Hi Harri! Yes it was a radio hit and nothing was bleeped out!
@pncombies
7 сағат бұрын
Where, in communist Russia? No bleeping out in Austin, TX '74. If would been pointless to have even played it as many times as "Bitch" is all throughout the lyrics.
@chuck4tnvols681
20 сағат бұрын
Elton rocking out in the early 70,s,well around 1974,this had massive radio play rotation,it was a hit,even though some stations banned it,it didn't stop it from success,and yes it was about Elton,great request,great reaction Harri! .
@davebzen795
9 сағат бұрын
DJB-I could never get enough of Elton John and his enormous body of work. This submission choice and the review by Harri were outstanding. Bravo to both you and Harri.
@debbiechang5781
21 сағат бұрын
I always love me some Sir Elton John! This was and still is a great, fun song! Fantastic choice and amusing reaction! Thanks Harri and DJ Bilodeau 🌸💐✌️
@agnetesorensenelbom5085
14 сағат бұрын
🥰🤩😇
@bradsullivan2495
21 сағат бұрын
At this point in his career, Elton could do no wrong.
@Cynthia...
8 сағат бұрын
Great Elton song then you won't find any bad ones mind you. Thank you Dan and Harri.
@chab1rd155
22 сағат бұрын
NEXT by him should be, Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting! A rocker by him!
@willow_wise
19 сағат бұрын
I forgot how much I used to enjoy Elton John (and Bernie). Thanks for bringing back the memories!
@LetItBeSummer-1
22 сағат бұрын
This was such a fun song to sing to out loud, especially the bitch lines lol! God I miss the old era of this music., especially the 70s 😊
@threekidzmom04
22 сағат бұрын
I AGREE!!!!
@nancyharn1980
17 сағат бұрын
I still sing it with a smile at work. The machines are so loud plus we wear ear plugs, no one knows what I'm singing. I may have someone in mind while singing. 😂
@greendayzd6728
21 сағат бұрын
Elton is kickin' it. Heard this everywhere you went.
@debjorgo
21 сағат бұрын
A hit single, fueled by FM radio. It wasn't controlled by the FCC like AM radio. Community standards ruled. It was Elton John. He was on top at the time. No censoring on it either. He called it his theme song. Around this time, Tipper Gore was doing all she could to restrict the airwaves. All she ended up with were advisory labels. Which was good. If you got a CD with dirty language, it is nice to know it.
@pncombies
7 сағат бұрын
This nugget stands the test of time! Goodbye Yellow Book Road was a tough act to follow, but "Caribou" had a handful of really good songs. Great song, selection and reaction. Thank you, DJ and Harri!
@marybaillie8907
22 сағат бұрын
From the 1974 album, " Caribou" this song made it to Number 1 in Canada, Number 4 in the U.S. and Number 15 in the UK. Quite controversial to have the B word in a record in 1974 and some radio stations banned the tune. From the bee sting riff that opens the tune, the great bass, with hooks that are incredible and Elton's vocals oozing with honey and venom as he gets his point across. Tower of Power provided the delightful horn section and brass, with Dusty Springfield provided the backing vocals. ❤ Apparently Bernie's wife used to say the Bitch is Back, when Elton was in a bad mood, hence the title. Great reaction Handsome Harri ❤❤ Fabulous pick D.J.👏👏Cheers from Canada ❤❤🇨🇦🇨🇦
@DJBilodeau
20 сағат бұрын
Man we're having so much fun here! This is like a big family that I'm so glad to be part of!
@agnetesorensenelbom5085
14 сағат бұрын
🌺🌻🌹💐
@josephthomas3912
21 сағат бұрын
That's the entire Tower Of Power horn section rounding out the ensemble of musicians on this track.
@iandowney4630
20 сағат бұрын
My favorite horn section!
@brucedillinger9448
17 сағат бұрын
Shout out to TOWER OF POWER. And the backing vocals are fire! 🔥
@han36solo
22 сағат бұрын
The lyrics were a big part of what made it a hit!....(music wasn't so censored as now in our cancely world).
