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Julia Lee: Party Time (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)

BEAR FAMILY Vinyl Club Exclusive - limited collector's edition, order now from Bear Family's Shop and Mailorder - no terms and conditions for dealers!

10inch LP (Limited edition - turquoise vinyl) 10 tracks.

Unique 10inch 11000 LP collector's series
Reissue of the rare New Zealand-LP Capitol H228
Plus 2 bonus tracks!
Reproduction of the rare original album cover
Painstakingly remastered for highest fidelity
pressed on high quality vinyl!
Limited to 500 copies pressed on color vinyl

This is a reproduction of a 10inch Julia Lee album, originally released in New Zealand in 1950 by Capitol Records. It's hard to believe, but this album is the best argument that American music was highly evaluated even on the far away islands in the Tasmanian Sea.

It was the year 1950, only five years after the end of World War II, and the world was still busy with its reconstruction and development. America was not destroyed by war, except for Pearl Harbor, and was able to be fully concentrate on the production of entertainment. American soldiers had bases all over the world, not only in occupied countries. They had bases even on the New Zealand islands resulting from their 'island hopping' during the Pacific campaign. Those soldiers brought American culture, American music, and of course Julia Lee! The world still suffered from an unprecedented 'Burnout' in the truest sense of the word and was also hungry for entertainment. Julia Lee's record 'Party Time' was at its place at the right time and made GIs and Kiwis happy!

The carefully reproduced original cover jacket gives us interesting informations on the back side. It's telling the history of its recordings and the story how Julia Lee became an acclaimed Kansas City Star after she started as an accompanying pianist in cabarets and cinemas. She arranged herself an evolution from Jazz music to Rhythm & Blues like no one else did. She presented her music from her home town Kansas City to the world. Last but not least with this album! First issued in the U.S. by Capitol, a New Zealand release followed soon in a slightly different version in the same year of 1950. Its original platter is a hard to find collector's item today due to small quantities in release.

The songs on ‘Julia Lee's Party Time’ are true dance numbers and a row of hits are included. King Size Papa and her world-famous R&B smash Snatch It And Grab It, I Didn't Like It The First Time (The Spinach Song) and Tell Me Daddy. The songs were recorded at Capitol Studios along with Julia Lee's band, The Boyfriends. She worked together with such great musicians as Red Norvo, Benny Carter, Vic Dickenson, Dave Cavanaugh, Baby Lovett, and Ernie Royal. These songs are all together not only milestones in music history but invite you to dance! Snatch it and grab it!

We added two bonus tracks to the songs of the original album to complete this reissue with another feature. Both bonus tracks, Oh, Chuck It (In A Bucket) and Lotus Bloom, date from the same period as the other songs on the album. This 10inch vinyl hot wax shows the famous Julia Lee sound mix of snappy swinging Jazz and dancefloor Rhythm & Blues that no one can elude from. A masterpiece in music history and a masterpiece in YOUR record collection!

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Interpret: Julia Lee
Album titlle: Party Time (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Edition 2 Limited Edition
Vinyl record size LP (10 inch)
Artikelart LP (10 inch)
EAN: 5397102110023
weight in Kg 0.16

Lee, Julia - Party Time (LP, 10inch, Ltd.) LP (10 inch) 1
01	King Size Papa	Julia Lee
02	Snatch And Grab It	Julia Lee
03	You Ain’t Got It No More	Julia Lee
04	Tell Me Daddy	Julia Lee
05	Oh Chuck It (In a Bucket)	Julia Lee
06	Tonight’s The Night	Julia Lee
08	Ain’t It A Crime	Julia Lee
09	Don’t Save It Too Long	Julia Lee
10	Lotus Blossom	Julia Lee

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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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From: J.S. aus H. On: 28 Jun 2017

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From: King Size Mama On: 11 Apr 2017

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great music and good re-issue idea
never knew of the original New Zealand record
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