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The
Montreal
Gazette, 2 December 1975, p. 21
Rock
music damned for 'appeal to flesh'
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Damning rock music for it's "appeal to
the flesh," a Baptist church here has begun a campaign to put the torch to
records by Elton John, the Rolling Stones and other rock stars.
About
$2,200 worth of records were tossed into a bonfire this week after church
officials labelled the music immoral.
Rev.
Charles Boykin, associate pastor and youth director at the Lakewood Baptist
Church, said he has seen
statistics which show that "of 1,000 girls who became pregnant out of
wedlock, 984 committed fornication while rock music was being played."
He
could not, however, remember the source of the statistics. [...]
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The
Montreal
Gazette, 5 December 1975, p. 39
Syncopated
sinners beware: It's that old devil rock music
By
Mike Royko
Chicago Daily News
[...]
I decided to get further details from Rev. Boykin. I phoned him and we had the
following interview:
Where
did that statistic come from, the one about all those girls getting pregnant
while listening to rock music?
"I
want to be accurate, so let me correct you. They didn't all listen to it DURING
the sex act. I was speaking of listening to it as a prelude to fornication, as
well as during."
I
see. But rock music was involved in all but 14 pregnancies out of 1,000 cases?
"That's
right. It was sort of like a Gallup Poll of unwed mothers."
And
who provided the statistics?
"This
man. He's from West Virginia.
He stopped in our church one day and gave us the statistics."
He's
a professional poll taker?
"Uh,
no. He's an evangelist. He travels all the time." [...]
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St. Petersburg Times [FL], 8 December 1975, p. B1
A
presentation against rock music has brought more fame than flame
Dudley
Clendinen
TALLAHASSEE -- Brother Charlie Boykin is an earnest young man under fire, and he
sure hopes that his spiritual brother, Bob Combe, of the Hyles-Anderson
College in Hammond, Indiana,
can locate the source of those figures for him. [...]
Brother
Charlie has telephoned twice out to Hammond,
India to ask
about it. The first time, Brother Bob said he couldn't exactly remember where
they'd come from, he'd have to look through his files. The second time, Brother
Bob had gone off to deliver The Message, and Brother Charlie hopes he gets back
soon, and finds the source of those figures for him.
Brother
Charlie wishes everyone hadn't picked up so hard on the figures to begin with.
"That's not our main argument," he says again, so you'll understand.
[...]
But
people are after him about those figures, and if he's going to be giving the
Presentation again, Brother Charlie wants to be able to quote the source,
because a lot of people don't believe he knew what he was talking about when he
said it.
"Of
1,000 girls who became pregnant out of wedlock, 984 committed fornication while
Rock music was being played." That was what Brother Charlie said as part
of his Presentation. It was after that the kids at Lakewood Baptist
Church decided to burn
their Rock records. [...]
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Lewiston Morning Tribune, 11 December 1975, p. 6A
Minister
links music immorality
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) -- [...] The 25-year-old
minister has studied effects of pop music on youths for almost four years and
says his survey of high schools in north Florida supports a 1968 poll which he
says revealed that 984 out of a sampling of 1,000 girls who became pregnant out
of wedlock were listening to rock music during fornication. [...]
Rolling Stone, 12 February 1976, p. 15
Fahrenheit
250: Florida Minister, Flock, Fire Rock
By
Michael Bane
[...]
What's wrong with [those records], according to Brother Charlie, is their
appeal to the flesh; a sensuous, slithering quality that apparently sends
youngsters scrambling for the bedroom. In fact, he adds, of 1000 girls who
became pregnant out of wedlock, 984 committed fornication while rock music was
being played. Brother Charlie cites a 1968 issue of Time magazine as his source, but neither the magazine nor Frank
Garlock, the Bob Jones University teacher who inspired Brother Charlie while he
was still a student at Tennessee Temple College in Chattanooga, can document
the elusive reference. "I never heard of it before," says Garlock
over the telephone, gently but firmly extricating himself from the ministry of
Charlie Boykin. "I try to steer away from sensational things like that
statistic." [...]
Linda
Martin and Kerry Segrave, Anti-Rock: The
Opposition to Rock 'n' Roll (Da Capo Press, 1993), p. 284.
Perhaps,
however, Boykin got the pregnancy theory, if not the actual statistics, from
the Population Institute in New York
City. In 1975 this organization felt there was a link
between rock lyrics and the rise in the number of unwed mothers. The institute
started a project to "raise the consciousness of the record industry"
even though they admitted there was "no statistical evidence linking any
one song to the sharp increase in the number of U.S. teenagers having pregnancies
outside wedlock."
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Lowell Sun [MA], 15 April 1975, p. 27
Campaign
underway to clean up some rock lyrics
By
David T. Cook
Christian
Science Monitor
WASHINGTON -- A campaign has begun to clean up the lyrics of
popular songs that glorify childbearing outside a formal family setting to a
largely teen-age audience.
More
responsible rock record lyrics could play a part in solving the rapidly rising
number of unmarried teen-age mothers, some population experts say.
The
Population Institute, a New York City-based organization supplying information
on population matters recently started a three-year project to "raise the
consciousness of the record industry," says Norman Fleishman, West Coast
director of the Institute.
The
Population Institute admits that it has no statistical evidence linking any one
song to the sharp increase in the number of U.S. teenagers having pregnancies
outside of wedlock. [...]
