Julia Lee: King Size Papa: The Julia Lee Collection 1927-52 - COMPACT DISCS

Title: King Size Papa: The Julia Lee Collection 1927-52
Artist: Julia Lee
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046913427
Genre: Soul/R & B
Release Date: 2023-07-07
Number of Discs: 3

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.

Tracks:
1.1 Own Home Syncopated Blues
1.2 The Merritt Stomp
1.3 Ruff Scufflin'
1.4 St James Infirmary
1.5 If I Could Be with You
1.6 Paseo Strut
1.7 He's Tall, Dark and Handsome
1.8 Won't You Come Over to My House?
1.9 Come on Over to My House
1.10 Trouble in Mind
1.11 If It's Good
1.12 Show Me Missouri Blues
1.13 Lotus Blossom
1.14 Dream Lucky Blues
1.15 Gotta Gimme What'cha Got
1.16 Lies
1.17 Julia's Blues
1.18 When a Woman Loves a Man
1.19 Oh Marie
1.20 On My Way Out
1.21 I'll Get Along Somehow
1.22 Young Girl's Blues
1.23 Since I've Been with You
1.24 A Porter's Love Song
2.1 (Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It
2.2 I Was Wrong
2.3 My Sin
2.4 Doubtful Blues
2.5 King Size Papa
2.6 When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)
2.7 That's What I Like
2.8 Crazy World
2.9 Wise Guys (You're a Wise Guy)
2.10 All I Ever Do Is Worry
2.11 Tell Me, Daddy
2.12 (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along
2.13 Charmaine
2.14 Christmas Spirits
2.15 Cold Hearted Daddy
2.16 Living on the Back Street for You
2.17 I Didn't Like It the First Time (The Spinach Song)
2.18 Sit Down and Drink It Over
2.19 The Glory of Love
2.20 Take It or Leave It
2.21 Tonight's the Night
2.22 After Hours Waltz
2.23 Oh, Chuck It (In a Bucket)
2.24 You Ain't Got It No More
3.1 Draggin' My Heart Around
3.2 Blues for Someone
3.3 Don't Save It Too Long
3.4 Ain't It a Crime?
3.5 Decent Woman Blues
3.6 Do You Want It
3.7 There Goes My Heart
3.8 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
3.9 My Man Stands Out
3.10 Don't Come Too Soon
3.11 Pagan Love Song
3.12 I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
3.13 Bleeding Heart Blues
3.14 It Won't Be Long
3.15 Pipe Dreams (Up on Cloud Nine)
3.16 Ugly Papa
3.17 I Know It's Wrong
3.18 Mama Don't Allow It
3.19 Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)
3.20 Scream in the Night
3.21 If You Hadn't Gone Away (I Wouldn't Be Where I Am)
3.22 Out in the Cold Again
3.23 Goin' to Chicago Blues
3.24 Last Call for Alcohol