Earache My Eye was released as a single in 1974, and reached #9 on the Billboard charts and #4 in Canada. In Chicago, it topped the charts at the powerful and influential Top 40 radio station WLS (AM), holding the #1 position for one week in September 1974, in the middle of an eleven week run on the stations top 40 airplay charts. The song also reached the top spot for one week on the West Coasts biggest Top 40 radio station, Los Angeles KHJ-AM. The B-side, Turn That Thing Down features the remainder of the musical track, from the point of Marins monologue about his wealth, without the actual dialogue, complete to its conclusion. It is possible to assemble the full-length version of the song by editing the two sections together. The version featured on Cheech & Chongs Greatest Hit fades out before reaching the skit as it appears on the single and the Wedding Album LP. Several radio stations refused to play the song. Once the song hit its peak on the charts, radio station managers pulled the song out of the format of airplay, due to complaints by parents, teachers, psychologists, principals, and counselors, who stated that this song mostly appealed to junkies, dropouts, drug addicts, and drunks, as well as for students playing hooky from class, giving them a bad example of behavior. Some radio managers threatened to fire their disc jockeys for playing the song on the air. Cheech and Chong also performed the song in there first movie Up In Smoke and was featured repeatedly on the Doctor Demento radio show, and is included on the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:04:05 +0000
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