Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: leeneia
Date: 07 Feb 19 - 10:35 AM

I'm with you, Rich-joy, Wysiwig and Thompson.

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 02:10 AM

Arthur Godfrey also had a hit with the “Too Fat Polka”.

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 09:12 AM

And I'd boycott anyone doing what Godfrey did. Read up on Ragen Chastain FMI, esp her work on misfiagnoses.

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 05:37 PM

> Feel absolutely free to sing this song about a father beating his daughter.

> I won't be going to any of your performances after that, though.

Does the same apply to someone singing Mill o'Tiftie's Annie? Or is that OK because the narration is on Annie's side and (mildly) critical of her family ("Woe be tae her brither")?

Or what about the ballads (two of them) where a Scots girl is burnt at the stake for refusing to abandon her love of an Englishman?

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: GUEST,Fred Isenor
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 10:25 AM

Arthur Godfrey did not write the song. The writers were Polly Arnold-Alice Cornett-Eddie Asherman. Probably first recorded by Esmereldy on Musicraft # 524.

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: GUEST,78 Year Old Woman
Date: 22 Jun 24 - 11:00 PM

According to what I have read on the internet, this song was popular in the 1950's.

DO YOU THINK I BELIEVE IT IS "FUNNY" WHEN I HEAR IT, HAVING GROWN UP IN THE 50'S-60 AND BEEN THE VICTIM OF VIOLENT ASSAULTS BY MEN?

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jun 24 - 09:28 AM

Ah well.. so it goes. Some will always react to the image, while others see it as ridiculing that culture. Read the whole thread and try to see others viewpoint even if you disagree.

About Gypsy Rose Lee...
"Some people object to the fan dance, others to the fan."