More likely to be asking floozies to dance as this song came on, rather than trying to pick up floozies while the song was already playing, but your point is taken!
I’m right there, brother. I can taste the Whiskey Sours and I smell the smoke in the air… and there’s not a bare ankle in sight. Better times friends, better times… Nowadays you’ve got your Peanut Butter Whiskey and we can’t get cancer over a nice meal anymore, and all the women just love those tight, indecent yoga pants. It’s sickening!
This song reminds me of my grandpa. Everytime he'd take a picture of the family he would say, "say pussy" instead of "say cheese" and it would make everyone smile and laugh and it made for a great photo.
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There's one pet I like to pet And every evening we get set I stroke it every chance I get It's my girl's 🐱 Seldom plays and never purrs And I love the thoughts it stirs But I don't mind because it's hers My girl's 🐱 Often it goes out at night Returns at break of dawn No matter what the weather's like It's always nice and warm It's never dirty, always clean In giving thrills, never mean But it's the best I've ever seen It's my girl's 🐱 There's one pet I like to pet And every evening we get set I stroke it every chance I get It's my girl's 🐱 Seldom plays, never purrs And I love thoughts it stirs But I don't mind because it's hers It's my girl's 🐱 Though often it goes out at night And returns at break of dawn, break of dawn No matter what the weather's like It's always dry and warm I bring tid-bits that it loves We spoon like two turtle-doves I take care to remove my gloves When stroking my girl's 🐱
Both Shakespeare and the first real poet or whateva in English, Chaucer, wrote C word jokes! And got them in print. Important to remember when you get bailed up by some prat who loves Hamlet too much.
@@agin1519 Don’t forget “As You Like It,” specifically the “Fool in the Forest” monologue: “From hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and from hour to hour, we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tail.” It’s incredibly rude! And yet Shakespeare used it.
@@peterrraklliproductions2020 or from the same play, just unnecessarily detailed: “…amongst the country copulatives…as marriage binds and blood breaks.” Though the thing there that annoys me the most is the Seven Ages of man being spoken like it is the sermon on the mount. It’s supposed to be drunken (or stronger) banter, not some wisdom and desiderata. OMG- just went back to check the text and there’s this study site that manages to give extensive notes on the passage, including your quote above without once mentioning venereal disease. I guess it’s how Shakespeare survived God>Jove for the puritan neighborhoods and then bowlderised.
My grandfather would’ve been a year old when this song came out. He passed two years ago in his mid-nineties. As a twenty-three year old it’s always fun to realize these kinds of ‘meme’ songs were being made even back then.
@@WorthlessDeadEndI totally understand what you guys are saying but that’s not what a meme is. I think you just mean a joke or funny song. It would only be a meme if it constantly got repeated and transformed over time
Some people thnk that older generations are an ossified versions of a victorian caricature. There is nothing new ,under the sun.Humanity has been ironic,,paradoxical, mocking and smutty since time immemorial. We are the inheritors not the instigators.
IKR? I don't get why today's people think they're different, or superior, or more intelligent than people from the past. We were like this since humans were created!!!
@@Kayavodnah baby the problem is y’all pretend y’all were NEVER like this. You pretend that you were always morally superior & people “these days” are the problem. That’s why people think this never went on...
In pompeii there's graffiti etched into the walls from back in their day giving directions to the local brothel. The etchings are of a penis and the direction the penis is pointing was the direction of the brothel. Felt like this supports what you're say exactly
Right on. I've heard from these senior folk about being the 4th born out of 9 children... 😂 😂 We know our great grandparents and grandparents and our parents were down with the get down. That's how we got here, right?? 😂 😂
@@ShandelarTHANK YOU! As a talented “band fag”, I also performed in h.s. Jazz band (as well private swing bands) & I remember playing “…To HER Face”. We never, not once, referred to it as “…To Her PUSS”! Where’d ‘DAT come from?! 🤔🤟🎶🙂
I think you just supposed that to be true rather than having found any evidence ~ because it isn't true. pussy (n.2) slang for "female pudenda," by 1879, but probably older; perhaps from Old Norse puss "pocket, pouch" (compare Low German puse "vulva"), or perhaps instead from the cat word (see pussy (n.1)) on the notion of "soft, warm, furry thing;" compare French le chat, which also has a double meaning, feline and genital. Earlier uses are difficult to distinguish from pussy (n.1), e.g.: The word pussie is now used of a woman [Philip Stubbes, "The Anatomie of Abuses," 1583]
My eternal curiosity prevailed. Last video watched was a guy in a crown of thorns carrying a sad, sad leprechaun pinata being arrested. The pinata got my attention.
Going through a bit of a minor depression at the moment, but this is exactly what I needed! At 75 years old, it was a bit before my time, but it got a huge laugh out of me...Laughter truly is the best medicine. Thanks! Peace and love to all from S. Oregon...
My dad would be born 5 years after this song was released. Daddy was a bad boy, so I'm willing to bet he heard this on an oldies station in his youth, lol!
It's attested in 1879 in that sense, though it wasn't probably used in a vulgar sense much before that because from the 1500s to the early 1800s it was widely used as a term of endearment for a woman. After it began to be used as a term for genitalia, using it to refer to a woman was seen as highly offensive.
