TV Mama’s musical roots date to 1953
Many people have asked us where we came up with the name for TVMama.com. Once we began discussing this site we went through a series of more sober names: PCTV Report, PCTV Digest, etc… Perhaps some of those might even have been better for SEO. At least one person has told me he thinks TVMama could refer to a p*rn site. So, maybe it isn’t the most “on point” name.
But one day I was listening to an old song by blues great Big Joe Turner, and the title – and the lyrics – just jumped out at me. Eureka! I cried (or something like that).
Turner recorded the song. “TV Mama,” with guitar legend Elmore James in 1953, and the lyrics put him more than 50 years ahead of his time:
“I was in my bed a’sleepin’, oh-boy, what a dream
I was in my bed sleepin’, oh-boy, what a dream
I was dreamin’ ’bout my TV Mama, the one with the big, wide screen
She got great big eyes and little bitty feet and in the waist, she’s so nice and neat
She’s my TV Mama, one with the big, wide screen
Every time she loves me, man, she makes me scream
She just taste like candy, boys, I really go for sweets,
I love her from her head down to her little bitty feet
Yeah, she’s my TV Mama, one with the big, wide screen
Every time she loves me, oh yes, I’m bound to scream
I’m just kind-a rollin’, tumblin’, talkin’ all out of my head
Well just I’m rollin’ and tumblin’, man, I’m talkin’ all out of my head
And when my baby shook me, man, I fell right out of bed.”
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