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Title: Do you boys wanna get in touch with your FEM SIDES?
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Published: Jun 18, 2012
Author: HOUNDDAWG Q. Schwartz
Post Date: 2012-06-19 00:37:45 by HOUNDDAWG
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Views: 530
Comments: 25
Poster Comment: I'm feeling my "Roots" tonight (My real name is Kunte Kinte "Toby the HOUNDDAWG" Goldblatt-Schwartz) so I thought I'd share some fascinating Manhattan parlor trivia with you good people. This song may have been less slightly disturbing as originally written for a man. But when rewritten and released by CHARLENE in 1977 and again in 1982 (!) it was, A) a fluffy melodic song, B) by a talented vocalist, C) with lyrics that still make me wanna ralph thirty six years later. It's one thing for a man to talk about going around the world. (literally and well, the other way too) But, swapping the gender and singing the line, "I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see".... is unsettling enough, at least to me. BUT, there's no way in Hell I'd have ever been talked into singing, "I've been undressed by queens and I've seen some things that a (thweet boy?) ain't th'posed to theee". Not even for a queen's ransom, you understand. I'm betting that no straight male vocalist or even closeted butch would agree to sing the male version of the tune, resulting in the controversial song that decades later was featured in PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT a film that was rivaled only by Patrick Swazey's Trannies-on-the-road film, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Both films are proof that real pros will take any role if their egos and bank accounts are fattened enough. Which is why Frank Sinatra would never have allowed himself to be ranked among real pro actors. Remember John Travolta as Edna Turnblad? It's all coming together now, huh? A real pro will live the role, even going so far as "learning to like the taste of..." never mind.) And, it's no different for singers. Charlene had to know that at the very least her song would be a screaming hit among the The Stonewall Rioters just as my former teenaged band mate Pamala Stanley knew when she recorded her hit, COMING OUT OF HIDING. Pamala is now the first call grand opening queen of bejeweled gay nightclubs, cabarets and cruise ship circuits. And to think that when we were young pros she was the little Pollyanna who heeded the warning to "beware the seducer" and stay way from me because I allowed an older "patroness of the arts" to shower me with expensive gifts, and other things.... The chivalrous band leader even put us on opposite sides of the front line "as a precaution." So, as a crusty shell of the pro I once was I'm thinking, "What could be worse?" If back then my only career options were either singing "IT" or playing lead guitar and singing with The New York Dolls, "Well, if androgyneeng is all I sing, I'd rather drive a truck." (apologies to "Pat" and the Rick Nelson Estate) The confirmation that I'm not alone in my interpretation of the song's murky orientation is the following saturation, a conflagration that some believe could threaten America's founding institations. (sorry) Please peruse the following stinky facts if you dare.
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#1. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
That song always bugged me. Kinda catchy though. I won't play it because I don't want it to be stuck in my head all night.
Honestly I had nothing better to do than listen to it. "but I've never been to me". That's corny. Wth does that mean?
Apparently, regrets for whoring around with rich guys, no children due to abortion and/or needing to be free of kids so she can keep whoring around. And now too old to make a different choice. Like many songs, it starts out one way. But ends on a very different note.
That made me laff!
In light of the new ground broken by the Vagina Monologues, it could be the touching story of a young girl who never owned a mirror, or wasn't resourceful enough to use one she had.
If you click the link you can read where they went to great lengths to deny the abortion angle, and if the song was originally written for a man it could be true. But, if added during rewrite then I'd say it leaves no other plausible explanation of the lyrics' meaning. They can't deny that they were going for the shock effect, specifically as a slap in the puss to the dominant feminists of the 70's whose platform included abortion as a sacred plank of "women's lib." And hey, I thought it was great when the gals were slinging that pooty around under the "umbrella of freedom" provided by Gloria Steinem, (a babe) Helen Gurley Brown, (a looker about 70 years ago) and Betty Friedan. (homelier than hammered DAWG SHIT-she couldn't get poked in a cat house for the blind) Of course being a young musician during the height of LIB I damn near expired from sexual exhaustion. At 19 I was treated for a strained prostate. Needless to say, I had to cut down on drinking so much coffee! ;)
hate it when that happpens Very few people would agree that the phrase "unborn children" refers to children that you wish you might have had. The phrase has a strong connection legally with unborn children who were killed in an accident or violent crime. Many states have laws on the books about this. The other use of the phrase is by pro-lifers who use it to refer to a fetus, the phrase by which the pro-aborts minimize an unborn child to being no more than a cancerous tumor to be removed. Whether unintentionally or not, if a vast majority of your audience thinks the song is about abortion, then it's about abortion. Period.
I’ve had a slice of your paradise Now I’m lookin for a place throw You rubbed my nose in your every vice (pause) Think I’ll play Hank Snow . . . (were you and Buddy Holly ever seen together?) Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson AAARRRGGG!!!! My ears are burnin'! Input from my little one: Ohhhhh, that was such a LAME song......I hate it. lol " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
I agree.
Juth thop it now! You will incur the wrath of Lady Lindthey Graham and s/he will thtomp her widdle foot! Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Wow, Mr. Lod, you're right. That song is right up there with Martina McBride's "liberation of the trailer bound house frau" stuff. And I really hate that shit!
