Doin’ It to You in Your Ear Drums, in 88 Words or Less: “Disco Lady”

This week we’re getting a little cosmic on House of Pride Radio, with Johnnie Taylor and his 1976 hit, “Disco Lady.” Listen in from 6pm to 8pm Pacific tonight!



If the planets make music as they orbit the sun, this is the last song they’d play on Saturday night.



Up in the sky, like a balloon in a parade,
she gets so high
to get down.

DJ, just give us a sign!
No parking, baby, on the dance floor:
The planets align
Do the Bump behind her

With every step of her shimmer-gold funk-me pumps
a swirl of stars;
Can you see Mars?

Shakin’ it up with slinky Mercury
Uranus shakin it down
Horny Pluto shovin’ it in and out
Disco Lady round and round

Doin’ It to You in Your Ear Drums, in 88 Words or Less: "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

Today on House of Pride Radio, I'm honoring this 1978 Rod Stewart classic, #308 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Listen in from 6-8 pm Pacific tonight!

It’s Rod the Mod and you’re seeing leopard;

got on nothing a bag o’ marbles can’t hold.

Peel a grape and gape:

He’s there right in front of you!

Multiply this, and now you’ve got a whole roomful of Rods

except where his head should be

you see

Bette Davis, Prince and Cher

the UPS man!
Yogi Bear!
the Golden Girls, Barack and Joe,

Everyone who’s nice you know

Brigitte Bardot and Tom Jones, too

They’re all sexy—

so are you!

Doin’ It to You in Your Ear Drums, in 88 Words or Less: "Everything's Coming Up Roses"

It’s 1979, and the last days of disco are being snorted up and shat out by Johnny Rotten, but you don’t care. You’re La Merm, and you break rules harder than any sniveling sod pimped out by Malcom McLaren ever could. You hold a middle C for 16 bars, yet you’ve never taken a voice lesson in your whole life. You do everything in one take, and you have a Christmas tree that you light every night, reminding yourself that yes, everything’s coming up sunshine and Santa Claus.

 P.S. Listen to me read this on House of Pride Radio tomorrow!