Letters: Jul. 15, 1966

Rocks in the Wind

Sir: Anyone who can interpret Ray Charles's Let's Go Get Stoned as "a call to take part in a freedom march" [July 1] has scrambled eggs in the head. Are double-entendres in music new? Old songs like All or Nothing at All, All the Way and Come Fly with Me couldn't pass a purity test. Was Kern a dirty old man when he wrote Easy to Love! Was Hammerstein thinking lewd thoughts as he penned I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No?

CAROL COVIELLO New York City

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