Women in Songs You'd Share

[Soandso]

Junior Wells …

Another fun blues song is Earl Bostic's (1912-1965) double themed song titled "Hurricane Blues" … "You've been made a hurricane, And it blows my gal away, I'm so sad and lonely, There's nothing more I can do or say … Feel the tide a risin', Baby don't let your Daddy drown … You're the only one in this world, That can make that tide go down …If you refuse me Baby, There's only one thing I can do, That's try to find another Mamma, Who can thrill me like you do …."

 

[Soandso]

Jim Croce …

Jim Croce made a record "Sadie Green". Here's a much earlier release of "Sadie Green (The Vamp of New Orleans)" that has some bits of different lyrics going: "Sadie Green the vamp of New Orleans, Has more beaus than the Navy has Marines … Ever since the baby's come to town, She's turned everything right upside down …What she hasn't got, She doesn't need …."

 

[Music707]

Written by Chris Rea as a tribute to his wife Joan:

 

[Music707]

And another modern classic:

 

[Karlinamillion]

Tronics 'Suzie'

 

[Karlinamillion]

 

[mhardy6647]

And another modern classic:

Two other Valeries* spring to mind. from the sublime to the ridiculous**.

ahem
Speaking of RT... a man who has a way with words (and with a gee-tar)... 1952 Vincent Black Lightning isn't about "Red Molly", so I'll forgo posting it in this thread but Beeswing hits it out of the park (what an inapt figure of speech!). Beeswing, by all accounts, is "about" Annie (Anne) Briggs, one of those typically tragic folksinger types that have been sadly all too common on both sides of the Atlantic.

Beeswing — Richard Thompson’s song was inspired by two very free spirits

The singer’s 1994 ballad — one of the highlights of his songbook — has sparked some fascinating cover versions

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* OK, one Valerie and one Valleri.
** I once heard RT, in his stage patter, grumble good-naturedly that his Valerie got buried on the airwaves by the Monkees'. Life is like that sometimes.

 

[IPunchCholla]

Wouldn’t that be awkward? Oh… you meant share the songs not the women.

Lump lingered last in line for brains and the ones she got were kinda rotten and insane.

 

[Ron Party]

Another Suzie, this time CCR's Suzie Q

 

[Soandso]

"Baby won't you please come home, You know your little Daddy's all alone, I have tried in vain never no more to call your name, When you left you broke your Daddy's heart …."

There's this vintage version of "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" with the musical prodigy Adrian Rollini (1903-1956) here swinging the mallets.

 

[Soandso]

"We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out on you … Why can't you see, What you're doing to me, When you don't believe a word I say? … We can't go on together, With suspicious minds …."

Yeah that guy Elvis Presley (1935-1977) certainly won fans because of some tremendous hit songs.

 

[mhardy6647]

how about the woman of whom Blondie's Debbie Harry isn't terribly fond... at least in the context of one of my favorite Blondie songs, Rip Her to Shreds?

 

[Soandso]

Betty Thornton sang this:

"For the benefit of all the women here, I would like to say a word or two, If you want to hold your man then lend me your ear, Here's some sound advice for you, Never brag about your man or you will be without your man, When I told some women friends he knew his stuff, Every gal in town was out to call my bluff, If your man has good control don't you tell a single soul, I bragged about his lovin' to a gal named Ruth, The other day she said I sure told the truth … My man always did the lovely things he should, But he stopped the day I bragged he was good, I regret the things I said guessed it must have swelled his head, For since I advertised him he ain't worth a dime, Outside demonstrations take up all his time, Never brag about your man - or you will be without your man …"

 

[Robin L]

Betty Thornton sang this:

"For the benefit of all the women here, I would like to say a word or two, If you want to hold your man then lend me your ear, Here's some sound advice for you, Never brag about your man or you will be without your man, When I told some women friends he knew his stuff, Every gal in town was out to call my bluff, If your man has good control don't you tell a single soul, I bragged about his lovin' to a gal named Ruth, The other day she said I sure told the truth … My man always did the lovely things he should, But he stopped the day I bragged he was good, I regret the things I said guessed it must have swelled his head, For since I advertised him he ain't worth a dime, Outside demonstrations take up all his time, Never brag about your man - or you will be without your man …"

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With Sippie Wallace:

 

[Soandso]

Arita Day's (born ?) lyrics are a bit unique in this 1934 version of the well recorded song "Heat Wave" where accompanied by pianist Herman "Ivory" Chittison (1908-1967).

