One more thing - I'd never heard of The Monkees' "Don't Do It," which the article states is one of the songs CHUM wouldn't play. Turns out there's a good reason for that. 

It wasn't a Monkees song at all. It was written and recorded by a pre-Monkee Micky Dolenz in 1965, then later re-released once the group he was in became stars on TV. The fact it's not a very good song may be another reason it never got any radio airplay. 

But for those like me curious about it, here it is:

 

I know for a fact they played both of them, because I listened to nothing but CHUM in the mid-60s and that's where I heard them. Although I never liked "Double Shot" very much and it's still a channel changer when I hear it today. 

I think that what prompted me to look up "Double Shot" in The CHUM Chart Book was that, at least at the time that I did so, I was only familiar with it from hearing it played as an oldie on CKOC and not on CHUM. 

Springsteen heard that song on a jukebox in a diner he and bandmates would go to after playing the Upstage or Student Prince in Asbury Park. A direct inspiration for his own 'Sherry Darling".

Chrisphen wrote: It's been noted before, but Frank Zappa stormed out of a CHUM interview when he noticed that some tracks on his records were physically scratched out so they couldn't be played.

That isn't quite accurate. In the CHUM archives, I have the tape of that interview with Frank Zappa and CHUM FM's Chuck Azzarello. What happened was, songs that weren't to be played on CHUM FM had a sticker over the particular cut(s) on the vinyl albums. Zappa noticed that on one of his albums and was offended and said so on the air. Music Director Benjy Karch then came into the control room and the three had a lively discussion on censorship. Frank never stormed out of the interview, but it became quite lively.

CHUM FM certainly played Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention particularly in the late '60s and well into the 1970s. Frank, on several occasions came into CHUM FM after one of his in town concerts and sat with David Pritchard.  

Also back in 1964, CHUM Program Director Allan Slaight briefly banned The Rolling Stones from the CHUM airwaves. I don't know if Gary Topp is on here, but as a kid, he sent a letter to CHUM complaining about the ban and received a reply from Slaight explaining CHUM's reasonings.  

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BTW the YT banner says Rick Moranis. Back in the day I thought that Moranis and Chuck A sounded similar bur I think this may be Rick.

Lorne wrote:

Since I was born in 1960, I don't have firsthand memories of what was making the CHUM Chart in 1966-67. However, many years ago I had been curious about whether "Double Shot Of My Baby's Love" had charted on CHUM, and when I looked it up in The CHUM Chart Book I found that it wasn't listed. Just checked the listings for The Rolling Stones, and "Let's Spend The Night Together" isn't shown either.

Perhaps Spend the Night wasn't listed is because it was the "B" side of Ruby Tuesday.

mace wrote:

Lorne wrote:

Since I was born in 1960, I don't have firsthand memories of what was making the CHUM Chart in 1966-67. However, many years ago I had been curious about whether "Double Shot Of My Baby's Love" had charted on CHUM, and when I looked it up in The CHUM Chart Book I found that it wasn't listed. Just checked the listings for The Rolling Stones, and "Let's Spend The Night Together" isn't shown either.

Perhaps Spend the Night wasn't listed is because it was the "B" side of Ruby Tuesday.

but the B sides of double sided hits were usually at some point actually listed on the CHUM chart and Lets Spend the Night was not.

for example the number 1 here:


 

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Speaking of B sides and dirty words/lyrics. I found a CKFH Chart with the B word on a B side look at number 16, pic taken from Rock Radio
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 A few years before Elton John
 

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Ale Ont wrote:

I remember growing up in Ottawa, C-F-R-A ran "Bus Rider" by The Guess Who in its original form.  
C-K-O-Y bleeped out "God Damn" from the line "I'm so awful BEEP glad I'm not in your shoes."  When they did the song on "The Midnight Special", they just dropped the word.
 

Yes, I think that happened here on both CHUM and CKFH. I remember thinking it's so obvious what the word is, but they can't air it despite that. Today, it would run with no issues. 

I realise that most of you are not prudes, and are simply having fun with this discussion.

Given that, isn't it pathetic to think that still, half-a-millennium into our North American adventure, we're still so puritanical about the method by which every single one of us came to be.

And as stilted as we are about it here, the folks in the Bible Belt sure took it to a whole other level.

We can sing and watch movies about war, murder and pestilence, but let's not get "dirty". 😂

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.