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Bodo
Sep-08-2010, 10:12 GMT
Austria
 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltom
asky/2010/sep/07/usa-song-censorship-in-modern-ame
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Has anyone ever heard such a version where they cut out the ´J´ line on Late In The Evening?
I am not sure if Paul gave his amen to that - hopefully not, but maybe he is too democratic and allows everyone to have his opinion.
Anyway, I think you are not allowed to change any song lyrics without permission. I remember this stupid discussion about our national anthem this year. A young pop music girl changed some lyrics and has add ´and daugthers´ after the line ´great sons´.
(btw they did not change the melody, so the 2 new words just didn´t fit, she just sang it faster to catch up the next line ...thats another story)
They did not ask the original writer, so the publisher and beneficiary started to sue them.
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Brenda
Sep-08-2010, 11:44 GMT
Australia
 | yes Bodo Paul himself cuts it out in this version but I have also heard him do it on other occasions . Then again he went through a phase a few years ago of dropping the last word of a line for effect,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh4B33_dQFs
the next clip not sure if it is Paul or the Tv company that dropped it. Great version though !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWo18tM9qGY
if I remember any more will post them |
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Brenda
Sep-08-2010, 11:56 GMT
Australia
| Paul performing Late In The Evening at the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation Benefit last year, drops the J word again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rHKtRfI2UY
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Phil
Sep-08-2010, 12:57 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | I think Bodo is on to something here. Yes, recently in concert PS has dropped the ´j´ - I wonder sometimes if it´s having children of a certain age, or respect for the audience.
BUT!!! I seem to recall - distant memory -- when the song first charted some radio stations deleting the j. Anybody else? |
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Bodo
Sep-08-2010, 13:45 GMT
Austria
| Really? Paul cut it himself?
Ok, I haven´t been at a Simon show since 2006 - no chance - and I might have missed that detail in some reviews from you all.
So ok...his decission. Yes, I guess it is because of his own children, and our society will form into a society with extremer moral standards (into both directions). Paul Simon always wants to please everyone, so even his anti-war song Wartime Prayer will please pro and anti war opinions. |
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Helen
Sep-08-2010, 14:19 GMT
Unknown
 | I like that article. I´d find it easier to explain that line to kids than try to explain some music videos they make today.
Would be such a thrill to hear a Paul Simon song in shopping centre or even on radio. In about a year I´ve heard Mrs Robinson on radio once and original version of BOTW came on at the local Sports Club which was nice. But that´s it. Listening to the wrong radio stations I guess. I tried requesting songs on a radio station website to no avail. |
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Helen
Sep-08-2010, 14:25 GMT
Unknown
| BTW, the Kookaburra song (which I previously posted about copyright issues) was in the news again here in Aus when a school wanted to change the line ´Gay your life must be´ to ´Fun your life must be´. Public backlash caused the school to back down and sing original words. |
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Julie
Sep-08-2010, 15:16 GMT
United Kingdom
 | If you go into any branch of Hobbycraft and listen to the background music playing you´ll be able to hear one S/G song, one solo PS song and even a Harper Simon song. |
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Scaaty
Sep-09-2010, 22:39 GMT
Unknown
| campfire radio on line - plays Paul Simon and S&G songs regularly. also some music programs on Irish radio especially if you text with a plug for it.
One of Pauls recent greatest hits albums (shining like a national guiter) omits the f word from one of the Capeman songs (?Vampires). very obviously wiped out. |
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Ian
Sep-10-2010, 04:53 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Well Helen as a fellow Aussie,I found all that a lot of bulls**t!! A proverbial storm in a teacup. Some people are never happy unless they´re grinding their axe against something totally innocent and unbelievably unnecessary! Generations of Australian children grew up singing that song with that Oh so offensive lyric intact. Long may it continue. |
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Ian
Sep-10-2010, 04:56 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Well Helen as a fellow Aussie,I found all that a lot of bulls**t!! A proverbial storm in a teacup. Some people are never happy unless they´re grinding their axe against something totally innocent and unbelievably unnecessary! Generations of Australian children grew up singing that song with that Oh so offensive lyric intact. Long may it continue. |
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Ian
Sep-10-2010, 04:56 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Well Helen as a fellow Aussie,I found all that a lot of bulls**t!! A proverbial storm in a teacup. Some people are never happy unless they´re grinding their axe against something totally innocent and unbelievably unnecessary! Generations of Australian children grew up singing that song with that Oh so offensive lyric intact. Long may it continue. |
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Ian
Sep-10-2010, 04:56 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Well Helen as a fellow Aussie,I found all that a lot of bulls**t!! A proverbial storm in a teacup. Some people are never happy unless they´re grinding their axe against something totally innocent and unbelievably unnecessary! Generations of Australian children grew up singing that song with that Oh so offensive lyric intact. Long may it continue. |
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Ian
Sep-10-2010, 04:57 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Sorry about that folks:( |
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Helen
Sep-26-2010, 14:41 GMT
Unknown
| Ian,
Sorry I missed your reply. I can understand the school not wanting to sing the original line, you´d have to always explain the original meaning and put up with sniggers from kids. ´Gay your life must be´ has a few different meanings now. Either don´t teach kids the song or change the line. They´ve changed other kids rhymes to be more politically correct, such as one I remember with the ´n´ word changed to ´tigger´ which the kids still use today.
I heard a little bit of ´You Can Call Me Al´ on a promo on the classic rock station today. Still hoping to hear a PS song on that station tho. |
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