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Originally Posted by Jim VB
Of course, videos had no footprint back in 1966, but that song took incredible heat. I think it climbed to a Top 5 hit but then radios stations started getting pressure not to play it. I lived in NY back then and I think both WABC and WMCA took it off their playlists and the record company (BMI ???) withdrew it.
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But it was good enough to be "revived" in 1973. It only hit #87 on the national charts, but it's interesting that it could get re-issued seven years after it was supposedly blacklisted.
I was only a year old in '73 but maybe somebody here can answer: was the song's re-emergence brought on by Dr. Demento? Perhaps he was playing the song on his radio show and a populace that had lived through what happened between '66 and '73 could appreciate it better.