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It’s not an orgy until someone runs out of butter.
01-01 Jan Garber & His Orchestra – Brunswick 8060 – Ten Pretty Girls (1938)
— unless you’re Mormon and the other nine are called “sisters”. A different Jan Garber song was in the running for this spot, “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” but already played it in an earlier show and there’s one upcoming where it would be a better spot for a replay.
01-02 Mark Eddie – Rock N Roll Cuts Part II 16 – O.R.G.Y (1998)
— don’t need ten like Jan, think it’s official anywhere over 4.
01-03 John Bishop – Love Shack OST – The Simple Things (2009)
— kudos for rhyming “MILFs all musty” with “trombone rusty”. That some of these phrases are a mystery means I’m not a bad person, not really, like not deep down a rotten person. Right?
01-04 Laura Lee – Chess 2013 – Dirty Man (1967)
— took a lot of self-control to not play this two weeks ago. One of 2 songs this week which spring to my mind all year-round.
01-05 Blondie – Blondie 101 – X Offender (1977)
— long had fantasies of putting together a playlist of smash debut tunes, as in track 1/side 1. Great ones from The Beatles and Tom Petty, here’s another sterling example.
01-06 Cherry Vanilla – Bad Girl 204 – Bad Girl (1978)
— the OTHER tune from this show which comes to mind unexpectedly all year long. Not a great song, but that vocal delivery… and there’s a burst of gratuitous weirdness a couple minutes in.
01-07 Dollyrots – National Lampoon Presents Endless Bummer OST 01 – Bad Reputation (2009)
— giving the ‘rots a try, since Queen Joan herself is coming to town next month!
02-01 Britney Spears – Britney 101 – I’m A Slave 4 U (2000)
— even 25 years later, still not sure if she’s saying “kitty” or “git it”. Ole Brit herself never suspected that in a few years she’d be singing this for a conservatorship judge.
02-02 Orla Gartland – Everybody Needs A Hero 03 – Little Chaos (2024)
— pushing her around is easy, it’s what she wants, but it comes with a price. The real liberation of a willing slave is the freedom to fuck shit up.
02-03 Chix 6 – The Superhero Is You 10 – Mama’s Lookin’ For A Sex Slave (2011)
— think it’s great songwriting that a whole verse is “shut up, shut up.”
02-04 Berlin – Pleasure Victim 103 – Sex (I’m A …) (1982)
— she’s a plethora of things, which is why the word “cunt” originally meant “secret song”.
02-05 Animotion – Mercury PH34 – Obsession (1985)
— DJs have a long proud 40-year tradition of pairing this Animotion with that Berlin, finally get my chance! A pure, traditional, DJ would preface the couplet with “Voulez Vous” by ABBA and endcap it with “Would You…” by Touch And Go, but neither really fits the filthy theme this week.
03-01 Tom Lehrer – More Of Tom Lehrer 204 – The Masochism Tango (1959)
— still in the Boston area at the time, fairly good probability that Tom was familiar with the more fetishy photosets of Bettie Page coming out of New York City.
03-02 Tutu & The Pirates – Sub-Urban Insult Rock For The Anti/Lectual 1977-1979 103 – Show Me You Love Me By Doing Me Harm
— perhaps the line of the show: “biting my legs and spreading disease”
03-03 XRay Spex – Virgin 189 – Oh Bondage Up Yours! (1977)
— released on the record label called “Virgin”. Ahhh, irony!
03-04 Jessie Hill – Minit 611 – Whip It On Me (1960)
— lots of this week’s songs cluster around 1960, the heyday of “camera clubs” which spread the Bettie Page “bondage” photos via sneakernet, sidestepping the post office and it’s funny old ‘rules’.
03-05 The Mal Thursday Quintet – Kitten With A Whip 01 – Kitten With A Whip (2023)
— credited for creating “a theme song for a movie which didn’t have one.” I support that work, eagerly await a new “Theme For Elsa: She-Wolf Of The SS”
03-06 The Del Rubio Triplets – Whip It 01 – Whip It (1991)
— a staple of nerdcore gets the Rubio treatment, emerging even nerdier.
03-07 Roger Alan Wade – All Likkered Up 10 – Fryin’ Bacon Nekkid (2005)
— betting he’s got a thing for candle wax too, that pervert. One audience member is audibly shushed by another, hilarious!
