45 RPMs 20: Divine ~ Walk Like a Man 45 rpm picture disc

              

Divine ~ Walk Like a Man

45 rpm picture disc, side 1

photo by Greg Gorman
photo of disc by Styrous®

photos by Styrous®

Divine was an American actor, singer and drag queen who worked with the independent filmmaker John Waters and adopted a female drag persona for his music career.    

Divine's big hit was So, You Think You're a Man, the fifth single from the album The Story So Far by Divine. It was written by Geoff Deane, formerly the lead singer and main songwriter with both the Leyton Buzzards and Modern Romance, and his sometime songwriting partner Keith Miller. Geoff Deane later went on to write the cross dressing-themed movie Kinky Boots. Male body builders are featured in the video for the song but Mae West beat Divine to it by 20 or so years (link below). 

Reviving her famous lines from Diamond Lil (1928) and sparked by a new number featuring nine 'muscle boys' including Dick Dubois, Mr. America 1954, West made her initial night club appearance at the Hotel Sahara in Las Vegas, July 27th. Dubois holds Mae as she sings The Strongest Men In The World. At right is bodybuilder George Eiferman.     

Mae West, Richard Dubois & George Eiferman - 1954

 photographer unknown/Getty images

Divine also did this cover of Walk Like a Man first recorded by the Four Seasons (links below). The song was written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. It is the second cut from the fourth and final studio album by Divine, Maid in England.      

Divine ~ Walk Like a Man

45 rpm picture disc, side 2

photo by Styrous®

Walk Like a Man

Oh, walk, walk, walk, walk
Oh, walk, walk, walk man
Oh how you tried to cut me down to size
Tellin' dirty lies to my friends
But my own father said give her up, don't bother
The world isn't comin' to an end
(He said)

Walk like a man, talk like a man
Walk like a man my son
No woman's worth crawlin' on the earth
So walk like a man, my son

Oh, walk, walk, walk, walk
Oh
Bye bye baby, I don't-a mean maybe
Gonna get along somehow
Soon you'll be cryin' on account of all your lyin'
Oh yeah, just look who's laughin' now
(I'm gonna)

Walk like a man, fast as I can
Walk like a man from you
I'll tell the world forget about it, girl
And walk like a man from you
Oh, walk, walk, walk, walk
Oh, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk
Oh

Songwriters: Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio

Walk Like a Man lyrics © Conexion Media Group, Inc

Divine ~ Walk Like a Man

45 rpm picture disc, side 2 detail

detail photo by Styrous®

Man Talk is in reality an instrumental of Walk Like a Man with lots and lots of synthesizers and a chorus of men occasionally chanting, "Walk, walk, walk." (link below)       

Divine ~ Walk Like a Man

45 rpm picture disc, side 2 detail

detail photo by Styrous®
 

       
Tracklist:

A - Walk Like A Man, written by Gaudio/Crewe*
   
B - Man Talk, written by Mark Rosen                            
        
Credits:

    Arranged By – Pete Ware
    Artwork By – Bouncing Ball, The
    Engineer – Mel Jefferson, Phil Harding
    Other [Divine's Playmate] – Scott McCray
    Other [Hair & Make-up] – Van Smith
    Photography – Greg Gorman
    Producer – Barry Evangeli

Notes:

℗ 1985 Intune Music LTD.
© 1985 Intune Music LTD.

Distributed by WEA Records Ltd.



          

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You Think You're A Man       

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Styrous® ~ Monday, October 16, 2017         

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