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Started by: ena malcup (4151)
The Scaffold's version of 'Lily the Pink' is a sanitised version of a bawdy drinking song, (we would probably call it a rugby song today) that particularly saw popularity amongst the soldiery of 1914-1918.
Lydia E Pinkham's product was widely condemned as quack medicine, but she pushed back strongly, pioneered much of what today we recognise as high-pressure selling, and was hugely successful. It gets mentioned a lot in textbooks concerning marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
In some respects the song is taking the p---!
A song satirising the way a product was sold. Wonder if that is unique? Do you know of others?
Replied: 1st Apr 2022 at 21:31