Have you ever looked at your “significant other” after a night out, a few drinks and some fun and said seductively as they start to undress, “Take it all off, take it all off!”?
Where did that come from?
And then he or she starts giggling and jumping around the bedroom, twirling your clothes, wrapping something around your neck, pulling off your panties like a chorus, imitating a trumpet or trombone (or maybe a kazoo!) to the tune of “The Stripper”?
Where did that come from?
We barely remember where we got these pop culture clichés from… but they all come from somewhere!
“The Stripper” is a very famous song written by a man named David Rose, “a British-born American composer, arranger and conductor.” –Wikipedia
He was married to actress Martha Raye and also to Judy Garland.
Although David Rose is not famous, HIS SONG IS. and he was a #1 Billboard hit in 1962 by David Rose and his orchestra.
“The Stripper” is interpreted of rigor at bachelor and bachelorette parties, at strip clubs, at wedding receptions (when the groom removes the bride’s garter), and has been used in COUNTLESS TV shows and movies, including slap and The full amount.
But perhaps the most memorable performance of all came in a late-1960s commercial for Noxzema shaving cream, where the beautiful Swedish model Gunilla Knutson demanded, “Take it off, take it all off.”
(Later iterations included sports icons Carl Yaztremski, left fielder for the Boston Red Sox and LATEST triple crown winner, for you baseball fans… and Joe Willie Namath, who was known for kinky commercials: ” Ladies, I want to see Joe. Did Namath cream himself?”…Of course you did!)
Thanks to YouTube and Events-in-Music.com, you can check out this nostalgic slice of life (and listen to “The Stripper”) by clicking here.