Number One Songs – The Stripper – Take It Off, Take It All Off!

Have you ever looked at your “partner” after a night on the town, a few drinks and some merriment, and said seductively as they begin to undress, “Take it off, take it all off!”

Where did that come from?

And then he or she starts giggling and jumping around the bedroom, twirling clothes, wrapping something around your neck, pulling your panties off like a chorus line, mimicking a trumpet or trombone (or maybe a kazoo! !) With the melody of “the stripper”?

Where did that come from?

We barely remember where we get these pop culture cliches from… but they all come from somewhere!

“The Stripper” is a very famous song written by a man by the name of David Rose, “a British-born, British-born songwriter, composer, arranger, and orchestra leader.” –Wikipedia

He was married to actress Martha Raye and also to Judy Garland.

While David Rose isn’t famous, HIS SONG IS. And he was a #1

“The Stripper” is performed strictly at Bachelor and Bachelorette Partyes, at Strip Clubs, at Boded Receptions (when the groom removes the bride’s garter), and has been used in countless TV shows and movies including the movies including the movies including slap Y The full amount.

But perhaps the most memorable performance of all came in a commercial for Noxzema shaving cream from the late ’60s, where the beautiful Swedish model Gunilla Knutson demanded, “Take it off, take it all off.”

(The subsequent iterations include sports icons Carl Yaztremski-Judinero left of the Red Boston socks and the last winner of the Triple Crown, for you, baseball fans … Cream? “… Of course you did!)

Thanks to YouTube and Events-in-Music.com, you can watch this nostalgic slice of life (and listen to “The Stripper”) by clicking here.