37 Years After It HIT #2--This Song was OUTLAWED For BEING "LYRICALLY INSENSITIVE!-Professor of Rock

Coming up, we're telling the story of 11 songs that truly defined one of the most pivotal years in the Rock Era, starting with The Beatles, a band so big they controlled the top 5 spots on the charts, a record that no one has ever come close to. Plus, there was the songwriter Wayne Cochran who told an epic and sad story behind what inspired his massive hit Last Kiss that moved everyone who heard it. Then, decades later, everyone found it was a total lie. Then there was the Do Wah Diddy Diddy that the lead singer of Manfred Mann thought was downright silly... with made-up words, he refused to sing it until his manager forced him to, and even then he sang it as a total joke… It became one of the biggest songs ever, and the silly words became part of the pop vernacular. There was The Animals' House of the Rising Sun that has made tens of millions in royalties but remains unpaid because no one knows who the hell wrote the song. Plus, there’s Marvin Gaye who wrote Dancing in the Street, a song he knew was a smash, but he gave it to his secretary Martha Reeves, who made it an all-time smash. Our countdown of the Top 11 Songs of a special year is NEXT on Professor of Rock!

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Hey Music Junkies Professor of Rock Always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember stuffing your hand or arm down the cereal box to find the every elusive prize inside You’ll dig this channel of deep music nostalgia…Make sure to subscribe below right now to be a part of our music history daily, straight from the artists. Make sure to check out our podcast.

Let’s jumpstart the time machine to take us to one of the most pivotal years in our civilization. Can you guess the year… It was a time of healing, just months after the king of camelot was taken from us, a little band of working class mop tops took over television and solidified rock and roll forever. Let’s go back to 1964 and count down the 11 best songs of that historic year.

Kicking off the countdown, it’s a heartbreaking song by J. Frank and the Cavaliers. Here’s “Last Kiss” at #11: A real-life tragedy inspired Wayne Cochran to write “Last Kiss.” The story of a young couple involved in a fatal car greatly moved Wayne He said it was based on a tragic accident about 15 miles from his home when 5 teens were riding 1954 chevy… the driver was a 16 yearly named JL Hancock was dating a girl name Jeanette Clark who’s was in the front seat next to him and then 3 tother kids, it was foggy so when the driver JL saw a flatbed truck on the side of the road it was too late..

The crash killed all five of the teens, Cochran said the response from the community fueled the lyric… the only problem was the accident took place December 22, 1962, well after the song was released, so he got away with the story back then because nobody could fact check it… It wasn’t until a year later that everyone found out the truth. But he did write “Last Kiss” as a tender farewell—a heartfelt plea to a loved one who is gone, emphasizing the pain of losing someone too soon. The track captured the heartbreak of saying goodbye…forever..

Wayne Cochranwas the first to record “Last Kiss,” but his version garnered very little attention. It was J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers rendition in ’64 connected with listeners and quickly became a hit. The emotional delivery, combined with the haunting melody, touched a nerve across the country. And it became an instant classic… And then part of the song came true in tragic fashion for the band that made it a hit. Not long after the release of “Last Kiss,” the band that made the song famous hit some hard times.