There were numerous parallels between country and blues during the 1940s and ‘50s, including a shared love for often-hilarious double-entendre-loaded material. That’s precisely what this series is about. Raunchy couplets abound throughout ‘I Want A Man (Who’s Gonna Do It Right),’ loaded with risqué postwar R&B houserockers by jump blues shouters Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown (his outrageous account of jailbird Butcher Pete has to be heard to be believed), Bull Moose Jackson, and seductive Dinah Washington. There are also vocal group hijinks from The Swallows and Dominoes, and it’s unlikely Dirty Red’s no-holds-barred Mother Fuyer could grace contemporary airwaves any more than it could in 1947.
 
‘My Ding A Ling’ advances the timeframe a little further, encompassing a pair of R&B chart-toppers, The Dominoes’ Sixty-Minute Man and Work With Me Annie by Hank Ballard’s Midnighters. Wynonie, Dinah, and Bull Moose return for more bawdy fun, and The “5” Royales’ Laundromat Blues wrings endless giggles from likening a woman to a washing machine full of suds. The Treniers testify to the joys of Poon-Tang!, Jackie Wilson and LaVern Baker get dirty on an X-rated Think Twice, and The Blenders and Clovers go downright obscene. If you ever wondered where Chuck Berry got My Ding-A-Ling from, this original 1952 version by New Orleans trumpeter Dave Bartholomew will clue you in fast. The clock turns all the way back to pre-war times for ‘Driving That Thing.’ All the guardrails were down then—witness The Mississippi Sheiks’ title track, Bo Carter’s My Pencil Won’t Write No More and Banana In Your Fruit Basket, and Buddy Moss’ You Got To Give Me Some Of It. Blind Boy Fuller gets naughty on What’s That Smells Like Fish, while Lucille Bogan delivers a supremely obscene Shave ‘Em Dry, unequivocally not for the kids.
 
On the other side of the stylistic tracks, ‘Let Me Play With Your Poodle’ again concentrates on the years prior to World War II, when squeaky-clean cowboy Gene Autry indulged in the jaw-dropping campfire ditties Frankie And Johnny and Bye Bye Boyfriend, future Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis sashayed through Tom Cat And Pussy Blues and a slide guitar-slathered She’s A Hum Dum Dinger, and Roy Acuff worked blue on Doin’ It The Old Fashioned Way. ‘Tappin’ That Thing’ leaps into the postwar years with ribald ditties by Hank Penny, The York Brothers, Skeets McDonald (offering a geographical lesson on The Tattooed Lady), and Betty Coral, who raises everyone’s temperature with Chili Dippin’ Baby.
 
Get ready for some uproarious adult entertainment on these five collections!