# songs that were popular, but today the singer would be arrested **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464 "2007-03-18T18:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/41 "2007-03-19T17:54:49Z")
> [@WishIHadACoolName](#): > > Gold Coast slaveship bound for cotton fields > Sold in the market down in New Orleans > Scarred old slaver knows he’s doin’ alright > Hear him whip the women just around midnight [QUOTE=Fern Forest] Funny how you can hear songs all your life without being able to figure out what he’s saying and yet never look it up. [/QUOTE] Ditto! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/42 "2007-03-19T17:59:41Z")
School’s Out by Alice Cooper would probably mean Mr. Furnier would get to know a bunch of BATFE and FBI agents in short order… ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/43 "2007-03-19T18:18:38Z")
Stray Cat Blues, I think a Stones original but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it wasnt. a song you can still hear on the radio ocasionally about getting a 15 year old girl in bed, then trying for a threesome with her friend… ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/44 "2007-03-19T19:04:53Z")
Ted Nugent, “Jailbait”: \*I don’t care if you’re just thirteen You look too good to be true I know that you’s probably clean There’s one little thing I’s gots ta do to you … \* Strangely enough, I can’t find the lyrics to this song on the Internet. Every lyric site I visited had the song listed, but instead of the lyrics they all said something like “We’re sorry, but the artist has decided not to disclose the lyrics of this song.”. Uh, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/45 "2007-03-19T19:32:53Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] Ted Nugent, “Jailbait”: \*I don’t care if you’re just thirteen You look too good to be true I know that you’s probably clean There’s one little thing I’s gots ta do to you … \* Strangely enough, I can’t find the lyrics to this song on the Internet. Every lyric site I visited had the song listed, but instead of the lyrics they all said something like “We’re sorry, but the artist has decided not to disclose the lyrics of this song.”. Uh, yeah. [/QUOTE] The key point here is that Ted was \*known \*for being into jailbait - in the heart of the 70’s he had a 14-year-old girlfriend whom he was allowed to function as the guardian of - her mom signed her daughter over to the Nuge… This made for a classic Behind the Music… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/46 "2007-03-19T20:14:28Z")
[QUOTE=An Arky] While it doesn’t say how old the girl/woman in question is, \*\*Conway Twitty \*\*'s \*You’ve Never Been This Far Before \* is pretty creepy. I saw a clip of the pompadoured 40 year old Twitty in extreme close up singing: _I can almost hear the stillness As it yields to the sound of your heart beating And I can almost hear the echo Of the thoughts that I know you must be thinking And I can feel your body tremble As you wonder what this moment holds in store And as I put my arms around you I can tell you’ve never been this far before_ [/QUOTE] If you listen to the whole song, you’ll find that the woman in question is cheating on her husband, presumably with ol’ Conway. That’s going pretty far. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/47 "2007-03-19T20:56:19Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] I’m not even gonna _link_ to the cover art of Blind Faith’s album: if you google it, be aware that it’s, uh, NSFW. [/QUOTE] Blind Faith? Amateur! Try googling “Virgin Killer”. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/48 "2007-03-19T20:58:03Z")
Clearly meant to be satirical, but Art Lover by the Kinks would be enough to create a furor nowadays… “Little girl don’t notice me/ Watching as she innocently plays. She can’t see me staring at her / Because I’m always wearing shades.” The Who, 5:15 describes what would be statutory rape in about 48 states, “Girls of fifteen / Sexually knowing.” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/49 "2007-03-19T21:04:56Z")
[QUOTE=dwc1970] [Benny Mardones’ “Into The Night”](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/benny_mardones/into_the_night.html) begins with the following lines: Such a song probably wouldn’t go over so well today. [/QUOTE] Well, but his crime would depend on his being able to fly, so what are the chances he would pull it off/ 😉 I love that song. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/50 "2007-03-19T21:42:14Z")
Flanders and Swann - “Have some Madeira, M’Dear” S_he was young, she was pure, she was new, she was nice She was fair, she was sweet seventeen He was old, he was vile, and no stranger to vice He was base, he was bad, he was mean_ . . . _Until the next morning, she woke up in bed With a smile on her lips and an ache in her head And a beard in her ear 'ole that tickled and said Have some madeira, m’dear_ Stupification and date rape - but clever and funny and you don’t actually think about it really. Si ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/51 "2007-03-19T23:43:42Z")
