To quote the great Tom Lehrer: "I do have a cause. It is obscenity. I am for it." In light of the recent actions by the censors, it seems unlikely that we can get our fix of aural smut on daytime radio anytime soon, so it is even more important to post some dirty MP3s on this blog. Here are nine ten of them, especially for the kids.
Bo Carter - Warm My Weiner (MP3): Probably the only song here which would pass the censors. Bo Carter was the uncontested king of double entendre, and this recording from 1935 is one of the classic examples.
Now let us proceed to the more explicit stuff.
Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry (MP3): Incredibly dirty alternate take of this 1935 blues. The version which ended up on the original album is much tamer.
Slim Gaillard - The Dirty Rooster (MP3): The sound of a chicken in 1942, but the censors still don't like it.
The Blenders - Don't Fuck Around With Love (MP3): An alternative version of their 1953 song "Don't Play Around With Love", didn't get quite as much airplay as the original.
The Clovers - Rotten Cocksucker's Ball (MP3): Wonderful a cappella tune, recorded in 1954, a rewrite of "Darktown Strutter's Ball". For some reason Atlantic Records refused to release it. Later Frank Zappa covered this song on "Does Humor Belong In Music?". According to this source, the word "cock" here refers to the vagina, apparently a common southern US usage at the time.
Jackie Wilson and LaVern Baker - Better Think Twice [Version X] (MP3): Two great Detroit R&B singers having fun in the studio, singing about sex, drugs, and ice cream.
The Rolling Stones - Cocksucker Blues (MP3): Contractual obligation single for Decca in 1969. It was not met with enthusiasm and never officially released. There is also a film with the same title about the Stones' 1972 US tour, featuring Truman Capote and lots of sex and drugs.
Boozoo Chavis - Deacon Jones (MP3): This was originally released as a single, together with the equally raunchy "Uncle Bud". The re-release on "Who Stole My Monkey" in 1999 by Rounder was the first Zydeco CD ever with a parental advisory sticker.
Fred Wolff Combo - Somebody Else Was Sucking My Dick Last Night (MP3): I don't know anything about this band, but rumor has it that Brownsville Station leader Cub Koda was involved in this. It would not be a surprise, after all Cub also invented King Uszniewicz and the Uszniewicztones, together with a ridiculous backstory. (You can read more about this prank and listen to some MP3s on my other blog.)
If you want more, check out this collection of naughty songs with lyrics and lots of short MP3 samples. You should also listen to the archive of Dave the Spazz's X-Rated Internet-only Rock'n'Roll Smut Fest, and read The Hound's Guide to Dirty Records, motherfucker.
Update: Some commenters felt I had erred by not including Clarence Carter's song "Strokin'", which I had in fact never heard until today. While I feel that it does not live up to the rest of the songs I posted, I kind of like the Chipmunk vocal style, so by popular demand here it is: Clarence Carter - Strokin' (MP3)
And no mention of the gloriously steamy "Strokin'" by Clarence Carter?
Posted by: mindy | March 19, 2006 at 08:20 AM
or that jellie roll morton off-takes that Luc Santa is always going on about. But I gather that's more just cursing and a rather honest apprasial of race in his time than smut from what I gather.
peace,
A
Posted by: andrew jones | March 19, 2006 at 11:29 AM
great songs
Posted by: industrial | March 19, 2006 at 12:01 PM
This is great! I had several of these on a compilation called "If it Ain't a Hit I'll Eat My Baby" but it got lost somewhere along the way. Thanks for helping me replace them!
Posted by: Gabe | March 19, 2006 at 04:39 PM
Holy shit. If you have more of this kind of music, please share! "Somebody else was sucking my dick last night" has become one of my all-time favorite songs in record time.
Posted by: hutter | March 19, 2006 at 07:20 PM
You're a champion.
Posted by: sophia | March 19, 2006 at 09:55 PM
The omission of "Strokin" is an egregious error. I just don't feel sassified without it. If the mp3 is needed, I can provide.
Posted by: norelpref | March 19, 2006 at 10:49 PM
OK, I am pleading ignorance, I don't know the song "Strokin'" and I don't have the MP3. If someone uploads it somewhere where I can get it, or emails it to [email protected], I will add it.
Posted by: Lukas | March 20, 2006 at 01:06 AM
"Strokin'" posted to Lukas just this moment!
Posted by: Ryno | March 20, 2006 at 02:30 AM
I discovered Bo Carter sometime last year on a blues compilation that had his "Don't Mash My Digger So Deep" on it, sample lyric "if you don't want my peaches don't touch my tree". I also found words on the Internet to a number of his other songs including the above mentioned "Weiner" and "Put My Banana In Your Fruit Basket".
At a local Jam session, I annoy the many Sax players by singing Bo's "All Round Man", sample lyric "I ain't no Auger man, no Auger man's son, but I can blow your hole till the Auger man comes along", to Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon". Good times!
