Songs about TGs

[Slavetoebony]

Any songs about TGs? 'Tweeter and the Monkey Man' by Bob Dylan ? Traveling Wilburys comes to mind. Listen to the lyrics at the very end of the song, ".....before he ever became a Jersey girl...." Here is the url

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2c...y-man_creation

(Not sure if this message board takes links to video uploading services. If not, go to dailymotion dot com / video and type in title and artist to access the song.)

[smc]

Surely, the most famous such song (if measured by success on the charts) is "Lola" by The Kinks (1970). It tells of a romantic young man's confused encounter with a transvestite, and made the Top 10 in both Britain and the United States.

Here's a link to the music, with full lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaMS_5i0Bbs

[randolph]

Originally Posted by smc

Surely, the most famous such song (if measured by success on the charts) is "Lola" by The Kinks (1970). It tells of a romantic young man's confused encounter with a transvestite, and made the Top 10 in both Britain and the United States.

Here's a link to the music, with full lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaMS_5i0Bbs

Funny song.
"Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets"

[smc]

Let's not forget "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed (1972). The song describes Holly, who "shaved her legs and then he was a she." You'll still hear the song on oldies stations today, because the lyrics are so clever that the censors don't know where to cut.

"And the colored girls sing ..."

[Enoch Root]

Wasn't Lou Reed in a relationship with a transsexual woman at some point? I think she's on the cover of some CD or other. They're lying together in bed like the arms of a spiral galaxy.

[Vallin]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Wasn't Lou Reed in a relationship with a transsexual woman at some point? I think she's on the cover of some CD or other. They're lying together in bed like the arms of a spiral galaxy.

Candy Darling. Famous 70's TG with the Andy Warhol tribe. She's also mentioned ("she was everybody's darling"). She was very pretty, but she died of leukemia before she was 30.

[Slavetoebony]

Originally Posted by smc

Let's not forget "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed (1972). The song describes Holly, who "shaved her legs and then he was a she." You'll still hear the song on oldies stations today, because the lyrics are so clever that the censors don't know where to cut.

"And the colored girls sing ..."

Indeed, very daring for 1972.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwD261MHsc

[smc]

I asked at school today, and two students mentioned a song I didn't know:

"Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)" by Garbage

So I looked up the lyrics, which include:

You're such a delicate boy
In the hysterical realm
Of an emotional landslide
In physical terms

With your cherry lips and golden curls
You could make grown men gasp
When you'd go walking past them
In your hot pants and high heels
They could not believe
That such a body was for real
It seemed like rainbows would appear
Whenever you came near the clouds would disappear
Because you looked just like a girl
Your baby blues would flash
And suddenly a spell was cast

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrn...-baby-go_music

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Slavetoebony

Indeed, very daring for 1972.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwD261MHsc

Daring or just the 70s? A time before STDs when all was good and AIDS was clearly just a fag disease, because, you know, obviously it could never spread to the heterosexual community and it was obviously punishment from god on high, so let's just ignore the human cost of that disease. wait im ranting...