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travisgreyfox wrote:Blind Boy Fuller-Whats That Smells Like Fish (1938) is pretty risque. Unless of course it is a song about seafood


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVShoAWp00

Or Georgia White’s Hot Nuts (1934)
(You buy em from the peanut man)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETFtOirbfCQ

Is this non-PC/offensive, because if Georgia has them, she's really a tranny? "Anybody here want to buy 'my' nuts? I've got nuts for sale..."
Otherwise, it's just a stupid song (IMO) about boiled peanuts...

The double entendre king from the age of phonographs (1931) is Harry Roy & His Orchestra, singing about his girlfriend's cat...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
(1939) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skx3qNB ... Xo&index=2

AND, he actually did some Irving Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMRrCBUKCFs

Curt A wrote:Is this non-PC/offensive, because if Georgia has them, she's really a tranny? "Anybody here want to buy 'my' nuts? I've got nuts for sale..."
Otherwise, it's just a stupid song (IMO) about boiled peanuts...

I thought there was a double entendre in it... Sorry.

Now this would fall into the unPC category. I know Arthur Godfrey was being humorous with this one, but today I think this would raise a few eyebrows...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyF3pKi_wE4

How about the song"My Handy Man"by Ethel Waters.Or "Max From the Income Tax"by Sophie Tucker on Mercury?Those are double entendre songs.edisonplayer

AmberolaAndy wrote:

Curt A wrote:Is this non-PC/offensive, because if Georgia has them, she's really a tranny? "Anybody here want to buy 'my' nuts? I've got nuts for sale..."
Otherwise, it's just a stupid song (IMO) about boiled peanuts...

I thought there was a double entendre in it... Sorry.

Don't be sorry, that was just a poor attempt on my part to make an un-PC joke... That song was probably meant to be a double entendre selection... It just missed the mark, at least to me... What do I know?

That Arthur Godfrey song had to be one of the most obnoxious and abusive songs of that era... "Slap Her Down Again Paw" is recorded like some type of comedy song, when in reality it sounds like a bunch of toothless rednecks in a dysfunctional family - absolutely nothing humorous about it.

When I was a kid watching the Arthur Godfrey Show on TV, I thought Arthur Godfrey was a decent performer... guess I was wrong. Anybody who could sing that and record it, had to be a couple of cards short of a full deck... Maybe his next hit record should have been: "Beat 'em With Your Belt, Paw and Chain 'em To Their Beds"...

Curt A wrote:..........When I was a kid watching the Arthur Godfrey Show on TV, I thought Arthur Godfrey was a decent performer...

(Off Topic to OP):

Not so decent. In fact, what he did to try to dismantle the budding career of Julius La Rosa is one of the legendary albeit infamous moments of broadcast history -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s75wpdiri8

OrthoFan

OrthoFan wrote:

Curt A wrote:..........When I was a kid watching the Arthur Godfrey Show on TV, I thought Arthur Godfrey was a decent performer...

(Off Topic to OP):

Not so decent. In fact, what he did to try to dismantle the budding career of Julius La Rosa is one of the legendary albeit infamous moments of broadcast history -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s75wpdiri8

OrthoFan

Thanks for posting the link - I remember Julius LaRosa, but never knew what happened to him - I was four years old at the time... Art really was an arrogant A$$...
My opinion has changed... Art is a candidate for the most offensive performer of that time, not only was his song crap, but so was his ego...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned farting records like the Lord Windamere against some other guy contest. I have to hear it again every time I go to a phonograph event with a friend because he likes it! There's even a record from the late 30s, I think, by Rudy Vallee who introduces a guy who farts his way through a song. Vallee must have been on hard times by the late 30s to stoop that low!