12 April 2012

Chinese, black, green, purple or Jew, you have the right to listen to whoever you want to

"Happy 21st birthday, last kids sure they weren't possibly conceived to Banned in the USA by 2 Live Crew!"


If you'll indulge the mawkishness, as well as the paraphrase of Mtv's Kurt Loder (back before he convinced himself ending federal taxation was totally rock 'n' roll):  the referenced court case, Skyywalker Records, Inc. v. Navarro[fn1], marked the first time in American history it was against the law to sing a song.  


But still, the followup wasn't that great.  Probably... you know.  Better to be entirely sure your dad wasn't humming that to himself, at the time.  
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fn1:  739 F.Supp. 578.

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