Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" is today's Song of the Day! It's so good that I have 3 variations of it, two of which are not part of the collection of 33 variations available on iTunes. The latter set includes Alternative, Dance, Jazz, Electronic, Rock, New Age, Pop, and Vocal (yes, vocal) renditions. Talk about a manly man tune! There aren't many like this. It really makes a red-blooded man just pulse. Other examples, but not an inclusive list would include:
- "Rawhide" - Ned Washington and Dimitri Tiomkin
- "James Bond Theme" - Monty Norman
- "Mannish Boy" - the incomparable Muddy Waters
- "Boom Boom" and it's variations - John Lee Hooker
- "Not Fragile" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- "Brick House" - The Commodores
- "Oh Yeah" - Yello
- "La Grange" and "A Fool For Your Stockings" - ZZ Top (a truly manly band)
- "Wild Thing" - by anybody, but more especially by Sam Kinison
- "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" - Tomoyasu Hotei used in Kill Bill, Vol. 1, a movie about a female assassin out for revenge, oddly enough.
- "No Particular Place to Go" - Chuck Berry
- "The Lumberjack Song" - Monty Python
Oh! Sexism! Sexism! ---- Baloney! Like "Goodbye Earl" from the Dixie Chicks and Terri Clark's "Girls Lie Too" don't take sides!? These songs, like the so-called manly man songs I listed above, are geared to experiences and a culture of chiefly one gender and not the other.
This happens in all forms of entertainment. I see the occasional man reading a trashy romance novel but the greater readership is women. The movie Miss Congeniality has greater appeal among women whereas more men watched Saving Private Ryan. On television, Soap Operas are woman-oriented while The X-Files was a male geek-fest.
What am I doing?!? I just realized I was actually trying to settle the debate! Sorry, no. It won't be settled by me. Don't get all stroppy with my for trying. Just form your own opinion and have done with it. Peace & Prayers, friends.
