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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.
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 ...
"Louisville Lou (That Vampin' Lady)" is the title of a popular song by American composer Milton Ager with lyrics by Jack Yellen. Written in 1923, it is an example of the Tin Pan Alley "vamp" style of music.
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.
"Sweet Lady Genevieve" is part of the rock opera, Preservation Act 1, with the lyrics sung by Davies as the "Tramp"—one of the principal figures in the story line.In the track, the Tramp is begging for the forgiveness of his former lover, Genevieve, saying that "this time I'll give you some security and I won’t make promises I can’t keep".
Another popular vamp is I VI ii V, which in the key of C major is C A7 d minor G7. vamp till cue A jazz, fusion, and musical theater term which instructs rhythm section members to repeat and vary a short chord progression, ostinato passage, riff , or "groove" until the band leader or conductor instructs them to move onto the next section
As the frontwoman of Transvision Vamp, that Eighties collision of brash punk and commercial pop, she was smart and moody, sexy and confounding, cool and unflappable. Naturally, she had to be ...
The lyrics are about a modern and promiscuous flapper girl who would be passed over for marriage, because men like "old fashion" girls. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The song begins with the lyrics "Dear little girl, they call you a vamp, a flapper with up to date ways."