The most common word was "cunt", a word that has now been pretty dated for a few decades. It was US English speakers that eventually made "pussy" the most common word for it.
I've just been to an open mic night where a 90 year old man played this on Guitar. He did an amazing job, had us all in stitches! I had to google it to see if he was winding us up about it being written in 1931. Apparently not. 😆😇
As a union musician in the late 50s, once in a while at our monthly gathering there was a old gal from Chicago who would visit. She played the piano in this style and sung songs like these in her gravel voice. Loved it then and love it now. Thanks for the memories.
I have an old friend who used to play the piano bar in Pat O'Brien's down in the French Quarter of New Orleans. She kept people in stitches with bawdy songs. One of her classics was the Woodpecker Song. Here's to you, Babs, wherever you are these days!
Wait, in this recording you mean? I've been trying to identify the pianist in this recording for a while now. Some genius novelty tricks thrown in here!
There were a lot of really risque songs in the 1920's and early 30's. You wouldn't hear these on the radio or at high society functions but they were especially popular in "speak easys" and underground nightclubs/ gambling joints. Sofie Tucker who ran a famous speak easy in New York was well known for these and had a big recording career with mostly risque songs. Mae West was also known for this type of music , check out her rendition of "Easy Rider". 😉
They were called “Dirty Blues”. There are a lots of famous ones - one of more explicit ones I’d Lucille Brogan’s “Shave ‘Em Dry”. A lot of the recordings have been preserved.
Ruth Brown's 'If I Can't Sell it, I'll Sit on It' remains one of my very favourite examples of this type of double entendre song. A stone cold classic.
This doesn't even begin to highlight the Raunch of the Era. The difference between then and now is that you has to choose to listen, this was NOT on the radio.
The first thing UA-cam recommended to me this morning. It knows me well. But there's nothing new under the sun, least of all smut. My granddad used to spend the 20s and 30s in dingy central London bars watching "blue comedians". I would say it was a guilty pleasure of his, but to be honest I doubt he felt a shred of anything approaching guilt. He'd have absolutely loved this record, in fact he probably owned it.
I love how it looks like they told him to take a serious picture but he knew what record it was for and couldn't help himself from cracking up a little.
My parents were born in the mid-20’s and when we were kids we would play their old 78’s on our record player. One of the tunes was Shoot the Sherbet to Me Herbert. Even as a kid I thought that was a crazy way to sing about a frozen snack.
@JML6988 My grandmother had some 78's, and they definitely weren't LP's (long play). They were singles, mainly because they spun so quickly the record was done in, well, record time.
I love thinking about how this song was being beamed across radio waves into space in the 1930s. New planets are still hearing this song for the first time right now. This man was speaking a message on behalf of all of humanity.
There were still obscenity laws back then. It was likely never played on the radio. I am just glad that we are all hearing it now for "educational purposes".
Well I just found my party piece for the next Ladies Bakery Awards after party. A nice old-timey wholesome song about a guy and a pet cat. It should go down a treat with the organization committee!
@@n0ts0B9No. Culture isn't relegated into compartmentalized decades. Example disco was NOT a 70s phenom- it went from '76 to '83 when new wave killed it off. Almost as much an '80s phenom as it was '70s.
I've been looking for this song for years just because I misheard the name of the singer. When I was 20 (I'm now nearly 58) years old I saw a documentary on tv about Robert Crumb. He was with a friend playing the original record and I misheard him thinking he'd said Perry Royner. Ever since then, until now, I've been searching for a record by Perry Royner
Back in the '90's a friend of mine and I were listening to this when in walked her mother who was in her 80's. She rolled her eyes and walked back out the door mumbling: "This is NOT my cup of tea..." :) -Tony Arioli
My Gran, of our devout Mormon lineage, danced to this song with joy and never knew it suggested anything other than something about a girl and her cat. Of course, radios and record players weren’t very clear in those days so…? All I know is that I will forever possess an image of joyfully oblivious, rollicking Saints that’ll rescue me any time I’m feeling unhappy. 😂 *Surely, though, the older men and boys must’ve had some inkling of its true nature, right ??*
I'm looking all over the place for my socks. They went missing while I laughed. this Mans definitely not confused thats for sure. I am 70 now but used to play the trumpet and I love 30's music. Now I finally know why.
Anyone thinking sexually explicit and thinly-veiled double entendres are new to music is in for a shock. Along with songs like this, 1920s/30s dirty blues, many sea shanties, 19th century folksongs like those in Randolph's Ozark collections, and drinking songs back through the Middle Ages and beyond certainly put Megan The Stallion in perspective.
A lot of led Zeppelin fans don't realize they got The lemon song from an old blues song by Robert Johnson. Squeeze My lemon till the juice runs down my leg was recorded in the late 30s first.
A lot of the music before the 1940s-1950s got swept under the rug to be honest. I think a lot of modern music like "back that Azz up" will also be swept under the rug at some point as tastes circle back around to "this isn't classy enough".
Presumably she didn't but every other member of staff at Grace Brothers did. Surely the point of the joke is Mrs Slocombe has no idea that anyone could misinterpret her completely innocent anecdotes about her cat.
