Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music,net.women Subject: Re: Feminist versions of "men's" songs (Re: Cyndi Lauper?) Message-ID: <196@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 17:52:11 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.196 Posted: Mon Jan 14 17:52:11 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:38:56 EST References: <147@decwrl.UUCP> <610@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.music:5713 net.women:4082 > Can any of you think of > other (1) feminist versions of sexist songs or (2) feminist songs belonging > to a usually sexist sub-(sub-sub)-genre of music? > How about most of Patti Smith's oeuvre, especially her covers of Van Morrison's "Gloria" and Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe". Her kicker is that she adopts the same macho attitude, but continues to aim it at women. Another possibility is Alberta Hunter's "My Handy Man ain't handy no more" a fantastic example of blues sexual braggadocio. That she sang it when she was 79 only makes it more delicious. Marcel Simon ..!mhuxr!mfs