Rufus Thomas - "Little Sally Walker"

Little Sally Walker was the subject of a song sung at camps and as accompaniment to epic jump rope sessions. Sally was an innocent - a little girl who sat in a saucer, turning from side to side, wiping her crying eyes. That is, until Rufus Thomas got to her and thoroughly sullied her good name.

Rufus's Southern dance-soul take on the theme is altogether more adult than the rhymes that preceded his song. His intentions for Little Sally are entirely unwholesome, and he makes no bones about this, making them plain with an ensnaring snare, base bass, horny horns, and a most lascivious larynx. [Buy]

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Pigmeat Terry - "Moaning the Blues"

My parents were going to name me Pigmeat until they learned of the towering blues great of the same name. They thought, How is this boneless pudge-sphere of a baby boy going to fill the shoes of the bluesman who could moan like a clarinet and sing like a plunger-muted trumpet? Deciding that I appeared to lack any blues talent whatsoever, but that I excelled in the dramatic arts, they instead named me after Jordana Brewster, then only one year old. [Buy]