@randystalnaker6700
22 сағат бұрын
Lol...had this album when I was in high school...my anthem!!! Thanks Harri!!!
@1herbert100
3 сағат бұрын
You MUST hear "Ticking" it will blow your mind.
@ravenmccall5486
22 сағат бұрын
When my children got out of line, and I had to handle it, they knew it was coming when I sang the chorus! So glad those days are over, but I still love my British King of Rock & Roll!
@Imadrummin
21 сағат бұрын
This is a bad a$$ song. Appreciate it DJ & Harri!!!👍👍👍
@DJBilodeau
20 сағат бұрын
Totally agreed! "Bad ass" is the precise phrase to describe this song!
@agnetesorensenelbom5085
14 сағат бұрын
@@DJBilodeau 👍👍👍
@jdenino6022
20 сағат бұрын
It was a single and I looked up the chart history: It was the second single released from John's 1974 album Caribou, and reached number 1 in Canada (his sixth in that country), number 4 in the United States and number 15 in the United Kingdom. from wikipedia. I remember hearing it played a lot on the radio.
@DJBilodeau
22 сағат бұрын
Loved your reaction. Really comes across that you felt this one! Wasn't expecting the reaction to be this much fun, but I had a ball watching this one!
@Imadrummin
21 сағат бұрын
👋👋👋
@anneschreck5136
17 сағат бұрын
It was great fun and thanks DJ!
@DJBilodeau
22 сағат бұрын
This was a single Harri! You should really read the lyrics on this one; lots of tongue in cheek humor on this song! My favorite line in the whole song is "I don't like those, my God, what's that???!!! Just a fun song! Davey Johnstone's guitar riff sets up the whole song.
@agnetesorensenelbom5085
14 сағат бұрын
Thank you DJ 🥰🤩😍 Loved the intro 😇
@iandowney4630
20 сағат бұрын
It’s always a treat to hear Sir Elton! I’ve always loved this song. As has been noted, it got plenty of airplay without being bleeped. The bleeps in songs were so obnoxious when you were trying to enjoy a great song. How many kids hear their parents say far worse things 😂 Thanks for the request, DJ, and for your happy reaction, Harri.
@agnetesorensenelbom5085
14 сағат бұрын
💯👍👋💓
@iandowney4630
9 сағат бұрын
@@agnetesorensenelbom5085 My parents swore all the time!👍🏼😍✌🏼
@agnetesorensenelbom5085
9 сағат бұрын
@@iandowney4630 🤣😂😇 We had a teacher who used 1 lesson to explain the meaning of all the swearwords, hardly ever used them since. Dont remember my parrents swearing, sometimes its just a habit and you dont notice. Can hear your love for your parrents 🥰🙏😇
@iandowney4630
8 сағат бұрын
@@agnetesorensenelbom5085 Yes, I love, and miss, my parents dearly 🩵💛 They provided us with a wonderful lesson in swearing 🤣🤣, among many other things. I agree- it’s a bad habit 😉🎉
@agnetesorensenelbom5085
8 сағат бұрын
@@iandowney4630 😅🥰🥰
@glt8696
7 сағат бұрын
I forgot what a stomper this one was!! Deep cut "Elderberry Wine" from Don't Shoot Me album is another sublime rocker!
@hoopsmccann9228
20 сағат бұрын
From Wiki~ The idea to create the song was inspired not by John or Taupin directly, but rather by Taupin's wife at the time, Maxine Feibelman, who would say, "The bitch is back," when John was in a bad mood. Taupin then wrote the lyrics. Later, John would comment: "It is kind of my theme song." 😄
@mewzishun
20 сағат бұрын
The story goes that Bernie and his wife were in their house. Elton came in and she said "Uh, oh, the bitch is back." And the rest is history.
@captainsatellite2112
19 сағат бұрын
Dusty Springfield sang back up with others on this song.
