36D


"36D" is a song written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray and performed by The [Beautiful South]. The song was originally found on the album 0898 Beautiful South and later appeared on two greatest hits compilations - 1994's Carry on up the Charts and 2007's Soup (The Housemartins and [The Beautiful South album)|Soup]. As a single it reached no. 46 in the UK [Singles Chart], spending two weeks in the Top 75 in 1992. The album version ran for 5 minutes 15 seconds.
The overtly sexual content of the song may be a reason why it did not chart highly as a single, as opposed to many of their other tongue-in-cheek songs like "Song for Whoever" and "Don't Marry Her". The song was one of the catalysts for Briana Corrigan leaving as she thought it painted glamour models, especially Page 3 girls, in a bad light when the media who put them there should be blamed instead.