Thursday, October 22, 2009

don't f* around with love

this is an actual/real song from the 50s, originally penned as a single but released as a b-side at the behest of the group's manager (for the radio-single version, the song was re-recorded with "mess" replacing the expletive). it's a little disconcerting to hear a song that has its sound so firmly planted in an era marked by social and political conservatism littered with one of our language's most crude words. it's also a little liberating.

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