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Post by sayne on Jun 16, 2017 12:14:49 GMT -5
Da Do Run Run, Da Do Run Run That was a song about diarrhea . Having the doo-doo runs . Very risque times, those. Now, you're getting it.
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Post by sayne on Jun 16, 2017 12:27:46 GMT -5
I can't tell. Are you saying that you did not know the origin of the term "rock and roll"? That's right. If it was, then I don't mind standing corrected (unlike yourself, I can concede things). However, there's no way in hell that parents and old men in the 1950's knew such a thing referred to "fucking" while they were going around continually stating those words "Rock and Roll", and downplaying it. I'm surprised Chuck Berry and The Beatles were permitted to record and release the song "Rock and Roll Muisc". I don't think the Beatles knew. Maybe you can inform Paul and Ringo before it's too late. From WIKI:
The phrase "rocking and rolling" originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean,[14] but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals[15] and as a sexual analogy. This from Quora: This link The Dawn of Rock 'n Roll probably has the best overview of the etymology behind the musical genre of "rock and roll." The brief synopsis is that "rock and roll" originally referred in the 1600s to the rocking and rolling of boat on the high seas. Then, by the turn of the 20th century, black churches started using the nautical "rocking and rolling" imagery in gospel songs to refer to being held and protected in the arms of Jesus Christ. Eventually, secular black singers then repurposed the term to use "rock and roll" as a sexual euphemism, and the name of a musical genre was born. This from Alan Freed's bio in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
A tireless and enthusiastic advocate of the music he played, Freed kept time to his favorite records by beating his hands on a phone book. The show became extremely popular, and given its success, and the ever-increasing sales of R&B records, he and Mintz decided this music needed a new name. Freed began calling it rock and roll because βit seemed to suggest the rolling, surging beat of the music.β The term was not new β it had been used to describe sex for a while β but Freed was the first person to call this new music by that name, and he was the first radio deejay to use the term.
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Post by debjorgo on Jun 16, 2017 16:29:55 GMT -5
The term Rock and Roll was used for a song in the 1934 movie Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round.
Rock and Roll
"Rock and Roll, roll and rock away, Up and down, round and round we sway, We're the swell In the spell Of the rollin' rockin' rhythm of the sea
Rock and roll like a rockin' chair Laugh and smile while we drown each care In the tide As we glide To the rollin' rockin' rhythm of the sea"
Hmm, who knows?
But you know, it was written by the same guys who wrote On the Good Ship Lolly-pop.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 10:11:10 GMT -5
It's not far-fetched to think that the "Please" lyric was/is, indeed, referring to SEX.
FWIW: there's a line in the Stones' song THE LAST TIME (written only three years later; but still before the '60s exploded "above ground") that always -to me- sounds both funny and icky whenever I hear it --- "You don't try very hard to PLEASE ME...With what *you know*, it should be easy". Now, in that case, Mick was obviously broadcasting his bad boy image though. However, I wonder if it was "code" among the young British guys in the late-'50s/early-'60s to talk like that for wanting something seen as taboo(?).
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