Yes, I thought you may have been thinking of Profumo, Blunt? and all that - a bit before my time (of taking interest in news stories and scandals, that is)

>Yes, you are correct. There were so many going on in England around the same time that I guess my memory got a bit muddled. You guys had Profumo and Keeler and a few others. This one was our Canadian tribute.
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>>I'd never heard of her before now. I looked her up and the affair is all in Canada, isn't it, not England (no mention).
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>>>Back in the 60s there was a TV show on CBC here called 'Nightcap'. It was a sort of SNL type of show and it was excellent. During the Gerda Munsinger affair in England, there was a lot of idiotic press. Anyway, at the start of one show, Billy Van came out and announced that the CBC had ordered the show to stay away from any jokes or references to Gerda Munsinger or the affair (this was a joke of course). They made no references during the show to her or the affair, but about every 5 minutes during the show, they brought out a chorus called the Gerda Mun Singers to do a couple of minutes of song.
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>>>>Oh, I'd forgotten we were talking about songs that got past the ban, asopposed to rude songs of the age :-)
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>>>>Relax by Frankie goes to Holywood was banned by the BBC then the hipocrites started hijacking their name for their productions, like a chat-show host, Russel Harty, did a presentation from LA with the title: "Harty goes to Holywood". The expression was hijacked nearly as much as "Debbie does Dallas"
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>>>>>But that was banned on the radio in both the UK and the U.S.
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