UTE LEMPER - ALL THAT JAZZ

ALL THAT JAZZ

UTE LEMPER

SONGWRITER: EBB KANDER

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: UTE LEMPER, CHICAGO ENSEMBLE

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: CABARET/JAZZ

YEAR: 1998

 

          Ute Gertrud Lemper(German pronunciation: [ˈuːtə ˈlɛmpɐ]; born 4 July 1963) is a German singer and actress. Her roles in musicals include playing Sally Bowles in the original Paris production of Cabaret, for which she won the 1987 Molière Award for Best Newcomer, and Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago in both London and New York, which won her the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

         Born in Münster, (Germany), Ute Gertrude Lemper was raised in a Roman Catholic family. She joined the jazz-rock music group known as the Panama Drive Band at the age of 16. Later, she graduated from the Dance Academy in Cologne and the Max Reinhardt Seminary Drama School in Vienna.

         Her diverse credits include musicals, such as her breakthrough role in the original Viennese cast of Cats, the title role in Peter Pan, a recreation of the Marlene Dietrich-created Lola in The Blue Angel, the original European Sally Bowles in a Paris production of Cabaret, and Velma Kelly in Chicago(Lemper has played the role of Velma Kelly in Chicago in both London and New York. She won the Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in London). She also dubbed the singing voices of Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid and Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame for German-speaking audiences.

         In 1991 Ute Lemper participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with song The Photograph, written by Italian songwriter Enzo Jannacci.

        All that Jazz: The Best of Ute Lemper is a CD from the German singer Ute Lemper released September 1, 1998. The CD consists of 20 tracks that are considered the best of Ute Lemper.

Come on, 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 your hair

And wear your buckled shoes

And all that jazz

I hear 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 (skeedo)

 

And all that jazz, watch out, whoopee

And all that jazz

It's just a noisy hall

Where there's a nightly brawl

And all that jazz

 

Listen, uh, your husband ain't home

Is he?

No, her husband is not at home

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 she lend an ear

To all that jazz?

Oh, you're gonna see your

Sheba shimmy shake

And all that jazz

 

Oh, she's gonna shimmy

'Til her garters break

And all that jazz

 

Show her where to park her girdle

Oh, her mother's blood'll curdle

(If she'd hear her baby's queer)

For all that jazz

And all that jazz

 

Come on, babe

Why don't we paint the town?

And all that jazz

(And all that jazz)

I'm gonna rouge my knees

And roll my stockings down

And all that jazz

(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

 

So that's final huh Fred?

Yeah, I'm afraid so Roxy

Oh Fred (oh Fred)

Yeah?

Nobody walks out on me

Sweetheart!

Oh don't sweetheart me, you son of a bitch

Roxy!

 

I gotta pee

No, I'm no one's wife

But, oh, I love my life

And all that jazz

That jazz.