I KNOW I read, probably on SD, that one of the girl group songs from the 60’s is about a lesbian encounter. Is it the Exciter’s Doo Wah Diddy? But Doo wah was written by a couple of guys . I know that I read an interview with one of the girls in what ever group sang whatever song it was and she sez it was understood by all involved that was what the song was about. One of those “blind” bluesmen sang about Doo Wah Diddy way earlier and it is obvious what Doo Wah Diddy means. A lot of brain cells fried during and since the 60’s, my brain is as reliable as SD search,it keeps coming up with vaguely related items that are just as highly interesting but not what I was trying to remember. For example I discovered that when the little known, short lived, girl group The Quincy Quartzette (what a name,never heard of um) toured the midwest there were 4 girls lip syncing to recordings done by three of them and a guy with a near falsetto.Now I can’t even find where I read that! What was I talking about? Oh, yeh, the “secret” lesbian song from the 60’s.
“Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx
You mean “Diddy-Wah-Diddy,” and it was Blind Blake who originally recorded it. Ry Cooder did a nice version in the late 1960s which featured jazz great Earl Hines on piano.
I started a thread about the infamous Lesbian Song (or possibly Madwoman Song) back in December…here’s the link.
Oh, hell. Just go to the search engine and type in “Sally Go Round the Roses.”
Thankya, ike. that was what I semi remember reading. I even posted on that thread about goin round the rose. I gotta take my brain in to the shop.It’s all your fault for planting the seed that suddenly took root. My mind is a dark and dank place so it has lots of fertilizer, who knows what it will grow into? And you right it WAS diddy wah diddy, it been way too long since I ran that college town coffee house. My favorite local performer was an American lit grad student who was doin a thesis on East Texas Gut Bucket Blues. He played some great stuff on his gutbucket and the tenor sax. Now I live jest a short drive from Deep Ellum, but its gone all touristy. Speakin of going round and the nether regions of my mind. Didja know that the Mulberry Garden was a center of prostitution in London, before they built Buckingham Palace there? So that is what that Nursery rhyme is about. Or maybe not.
“Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx