It's Burlesque

Most people think that "burlesque" means female strippers walking a runway to bump and grind beat. But that only fits the form in its declining years. At its best, burlesque was a rich source of music and comedy that kept America, audiences laughing from 1840 through the 1960s. Some sources try to wrap burlesque in a mantle of pseudo-intellectual respectability. Yes, it involved transgressive comedy and songs, but the primary attraction of burlesque was sex . . in the form of ribald humor and immodestly dressed women. Although many dismissed burlesque as the tail-end of show business, its influence reaches through the development of popular entertainment into the present. TracklistMiche Braden & The Postmodern Jukebox - Sweet Child O' Mine,Plas Johnson - Downstairs, The Cousins - Some of the Days,Bob Log - Log Bomb,Syd Dale - The Hellraisers,Quincy Jones & his Orchestra - Music for Pussycats,Gentleman Jim and his Palace Pit Orchestra - C-Cup Blues,Howard McGhee and the Blazers - House Warmin' (part 1),Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Go Daddy-O,Ramsey Lewis - Blues for the Night Owl,Joe Loss & his Band - Go Home Bill Ludendorf, Bioshock Infinate Soundtrack - Everybody wants to Rule the World,Gentleman Jim and his Palace Pit Orchestra - Second Honeymoon, Bald BIll Hagen and his Trocaderons - Fascination,Interludes - Scandelous,The Runaways - Born to be Bad Sounds clips from "It's Burlesque", "Burlesque Undressed" & "Behind the Burly Q"