@DJBilodeau
22 сағат бұрын
Glad you picked out the bass line-Dee Murray is indeed a very underrated bass guitarist. No, he's not a songwriter or a multi-instrumentalist like Paul McCartney, but that's certainly no shame for Dee. However, Dee, from a technical standpoint, is a very interesting bass player indeed!
@DJBilodeau
22 сағат бұрын
I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong) that Tina Turner did a cover of this song.
@Scooterboi60
20 сағат бұрын
Yes she did and they both performed it for the Divas VH1 special along with Proud Mary featuring Cher.
@DJBilodeau
22 сағат бұрын
Elton does actually have a biography entitled "Elton John: The Bitch Is Back". I have the book and I have given it a cursory read. It's quite long and very involved, as Elton has had a 50 plus year musical career in the public eye. I have a good hunch that, indeed Bernie wrote these lyrics with Elton's persona in mind. BTW there is a Disney biographical movie on Elton John coming out in December called "Elton John: Never Too Late". I've seen the trailer, and it looks incredible. It's definitely on my movie list to be seen when it does come out.
@agnetesorensenelbom5085
14 сағат бұрын
🥰🤩😇
@jesterger
21 сағат бұрын
It was a hit single in Canada. If I am not mistaken, The Tower of Power Horn Section, played on the album.
@oriolesandravens
9 сағат бұрын
yes. They toured with Elton and The Boys. Check out the Live LP/CD Here and There, Thanksgiving Night at Madison Square Gardens when Elton brings John Lennon on stage to perform Lucy in the Sky, I Saw Her Standing There and Whatever Gets You Through the Night.
@kallsop2
7 сағат бұрын
I grew up in a very conservative state (nicknamed under the buckle of the bible belt) and this song was on the radio and in jukeboxes when it came out and for years after. The only "censored" lyrics I seem to remember is the second verse of Lou Reed's Take A Walk On The Wild Side about Candy not losing her head and editing out ""bullshit" in Pink Floyds Money but by the late 70's they both would get airplay in their entirety.
@patswanson2870
22 сағат бұрын
If this song shocks you maybe you should react to Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed.
@DJBilodeau
20 сағат бұрын
patswanson2870, that's an excellent suggestion!
@jdenino6022
20 сағат бұрын
Or "Who Are You" by The Who.
@ResidentAlien-0154
12 сағат бұрын
If you think about it, many of Bernie's lyrics from the '70s have dark or controversial themes. Censorship wasn't really that bad until the '80s. Artists had to start putting parental warnings on their albums. In some cases, different versions of a song had to be created for airplay with "offensive" words completely switched for something else. Aerosmith's Janie's Got a Gun is a perfect example. The original lyrics say: "She had to take him down easy and put a bu**et in his br*in." The censored version goes: "She had to take him down easy and left him in the pouring rain."
@samuelgates5935
17 сағат бұрын
Great song. Such controversy for a word that is commonly used in the dog show and breeding world. Elton John was a backup singer on Neil Sedaka's song "Bad Blood," which also contained the dreaded "B" word.
@keithjones7390
15 сағат бұрын
Caribou was the first Elton John album l bought. Its got a few quirky tracks such as Pinky, Solar Prestige a Gammon and Grimsby. It also has my favourite Elton John song, Ticking, Bernie's lyrics here are outstanding, a masterpiece!,
@oriolesandravens
9 сағат бұрын
DUDE!!! Ticking is one of my All-Time Faves from the Tin Pan Alley Twins. (reference to a line in Bitter Fingers from the Captain Fantastic LP). Check out their Empty Sky LP (1969) Tumbleweed Connection (1970). As for Pinky and Grimsby, I love them both.
@John_Locke_108
12 сағат бұрын
This song is about a dog he owned but ran away. However a few days later it came back.
