Login"Every time you kiss me, feels like a..." WHAT?
Sock It To Me, Baby! was one of blue-eyed soul singer Mitch Ryder's top-ten hits, from early 1967. The expression is possibly best-remembered today from when a presidential candidate uttered it: In 1968, when Nixon said 'Sock It To Me' on "Laugh-In," TV Was Never Quite the Same Again. (Smithsonian magazine, 2018)
Etymological explanations for the phrase (like in the Urban Dictionary) usually trace it to the late 1960s but readers of the classics can find it used earlier, during the Depression, in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Also there's a regional cake recipe with this name, apparently via Duncan Hines. Post title refers to a controversy at the time, during maybe the first wave of parental concern about lyrics in rock'n'roll, for example, what were the Kingsmen actually singing in "Louie, Louie" - could they have been suggesting something naughty? That spotlight also focused briefly on "Sock It To Me, Baby."
Etymological explanations for the phrase (like in the Urban Dictionary) usually trace it to the late 1960s but readers of the classics can find it used earlier, during the Depression, in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Also there's a regional cake recipe with this name, apparently via Duncan Hines. Post title refers to a controversy at the time, during maybe the first wave of parental concern about lyrics in rock'n'roll, for example, what were the Kingsmen actually singing in "Louie, Louie" - could they have been suggesting something naughty? That spotlight also focused briefly on "Sock It To Me, Baby."