@@alukuhito : The very one. He also hates rock and roll, ironically since his art graced some classic rock albums by artists like Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.
The little meow at the beginning for plausible deniability lol.
Plausible Deniability is a wonderful thing!
lol lol
Was that what that was?! 😹😹😹😹
That was a very clever observation! Plausible deniability indeed
Plausible deniability....or put in strictly legal jargon.....covering your arse 😄😄😄😄😄
Heard this 60 years ago. Glad to see it has 9 lives.
Underrated comment
🤭
How old are you now? I turned 25 this year.
@@BonesMcoyI am 8 months old.
@bonesmccoy I have yet to be conceived 1:33
The smug little face in the photo graph makes this 10x more hilarious
Dude never knew how much that song would be loved almost 100 years later
Bro has so much to say 😆
1930s shit poster
@@gabrielchalupa8122you helped me lol
I was thinking the same thing! 😸
My grandpa said the speakeasy would go ham when the DJ would drop this track on the gramophone.
😂😂😂
💀😂
They had live music
And might also go bacon 😉
@@theguyof360lmao that's the joke brodie
Imagine picking up floozies at the speakeasy while this is playing.
More likely to be asking floozies to dance as this song came on, rather than trying to pick up floozies while the song was already playing, but your point is taken!
Those were the days
I’m right there, brother. I can taste the Whiskey Sours and I smell the smoke in the air… and there’s not a bare ankle in sight. Better times friends, better times… Nowadays you’ve got your Peanut Butter Whiskey and we can’t get cancer over a nice meal anymore, and all the women just love those tight, indecent yoga pants. It’s sickening!
😅 I've never been to a speakeasy how are those😅
Today, the ones at church have higher body counts than the ones talked about in this thread.
"No matter what the weather's like it's always nice and warm"
You got that right, Harry.
sometimes mine is cold tho and it's weird
@@jellyfishfingernail I don't think you are weird. Maybe see a gynecologist if you worried about it
Yea...you got that right.
@@jellyfishfingernailWow
It’s definitely not Hairy, the man said it himself “never dirty, always clean”
"guess you guys aren't ready for that yet...but your kids are gonna love it."
Underrated
I almost died . This comment made me shoot dr pepper out of my nose . 😂😢😅 hilarious.
😂😂
I think we would make great friends.
One of the greatest use of a movie reference I've ever seen 😂😂👏
This song reminds me of my grandpa. Everytime he'd take a picture of the family he would say, "say pussy" instead of "say cheese" and it would make everyone smile and laugh and it made for a great photo.
😂😂 sounds hilarious 😆
Legend.
Pussy cheese would have been better
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
That is definitely a way to make everyone smile hahaha
This is the face of a man who knows what he’s doing
Indeed
That man fucked.
Where's the 3rd comment? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MISSING COMMENTS THESE DAYS?
I'll buy that for a dollar
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The Great Depression. People needed a laugh and this kind sir delivered.
Damn right he did 😂
Now if only they could actually afford to buy something that'll play the record, they'll be in business!
This was before 1933
The 1920s and 30s had some weird stuff
Before the HAYES code
What’s changed
"Back in my day music used to mean something."
Back in the days of this nearly 100 years ago it has a double meaning n this was not being played on radio
@@oldmansportsog2514 ok boomer
@@oldmansportsog2514 Mozart wrote a song about farts, as a joke. It was played on radios
But it does !
This means a lot
This video is 9 years old, and all these comments are from the past few 2-3 months.
God bless the UA-cam algorithm.
Agreed
God bless MY girls pussy😊
Comments don't last but the videos do.
Nah, fuck the youtube algorithm. Except this one time.
Yeah. This one time.
Look at the way he stares at the camera. That like smirk. He knew. He fucking knew.
listen to the lyrics, there's a very obvious double entendre. yes he knew, that's the point of the song
@@still_functional don't be such a smartass. No one likes that. Dickhead
No shit Sherlock.
How would you write or sing a song like that, and NOT know. 🙄
He's got a shit eating grin on the album cover on Spotify
Strangely his girlfriend didn’t own a cat
Clever!
She had a growler though
That comment made my day!
Oh weird what’s the song about then?
😐
This is my first time hearing the whole song, I've only ever heard a snatch.
Well played good sir…well played…
😂😂
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
LOL! I see what you did there!
Get out 😂😂😂😂
2:22 when his voice gets GROWLY at this bit I started cackling
He was very passionate about that pussy lol
Same it’s my favorite part 😅😂
Yeah. He suddenly becomes a white Howlin' Wolf.
He's got a hair stuck in his throat.
He wen feral
There's one pet I like to pet
And every evening we get set
I stroke it every chance I get
It's my girl's 🐱
Seldom plays and never purrs
And I love the thoughts it stirs
But I don't mind because it's hers
My girl's 🐱
Often it goes out at night
Returns at break of dawn
No matter what the weather's like
It's always nice and warm
It's never dirty, always clean
In giving thrills, never mean
But it's the best I've ever seen
It's my girl's 🐱
There's one pet I like to pet
And every evening we get set
I stroke it every chance I get
It's my girl's 🐱
Seldom plays, never purrs
And I love thoughts it stirs
But I don't mind because it's hers
It's my girl's 🐱
Though often it goes out at night
And returns at break of dawn, break of dawn
No matter what the weather's like
It's always dry and warm
I bring tid-bits that it loves
We spoon like two turtle-doves
I take care to remove my gloves
When stroking my girl's 🐱
Finally, a comment with the lyrics. Thank you!
