Per usual, looking for something else I ran into an oddball, April Steven's "Teach Me Tiger". This thing is a real piece of work. All of the subservient cooing and trying-too-hard effort to sound sexy. It kind of makes me uncomfortable. Creepy, too, that her brother, Nino Tempo, wrote it. This one no doubt pissed off feminists when it was released, at least what few there were in 1960. Yeesh.
For a very shaky reason "Touch Me Tiger" reminded me of Nora Dean's "Angie La-La". I think it was all the cooing. Dean's song has a lot of moaning, not quite Donna Summer territory, but close. Still a little odd. if you're hoping for a hit, why would you inflate the creepiness? Note: You reggae people who haven't heard "Angie La-La", listen to it. It was produced by Duke Reid, and there isn't a lick of ska, rocksteady or reggae in it. Actually, I don't know what genre you'd dump it in. That's the best kind of oddball.
April Stevens - Teach Me Tiger mp3 at Internet Archive
Nora Dean - Angie La-La mp3 at Art Decade
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