Benny Bell - Shaving Cream

Benny Bell was born in 1906 and died in 1999. He was a Jewish American singer-songwriter who achieved success in the 1940s, and then made a comeback in the 1970s when novelty records were becoming popular again. He is particularly well remembered for his rather risqué but cheerful songs which sound just like Vaudeville or Music Hall songs. Bell started up his own record company so that he could release his own material. He also wrote and recorded commercial jingles for radio. In 1946 he released his two best known songs - 'Pincus the Peddler' and the notorious 'Shaving Cream' which has verses that suggest a rhyme with an obscene word, but then that word is replaced with the title - so the song is only smutty if you already know the rude word! Some other risqué songs he wrote include 'Without Pants', 'My Grandfather Had a Long One', 'Everybody Wants My Fanny', and 'I'm Gonna Give My Girl a Goose for Thanksgiving'. In the 1970s Shaving Cream was re-issued as a single in 1975 on the Vanguard Records label. Shaving Cream reached #30 in the US Top 100 that year but had no chart success at all in Britain, so perhaps I was the only person who bought it in this country!

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[MichaelHansenFUN]

i have 2 verses that will make your head spin-i made them up myself.

also do you have JACK OF ALL TRADES?

[NoveltyJukebox]

@MichaelHansenFUN

No, sorry. I don't know that one.

[resonancegames]

My fiancee and I just decided that this is going to be our wedding song in May.

[NoveltyJukebox]

@resonancegames Well, I hope your guests appreciate the humour! Have a wonderful life together and a lovely wedding in May.

[MRANDREWSHOW]

ben was a bad father. how do i kno? he wasnt wachin his baby as it fell out the window in a dirty barrel of ssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhaving cream

[NoveltyJukebox]

Glad it made you smile - it's very old now but it still makes people laugh! Even young people like yourself. Good humour never ages. Laurel & Hardy are a good example.

[good2goism]

@MRANDREWSHOW Doesn't rhyme with shhhaving cream, bud.

[joshuaital]

this is awesome...my dad used to sing this to me when i was small boy

[bushmen123]

@unfortunatebeam i was trying to somehow refer to a cross dressers club...

[suspekt29]

@unfortunatebeam I am not sure what I was thinking of when I posted that comment. I think I was focusing specifically on my generation. Being a product of Generation X and not knowing who the killer was until the end (i.e. Friday the 13th).

[unfortunatebeam]

@suspekt29 what are you talking about never saw monsters? Guess what, there were LOTS of 50s movies where you saw monsters lol. And there were also lots of people I'm sure who didn't think for themselves either. In fact, the 50s is well know for its conventionalism and conformity, things like this song were a refreshing kind of break from the "normalcy".

[unfortunatebeam]

@bushmen123 boooo

[LocoRico89]

I heard the GOP has nominated a man named Mitt

Lacking good wit, I told they may eat shhhaving cream!