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Fascinatin' Rhythm: Cuddling Songs, 04/13/19

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Episode 1915

4/13      Cuddling Songs By 1900 or 1910, we gave up on the sentimental ballad, but we hadn’t quite attuned ourselves to the demands and upheavals of the nascent century. We settled in for a decade or two of love songs where the love was real and so was the world outside. While chaperones faded from view and boys and girls found ways to be alone together, sex snuck its way into lyrics.