Vulgar Tongues
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‘007 (Shanty Town)’ 171
2 Live Crew 76
8th Avenue 167
39 Steps, The 153–154
‘54–46 That’s My Number’ 171
‘59th Street Bridge Song’ 5
158 Squadron 327
222 Squadron 328
‘365 Excuses for a Party’ 190
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 51
ABBA 267
Abbott, George 318
Abbott, Sidney 148
Aberdeen Evening Express 334–335
Abergavenny 181
Abortive Hussy, The 170
Absolute Beginners 225
Academy Award 79
Ackland, Joss 227
Ackroyd, Peter 100–101
Acte for the punishment of the vice of Buggerie, An 124
Adams, Captain Robert C. 257
Addison, Joseph 179
Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement, The 198
Admiralty, The 320
Adolf Hitler – My Part in His Downfall 118
Adventures of Barry McKenzie, The 71, 194
Æsop 117
Africa 169, 237–238
Against the Law 141
Agenda, The 335
Aground 69, 191
AIDS 70, 149
Ainsworth, William Harrison 160
‘Ain’t Love Grand (Don’t Get Funky)’ 244
Air Force: Royal Air Force 3–4, 14, 86, 93, 323–328, 335; Royal Flying Corps 314–315, 325; Royal New Zealand Air Force 195; United States Air Force 319, 326–327
‘A1 Capone’ 170
Alabama 188
Albemarle Club 132
Alcapone, Dennis (Smith, Dennis) 171
Alchemist, The 64
Alcohol 5, 9, 16, 30, 35, 39, 41, 42, 46, 54, 55, 57, 69, 71, 92, 99, in, 118, 122, 130, 131, 145, 154, 155, 157, 164, 169, 170, 174, 177–199, 200, 202, 221, 224, 228, 237, 258, 306, 321, 322, 323, 326, 334
Aldershot 265
Aldrich, Robert 147
Algren, Nelson 264
Alfie (play, film and book) 294
‘All About That Bass’ 104
‘All Girls Are Yours’ 274
‘All Shook Up’ 260
‘All The Jive Is Gone’ 222
All These Years, Volume One, Tune In 270–271
Allen, Richard 155
Allen, Woody 211
Allingham, Margery 136, 287, 323
Allingham, Philip 136–137
Alvin and the Chipmunks 150
Amazon rainforest 29, 34
American Dictionary of the English Language 52
American Mercury, The 322
American Neurological Society 185
American Sunday School Union 17
American War of Independence 51, 158
American West 45
Amess, David 227
Amiens 312
Aminadab 29
Amis, Kingsley 244, 264
Ammons, Albert 285–286
‘Among the Leaves So Green, O’ 65
‘Anaconda’ 104
Anacreon 306
Anacreontic Society, The 306–307
‘Anacreontic Song, The’ 306
Anatomy 18–19, 34, 49, 53, 58, 60, 62–65, 69, 71, 73–76, 79, 84, 88–89, 91, 96–122, 142, 149, 150, 154–157, 161, 261, 270, 279–282, 307, 322
Anderson, Ian 119
Anderson, Jack
Anderson, Jon 278
Andersson, Benny 267
Anglo-Norman 82, 85
Anglo-Saxons 101, 221
Animal Factory, The 153
Annabella 79
Annie Hall 211
Another Monty Python Record 194–195
Anthony, Barney 145
Anti-Saloon League, The 186
Antrim, HMS 321
‘Anybody Here Want to Try My Cabbage?’ 84
Appel, Benjamin 154
Apple Computers 209
Ardennes 317
‘Are You All Reet?’ 244
Are You Being Served? 108
Arizona 175–176
Arkansas 192
Armentières 309
Armstrong and Miller 4
Armstrong, Brother 129
Armstrong, Louis 244–245, 247, 253
Army: 14, 66, 118, 270; Australian Army 312, 314; British Army 43, 47, 84, 9293, 105, 139, 219, 309–316, 321, 322, 327; New Zealand Army 314; US Army 221, 314, 316–320
US Army 221, 314, 316–320
Arnold, Eddie 248
Arnold, Kokomo 134
Arte of Rhetorique, The 180
Arthur, Max 313, 328
Aryan Brotherhood, The 175
