I was actually listening to one of the CBC clips from the link someone provided here about Black Day in July. It was an early interview with Lightfoot. The song was written about the race riots in Detroit and it was banned by stations all across the U.S. The timing was unfortunate in that Martin Luther King had been assasinated just after the song was released and programmers probably did not want to be considered guilty of inciting violence and/or they were just plain scared. Who knows whether they were right or wrong. From what I understand of that period it was an extremely volatile time. I was too much of a baby to remember anything that far back.
quote:Originally posted by miketouhy:
never heard the Black Day in July song. but i know it was about the 1967 Detroit race riots. i asked Varerie about the song when her GL site was in operation and i think she claimed it was released as a single in the Detroit area and was banned. she even claimed he got a lot of heat for it. while she gave me her thoughts and what she knows, i'd thought i'd ask if any of you know exactly what or why people were irritated at Lightfoot and who did he get citisizum from? i've read the lyrics to the song and they don't seem all that bad. what do you think?
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