I started in music radio but swerved into talk radio to be like Joe Franklin, God rest his soul. A new book by a man ironically named Weisbard chronicles the creation of Top 40 radio and how it has pulled the world along its enchantingly rhythmic path. ^^^ Booker T & The MGs "Green Onions" (1962) brought a Memphis groove to the world in the years prior to the civil rights marches later that decade. FROM THE ROOTS TO THE RAUNCH Today, a significant portion of music is not safe for radio airplay without masking N-words, F-words, GD references, and brutally misogynistic lyrics that diminish women to little more than objects of male sexual gratification. Much of today's hit music also swirls