I come form a very large family. I've got five older sisters, yes, five.
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But it was wonderful to be the only boy in a family of girls.
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Life was paradise, until one day my mother surprised everybody,
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including my father I think, and at the ripe old age of 45 she gave birth
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to another baby boy. And his name was David.
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But it's the sisters. You see, our older sisters played all of their
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beebop records on the radiogram in the front room where we lived.
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The front room. It was the center of our world, because that's where we
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helt all of our family parties. Any excuse for a party, really.
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Weddings, birthdays, funerals, you name it. A party would take place
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in the front room.
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But it was my big sisters. You see, they put on records by pop idols of
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their generation. People like Johnny Ray and Perry Como.
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The girls did all the latest dances with their most recent boyfriends.
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And it's interesting to note that the dances they did resembled the
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various boyfriends. They did the creep, the smooch, the boogie woogie,
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jive, right down to early rock 'n roll.
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Now, my big sister had a certain record and my mother refused to have
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this record played in the house, because, according to mum, it had
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sexy lyrics. But whenever mum was out of the house, my sister would
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entertain her boyfriend in the front room and my young accomplist,
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David, remember him?, he'd get the record in question and put it on
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the radiogram and I looked through the key hole into the front room
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to see how my sister was doing, and at the appropriate moment
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I'd turn up the volume and the whole house would throb to these
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sexy subversive lyrics.
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My Big Sister (Dialogue)
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| Ray Davies |
