WHATEVER LOLA WANTS
Created on 12/08/2003Latest update on 02/01/2023
Artist: Gwen Verdon
Author: Richard Adler/Jerry Ross
Label: RCA
Year: 1955
In musical Damn Yankees! She also sang it in the film version (What Lola Wants). Choreographer Bob Fosse preferred Gwen over Marilyn Monroe. She also got the main part in the original Sweet Charity. But the expression concerns the legendary victorian dancer and courtisane Lola Montez (1821-1861).
Covers:
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- 1955:
- 1955:
- 1955:
- 1955:
Sarah Vaughan [top 10 US]
- 1955:
- 1955:
- 1955:
- 1957:
- 1957:
Petula Clark [as Tout ce que veut Lola on her first French EP]
- 1960:
- 1961:
- 1961:
- 1964:
- 1969:
Anita Lindblom [as Det Som Karl-Frederik Vill]
- 2003:
- 2003:
- 2007:
Natacha Atlas [in film by that name]
- 2008:
The expression concerns Lola Montez, an Irish dancer and courtisane (1821-1861) who became the mistress of excentric king Ludwig I of Bavaria, who gave her a title, which costed him his throne. This most scandalous woman of the Victorian age was also close with Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas.
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Some originals by author:
- 1953
- RAGS TO RICHES
- 1954
- HERNANDO'S HIDEAWAY
- 1954
- HEY THERE