The "spoon" part confirms it for me, bro👍
Thank you!!!!
I thought he mentioned something about it getting wet....
@@billyrayvalentinecapricorn it really wasn't clear until the spooning part
Proof that even the generations before us still had the humor of middle schoolers. Its beautiful in a way
Time might change but human nature never will.
Both Shakespeare and the first real poet or whateva in English, Chaucer, wrote C word jokes! And got them in print.
Important to remember when you get bailed up by some prat who loves Hamlet too much.
@@agin1519 Don’t forget “As You Like It,” specifically the “Fool in the Forest” monologue:
“From hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and from hour to hour, we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tail.”
It’s incredibly rude! And yet Shakespeare used it.
@@peterrraklliproductions2020 or from the same play, just unnecessarily detailed: “…amongst the country copulatives…as marriage binds and blood breaks.”
Though the thing there that annoys me the most is the Seven Ages of man being spoken like it is the sermon on the mount. It’s supposed to be drunken (or stronger) banter, not some wisdom and desiderata.
OMG- just went back to check the text and there’s this study site that manages to give extensive notes on the passage, including your quote above without once mentioning venereal disease. I guess it’s how Shakespeare survived God>Jove for the puritan neighborhoods and then bowlderised.
Human history is basically HornyMurderGreed the Series, with the occasional modern spinoff of Ethics.
This is the meme equivalent of sealing a fine wine away to age for future generations.
We must thank our ancestors for this precious gift 🙏
There are plenty of songs like this from this era. Like Shave Them Dry.
@@zeltzamer4010 hahaha nice
This isn’t a meme…
to younger gens anything with humor is a meme, they are highly regarded. The future is lost.@@VintageVegans
My grandfather would’ve been a year old when this song came out. He passed two years ago in his mid-nineties. As a twenty-three year old it’s always fun to realize these kinds of ‘meme’ songs were being made even back then.
Another "meme" song is _Too Fat Polka_ by Arthur Godfrey.
@@WorthlessDeadEndI totally understand what you guys are saying but that’s not what a meme is. I think you just mean a joke or funny song.
It would only be a meme if it constantly got repeated and transformed over time
In the age of AI and musical satire, I thought this was fake. But nope, Harry Roy is a real guy and this is a real song from 1931.
What a time to be alive
@@caseycat Not really. The depression raged on and the gears of WW2 were just starting up.
@@gevansmd I'm talking about today
Their ai was so advanced they managed to go back in time 9 years and upload the song
Your comment is _exactly_ what an AI would say.
Some people thnk that older generations are an ossified versions of a victorian caricature. There is nothing new ,under the sun.Humanity has been ironic,,paradoxical, mocking and smutty since time immemorial. We are the inheritors not the instigators.
IKR? I don't get why today's people think they're different, or superior, or more intelligent than people from the past. We were like this since humans were created!!!
@@Kayavodnah baby the problem is y’all pretend y’all were NEVER like this. You pretend that you were always morally superior & people “these days” are the problem. That’s why people think this never went on...
A lot of that has to do with the Hays Code and our modern perception of media at that time.
In pompeii there's graffiti etched into the walls from back in their day giving directions to the local brothel. The etchings are of a penis and the direction the penis is pointing was the direction of the brothel. Felt like this supports what you're say exactly
@@garryjohnson9067 plus trans people became very popular in Rome right before the society collapsed
my grandfather is turning 99 this year. im totally playing this for him.
👍🏻👍🏻
Happy birthday to your gramps my dude!
UPDATE, please!! 😃😃
Did he laugh? Reminisce?
I'm*
This will play endless loop at my funeral. Putting the FUN in funeral !
If you think audiences at the time thought this was completely innocent you're incredibly naive. They damn well knew what he meant 😂
Creepy.
@@USA92 why?
@@USA92ur creepy
@@bigg1637cuz means his nan may have been a freak ;)
Right on. I've heard from these senior folk about being the 4th born out of 9 children... 😂 😂
We know our great grandparents and grandparents and our parents were down with the get down. That's how we got here, right?? 😂 😂
In high school jazz band, every time we played "Accustomed to Her Puss", our teacher couldn't bring himself to say it. This was the 70s.
That song was "Accustomed to Her Face," from My Fair Lady.
😂😂😂
@@Shandelar Wrong
@@ShandelarTHANK YOU! As a talented “band fag”, I also performed in h.s. Jazz band (as well private swing bands) & I remember playing “…To HER Face”.
We never, not once, referred to it as “…To Her PUSS”! Where’d ‘DAT come from?! 🤔🤟🎶🙂
I hear some very few older people still refer to a face as a puss. Like mug as in mugshot. but it is not very common anymore
In 1931 "pussy" meant "cat" with a slight connotation of "vagina".