@jdenino6022
20 сағат бұрын
I bought this album on Record Store Day, I haven't opened it yet bc I don't have a turntable. 😉
@chab1rd155
22 сағат бұрын
He probably did sniff pots of glue back in the day. As I'm SURE you know, he was Big into drugs! Still LOVE this jam!!!❤
@captainsatellite2112
21 сағат бұрын
According to his song Social Disease, he liked to "get juiced on Mateus and just hang loose."
@oriolesandravens
9 сағат бұрын
around this time he was discovering coke. Allegedly, Ray Cooper was (allegedly) his enabler. If you get the LP with all the art work, or the CD with all the liner notes, there is a picture of Elton's face taking up the entire side of the lyric sleeve (where the LP was stored). His nose is running. When I bought it in 1974 (age 12) I thought he had a cold and runny nose. I didn't know until a few years later.....
@chab1rd155
9 сағат бұрын
@@oriolesandravens 👍😊
@dcmtrader
7 сағат бұрын
More Yellow Brick Road please. If that was shocking try Sweet Painted Lady
@14gilbertst
17 сағат бұрын
"I get High in the Evening ......you beat me to IT!! (Bernie wrote the lyrics!)
@oriolesandravens
9 сағат бұрын
I entertain by picking brains...
@captainsatellite2112
21 сағат бұрын
Tina Turner did a great cover of this song.
@DJBilodeau
20 сағат бұрын
captainsatellite2112, I thought so! Thanks for confirming that!
@captainsatellite2112
19 сағат бұрын
@@DJBilodeau It was on her album Rough. Here's a solo vid: kzitem.info/news/bejne/tZl-m6uepGVlq34si=mN9yzUigxcpUu4py And with Elton: kzitem.info/news/bejne/kamnvWqXjYaAaoYsi=86NNfXWh5RcL_kai
@bobdelp2023
21 сағат бұрын
WANT THE DEEP TRACK ON THIS ALBUM ( CARIBOU ) HARRI😊GREAT STORY, FINAL TRACK AND A PIANO BANGER FOR SURE💯 TICKING 👍 TAKE CARE MAN
@keithjones7390
15 сағат бұрын
Ticking is my favourite Elton John song
@thomasripley1548
21 сағат бұрын
Bernie and Elton had an argument about something , and then whoever it was came back , thus the song...
@rogerfleming6354
21 сағат бұрын
I used to listen to this song to get psyched up for my my high school wrestling matches. I’m better than you, its the way that I move, the things that I do…
@kirkhall2099
22 сағат бұрын
It was on the radio and the society was more liberal with much of the music at the time. Today it is no different as rap has some really gross stuff. Blazing Saddles was one of the best comedy movies that came out in 74. It would not be allowed today. There are far more restrictions in America than what it used to be.
@tommyc6066
Сағат бұрын
If you think that's shocking, check out Back Off B*tch by Guns N Roses 😉
@blackwolf6082
22 сағат бұрын
I love how edgy this song is
@DJBilodeau
22 сағат бұрын
To your point about us all having an "inner bitch". . .one of the tenets of Judiasm is that God made humans with an "irreduceable rascality" within, according to the philosopher Alan Watts. So what the hell does this have to do with this song? Just seemed to dovetail nicely with the point you made!
@phillipnash2843
22 сағат бұрын
I don’t think that word is appropriate on a platform that children look at.
@pncombies
21 сағат бұрын
Then tell your mommy and daddy to enable the "Parental Lock". Are you kidding me, Milk Toast? Go back to bed you, simp!
@pncombies
16 сағат бұрын
Grow a pair!! Bitch /biCH/ noun 1. a female dog, wolf, fox, or otter. verb informal
@briandonovan1584
22 сағат бұрын
Great choice, Harri, my friend. Have you done Crocodile Rock? If not, you must. It is a lot of fun. A real classic. Love ya, my brother.
@DJBilodeau
20 сағат бұрын
briandonovan1584, I was absolutely knocked out by Crocodile Rock as a 13 year old. So, yes, I totally agree with you there!
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