Top Ten Banned Songs: No-No Song (#10)

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Enough of these wimpy song that irritated program directors on radio stations. Let’s get to my favorites!! Same idea (usually dumb, such as this one), just the ten I like best. Let’s get going. #10: No-No Song - Ringo Starr For a song that has a guy refusing to partake of various recreational illegalities, people sure saw this one the wrong way. It’s not like Hoyt Axton (who wrote Steppenwolf’s “The Pusher”) was pointing out where to buy dime bags. Oh, wait…maybe that was part of the problem. I’m pretty sure that Nashville didn’t relish the idea of being a place to pick up some moonshine (although you can get that everywhere in Tennessee now), and the DEA didn’t enjoy a big-name star like Ringo mentioning “a ten-pound bag of cocaine” like it was a bag of penny candy. Most people saw it as a cute song. Some, however, did not; and, even in the more laid-back mid-70s, wouldn’t play it. No, no, no, I can’t takes these people no more. No-No Song Written by Hoyt Axton and David Jackson Recorded by Ringo Starr From Goodnight Vienna, 1975 Reason banned: drug references And he wasn’t joking!