VA - Take It Off! Striptease Classics (1997)
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Take It Off! Striptease Classics
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Rhino Records [R2 72724]
Genre: Jazz, Big Band
Quality: FLAC (tracks +.cue,log)
Total Time: 52:06
Total Size: 320 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Take It Off! Striptease Classics
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Rhino Records [R2 72724]
Genre: Jazz, Big Band
Quality: FLAC (tracks +.cue,log)
Total Time: 52:06
Total Size: 320 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
David Rose's "The Stripper," with its now instantly recognizable bump-and-grind blare, was a fluke number one hit in 1962. It leads off this collection of early-'60s instrumental music specifically made (and, more to the point, marketed) with burlesque titillation in mind. Roulette Records was spurred to devise two entire instrumental LPs of "The Stripper"-styled music, titled Ann Curio Presents: How to Strip for Your Husband/Music to Make Your Marriage Merrier and Ann Curio Presents: More How to Strip for Your Husband, Vol. 2/Music to Make Marriage Merrier. These were performed by the obscure Sonny Lester & His Orchestra; indeed, as material from those two LPs comprises 19 of this CD's 22 tracks, you might as well consider this a Sonny Lester compilation, rather than a general striptease one. It's as silly and harmlessly fun as you'd expect, with winking, showbizzy horn lines and sultry rhythms that look to "The Stripper" for inspiration, but aren't quite as memorable as that hit single. "The Stripper" is available on numerous compilations, and that sole track should satisfy most consumers. The disc does tack on a couple of singles in the strip mold: the Genteels' "Take It Off" (1962) has twangy guitar lines out of Duane Eddy, and Bobby Summers' "Pad" (1962) has more stuttering, modern rhythms than the ones deployed by Lester and Rose.
TRACKLIST:
01 - David Rose & His Orchestra - The Stripper
02 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - For Strippers Only
03 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Shivas Regal (Theme For Gypsy)
04 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
05 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Lament
06 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Blues To Strip By
07 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Walkin' & Strippin'
08 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Bumps & Grinds
09 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Lonely Little G-String
10 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Big Millie From Philly
11 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - The Late Late Show
12 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Perfume And Pink Chiffon
13 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Swingin' Shepherd Blues
14 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Lullaby Of Birdland
15 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - More Bumps And Grinds
16 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Strip Poker
17 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Stripper's Holiday
18 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - A Woman
19 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - Play The Blues For Masie
20 - Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - How Mable Get Sable Cha Cha Cha
21 - The Genteels - Take It Off
22 - Bobby Summers - Pad