You must not have been a pop music fan in the summer of 1963, when "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" was one of my favorite songs. Interestingly, another of my favorites was "Blowin' in the Wind" by Peter, Paul & Mary. This was long before I discovered that it was a Communist song.
I sure hope nothing bad ever comes out on “Captain Kangaroo”.
Something did. In 1977, he had a radio program called "Young People." On one of these broadcasts, he praised the ultra-radical feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin. But I gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumned that he was unaware of her radical background.
Too funny....
MTV wasn’t a bad station in the early days, when they played just music videos. I would say the golden era was from 1981 to about 1995. That’s when they started showing much less music and much more “tv shows”. Now it is a running joke that MTV even plays music at all.