I've heard the phrase before (the product of a misspent youth watching old black and white TV shows), but never much of the story behind it. Fascinating stuff (if not least of which for the most improbable Angela Lansbury video ever).
How a Sexed-Up Viral Hit From the Summer of ’09— 1909—Changed American Pop Forever
In the spring of 1909, American popular song got sexy. Of course, love and courtship, and by extension sex, had been Topic A in pop music for decades. But while songwriters had long trafficked in euphemisms and innuendo—coy talk of “sighing” and “spooning” beneath the old oak tree and by…
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Well, I certainly didn't know it was from a song.