SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Mayoral hot dogs and roll models, with an entendre doubling as mustard.

How do self-respecting entertainers talk about sex when the "decency" standards of the day won't allow it?

With creative hilarity, that's how.

I'll look to Butterbeans & Susie any day (and twice on Sunday) in search of proper roll models before once gazing in the direction of New Albany's role-player-in-chief.

It may seem crazy to readers, but I had the double-LP Stars of the Apollo Theatre soon after it came out in 1972, when I was 12. It fairly smokes, eight decades after the songs were recorded.

Compare the good-natured yet edgy humor of Butterbeans & Susie with this tongue-in-cheek (and considerably tamer) version of the song "Strip Polka", by Alvino Rey.

Literally, black and white: "But she stops -- and always just in time." Too bad Dear Leader isn't heeding this sage advice.

By the way, here is Shane's wordy concept of the week.

dou·ble en·ten·dre
/ˌdo͞obl änˈtändrə,ˌdəbl änˈtändrə/
noun
a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent

synonyms: ambiguity, double meaning, innuendo, play on words
"much of the comedy is derived from racy double entendres"

humor using double entendres

Alvino Rey has nothing to do with the Andrews Sisters.

When I heard that news that Patty Andrews had died, a song by the Andrews Sisters immediately came to mind.

Not. Problem is, upon closer examination, the song I remember from youthful listenings to my dad's big band records wasn't performed by the Andrews Sisters at all. It was the King Sisters ... performing a capella.

There likely would have been the customary instrumental backing of the day, except it was the period of the American Federation of Musicians strike (1942-44), when union musicians were banned from recording.

The song itself was a hit in 1944, and it's hard to imagine a more prescient pop song. Thanks to wartime industrial growth, California was about to explode in every imaginable way, and the San Fernando Valley epitomized the suburb. It was less than two decades until the Beach Boys, and soon afterward, Charles Manson.

The story of the King Sisters is interesting, too. One of them married the bandleader Alvino Rey, who was an unheralded pioneer of the electric guitar; two of their grandchildren are Win and Will Butler of the indie group Arcade Fire.

Alvino Rey’s Musical Legacy