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Julia Lee - King Size Papa: The Julia Lee Collection 1927-52 [CD]

Julia Lee - King Size Papa: The Julia Lee Collection 1927-52 [CD]

Release Date: /// Acrobat

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Julia Lee - King Size Papa: The Julia Lee Collection 1927-52 / it is a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for her very personal brand of R&B. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1902, pianist and singer Julia Lee grew up singing and playing in the musical hotbed of that city's jazz scene in the '20s and '30s, developing a style that featured "the songs my mother taught me not to sing" - risqué material with unsubtle double entendres - and in 1944 signed to the fledgling, but already successful Capitol label. This great-value 72-track 3-CD collection comprises early recordings with the orchestra of her brother George Lee and then with Jay McShann, followed by most of her A & B sides with Her Boy Friends on Premier/Mercury and Capitol from this era. It features all her career hits, including her R&B No. 1s "Snatch It And Grab It" and "King Size Papa", and her Top 10 hits "Gotta Gimme Watcha Got", I'll Get Long Somehow", "Tell Me Daddy", "That's What I Like", "You Ain't Git It No More" and "I Didn't Like It The First Time". She was a highly distinctive performer, and hugely entertaining, and this collection, as well as being a substantial and reasonably comprehensive overview of the primary era of her recording career, is a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for her very personal brand of R&B.

Tracklist:

  1. Own Home Syncopated Blues
  2. The Merritt Stomp
  3. Ruff Scufflin'
  4. St James Infirmary
  5. If I Could Be with You
  6. Paseo Strut
  7. He's Tall, Dark and Handsome
  8. Won't You Come Over to My House?
  9. Come on Over to My House
  10. Trouble in Mind
  11. If It's Good
  12. Show Me Missouri Blues
  13. Lotus Blossom
  14. Dream Lucky Blues
  15. Gotta Gimme What'cha Got
  16. Lies
  17. Julia's Blues
  18. When a Woman Loves a Man
  19. Oh Marie
  20. On My Way Out
  21. I'll Get Along Somehow
  22. Young Girl's Blues
  23. Since I've Been with You
  24. A Porter's Love Song
  25. (Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It
  26. I Was Wrong
  27. My Sin
  28. Doubtful Blues
  29. King Size Papa
  30. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)
  31. That's What I Like
  32. Crazy World
  33. Wise Guys (You're a Wise Guy)
  34. All I Ever Do Is Worry
  35. Tell Me, Daddy
  36. (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along
  37. Charmaine
  38. Christmas Spirits
  39. Cold Hearted Daddy
  40. Living on the Back Street for You
  41. I Didn't Like It the First Time (The Spinach Song)
  42. Sit Down and Drink It Over
  43. The Glory of Love
  44. Take It or Leave It
  45. Tonight's the Night
  46. After Hours Waltz
  47. Oh, Chuck It (In a Bucket)
  48. You Ain't Got It No More
  49. Draggin' My Heart Around
  50. Blues for Someone
  51. Don't Save It Too Long
  52. Ain't It a Crime?
  53. Decent Woman Blues
  54. Do You Want It
  55. There Goes My Heart
  56. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  57. My Man Stands Out
  58. Don't Come Too Soon
  59. Pagan Love Song
  60. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
  61. Bleeding Heart Blues
  62. It Won't Be Long
  63. Pipe Dreams (Up on Cloud Nine)
  64. Ugly Papa
  65. I Know It's Wrong
  66. Mama Don't Allow It
  67. Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)
  68. Scream in the Night
  69. If You Hadn't Gone Away (I Wouldn't Be Where I Am)
  70. Out in the Cold Again
  71. Goin' to Chicago Blues
  72. Last Call for Alcohol

UPC: 824046913427
Label: ACROBAT
Release Date: 7.7.23
Format: CD

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