A racist lie about kidnapping and torture helped make a #1 hit in 1971

In the Summer of 1971, the song Indian Reservation, by Paul Revere and The Raiders, shot up the charts, hitting #1 on July 24.

And just about every time the song was played on the countdown of the internationally syndicated radio show, "American Top 40," host Casey Kasem would recount, with varying degrees of detail, the "incredible" story behind its writing. — Read the rest

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