FANNY
“Fanny” is an interesting slang term: Here in North America, the reference is to the buttocks (hence the cover shot on their first album, Fanny); but in the British Commonwealth, it means the female vulva. Former Beatle George Harrison is the one who suggested the name Fanny to producer Richard Perry; the bandmembers themselves were not aware of its meaning on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean until much later.
Richard Perry was the producer on the first three albums by Fanny: Fanny (1970), Charity Ball (1971) and Fanny Hill (1972); while Todd Rundgren produced their fourth album (the only one that I don’t have), Mother’s Pride.
(October 2013)
