Prescient lyrics. Except country music ain’t exactly a symphony, second or otherwise.
“Naked Came the Stranger”, A bestseller with a fun backstorie, predates The Bruggles by ten years.
“Naked Came the Stranger” is a 1969 erotic novel that was written as a literary hoax by 24 journalists, led by Mike McGrady, under the pseudonym Penelope Ashe. The book became a bestseller and cult classic, not for its literary merit, but as a commentary on the perceived vulgarity of popular culture, with the hoax being revealed after its success.
...Mike McGrady was convinced that popular American literary culture had become so base—with the best-seller lists dominated by the likes of Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann—that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. To test his theory, in 1966 McGrady recruited a team of Newsday colleagues (according to Andreas Schroder, nineteen men and five women) to collaborate on a sexually explicit novel with no literary or social value whatsoever. McGrady co-edited the project with Harvey Aronson. Among the other collaborators were well-known writers including 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Goltz, 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert W. Greene, and journalist Marilyn Berger.
...The revelation of the true origins of the book prompted more sales with the book selling approximately 90,000 copies by October 13, 1969.[12] By the end of the year, the book had spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger