gts157 “fetish”
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”.
01-02 Mark Eddie – Rock N Roll Cuts Part II 16 – O.R.G.Y (1998)
— don’t need ten like Jan, think anywhere over four and it’s official.
01-03 John Bishop – Love Shack OST – The Simple Things (2009)
— kudos for rhyming “MILFs all musty” with “trombone rusty”. I’m not a bad person, if some of these phrases are a mystery, like not deep down a filthy person. Right?
01-04 Laura Lee – Chess 2013 – Dirty Man (1967)
— took a lot of self-control to not play this three weeks ago. One of 2 songs this week which pops to mind all year-round.
01-05 Blondie – Blondie 101 – X Offender (1977)
— long had a fantasy of putting together a playlist of smash debut tunes, first album 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 the slot, 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. Looking forward to being punished means the freedom to fuck shit up, the true liberation of the willing slave.
02-03 Chix 6 – The Superhero Is You 10 – Mama’s Lookin’ For A Sex Slave (2011)
— great songwriting when half a verse is “shut up, shut up.”
02-04 Berlin – Pleasure Victim 103 – Sex (I’m A …) (1982)
— she’s a lotta of things. What we call “the c-word” descends from a word in Proto Indo-European that means “mystery”. One of the few tunes this show which needed a bleep, strangely!
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 real 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 naughty 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 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 a record label called “Virgin” which is now an airline.
03-04 Jessie Hill – Minit 611 – Whip It On Me (1960)
— many songs here 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 Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps – Rutles Highway Revisited 11 – Ouch! (1990)
— yeeks yikes yow, the Beatles signed off on it so nobody’s at fault here.
03-07 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! There’s them voodoo drums…
04-01 Gretchen Wyler – Silk Stockings OBC 06 – Satin And Silk (1955)
— Cole Porter’s last musical, Gretchen’s Broadway debut. Back when show business was actually hard work, this ran 478 performances in only 61 weeks.
04-02 Mitchell Torok – Decca 30230 – What’s Behind The Strange Door (1957)
— 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 another 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)
— isn’t considered so 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…
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 psychwards 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 rumors 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 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, 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.
05-04 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”. Her gravestone says “Queen of Pin-Ups Bettie Mae Page”.
05-05 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Rock Drill 202 – Who Murdered Sex? (1977)
— “Not me,” said the censor, “it’s all going well.” Straight swamp, check the ‘personal ad’ listings.
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?
06-03 Maddox Brothers & Rose – 1947-04-18 KTRB Modesto CA 10 – Red Silk Stockings And Green Perfume (1947)
— lust-induced synesthesia?
06-04 Ray Scott – Tri-Ess 1001 – Silk Satin & Lace (1960)
— why stop at silk, go for the three-fer. “Tadpoles wigglin’ down in the creek” and “shooting up sparks” attest Ray’s enthusiasm.
06-05 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!
06-06 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!
06-07 Kinky Friedman – Lasso From El Paso 105 – Kinky (1976)
— leave the St. Bernards out of it.
… and a bonus track…
07-01 Honor Blackman & Patrick Macnee – Decca F11843 – Kinky Boots (1964) [excerpt]
— recorded to promote the tv series The Avengers.