Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy
Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy is an album by American pop-rock musician Alex Chilton, released in 1999. It was released in the United States in 2000 under the title "Set". It was subsequently released on a double CD with one of Chilton's previous albums, "Clichés". The album is made up of cover versions of older songs, some of which have been recorded by several other artists. Title. The title of the album comes from a racist joke that was made infamous in 1976 by politician Earl Butz, who served as Secretary of Agriculture  under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The quote of Butz using the racist joke in reference to African Americans, reported in "Rolling Stone" in an article by White House counsel John Dean, caused a controversy which ultimately led to Butz's resignation from the Ford Administration. Butz was speaking privately to entertainers Sonny Bono and Pat Boone, and to Dean, and was asked by Boone why the Republican Party had trouble attracting African-American voters when it was the party of Abraham Lincoln. As "Time" later reported, "The Secretary responded with a line so obscene and insulting to blacks  that it forced him out of the Cabinet last week and jolted the whole Ford campaign. Butz said: 'I'll tell you what the coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit.'" A version of the joke was often relayed by cowboy character actor Slim Pickens, who made himself the target. In a 1972 "Rolling Stone" article, Pickins was quoted as saying the line to writer Terry Southern in 1963 during the filming of "Dr. Strangelove".