Grab Yourself a Handful!
Rusty Warren made 14 "naughty" Party Records starting in the late 50s and continuing into the 70s. Amazingly, seven of them achieved Gold Record status despite their being deemed "too dirty" for airplay on commercial radio.
She has since joked that her songs could serve as nursery rhymes these days, due to our "relaxed" standards of decency, but back then this was groundbreaking stuff! And not just because its risqué. At the time, almost no one spoke this openly about sex and relationships in public, but for a woman to do it was particularly unheard of. And the fact that Rusty is a woman also gives her humor a different spin from the other Party Records of the time, which were recorded primarily by men and were decidedly more raunchy.
Rusty brought sexual humor to a mainstream audience made up of both genders. More importantly, though, is the fact that Rusty spoke of women as sexual creatures with feelings, desires and the ability to use their own minds. As much as these records might seem to be at odds with what has since come to define "feminism," Rusty introduced her audiences to strong women who knew what they wanted and how to get it.
NOTE: These albums are available, from Rusty's own website, on CD!
The links below lead to the page from which they (and other items) can be purchased.
The links below lead to the page from which they (and other items) can be purchased.
Rusty Warren: Knockers UP!- I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
- In the Family Way
- Frankie and Johnny
- Knockers UP!
- You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You
- Rusty’s Back in Town
- A Very Sensitive Subject
- Say Thank You
- When a Woman Wants It
- It Ain’t Kirk Douglas
- Big Knockers
- Little Knockers
- Ode to Gertrude and Agnes
- Meet the Audience
- In a Car it Doesn’t Count
- Naked
- Freedom
- Bounce Your Boobies
- Make Someone Happy
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