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Let's talk about sex (in music).....
Posted by Steve Hill on 10 December 2008 - 4:07pm.
Larry William's "Bony Moronie" came on my ipod on shuffle mode earlier and features a chorus got me thinking. The chorus is (of course) "I love her, and she loves me, boy, how happy we can be,makin love underneath the apple tree". It was the "making love" reference that had me puzzled. It was a hit in 1958 (just checked the Guiness book of British hit singles) and to my 37yr old years it seems quite a racy lyric for the late 50's. Even 63/64 etc the Beatles, Stones and Kinks weren't as expicit. I know that Blues music was far filthier and in an earlier period but I'm referring to general radio friendly pop music. Was this the earliest obvious mention of sex in music?
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well there was
the song the snake sung to Eve, or maybe one of the temptress from later books in bible, then there's a large number of english folk songs, music hall tunes....
Yup
I know what your saying but I was referring to "general radio friendly pop music"- i.e. top 40 pop music played on the radio your parents would like. You know what I mean ;)
Making love
Often used to mean any kind of affection or wooing, not neccesarily sex.
The OED's earliest reference is: 1567 'The attire of a Cortisan, or woman makynge loue' from Bandello's Certaine Tragicall Disc.
Their earliest reference in which 'making love' means sex (though many of the earlier ones have double meanings, or at least seem that way to me) is: 1927 J. S. BOLAN Deposition in L. Schlissel 3 Plays Mae West 'Jimmy embraces Margie LaMont and goes through with her the business of making love to her by lying on top of her on a couch, each embracing the other.'
That's brilliant
Gatz,
Great post. Cheers.
PG Wodehouse...
...often talked of people 'making love' when he was implying little more than 'chatting up'
Making Love
Yeah, cheers Stimpy. I think i've taken the 2008 view of "making love" and transported it back to 1958. I stand corrected.
Motto
Didn't Regal Zonophone have a motto...
"It it aint Regal, it aint worth makin love with"
Makin' Whoopee
Nudge nudge. Wink wink.
P.S. is it me or does Eddie Cantor have a look of Pete Doherty about him. Must be the hat...
If you want to squirm while listening to your iPod in public
try one of the wonderfully bawdy blues albums by Dana Gillespie.
For example, "It Ain't The Meat It's The Motion" isn't what you want on the stereo when the vicar calls round for tea.
Been there, done that, bought the T-Shirt!
I have that very song on my ipod and I have sat on a train listening to it surrounded by secretaries, school girls etc. It's so weird, you don't know where to look, squirm is the word and the fact that no-one else knows why you're uncomfortable (and probably look it) makes it even more uncomfortable.
I got it off a compilation album called "Ride Daddy Ride, Vintage Songs About Sex 1927 - 1953." I recommend it if you haven't already got it.
Some of the other titles on the disc include...
"Move Your Hand Baby"
"You Put It In, I'll Take It Out"
"Sweet Honey Hole"
"She Keeps Sitting On It All the Time"
and most memorably
"Poon Tang"
Whilst we're on the subject...
In a similar vein, no one ejaculates in fiction anymore, at least not as often as Holmes and Dr Watson.