We tend to think of profanity in music as being a recent innovation, but truth is it's not so. This song actually sold thousands of copies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbDKNHMDrEU

Even in Mozart's time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RouQPATVo

Yeah, swearing in songs is definitely nothing new.  :D ;) ;D

I was looking on a Cracked article about some early blues songs with profanity(among other themes).

One of them, which I took a listen to is Shave em dry by Lucille Bogan.

We tend to think of profanity in music as being a recent innovation, but truth is it's not so. This song actually sold thousands of copies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbDKNHMDrEU

Even in Mozart's time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RouQPATVo


You just gotta love dirty old jazz and blues songs. Karma!

Although the f-bomb isn't used here, it still doesn't get more direct than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

:o ;D

You just gotta love dirty old jazz and blues songs. Karma!

Although the f-bomb isn't used here, it still doesn't get more direct than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

:o ;D


Lmfao!

You just gotta love dirty old jazz and blues songs. Karma!

Although the f-bomb isn't used here, it still doesn't get more direct than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

:o ;D




;D ;D ;D



Cat

The highest charted & most famous song with the f-word in it?

Probably "Hey Jude" 
Although you can barely hear it, Paul says it (alledgedly) and John decided to leave it in the song. It's 2:57 or 2:58 into the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqhoKLl21mc



Cat

The highest charted & most famous song with the f-word in it?

Probably "Hey Jude" 
Although you can barely hear it, Paul says it (alledgedly) and John decided to leave it in the song. It's 2:57 or 2:58 into the song.
I always listen out for that each time I hear "Hey Jude" by The Beatles just incase one day it is editted out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PENJxl-THS8

On hearing this I always think Ray Stevens got away with it!

We tend to think of profanity in music as being a recent innovation, but truth is it's not so. This song actually sold thousands of copies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbDKNHMDrEU

Even in Mozart's time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RouQPATVo


OMG this must've been during the 1940's era.  ;D

Yeah, swearing in songs is definitely nothing new.  :D ;) ;D

I was looking on a Cracked article about some early blues songs with profanity(among other themes).

One of them, which I took a listen to is Shave em dry by Lucille Bogan.


They've been cursing in their songs for many years now.

You just gotta love dirty old jazz and blues songs. Karma!

Although the f-bomb isn't used here, it still doesn't get more direct than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

:o ;D


HOLY CRAP!  ;D

The highest charted & most famous song with the f-word in it?

Probably "Hey Jude" 
Although you can barely hear it, Paul says it (alledgedly) and John decided to leave it in the song. It's 2:57 or 2:58 into the song.


I'll have to take a listen sometime soon.

In the 1978 song "Who Are You" by the Who, you can clearly hear Roger Daltrey yell, "Ah, who the f**k are you?" twice (once at 2:18 and another at 5:43). I still hear this version on classic rock stations fairly often, and it's always been obvious to me that Daltrey is dropping the F-bomb, yet they've always gotten away with it and I've always wondered why.  ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5kmCgVhADY

In the 1978 song "Who Are You" by the Who, you can clearly hear Roger Daltrey yell, "Ah, who the f**k are you?" twice (once at 2:18 and another at 5:43). I still hear this version on classic rock stations fairly often, and it's always been obvious to me that Daltrey is dropping the F-bomb, yet they've always gotten away with it and I've always wondered why.  ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5kmCgVhADY


What he said.  I've heard this aired on FM radio for decades.  What's the scoop?

Oblig: Who Are You (The sneaky little F-bomb is present in this version of the ~5:04 mix at both 2:13 and 4:25).

I always listen out for that each time I hear "Hey Jude" by The Beatles just incase one day it is editted out.


Impossible to edit it out, as it's buried deep within the mix...

You could try and erase it, but it'd result in a noticeable 'jump' in the song...

You might have heard a song called "Love Potion Number 9" by a doo wop group called The Clovers.  A few years earlier -- 1954 -- they cut a record called "The Rotten C*cksuckers' Ball."  It ain't Lieber and Stoller for sure. It makes no bones about partying with hookers, and yeah, it says the f-word a few times.  It doesn't sound like much in the age of Snoop Dogg and Lil' John, but 1954 you'd be hauled away in cuffs and charged with obscenity and even your mama wouldn't post your bail!

Songs not really that old

Pink Floyd's "Not now John" (early 80s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRnQ65J02XA

A 1977 Max Webster "Anti-war" song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r8niBoPqj8


Kim Mitchell says it a couple of times.

We tend to think of profanity in music as being a recent innovation, but truth is it's not so. This song actually sold thousands of copies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbDKNHMDrEU

Even in Mozart's time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RouQPATVo


Eddy's trying to say "bucket" not the "f-word".

You just gotta love dirty old jazz and blues songs. Karma!

Although the f-bomb isn't used here, it still doesn't get more direct than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

:o ;D


Harry is singing about his girlfriend's cat not his girlfriend's vagina.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqhoKLl21mc



Cat


;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU Always thought this was the first

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU Always thought this was the first


I don't think so.

Somebody shouts out "fudge" during Louie Louie

You just gotta love dirty old jazz and blues songs. Karma!

