“Squeezebox” by The Who

"Squeeze Box" is the Who at their most mischievous, a Pete Townshend song from The Who by Numbers in 1975 that hides a string of saucy double meanings inside the slang word for an accordion. Townshend plays that accordion himself, along with acoustic and electric guitar and a nimble banjo that gives the thing a country hop the band rarely went near, while Roger Daltrey sings it with a wink and Glyn Johns produced.

It was first meant for a 1974 Who television special in which the band would be ringed by 100 topless women squeezing accordions. Townshend's demo, later on his collection Scoop, had a Farfisa organ and bluegrass banjos, and writers have compared it to "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". It reached ten in the UK and 16 in the US, and it went all the way to number one in Canada.

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