Did old timey strippers really used to disrobe to It Had To Be You?

Ha! Thanks, OP. That was funny and, as you say, elegant.

There were famous strippers like Gypsy Rose Lee and Lili St Cyr whose routines strived for a certain degree of class. Maybe they used smooth popular music instead of the bump-and-grind we associate with strippers of that era.

Funny thing about that - a lot of our impressions of old-fashioned stripper music are based on David Rose's "The Stripper", but that song wasn't released until 1962, well after the heyday of burlesque and on the eve of the introduction of topless bars and much more scandalous behavior than old-fashioned burlesque.

[quote] "David Rose's "The Stripper".

Ah, yes! The first Mr. Judy Garland. He had a love of scale railroads, and even had one installed on his property. He also wrote (among many other things) the theme to DL fave "Little House On The Prairie"!

Anyway, carry on with the stripper chat!

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