Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry
Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry
Occasionally, I will hear someone from my age bracket bemoaning the 'state of modern music' and 'filthy lyrics'. So I have to haul this one out and tell them this was 1935. We old heads tend to look back at history with thick, rose colored glasses.
The interesting thing to me is that if you flash forward to the late 60's, a band named Rolling Stones lifted Lucille Bogan's phrase 'make a dead man cum', and used it in the final refrains of 'Can't Get No Satisfaction'.
I can't find any evidence of the song getting any kind of radio play, and certainly wouldn't get air play on 'white' radio. I'm sure tho it was played in juke joints and dance halls.