In 2023 "pussy" means "vagina" with a slight connotation of "cat".
It's called the process of pejoration.
No it meant the same thing in 1931 as today
I think you just supposed that to be true rather than having found any evidence ~ because it isn't true.
pussy (n.2)
slang for "female pudenda," by 1879, but probably older; perhaps from Old Norse puss "pocket, pouch" (compare Low German puse "vulva"), or perhaps instead from the cat word (see pussy (n.1)) on the notion of "soft, warm, furry thing;" compare French le chat, which also has a double meaning, feline and genital. Earlier uses are difficult to distinguish from pussy (n.1), e.g.:
The word pussie is now used of a woman [Philip Stubbes, "The Anatomie of Abuses," 1583]
No? Maybe check actual history before just assuming shit.
@@Bollibompa Maybe explain?
This guy was so ahead of his time, he knew shitposting before a lot of people
This man absolutely knew what he was doing when he made this song and he looks damn proud
Whatever gave you that idea…he types sarcastically
Like yeah, I said that.
robert downey jr lookin
Bruh's the rizzler
@@TamaraKane oh god please forget that word
clicked for the title, stayed for the groove
My eternal curiosity prevailed. Last video watched was a guy in a crown of thorns carrying a sad, sad leprechaun pinata being arrested. The pinata got my attention.
Pun intended
I’m glad my UA-cam recommendations are in good working order.
😂
😂😂😂 I declared, " What the fuck!?!?" and still hit play.
@@evanistrans-dimentional2092 Ha😂😅I thought the same thing too!
Thank goodness
😂😂😂
POV this wasn't in your recommendations, you searched for this.
Jokes on you, it was recommended to me
It was reccomended to me
It was recommended to me.
No, I got it recommended
I searched up
A phenomenal dance hall hit, was followed up with "My girl queefs like a bird song in spring time", which really got the dance floors humming.
😂 bahaha
Humming then cumming, lol
... and "Cockin' Robin".
Hilarious 😂
Going through a bit of a minor depression at the moment, but this is exactly what I needed! At 75 years old, it was a bit before my time, but it got a huge laugh out of me...Laughter truly is the best medicine. Thanks! Peace and love to all from S. Oregon...
Hi there!
Hugs and sunny vibes se t your way!
@@thedavesiknow4598 Sometimes it's just recognition from a person you don't even know that makes a world of difference...thanks!
Hope you’re feeling fine!
Greetings from Boston 😸😻😺
If it’s not available you can always sing about it! What ever it takes to lift the heart! Take care my friend!🌻🤗🌺💖
Hope you feel better soon.
‘It’s never dirty, always clean…’….what more can you ask for?
A self-cleaning pussy is hard to find. They always lick themselves clean!
Especially back in 1931.
Especially with those 304s from Houston and Atlanta.
Don't be stupid, don't be silly, put a snake skin on your willy!
Alternatively available - Frank Zappa ~ Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
If this ain't in Bioshock 4, then we ain't gettin' Bioshock 4
Agreed!
Fallout 5 or bust.
faxx
“Often it goes out at night and returns at the break of dawn”, seems like somethings never change.
That pussy's for the streets
Yeah, but he also said she's always nice and clean, too. What a dreamcat!! 😂😂😂
Can't keep the the pussy down!!
Hoes bein hoes
Flooz
My mother was a toddler when this song came out, and she is still alive as I leave this comment in January of 2024.
Ask her.
How precious. It's nice to have parents who can remembered when the world was neat. God Bless You and Mom too.
That’s great I wish you and your mom the very best in 2024.🍻🥂
My Grandpa was 25 when this came out and I'm only 43 😂
He's obviously not alive.
So you're mom is about 100??
The fact that back then you had to get the entire orchestra together to make a meme [song] is incredible commitment
What is an entire orchestra to you? How many people?
@@tvviewer4500bro he had a whole pianist
lol
@@tvviewer4500 four and a half
Probably just a jam band.
My dad would be born 5 years after this song was released. Daddy was a bad boy, so I'm willing to bet he heard this on an oldies station in his youth, lol!
"pussy" was used in sexual references long before this song came out, it was most definitely used as a blue double entendre.
It's attested in 1879 in that sense, though it wasn't probably used in a vulgar sense much before that because from the 1500s to the early 1800s it was widely used as a term of endearment for a woman. After it began to be used as a term for genitalia, using it to refer to a woman was seen as highly offensive.
@@MannyBrumtrue that
The most common word was "cunt", a word that has now been pretty dated for a few decades. It was US English speakers that eventually made "pussy" the most common word for it.
@@francisdec1615 "a word that has now been pretty dated for a few decades"
Australians: "Yew wot now mate?"
@@francisdec1615I love how you can type that but I can’t say R E T A R D without getting a comment removal
Can we just appreciate that someone had this recording on some special media to share with future generations. Thank you UA-cam!
“Special media” called a record lol
😂@@eancola6111
Antique records aren’t abundant 🤷♀️
@@eancola6111 You still need special equipment to digitize them.
My hats off to Barry Hanson AKA Doctor Demento. He is the number one curator of the most extensive library of crazy recorded music.
