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Take It Off!
"Take It Off!"
Various Artists, 1997

     If you ever wanted a collection of those classic bump-and-grind tunes, "Take It Off" is the album for you. This Rhino release puts together two of the best strip-at-home hi-fi records ever--"How To Strip For Your Husband" Vol. 1 & 2 by Sonny Lester & His Orchestra. This disc also includes a few other gems like the instantly recognizable "The Stripper" by David Rose & His Orchestra
     With the release of the Kinsey Report in the 1950's, sex was taken from roadside grindhouses to suburban bedrooms. This move to a more sexually open society made it easier for record companies to market music that was once considered strictly back room stag material. Add to that the advent of hi-fi technology and the growing how-to movement and you've got the perfect album for all those wives who wanted to add some spice to their marriage. The idea was that maybe a wife could keep her man from visiting burlesque houses if she could co-op some of the glamour and sexuality of dancers like Lili St. Cyr, Tempest Storm, Lilly Christine, and Blaze Starr
     The music on "Take It Off" is fun to listen to because it invokes all those old archetypal images of strippers and their boas, flaunting what they've got, and knocking men off their chairs with a bump of her hips. As a side note, Rhino has outdone themselves with the packaging of the CD. Besides great liner notes, the cover contains one of those optical trick that if you look at it one way the woman is a pretty blue poka dot dress, but if you tilt the CD cover, you can see the dress disappear with the women left wearing only her underwear. (The scan of the cover above doesn't do it justice.)

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