"We're having a heat wave, A tropical heat wave, The temperature's rising, It isn't surprising … She started a heat wave, By makin' her seat wave, And in such a way, The customers say that, She certainly can can-can … Gee her anatomy, Made that mercury, Jump to ninety-three … The way she moves, Thermometer proves, She certainly can can-can … A heat wave blew into town last week, And she came from that island of Martinique, Can-can she dance will make you cry … Now he's startin' a heat wave, By making them keys wave … It's so hot the weatherman will tell you records been made … It's so hot the cold air is made to feel as warm as a bride… The way she moves, The momma done proves, She certainly can can-can."

This song can be found on the following released Herman Chittison compilation:

 

[Soandso]

Innovative jazz clarinetist Charles "Pee Wee" Russell (1906-1969) teamed up with trumpeter from New Orleans Louis Prima who sang a pleasing rendition of "The Lady In Red". Many of the early jazz songs about women have more instrumental content than lyrics and it was common to lead into a song with extended musical flourish, which for example here gave "Pee Wee" Russell chances to get in his licks.

"The fellas are frantic for the lady in red … Fresh as a daisy when the town is in bed … Dancing and dining and shining with originality … She's very proper, she's nothing more than a pal… You'll never stop her, she'd be a dangerous gal, If she should ever meet the right guy… Fellas are crazy for the lady in red …What a personality…."

 

[Soandso]

Recorded many times and performed live in many musical styles is the 1968 Paul Simon (born 1941) and Arthur "Art" Garfunkel (born 1941) song "Mrs. Robinson". Many may have popularly taken it to be associated with an age disparate romance based from scenes in "The Graduate" movie. However, it is more a later take on women home makers secretly habituated to prescription drugs which earlier the 1966 Rolling Stones band had brought up as "mother's little helpers."

"…We'd like to know, A little bit about you, For our files. We'd like to help you, learn to help yourself. Look around you, All you see are sympathetic eyes. Stroll around the grounds, Until you feel at home …Hide it in a hiding place, Where no one ever goes. Put it in your pantry, With your cupcakes, It's a little secret, just the Robinson's affair. Most of all, you've got to, Hide it from the kids …."

 

[Karlinamillion]

This is written from a wronged woman's POV, let it be a warning to all you Casanova's!

 

[mhardy6647]

Recorded many times and performed live in many musical styles is the 1968 Paul Simon (born 1941) and Arthur "Art" Garfunkel (born 1941) song "Mrs. Robinson". Many may have popularly taken it to be associated with an age disparate romance based from scenes in "The Graduate" movie. However, it is more a later take on women home makers secretly habituated to prescription drugs which earlier the 1966 Rolling Stones band had brought up as "mother's little helpers."

"…We'd like to know, A little bit about you, For our files. We'd like to help you, learn to help yourself. Look around you, All you see are sympathetic eyes. Stroll around the grounds, Until you feel at home …Hide it in a hiding place, Where no one ever goes. Put it in your pantry, With your cupcakes, It's a little secret, just the Robinson's affair. Most of all, you've got to, Hide it from the kids …."

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[mhardy6647]

This is written from a wronged woman's POV, let it be a warning to all you Casanova's!

Not unlike this - a medley of Vicki Lawrence's hit.

Well, they hung my brother before I could say
The tracks he saw while on his way
To Andy's house and back that night were mine
And his cheating wife had never left town
That's one body that'll never be found
You see little sister don't miss when she aims her gun