what was the first popular music song to ever feature a commonly used bad word?”
Perhaps the earliest usage of the word in popular music was the 1938 Eddy Duchin release of the Louis Armstrong song “Ol’ Man Mose”. The words created a scandal at the time, resulting in sales of 170,000 copies during the Great Depression years when sales of 20,000 were considered blockbuster. The verse reads: (We believe) He kicked the bucket, (We believe) Yeah man, buck-buck-bucket, (We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol’ man mose is dead, (We believe) Ahh, fu*k it! (We believe) Buck-buck-bucket, (We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol’ man mose is dead. I hate to just paste in a quote from the Wikipedia and move on, so as a bonus I’ll tell you that I read that M*A*S*H was the first feature film to
