Les Sucettes, written by Serge Gainsbourg for France Gall, like many of Gainsbourg's songs, is full of this.
Examples include a female chef poking about on the button on her hot air oven, and a car show host "oiling his lever". The entire song consists of famous tv-show host doing stuff they do in their shows.
After Dark, a Swedish band has the song "Åh när ni"("Oh, when you"), and just to get you a tip of what kind of what type of double entendres we're in for, the song title is very similar in pronunciation to onani (masturbation).
The funk group Here Come The Mummies have an album entitles 'Single Entendre', referencing their frequently overtly sexual lyrics.
Only been used once or twice, but it's still nice and tight! How'd you like to find this waiting at home for you every night?
Jay-Z didn't understand that however, and made his own version ("03' Bonnie and Clyde"), with Beyoncé all about an actual relationship.
The sexual level is actually the most basic one in this case, the song on the surface appearing to be about a relationship.
The original version is not available on YouTube, but an updated, popped-up version (with an outright reference to masturbation, which wasn't present in the original) is available on the lead singer's YouTube page.
Also, its Tagalog version "Ting-a-Ling", by Filipino rock band Kerplunk, which was a cult favorite in the band's late-'90s heyday.
With the refrain "I want to play with my ding-a-ling!" it borders on being a single entendre.
The original title was "Happiness is a Warm Gun in your Hand".
The Beatles had several: "Please Please Me", "Drive My Car", "Norwegian Wood", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun".
'40s novelty singer Benny Bell, in addition to his famous subverted-rhyme hit "Shaving Cream", composed ditties with such piquant titles as "My Grandpa Had a Long One", "Everybody Wants My Fanny", and "I'm Gonna Give My Girl a Goose for Thanksgiving".
The lyrics (and these are ACTUAL lyrics) "I'm a thoroughbred, that's what she said, in the back of my truck bed".
You read that right- the song is actually named Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy).
By Big & Rich, the entire song of "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)".
said she'd never had a royal flush' and 'She was holding a pair, but I had to try.' and 'She'd have the cards to bring me down, if she played them right' its clearly about something else.
"The Jack", (at least in its original album form) is ostensibly about a poker game, but with lines like 'How was I to know that she'd been shuffled before.
That said, performing most of the song in a hoity-toity accent adds to the fake subtlety, making the song even more hilarious for those who get it.
The album notes for "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" refers to Big Balls as "Not subtle enough to be a double entendre.
Let's face it: the band's famous for thinly veiled, squick-ily obvious sexual references, in line with their overriding themes of rebellion and sin.
Nobody is straight in L.A.? Ain't nothing but gay bars in Los Angeles? In the wake of metrosexuality, here's hoping Maroon 5 see their way to "Ain't Nobody Gay in New York. But if "homosexuality is a part of society" sounds silly, then what kind of ring does "heterosexuality is a part of society" have? And it's 1975 - you're just figuring out now that homosexuality is a part of society?Īnd then the title stars to sound more paranoid than anything else. We have explorers land on our native soil - Smokey's boys checking out the gay bars (some of the finest women hang out there anyway). when heard in the context of From the Closet to the Charts - Queer Noises 1961 - 1978, it comes off like the oppressive one-way flow of discourse that Said wrote about in Orientalism. Who could take issue with such a sweet, naive, gay-is-okay song? And yet, esp. I've been thinking a lot about this recently while obsessing on "Ain't Nobody Straight in L.A." by The Miracles. But pop and rock drop megatons of heteronormativity which can be just as dangerous as homophobia given how difficult it is to detect (and which is one of the reasons I started that heterosexual thread). And in pop, you actually don't find much homophobia at all.