i remenber ti,too..the last few lines ALWYAS sounded like.." ready for masturbation"..in Feb.1975!! And it was about David Bowie, who had his first true big big US hit then, with the re-released CHANGES (1972)!
@@SteveCarras Bowie had already cracked the U.S. top 20 in 1973 with the re-release of Space Oddity. Furthermore, Young Americans (the single) was released in early 75 and that cracked the top 30. So changes was not his first hit in the states.
These guys spent some time in my brother's recording studio when their gig was rained out ... that bass player looked really cute in that baby blue miniskirt.
Wow! Blast! Past! I remember being a young teen and my Mom wouldn't let me buy this song. (too naughty) I ended up 5 finger discounting it (Sorry Fanny!) and still have it to this day.
I didn't steal any of Fanny's records, but I did used to steal 8-tracks of Melanie from Walgreens. Back then I'd buy Helena Rubenstein facial creme from Walgreens, but would steal 8-tracks.
@@littlecasino60 Haha, your mention of Melanie brings to mind an incident here in my hometown. I'm from the Melanie days, AM transistor radio & WLS. Last year driving thru downtown a car is gaining behind me, I could hear their music easily, playing loudly & very loudly they have "Brand New Key" blaring, driving one of those Cube vehicles, pimped out.
So Much Better Than A Lot of the Crap Released in 74, They are the most underrated rock group of all time. They played excellent music on all their albums.
@@methaqualone5191 Not to mention Disco, Mood Rings, Pet Rocks, CB Radio, and Rollerskating. It was a fun time that passed too quickly-but Time kept on slipping slipping into the Future...
If this was a Top Hit In USA how come it took 48 years before I heard it? I just read an article about this group & how the media forgot them, it mentioned this song & I came here.
This was Fanny's second and final top 40 hit in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #29. Their other was 1971's #40 hit Charity Ball. Those were the ONLY two top 40 hits ever by an all-female band until the Go-Go's released their #20 hit Our Lips Are Sealed in 1981.
@@stanlangley5670 Female vocal groups, yes, the most successful being the Supremes. But the first female band, meaning a group that played their own instruments, ever to make the top 40 in the U.S. was Fanny.
WPGC in the Washington DC area played this quite regularly in late '74---early '75 for about three months or so. I was thirteen and I recall being surprised that the station played it since the lyrics are so blatantly erotic. Not that I minded then, or now. Hell, consider the lyrics of pop songs and rap/hip-hop of today by comparison. Contemporary music makes this song seem like an old nursery rhyme.
This version of Fanny was the last, June (the great guitar player) was gone & Alice (the fabulous drummer) was gone, this version of Fanny was just OK to me, not as good as the original Fanny . . . When June, Jean, Alice & Nicky we’re together that was something very special 👍
Their was a Christian all girl rock band called RACHEL RACHEL they made 2 ALBUMS, They even did the song CARRY ON WAYWARD SON, their was THE RUNAWAYS also, an all girl rock band from the 1970s
How the heck did this song get ANY airplay in the mid seventies? Those lyrics are so graphic! Kinda makes Heart’s “Crazy On You” sound like a church hymn!
It's too bad this group didn't achieve more success than it did. Fortunately they did leave a limited body of work and some surviving concert footage. In the USA it reached #29 in April, 1975. Still got my 45.
Fanny were only the first to release an album on a major label. There were surely many all-female garage bands before them who just weren’t able to get record deals.
No, The Pleasure Seekers were with the Quatro sisters with 1965's What a Way to Die, which did not chart as high, but is more well known and covered. They were the first all female proto punk band, before Fanny, the Runaways, The Slits, or anyone. Patti Quatro was in Fanny as well for their 1974 final album which is featured here.
Wow! I grew up in the seventies and now feel cheated! That session video is awesome. But I can't be the first one to hear the theme to the Pink Panther in the opening of the song, am I?
Hey all! In case you didn't know, Jean had a stroke and needs our help. www.gofundme.com/jean-millington-go Please donate what you can, write her a note, we gotta get her back on bass! Thanks so much. xx June
Yes, singer Jean Millington because her and David Bowie dated for a year or so, but in the documentary, "Fanny: The Right to Rock." She does say that song wasn't about him, but he inspired her to write it. Too bad Fanny broke up while this hit was claiming the charts. Would still LUV to see them perform this song Live on a TV show.
I'm not exactly sure myself, but I thought it was in reference to "The Last Tango in Paris" movie, with Marlon Brando, where there was the 'butter scene' because this song came out after that movie.
???? I don't get that. Jean had left the band by the time this album was recorded, so I have doubts that June and Nickey would include a song on the album about Jean's affair (???)
@@2ndEndingVintage The sister that left the band (in 1973) was June, not Jean. In fact, Jean was the only original member still in the band by the time they imploded in 1975.
