Gracie Allen - 1 [with annoying history first]
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gracie could make the most flat , mundane comment so funny
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Oh good grief. Get your facts straight about black slang.
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Thank you very much!
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There is a longer version of the Andrews Sisters doing the same song and dance on youtube and the movements are even more telling.
But the song isn't about veneral disease.
It's just that the term was.
Like a lot of other styles this one to was stolen by whites from blacks though some would dispute the claim.
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the movements yes, but if you look at the rest of the text of the song there are no other hints about crotch crickets.
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nerve saw
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The movements in the dance can appear to be obvious when the meaning is explained but most people today and certainly most then would not recognize what those movements represent.
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If you mean a case of Boogie Woogie, they most likely wouldn't have known what it was about.
Whites also didn't know that Jellyroll as in Jellyroll Blues referred to the female sex organ.
When blacks in America couldn't speak freely to, or in the presence of whites they practiced circumlocution and slang.
Black musicians could mock whites by doing so and it wasn't uncommon for whites to applaud and cheer at things said without recognizing the insult.
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What's that songs name on 0:46?
pinups40 3 years ago
Say "Si Si"
rodanvideo 3 years ago
...and it's ANDREWS... not ANDREW.
Tre404 3 years ago
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!! My error. So now I have to think about what to do, since I HATE spelling errors. Do I remove the clip or just let it go? Hmmmmmmm?
rodanvideo 3 years ago