Although the f-bomb isn't used here, it still doesn't get more direct than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

:o ;D
They list this song on Wikipedia but somehow I just can't quite get rid of the suspicion that this is a hoax. If not, props to Harry Roy for having big, bold brass ones, 1930s style.

They list this song on Wikipedia but somehow I just can't quite get rid of the suspicion that this is a hoax. If not, props to Harry Roy for having big, bold brass ones, 1930s style.



But he wasn't talking about a vagina, he was singing about his girl's cat.

But he wasn't talking about a vagina, he was singing about his girl's cat.
Well, I'm sure that's what he told the judge, at any rate.

In the 1978 song "Who Are You" by the Who, you can clearly hear Roger Daltrey yell, "Ah, who the f**k are you?" twice (once at 2:18 and another at 5:43). I still hear this version on classic rock stations fairly often, and it's always been obvious to me that Daltrey is dropping the F-bomb, yet they've always gotten away with it and I've always wondered why.  ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5kmCgVhADY


Haha I just listened to the song and gosh darnett you're right! lol

hmbEuRzlhIs

::) This one doesn't contain the word "f*ck" but I'm pretty sure that this song is about a penis.  ::)

hmbEuRzlhIs

::) This one doesn't contain the word "f*ck" but I'm pretty sure that this song is about a penis.  ::)


Nah, I think this song about a guy named "Willy", not about a penis.

Nah, I think this song about a guy named "Willy", not about a penis.


I couldn't even say that without laughing.  ;)

I couldn't even say that without laughing.  ;)


;D

;D


Yeah! Imagine a grown woman not being able to say what she wants to say without laughing at it.  ;D ;D

The Fenderman's "Mule Skinner Blues", I've listened to that song 1000 times over the past 50 years and I hear in the last lyric of the song and it sounds like " Hey waterboy, if you don't like your job you can go f*ck f*ck f*ck yourself HaHa!....HA HA HA HA HA HA!" 

I just check the lyrics and it's written as" put your water bucket down", it doesn't sound that way as much as I listen to it, I think  it's written that way but sung another.

Yeah! Imagine a grown woman not being able to say what she wants to say without laughing at it.  ;D ;D



You know the best form of birth control, don't you? Laughter-especially when you laugh & point.  ;) :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat

You know the best form of birth control, don't you? Laughter-especially when you laugh & point.  ;) :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat


It reminds me of an old Playboy Magazine joke; a naked women is standing and pointing and laughing at this man with a small dick and saying "Who do you think you're going to pleasure with that thing?" his reply was .............ME!

It reminds me of an old Playboy Magazine joke; a naked women is standing and pointing and laughing at this man with a small dick and saying "Who do you think you're going to pleasure with that thing?" his reply was .............ME!


;D

You know the best form of birth control, don't you? Laughter-especially when you laugh & point.  ;) :D ;D ;D ;D


G-Gee, Cat, you sure know how to hurt a guy!
http://facebookemoticons.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/smiley-sad.png

G-Gee, Cat, you sure know how to hurt a guy!
http://facebookemoticons.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/smiley-sad.png



Awww, I still love ya, Max.



Cat

Yeah, swearing in songs is definitely nothing new.  :D ;) ;D

I was looking on a Cracked article about some early blues songs with profanity(among other themes).

One of them, which I took a listen to is Shave em dry by Lucille Bogan.

Shave em dry from 1935

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PhOWpdt6xg

Shave em dry from 1935

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PhOWpdt6xg



Wow That is nasty.  :o

Awww, I still love ya, Max.


Oy, very kind of you, but cold comfort for a teensy-weensy schwanzstucker!
:o

Sha Na Na's 1973 live album " The Golden Age of Rock and Roll" where at one point Bowser yells at the audience "I want to tell all you fu*ck'in hippies...rock and roll is here to stay" and then brake into that song. That's the first time I really can say hear it said on a record, it's clear as day.

Shave em dry from 1935

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PhOWpdt6xg


Jumpin' Mother Goose!

That one'd make 2 Live Crew blush!

I looked for Bogan's ""Mr. Screw Worm In Trouble," but they didn't have it. 

I did find The Blenders: Don't **** Around with Love (1953)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXoRaN3GGBk

Jumpin' Mother Goose!

That one'd make 2 Live Crew blush!

I looked for Bogan's ""Mr. Screw Worm In Trouble," but they didn't have it. 

I did find The Blenders: Don't **** Around with Love (1953)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXoRaN3GGBk


Are you sure they're saying The F word? I mean this was 1953.

Are you sure they're saying The F word? I mean this was 1953.


People said the F word all the time in 1953!  You didn't say it in front of your parents or in polite company.  The F word was always censored in media printed, recorded, and broadcast.  Nonetheless, people said the F word just the same as the did the F word. 

A record like this one or the Lucille Bogan record wouldn't be allowed on the radio.  Back then the FCC really did revoke licenses and impose fines for profanity.  You also wouldn't be allowed to sell records with swear words in your neighborhood.  You had to go to the record store on the funky side of town, and your wife better not find out you took the trolley over there!
8)

People said the F word all the time in 1953!  You didn't say it in front of your parents or in polite company.  The F word was always censored in media printed, recorded, and broadcast.  Nonetheless, people said the F word just the same as the did the F word.

I think the F word was considered discreet at that time.