Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy

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Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy
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Studio album by
Alex Chilton
Released1999; February 22, 2000 (USA)
RecordedFebruary 21, 1999
GenreRock, jazz, soul, blues
Length41:16
LabelLast Call Records[1]
Bar/None[2]
ProducerAlex Chilton
Alex Chilton chronology
A Man Called Destruction
(1995) 		Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy
(1999)
Alternative cover
Cover of the US release
Cover of the US release
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2.5/5 stars[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music2/5 stars[4]
NME3/5 stars[5]

Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy is an album by American pop-rock musician Alex Chilton, released in 1999.[6] It was released in the United States in 2000 under the title Set.[7] It was subsequently released on a double CD with one of Chilton's previous albums, Clichés.

The album is made up of cover versions of older songs, some of which have been recorded by several other artists.

Title[]

The title of the album comes from a racist joke that was made infamous in 1976 by politician Earl Butz, who served as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The quote of Butz using the racist joke in reference to African Americans, reported in Rolling Stone in an article by White House counsel John Dean, caused a controversy which ultimately led to Butz's resignation from the Ford Administration. Butz was speaking privately to entertainers Sonny Bono and Pat Boone, and to Dean, and was asked by Boone why the Republican Party had trouble attracting African-American voters when it was the party of Abraham Lincoln. As Time later reported, "The Secretary responded with a line so obscene and insulting to blacks that it forced him out of the Cabinet last week and jolted the whole Ford campaign. Butz said: 'I'll tell you what the coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit.'"[8]

A version of the joke was often relayed by cowboy character actor Slim Pickens, who made himself the target. In a 1972 Rolling Stone article, Pickins was quoted as saying the line to writer Terry Southern in 1963 during the filming of Dr. Strangelove.[9]

Track listing[]

  1. "I've Never Found a Girl" (Booker T. Jones, Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell) – 3:45
  2. "Lipstick Traces" (Naomi Neville) – 3:27
  3. "Hook Me Up" (Johnny "Guitar" Watson) – 4:16
  4. "The Oogum Boogum Song" (Alfred J. Smith) – 3:26
  5. "If You's a Viper" (Leroy Smith) – 2:16
  6. "I Remember Mama" (Shirley Caesar, Michael Mathis, Bernard Sterling, Dottie Sterling, Ann Price, Mae Newton) – 3:46
  7. "April in Paris" (E. Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke) – 3:29
  8. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:18
  9. "Single Again" (Gary Stewart) – 2:55
  10. "You've Got a Booger Bear Under There" (Ollie Hoskins, Quinn Golden) – 4:39
  11. "Shiny Stockings" (Frank Foster) – 4:03
  12. "Goodnight My Love" (John Marascalco, George Motola) – 2:55

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ George-Warren, Holly (2014). A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man. ISBN 978-0698151420. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Butland, John F. (March 1, 2000). "Alex Chilton Set". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  3. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Set - Alex Chilton | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. ISBN 9780857125958. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  5. ^ "Loose Shoes And Tight Pussy". NME. 12 September 2005.
  6. ^ Woodbury, Jason P. (April 2, 2009). "Alex Chilton - Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy". Tinymixtapes.com. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  7. ^ Luerssen, John D. (February 28, 2000). "Alex Chilton Set to Go". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  8. ^ "Exit Earl, Not Laughing". Time. New York City: Time, Inc. October 18, 1976.
  9. ^ Greenfield, Robert (August 3, 1972). "The Rolling Stones Go South". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
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