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Julia Lee: Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)

5-CD box (LP-size) with 32-page book, 109 tracks. Playing time approx. 309 mns.

No-one handled a ribald blues like Julia Lee, but it would be wrong to think of her simply as a singer of smutty songs. A fine pianist, she surrounded herself all her life with the best jazzmen from her home town of Kansas City, and these are records like no others from the golden era of R&B. They're beautifully arranged jazzy blues. 

The classic Capitol hits are here, like Snatch It And Grab It, Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got,
King
Size Papa, together with the rest of her Capitol recordings (1944-1952). We've also got recordings made for Merritt (1927), Brunswick (1929), Premier (1945), Damon (1954/55) and Fourmost Records (1956/1957), as well as a complete rehearsal session. This is the COMPLETE Julia Lee, and it'll be a revelation for anyone who thinks of her only in terms of the smutty songs. Any lover of risqu needs this.

Article properties: Julia Lee: Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Interpret: Julia Lee

  • Album titlle: Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127157706

  • weight in Kg 0.5
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Down Home Syncopated Blues Julia Lee
02 Meritt Stomp Julia Lee
03 If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight Julia Lee
04 Paseo Street Julia Lee
05 Ruff Scufflin' Julia Lee
06 St. James Infirmary Julia Lee
07 He's Tall And Dark And Handsome Julia Lee
08 Won't You Come Over To My House? Julia Lee
09 Come On Over To My House Julia Lee
10 Trouble In Mind Julia Lee
11 If It's Good Julia Lee
12 Show Me Missouri Blues Julia Lee
13 Lotus Blossom Julia Lee
14 Dream Lucky Blues Julia Lee
15 Wee Baby Blues Julia Lee
16 If It's Good Julia Lee
17 I've Got A Crush On The Fuller Brush Man Julia Lee
18 Two Loves Have I Julia Lee
19 Some Of These Days Julia Lee
20 St. Louis Blues Julia Lee
21 Shake That Thing Julia Lee
22 Shake It And Break It Julia Lee
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 Julia's Blues Julia Lee
02 Lies Julia Lee
03 Gotta Gimme Whatcha' Got Julia Lee
04 When A Woman Loves A Man Julia Lee
05 Oh Marie Julia Lee
06 I'll Get Along Somehow Julia Lee
07 A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid Julia Lee
08 Have You Ever Been Lonely? Julia Lee
09 Since I've Been With You Julia Lee
10 Out In The Cold Again Julia Lee
11 Young Girl's Blues Julia Lee
12 On My Way Out Julia Lee
13 There Goes My Heart Julia Lee
14 Snatch And Grab It Julia Lee
15 If You Hadn't Gone Away Julia Lee
16 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Julia Lee
17 The Curse Of An Aching Heart Julia Lee
18 Bleeding Hearted Blues Julia Lee
19 Living Backstreet For You Julia Lee
20 Wise Guys (You're A Wise Guy) Julia Lee
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Mama Don't Allow It Julia Lee
02 Doubtful Blues Julia Lee
03 Ain't It A Crime Julia Lee
04 Knock Me A Kiss (& JOE ALEXANDER) Julia Lee
05 Cold-Hearted Daddy Julia Lee
06 My Sin (take 1,2,3,4) Julia Lee
07 When You're Smiling Julia Lee
08 I Was Wrong Julia Lee
09 Pagan Love Song Julia Lee
10 All I Ever Do Is Worry Julia Lee
11 Take It Or Leave It Julia Lee
12 That's What I Like Julia Lee
13 King Size Papa Julia Lee
14 Blues For Someone Julia Lee
15 I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles Julia Lee
16 Breeze (Blowing My Baby Back To Me) Julia Lee
17 The Spinach Song Julia Lee
18 Crazy World Julia Lee
19 Tell Me, Daddy Julia Lee
20 Christmas Spirits Julia Lee
21 Until The Real Thing Comes Along Julia Lee
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Charmaine Julia Lee
02 Lotus Blossom Julia Lee
03 Marijuana Julia Lee
04 Sit Down And Drink It Over Julia Lee
05 Away From You Julia Lee
06 The Glory Of Love Julia Lee
07 Tonight's The Night Julia Lee
08 My Man Stands Out Julia Lee
09 Do You Want It? Julia Lee
10 It Comes In Like A Lion Julia Lee
11 Don't Come Too Soon Julia Lee
12 Ugly Papa Julia Lee
13 Don't Save It Too Long (The Money Song) Julia Lee
14 After Hours Waltz Julia Lee
15 You Ain't Got It No More Julia Lee
16 When Your Lover Has Gone Julia Lee
17 Oh Chuck It (In A Bucket) Julia Lee
18 Decent Woman Blues Julia Lee
19 Dragging My Heart Around Julia Lee
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5
01 It Won't Be Long Julia Lee
02 You're Gonna Miss It Julia Lee
03 Can't Get Enough Of That Stuff Julia Lee
04 When A Man Has Two Women Julia Lee
05 Scream In The Night Julia Lee
06 I Know It's Wrong (The Diet Song) Julia Lee
07 Music, Maestro Please Julia Lee
08 Pipe Dreams Julia Lee
09 When Jennie Does That Lowdown Dance Julia Lee
10 If I Didn't Care Julia Lee
11 Lazy River Julia Lee
12 All This Beef And Big Ripe Tomatoes Julia Lee
13 Can't Get You Off My Mind Julia Lee
14 I Got News For You Julia Lee
15 Goin' To Chicago Blues Julia Lee
16 Last Call For Alcohol Julia Lee
17 Kansas City Boogie Julia Lee
18 Love In Bloom Julia Lee
19 Keep `em Barefoot And Busy Julia Lee
20 Baby I'm Through Julia Lee
21 Scat You Cats Julia Lee
22 I Can't See How Julia Lee
23 King Size Papa Julia Lee
24 Bop And Rock Lullaby Julia Lee
Julia Lee Julia Lee – Kansas City Star Julia Lee was born on October 31, 1902... more
"Julia Lee"

