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Golden Era songs with off-color subjects.

JimWagner

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Almost anything by Rusty Warren (50's) or Jackie Moms Mabley before that. Too many songs to list out just from those two.
 

Talbot

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I do remember one EXTREMELY EXTREMELY filthly and bad, naughty, risque song from the 1930s. It was so bad that the only way you could get a copy of it was through the underground music industry.

I forget the name of it, as well as the artist, though. It was a woman who sang it, though. I don't even dare to put the lyrics here!

EDIT.

Found it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ko2VXpW7_g

NOT for the easily offended.

And just think...this record is over 70 years old.

Leaves nothing to the imagination does it?

Here's me thinking the flip side of 'Dont mess around with love' by The Blenders was risque. Same song, the mess word was replaced with the F word.

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BinkieBaumont

Rude Once Too Often
"Talbot, thats really something to put on the Vitrola at debauched Hollywood parties at Ramon Novaro's place"

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[video=google;7636750021318894756]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7636750021318894756#[/video]
 
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CharlieB

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OK, "In The Mood", could be taken different ways. Maybe with a wink and a nudge, but, how many knew it was based on an older riff from a Fletcher Henderson tune called "Hot and Anxious"????
 

dhermann1

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I think I knew about that. I tend to think of the Joe Garland version, tho. I have a really neat air check from 1938 of the Artie Shaw version, pre Glenn Miller. It runs 6 full minutes. It was really Glenn Miller's arrangement that made that song, tho.
OK, back to topic.
 

Sarge

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I think this one definitely fits the bill.

[video=youtube;WIfcKy-VcXo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo[/video]
 

Wire9Vintage

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Wow... there really is *nothing* new under the sun, is there! I'd love to gather up all these smug young things today and play all of this for them and say, "See you aren't so cool and original at all, are you? In fact, you can't hold a candle to folks who've been dead for decades!"
 

Amy Jeanne

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I found that naughty little ditty I couldn't remember in a previous post in this thread. It's called "Something To Remember" by UNKNOWN. It's not X-rated nor does it use any bad language, but it does raise the eyebrows!! :D Here it is along with a few other "party records":

http://www.archive.org/details/UnknownArtist

More "party records" for your enjoyment:
http://www.archive.org/details/UnknownArtists

If anyone can ID these, that would be swell.
 

Shangas

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I don't know if anyone's mentioned this one yet, but there's a very famous 1926 song about transvestism...

[video=youtube;iSlfQ49Bq1s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSlfQ49Bq1s[/video]
 

rue

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My grandfather always asked my mom when she looked shocked over something ... "What? Do you think your generation invented sex?"

Kind of tame after most of these, but I think this is a bit off color:
[video=youtube;h_QfAzJP2Zo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_QfAzJP2Zo[/video]
 

Effingham

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Seeing Hoagy Carmichael there reminds me...

He was -- physically -- the model in Ian Fleming's mind for James Bond. So when you watch a Bond movie, don't see Sean, Roger, or whoever -- see Hoagy.

It'll blow your mind. :)
 

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