First time I heard “Fish Heads”, I was hooked lol
Dr Demento FTW
@@TangoSierra888 The doctor was in, every Sunday night on my radio station in South Texas where I ran the doctor Demento show for many years.
@@TangoSierra888That's probably his most iconic. But for me, it was "Happy Boy" (hubba hubba), "Wet Dream" and "Ponderous"
@@1SqueakyWheel “Wet Dream” was another classic! I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many metaphors in one song lol
I've just been to an open mic night where a 90 year old man played this on Guitar. He did an amazing job, had us all in stitches! I had to google it to see if he was winding us up about it being written in 1931. Apparently not. 😆😇
As a union musician in the late 50s, once in a while at our monthly gathering there was a old gal from Chicago who would visit. She played the piano in this style and sung songs like these in her gravel voice. Loved it then and love it now. Thanks for the memories.
I have an old friend who used to play the piano bar in Pat O'Brien's down in the French Quarter of New Orleans. She kept people in stitches with bawdy songs. One of her classics was the Woodpecker Song. Here's to you, Babs, wherever you are these days!
Dude that's crusty. I like that
You were a union musician in the 50's? You in your 90's?
@@n0denzNot necessarily - he said, "late '50s," and may have been a teenager or early 20-something; not uncommon, especially back then.
@@n0denz Getting close at 87+. I was a teen at the time.
My Grandad played piano on this song. Pretty sure he would be cracking up that this is being played 90 years later!
Wait, in this recording you mean? I've been trying to identify the pianist in this recording for a while now. Some genius novelty tricks thrown in here!
Please respond to Terroto!
yeah! don't keep us hanging!
Big doubt if true
Omg your grandpa sensational
If this is true that is lol
Three more years until this song inters the public domain, and I’ll be here for it when it does!
"inter" means "bury", and I like that meaning better
enter into me and dine
actually public domain works differently for music it'll be in 8 years
Who the fuck do you think is gonna come hunt you down over...this shit?
Harry Roy won't mind one way or another.
UA-cam Algorithm: Lets drop this little gem into his recommendations.
I'm glad I'm not the only one
Worth it. 9 years later, it can be treasured by so many.
I'd love to see the view count over the past 9 years, then it's dumped into the reccomeneded feed from people 18-60 😂
There were a lot of really risque songs in the 1920's and early 30's. You wouldn't hear these on the radio or at high society functions but they were especially popular in "speak easys" and underground nightclubs/ gambling joints. Sofie Tucker who ran a famous speak easy in New York was well known for these and had a big recording career with mostly risque songs. Mae West was also known for this type of music , check out her rendition of "Easy Rider". 😉
Thank you for giving context to this kind of music, truly another time with its own fun.
They were called the "roaring twenties" for a reason.
They were called “Dirty Blues”. There are a lots of famous ones - one of more explicit ones I’d Lucille Brogan’s “Shave ‘Em Dry”. A lot of the recordings have been preserved.
Yeah, like the Hokum blues or some people call them the dirty blues.
Ruth Brown's 'If I Can't Sell it, I'll Sit on It' remains one of my very favourite examples of this type of double entendre song. A stone cold classic.
This doesn't even begin to highlight the Raunch of the Era.
The difference between then and now is that you has to choose to listen, this was NOT on the radio.
The first thing UA-cam recommended to me this morning. It knows me well.
But there's nothing new under the sun, least of all smut. My granddad used to spend the 20s and 30s in dingy central London bars watching "blue comedians". I would say it was a guilty pleasure of his, but to be honest I doubt he felt a shred of anything approaching guilt. He'd have absolutely loved this record, in fact he probably owned it.
Your grandad commissioned and produced the album, perhaps.
The "classy" Mid Atlantic accent really MAKES this one 🤣
Well,he was English!
Transatlantic dialect.
@@Bella-fz9fy Given his real name and where he was born, he's almost certainly not English but a Jew.
@@chaimafaghet7343 English Jews can have English accents
He was just an English Jew.
He was ahead of his time. He knew there’d be 14 year olds pissing themselves in the future and it’s a well cultivated meme.
54 year olds too.......
@@crafter170 any age would secretly giggle at this!
@@colinclarke4285 he he ... Think I'll make it my ring tone .....
@@crafter170 I was thinking the same thing !
Lucille Bogan and this guy would've been a riot together
A monocle I wasn't aware I was wearing just popped out of my eye. 🧐
Hi, Colonel Klink!
😂
😂 that got me. Underrated comment😂😂😂
The best part of this comment is your name 😂
Eegad!
I love how it looks like they told him to take a serious picture but he knew what record it was for and couldn't help himself from cracking up a little.
I just went from Pavarotti singing Apple Bottom Jeans to this. God, I love the internet.
😂
A bit of a music=art shock wasn't it?? Pavarotti to flapper era in a matter of minutes.
I came from "My humps" from The Black Eyed Peas.
This song has been around my entire life and now we found each other!
Lifetime no see!
It's wonderful that you found this charming bit of history. Old recordings like this usually fall through the crack.