Julia Lee

Julia Lee – Kansas City Star

Julia Lee was born on October 31, 1902 in Boonville, Missouri and grew up in Kansas City. She is the most popular female Jazz and Rhythm & Blues singer out of Kansas City, Missouri and used to be called 'Kansas City Star'. She began performing during her childhood in her father's string trio in local congregations and on house parties. Lee started working as a pianist and singer in 1917 playing Ragtime and to attend silent movies in movie theatres.

She joined the orchestra of her brother, George E. Lee, in 1920 and stayed for 15 years. 1927 saw her first studio recordings made for the Merritt label arranged and accompanied by Jesse Stone. She launched a solo career in 1935 and soon became a star of the local Kansas City Jazz circuit. Capitol Records recognized her as the Kansas City Star and released her in 1944 within Capitol's 'History of Jazz'-series. She soon began performing along with popular Rhythm & Blues combos which led into the foundation of Julia Lee's own small band, 'Her Boyfriends'. Her band included famous musicians such as Benny Carter, Red Norvo, Tommy Douglas, Red Nichols and many more. Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends blasted off with 'Come On Over To My House, Baby' and 'Gimme Whatcha Got'. Both became her first juke box and radio hits which secured her first real contract with Capitol Records in 1946.

She went on with 'Snatch It And Grab It', #1 R&B charts for 12 weeks in 1947! 1948 saw her next number 1 hit exploding over the R&B charts for 9 weeks: 'King Size Papa'! 'I Didn't Like It The First Time (The Spinach Song)' (#4 R&B charts) followed in 1949 and it was that same year when the American President Harry S. Truman, who is also a Missouri native, invited her to play the White House. Her success stagnated by the mid-1950s when Rock'n'Roll started its domination even that Julia Lee sounded more Rhythm & Blues alike than ever before. She continued producing and had a small acting role in a movie called 'The Delinquence', that had been filmed in Kansas City in 1957 by Hollywood director Robert Altman. Julia Lee died of a heart attack aged 56 on December 8, 1958. She is one of the most popular stars from the Kansas City area, she showed the world how to jazz up from Kansas City Jazz to Rhythm & Blues. She is a milestone in the history of popular music!

 

There was no overlooking the obscenity in much of Julia Lee's work, but, until Bear Family released its groundbreaking boxed set ('Kansas City Star', BCD 15770), many thought of it as her defining characteristic. The box revealed an eloquent jazz and blues stylist in the Kansas City tradition. In November 1944 Capitol's Dave Dexter took Julia Lee (1902-1958) into a KC studio and supervised her first Capitol session, on which she was accompanied by Jay McShann. The recordings were included in a 78rpm Capitol album, 'The History Of Jazz.' Before the album aroused any attention, Lee recorded a session for H.S. Somson's St. Louis-based Premier label with a band led by Tommy Douglas, an alto player who reportedly influenced the young Charlie Parker. With its stop-time verses, If It's Good swings mightily, and Somson later sold the entire session to Mercury. By the summer of 1946, deejays had pulled Julia's 78 from 'The History of Jazz' and played both sides more than any other selection.

