Clean vs Explicit in the 1970 Top 40

Thought it would be interesting if anyone knows which songs are easily identifiable by the clean lyric radio edits vs the controversial LP ones from this decade.

So far the two easy one's, one is mentioned in a thread on this board but not by title:

Jimmy Buffett's 45 and LP versions of "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes"

About a minute into the song, the LP lyric is "son of a bitches" and the 45 lyric is "some bruises and stitches".

The second one I know of is in The Devil Went Down To Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band at 2:55 on the LP version it is "son of a bitch" and on the 45 it is "son of a gun" instead.

Anyone know of any other songs? I am assembling the 70's top 40 and just want to check. I know in 1969 A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash has the bleep in it and the stereo version has it uncensored on the LP, but I didn't think any 60's hits really were censored from 45 to LP, were they?

Edit: I couldn't fit the 's after 1970, I meant the decade not just one year...





Edited by PopArchivist

From the 1960s:

Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean (some 45s censor "one hell of
a man" to "big, big man")

From the 1970s:

Money - Pink Floyd (mono promo 45 censors "bullshit")

Fight The Power (Part 1) - Isley Brothers (some promo 45s
censor "bullshit")

Jet Airliner - Steve Miller (45 is censored "funky
kicks" vs LP "funky shit")

Who Are You - The Who (45 is censored "who the hell are
you" vs LP "who the fuck are you")

Good Girls Don't - The Knack - this one has a couple of
lyric changes (45 is censored "wishing she was givin' you
a chance" and "puts you in your place" vs LP "wishing you
could get inside her pants" and "sittin' on your face")




Edited by Paul Haney

For the '60s there is a version of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl"
which omits "making love in the green grass."

Indiana Wants Me had the siren removed in some promos.

Timothy the Buoys:

There are two known edited versions of this song released as white label promo 45s on Scepter. The A-side of both promos feature the unedited version. The B-side of SDR-12275 indicates "REVISED LYRIC" under the song title. The "My stomach was full" lyric is changed to "Both of us fine as we could be." The B-side of the other promo (SDJ-12275) indicates "EDITED, BLEEPED OUT" under the song title. While the "My stomach..." lyric is kept in this one, the word "hell" in the second verse is covered up with a quick bleep.

To Tom Diehl or anyone else out there...

I seem to remember that "Cat Scratch Fever" lyric change from the radio, but I never could verify its existence!

I started to think it was an in-house edit or my imagination gone awry.

Does anyone out there have a clean dub of the mono version that I can hear?

Andy