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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 :lol:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVShoAWp00
Or Georgia White’s Hot Nuts (1934) :lol:
(You buy em from the peanut man)

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

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
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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
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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. :oops:
Don't be sorry, that was just a poor attempt on my part to make an un-PC joke... :lol: That song was probably meant to be a double entendre selection... It just missed the mark, at least to me... What do I know? :roll: :?
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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"... :roll:
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Curt A wrote:..........When I was a kid watching the Arthur Godfrey Show on TV, I thought Arthur Godfrey was a decent performer...
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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

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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...
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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

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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...
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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!
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