Curly Toes
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| Curly Toes | |
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| Genre | A capella |
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| Year | 1970s |
| Original poster | Irwin Chusid |
| Search started | 2000 |
| File:Curlytoesmusic.mp3 | |
Curly Toes is song by an unknown artist used as an example of Outsider Music released on Irwin Chusid's compilation: Songs in the Key of Z.
Discovery and Origins[edit | edit source]
In 2000, Irwin Chusid released the book and companion compilation albums: Songs in the Key of Z. This book explored the field of outsider music and presented works created by untrained or experimental artists to a wider audience, along with featuring the work of more well known performers, such as Captain Beefheart.
The 9th track on the second album was titled "Curly Toes" and was not attributed to an artist like many other tracks. This recording features a woman with a southern accent serenading her lover "Ben" as she refers to herself as "Your Curly Toes". Chusid claims the tape the song was recorded on was found in a dumpster, giving few leads to the original circumstances of its creation.
Search and Status in the Lostwave Community[edit | edit source]
The origins of the search for Curly Toes have possible roots in 2010, when the song was uploaded to Youtube for the first time in a compilation video but the search truly began when it was fully posted in 2014 under the Various Artists topic on Youtube. The song was also posted on r/crappymusic and written about on the History's Dumpster blog. In 2020, the song was featured in C.W. Schultz's 10 More Mysterious Songs video, which exposed the song to a wider audience.
Within the Lostwave Community, the search for Curly Toes is pretty stagnant, as there are no leads other than Chusid, who has no other information on the origins of the song. The fact that the song was thrown away suggests the singer may not even want to be associated with the tape to begin with, making this perhaps an example of a song that was disowned.
Curly Toes has lived on with a legendary status among Lostwave fans being so widely reviled that many have taken to ironically praising it, often jokingly citing it as the best lost song. The infamy of the track has lead to many creators of lostwave tierlists putting it in its own unique category to signify its bizarre uniqueness. However, Curly Toes does have unironic fans who are endeared by the song's unpolished qualities.
Recent Search[edit | edit source]
In May 2024, a lostwave investigator reached out to Chusid, who confirmed the backstory he had provided for the song in Songs In The Key Of Z was made up. They had never even been dumpster diving. This caused speculation that the song was created specifically for the album to grow.
Lyrics[edit | edit source]
The lyrics most commonly agreed upon are:
Curly Toes.
I'm your curly toes, in pink ribbons and bows. That glitters and glows. To put on a fine show.
A MIGHTY FINE SHOW FOR A MIGHTY FINE MAN.
A mighty fine show for my mighty fine man it's pink ribbons and bows. And my pantyhose.
I'm your curly toes and pink ribbons and bows and just for you wear my black pantyhose. For you, for you, black pantyhose it's the best of my clothes.
My ribbons and bows and black pantyhose.
MY CLOTHING limited.
MY BOWS, MY ribbons, MY hose.
Just for you my stockings are there, they're there on the chair with my legs now so bare. So bare to see, so bare to touch, so bare to feel. With pantyhose gone.
I'm your curly toes and pink ribbons and bows and just for you no pantyhose.
NO pantyhose!?
You said it right! No pantyhose!
You called me your cutie in pantyhose. You called me your woman in ribbons and bows.
I'm your woman, your woman in ribbons and bows. I'm your woman, your woman in black pantyhose.
It's ribbons and bows and black pantyhose for my man whose a ten and I call "Little Ben". He's the greatest of men, my dear Little Ben, the greatest of men!
A MIGHTY FINE SHOW FOR A MIGHTY FINE MAN.