04-01 Johnny Mercer & Phil Silvers – Capitol 103 – Strip Polka (1942)
— note the release number, Capitol’s third 78rpm platter. On an earlier show we heard the first, now have to find out what was the 2nd! Yes, this is the Phil Silvers who was later in McHale’s Navy.
04-02 Mitchell Torok – Decca 30230 – What’s Behind The Strange Door (1957)
— always love the surname, sounds like it’s out of a scifi/fantasy comic book. This tune later taken as the unofficial theme song for the film “Behind The Green Door” which is a nasty crappy film but noted for bringing “normal people” into X-rated theaters for the first time.
04-03 Lou Reed – Transformer 105 – Walk On The Wild Side (1972)
— most of this isn’t considered “kinky” 50 years later.
04-04 Tony Butala – Topic 8001 – Long Black Stockings (1959)
— lower your voice like that today, and you’ll be reported.
04-05 unknown – Curly Toes
— presumably her debut single, and a career-ender all in one.
04-06 Mel Smith & The Night Riders – Sue 713 – Pretty Plaid Skirt (And Long Black Sox) (1959)
— leads off with them voodoo drums, note this for later…
05-01 Blue Devils – In Bed With Betty 101 – Betty Page (1995)
— despite lyrics in this set, she didn’t disappear without a trace in an act of delicious mystery. Despite a dozen years in pschywards for schizophrenia, she lived into her 80s, passing away in 2008.
05-02 Gretschen Hoener – A Tribute To Betty Page- Back To The 50’s 10 – Betty Page Is Back (1997)
— many tunes about her start off with wild Caribbean drums, owing to the rumor that when she lived in Key West she took a trip to Haiti and witnessed orgiastic rituals which scarred her for life… turning her into a born-again christian.
05-03 Al Quick & The Masochists – Ciao 001 – Theme From “The Sadistic Hypnotist” (1969)
— one crappy film which DID come with its own theme song, so The Mal Thursday Quintet doesn’t have to invent one. But certainly wish they’d cover it! And again, there’s them voodoo drums…
05-04 Mika Bomb – Hellcats 02 – Bettie Page (2005)
— was she really a psychopath, or was that a Baptist smear? Later expressed regret about doing nude photos and claimed that she wasn’t into whips and leather lingerie, but just posed however the photogs directed. However… as an accomplished seamstress, Bettie DID sew all her own costumes, and obviously not the ‘day of’ the shoot. In a murder trial, that would be the difference between 1st and 2nd degree.
05-05 Royal Crown Revue – The Contender 11 – Port-Au-Prince (Travels With Bettie Page) (1998)
— here’s Bettie in Haiti at last. Why the divergent spellings? She was born “Betty” but as a kid started spelling it “Bettie”. Gravestone says “Betty Mae Page”. I thought every Betty was officially an Elizabeth as far as death records, but what do I know?
05-06 Bob Marley – Total Sounds WIRL100 – Kinky Reggae (1976)
— finally at last, now know why that Rolling Stones tune isn’t scandalous for interracial love, but instead for the use of the sugar itself.
06-01 The Rivets – Yes It’s Time 206 – Kinky Boots And Leather Clothes (1966)
— after the Beatles made it in Hamburg, left plenty of German boys with big dreams.
06-02 Will Rigby – Will Rigby 05 – Red Bra And Panties (1996)
— leads off like it could’ve been a Stones tune. Dan Rather too? Never knew!
06-03 Ray Scott – Tri-Ess 1001 – Silk Satin & Lace (1960)
— why stop at silk, go for the three-fer. Terms like “tadpoles” and “shooting sparks” evidence Ray’s enthusiasm.
06-04 Sam Butera – The Big Sax And The Big Voice Of Sam Butera 102 – Chantilly Lace (1961)
— rare cover better than the original, but then the originator didn’t get a chance to answer, now did he?
06-05 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Rock Drill 202 – Who Murdered Sex? (1977)
— straight swamp, listen for the “personal ad” listing. “Not me,” said the censor, “it’s all going well.”
06-06 Kinky Friedman – Lasso From El Paso 105 – Kinky (1976)
— leave the St. Bernards out of it.