🤣👍
Imagine your grandparents and great grandparents jamming to this song during their teenage years 💀
Mine did 😆 Mine literally did 💀
@@Bethsabee_Sheba_Newrose 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This song probably made you, put some respect on it lil G 😂
@@dirtydan1861 my parents aren’t boomers nor were they born in the silent generation lmao
I mean why is that weird? lol, every generation has had their version of this
I absolutely LOVE the fact that he just starts "meowing" at the beginning 😂😂😂😂😂
No surprise his actual last name is Lipman.
hahaha
😂
my man 👏😎
Yes, they never mind being vulgar.
@@upup209 which explains the shameless vulgarity.
“No matter what the weather’s like, it’s always nice and warm.”
😂
the song name, the lyrics, the smirk and the way his eyes look at the camera...
bro knew what he was doing
“We didn’t have rap back in my day, we had REAL music.”
At least they are practicing kindness to animals in this song.
It's all real.
@CannabisDreams how dare you think I would say that
@CannabisDreams Obviously you know what he meant. As a saying goes, "Rap" is the only word in English that begins with a silent "C".
And, to your comment, rap isn't music. It is just weaponized noise.
My parents were born in the mid-20’s and when we were kids we would play their old 78’s on our record player. One of the tunes was Shoot the Sherbet to Me Herbert. Even as a kid I thought that was a crazy way to sing about a frozen snack.
Never heard a 78LP before,only the 33s & 45s.
😆😆
These risqué songs reminded of Aerosmith's cover of "Big Ten Inch Record"
@JML6988 My grandmother had some 78's, and they definitely weren't LP's (long play). They were singles, mainly because they spun so quickly the record was done in, well, record time.
I'm listening to the wrong music!! 🤣🤣🤣
They dont write them like that anymore
If i ever get married this will be the first song that we dance to as husband and wife
It may be the last one too if the father of the bride hears it. LOL
Are you sure that's wise? lol
The excellent piano playing is just a bonus! What a great tune
Wow he got passionate at the end there 😂😂😂
Yeah he did. 🤣
Don’t we all? 🔨👍
VERY passionate by the sound of it (probably saw a pussy in the studio during the recording!!)😉🤣
So did his girl
It was a really good climax.
This is a certified hood classic
The fact your name is Pythagoras just makes this funnier
@@nataliewoods9184guess he changed his name, it shows @hesliterallymebro now 😂
@@Carlito84Qc This is the most upsetting thing to happen to me today 😔
@@nataliewoods9184 I guess you had a good day then 😂
@@Carlito84Qc LOL It was uneventful and boring so I'd say yes 😂
There is only one meaning to this song: he is a cat person.
Exactly what I was thinking!🤣
Why yes it does. And I’m pretty sure from the looks of it, Ol’ Harry was a “back door man” as well. 🤭
Aren’t we all
🐈
No, actually, it was about how to win a girl's heart by being nice to her cat. It always worked for me!
I’ve never in my entire life enjoyed a song from that era, until today. Bravo! 2:23
Dude was like 80-90 years ahead of his time😭
Not really. Same era as Cab Calloway who sang all about drugs and hookers.
Song is hilarious. But no, he wasn't.
I love thinking about how this song was being beamed across radio waves into space in the 1930s. New planets are still hearing this song for the first time right now.
This man was speaking a message on behalf of all of humanity.
he wasn’t slick enough it didn’t make radio play but was a popular single
I am from the planet Zepto, we all have this tune on our 8 track players.
@@SuperWing0 Because he was banned by the BBC
There were still obscenity laws back then. It was likely never played on the radio. I am just glad that we are all hearing it now for "educational purposes".
Zorg and Zpetar on planet Xegon will will asking « what is a pussy »?
Well I just found my party piece for the next Ladies Bakery Awards after party. A nice old-timey wholesome song about a guy and a pet cat. It should go down a treat with the organization committee!
I'm sure they would approve. No need to run it by them. Just put it into the playlist!
@@fleatactical7390 Are those ladies members of the Society of Master Bakers?
They need to wash their hands before kneading the bread.
@@fleatactical7390 Yes, yes. And be sure to send me an invitation. I love charity work.
You can really hear the passion towards the end
😆😆😆
Imagine clappin flapper cheeks to this in the 1930's
Just called the police for that comment
Say goodbye to your freedom sir
The flappers were in the 20's.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@n0ts0B9No. Culture isn't relegated into compartmentalized decades. Example disco was NOT a 70s phenom- it went from '76 to '83 when new wave killed it off. Almost as much an '80s phenom as it was '70s.
What is a flapper
The follow up to this “Livin La Vida Vulva” is an absolute blast…
Hahahahaha!!!!😂😂😂😂
This is just too perfect. Guy was seriously ahead of his time lmao
he wasn't.
I've been looking for this song for years just because I misheard the name of the singer. When I was 20 (I'm now nearly 58) years old I saw a documentary on tv about Robert Crumb. He was with a friend playing the original record and I misheard him thinking he'd said Perry Royner. Ever since then, until now, I've been searching for a record by Perry Royner
Robert did a cover in 1978 by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders!
I just blushed over a song someone sang almost a century ago. 😂
You are now ready for the album, "Lords of Acid - Voodoo-U".
