September 19

On the 19th in 1985, Tipper Gore, wife of then-senator Al Gore, together with three other women, all of them married to prominent Washington, D.C. figures, formed the Parents Music Resource Center. This was a group that wanted to censor pop music and remove all objectionable material from music that was available to impressionable children. It has yet to be confirmed that they discovered that when Pat Boone’s 1956 hit “Gee Whittaker!” is played backwards Boone was actually singing, “I am the anti-Christ and I’ve come for your children and cuddly house pets.”