Courier
Journal - November 27, 1976: New Song Draws Unpredictable Reactions. “
Drop kick me Jesus,” the song begins, “through the goal posts of
life. End over end, neither left nor to right. Straight through the
heart of them righteous uprights. Drop kick me Jesus, through the goal
posts of life.”
Ernest Sparkman, station manager at
WSGS-FM in Hazard, reported he has kept the song in their regular
“hot rotation” lineup. “I had some questions about it at
first,” Sparkman said. “I listened to it closely and decided it
wasn’t sacrilegious. In fact, there are some things in it that are
right good.” Sparkman said his station is “careful about what we
play.”
At least one country station in Kentucky
has banned the song. “We played it a couple of times,” said Clovis
Sadler, owner of WGGC-FM in Glasgow. “We didn’t get any
complaints, but I didn’t particularly care for the title. There was
the possibility of offending the listener.”
A host of radio station managers have
sacked the song from the airwaves across the country. “No way we
could get away with a title like that,” said Art Davis, music
director at WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas.
Mike Chadwell, a disc jockey at WHOP in
Hopkinsville, called it an “interesting, funny song.” He said it
is played “five or six times a day” and has received “no
negative feedback.”
“Our audience keeps us in line,” said
WKYQ disc-jockey Jay Diamond in Paducah. ‘If there were complaints,
we wouldn’t play it,” he said.
Louisville’s WTMT plays the song “once
– maybe twice – in a four-hour shift,” said DJ Kenny Holiday.
“I haven’t heard a single complaint.”