"There ain't nothing in Chicago
For a monkey woman to do"
I could be wrong, but is this a reference to "The Monkey" in Portnoy's Complaint?
The meme seems to be the same - a woman who uses sex and head games to lock down her man....
@loupgarous And according to a book cited in a 2009 WSJ article about the meaning of the mysterious Basie line "There's nothin' in Chicago that a monkey woman can do," a monkey woman is "An overly obliging or compliant female."
@loupgarous And according to a book cited in a 2009 WSJ article about the meaning of the mysterious Basie line "There's nothin' in Chicago that a monkey woman can do," a monkey woman is "An overly obliging or compliant female."
Jimmy Rushing's lyric with the Basic Band, later sung by Big Joe Williams; Joe said a monkey woman was a babe with a heroin habit (he would famously add "or by the size of her, a gorilla ...")
Jimmy Rushing's lyric with the Basic Band, later sung by Big Joe Williams; Joe said a monkey woman was a babe with a heroin habit (he would famously add "or by the size of her, a gorilla ...")
"There ain't nothing in Chicago For a monkey woman to do"
I could be wrong, but is this a reference to "The Monkey" in Portnoy's Complaint?
The meme seems to be the same - a woman who uses sex and head games to lock down her man....
@loupgarous
@loupgarous
That line is from "Goin' to Chicago" by Count Basie, and I think that song came out in 1939.
That line is from "Goin' to Chicago" by Count Basie, and I think that song came out in 1939.
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@loupgarous And according to a book cited in a 2009 WSJ article about the meaning of the mysterious Basie line "There's nothin' in Chicago that a monkey woman can do," a monkey woman is "An overly obliging or compliant female."
@loupgarous And according to a book cited in a 2009 WSJ article about the meaning of the mysterious Basie line "There's nothin' in Chicago that a monkey woman can do," a monkey woman is "An overly obliging or compliant female."
Jimmy Rushing's lyric with the Basic Band, later sung by Big Joe Williams; Joe said a monkey woman was a babe with a heroin habit (he would famously add "or by the size of her, a gorilla ...")
Jimmy Rushing's lyric with the Basic Band, later sung by Big Joe Williams; Joe said a monkey woman was a babe with a heroin habit (he would famously add "or by the size of her, a gorilla ...")
OOPS ... "Or by the size of her habit, a gorilla ..." youtu.be/hwVo7wGCa_s
OOPS ... "Or by the size of her habit, a gorilla ..." youtu.be/hwVo7wGCa_s