Asbington, Ralph, alias Shitten-arse 88
Asbury, Herbert 167, 217
Ash, Russell 17
Ashley-Cooper, Anthony, Lord Ashley 204
Association for the Prevention of Chundering 195
Atkins, Trooper Tommy 315
Atlanta GA 213
Atlantic Records 268
Atlee, Philip 198
Auckland Star, The 195, 317
Austin TX 239–240
Australia 9, 54–55, 71, 158, 161, 166, 170, 193–598, 289, 305–306, 309, 312
Autobiography of a Fast Man 6
Autobiography of a Yogi 274
Avallone, Michael 154
Ay Baati Wolof – A Wolof Dictionary 238
B, Mr the Gentleman Rhymer 298
Babs’ Three Bips & A Bop 242
‘Baby You Done Flubbed Your Dub With Me’ 249
Babylon By Bus 284
Bacall, Lauren 17
Baccara 286
Bach, Johann Sebastian 278
Bache, Richard Meade 53–54
‘Back Door Stuff’ 237
Back-slang 217
‘Bad Liver & A Broken Heart’ 183
Bad Sex in Fiction Award 59
Badcock, John – see Bee, John
Bailey, Gunner ‘Plunger’ 118
Bailey, Nathan 42, 43, 44
Bairnsfather, Bruce 309, 310
Baker, Dorothy 17
Baker, Frank 68–69
Baker, Mark 14, 305, 319
Baker, Ray Stannard 213
Baldwin, James 231
Balham,Joe 308
Ball of Fire 236
‘Ballad of A Refuse Disposal Officer’ – see ‘My Old Man’s A Dustman’
‘Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd, The’ 170
Baltimore MD 151
Baltimore Afro-American, The 242
‘Banana in Your Fruit Basket’ 110
‘Bang A Gong (Get It On)’ – see Get It On
‘Bang Away Lulu’ 282
‘Bang Bang Lulu’ 282
Bang to Rights 310
Barbados 282
Barclays Centre NYC 26
Bardolph 181
Barker, Blue Lu, with Danny Barker and his Fly Cats 188
Barker, Isabel 89
Barker, Paul 131
Barker, Ronnie 97
Barltrop, Robert 143, 311
Barrett, Carlton 171
Barrington-Smythe, Lance Captain Sir Archibald ‘Duggie’ 21
Barrow, Clyde 160
Barrow, Tony 270
Barry McKenzie cartoon strip 71, 193
Barrymore, John Drew 253
Bartlett, John R, 52–53, 129
Basildon 227
Basingstoke 26
Batch 50
Bath 181
Battle of Britain 14, 324, 328
Baxter Street Dudes, The 230
Bayou Country 299
BBC3 13
BBC, The 13, 21, 75, 110, 126, 130, 149, 173, 274, 281, 293, 296, 325
B.E. 38–39, 125
Beach Boys, The 169, 256
Beastie Boys, The 292
Beat Girl 19
Beat Generation 235, 240, 243, 251–25
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‘Beat Generation, The’ (song) 252
Beat Generation, The (film) 252–253
Beatles, The 61, 144–145, 150, 211, 250, 255–256, 265–270, 281
‘Beatnik Fly’ 252
‘Beatnik Girl’ 252
‘Beatnik of the Bull Ring, The’ 251
Beatniks 5, 20, 143, 251–254, 272–273
Beatniks, The 252
‘Bebop’ 244, 246
‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’ 246, 248
‘Bebop Boogie’ 248
‘Bebopper’s Christmas’ 248
Beck, Robert – see Slim, Iceberg
Becker, Boris 70
Beckett, Samuel 272
Bedroom Bolero, The 154
Bee, John 161, 204
Bee Gees, The 277
Beer Street 181
Beethoven, Ludwig van 278
‘Beggar’s Curse, The’
Beggar’s Opera, The 40, 159
Beggars 3, 6, 24, 29–31, 38, 50, 83, 105, 168, 188–189, 229
Beiderbecke, Bix 17
Belfast 97, 259
Belgium 93
Bennett, Boyd 248
Benny Hill Show, The 112
Berkeley Barb The 208
Berkshire 245, 273
Berlin 135
Berlin, Cyril 268
Bermagui 196
Bernard, A1 259
Bester, Alfred 140, 152
Betjeman, John 7, 135
Betrayers, The 277
Betts, Mr Douglas 280
Betz, Betty 239
Beyond Our Ken 141–142
Bible Christian Book Room, The 17
Bieber, Justin 26
