some of you out there in cyberspace-land were not born in 1971 when today’s
guilty pleasure monday
came to the fore. so let me school you, sistahs and bruthas, on this groovy tuneage by the cornelius brothers and sister rose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y_v_97n_9gthe cornelius brothers and sister rose, a family act from dania, fl (motto: we let 13 year old girls dressed like ‘hos like a young wreke in to watch jai alai), had their biggest hit, too late to turn back now, in 1972. the song is an utterly forgettable and annoying ditty. but treat her like a lady? admittedly, i, too, missed this one the first time around.
lucky for me, i am related to none other than my middle brother larry (motto: no 1970s song is too sappy; no fiscally conservative wingnut is too crazy), dean of 1970s muzak music. one time, my darling big brother made a CD mix for me which included a crazy semblance of songs. one of them was treat her like a lady. i imagined at first the song made it on the mix simply because the lyrics are so uncomfortably sexist. see, the singer is giving his man-friends advice on the allegedly weaker sex:
All my friends had to ask me
Somethin’ they didn’t understand-a
How I get all the women
In the palms of my hand, now
And I told them, to treat her like a lad-ay
(You got-to, got-to treat her like)
Um-hum all the best you can do
(Treat her like, you got-to, got-to treat her like)
You got to treat her like a lad-ay, she’ll give into you
Ah-hum now who can see, you know what I mean?
oh, so THAT’S what those guys are doing in those classes! you know, the ones where they learn to pick up women? (oh, that’s going to give me all sorts of strange search results. all i need to use are words like naked and off we go into wacko land.) what a novel concept: listen to a woman and she might start to feel appreciated. only, silly girl, you thought he really was interested in you!
(of course, if we are the weaker sex, then how come you don’t see women going to classes learning how to pick up men?)
ahem.
anyway, back to the song. i thought at first my brother had put that song on the CD just to piss his feminist sister off. but no, he hadn’t. it’s just a song with a killer hook. no malicious intent. how it didn’t become a bigger hit, i just don’t know.
yep, i guess larry isn’t so bad. he also introduced me to the dead kennedys. [punk alert, punk alert: offensive language. don’t put on the speakers in front of the kiddies or the boss.] so sometimes, no matter how different, brothers and sister can work together and even learn from each other. maybe we never had a hit record, and maybe he’ll never see eye-to-eye with me on political issues, and maybe i’ll never forget how he used to use me as the human punching bag during 1971; but larry and i actually get along now.
just something i’ll have to point out to BC the next time she wants to put her brother in a headlock.
I think the dead kennedy’s link is borked. I can guess to which song you meant to link though, I bet.
fixed. thanks for the heads-up, scully. and gee whiz, i wonder sometimes… the youtube links work one second and then poof! they disappear. argh.
Not only was I born when that Cornelius Bros. song came out, I remember it in original release. Therefore, I am o-l-d. No worries, though, I **love** all that 70s funk music.
Came here via dc urban moms, reading in a fit of procrastination (continuing here). So happy to see someone acknowledging the Toilet Paper Fairy! Beautiful stuff. You know a woman is sentimental, and so easy to upset. But make her feel like she is real, and she’ll bring you happiness.
That’s a GREAT song! I have to admit I’m a sucker for this kind of music though…the sappier the better!
In my oppinion Cornelius Brothers is the best black music group of the century. Of course there’s a lot of others great black music stars as Chi-lites, Manhattans, Stylistics, Blue Magic…many others, but Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose is the landscape (photografy) of my childhood’s place. I remember all the time when I was young, and Cornelius Brothers really got to the top hits parade in BRAZIL for a long, long time.
People around the world always has been the bad way of thinking about my country Brazil…hahaha! They still imagine here is a Indian Tribes, and the country is a hole of the world, but it’s not true. Mainly when the matter is the MUSIC!!!!
Brazil is the great store window of the Universal Music, too many years before the Internet. Cause we always music consumers for a long long time in my country. And there’s still a lot of vinyl albums of the all decades to find here! Rock’n’roll to Heavy Metal, Rhythm and Blues to Funk, Disco, and our own music.
It was this way that I become a Rock DJ, and lived my life as a hunter for the music.
So I always gonna love all about music from 50’s to present days.
All the music in the world has been played in my country and in our ears!
It’s very nice!
There’s a lot of good music of all the world parts here!
Thank you all for help!