Thursday, July 02, 2009

It's a Man's, Man's, Man's, Man's World

From 1957, please enjoy "Louie, Louie" auteur Richard Berry and his perhaps insensitive to a woman's needs saga "Get Out of the Car."





Seriously, the first time I heard this song -- in 1993, when the above reissue of Berry's frequently amusing journeyman r&b novelties (with the occasional first-rate Little Richard emulation thrown in for good measure) first crossed my desk -- I remember laughing initially and then thinking, uh, you know, this is getting perilously close to a line that I don't think anybody really worried about back in the day.

On the other hand, as "Holy" Greil Marcus famously pointed out in a totally different context, it is perhaps a mistake to judge the brave men and women of an earlier time by the standards of our own.

Or something.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/02/2009 7:07 AM

    Thanks for posting this. I love 1950's r&b and this is a prime example.


    ROTP(lumber)

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  2. Gummo7/02/2009 9:00 AM

    OMG, that's delightfully awful. Or awfully delightful.

    Imagine someone today doing a whole tune around the theme of "Put out or get out!"

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  3. Wendy7/02/2009 12:29 PM

    I think Marcus is probably right ... although the 50s don't seem that long ago.

    Cool car, regardless.

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  4. Who Am Us Anyway?7/03/2009 2:30 AM

    "uh oh ..." Your caveats are well taken, but physically impossible for me not to smile, no matter how wrong that is. Also, what ROTP(lumber) said about 50s R&B.

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