Todd Ireland
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NightAire wrote:
Paul, thanks for that info! It's good to know. Could you tell me what the "ARSA" site is? I'll bookmark it for future reference.
LunarLaugh, going back to the (proven unreliable) Wikipedia, they claim: "Because of the controversy, the song's title was never mentioned by Shadoe Stevens when he played the song on the radio show American Top 40, though it did get mentioned on a Summer 1990 episode when the group's second top 40 hit, Banned in the U.S.A. was on the chart."
I don't have any of those shows, so I can neither confirm no deny. (If true, this reminds me of the claim Casey Casem wouldn't say the name of the George Michael song, "I Want Your Sex.") |
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I was living in West Germany in late 1989 when "Me So Horny" broke nationally in the U.S. I was also a very avid weekly listener and fan of Shadoe Stevens' American Top 40 on the Armed Forces Radio Network. When "Me So Horny" debuted on AT40 in October 1989, I very clearly recall that Shadoe did mention the song title three or four times altogether (and sounded equally awkward and uncomfortable each time). After that initial week, however, Shadoe never mentioned the song title again and instead introduced it as: "And now, up next on AT40, it's 2 Live Crew". Then a very shortened edit of the song would play (I'm pretty sure it never lasted longer than two minutes), followed by Shadoe coming out of the song and only identifying it as being by 2 Live Crew, along with its current chart position. Then he would immediately move on to the countdown's next hit.
I actually have a very rare, official station-serviced CD copy of an AT40 countdown show from late 1989 containing special liner notes indicating that the song "Me So Horny" had been specially programmed and tracked on the CD for easy bypass in case radio station program directors wished to opt out of airing the song altogether.
Again, keep in mind that this was 1989. I can plainly remember how shocking it was to hear a song and title of such a sexually explicit nature being introduced and played on American Top 40, or on any standard CHR format for that matter, during this era.
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