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" - risquÃ© 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:

Own Home Syncopated Blues
The Merritt Stomp
Ruff Scufflin'
St James Infirmary
If I Could Be with You
Paseo Strut
He's Tall, Dark and Handsome
Won't You Come Over to My House?
Come on Over to My House
Trouble in Mind
If It's Good
Show Me Missouri Blues
Lotus Blossom
Dream Lucky Blues
Gotta Gimme What'cha Got
Lies
Julia's Blues
When a Woman Loves a Man
Oh Marie
On My Way Out
I'll Get Along Somehow
Young Girl's Blues
Since I've Been with You
A Porter's Love Song
(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It
I Was Wrong
My Sin
Doubtful Blues
King Size Papa
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)
That's What I Like
Crazy World
Wise Guys (You're a Wise Guy)
All I Ever Do Is Worry
Tell Me, Daddy
(It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Charmaine
Christmas Spirits
Cold Hearted Daddy
Living on the Back Street for You
I Didn't Like It the First Time (The Spinach Song)
Sit Down and Drink It Over
The Glory of Love
Take It or Leave It
Tonight's the Night
After Hours Waltz
Oh, Chuck It (In a Bucket)
You Ain't Got It No More
Draggin' My Heart Around
Blues for Someone
Don't Save It Too Long
Ain't It a Crime?
Decent Woman Blues
Do You Want It
There Goes My Heart
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
My Man Stands Out
Don't Come Too Soon
Pagan Love Song
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Bleeding Heart Blues
It Won't Be Long
Pipe Dreams (Up on Cloud Nine)
Ugly Papa
I Know It's Wrong
Mama Don't Allow It
Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)
Scream in the Night
If You Hadn't Gone Away (I Wouldn't Be Where I Am)
Out in the Cold Again
Goin' to Chicago Blues
Last Call for Alcohol

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

Julia Lee - King Size Papa: The Julia Lee Collection 1927-52 (CD)