[78-L] song about women drivers^

Don Chichester dnjchi78 at live.com
Fri Dec 21 06:08:05 PST 2012


Try Spike Jones' "The Wild, Wild Women" (Bluebird),  The second chorus goes: "Those women drivers, those joy deprivers, they're making a wild man of me.......LOOK OUT!  (loud crash), they're making a wild man of me (but we love 'em), they're making a wild man of me."
 
Don Chichester
 

> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:22:45 +0000
> From: julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] song about women drivers^
> 
> On 21/12/12 08:55, Donna Halper wrote:
> > I'm working on an essay about popular culture in the 1920s and 1930s,
> > and I needed to quote a hit song that was about women drivers-- any good
> > suggestions? I can think of lots of songs about a guy taking his
> > girlfriend out for a romantic drive, but I am totally drawing a blank on
> > songs about how women drive... surely there must have been some, since
> > the 1920s were an era when a lot of women were driving.
> > _______________________________________________
> > That's like changing those "Bishop-and-actress" jokes to "Bishopess-and-actor" ones! Do bishopesses have bishopricks?
> 
> Back to song titles, there doesn't seem to be any popular song titles 
> from the twenties and thirties that consist of just a man's name that's 
> not in the diminutive.
> Julian Vein
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