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Ruby Wright - Such A Silly Notion 1964 (Classic Country Oldies)

Nashville's Ruby Wright was the daughter of Kitty Wells who was the first successful female country music artist in the biz with a song reaching the top of the music charts in the early 50s. Ruby Wright's country classic "Such A Silly Notion" is the flip side of her most popular single Dern Ya from the mid sixties.

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(via Ruby Wright - Billy Broke My Heart At Walgreens (1966) 

Billy broke my heart at Walgreens And then I cried all the way to Sears

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(via Ruby Wright - Dern Ya (1966)

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Week ending: 29 April 1954

Well, looking at the title, I'm genuinely not sure what to think about this week's offering, but I am interested to see what it's about. Has there been a more random title? We'll see, I guess...

Bimbo - Ruby Wright (peaked at No. 7)

Well, this is certainly... something. Not sure what, or if I like it, but it sure does exist.

Getting the title out of the way, I was pleasantly surprised. I'm used to "bimbo" being a vaguely derogatory term used to dismiss women seen as "airheaded". But this is going back to the word's origin as an Italian term for a "little boy", which then got used for a "brutish or unintelligent young man". It only got linked to the "dumb blonde" sort of stereotype in the 1920s, and was still apparently used as a unisex term well into the 1940s, which is when this was originally written.

As such, it's a song about a silly boy who attracts girls, but is basically dumb and childish, with the refrain of "Bimbo, bimbo / Does your mommy know / That you're goin' down the road / To see your little girly-oh". It's delightfully dismissive, but does lean hard into the baby-talk thing that I really, properly hate.

There's a lot of bits that make him sound like a literal child, like the list of things he likes, which is mostly just sweets and candy and clapping his hands, but then there are slightly more sinister moments, like where it says that "Although he's just a little boy / He's got a grown up mind". We hear about all the girls going after him "begging for a bite" of his candy, as well as all his "million friends" ends up stopping in and visiting. "Friends" in definite scare quotes, there. It's quite a gross vibe, and gets grosser the more you think about it. I don't think I'd like "bimbo" much, or his "girlies", not gonna lie.

The tune, throughout is peppy to the point of being annoying, though there is some rather nice guitar work, and an unexpected and all-too-short clarinet solo. Apart from that, though, the tune here is just irritating, and the lyrics even more so.

I thought, when I realised it was about a boy, that this might be a "himbo" sort of figure, likable but dumb. I'm generally all about that. But no, they've made this "bimbo" just a straight up unlikable figure. Not a fan at all.

Well, that was insufferable. I really don't want to rate this as my favourite, sorry Ruby.

Most irritating song of the bunch: Bimbo

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