Date:  Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:17:06 -0500

From:  BARBARA HILL HUDSON <BHHUDSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GROVE.IUP.EDU>

Subject: Re: Salty dog?



re: Salty dog



I have an idea that many references to "dog" in blues and other kinds of rock

song refers to sexual terms ,and salty dog seems to be a pretty

graphic description of one of them. I say this because I've heard lines similar

to the ones quoted by Wayne Glowka (two old maids...) in a particularly raunchy

song called "Stoop down Baby" in which the singer is trying to figure out a

puzzling piece of anatomy on a female companion. I think also there are

definite sexual connotations in such songs as "Dogging Around," "Hound Dog" and

"Doing the Dog" (which was our version of the forbidden dance of the sixties)



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