Back in the '90's a friend of mine and I were listening to this when in walked her mother who was in her 80's. She rolled her eyes and walked back out the door mumbling: "This is NOT my cup of tea..." :) -Tony Arioli
😂😂😂
Thanks for the story bro. -Tony Chiccone
lol - tony tommirelli
And now I'm imagining my grandmother at 11 years old dancing to this song 😂
oh god
At least she probably wasn’t twerking, like kids nowadays.
Also, this sounds like a low grade twerk song in the old days.
@@somerandom7672hahahahaha 😂
My Gran, of our devout Mormon lineage, danced to this song with joy and never knew it suggested anything other than something about a girl and her cat. Of course, radios and record players weren’t very clear in those days so…? All I know is that I will forever possess an image of joyfully oblivious, rollicking Saints that’ll rescue me any time I’m feeling unhappy. 😂 *Surely, though, the older men and boys must’ve had some inkling of its true nature, right ??*
Harry was well aware that he was a mighty savage. And he enjoyed every minute of it.
Thank you for posting this, man.
90 years later, and I can still completely relate. I give him the short arm salute! Bravo! And we'll done!
I'm looking all over the place for my socks. They went missing while I laughed. this Mans definitely not confused thats for sure. I am 70 now but used to play the trumpet and I love 30's music. Now I finally know why.
The 'B' side 'my dads big bell end' was also a ballroom hit.
What a great song! He wrote a song about it. Love it!
A true man of culture. Harry Roy, we salute you!
Went from;Mountain, canned heat, captain beefheart, and of course Frank Zappa, to here
@@dekin819 lol. I am going to go listen to The Jazz Discharge Party Hats now. 🥳
I had a girlfriend with a ginger pussy.
Her little pussy had the scent of tuna.
I'm more partial to Harry Bush
I swear, that thumbnail photo just winked at me!
You're telling us. That's a man that knows you know.
Anyone thinking sexually explicit and thinly-veiled double entendres are new to music is in for a shock. Along with songs like this, 1920s/30s dirty blues, many sea shanties, 19th century folksongs like those in Randolph's Ozark collections, and drinking songs back through the Middle Ages and beyond certainly put Megan The Stallion in perspective.
A lot of led Zeppelin fans don't realize they got The lemon song from an old blues song by Robert Johnson. Squeeze My lemon till the juice runs down my leg was recorded in the late 30s first.
@Cannibal Teddy you really do learn something new every day
@@ChaosAndAnarchy you do if you’re the curious intelligent sort, no doubt haha
Except it was more cleverly done, these days people are bending over and showing you the inside of their colons…. No imagination.
Harry roy loved those like when she “lost it at the Astor”
I’ve been blessed by the UA-cam algorithm once again
I'm 55 years old and wondering how the hell I've never heard this song until now. I love it.😉😼
Because you’re still considered young compared to the age of this song.
@@NOV123 okay you got there. It's true that this song is older than me but still. 😆😆😆
A lot of the music before the 1940s-1950s got swept under the rug to be honest. I think a lot of modern music like "back that Azz up" will also be swept under the rug at some point as tastes circle back around to "this isn't classy enough".
@@tunkytunky Back what up? Oh my 🫢
Gonna bump this at the Christmas party tonite.
Mrs. Slocombe must have heard this one as a young girl. 😂
LOL... Love "Are You Being Served"!!
Yes indeed. She was often referring to it, wasn’t she?
Mr. Humphreys, leave my pus*y alone 😂
Presumably she didn't but every other member of staff at Grace Brothers did. Surely the point of the joke is Mrs Slocombe has no idea that anyone could misinterpret her completely innocent anecdotes about her cat.
I was waiting for someone to make that joke. That reminds me…
Mrs Slocombe, are you free?
I can just imagine a kid performing this for a talent show.
😂😂😂
🤭😂🤣
I have a version of this song performed by Robert Crumb. I always assumed it was written by him. What a surprise to find out it's a vintage song!
R Crumb has a huge collection of old 78's, this record is likely in there.
The cartoonist? I didn't know he sang.
Nothing is new under sun 🌞
Wasn’t Crumb in band called “The Cheap Suit Serenaders” ?
@@alukuhito : The very one. He also hates rock and roll, ironically since his art graced some classic rock albums by artists like Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.
I like how he’s cool with it going out all night, as long as it comes back.
She belong to the streets
No one likes a "stray" kitty 🤣🤣🤣
nah man if you let your girl leave in the middle of the night alone you might as well reconsider the whole relationship 😂
@@evil1st she’s just going to hang with friends, right? 🤔
@@elpixman1988 i like stray pussy
That… Is the most fantastic UA-cam find in a while! God, I love UA-cam. Awesome!
That hook! Im gonna be singing this shit for the next week now.
76 yrs old lady here,,, laughed my head off at this 😂😂😂😂😂
Me too 😂😂😂😂😂
@@sheltielover2k Hahahaha 😂💃🏼
Get off UA-cam love. You may find people talking about cats and stuff.
@@AJ-rd4ng May I suggest a little 12 yrs old pip queak like you, hunni, stay hidden under your duvet ? Hee hee hee 😈