When Irish eyes weren’t smiling
When Gyles Brandreth honoured the splendid Leslie Caron for her Oldie of the Year Award at the Savoy, he remarked that the song Maurice Chevalier sang in the 1958 movie of Gigi might nowadays be cancelled. It begins, ‘Thank heaven for little girls/For little girls grow bigger every day…’
Actually, the song was banned – by Irish state radio, then called Radio Éireann. It was considered to be ‘suggestive’.
Radio Éireann (now RTE) also prohibited ‘I’d like to get, as well, took some time to be approved for broadcast.