Posted by: Paul Herzberg | March 20, 2006 at 06:06 AM
Here, Lukas has offered us some hard-to-find tracks, the rare experience, and all some individuals can think of to say is, "Where's 'Strokin'?"
It's sad to me that so many people troll this blog, lying in wait only for the opportunity to criticize, correct, qualify, or add their two cents to something that someone else has taken the time to write, prepare and share.
Posted by: WmMBerger | March 20, 2006 at 08:04 AM
Fred Wolf was a local celebrity in Detroit in the 50's and 60's. He had been a top flight professional bowler who went on to host a couple of syndicated bowling shows that usually ran early Saturday or Sunday afternoon. He was also the morning DJ on WXYZ AM Radio which was a top 40 station in Detroit at the time. So it does make sense that Cub Koda who grew up in the Detroit area could have dreamed this up.
Posted by: Boz | March 20, 2006 at 11:13 AM
For anyone interested, the Asylum Street Spankers do their own X-rated tunes on the EPs Dirty Ditties and Nasty Novelties, including Shave 'Em Dry and Rotten Cocksucker's Ball. Good dirty fun.
Posted by: Donnie | March 20, 2006 at 02:14 PM
I found this little ditty through the 78's posted on the creative commons. It's Cliff Edwards (the voice of Jiminy Cricket) with a ripe little double entendre song "I love mountain women"
Enjoy.
http://ia200103.eu.archive.org/0/audio/ClifEdwards/ClifEdwards-ILoveMountainWimendouble-entendrepartyrecord1940s.mp3
Posted by: Marv | March 20, 2006 at 03:38 PM
when i lived on the east side of austin, the bar across the street (scoot inn) had an outdoor jukebox... which played 'strokin' VERY loudly... about 358 times a DAY. for FOUR YEARS. needless to say, i am FAR more familiar with it than most of its apparently-legion fans, and i gotta tells ya: it ain't that great. one time i retaliated by playing the first holy modal rounders record at rocket-launch volume; one of the rougher rummies walked over and exclaimed 'hey, i saw dem in new york!'
that was a good neighborhood...............
anyways, thans for the smut!
Posted by: craig | March 21, 2006 at 01:02 AM
"Strokin" is not omitted. I never heard any of these, I've heard Strokin MANY TIMES and by more than a few performers... Thanks for the tracks Lukas.
For those that dig these tracks I do have some suggestions for you to search out if you have not heard them:
1. Blowfly, just about any album / song from him. I suggest "The Incredible Fulk". A good number of his tracks are parodies... "Shitting on the Dock of the Bay", "First Time Ever I Came on Your Face".
2. The unusual 2 LP set Erotica and Erotica 2 (I think the label was Fax Records 1960/61). Erotica was an interesting project. It was naughty Scottish Highland and Elizabethan period songs played by a bluegrass band. The songs had very poetic sexual references by today's standards and probably would pass today's FCC obscenity standards. However, throughout the recording was a soundtrack of people having sex in the background. It is a strange album. I have a copy of Erotica 2 on vinyl.
3. The Pork Dukes.
Posted by: pronoblem | March 21, 2006 at 11:17 AM
love you lukas! we demand more bothkinds posts, though
~john and meg
Posted by: john notarianni | March 26, 2006 at 01:04 AM
If you like this, see the immortalia.com collection of bawdy music, drinking songs, and dirty toasts. The site used to host a massive archive of mp3s at low bitrate for preview, but it doesn't seem to be around. The rapper J-Zone has, among other things, rapped in a duet with his penis ("Trojan War") and over a sample of "It's so neat to beat my meat." In the first half of the song "Edit These," J-Zone (like NOFX in Please Play this Song on the Radio) tries to get more airplay by rapping normally and time-reversing all the obscenities. In the second half of the song he gives up -- the rap plays backwards and only the obscenities are intelligible. Good stuff.
Posted by: mrflip | March 27, 2006 at 06:13 PM
That's not the Strokin' I've heard. Chipmunks-like vocals? Um, that's not right. It's played with fair regularity at lindy hop swing dancing exchanges for the yuk-factor... and banned from the same due to over-[ab]use. I'd send you the real version of the song if I had it. Hope you can find it elsewhere.
Posted by: Joshua | May 06, 2006 at 04:07 PM
Is it just me or are there weird fip-fip-fip sounds at the end of "Shave 'em Dry"? I d/led it twice and got the same result.
Thanks for the great work on the blog. "Shave", "Rooster", "Think Twice" and both "Cocksucker" songs are all stupendous!
Posted by: TG | November 11, 2006 at 08:07 PM
Speaking of the Asylum Street Spankers, their music video version of "Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV" is currently showing at http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com/news.html.
Posted by: TM | December 26, 2006 at 02:46 PM
DOOOOD!!! I have been searching for these tracks for years! Thank you, and may you always have a big cheesy grin when ever you need it!
Posted by: ShoM | April 09, 2007 at 12:18 AM
The Immortalia links don't seem to work...
Posted by: jack davinci | April 08, 2009 at 02:02 PM