ABSTRACT
In the public mind the radical Right is a collection of "little old ladies in tennis shoes" allied with southern segregationists and Minutemen obsessed with putting prayers back into classrooms, getting the US out of the United Nations and opposing fluoridation. Each foray undertaken by the radical Right is believed to be an assault on the machinations of an international Communist conspiracy. Fluoridation, school-board elections and Supreme Court decisions all have been pawns in that imagined conspiracy. Unlike most radical Right charges the drug-song issue was taken over by a number of more dignified public figures and politicians. By mid-1971 nearly all of the threats perceived by the radical Right from popular music had disappeared. Happily for the recording industry, the radical Right’s ability to impose its will is not uniform. The impact of the radical Right and the Federal Communications Commission upon the record industry is problematic. Neither possesses the power of program directors or company accounting departments.
