Filth on the airwaves!!
Lena Horne’s mildly suggestive single I Love To Love is declared banned by the CBS network’s radio and television shows for indecency. It comes at a time of heightened sensitivity to alleged musical naughtiness in American entertainment: radio stations in Boston, Chicago and the South claim to have received thousands of letters from teenagers objecting to the lustful connotations of songs including Sinatra’s From The Bottom To The Top, Sarah Vaughn’s Make Yourself Comfortable and Dinah Washington’s Teach Me Tonight. New England police superintendent John A. Lyddy, who refused permission for rock’n’roll parties the previous month, is quoted in Billboard saying, “teenagers virtually work themselves into a frenzy to
the beat of fast swing music.”