Ten For Today: Banned

Johnny Ray, Shirley Bassey, Connie Francis, Earth Kitt, Scott Walker, Tom Robinson Band, B.A. Robertson, Gang of Four, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Split Enz

According to a website I found that catalogs broadcast history, on this day in 1954, the BBC banned Johnny Ray’s “Such a Night” for being too suggestive.

Being from Boston, a place which is the butt of jokes about puritanical approaches to popular culture thanks to the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice (est. 1879), later called the Watch an…