"Drinkin' Rum and Coca Cola"

One of the songs from the music I exercise to at SwingFit. I'd never heard it previously but it was a highly popular wartime song by the Andrews Sisters.

I found the music good to move to and I could get the steps right so I looked it up when I got home and found it to be about prostitution in Trinidad with "Both mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar".

The Andrews Sisters had no idea that this was being implied in the lyrics. "We didn't think of what it meant; but at that time, nobody else would think of it either, because we weren't as morally open as we are today and so, a lot of stuff—really, no excuses—just went over our heads."

The reason that this song was banned from some stations wasn't because of the men of the US forces taking advantage of the women of Trinidad. No, it was because it mentioned alcohol which couldn't be advertised on air, neither could trade names like Coca Cola.

I'm enjoying blipping our song titles but I think I'll come unstuck with "Slow Boat To China"