Lee Morse sings T Ain't No Sin To Take Off Your Skin

Lee Morse (1897-1954) was a female, vocal stylist of the 1920s and 1930s with a throaty, jazz-phrased, rather uninhibited style. Sometimes easy swinging style along Gene Austin lines with voice raised in slight yodel. Extensive recording, often used outstanding musicians, including Benny Goodman, Manny Klein, Tommy Dorsey, Adrian Rollini, Eddie Lang, Rube Bloom. Usually billed as Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys.

T Ain't No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin)

Dancing may do this and that
and help you take off lots of fat.
But I'm no friend of dancing when it's hot.
So if you are a dancing fool,
who loves to dance but can't keep cool,
Bear in mind the idea that I've got.

When it gets too hot for comfort,
and you can't get ice cream cones,
T ain't no sin to take off your skin
and dance around in your bones.

When the lazy syncopation of the music softly moans,
T ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
The polar bears aren't green up in Greenland,
they've got the right idea.
They think it's great to refrigerate
while we all cremate down here.

Just be like those Bamboo Babies,
in the South Sea tropic zones,
T ain't no sin to take off your skin
and dance around in your bones.

When you're calling up your sweetie
in those hot house telephones,
T ain't no sin to take off your skin
and dance around in your bones.
When you're on a crowded dance floor
near those red hot saxophones
T ain't no sin to take off your skin
and dance around in your bones.

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• Lee Morse
• Tommy Dorsey
• Benny Goodman
• Manny Klein
• Eddie Lang
• Adrian Rollini
• Thirties
• 30s
• flapper
• 1930
• 78s
• vintage records

[hanshaw1901]

Beats me. This composition was recorded on Feb. 27th, 1930. Maybe someone in his (her) nineties or hundreds could answer this question for you. Sorry that I can't be of any help.

[ClassyOldMusic]

One of my Most Favorite "Fun" songs... a perfect match for Lee... Thanks for the Fun contribution... john b.

[Pathracer]

"By 1930, AT&T's 'two-way television-telephone' system was in experimental use. TheNew York City Bell Labs facility devoted years of research to it during the 1930s, led by Dr. Herbert Ives along with his team of more than 200 scientists, engineers and technicians, intending to develop it for both telecommunications and broadcast entertainment purposes."Wikipedia on Videophone.

[bfs1888]

i had wondered the same, at - television phones  lol very futuristic,,,great song love the compilation !

[Csp499]

I noticed Tom Waits made a reference to this song in "The Black Rider".

[voidforpurpose]

Gydinglight-

That TELEVISION PHONES line isn't even in the original lyrics, but seems to be an ad lid in the studio for this take. It may be a reference to a popular sci fi novel from 1925 that mentions such devices, written by Hugo Gernsback, titled RALPH 124C 41+ (a futurist pun: One to foresee for one).

Great version! Thanks for posting HANSHAW!

[Gydinglight12]

Am wondering about Lee's line about "those televison phones." Was this a very late recording from the 40s or early 50s?