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Capitol Records. Julia Lee (October 31, 1902 – December 8, 1958) [3] was an American blues and dirty blues musician. [1] Her most commercially successful number was the US Billboard R&B chart topping hit "(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" in 1947. She is best known for her trademark double entendre songs.
King Size Papa. " King Size Papa " is a 1948 dirty blues [1] ("hokum" [2]) song by Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends. The Lee's eighth single, [3] penned by Benny Carter (working under a pseudonym Johnny Gomez [4] due to the risqué material of the song) and Paul Vance (Paul Vandervoort II), was recorded on November 11, 1947 and released on the ...
Sharon A. Pease. Producer (s) Dave Dexter Jr. " (Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It " is a song written in 1946 by Sharon A. Pease, [1] a Chicago pianist and a columnist at the DownBeat. [2] The song was recorded for Capitol Records by Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends. [3] In 1947 the single was number one on the US Billboard R&B ...
In the issue of Billboard dated January 3, 1948, "(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" by Julia Lee and her Boy Friends topped the jukebox chart. The song occupied the top spot for eight of the first ten weeks of 1948, spending its final week at number one in the issue dated March 6; two weeks later, Lee returned to the top of the ...
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother." It follows the dreams and efforts of ...
The Crests released a version of the song on their 1993 compilation album, The Best of the Rest of Johnny Maestro & the Crests. [15] Julia Lee released a version of the song on her 1995 compilation album, Kansas City Star. [16] Ronnie Spector released a version of the song on her 2006 album, The Last of the Rock Stars. [17]
Colin Larkin, writing in The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1997), described the album as "an artistic triumph." [24] In The Rough Guide to Rock (1999), Chris Coe praised the opening medley of "Sailin' Shoes", "Hey Julia" and the title track for being "fifteen minutes of some of the most joyous white funk ever recorded." However, he considered ...
Nine is a musical initiated by and with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit.It is based on the 1963 film 8½.. The show tells the story of film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice.