From: lcargill99@comcast.com   
      
   Kiwi User wrote:   
   > On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:57:04 -0800, The old geezer wrote:   
   >   
   >> Was there REALLY a Blacklist of Zappa & his music on American radio???   
   >> "America Drinks & Goes Home" could have beena Monster hit back in '67!!!   
   >>   Man!  Was it 50 years ago already??? TOG   
   >   
   > Wasn't that when McCarthyites and rabid Puritan God-botherers were a   
   > force in the land whose slightest whim was LAW? In those times I seem to   
   > remember heading that radio station owners wouldn't have played anything   
   > that didn't reek of Holiness, American Values and not upsetting the DAR   
   > so I'd imagine that Zappa was right out except in godless places like   
   > California and NYC.   
   >   
   > Or have I been misled by Goddamn Commies all these years?   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   Probably a little of both. Put it this way - Kim Philby wasn't   
   exactly an anomoly and some of the upper classes in the late   
   30s were rather ardent Nazis.   
      
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