Old song titles that would raise eyebrows today

Whistle
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I just finished a reference question for several seniors looking for lyrics/music to songs of 1910’s, 20’s, 30’s and 40’s and as I was going through the indexes with them, I found titles of songs that may not travel well today if sung.

“Kiss Me Good Night Sergeant-Major”

“Man in a Raincoat”

“Which Way You Goin Billy?”

“(I Got Spurs) Jingle Jangle Jingle”

“Madelon (I’ll Be True To The Whole Regiment)”

For the Taliban: “I’ll See You In C-U-B-A”

Do you have any more titles to songs that may be misinterpreted or raise an eyebrow if sung today?

MarkB

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OMG!!! I remember that song!!! Which Way you Goin Billy. Shudder. A piece of pop sentimentality if I ever heard it.

I think these would only raise eyebrows if you have a gutter mind. Which is why I get a rise out of them. :laughing:

Here’s a couple:

Aqueous Transmission
Bang
Between Angels and Insects
Blow the man down
Blow me up

I’ll try to find some.

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andrea’s eyebrows raised

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:really:

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I seem to remember an Irish tune called Jenny Cock Your Beaver…really

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My sister asked me to buy her an old Elvis Presley album. The title: He Touched Me. :slight_smile:

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wazzup? :smiley:

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country song: “My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, and I Miss Him”

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From Handel’s Messiah:

“Oh, We like Sheep”

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Fanny Power (course I actually knew a young woman name of Fanny Powers)

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Barefoot and Pregnant and Unable to Vote


Okay, I made that one up.

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maybe “Beat me daddy, eight to the bar”?

And I still think “Black bottom” sounds funny.

Actually some of the titles you listed… I don’t get it. :blush: I guess I’m too naive or ignorant. Or innocent.

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Ummm… I think it’s “All we, like sheep, have gone astray.”

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If My Nose was Full of Dollars, I’d Blow it All On You (a)

I’ve Got a Luvverly Bunch of Coconuts

A Little Bit of Cucumber

Little Bit off the Top

Our Lodger’s Such a Nice Young Man

A Thing He Had Never Done Before

I’m Henery The Eighth (b)

Young Men Taken in and Done For

Pleasure Gardens

I Mustn’t Let Her See Me All At Once

Father Tried it On

You Can’t Get Many Pimples on a Pound of Pickled Pork (c)

You Can Do a Lot of Things at the Seaside

Honey Pie

Notes:

(a) OK, not a real song, but a great title of Tony Hawks’

(b) no double entendre, but it’s a great song!

(c) I love this title, but no double entendre, sorry!

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Though not a song, this title works for me:

Fasten The Leg In Her.

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I’ve always been suspect of that homosexual Christmas carol.

You know, the one that goes “Don we now our gay apparel…”

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And the one that proves the Seven Dwarfs tried to save Roddy McCorley: ‘O see the host of three foot men…’

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What about “Does my ring hurt your finger”?

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Years ago when I was stationed in New Brunswick and the only radio station that we could get besides the CBC was a station from Fredericton and it play country and western music only, some of us from Ontario were punished for our sins in loving rock&roll bigtime.

The announcer, one night had a bit of a slip of the tongue and the title came out: “Does my finger hurt your ring!” The mess went crazy with laughter.

MarkB

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I’ve always thought that there was something a little wicked about “Sportin’ Paddy,” and that it would make a good band name. That way you could say “We’re Sportin’ Paddy!”