Hoover’s FBI attempted to censor country singer Merle Travis’ subversive worker’s rights song “Sixteen Tons” off the radio — it instead became the fastest-selling single in Capitol Records’ history.

After a local Memphis radio DJ kept calling Otis Redding “Mr. Pitiful” due to the sad songs he sung, Otis responded by writing is soon-to-be hit song of the same name. Jimi Hendrix covered it.

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