I remember when I was a kid, I used to hear this song on the radio, all the time. I went and bought the 45 single. I LOVED this song. Dug the music, dug the female vocals on it, how they sounded all excited and shit. It was just one thing though. While I would be humming along with the song, I never understood what they meant by "Push, Push In The Bush. Push, Push In The Bush". My little kid mind would be like "Huh?...I wonder what does that mean. It doesn't make any sense." I would actually visualize bushes in the yard.Funny thing though, I never asked anybody about it. I just secretly wondered. Untill one day, a few years later, when I was around 11, BANG! It hit me like a brick in the head. "Ohhhh, NOW I get it...YEAH! It all makes perfect sense to me now. COOL!" A lot of disco songs have risque lyrics, BUT, I would be hard pressed to find any that are more risque than this cut. It really pushed the envelope, lyric wise. Just the hook itself. If this came out in the 80's, forget about it. It wouldn't have got on the air. Ahhh, the 70's. This is one of my all-time favorite disco songs. Anybody else likes this tune?

blackguitaristz said:

One of the best disco tracks ever, without a doubt. And that beat will still kill.

Anyways, I remember one time back in the day riding home from CHURCH and this song came over the radio (WDMT-FM, Disco 108, Cleveland) and my mom just said 'Don't think I don't know what that means!' and kept on driving. Thank god she didn't try to turn it off.

I was so psyched when I got a copy on this double-lp set called 'A Night at Studio 54' (which also had 'Let's All Chant'!)--my sister and me used to burn up the floor to that thing . . .

trashoblanco said:

Very cool!

Co-sign with the sentiment that it's one of the best disco records. I still find it kind of amazing that a song with a title and lyrics that were that risque managed to become such a big hit. Yeah, it happens, but seriously...push, push in the bush? Were they that naive to the metaphor?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Nah, in the 70's, especially the late 70's, things were just "on fire". If that makes any sense.

I like it. I like it. Im a disco fan.

dreamfactory313 said:

"Are you ready, are you ready for this? Do you like it, do you like it like this? Aaaaaahhhh!!!

trashoblanco said:

That was a fly station when I was in Cleveland. Whew, you really took me back.
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Great song and a guaranteed ass shaker! Oddly enough, I never discovered this song until the 1990s when I saw a documentary on A&E on the history of disco. When I heard that small piece of it, I had to have it. When I play it for my friends, the only ones that remember it, are the ones that moved here from somewhere else because they didn't play the song down here back in the day.

vainandy said:

U know why, don't u? See, they played the hell out of this in California.

I would say because of the suggestive lyrics but they played the hell out of "Head" a few years later.

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trashoblanco said:

Now do you remember the ads they used to play that touted the refreshing, twist-off elegance of 'Thunderbird and grapefruit'??

High class in a glass!

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Hotlegs said:

Hell Yeah. That station used to be my shit back in the day. It had a unique format b/c it played whatever was jamming in the clubs at the time in LA and NY. Their clubstyle show was off the hook. Ahh, the good old days.

blackguitaristz said:

Man,you're reading my mind!! This has always been one of my favorite disco jams.I was about 9 years old when it came out,and I used to go around singing it...."push push in the bush....push push in the bush".....but I had NO idea what they were talking about,lol.I used to think of actual bushes in the yard,or I thought maybe it was some kind of new dance or something.My mother once asked me "Do you know what you're singing about?" LOL

I never caught the innuendo either... until now

DavidEye said:

Man, I think there were quite a few of us little grade school kids singing that song and didn't know what time it was!

CinisterCee said:

Get outta here!