‘Big Bamboo’ 282
‘Big Booty Hoes’ 104
Big Con – The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Trick, The 163
Big Gold Dream, The 84, 305
Big, Mr 169
BIG, Notorious 169
Big Sleep, The 15
Biggies (Biggie worth, James) 324
Biggies Takes the Case 324
Biggs, Ronnie 310
Bilby’s Hall 23
Bilk, Acker 264
Billboard 76, 192, 218–219, 249, 268, 271–272, 292, 318, 330
Billing, Noel Pemberton 135
Billy Berg’s Club 292
Billy Boys, The 170
Birch, R. 65
Birds in the Belfry 157
Birkin, Jane 282
Birmingham 259
Birth of a Nation, The 186
Bi-Tones, The 252
‘Bitter Raps’ 287
Bizarre Booh 17
Black, Cilia 270
Black Cock Inn, Llanfihangel Talyllyn 336
Black Eyed Peas 114
Black Fear 212
Black Guerrilla Family, The 175
Black, Jack 189
Black Mask 15, 68, 136, 151, 165, 215
Black Panthers 81, 115, 147, 290–291, 295
Black Power 76, 290–291, 293
Black Sabbath 245
Black Slang – A Dictionary of Afro-American Talk 23, 102, 243, 275
Blackboard Jungle 259
Blackburn 192, 259
Blackmon, Larry 119
Blackpool 259, 282
Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton ‘Tony’ 21, 298
Blakeborough, Richard 243
‘Blame It On The Boogie’ 286
‘Blank Generation’ 252, 277
Blankety Blank 303–304
Blaxploitation films 93, 214–215
Blind Man with a Pistol 69
‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ 246
Bloods, The 168
Blow 214
‘Blue Beat Girl, The’ – see Small, Millie
Blue Beat Records 283
‘Blue Suede Shoes’ 257
‘Bluejean Bop’ 248
Bob, Psychic 214
Bob, Slobbering 163
Bogart, Humphrey 25
Bolan, Marc 246, 274–275
Bolden, Buddy 231, 232
Bolton, Guy 235
Bolton, Mary 89
Bomb Alley – Falkland Islands, 1982 321
Bomber Command 326, 327
Bona Drag 150
Bonanza 146
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bond, James 114, 142, 168–169
Boney M 262
‘Bongo Beating Beatnik’ 252
Bonnie and Clyde 160
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 119
Boogie 287
Boogie Boys, The 286
‘Boogie Chillun’ 286
Boogie Down Productions 286–287
‘Boogie Nights’ 286
‘Boogie Oogie Oogie’ 286
Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, A 287
‘Boogie Wonderland’ 286
‘Boogie Woogie’ 244
Bootle 259
Booze Fighters, The 40
‘Bop Street’ 248
Bopping Elf, The – see Bolan, Marc
Boptionary – What Is Bop? 241
Bostic, Earl 271
Boswell, James 46, 90
Boswell Sisters, The 244, 257–258
Bottoms 103
Bowdler, Henrietta Maria 15, 34, 52
Bowdler, Thomas 15, 34, 52
Bowery, The 277
Bowie, David 98, 246, 282
Boys in the Band, The 147
Boy’s Life 133
Brabantio 33
Bradford 259
Brahms, Johannes 278
Brain Guy 154
Brambell, Wilfrid 145
Brandon, John G, 166
Brass Eye 226–227
Brazil, Angela 135
Brecht, Bertolt 159
Brecon 336
Bremen 327
Bridlington 327
Brighton 259
Bristol City 99, 259
Britain Stronger in Europe 21
British Empire 74, 96, 204, 271
British Guiana 323
British Legion 257–258
British United Press 317
Broadway 102, 223, 235, 318
Brome, Richard 229–230
Bronx, The 23, 286
Brooks, Honor 88
Brophy, John 105, 312, 315
Brown, Carter 164
Brown, Cleo 244
Brown, George 193
Brown, Gordon 100
Brown, H Rap 291
Brown, James 255
Brown, John 76
Brown, Robert 321
‘Brown Skin Woman Swing’ 168
Browning, Robert 18
Brownlee, Michael 289
Brubeck, Dave 264
Bruce, H Addington 10
Brumby, Cliff 106
