Stripper - David Rose

Columbia Musical Treasury of All Time Favorites presents:
The Sensational Sixties.

This is an instrumental song that is usually associated with a strip tease.
This was used for the TV program Burlesque. It accompanied a scene featuring a woman stripping off screen while two men argued on screen. This gave it a reputation as a song to take your clothes off to.
Rose wrote this in the last 10 minutes of a recording session in 1958. He didn't have a name for it, and referred to it as "a funny piece of music with no title." Later that year, Rose was asked to re-record the song "Ebb Tide" to help promote the movie "Sweet Bird of Youth" (with Paul Newman and Geraldine Page), which he quickly did, but the movie studio needed a B-side for the single, so this song, which was an unnamed, unreleased cut, was pulled from the vaults, given a name ("The Stripper") and placed on the B-side of the "Ebb Tide" single.
Los Angeles DJ Robert Q. Lewis popularized this by playing it on the air for 45 minutes straight and playing it whenever a listener requested ANY song.
When Rose performed in the Royal Albert Hall years later, he had no intention of including this in his repertoire, but he played it anyway after someone in the audience yelled out a request for it. Rose apologized to Albert Hall management afterwards.
Rose did the score to over 1000 television programs, most notably the series The Red Skelton Show, Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to Heaven. He died in 1990 at the age of 80. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 5)

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[rustbucket3000]

Is it sad that me and my friends sing this while we're changing for PE XD

[BADBIKERBENNY]

@rustbucket3000 No. It give you style and character.

[paddyosee]

Our high school band used to use this as a warm-up. Never quite had the nerve to do it in a public setting, though.

[dmoninger1]

Check out "Hooker's Hooker" from The Sting and Herb Alpert's "Love Potion #9"

[COSMICFUSIONS]

2 words WTF

[hotelmario510]

@BADBIKERBENNY I read this comic in the voice of an Asian father.

[KTKTRock]

Years ago I was at a Rod Stewart concert and the band used this as their intro theme when they came on stage.

[romanboyjoe]

Great info as well as the vid! :)

[DEBRACRANFORD]

For Binto!

[MisterChef51]

@BADBIKERBENNY we sing this while taking of our uniforms after competitions

lol

[Joker98816]

@paddyosee my high school pep band did it on multiple occassions at basketball games, but the principal etc thought it was inappropriate for us to play it at the girls games xD then my newest band teacher took it out of the portfolio and pissed a lot of seniors off lol



[ldssrrsr]

I almost hate to admit to it - but back in the 60's I was just another fat boy in Jr. High School until someone got the idea for me to come out of a a brylcreem tube Dressed like a GIRL - yes wearing a wig and an over-sized bra - for a skit and did my act while the played "The Stripper" for assembly aka like Woolie Joe Namath of the N.Y. Jets did in one of his infamous TV commercials. Well needles to say I was a huge, huge hit and at least for a little while I wasn't just the fat boy.

[MegaCheshireCat]

So at my highschool we play this in marching band at the football games and at open house night we play it while walking down the stairs from the band room to the main lobby and parents look at us like we are dirty hahaha :D