I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Saturday, January 17, 2026

FANNY! A history . . . . . er well a cursory look at Fanny!

Now of course we have a problem of being seperated by a common language! 
To the USA Fanny means bottom yes?
It doesn’t in the UK!!!

So firstly why would you call yourselves after your bottom? It is like being called ASS in the States surely?
The Brits would call you BUM!

However fanny doesn’t translate as that . . . . . . it is rather . . . . . .what shall we say
A lady’s front bottom! . . . . . 
You make your own jokes here!

and don’t even get me started on “pre-FANNY”!?!?


From left, Jean Millington, Brie Darling, Wendy Haas Mull and June Millington were the pre-Fanny, self-founded Svelts garage band in a home they shared and rehearsed in, in Los Altos Hills in the 1960s. 

Photo by Steve Griffith.


 

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