The most wrong song I have heard on the radio lately was “I love Little Girls” by Oingo Boingo. I have to say “niggar loves his Possum” would cause quite an uproar. Or a top 5 hit depending on who did the remake. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/52 "2007-03-20T00:04:10Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto] If you listen to the whole song, you’ll find that the woman in question is cheating on her husband, presumably with ol’ Conway. That’s going pretty far. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I know…not so creepy…except when I first saw a clip of CT singing that song, it was on one of those K-TEL-type commercials, and there was just the clip of him singing part of the song, a pervy looking older dude in extreme closeup singing “I can tell you’ve never been this far before”…the effect was positively creepy… I guess you had to have been there. :o ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/53 "2007-03-20T21:34:39Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] In his Book of Bad Songs, Dave Barry wrote about a sing with the line or title “He Hit Me , and it Felt Like a Kiss”. I suspect the group would feel like it was being kissed a lot, these days. [/QUOTE] I don’t know if it’s what Barry was referring to, but this exact lyric appears in the song “Glamour is a Rocky Road” by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. But, really, Thrill Kill Kult is pretty small potatoes compared to, say, Lords of Acid, when you’re talking about offensive lyrics. It’s something of a point of pride for them. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/54 "2007-03-26T06:36:10Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] School’s Out by Alice Cooper would probably mean **Mr. Furnier** would get to know a bunch of BATFE and FBI agents in short order… [/QUOTE] [petpeeve]He hasn’t been “Mr Furnier” since 1974, dammit![/petpeeve] Okay, how about the Stones “Under My Thumb”? Surely _NOT_ PC! ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/55 "2007-03-26T09:23:33Z")
“The Message” by Grandmaster Flash may be one of the most important records ever released, but his line “_I think I might hijack a plane_” wouldn’t win him much love in these post 9/11 days. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/56 "2007-03-26T11:21:13Z")
I recall hearing a sort of c/w trucking song wherein the lyrics were about a trucker wanting to take some kid out for a ride in his truck and there being some issue about whether little Jimmy’s mother would let him out for a rider in the truck or something along those lines. It was on some c/w compilation I was forced to listen to in a car on a roadtrip. I’m guessing it was 70s vintage. It was extremely creepy. Does anyone have any idea what that might be? I have no idea of the artist or song title. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/57 "2007-03-26T12:09:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by CalMeacham > In his Book of Bad Songs, Dave Barry wrote about a sing with the line or title “He Hit Me , and it Felt Like a Kiss”. I suspect the group would feel like it was being kissed a lot, these days. > > I don’t know if it’s what Barry was referring to, but this exact lyric appears in the song “Glamour is a Rocky Road” by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. > > But, really, Thrill Kill Kult is pretty small potatoes compared to, say, Lords of Acid, when you’re talking about offensive lyrics. It’s something of a point of pride for them. No – Dave’s song was from the 1950s, possibly the very early sixties. The point is, it was a pretty mainstream song. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/58 "2007-03-26T14:08:59Z")
The most popular singers (and not half bad actors actually) in Spain in the '60s and early 70s were El Dúo Dinámico (yep, that means The Dynamic Duo; no, they did not dress as Batman and Robin; neither is gay). Complete bubblegum, if you want, but dang those songs are catchy. Their songs include quite a few references to underage-ish gf’s, the most famous of which is _quince años tiene mi amor_ (the girl I love is 15), which would be seen as creepy nowadays even though they were something like 19 and 20 when they wrote it, there is no mention of sex and the age of consent is 13. Others: _ya tiene diecisiete años_, (she’s already seventeen), including references to how hard he’s finding it to wait (until she’s eighteen). Back then there was no “age of consent” per se, there was an “age of marriage” and you could get married at 18 without paternal permission (not parental, blagh but that’s another thread in another part of the board). _Lolita twist_, which is actually not a reference to the book by Nabokov. Lolita is a popular diminutive for Dolores. _Margarita se llama mi amor_, which would be impossible today due to political references and to comparing the lady in question to an artillery cannon. The lines bringing bedsprings to mind are completely mild by today’s standards, but they did catch fire Back Then. I didn’t get the political references until they were asked about them in a recentish interview (during the celebration of some big anniversary of TVE). ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/59 "2007-03-26T14:15:11Z")
(overtime) After a particular rout by Dad on the “horrible, drug-touting rockanrol” I listened to, I asked Mom whether he’d ever listened to the lyrics of the old-style songs he liked. Boleros, romances and coplas about date rape, being the other woman, finding out about the other woman, begging your man to beat you up rather than leave you… Mom’s answer “honey, if he ever did, we’d never be able to listen to any music in this house!” ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464/60 "2007-03-26T14:30:43Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] No – Dave’s song was from the 1950s, possibly the very early sixties. The point is, it was a pretty mainstream song. [/QUOTE] The record you guys have been discussing is “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)” by The Crystals, from 1962. It’s the record they put out directly before “He’s A Rebel.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-were-popular-but-today-the-singer-would-be-arrested/396464.md?page=4)