OBB — My Own 1970's Nominations
The various letters on the Order of the Burning Bot have covered many of my own favourite fantasy girls from the 1970s and earlier — Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Jenny Agutter, Felicity Kendal and Elisabeth Sladen in particular — but there are a few of my favourites of old that never came up, at least in the ones I have copies of. So, for what it is worth, my nominations for the “best of the rest” are below.
But what have I missed? Feel free to share your own
nominations from the 1970’s and earlier. Also, what about current, or just more
recent, nominees — please send any nominations by email to MrEvans261@gmail.com, ideally with some accompanying
narrative and maybe a picture (although I can dig out one of those if needed),
and I will put together into a post in due course.
Darcy and Culver have of course already effectively started the process with nominations of Holly Willoughly and Suzi Quattro.
Gemma Craven.
Why on earth was Bob Hoskyns swanning round the Forest of Dean looking for love
in Pennies for Heaven when the sumptuous Gemma was waiting for
him at home? Get back there Bob and put her over your knee!
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| Gemma Craven |
Madeline Smith. Britain’s answer to Goldie Hawn. Busty, brainy, beautiful with a twee little-girl voice, she was a model before featuring in many comedy (including Carry On) and horror films of the 70’s and 80’s, and was also a Bond girl in Live and Let Die.
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| Madeline Smith |
Olivia Newton-John. The fresh-faced, wholesome Aussie singer just cried out to have her innocence broken even before she was cast as Sandy in Grease. Her Eurovision effort for the UK Long Live Love was dreadful, but that didn’t stop me watching it.
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| Olivia Newton-John |
Sally James. Hosted Tiswas on a Saturday morning with Chris Tarrant and seemed a lot of fun and up for anything. What I wouldn’t have given to give her a good “gunging” in private.
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| Sally James |
Susan George. Sultry sexpot actress of the 60’s and 70’s, most famously in Straw Dogs, but also as an insatiable schoolgirl wife in Twinky.
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| Susan George |
I’m very surprised there’s been no shout-out for the sexy dance troupes of the 1970’s: Pan’s People, Legs & Co, Hot Gossip and Hill’s Angels. Who among us didn’t have a fantasy scenario involving at least one (and probably all) of these?
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| Pan’s People |
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| Legs & Co |
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| Hot Gossip |
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| Hill’s Angels |
Excellent nominations. Babs of Pans People was a boyhood crush of mine. And a Hills Angels routine in which Sue Upton danced around in schoolgirl uniform while licking suggestively on a lollipop had a formative impact on me in my youth. From today's perspective I agree that what they and all their dance troupe girl friends really needed was a good hard thrashing before and after strutting their stuff to the nation. Oh to have worked as the floor manager!
ReplyDeleteAn excellent selection, Mr Evans. The Sally James piece is a wonderful bit of 1970s politcal incorrectness. A public acknowledgement that dads up and down the land are turned on by schoolgirl outfits. And it's even applauded as a way of boosting the audience figures. Shocking!
ReplyDeleteOh yes. For the suspenders fetishist the bare thigh and bum flesh hinted above those stocking tops gets the spanking hand itching. For a later generation of dads Holly Willoughby also used to do gunkings in school uniform but saucy Sally James was there first, in an earlier era when Saturday morning fantasies of a bit of slap 'n' tickle often did involve merciless spankings over a firm unyielding lap.
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