The Pillby Loretta Lynn

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"The Pill" is a comic-tinged song about birth control. The song's discussion led to a number of country radio stations refusing to play it in the 70s and they still won't play it. LAME.

She says it all! For as much as Loretta Lynn is known as one of country music’s most traditional-minded legends, this 1975 single was far from the norm: a song about birth control. The singer was very frank and concise in her attempt to go where no woman in the format had gone before. Radio wasn’t too keen on the unorthodox nature of the song, as several stations banned it from their playlist. LOL THEM. Needless to say, it didn’t work, as the song became one of her best remembered recordings.

She says it all!