There were songs back then where the lyrics had a "double entendre" which means they probably have another meaning of something of what you think they're singing about, let me give you an example and then you can feel free to post any song from any era that had a "double entendre":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmP1O-VywDo
You think they're singing about sex and a man's private area but it's actually about a guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7xfOeGa15Q
Here we have Musique's song "In the Bush" from 1978 now I'm pretty sure this song is about dancing but you probably think it's about sex, you make the interpretation.

Like “Pearl Necklace” by ZZ Top? ???

Melanie
"Brand New Key"
1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKcpodt0YCU

"Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson

Need I say more?

Like “Pearl Necklace” by ZZ Top? ???


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne3XojNonEU
Yes, that is one song that has a double entendre.

Melanie
"Brand New Key"
1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKcpodt0YCU


Voice, What is this song about?  ???

"Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson

Need I say more?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLss0Uk2ZeU
Peter The Meter Reader  ;D

"My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry

Voice, What is this song about?  ???


Sex.

Voice, What is this song about?  ???
147 seconds of Freudian symbols.

You think they're singing about sex and a man's private area but it's actually about a guitar



I think you've got the interpretation of this song reversed, Howard. In fact, there's really not much of a double entendre in this song at all. It's all rather upfront.  :o  ;D

Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul and Mary.

White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfASumLhC2U


Cat

Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul and Mary.


Alledgedly?

White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane.

Cat


Grace Slick, the composer of that song, always said it was about the fact that parents read children stories that were full of drug references. "Alice In Wonderland", Alice drinks a bottle labelled "drink me" she literally gets high. She drinks another and she shrinks. The caterpillar is sitting on a MUSHROOM. He's smoking a hookah and speaking in a "languid voice". Alice eats little cakes with currants (pills) on them and changes sizes yet again. "Peter Pan", fairy dust (white powder) is sprinkled around and people start flying all over the room. "Wizard of Oz", field of poppies (opium) make people drowsy, snow (cocaine) wakes them up. She's right you know. Neither the "Alice'" books or "Peter Pan" are really children's books at all. I read "Alice" in my 20s and was amazed.

Grace Slick, the composer of that song, always said it was about the fact that parents read children stories that were full of drug references. "Alice In Wonderland", Alice drinks a bottle labelled "drink me" she literally gets high. She drinks another and she shrinks. The caterpillar is sitting on a MUSHROOM. He's smoking a hookah and speaking in a "languid voice". Alice eats little cakes with currants (pills) on them and changes sizes yet again. "Peter Pan", fairy dust (white powder) is sprinkled around and people start flying all over the room. "Wizard of Oz", field of poppies (opium) make people drowsy, snow (cocaine) wakes them up. She's right you know. Neither the "Alice'" books or "Peter Pan" are really children's books at all. I read "Alice" in my 20s and was amazed.



I agree. I have always said that Alice was NOT a children's story. When my father died, we were cleaning out his house and he had the annotated Alice & Through the Looking Glass. Guess what now sits in my library?

I'm not sure if I agree with Peter Pan and Oz though. I heard that L. Frank Baum would just tell stories to kids and one day he was telling them about a magical place. As he was telling the story, he was thinking of a name and looked around the room. He saw the filing cabinet with a drawer that said, "O-Z." Thus Oz was born.


Cat

I agree. I have always said that Alice was NOT a children's story. When my father died, we were cleaning out his house and he had the annotated Alice & Through the Looking Glass. Guess what now sits in my library?

I'm not sure if I agree with Peter Pan and Oz though. I heard that L. Frank Baum would just tell stories to kids and one day he was telling them about a magical place. As he was telling the story, he was thinking of a name and looked around the room. He saw the filing cabinet with a drawer that said, "O-Z." Thus Oz was born.


Cat


I'm not sure if that poppy and snow business is even in the Baum books. It may have been added for the movie, which would definitely make it a drug reference. Decadent Hollywood and all that.  :D

I'm not sure if that poppy and snow business is even in the Baum books. It may have been added for the movie, which would definitely make it a drug reference. Decadent Hollywood and all that.  :D



It has been a long time since I read the original. Maybe it is time to do that-especially since I have the book Wicked on my queue for the next book to read.


Cat

The Beatles
"Sexy Sadie"
1968

Written about John Lennon's disillusionment with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. "Sexy Sadie" is even the same number of syllables as "Maharishi", and it originally was written "Ma-ha-ri-shi what have you done?".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSk5U4oHhu0

I think you've got the interpretation of this song reversed, Howard. In fact, there's really not much of a double entendre in this song at all. It's all rather upfront.  :o  ;D


I thought it was about a jamming guitar.

Alledgedly?


Wasn't that song about smoking drugs?

Wasn't that song about smoking drugs?
"The lyrics for "Puff, the Magic Dragon" are based on a 1959 poem by Leonard Lipton, then a 19-year-old Cornell University student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash poem titled "Custard the Dragon", about a "realio, trulio little pet dragon". The lyrics tell a story of the ageless dragon Puff and his playmate, Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood and leaves Puff to be with himself. The story of the song takes place "by the sea" in the fictional land of "Honalee". Lipton was friends with Yarrow's housemate when they were all students at Cornell. He used Yarrow's typewriter to get the poem out of his head. He then forgot about it until years later, when a friend called and told him Yarrow was looking for him, to give him credit for the lyrics. On making contact, Yarrow gave Lipton half the songwriting credit, and he still gets royalties from the song. Yarrow now sings the line "A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys" as "A dragon lives forever, but not so girls and boys", to be fair to boys and girls. The original poem also had a stanza that was not incorporated into the song. In it, Puff found another child and played with him after returning. Neither Yarrow nor Lipton remembers the verse in any detail, and the paper that was left in Yarrow's typewriter in 1958 has since been lost."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff,_the_Magic_Dragon#Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA

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Clever choice! I remember when that song was new and got a lot of airplay on FM and college stations. Can you imagine if it came out NOW??? Cancel culture would be out in full force with cries of racism and xenophobia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1IphRx1pk
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper

AC/DC - Big Balls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlqLHcphyw

I remember Turning Japanese. When it came out and I was so oblivious to what it was about-but I liked it anyway.

Here's another one: She Bop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq4E9XTueY


Cat

Hot Tuna
"Keep On Truckin"
1972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxJOht2yRE

The Who
"Squeeze Box"
1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n02PD18cFs

The Who
"Squeeze Box"
1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n02PD18cFs


Sounds dodgy now, for the video is not available?