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Stubby Kaye, “My Wife’s a Striptease Dancer”

KAYE_Stubby_phAToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #270 Stubby Kaye (for my full article on him go here). I just found this hilarious record of him singing a song written by Rags Ragsland “My Wife’s a Striptease Dancer” as well as Arlen/ Harburg’s “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”:

To find out more about the variety arts past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold. And don’t miss Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, to be released by Bear Manor Media in 2013.

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This entry was posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:14 am and is filed under Burlesk, Comedy, Singers, Vaudeville etc. with tags , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. Stubby Kaye Sings ‘My Wife’s A Striptease Dancer’ ~ Bawdy Vintage Vaudeville Song #Burlesque Novelty Tune | Burlesque Babes Says:
    February 28, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    […] for grins — a fun novelty tune sung by vaudeville comic Stubby Kaye – My Wife’s A Striptease Dancer — […]

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