Input from my little one: Ohhhhh, that was such a LAME song......I hate it. lol Well said. And I have to wonder, who was the flaming asshole who re-released the song five years after the initial release where it climbed to 3# on the charts? (it was #97 the first time) And, what was the message then?
funny ;)
she does have a pretty melodic voice....and now the song is in my head.
Ani DiFranco- Lost Woman Song That song is perfect for Pricilla, Queen of the Desert, but it is too soapy and saccharin sweet, and for the life of me I can't think of one woman it fits. Songs about and done by women by far are my favorite. But unless the song is witty, song with guts, feeling and are well written, I can do without them. Juth thop it now! You will incur the wrath of Lady Lindthey Graham and s/he will thtomp her widdle foot! I'd be willing to bet my picture of Sgt. York's saintly mother (that I keep in my wallet) that Lindsey Graham is yet another closeted MC who voted for The Defense Of Marriage ACT (more aptly named, "Defense Of The CHRISTIAN BELIEFS ACT, i.e. "Marriage is an institution created by GAWD!) to avoid scrutiny of his personal cravings. Perhaps he didn't know know that the "Professional Outers" would target him more than the general public because of his smokescreen, "get tuff on queers" voting record. And my munny sayz that he enjoys a nice vanilla stiffy bar now and then. "Excuse me, which one is Senator Graham?" "Oh, he's the one who makes a yummy sound every time that hunky, broad shouldered page walks by!" You show me a 56 yr old senior senator from South Carolina who's never been married and I'll show you a profound hermaphrodite..... or a man for other mysterious reasons has not ever adored a woman.
Indeed she does, sweetness. And, I suppose she did what she had to do to grab the brass ring on the music biz merry go round. But just DAYUM! I'd rather be remembered for recording the, Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel theme song. "Oh, sum folks'll never eat a skunk but then again sum folks'll....that's Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel." sum folks'll never lose a toe but then again sum folks'll....that's Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel."
I guess that makes it official, you're my idol. "Oh, he's the one who makes a yummy sound every time that hunky, broad shouldered page walks by!" You show me a 56 yr old senior senator from South Carolina who's never been married and I'll show you a profound hermaphrodite..... or a man for other mysterious reasons has not ever adored a woman. Yeah, Lady Lindthey's mama probably cries herself to sleep over what she brought into the world. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Yup! He's the son she never had. And, like all kids he no doubt disappeared for hours on warm summer days, and his folks had to take his word for his account of his activities. Although I have my suspicions I don't know and I don't want to know what he was really doing.
Regarding your sig, "MY MAN GODFREY-1936" I love that film, and William Powell was at his finest in that flick. Carole Lombard was cute as the ditzy kid sister, but it actually detracted from her sex appeal. I mean stupid chix like that are ok for a quick BJ, but, would you wanna marry one? In the book "Gable & Lombard & Powell & Harlow" (if memory serves) I read that she regularly endured the pain of bleaching her nether regions so cuffs and collar would match.
Good one! Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
#2. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
#3. To: wudidiz, HOUNDDAWG (#2)
Honestly I had nothing better to do than listen to it. "but I've never been to me". That's corny. Wth does that mean?
"Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children that might have made me complete
But I took the sweet life, I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet
I've spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free"
#4. To: wudidiz (#1)
That song always bugged me. Kinda catchy though. I won't play it because I don't want it to be stuck in my head all night.
#5. To: wudidiz (#2)
Honestly I had nothing better to do than listen to it. "but I've never been to me". That's corny. Wth does that mean?
#6. To: TooConservative, wudidiz, whatitbee, (#3)
Apparently, regrets for whoring around with rich guys, no children due to abortion and/or needing to be free of kids so she can keep whoring around.
#7. To: HOUNDDAWG (#6)
damn near expired from sexual exhaustion
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
#8. To: HOUNDDAWG (#6)
If you click the link you can read where they went to great lengths to deny the abortion angle
#9. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
#10. To: HOUNDDAWG, 4 (#0)
another bad-idea song -
#11. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
#12. To: TooConservative (#8)
Whether unintentionally or not, if a vast majority of your audience thinks the song is about abortion, then it's about abortion. Period.
#13. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
(Edited)
BUT, there's no way in Hell I'd have ever been talked into singing, "I've been undressed by queens and I've seen some things that a (thweet boy?) ain't th'posed to theee".
#14. To: Lod (#10)
#15. To: abraxas (#11)
AAARRRGGG!!!! My ears are burnin'!
#16. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
BUT, there's no way in Hell I'd have ever been talked into singing, "I've been undressed by queens and I've seen some things that a (thweet boy?) ain't th'posed to theee".
#17. To: HOUNDDAWG, wudidiz (#0)
#18. To: wudidiz (#1)
#19. To: James Deffenbach (#13)
BUT, there's no way in Hell I'd have ever been talked into singing, "I've been undressed by queens and I've seen some things that a (thweet boy?) ain't th'posed to theee".
#20. To: christine (#17)
she does have a pretty melodic voice....and now the song is in my head.
#21. To: HOUNDDAWG (#20)
(Edited)
I'd rather be remembered for recording the, Cletus The Slack- Jawed Yokel theme song.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#22. To: HOUNDDAWG (#19)
"Excuse me, which one is Senator Graham?"
#23. To: James Deffenbach (#22)
Yeah, Lady Lindthey's mama probably cries herself to sleep over what she brought into the world.
#24. To: Esso, christine (#21)
#25. To: HOUNDDAWG (#23)
Yup! He's the son she never had.
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