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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.
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.
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Format: CD
Label: ACROBAT
Rel. Date: 07/07/2023
UPC: 824046913427

King Size Papa: The Julia Lee Collection 1927-52
Artist: Julia Lee
Format: CD
New: Available $19.99
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DISC: 1

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

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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.
        
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