Freedom Strikes Chord at Program; More Than 900 People Hear Formerly Banned Songs Performed by Award-Winning Artists

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Hard to believe that a song as relatively innocuous as "Wake Up Little Susie" would be thought of virtually as the spawn of Satan. But after its release in 1957, the catchy Everly Brothers' tune was banned by a Boston radio station for being too suggestive for teens.

It wasn't the first song in the history of the land of the free to be subject to censorship, and it definitely wasn't the last.

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Freedom Strikes Chord at Program; More Than 900 People Hear Formerly Banned Songs Performed by Award-Winning Artists

Monday night, more than 900 people gathered at Clarke College's Kehl Center to take a musical journey through the lively and, at times, laughable battles waged in the name of free expr...

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