Showing posts with label Joanie Sommers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joanie Sommers. Show all posts

PRE-FEMINIST FEMINISM: "JOHNNY GET ANGRY"


Back in 1962, when the Rat Pack still held Beatlemania in check and JFK’s pristine, thus-far unpunctured pre-Dealy Plaza skull still held stately sway over his precious presidential brains, comely girl crooner Joanie Sommers released a whimsical little track called “Johnny Get Angry.”

The song, composed by Hal David and Sherman Edwards, presents us with that perennially vexing relationship dilemma: what’s a young woman to do when her strapping beau refuses to get even a little possessive?