Friday, April 8, 2011
RUTH BROWN - DADDY DADDY
"Daddy Daddy" was the kind of song we danced to when I was in high school. Yes, I know. "Daddy Daddy" is naughty naughty, and I could not own this type of song at the time. Where would I play the record? On the family Victrola? I don't think so. Almost all the rock and roll songs of the period had naughty lyrics.
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We danced to such music too, but I don't remember, Daddy, Daddy. It probably didn't come to New Hampshire or the DJ at the CYO Friday night dances didn't play it.
ReplyDeleteAmelia, no indeed! The early rhythm and blues songs were never played at the CYO dances.
ReplyDeleteI don’t remember this song, either—I was about six at the time—but it was fun to hear. Of course, I’m hoping that rock and roll is just a fad.
ReplyDeleteR&R is surely just a fad, Lionel. It will be history in another 50 years, or so.
ReplyDeleteI also remember "Work With Me Annie" and "Sixty Minute Man" and we knew what they meant reading between the lines..
ReplyDeleteHi David. The two songs you mention were amongst the most popular in our set at the time.
ReplyDeletePerfectly innocent. Nothing there. Move along. Or so I told myself. :-)
If you think "Daddy Daddy" is "naughty naughty", check 1927's Hot Dog Man, here performed by Butterbeans & Susie, not, as the poster mistakenly believes, by Bessie Smith.
ReplyDeleteLapin, the songs of the Roaring Twenties were not bad at naughty double entendres. Did you see the comments?
ReplyDelete"this is pure filth".
"Pure filth? Isn't that an oxymoron?"
"I've got a hot-dog stand"!
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