So Much Better Than A Lot of the Crap Released in 74, They are the most underrated rock group of all time. They played excellent music on all their albums.
These guys spent some time in my brother's recording studio when their gig was rained out ... that bass player looked really cute in that baby blue miniskirt.
i remenber ti,too..the last few lines ALWYAS sounded like.." ready for masturbation"..in Feb.1975!! And it was about David Bowie, who had his first true big big US hit then, with the re-released CHANGES (1972)!
@@SteveCarras Bowie had already cracked the U.S. top 20 in 1973 with the re-release of Space Oddity. Furthermore, Young Americans (the single) was released in early 75 and that cracked the top 30. So changes was not his first hit in the states.
Wow! Blast! Past! I remember being a young teen and my Mom wouldn't let me buy this song. (too naughty) I ended up 5 finger discounting it (Sorry Fanny!) and still have it to this day.
I didn't steal any of Fanny's records, but I did used to steal 8-tracks of Melanie from Walgreens. Back then I'd buy Helena Rubenstein facial creme from Walgreens, but would steal 8-tracks.
@@littlecasino60 Haha, your mention of Melanie brings to mind an incident here in my hometown. I'm from the Melanie days, AM transistor radio & WLS. Last year driving thru downtown a car is gaining behind me, I could hear their music easily, playing loudly & very loudly they have "Brand New Key" blaring, driving one of those Cube vehicles, pimped out.
@@methaqualone5191 Not to mention Disco, Mood Rings, Pet Rocks, CB Radio, and Rollerskating. It was a fun time that passed too quickly-but Time kept on slipping slipping into the Future...
If this was a Top Hit In USA how come it took 48 years before I heard it? I just read an article about this group & how the media forgot them, it mentioned this song & I came here.
WPGC in the Washington DC area played this quite regularly in late '74---early '75 for about three months or so. I was thirteen and I recall being surprised that the station played it since the lyrics are so blatantly erotic. Not that I minded then, or now. Hell, consider the lyrics of pop songs and rap/hip-hop of today by comparison. Contemporary music makes this song seem like an old nursery rhyme.
This was Fanny's second and final top 40 hit in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #29. Their other was 1971's #40 hit Charity Ball. Those were the ONLY two top 40 hits ever by an all-female band until the Go-Go's released their #20 hit Our Lips Are Sealed in 1981.
@@stanlangley5670 Female vocal groups, yes, the most successful being the Supremes. But the first female band, meaning a group that played their own instruments, ever to make the top 40 in the U.S. was Fanny.
This version of Fanny was the last, June (the great guitar player) was gone & Alice (the fabulous drummer) was gone, this version of Fanny was just OK to me, not as good as the original Fanny . . . When June, Jean, Alice & Nicky we’re together that was something very special 👍
Their was a Christian all girl rock band called RACHEL RACHEL they made 2 ALBUMS, They even did the song CARRY ON WAYWARD SON, their was THE RUNAWAYS also, an all girl rock band from the 1970s
How the heck did this song get ANY airplay in the mid seventies? Those lyrics are so graphic! Kinda makes Heart’s “Crazy On You” sound like a church hymn!
Wow! I grew up in the seventies and now feel cheated! That session video is awesome. But I can't be the first one to hear the theme to the Pink Panther in the opening of the song, am I?
Fanny were only the first to release an album on a major label. There were surely many all-female garage bands before them who just weren’t able to get record deals.
No, The Pleasure Seekers were with the Quatro sisters with 1965's What a Way to Die, which did not chart as high, but is more well known and covered. They were the first all female proto punk band, before Fanny, the Runaways, The Slits, or anyone. Patti Quatro was in Fanny as well for their 1974 final album which is featured here.
It's too bad this group didn't achieve more success than it did. Fortunately they did leave a limited body of work and some surviving concert footage. In the USA it reached #29 in April, 1975. Still got my 45.
Hey all! In case you didn't know, Jean had a stroke and needs our help. www.gofundme.com/jean-millington-go Please donate what you can, write her a note, we gotta get her back on bass! Thanks so much. xx June
Yes, singer Jean Millington because her and David Bowie dated for a year or so, but in the documentary, "Fanny: The Right to Rock." She does say that song wasn't about him, but he inspired her to write it. Too bad Fanny broke up while this hit was claiming the charts. Would still LUV to see them perform this song Live on a TV show.
I'm not exactly sure myself, but I thought it was in reference to "The Last Tango in Paris" movie, with Marlon Brando, where there was the 'butter scene' because this song came out after that movie.
???? I don't get that. Jean had left the band by the time this album was recorded, so I have doubts that June and Nickey would include a song on the album about Jean's affair (???)
@@2ndEndingVintage The sister that left the band (in 1973) was June, not Jean. In fact, Jean was the only original member still in the band by the time they imploded in 1975.
As a 15 year old boy, the line "He was hard as a rock and I was ready to roll..." Well... let's just say it was a favorite of mine.
