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"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms, in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. This song is a spoof of New York high society and its strict etiquette (the first line of the verse is " I get too hungry for dinner at eight ...") and phony social pretensions.
The opening lines stake the author's or singer's claims for Louisville Lou's superiority as a vamp or femme fatale: "History is full of love-makin' champs / But if you want a brand new thrill, come and meet the vamp of Louisville" while enticing the listener further about Louisville Lou's prowess - "Until you're vamped by this brunette…you ain't had no vampin' yet."
As for the meaning of the word, note that the song lyrics repeatedly reference traveling ("hobohemia", "hitched and hiked"). Then again, "tramp" as "prostitute" is attested from 1922, so that meaning might also have been brought to mind by use of the word at the time the play was written; perhaps calling the woman a tramp is a way of hiding an ...
Musically, "Look at Me" is a jazz-pop song featuring a nine-piece brass section, while the autobiographical lyrics depict Halliwell demanding the attention of everyone around her. "Look at Me" received mixed reviews from music critics, with some finding similarities to Shirley Bassey's work.
"Jump Down, Spin Around (Pick A Dress O' Cotton)" lyrics by Allan Sherman - one of the earliest songs that mention her: "See how this one looks on me, Just like Jackie Kennedy." "La, La, La" (Excuse me Miss Again)" by Jay-Z - Kennedy is referenced in the lyrics "The Lady is a Vamp" by The Spice Girls - Kennedy is referenced in the lyrics
Babes in Arms is a 1937 coming-of-age musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and book by Rodgers and Hart.It concerns a group of small-town Long Island teenagers who put on a show to avoid being sent to a work farm by the town sheriff.
Femmes fatales were standard fare in hardboiled crime stories in 1930s pulp fiction.. A femme fatale (/ ˌ f ɛ m f ə ˈ t æ l,-ˈ t ɑː l / FEM fə-TA(H)L, French: [fam fatal]; lit. ' fatal woman '), sometimes called a maneater, [1] Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising ...
Farida Khanum (Urdu: فرِیدہ خانُم) is a Pakistani classical singer [broken anchor].She is also known by her honorific title Malika-e-Ghazal (The Queen of Ghazal) in both Pakistan and India [2] and is widely regarded as one of the greatest exponents of the ghazal genre of singing.