Originally published at: A history of "Afternoon Delight," the "dirtiest song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100" | Boing Boing
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Oh man. Dating myself here, but that song was on the radio the summer before I turned 18. I was held as a willing sex slave one week by a girl who kept the radio on all day long. This song is burned into my brain.
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“It was one of my favorite songs as a child,” Pelto, now a non-profit executive, told me. “I thought it was about dessert.”
For me, a “tween” at the time, it was the first song I listened to where I immediately thought “Oh my god this is about sex!” Whereas there were other songs that flew right by me for years and years.
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Did we ever figure out why they went with “Thinkin of you’s workin up a appetite” instead of “an appetite”?
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My kind’a dirty, if ya ask me.
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ppphhttt! nothing new
https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/434637/Ohio+Express/Yummy%2C+Yummy%2C+Yummy
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Love how they used the dirty nature of that song as a running bit on Arrested Development.
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Used in Anchorman to illustrate misogyny the song makes light of pursuits for a tryst in the office with a female coworker. Will Ferrel’s character is called “mental” because he’s going down the path of a relationship instead of one of afternoon delights to the dismay of his male coworkers.
Sky rockets in flight…
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“Dirtiest song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100”
Oh, you sweet, innocent child.
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My first thought too. Probably the most cringe-worthy scene of the whole series.
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I didn’t care what it was about. That damn song puts me right back on the school bus held captive to AM radio. It was not a good scene.
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That’s the most '70s I’ve ever seen packed into one video. As for the song, I was in elementary school when it came out and still remember my mother explaining in age-appropriate language what it was really about (I thought it was about food).
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For innocent sounding songs obviously about sex, I’m a fan of Fluffy Hunter’s “Walk Right In, Walk Right Out”
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Well, now you’ve made me look at The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in a whole new light.
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UK #1 when Pope John Paul II was visiting Britain.
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One of my Light Crust Doughboys favs is:
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I first encountered it in th movie PCU where the protagonists use it as a method of torture for the bicentennial gala attendees by playing it loud on repeat and locking the doors.
I’ve always thought of it as a song that nobody could possibly like. It’s like stumbling across an episode of the Partridge Family and wondering why somebody didn’t burn the original tapes.
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I listen to the 70s channel on SiriusXM, what song from the 70s isn’t about sex?
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