Old song titles that would raise eyebrows today

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:43 am

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

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:55 am

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.

Here's a couple:

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

I'll try to find some.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:58 am

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I think these would only raise eyebrows if you have a gutter mind.
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andrea's eyebrows raised

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:26 pm

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:56 pm

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

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:09 pm

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

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:19 pm

aderyn_du wrote:

wazzup?

dapple · Post by **dapple** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:30 pm

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

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:58 pm

From Handel's Messiah:

"Oh, We like Sheep"

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:00 pm

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

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:15 pm

Barefoot and Pregnant and Unable to Vote

Okay, I made that one up.

pearl grey · Post by **pearl grey** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:22 pm

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.

I guess I'm too naive or ignorant. Or innocent.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:37 am

Nanohedron wrote:From Handel's Messiah:

"Oh, We like Sheep"

Ummm... I think it's "All we, like sheep, have gone astray."

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:05 am

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!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:11 am

Though not a song, this title works for me:

Fasten The Leg In Her.