Teach Me Tiger - 1965

I can't speak for other households, but for me growing up in the 1950s and 1960s had strong elements of a "Leave it to Beaver" lifestyle.  Playing was free and wide-ranging, interacting with other kids was simple and straight-forward, and notions of sex were mostly repressed.  Not so much from active suppression, but more from lack of exposure.

We had 3 TV stations in the DFW area, broadcasts were in black and white, and with the exception of a risque late night program called, "Playboy After Dark" in the early 1960s, we really weren't exposed to anything very sexy.  Movies and TV programming were subject to censorship by some kind of industry group seeking to protect its licensing from the FCC.

However, nature being nature, some of us experimented sooner than others and the result was often either a forced teenage marriage or the girl disappeared into one of the local "homes" during her pregnancy.  I don't recall having any school sponsored sex education and there wasn't any such education taking place at home either.  There was an 8th grade class entitled, "Health and Safety" where sex education was intended to be done, but about all I recall about that class was that it was boring and clinical.

Soon enough, we discovered where the soft parts were, where the fun parts were, and what parts caused the stirring within.  Nature has its own way of conducting class.  The subtleties of stimulating attraction between the sexes was something that took time to develop and you took cues from where ever you could find them.  One of those simulations was a little song that came out in 1965.  All I recalled of it for nearly a half-century was the title, "Teach Me Tiger" and the singer, April Stevens.

When the song came out, it was considered so naughty that many radio stations would not play it and the record was often a bootleg item, not readily available.  Nowadays with Youtube and a title, you can find most anything...and here it is: