The Meatloaf thread got me thinking about some of his other songs. Meatloaf is the master of the musical innuendo, but there have been other artists with that talent. What are the best, or your favorites?
Mine two favorites are:
Meatloaf --Surfs Up
Bruce Springsteen --Tunnel of Love
Any others?
Jerry Lee Lewis, Great Balls of Fire
Little Richard, Good Golly Miss Molly (“You sure like to bawl”)
Aretha Franklin, Freeway of Love
The B-52s, Roam (“Take it hip to hip”)
The Doors, Back Door Man
Let’s be clear about this - there is no innuendo whatsoever going on in this song. This is pure, unadulterated sex - it just so happens that people not “in the know” back in the day didn’t understand what Little Richard was saying:
which of course translates to “you like sex so much that when you’re in the middle of it, you can’t tear yourself away” or thereabouts.
As for true innuendo, I would nominate Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer:
Is but one obvious example from that song. Of course, there are countless examples, not the least of which come of the Blues. Bessie Smith was infamous for a number of baudy songs - I can’t find the specific lyric I was thinking of quoting that has to do with “cooking cabbage” IIRC, but it will blow your hair back.
Chuck Berry–My Ding-A-Ling
Which of course makes me think of AC/DC’s Big Balls…
Cole Porter: Let’s Do It
The Byrds: Chestnut Mare (so subtle that few people have ever noticed the song’s all about sex)
Melanie: Brand New Key
Was this the one you were thinking of? The complete lyrics can be foundhere
He give me a lesson that I never had before
He give me a lesson that I never had before
When he got to teachin’ me, from my elbow down was sore
He poured my first cabbage and he made it awful hot
He poured my first cabbage and he made it awful hot
When he put in the bacon, it overflowed the pot
When you git good lovin’, never go and spread the news
Walloon here’s another B-52’s song “Hot Lava”.
If I Were a Bell
Or Howlin’ Wolf. 
Robert Johnson’s Dead Shrimp Blues is a personal favorite - just because it’s such a weird innuendo.
Oh yeah.
Country music women have had their share too
Ways to be wicked–Lone Justice
Shake the sugar tree–Pam Tillis
Dean Friedman and his one hit from 1977, called “Ariel”.
"My Handyman Ain’t Handy No More"
There’s also Cole Porter’s Blow, Gabriel, Blow.
Hey - I remember one: The Telephone Man - gosh who did that?
Sillly novelty song with a cutesy-yet-seductive girl singing about how her phone needs fixing and so she calls her telephone man, who shows up and says:
Hey baby I’m your Telephone Man
I can put it where you want it, I can put it where I can
YOu can have it in the bedroom you can have in the hall
you can have it the bathroom or up against the wall
you can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring
but if you really want it you can have ding-a-ling…
(I’m sure I got parts wrong - but it is something like this…) silly, but the singer actually does a pretty funny job…
It was recorded by Meri Wilson, sorry for the delay in the response.
Sgt Schwartz
Another Doors one, here’s a lyric from the song L’America where Morrison breaks from the rhyme scheme to avoid using the word that everyone knows he wants to:
“C’mon people, don’t you look so down
you know the rainman’s coming to town
he’ll change your weather, change your luck
and then he’ll teach you how to… find yourself”
Billy Joel Christie Lee :
She didn’t need another,
lover all she wanted was the sax.
She didn’t need him as a man,
all she wanted was the horn.
Jimmy Buffett’s subtle Why Don’t We Get Drunk:
So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round o’ brew
Honey, why don’t we get drunk and screw