"Squeeze Box," the Who
Today (October 3) marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Who's The Who By Numbers album, which contains the surprise Top Twenty hit "Squeeze Box," a naughty littel ditty about a woman with a "squeeze box," which can mean an accordion or a woman's . . . well, the song goes on about how she goes "in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out."
Pete Townshend denied that "Squeeze Box" was meant to be a double entendre, but Roger Daltrey has insisted otherwise, and the late John Entwistle said that a rock and roll song either has a double meaning or no meaning at all. Whatever the meaning is, "Squeeze Box" reached number sixteen on the Billboard singles chart.
This video, my YouTube Music Video Of the Week, is an animation of the Entwistle-drawn cover for the The Who By Numbers LP, done with great humor for the fiftieth anniversary not of the album but for the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Who's recording career in 1965, hence the clip is from 2015. Enjoy.
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