He Hadn’t Up Till Yesterday
Jul 24th, 2008 by oldfogey
This is Sophie Tucker, with a voice ten times larger than life, that hits you in technicolour. The song is more belted than sung - the fruit of performing for years in all those large unamplified music halls. It’s not really blue - but as I listen to it images do flash in my mind of those Donald McGill postcards of big women dominating puny men. It’s about female sexual appetite, here at its most menacing.
I love the line “and if he’s never called for his mother, I guess he will tonight.”
Magnificent and terrifying.
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