You've heard a song or two perhaps, but a full frontal attack of 43 songs and three announcements by wonderful and unusual folk duet Elton and Betty White is what I'd like to lay on you today.
Learn a little about them and hear 'part one' after the bump.
Around 1998, housemate Mark of Eerie Communications gave me a cassette that he thought I'd like. The unlabeled tape of Sex Beyond the Door was an immediate hit, especially with female friends.
Over the years I pieced together that Elton and Betty had moved from Little Rock, Arkansas to southern California after visiting the coast for a TV talk show appearance. They fit right in to the colorful Venice Beach scene and hosted a public-access TV show there. It was rumored that my cassette of songs was the soundtrack from a video.
Just recently I was asked again to share my E&B songs with someone who had heard but one song and was amused by and interested in them. So they're on my mind once again. I've always been a huge fan, especially of Elton's stuff, and I think it's high time that I put up all of the tracks that I have. They'll be in two installments; I'll be back on February seventh with the final 25 cuts.
This is classic American folk music, honest and innocent, but it probably isn't appropriate for your workplace or for small children. Although what harm it would do to kids is debatable- I think it's more scary for adults.
I should mention that due to a flaw in my original transfer to cd from the cassette, I lost a Betty White song called Let Me Play With Your Balls in the shuffle, and now I no longer have the source tape. It went in between the first two Elton songs at the top of the set. Great song, too- I'm sorry I screwed up and lost it; back then I hadn't mastered a lot of 50-and-more-cut CDs, and they can be pesky to organize.
There are alleged to be plans afoot to release a 'full' edition of Elton and Betty White songs on CD which would be a great service to humanity. All I've ever had was my second or third-generation cassette versions, and they've brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of folks.
Here is some artwork to accompany your tracks, and here come the first 21 (MP3) pieces:
01 main intro 02 Funky, Stinky Love 03 Let Me Suck Your Coochie 04 Kinky Lover 05 (If You Open your Legs) I'll Hatch Your Eggs 06 I Love Sex 07 (Lady, Guess What?) I'm Gonna Kiss Your Butt 08 Sexy Black Man 09 That Is The Way I Make Love 10 Sugar and Spice 11 The Chick Has Big Ol' Tits 12 Life Is Full of Temptation 13 Let's Put Our Booties Together 14 The Worst Breath In Town 15 Tight Blue Jeans 16 Only Twelve 17 America: We Are Sexy ! 18 Jezebel 19 Give Me Your Bootie 20 X - Rated 21 contact info # 1
I just heard about Elton and Betty White through an excellent damned article about them in the last issue of Oxford American, which is a literary cultural magazine about culture in the south.
Posted by: Big Kitty Williams | January 24, 2009 at 08:08 PM
oh hell, i just gave all my pals 'your smell makes me well' and 'i'm in love with your behind'...can they handle all this?
Posted by: zombot | January 24, 2009 at 09:32 PM
I saw this name Betty White and thought it was the real one who was in The Golden Girls.Instead its just the usual sickness that's come straight up the conveyor belt from Hell which fits in with all the horror of today.
Posted by: Richard | January 25, 2009 at 04:10 AM
The confusion between the Betty Whites continues. Imagine the 'actress' Betty's reaction when she was asked (as she must have been sometime) about her 'songs' with 'Elton'...
Posted by: Mindwrecker | January 25, 2009 at 10:53 AM
I have been waiting for this for years, I've only ever been able to get a song here and there (5 of them)... what a marriage! How wonderful is this?!
Posted by: Jerod | January 25, 2009 at 04:29 PM
I loved their show. They looked so much in love.
Great music, thanks for the post. For anyone who hasn't seen it, check out the documentary "public access hollywood". They have a nice little bit on Elton and Betty, and other public access stars like David Liebe Hart, Francine Dancer, ect. You can find the whole thing on youtube.
Posted by: Norm | January 27, 2009 at 02:30 PM
THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH FOR POSTING THESE!!! I grew up in Little Rock and remember them so very fondly! Some of these songs brought back great memories. I'm sad you lost "let me play with your balls." It was one of my favorites. Please let me know if a CD comes out.
Posted by: MIchelle | January 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
hi elton how are you doing?
Posted by: farncine dancer | May 29, 2009 at 02:41 PM
they cancled my show.im trying to get on channel 36.they said i dint meet thert criteria to re submit with propper forms,they put me on th web www.la36.org july 27th. francine dancer
Posted by: francine dancer | July 25, 2009 at 07:43 PM
The intro for "Sex Beyond The Door" cut 1 does not belong here. Most of this album is "Hard Deep Sex Explosion" and some of the titles are wrong.
Posted by: Donavan | July 30, 2009 at 06:42 PM
Ahhh, finally a comment from someone associated with "official Elton & Betty". I would appreciate ANY corrections to this and the part two blog on E&B. I'm curious as to why, if "most" of this album is from one source, and some is not- they all sound as if they were recorded at exactly the same time. Perhaps they recorded two lp's-worth of stuff at one whack?
The spoken intros and such were part of the original cassette, and I've left everything on it in the same order, so if there's a mix-up, it happened prior to me. As for titles, I merely used the titles that Betty and Elton announce before each song, although I always drop the "Lady..." that Elton attaches to each one, which I probably shouldn't have, as that repetition is part of his (awesome) style. Apologies to Elton for shortening his titles---it was in the interest of brevity, man.
Posted by: Mindwrecker | July 31, 2009 at 10:09 AM