Brummell, George Bryan ‘Beau’ 49, 51
Bruno (a gaucho) 66–67
Brunswick Records 188
Brussels 26, 93
Buchan, John 153–154
Buckeridge, Anthony 7
Buckman, Harold 318
Buddha of Fleet Street, The 199, 215
Bull, Mrs 88
Bullingdon Club, The 196
Bunker, Edward 152
Burgess, Anthony 60, 108, 155, 199, 314
Burley, Dan 237
Burnell, A. C. 322
Burnett, W. R. 162, 165, 175
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 211
Burroughs, William 211, 216
Busby, ‘Old Bill’ 309
Bush, George W. 21, 22, 207
Buster, Prince 170–171
Butler, Dougal 98
‘Button Up Your Overcoat’ 187
‘Buy Me Some Juice’ 188
Buzzcocks 279
Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron 49
Bystander, The 309
Cadillac Eldorado 93
Caen, Herb 251–252
‘Caesar’s Pad’ 253
Cafe Society Sinner 94–95, 189
Cagney, Jimmy 25
Caine, Michael 294
Cairo 93, 207
Cairo, Joel 136
Cake, Mr
s 70
California 81, 169, 175, 183, 229, 287
California Ramblers, The 244
Calloway, Cab 223, 233–235, 244–245, 263, 267
Camel Caravan 245
Cameo 119
Campbell, Gordon, Baron Campbell of Croy 98
Campion, Albert 287
Can You Keep It Up for a Week? 72
Canada 149–150
Canberra University College Students Club 195
Cann, Jamie 149
Cannell, Robert 241
Cannibal, Jimmy 225
Cant 3, 28–31, 36, 38, 40–42, 44, 46, 49, 53, 55, 84, 125, 161, 202, 223, 229, 232
Canterbury, Archbishop of 163, 334
Canting academy, or, The devils cabinet opened, The 36
Capitol Records 241, 248
Capone, Al 153, 162, 165, 168, 170, 224
Capp, Bernard 192
Capra, Frank 318
Captains Courageous 260
Cargill, Patrick 269
Caribbean 225, 281–282
Carlisle 259
Carmichael, Stokely 291
Carnivals 24, 130, 132, 136, 192, 330
Carry On films 74, 118
Carter, Bo – see Chatman, Bo
Carter, Jack 106
Casey, Michael 230
‘Casey as the Dude in a Street Car’ 230
Casino Royale 114
Cassady, Neil 241
Cassell Dictionary of Slang 11
Cassidy, Butch 161
Cassidy, Daniel 55
Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Prostitutes, Night-walkers, Whores, She-friends, Kind Women, and Others of the Linnen-lifting Tribe, A 90
Catcher in the Rye, The 112, 140
Caulfield, D. B. 112
Caulfield, Holden 140
Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors Vulgarely Called Vagabones, A 29–31, 35, 151, 184, 235
Cavern Club 267
Caxton, William 280
CBGB 277
CBS Records 292, 297
Celebration 102
Censorship 11–15, 17–18, 58–61, 66, 76–79, 108, 119–120, 259–260, 274, 276, 279–282, 336–337
Central City KY 249
Central Park NYC 219
Chaloner, Sir Thomas 33
Chamber pot – see Cromwell, Oliver
Chancer, The 76
Chandler, Raymond 15, 16, 84, 167, 173, 191
Channel Four 285
Chaplin, Charlie 150
Charles I 80, 163, 230
Charles II 37, 63, 87, 109, 125
Charles, Prince of Wales 197
Charles, Ray 296
Charleston Chasers, The 187
Charlie’s Angels 268
Charlotte NC 221
Charmers, Lloyd see Terrel, Lloyd
Chase 275
Chase, Lorraine 304
‘Chasin’ Chippies’ 84
Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A 112
Chatman, Bo 110
Chaucer, Geoffrey 52, 61, 85, 107
Cheapjack 136–137
Chelmsford 265
Cheney (sic), Dick 68
Chester, Ann 234
Chevalier, Albert 228–229
Chicago IL 5–6, 13, 15, 134, 145, 153, 162, 165, 168, 219, 286, 289
Child Ballads, The 170
‘Children Of The Revolution’ 275
China 169, 201
Chiswick Records 297