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You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically.

[1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...

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You just need to listen to more WKHR! (wkhr.org)

It’s a radio station in a Cleveland high school with octogenarian djs playing 78s!

Thanks for this! Really enjoying the music and DJs.

So cool! This could be a great model for keeping this kind of music and style of DJing going.

It's been years, and I'm still very suspicious about this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

Turns out, my spider-sense wasn't off. Here is an interesting comment from YT by "stephen wallin":

As so many query whether the Lyrics were understood in the 1920's I got a friend to check BBC archive and the record was never broadcast on the radio, indicting deep problems, and a note still exists that it was banned for sexual innuendo. So the double entendre was fully noticed as soon as the disk came out. It however sold well!! There was a market for such disks, many dance bands did them, notably Bill Cotton. Harry Roy was noted as having a wicked sense of fun, he loved playing prank versions of songs. You have to appreciate that the English audiences loved such lyrics and jokes, Max Miller made a whole career on such comic material.

More info here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Girl%27s_Pussy

Small aside, all those songs in fallout are not satire nor new. They're authentic pieces from the forties and early fifties.

Mostly yes but a few were made for the game [0].

[0] https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_soundtrack#Diamond... (Search for "2015" to find them)

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