Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2014 October 15

= October 15 =

Kisses on the Bottom
Kisses on the Bottom... of what? Sorry, I'm an English as a second language speaker, and "bottom" in the context of "kisses" has nothing but anatomical connotations to me. I'm pretty sure that was not what Sir Paul intended. The bottom of a letter?? The bottom(?) of an envelope? Is it a reference to a song lyric or an expression? Please enlighten me! Thanks, --109.189.65.217 (talk) 20:19, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The article says, "The album's title comes from the lead track 'I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter', originally a hit for Fats Waller in 1935." In the Waller song, the line refers to the X's that are written at the end of a letter to represent kisses. See the eighth bulleted entry in X. Deor (talk) 21:46, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks, missed that. Does the an album title have the associations that I'm suggesting, to a native English speaker too? Is it an intended double entendre? --109.189.65.217 (talk) 22:05, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, only Paulie can say why he chose that title for the album. However, I'd be very surprised if the "anatomical connotations" of bottom had entirely escaped his notice. Deor (talk) 23:55, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Double entendres are very popular in England.--Shantavira|feed me 08:13, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * And they were very popular on Tin Pan Alley too. It's not unlikely (though I found no reference in this particular instance) that Joe Young had the double entendre in mind when he penned it, and I can hardly imagine Fats Waller not noticing it. (And he does sing "a lot of kisses on the bottom", though I guess that's neither here nor there). ---Sluzzelin  talk  09:07, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It got the Boswell Sisters banned -  Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:40, 16 October 2014 (UTC)