Responding to the demand, Dexter signed Lee to Capitol and brought her to Hollywood. (With grateful acknowledgments to Bill Millar's notes for 'Kansas City Star'). Julia Lee (1902-1958) was one of the few popular postwar R&B singers whose recording career stretched back into the twenties. Long a fixture at Milton's Tap Room in Kansas City, she sang blues and ballads to an all-white clientele. Visiting jazzmen and blues aficionados invariably made pilgrimages to Lee's rollicking after-hours sets. Signed to Capitol Records in 1944, Lee tallied an impressive number of hits, many of them bawdy. (Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch It And Grab It stayed on top of 'Billboard's' R&B chart from November 1947 to February 1948.

Her follow-up, King Size Papa, grabbed the top spot for most of spring 1948. When Capitol released Don't Come Too Soon in July 1950, 'Billboard' actually warned potential buyers about its content: "Lyric is certainly too blue for airing and juke ops with finicky locations should listen carefully before installing this one." Though Lee continued recording for Capitol into 1952, the label lost interest in promoting her. Most of the sides she recorded after 1950 stayed in the can.

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Tracklist
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Down Home Syncopated Blues
02 Meritt Stomp
03 If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
04 Paseo Street
05 Ruff Scufflin'
06 St. James Infirmary
07 He's Tall And Dark And Handsome
08 Won't You Come Over To My House?
09 Come On Over To My House
10 Trouble In Mind
11 If It's Good
12 Show Me Missouri Blues
13 Lotus Blossom
14 Dream Lucky Blues
15 Wee Baby Blues
16 If It's Good
17 I've Got A Crush On The Fuller Brush Man
18 Two Loves Have I
19 Some Of These Days
20 St. Louis Blues
21 Shake That Thing
22 Shake It And Break It
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 Julia's Blues
02 Lies
03 Gotta Gimme Whatcha' Got
04 When A Woman Loves A Man
05 Oh Marie
06 I'll Get Along Somehow
07 A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid
08 Have You Ever Been Lonely?
09 Since I've Been With You
10 Out In The Cold Again
11 Young Girl's Blues
12 On My Way Out
13 There Goes My Heart
14 Snatch And Grab It
15 If You Hadn't Gone Away
16 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
17 The Curse Of An Aching Heart
18 Bleeding Hearted Blues
19 Living Backstreet For You
20 Wise Guys (You're A Wise Guy)
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Mama Don't Allow It
02 Doubtful Blues
03 Ain't It A Crime
04 Knock Me A Kiss (& JOE ALEXANDER)
05 Cold-Hearted Daddy
06 My Sin (take 1,2,3,4)
07 When You're Smiling
08 I Was Wrong
09 Pagan Love Song
10 All I Ever Do Is Worry
11 Take It Or Leave It
12 That's What I Like
13 King Size Papa
14 Blues For Someone
15 I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
16 Breeze (Blowing My Baby Back To Me)
17 The Spinach Song
18 Crazy World
19 Tell Me, Daddy
20 Christmas Spirits
21 Until The Real Thing Comes Along
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Charmaine
02 Lotus Blossom
03 Marijuana
04 Sit Down And Drink It Over
05 Away From You
06 The Glory Of Love
07 Tonight's The Night
08 My Man Stands Out
09 Do You Want It?
10 It Comes In Like A Lion
11 Don't Come Too Soon
12 Ugly Papa
13 Don't Save It Too Long (The Money Song)
14 After Hours Waltz
15 You Ain't Got It No More
16 When Your Lover Has Gone
17 Oh Chuck It (In A Bucket)
18 Decent Woman Blues
19 Dragging My Heart Around
Lee, Julia - Kansas City Star (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5
01 It Won't Be Long
02 You're Gonna Miss It
03 Can't Get Enough Of That Stuff
04 When A Man Has Two Women
05 Scream In The Night
06 I Know It's Wrong (The Diet Song)
07 Music, Maestro Please
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10 If I Didn't Care
11 Lazy River
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22 I Can't See How
23 King Size Papa
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