come up Domicile a-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Listen)" [Amazon / Apple Music]
- Loretta Lynn – "Fist City" [Amazon / Apple Music]
Excerpted Video
The post-obit videos were either discussed or excerpted in this episode. It's possible that they may have been removed for any of a number of reasons since this mail service was written:
Commentary and Remaining Sources
Hither is the California Coastal Records Projects webpage on the Streisand case. Two links with more of the details I mentioned (i – two). Then here'southward an article from TechDirt about that case turning into "The Streisand Effect."
You tin can go read the full 1975 People magazine article on Loretta Lynn if you desire to run across only how hysterical people got over this song and how much information technology drove up her sales.
Regardless of what you think about Dixie Chicks' political beliefs or their outspokenness nearly them, in that location is no sane argument for why "Goodbye Earl" should take been banned from radio, peculiarly in lite of the perpetual presence of any and all types of revenge killing in country music. I don't even need the song to be "tongue-in-cheek" equally suggested by the guy quoted in this article on Dixie Chicks being banned. The guy shell his married woman and then he got dealt with. The cease. That'south country music.
I'm honestly pretty nervous about putting this episode out into the globe just this entire podcast would be bullshit if I didn't, so I kind of feel like I accept to practice it. It is fascinating but in a way that's like a abandoned vehicle. You're gonna await. You have to look. You can't non wait.
Only, this car wreck… It's like if you were driving and the unabridged road trip from Nashville to Los Angeles there was just i long automobile crash on the side of the interstate the unabridged time.
I expect country music fans are already aware of the problems women artists confront in a general way, although maybe non aware of how extreme a problem it really is. I estimate what I'1000 worried about here is that I very much intend this show to be highly-seasoned to people who are not already fans of the genre. I think these stories and this history volition exist fascinating to people who may even currently believe that they hate country music.
And so, in today'due south political climate, where everything has to be political, whether information technology'south meant that way or not – fifty-fifty only sitting down and list some facts, which I feel is pretty much all I've done here – I could see some outsiders with an calendar having a knee-wiggle reaction, saying I'g bravado things out of proportion or even making shit upwardly. I wish I was. It brings me no pleasure to certificate this massive shortcoming of a type of music that I love.
I hateful, listen, I'grand non trying to position myself every bit the be-all, end-all authority on country music history. Delight, go wait upwards anything you believe I may have gotten wrong. If I did become something wrong, experience free to allow me know. If you lot have a skillful source for your data, information technology'due south not just some story your granddad told you, I'll even update the episode with correct information. That goes for every episode.
My aim here is to tell the truth. I love country music. I desire to talk most it. I want the conversation to stay honest. Sometimes that's going to be uncomfortable for me and for you. So… deal with it, you know?
I misspoke in the episode regarding the KT Oslin unmarried. She re-recorded "Younger Men" in 1987 and information technology was re-released as a single in 1988. I said in the episode that she re-recorded it in 1988. It was not worth going dorsum and rerecording a bunch of stuff, then I'm telling you here. Everything else I said near it was authentic only I also forgot to mention that the anthology it came out on the second fourth dimension around won a Grammy award. That'south even more damning, I experience.
Seriously, go expect at KT Oslin's discography page on Wikipedia, curlicue down to the section on her singles and there's only a hole right there in the middle of all these hits. Information technology's arguably the height of her career and there'due south one song there that didn't get any airplay for some strange reason. Hmmm…. I wonder how many of the radio programmers who kept her song off playlists couldn't get it up anymore?
Anyway…
By the way, I was non talking shit on Hank Williams Sr.
I love Hank and his music. His biography is so fascinating to me that I'm intimidated past the thought of discussing him on this testify. I'1000 just saying information technology's super out of bear upon for anyone to concord upwards Hank every bit the pinnacle of morality, every bit that writer seemed to be doing for some weird reason…
I obviously recommend that everyone read Coal Miner'south Daughter if you want to know more most Loretta Lynn. A lot of country singer autobiographies are full of shit but hers seems mostly legit. I should warn y'all that Loretta's wedding night is a straight upwardly rape scene. It's notwithstanding messed up in the volume, fifty-fifty though information technology'due south sort of glossed over, but seeing information technology in the picture is unsettling, to say the to the lowest degree. I would say it didn't age well but it'southward just history. History has non aged well…
The Margaret Sanger clip was taken from the interview with Mike Wallace posted above, which I'one thousand aware is a controversial interview for a lot of people for many different reasons. You lot tin get yourself into quite an argument in the YouTube comments if y'all want. I don't experience a need to give an opinion on it. I don't actually know what happened. I wasn't there.
