The banned titles were posted yesterday on the CHUM-owned CP24 Web site. Calls placed by The Sun to CHUM AM program director Brad Jones were not returned.

The Shirelles had a No. 1 hit with Soldier Boy in 1962. Original member Beverly Lee maintains that it was just a simple love song. "This song served as an anchor to many many loved ones throughout the Vietnam era," she said yesterday.

Lee and the current Shirelles are scheduled to appear at Casino Rama June 6 as part of a Dick Clark tour of rock 'n' roll bands. Their manager and musical director,

John Hughes

, has heard of no other radio station in North America blacklisting Soldier Boy. "It's not a pro-war song, it's a love song," he said.

VIDEOS PULLED

The CHUM ban follows news that MTV Europe has yanked several music videos in an attempt to keep disturbing images and war themes off screens during the Iraqi conflict. Paul Hardcastle's 19 and

Outkast's Bombs Over Baghdad

are both verboten on MTV Europe for the duration of the war. So is

Boom! by System Of A Down

, an anti-war video depicting Iraq war casualties.

A stranger decision is yanking anything by The B52s, who have apparently been deemed inappropriate just because they're named after a fabled American bomber. Aerosmith's Don't Want To Miss A Thing (featuring scenes from the disaster movie Armageddon), Radiohead's Invasion and You, Me And World War Three by Gavin Friday are also benched, as is

Billy Idol's Hot In The City

(which features footage of an atomic explosion).

A spokesman for the digital network MTV Canada says they have not altered their playlist. "Canada is a different environment," said communications supervisor Alexis Walker.

CHUM-owned MuchMusic

also has no such no-no list said public affairs vice president Sarah Crawford. "MuchMusic is not going to pretend that there is not a war going on," said Crawford, who notes that the station has already produced one MuchTalks war special. But she insisted that no specific artists or songs have been delisted for airplay during the war. "Basically, we don't come up with lists," she said, adding that she hasn't seen one e-mail from a viewer upset at any Much video content since the conflict began.

Much senior music programmer Craig Halket recalled that certain videos were yanked post 9/11 but he couldn't recall any band being blacklisted at this time. "In a situation like this, it always comes down to a case-by-case basis," he said.

After 9/11, U.S. radio giant Clear Channel Communications sent their 1,200 stations a list of more than 150 songs deemed "questionable." Recommended for removal at that time were

Steve Miller's Jet Airliner

, R.E.M.'s It's

The End Of The World As We Know It

and

Peter Paul and Mary

Leavin' On A Jet Plane

. Even songs by artist killed in plane crashes, such as

Ricky Nelson

and

Buddy Holl

y, were deemed disturbing, as, incredibly, was The Bangles'

Walk Like An Egyptian