Playlist:   (airdate February 23, 2004)
Phoebe (from "Friends") - bisexual song
     (from Season 2, Episode 12, 1996)
Bob Rivers Twisted Radio - bisexual (2002)
Herman's Hermits - this door swings both ways (1966)
Ma Rainey - sissy blues (1926)
Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - sissy man blues (1935)
The Herd - something strange (1968)
Mitch Ryder- sally go round the roses (1967)
Tim Buckley - sally go round the roses (1973)
David Bowie - john, I'm only dancing (1972)
George Melly - good time george (1973)
Sweet - a.c. -d.c. (1975)
Supernaut - I like it both ways (1976)
Gotham - AC-DC man (1979)
Peter Allen - bicoastal (1980)
Bi-Medley (1:00)
Barbara Mason - another man (1983)
Tom Robinson - more lives than one (1984)
Two Nice Girls - I spent my last $10 on
     birth control and beer (1989)
Living Colour - bi (1993)
Sta-Prest - double your chances (1995)
Hypnotic Clambake - bisexual military (1995)
Karen Hellyer - pink and blues (1995)
Monica Grant - my boyfriend's back (1996)
Jill Sobule - I kissed a girl (1995)
Coyote Shivers - bisexual girl (1996)
Peggy Scott-Adams - bill (1997)
Thomas Richardson - bill goes both ways (1997)

In order to cover so many songs in an hour show, I had to shorten many of them, but so you won't feel
disappointed or short-changed, you can click on the musical note after a song to hear all of it.

And it's the lyrics of these songs that got them on this show, and many are fascinating. I have posted lyrics to as many as I could find on a special lyrics page. Click the button to go there...

Those Sissy Songs...

Ma Rainey has been called the Mother of the Blues, and she gave us the lesbian classic, "Prove It On Me Blues" (1928), in the same year she recorded her composition "Sissy Blues." In 1935 Kokomo Arnold picked up the sissy ball and wrote "Sissy Man Blues." Several blues artists recorded it, including the version featured on this show, by Pinewood Tom, one of the recording names used by Josh White.

I thought this song merited some in depth attention, so Click the Button below for the lyrics, three versions of them, and many more photos.

Many straight and gay blues songs, of the more, let's say, graphic nature can be found on the CD shown above. It combines most of the songs found on an earlier (1979) LP release called "Straight & Gay." Though it unfortunately lacks Ma Rainey's "Sissy Blues" it does include "Prove It On Me Blues." It also features Bessie Jackson's "B.D. Woman's Blues," and the BD stood for Bull Dyker. I featured that on my September 2001 QMH show.

The Herd, featuring Peter Frampton, (before he "Came Alive") included the song "Something Strange" on their "Paradise Lost" LP in 1968. In it, a young man strays from his girlfriend as "those gay voices beacon to some new delight."

In 1972 David Bowie was going through his Ziggy Stardust phase, and he had already declared to the press that he was bisexual, which was probably just hype. Anyway, he had recorded the song "John, I'm Only Dancing," which was about a bisexual man dancing with a woman but telling his jealous male lover that there was nothing to worry about..."John, I'm only dancing, She turns me on, but I'm only dancing." Below and right, with bandmate Mick Ronson.

Tim Buckley also lamented that "the saddest thing in this whole wide world is to find your woman's been laying with another girl," in his 1973 cover version of the Jaynetts' song. In Rock Music irony, he died of drug abuse at age 28 (in 1975) and the son he barely knew, Jeff Buckley, drown at age 30, in 1997. Click to learn more.

Above and below, George Melly, an English sort of jazz music hall performer. He was quite ahead of his time in his song "Good Time George" when in his 1973 song he warned "Hey, there, mama, hold tight to your man, cause my equipment's on the AC-DC plan."

Glam Rock group The Sweet were perhaps most known for their mid-70s hits "Little Willy," Ballroom Blitz," "Fox on the Run," and "Love Is Like Oxygen." They also got lots of airplay in 1975 with their very non-judgemental reaction to bisexuality, with "AC - DC."

Above, the group Supernaut had a surprising hit in Australia with "I Like It Both Ways." Those were the only two photos I could find of the group on the internet.

Bisexual Links:

Bisexual.org
Bi Resource
Bi Zone
Bi.org
BiNet USA
Bothways

These are just a few of the neat
Bisexual websites I found while
researching the music for these
two shows. Please check 'em out.

Special Bi Interviews
on KPFT
With Skott Freedman!

I've got three special interviews
that you can stream from this
page:

Interview by JD Doyle & Jone Devlin,
February 23, 2004, 22 min.

Interview by JD Doyle &
Jone Devlin, Sept 1, 2003,
on the "Bi the People" CD,
23 minutes

Interview by J.Carper & Gigi,
on After Hours
October 6, 2001, 36 min.

Take a fun quiz about bisexuality

Above, their "AC-DC Man" 12-incher. Check out my April show for a very
special interview with the group Gotham.

Above, Peter (21) and Liza (18) had
just gotten engaged in December of
1964...he didn't tell the world about
being "bicoastal" until 1980...

      

Tom Robinson is one of my queer heroes, both for his music and his activism. He's been fighting the good fight for over 25 years. His song "Glad To Be Gay" (1978) is one of our anthems, and of course I played it on my very first QMH show. Over the years he's become very active in bisexual activism, and his website (www.tombinson.com), which is one of the best "artist sites" I've seen anywhere, also includes a terrific reference section on information regarding bisexuality, including links to many other Bi sites.

Nice

Click for my show featuring a special interview with Gretchen Phillips, with discographies and much more

Girls

(pass mouse over above pic)

NYC band Living Colour has had
platinum selling albums and
Grammy awards, but what I care
about is their song "Bi" (from
their 1993 CD, "Stain"), which
gave that subject a funky beat.

In 1995 San Francisco punk group
Sta-Prest released a frantic EP
called "Vespa Sex" which gave
us "Double Your Chances"

In 1993 Chicago area artist Karen
Hellyer released 500 copies of her
album "Peon Queen." But her
very Bi song "Pink and Blues" can
only be found on the 1995 Mother
Jones sponsored-CD "You Are
What You Shoot."

Monica Grant's delightful 1996 album "Parodisiac"
not only contained the parody of "My Boyfriend's
Back" that I included in this show, but it also has
her own neat versions of Sam Cooke's "Wonderful
World" ("P.C. Dyke"), the Drifters' "Under the
Boardwalk" ("Down at the Sperm Bank"), and even
Ferron's "Shadow on a Dime" ("Shadows on Uuugh").
This is a very under-appreciated album, but it's not
too late to get it, check out Amazon.com.