All That Jazz | Benny Carter/Al Stillman | Anita Williams's Variety Special
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Date: 2019-11-15

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All That Jazz (song) - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That_Jazz_(song)   "All That Jazz" is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago. It has music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, and is the opening song of the musical. The title of the 1979 film, starring Roy Scheider as a character strongly resembling choreographer/stage and film director Bob Fosse, is derived from the song.  

Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives postulated that the song encapsulated the "importance of jazz in the constitution of pop culture".[7] Describes it as a "cynical comment on the willingness of humans...to act solely, simply, and remorselessly in their own interest", and deeming this unlawful conduct as part of "all that jazz" one needs to get by.[8] BlueCoupe said in the song, "the ghost of Bob Fosse hangs about".[1]   

Versions
In Chicago

    Chita Rivera performs it on the original cast album of Chicago (1975).
    Bebe Neuwirth performs it on the Broadway revival cast album of Chicago (1996)
    The version performed by Catherine Zeta-Jones and cast in the film version of Chicago (2002) was listed as #98 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.

Other uses

    Liza Minnelli recorded a single version (1975).
    The JabbaWockeeZ danced to this song on America's Best Dance Crew in 2008.
    Niki Evans sang the song on Series 4 of The X Factor.
    The Bellagio Fountains attraction at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas has this song on their playlist.
    Shirley Bassey, in her 1998 concert Viva Diva! for the BBC.
    In 2010, on Over the Rainbow, Andrew Lloyd Webber's show to search for a West End Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, four girls in a group in the Top 20 had to sing "All That Jazz" to convince Andrew and the judges that they were potential Dorothys. Three of them made it through - Stephanie (who ended up in seventh place), Jessica Robinson (who ended up in fifth place), and Sophie Evans, who made the final and came runner-up. Ruthie Henshall, who had played both Velma and Roxie in the West End's Chicago, coached the girls.
     The song was covered by Kate Hudson and Lea Michele on the Glee Season 4 Episode 9 "Swan Song " where they competed to see who is better.[en.wikipedia.org · Text under CC-BY-SA license]


And All That Jazz Lyrics

C'mon babe
Why don't we paint the town?
And all that jazz

I'm gonna rouge my knees
And roll my stockings down
And all that jazz

Start the car
I know a whoopee spot
Where the gin is cold
But the piano's hot

It's just a noisy hall
Where there's a nightly brawl
And all that jazz!

Slick you hair
And wear you buckle shoes
And all that jazz

I heat that father dip
Is gonna blow the blues
And all that jazz

Hold on, hon
We're gonna bunny hug
I bought some aspirin
Down at united drug

In case you shake apart
And want a brand new start
To do that

Jazz.

Skidoo

And all that jazz

Hot-cha

Whoopee

And all that jazz

(soft and diabolic)
Ha! ha! ha!

It's just a noisy hall
Where there's a nightly brawl
And all that

Jazz

Find a flask
We're playing fast and loose

And all that jazz

Right up here
Is where I store the juice

And all that jazz

Come on, babe
We're gonna brush the sky
I betcha lucky lindy
Never flew so high

'cause in the stratosphere
How could he lend an ear
To all that jazz?

Oh, you're gonna see you sheba
Shimmy shake

And all that jazz

Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters
Break

And all that jazz

Show her where to park her girdle
Oh, her mother's blood'd curdle
If she'd hear
Her baby's queer
For all that jazz!

C'mon babe
Why don't we paint the town?
And all that jazz
I'm gonna rouge my knees
And roll my stockings down
And all that jazz

Start the car
I know a whopee spot
Where the gin is cold
But the piano's hot

It's just a noisy hall
Where there's a nightly brawl
And all that jazz!
Company.
Oh, you're gonna see you sheba
Shimmy shake
And all that jazz

Oh, shey's gonna shimmy till her garters
Break

And all that jazz

Show her where to park her girdle
Oh, her mother's blood'd curdle
If she'd hear
Her baby's queer
For all that jazz!

No, I'm no one's wife
But, oh I love my life
And all that jazz!

That jazz!

Songwriters: Benny Carter, Al Stillman
© Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Anita Williams:  This video is a combination of some of the great Jazz classics featuring snippets from Cheek to Cheek, Swing Brother Swing, All or Nothing at All, Black as Night and I Don't Know Enough About You.
I hope you enjoy.  License  Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)