The Sensuous Black Woman

Date: (197?)
Label: Kent
Number: 8012

Programs

1 and 2
The Sensuous Black Woman

3 and 4
Rap Session -- Questions and Answers

Notes by Mark Dighton :

Lady Reed was a regular co-star in the Rudy Ray Moore blaxploitation films. She was often cast as the mother hen of his stable of kung-fu bitches, but she had a more serious dramatic role (and much less flattering appearance) in "Avenging Disco Godfather." She was also a star in her own right -- recording a number of comedy albums for Rudy Ray's label under her own name and a series of rude-talking "Sensuous Black Woman" records under the name of Madam X. The latter are what she is most notorious for. These are great vocal performances, where she basically fakes a sexual encounter with a "sweet black motherf*cker," gives advice on sexual technique (her "goody-goodies") with orgiastic fervor and abandon, and/or answers questions from the audience on the subject, occasionally to jazzy background music. Rudy Ray appears on several of these discs, as the Sensuous Black Man or asking questions from the audience.

These records were probably intended as a response to The Sensuous Woman LP, which features a breathy (and very, very Caucasian-sounding) woman extolling the virtues of pleasing your man, set to an easy-listening backdrop. While all the Sensuous (White) Woman can muster is a couple of naughty giggles and breathy come-ons, Lady Reed spends a good part of her records screaming things like "Sensuous Black Man, I want you to f*ck me baby, I mean, F*CK ME, F*CK ME, F*CK ME, F*CK ME" at the top of her lungs.

Part of Lady Reed's newfound cult popularity undoubtedly springs from the sampling of these Sensuous Black Woman records into recent dance records. The first was Jackmaster Dick's Revenge's "Sensuous Woman Goes Disco" on the Trax label out of Chicago. (Rudy Ray appears on the flip, "Sensuous Man Goes Disco," but this side never attracted much attention -- deservedly so, since his performance pales next to Lady Reed's.) This was essentially the entirety of one of the Sensuous Black Woman records set to an unbelievably lame house beat. From there, her Sensuous Black Woman performances were sampled into many house and techno songs, many of which can be found on the Bachelor Dance Party series of CDs issued by Sexploit Records. In most of these songs, though, all that survives is Lady Reed's signature exclamation: "OOOOOoo sh*t!"

If nothing else, we will always have Lady Reed to thank for her sage advice to be "a bitch in the kitchen, a lady in the living room, and a stomp-down natural-born WHORE in the bedroom." And remember, "If he feels like he's about to give his nuts, tell him 'Be cool, sweet daddy.' Wash him down with a warm towel. Don't use a cold towel or you're liable to blow your game." .

Thanks to Fabio for the scan.

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