I Saw Her Standing There (she was just 17)
Sweet Little Sixteen
Sweet Little Rock n Roller (9 years old and sweet as she can be).
Stray Cat Blues (I can see that you’re fifteen years old)
Others? . . .
Dancing Queen (Young and Sweet, only 17) by ABBA
Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen by Neil Sedanka
“He Hit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss” from The Crystals.
On the age thing, I think that there should be a distinction between songs meant to be from the perspective of the adult singer wanting the jailbait and a song written for and meant to be identified with by actual teens. For example, Neil Sedanka was just mentioned, and in his song Calendar Girl, he wasn’t implying that he, Neil Sedanka, intended to go to a girl’s Junior Prom but that the teen male who was supposed to be the POV character for the song intended to.
“Brown Sugar”, from The `Stones. “Hear him whip the women just around midnight”.
Does it even get radio play these days?
“Wives and Lovers,” written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Here’s a sample of the lyrics:
I’m warning you,
Day after day, there are girls at the office and the men will always be men,
Don’t stand him up, with your hair still in curlers, you may not see him again.
Wives should always be lovers too
All the time on classic rock stations.
Edit: I may have been whooshed
Beatles -Run For Your Life
Thanks Ponch8. No woosh intended… I don’t listen to the classic rock stations often so i really don’t know how popular it (still) is.
“Young Girl” by Gary Puckett and Union Gap is problematic. On the one hand the singer is clearly aware that having a relationship with an underaged girl is very, very wrong. On the other hand, the song suggests that the relationship has already been going on for an unspecified time and that while they haven’t had sex yet he might still be tempted.
You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful, and You’re Mine
Oh, believe me: It’s been played continuously, jumping from one classic rock station to another, for longer than I’ve been alive. It’s my number one go-to song to prove my thesis that approximately nobody listens to the lyrics, unless there’s a political point to be made: Bunch of rappers write a song called “Cop Killer”? Some Christians have convinced themselves that the kinds of people who’d be in a band called “Black Oak Arkansas” can write lyrics that are more coherent backwards than they are forwards? Tipper Gore wants to meet Frank Zappa? J. Edgar Hoover thinks “Louie, Louie” is a Communist code phrase? Everyone listens to those lyrics. There’s hay to be made. Apparently, there ain’t no hay to be made from picking on the Rolling Stones.
They’ll buy five copies for their mother, but they won’t listen to the Rolling Stones.
Anyway, my vote is The Spokesmen, with their song “Dawn of Correction”, because that’s too pro-government for even the conservatives these days.
“Illegal Alien” by Genesis.
Into the Night - Benny Mardone
“She’s just sixteen years old, leave her alone, they said…”
‘Under my thumb’ Rolling stones
Every where is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies;
Tell me where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more.
I’d love to change the world - but I don’t know what to do,
So I’ll leave it up to you.
Chantilly Lace
Johnny Get Angry
Delilah.
“Art Lover” by the Kinks is pervey as hell if you purely look at the lyrics.
But if you know Ray Davies wrote it after a bitter custody fight in which he lost his daughter, it has a different tone.
This is what I came here to post. There are many songs about underage girls, but I always found this one to be the creepiest. Mardones was 33 years old when he sang that.
I would also offer up The New Style by The Beastie Boys.
“I’ve got money and juice, twin sisters in my bed
Their father had Aids so I shot him in the head
If I played guitar I’d be Jimmy Page
The girlies I like are underage”
Never got much, if any, radio play as far as I know.