'One Toke Over the Line': How a Marijuana Song Became a Top 10 Folk-Rock Hit

This folk-rock hit climbed into the Billboard Top 10 even as government officials and radio stations targeted the song for banning.
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Tom Shipley, Whose Ode to Weed Reached the Top 10, Dies at 84

With their “One Toke Over the Line,” he and Michael Brewer saw a musical in-joke turn into a timeless cultural phenomenon. By Alex Williams Tom Shipley, half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, ...
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'One Toke Over the Line': How a Marijuana Song Became a Top 10 Folk-Rock Hit

In 1971, a folk-rock song about marijuana found itself at the center of a growing battle over what Americans could hear on the radio. Brewer & Shipley's "One Toke Over the Line" was released as a ...