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The song was written and sung by protest singer and contributing editor to folk-centric Broadside Magazine, Len Chandler.After it became a hit for the Serendipity Singers in 1964, doctors protested that many children were actually putting beans in their ears so it was banned in some places such as Pittsburgh and Boston.
The follow-up, "Beans in My Ears", hit #30 on the Hot 100 and #5 on the AC chart a few months later. [4] "Beans in My Ears" was banned in Boston, by Pittsburgh's KDKA radio station, and "some television shows asked us to do something different. Understandably so--it was dangerous," according to Bryan Sennett.
Side one "Let Me Fly Zion" – 1:40 "Beans in My Ears" – 2:06 "Soon It's Gonna Rain" – 2:42 "Mill Girls Don't Sing or Dance" – 2:22 "Look Away Over Yondro" – 1:58 "The New Frankie and Johnny Song" – 2:28
Chandler was born in Akron, Ohio in 1935. He showed an early interest in music and began playing piano at age 8. [1] Studying classical music in his early teens, he learned to play the oboe so he could join the high school band, [1] and during his senior year joined the Akron Symphony Orchestra.
A longstanding opponent of the arms race and of the Vietnam War, Seeger satirically attacked then-President Lyndon Johnson with his 1966 recording, on the album Dangerous Songs!?, of Len Chandler's children's song "Beans in My Ears". Beyond Chandler's lyrics, Seeger said that "Mrs. Jay's little son Alby" had "beans in his ears", which, as the ...
"Beans in My Ears" by the Serendipity Singers (song, 1964) [12] In four final cases the bans were overturned in court: Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1965) [9] Fanny Hill by John Cleland (1966) I Am Curious (Yellow) by Vilgot Sjöman (1967) [13] Caligula by Tinto Brass (1979) [14]
It was released on their premiere album, The Serendipity Singers. Later reissues of the Serendipity Singers' recording credited Hickey and Miller as the song's writers. [ 6 ] In a "My Music, Folk Rewind" video, the group's nine members appear as three groups of three, with each group singing its particular verse; all nine members sing in each ...
Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan MBE (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002) was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop and rock musicians.