Nothing in this episode was nearly shoving political ideas at anyone. It would have been ridiculous to effort and talk about why Loretta's song "The Pill" could have been banned without talking about the history of birth control in America. Margaret Sanger was a part of that history. I had a clip of her saying exactly what I was saying about her in her ain words with her own voice. I used information technology.
I read several things to build the timeline of nativity control in America. The one that I would recommend as an bodily expert read is America and The Pill past Elaine Tyler May. If I said anything remotely fresh or insightful on the bailiwick, which I probably did not, I'm certain it was inspired past her book. If you thought any of that was interesting yous should read her book.
Alright, here's the expanse where it's most likely that you lot think I said something completely incorrect: talking nigh men beingness banned from country radio. Mind, like I said, if y'all notice a reputable source to add something to the list, experience free to make it touch. Brand sure you check your date – it's gotta be before the twelvemonth 2000. I don't want to hear about your local radio station banning a vocal. Anyone tin can start a radio station in the middle of nowhere and ban whatever they want. I need legit stations. There'southward gotta be more than one of them. I'grand not maxim I missed any songs and I don't remember that I did. I don't retrieve it'south at all possible that I did miss enough songs to residuum the scales, hither. I didn't fifty-fifty come up shut to mentioning all the songs banned by women in country music. This episode would accept been 2 hours long.
I'll also bespeak out that I was very lenient with my sources, regarding those 5 songs past men existence banned. Information technology's difficult to research this topic now because, afterwards 9/xi, Clear Channel banned a bunch of random songs and that's mostly what comes upwardly in when you try to search for banned music at present. To give y'all an idea, there was some random petty book called The Rough Guide to Cult Popular. Information technology had one sentence about Webb Pierce being banned so I put that in this episode. Then I found the same affair about Webb in a amend book, chosen Taboo Tunes, which was a more thorough look at the topic. That's where I got Jimmie Rodgers from. At that place weren't whatsoever other male country acts in that whole book dedicated to this very subject. So, yeah, come up at me…
I would love to get a look at the disclaimer TNN asked Garth Brooks to film for that music video.
What horseshit.
Anyway, Patsi Bale Cox wrote a biography of Garth called The Garth Factor. Patsi is a great author. She'southward done several biographies that I'll be using for hereafter episodes. She always goes deep and if in that location's a situation where in that location's more than than one side of a story, it looks like she tries to include all the unlike sides. Run across if she'south written a book on someone you similar – I'thou sure information technology'southward good.
Her book actually has some information on this. Evidently Garth went to TNN to read the script that they wrote for him. It's one of those things similar, "Hi, I'm Garth Brooks. What you've but seen, though very sad, is very real. Unfortunately, domestic violence is very much alive in our society." The script goes on to tell men, women and children, if they're involved in domestic violence situations to seek help. Apparently, Garth felt similar it was wrong. It felt similar he was getting exposure by exploiting a controversy, which was not his intention. I mean, come on, this is garbage. Making an creative person turn what they wanted to make into something else…
I mean, this is the dude who did Chris Gaines, by the fashion.
Can we remember that?
Maybe you don't understand what he'south doing but this guy clearly put some thought into what he wanted to practise. He's trying to say what he wants to say. If he wants to make a commercial, he'll make a commercial. This is non the kind of guy y'all're gonna get to read your disclaimer and let you off the claw for showing his music video. It'southward merely ridiculous.
This is not in Patsi's volume but ane fourth dimension Garth Brooks and Loretta Lynn were both at a White House dinner. Loretta asked the waitstaff what this fancy looking little piece of flat staff of life was supposed to be and they told her it was a biscuit. So Loretta sent instructions back to the kitchen on how to make a good beige, like a proper biscuit. Garth Brooks tells that story.
Alright, that'southward it. Yous take no idea how much it ways to me that you fifty-fifty wanted to read or listen to this. I'k really surprised by how many people are interested in a country music podcast merely I'm glad that it does seem to be working so far.
Give thanks you. I'll be back in a week.
-TMC
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