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The 'From My Home To Yours' series continues with Episode 29, themed "Let's Talk About Sex".

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Bruce Springsteen

Let's Talk About Sex

Hello, hello, friends, fans, lovers and listeners from coast to coast and around the world. Hello from Stone Hill Studios and Volume 29 of "From My Home to Yours", titled "Let's Talk About Sex".

All right, all right. We opened with "Sexy Coffee Pot" by Tony Alvon & the Belairs, and followed that with the wonderful and classic Salt-N-Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex". Salt-N-Pepa, out of New York City in 1985. Salt, Cheryl James — Pepa, Sandra Denton — and DJ Spinderella, Deidra Roper. Their first album was Hot, Cool & Vicious and it sold a million copies in the United States. Fourth album, Very Necessary, sold five million, making them the highest selling female rap act at that time. The song "Let's Talk About Sex" has a humor and an underlying sweetness that is simply irresistible. "Let's talk about sex, baby! Let's talk about you and me! Let's talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be". Slim Harpo, let's talk about sex.

That was Slim Harpo with "Baby Scratch My Back", out of Lobdell, Louisiana. And here's the great one, Marvin Gaye, with the greatest song ever written on today's topic.

All right. That was the Followills with their big smash, "Sex is On Fire". Our next artist, Hank Ballard, cut this immortal R&B record in 1954. It was immediately opposed by the FCC due to its salacious lyrical content, which was deemed, simply, too overtly sexual for the tender ears of modern America's radio listeners. However, you cannot keep a hit record down! Despite attempts to restrict it, it went to Number 1 on the R&B charts and stayed there for seven weeks. Hank Ballard, please, "Work With Me, Annie".

That record sold one million copies and so did its answer records, "Annie Had a Baby (Can't Work No More)". Our singer's lament is every time he starts to work she has to stop and walk the baby 'cross the floor! "She walks with the baby, instead of me. She talks with the baby, instead of me. She sings to the baby, instead of me. And she clings to the baby, instead of me. Now I know it's understood that that's what happens when the gettin' gets good".

We started with The Medallions' version of "Annie Had a Baby", and segued, of course, into "Honky Tonk Women". That was the Rolling Stones, rest in peace, Charlie Watts. There is no better tribute to rock's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer than the vicious groove he digs on "Honky Tonk Women". "Whoo!", Mick says at the end of The Stones' masterpiece, and he is correct. Here comes Jimmy Reed, swearin', "Damn, he's a good lover".

That was Marcy Playground, from 1997, with "Sex And Candy". And before that, "Good Lover", by Jimmy Reed. And here's the king of 'em all, Muddy Waters, having a problem with "My Dog Can't Bark".

That was yours truly, with "Reno", from Devils & Dust, preceded by the greatest, Muddy Waters. This is Rodney Crowell, with "Sex & Gasoline".

That was Rodney Crowell, born in 1950 in Houston, Texas, played in Emmylou Harris' Hot Band. He's another of the great line of singer-songwriters that Texas seems to produce unfailingly. Great writer, great artist. Here's the Queen of Disco.

And we have bookended our program with another great record by Marvin Gaye, who, without a doubt, made some of the sexiest recordings of the seventies. And that's, that's about our show for today. I hope you've enjoyed our time together. And until we meet again, may your life be filled with sex, love and rock 'n' roll! Go in peace.

^{By Bruce Springsteen via E Street Radio.}