# Songs That Wouldn't Fly Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227 "2017-01-26T15:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/1 "2017-01-26T15:05:00Z")
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? . . . ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/2 "2017-01-26T15:06:09Z")
Dancing Queen (Young and Sweet, only 17) by ABBA Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen by Neil Sedanka ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/3 "2017-01-26T15:10:53Z")
[“He Hit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20Oz9Yr_So) from The Crystals. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/4 "2017-01-26T15:15:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/5 "2017-01-26T15:15:21Z")
“Brown Sugar”, from The `Stones. _“Hear him whip the women just around midnight”._ Does it even get radio play these days? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/6 "2017-01-26T15:16:32Z")
“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 ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/7 "2017-01-26T15:19:20Z")
> [@somepumpkin](#): > > “Brown Sugar”, from The `Stones. _“Hear him whip the women just around midnight”._ > > Does it even get radio play these days? All the time on classic rock stations. Edit: I may have been whooshed ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/8 "2017-01-26T15:34:33Z")
Beatles -[Run For Your Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQQ3LQWsTUc) > [@](#): > > Well I’d rather see you dead, little girl > Than to be with another man > You better keep your head, little girl > Or you won’t know where I am > > You better run for your life if you can, little girl > Hide your head in the sand little girl > Catch you with another man > That’s the end’a little girl ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/9 "2017-01-26T15:39:23Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > All the time on classic rock stations. > > Edit: I may have been whooshed 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/10 "2017-01-26T15:40:08Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/11 "2017-01-26T15:49:45Z")
_You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful, and You’re Mine_ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/12 "2017-01-26T15:52:40Z")
> [@somepumpkin](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/13 "2017-01-26T15:52:57Z")
“Illegal Alien” by Genesis. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/14 "2017-01-26T16:04:37Z")
[Into the Night](https://www.google.com/search?q=benny+mardone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=benny+mardones+into+the+night+lyrics) - Benny Mardone “She’s just sixteen years old, leave her alone, they said…” ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/15 "2017-01-26T16:09:36Z")
‘Under my thumb’ Rolling stones ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/16 "2017-01-26T16:21:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/17 "2017-01-26T16:40:22Z")
Chantilly Lace Johnny Get Angry ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/18 "2017-01-26T16:42:25Z")
Delilah. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/19 "2017-01-26T16:45:46Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227/20 "2017-01-26T16:54:36Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > [Into the Night](https://www.google.com/search?q=benny+mardone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=benny+mardones+into+the+night+lyrics) - Benny Mardone > > “She’s just sixteen years old, leave her alone, they said…” 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldnt-fly-today/778227.md?page=2)