I knowm I know, I was slightly younger at the time!
What album is this off of
@@lepantoslim7058 "Rock and Roll Survivors." It was available on Amazon. Not sure if it still is. That's where I got mine on CD.
Figures
@@SteveCarras yeah. This song cane out in 1974. I was only 11.
I just read this song was about Jean's affair with David Bowie. Lucky girl.
I have this on 45...I was 12 but loved a good tune, still do, 47 years later. Great bass and sax. These ladies can rock!
LOL same here 😂
So Much Better Than A Lot of the Crap Released in 74, They are the most underrated rock group of all time. They played excellent music on all their albums.
These guys spent some time in my brother's recording studio when their gig was rained out ... that bass player looked really cute in that baby blue miniskirt.
I woke up this morning and this song was dancing in my head. I haven't heard it in years but knew I could find it on UA-cam.
There is now a Canadian produce documentary out about them! I am going to see it in my hometown at the art cinema on Sunday.
That was their last and biggest single
My best discovery of the pandemic. Fanny.
I remenber this song. I was just a kid, but remembered the Lyric "Go baby go" and "Oh Butterboy." Thank goodness for UA-cam.
i remenber ti,too..the last few lines ALWYAS sounded like.."
ready for masturbation"..in Feb.1975!! And it was about David Bowie, who had his first true big big US hit then, with the re-released CHANGES (1972)!
@@SteveCarras Bowie had already cracked the U.S. top 20 in 1973 with the re-release of Space Oddity. Furthermore, Young Americans (the single) was released in early 75 and that cracked the top 30. So changes was not his first hit in the states.
@@michaeltnewyorknights8413 Correct..
AMEN.
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Same
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Eddi ist der Beste.
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Wow! Blast! Past! I remember being a young teen and my Mom wouldn't let me buy this song. (too naughty) I ended up 5 finger discounting it (Sorry Fanny!) and still have it to this day.
LOL! Your comment cracked me up, i have done a lot of 5 finger discounting in my time! Actually, i got to be a pro @ it, he! he!
I didn't steal any of Fanny's records, but I did used to steal 8-tracks of Melanie from Walgreens. Back then I'd buy Helena Rubenstein facial creme from Walgreens, but would steal 8-tracks.
@@littlecasino60 Haha, your mention of Melanie brings to mind an incident here in my hometown. I'm from the Melanie days, AM transistor radio & WLS. Last year driving thru downtown a car is gaining behind me, I could hear their music easily, playing loudly & very loudly they have "Brand New Key" blaring, driving one of those Cube vehicles, pimped out.
RIP Butterboy aka David Bowie
I seen them in Richards Night Club In Atlanta 1974? and they played a Beatles Set And Blew my Mine I was 19
Richard's!! Great times:))
Winter 1974/75. Remember being 19 and in college at the time this song was out. Go Baby Go and Fire Down Below were there knocking on the door...
And his "Rotating bed." That's so '70s! LOL! Along with 'key parties' and fondue.
@@methaqualone5191 Not to mention Disco, Mood Rings, Pet Rocks, CB Radio, and Rollerskating. It was a fun time that passed too quickly-but Time kept on slipping slipping into the Future...
Very underrated band I had this single back then. Thanks for the memory
Me too!
KIQQ was the only station in Los Angeles that dared to play this.
If this was a Top Hit In USA how come it took 48 years before I heard it? I just read an article about this group & how the media forgot them, it mentioned this song & I came here.
I love this song back in the day.
these ladies had it goin' on ......
i was alive and well and in the army at the time this came out. NEVER heard it played on armed forces radio or by anyone in the barracks.
I always thought she was saying, "These times of cash and quick relations," but I think she says, "These times of casual and quick relations." LOL!
Supposedly, this tune was about a short fling the beautiful Jean had with David Bowie….
What a great song and groundbreaking group of talented women!
They were unique, we were fans, their cover of I've Had It is a stand out
thanks for posting,one of the early rock and roll girl bands that i thought were just all right.
WPGC in the Washington DC area played this quite regularly in late '74---early '75 for about three months or so. I was thirteen and I recall being surprised that the station played it since the lyrics are so blatantly erotic. Not that I minded then, or now. Hell, consider the lyrics of pop songs and rap/hip-hop of today by comparison. Contemporary music makes this song seem like an old nursery rhyme.
Butter Boy, the love theme for Last Tango in Paris!!! Boom!!!
That's when you get the 'butter feel.' LOL.
Alice is from my hometown. She lives in Arizona now.
This was Fanny's second and final top 40 hit in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #29. Their other was 1971's #40 hit Charity Ball. Those were the ONLY two top 40 hits ever by an all-female band until the Go-Go's released their #20 hit Our Lips Are Sealed in 1981.
Thanks for that info, save me sometime looking it up.
Didn’t any of the many 60s all female bands have higher hits?
@@stanlangley5670 Female vocal groups, yes, the most successful being the Supremes. But the first female band, meaning a group that played their own instruments, ever to make the top 40 in the U.S. was Fanny.
