Regular visitors to JOKONKY know that each volume of LOOSE is chock-full of songs about what itches, & how people choose to scratch it. But this one includes my nomination for the dirtiest song of the 70’s: Simon & Garfunkel’s Cecila. “Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia, up in my bead room. I got up to wash my face… when I come back to bed, someone’s taking my place.” Wash your face, indeed, Mr. Simon. As the old joke goes, Paul is a "cunning linguist."
Britain’s bawdy balladeers include Ian Hunter, Alex Harvey, Giggles, & Babe Ruth. There are a couple tracks by R&B cats: Amos Milburn & Al Copley, a couple by power poppers: Alex Chilton, Morningwood. There are a couple by new wavers Devo & Nervous Eaters (who “want a little more, from the girl, the girl next door”).
Dancing and loose behavior are tightly linked--and represented here by Chic & Sin With Sebastian. Describing the funnier side of sleazy behavior falls to Tom Lehrer & Jim Stafford.
Even though heavyweights like Todd Rundgren, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils & The Pandoras weigh in, the best track by far is PHIL LEE’s You Should Have Known Me Then, in the course of which, Phil recounts how: “every night I’d go to bed, my head between two boobs.” Big deal. So did Larry Fine.
Nevertheless, you can check Phil Lee out here: https://philleeone.bandcamp.com/album/you-should-have-known-me-then and you can find the link to your JOKONKY Christmas present in the comment section! Ho-Ho-Ho!
LOOSE! Vol. 5:
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I forgot to pose a question, so here it is: "What song gets YOUR vote as the dirtiest song of the 70's?" You're welcome to post what you want--but I'm thinking of songs that could actually get played on the radio (like CECELIA) but managed to be filthy nonetheless!
ReplyDeleteVindictive by The Slits.
ReplyDeleteSongs that get played on the radio? What radio? the PMRC radio? Independent radio? John Peel?
Here is a movie about Loose Morals. it is called Look Away and is about those cutie cutie Steve Taylor (Paedo) and Kim Fowley (Rapist)
https://mega.nz/file/MLdUjQBA#tovS3aXhHgyTeY-eYB2L1OlAzvPtBWcpZoHetEH-xCQ
"Look Away" is a documentary about the predatory relationships between underage girls and rock stars (Steven Tyler, Kim Fowley, Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Johnny Thunders, Axl Rose, Rodney Bingenheimer -- Mick Jagger, Don Henley and Ted Nugent should also be mentioned, and why not add Bill Wyman). Chuck Berry and Gary Glitter are among the few who were actually convicted of it. Unfortunately it's a phenomenon that has been celebrated in song since the 1950's, and a story that has been repeated over and over again (recently with Burger Records, the many accusations against Marilyn Manson and Drake, etc.)
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Larry Fine going to bed with two boobs.....I love it
ReplyDeleteThere has been a lot of reggae dirty music. For me Hacka Tacka Music by Baba and Roody has always been a filthy dirty guilty pleasure.
ReplyDeleteNice one again Stinky, thanks!
DeleteAgree with Richard, this one should be a worthy candidate for Vol. 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_Dream_(Max_Romeo_song)
Unfortunately Wet Dreams was released in 1968 (not 1970) where it got played twice by the BBC before being banned...
Thanks for the comments and contributions, youse guys. And Anonymous, songs that could get played on 1970's radio, of course!
ReplyDeleteThanks for another volume Stinky! Unfortunately my mind usually draws a blank when confronted by these queries. I'm thinking there's probably lots of disco songs with suggestive lyrics but nothing comes to mind. Umm... maybe Billy Squier's ode to the hand job, "Stroke It"?!? Not sure if he is encouraging the listener to pleasure themselves or instructing a companion to pleasure him but in either case we know someone's going to end up going blind.
ReplyDelete"disco songs with suggestive lyrics" -- you mean like Grace Jones' "Pull Up To The Bumper"? "Is It All Over My Face" by Loose Joints? How about "If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It" by Kellee Patterson, Jeanny Reynolds' "Fruit Song" and "(Push Push" In The Bush" by Musique?
DeleteYeah, like those!!
DeleteThanks, Mr. Dave, & who knew Jonder was such a Disco Duck? - Stinky
ReplyDeleteI can't believe we missed a classic 1972 'lewd' song that was banned for a while by the BBC, but still reached No. 1! Plus its 1962 original...
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Can't think of punk or punk-adjacent songs that fit the bill but Black Flag's "Slip It In" came to mind the other day for some reason
ReplyDeleteI suggested the Channel 3 song "Wet Spots" for this series. Also just remembered the disco tune "Ring My Bell".
DeleteNow this might seem like cheating, but here's a 70s recording that not only "could" but DID "actually get played on the radio" -- while most certainly managing "to be filthy nonetheless." That was back when listening to the Rodney show, with or without friends, was sort of an event in its own right, and I well remember the (admittedly mean-spirited) mirth occasioned by the song's debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtASyCinfc .
ReplyDeleteThe back story for the whole thing, at least as recounted by one of the band's founder-members, is also quite entertaining: http://www.breakmyface.com/bands/rotters.html .
Just listened to it, hilarious! Thanks Crab Devil.
DeleteSqueezebox - The Who, Big Ten Inch Record - Aerosmith, Suffragette City - David Bowie (Wam Bam Thank You Ma'am), sneaking in an early 80's - Pearl Necklace - ZZ Top
ReplyDeleteGreat suggestions. Stinky has included Aerosmith and ZZ Top in his volumes of LOOSE, but how about "Tube Snake Boogie" -- there's an untapped vein!
DeleteNot to mention Ted Nugent and his ham-fisted double entendres.
Yes, thanks, Crab Devil! Good one!
ReplyDeleteJon: I know ZZ Top's Pearl Necklace is on one volume, & I don't think I could have missed Tube Snake Boogie...
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are on future volumes that you haven't posted yet? I did see Big Ten Inch Record...
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