If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me
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==Background== |
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"If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body ..." derived its [[double entendre]] title from a [[Groucho Marx]] line. Songwriter David Bellamy told country music journalist Tom Roland that he regularly watched Marx's program, ''[[You Bet Your Life]]'', where Marx sometimes used the quote while interviewing an attractive female contestant, then shake his cigar and raise his eyebrows to elicit a reaction.Roland. The comment stuck in Bellamy's head as a possible hook line for a song. |
"If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body ..." derived its [[double entendre]] title from a [[Groucho Marx]] line. Songwriter David Bellamy told country music journalist Tom Roland that he regularly watched Marx's program, ''[[You Bet Your Life]]'', where Marx sometimes used the quote while interviewing an attractive female contestant, then shake his cigar and raise his eyebrows to elicit a reaction.Roland. (That line was also used in the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' "Spam" episode in the "[[Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook]]" sketch in 1970.). The comment stuck in Bellamy's head as a possible hook line for a song. |
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The song earned its first success in [[Northern Ireland]],{{Cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2514572.ece|title=Bellamy brothers are coming ... so don't hold that song against them|website=Belfasttelegraph.co.uk|access-date=October 17, 2019}} becoming a big hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at No. 3, before becoming a top 40 hit in the United States where it peaked at No. 39 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. |
The song earned its first success in [[Northern Ireland]],{{Cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2514572.ece|title=Bellamy brothers are coming ... so don't hold that song against them|website=Belfasttelegraph.co.uk|access-date=October 17, 2019}} becoming a big hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at No. 3, before becoming a top 40 hit in the United States where it peaked at No. 39 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. |
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