Never heard of it
Go Gos sucked!!!! As did the Bangles
Butter Boy is COMING TO TOWN
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This version of Fanny was the last, June (the great guitar player) was gone & Alice (the fabulous drummer) was gone, this version of Fanny was just OK to me, not as good as the original Fanny . . . When June, Jean, Alice & Nicky we’re together that was something very special 👍
"They were one the finest f*cking rock bands of their time" David Bowie told Rolling Stone magazine in 1999
This song was written about him. Jean wrote it, but he was dating June. He championed their success.
@@TinyDancer250
"Jean wrote it, but he was dating June."
History revisionism.
It was written 'bout Jean by Jean.
The real story is here. fannyrocks.com/the-way-it-was/jean/
It was a hit in the U.S., hit #29 on the charts.
This was included on the 1975 K-Tel comp "Sounds Spectacular" (US edition)...
I was really into rock during this time and I don't remember ever hearing about this group
You and most of America.
The vocals remind me of Grace Slick during the Jefferson Airplane years
Nikki Barclay
Fanny hit #29 in Billboard, 4-5-75. God bless you, friend, for postin' it. Thanx! Have a blessed week!
LOVE Fanny!
This was written about David Bowie.
Thought I’d never find this song! Thanks for posting!
Thanks to You Tube
I love a bit of Fanny
Their was a Christian all girl rock band called RACHEL RACHEL they made 2 ALBUMS, They even did the song CARRY ON WAYWARD SON, their was THE RUNAWAYS also, an all girl rock band from the 1970s
about Bowie.
How the heck did this song get ANY airplay in the mid seventies? Those lyrics are so graphic! Kinda makes Heart’s “Crazy On You” sound like a church hymn!
Yes, LOL, it was banned in some cities due to it's semi-pornographic lyrics, but not in the town I lived in. I still have this single on 45.
KFRC. Dr. Donald D. Rose was a great DJ.
Different times back then, always pushing the envelope. Watch a rerun of All in the Family some time.
Les claquements de doigts comme "Under Pressure" et Wa-wa-oo de "Absolute Beginners" Bowie plus tard :) .
Well spotted!
While this is pretty good, their best stuff is the Beat-Club live performances. That stuff is phenomenal.
Love this song used to put my single on full blast
Why isn’t this on itunes?
Awesome
Wow! I grew up in the seventies and now feel cheated! That session video is awesome. But I can't be the first one to hear the theme to the Pink Panther in the opening of the song, am I?
Oh hell yeah
I remember this song was so controversial in the day! 😂
The *real* "first all-female band" ....
No. Goldie and the Gingerbreads were signed to a major label and making hits in the early 60's
Fanny were only the first to release an album on a major label. There were surely many all-female garage bands before them who just weren’t able to get record deals.
No, The Pleasure Seekers were with the Quatro sisters with 1965's What a Way to Die, which did not chart as high, but is more well known and covered. They were the first all female proto punk band, before Fanny, the Runaways, The Slits, or anyone. Patti Quatro was in Fanny as well for their 1974 final album which is featured here.
It's too bad this group didn't achieve more success than it did. Fortunately they did leave a limited body of work and some surviving concert footage. In the USA it reached #29 in April, 1975. Still got my 45.
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Should have let these girls soar and not hold them back...
Here in 2023✨
Hey all! In case you didn't know, Jean had a stroke and needs our help. www.gofundme.com/jean-millington-go Please donate what you can, write her a note, we gotta get her back on bass! Thanks so much. xx June
the song talks about david bowie, jean millington had an affair with him
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Wasn’t this about one of the members snagging Bowie?
Yes, singer Jean Millington because her and David Bowie dated for a year or so, but in the documentary, "Fanny: The Right to Rock." She does say that song wasn't about him, but he inspired her to write it. Too bad Fanny broke up while this hit was claiming the charts. Would still LUV to see them perform this song Live on a TV show.
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Tons of their music on Spotify, this their biggest hit and it isn't there.
Any Millington sisters on this recording? Any Alice deBuhr? I thought not.
Isn’t Jean Millington singing? She wrote the song did she not?
@@thelastperfectman4139 I understand June didn't record this for some reason.
Sorry , your right!
Can somebody explain to a confused Dutchman what 'butter boy' means?
I'm not exactly sure myself, but I thought it was in reference to "The Last Tango in Paris" movie, with Marlon Brando, where there was the 'butter scene' because this song came out after that movie.
The song is about a car. Lol
no
@@iaclassic truck??
This was about Bowies brief affair with June Millington
+Mike West It was Jean Millington, not June.
June was gay from an early age.
@@martbook so...
???? I don't get that. Jean had left the band by the time this album was recorded, so I have doubts that June and Nickey would include a song on the album about Jean's affair (???)
@@2ndEndingVintage The sister that left the band (in 1973) was June, not Jean. In fact, Jean was the only original member still in the band by the time they imploded in 1975.