Lyr Req: How to Make Love

Subject: RE: How To Make Love
From: Schantieman
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 10:28 AM

Is this the next TV self-help programme?

S

Subject: RE: How To Make Love
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 12:43 PM

No, that is a new one on the Home Improvement Channel.

"Trading Wives". Neighbours sneak in and make love to each others' wives then show the videotapes to both couples and get their reactions.

Be sure to tune in for the Valentine's Day "Trading Wives" marathon. 12 frigging hours straight. Order pizza and gather the kiddies `round.

Subject: RE: How To Make Love
From: rock chick
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 05:33 PM

FIND a great partner, normally the best way to start, the rest follows, hopefully!

rc

Subject: RE: How To Make Love
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 03 - 02:48 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: How To Make Love
From: McMusic
Date: 25 May 03 - 04:05 AM

Actually, I tuned in hoping to learn something ;o)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: How to Make Love
From: GUEST,Roger Potts
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 10:41 PM

My father-in-law had been singing this song for decades at family gatherings, and may have sung it to his kids when they were young. As far as I know no one knew the title.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: How to Make Love
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 10:57 PM

http://markgilston.com/content/songwords-LME.html

Seems it was a song from the 1940s.

Subject: Lyr Add: HOW TO MAKE LOVE (Luther/Robison)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 14 Dec 14 - 02:26 PM

You can hear this recording at DinosaurDiscs.com:


HOW TO MAKE LOVE
Words by Frank Luther, music by Carson J. Robison, ©1928*
As recorded by Frank Luther and His Pards, on Edison Diamond Disc 52532L (1929)

Do you want your girl to love you? Do you want to be her beau?
Then I'll tell you how to do it, boys; I'll tell you all I know.
Put on your bib and tucker and scrub your face real hard.
Part your hair right in the middle, boys, and slick it down with lard.

Put your derby hat on sideways; pull your peg-top pants up short.
Get a red bow tie on a rubber band and show her you're a sport.
Get yourself some drug-store perfume and sprinkle it on your clothes.
Just a dime's worth will be plenty, boys, to tickle her little nose.

Grease your buggy and your harness and curry your trottin' mare,
Then buy you a purty lap-robe, boys, and get you a lady fair.
Tie a ribbon on your buggy whip; get a pair of yellow gloves,
Then take her to the county fair and buy her what she loves.

Tell her she is purtier than a movie acteress.
Talk about her purty curls, and about her handsome dress.
Get yourself a gold front tooth, and a Sears and Roebuck ring,
A double-note harmonica and learn to play and sing.

Brag about her fam'ly, her grand-dad and her pap,
And before you know it she's a-settin' on your lap.
Tell her she's so purty she takes away your breath,
And before you know it she's a-huggin' you to death.

But if she does not love you, just make her jealous then.
Tell her you love somebody else; that she is just a friend.
Take her out to dances and flirt with the other girls.
Hug 'em close and whisper soft and give 'em all a whirl.

Laugh out loud with the others but to your girl don't you speak,
And when she comes around you, boys, then turn from her your cheek.
Just follow these directions and she will be your wife,
Or else she'll marry somebody else and hate you all her life!


Other early recordings were made by:
Bud & Joe Billings, 1928
Carson Robison, 1929
Southern Moonlight Entertainers, 1930

*from U.S. Catalog of Copyright Entries.