Whatever Lola Wants
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"Whatever Lola Wants" is a popular song, sometimes rendered as "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets". The music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the 1955 musical play Damn Yankees. The song is sung by Lola, the Devil's assistant, a part originated by Gwen Verdon, who reprised the role in the film. The saying was inspired by Lola Montez,[1] an Irish-born "Spanish dancer" and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who later became a San Francisco Gold Rush vamp.[2]
Also recorded by
- Natacha Atlas
- Les Baxter
- Ran Blake
- Lola Blanc
- Bob & Ray
- Les Brown
- Petula Clark
- Alma Cogan (1957)
- Xavier Cugat
- Carla Boni
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Gracie Fields
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Gotan Project
- The Hi-Lo's - A Musical Thrill (2006)
- Molly Johnson
- Louis Jordan
- Stan Kenton - The Stage Door Swings (1958)
- Eartha Kitt
- Abbe Lane
- Gayle Lark
- Carmen McRae
- Amanda Lear: On album With Love (2006)
- Sophie Milman (2007, Live at Winter Garden Theatre)
- Bebe Neuwirth
- Caroline O'Connor
- Julius Pringles (2001)
- Della Reese
- Aldemaro Romero
- Dinah Shore (1955)
- Ruby Stewart
- Anthony Strong
- Mel Tormé
- Sarah Vaughan (1955)
- Gwen Verdon
- Baby Face Willette
- Barbara Ireland (2010)
- Marinella (1992, album I Marinella Tragouda Megales Kyries)
- Reeve Carney Live at Molly Malone’s (2006)
- Dee Snider for the Dee Does Broadway album (2012)
Other instances
"Whatever Lola Wants" is the title of an episode of the 2005 television series Hot Properties and the title of an episode of ABC-TV's 1965 crime drama Honey West.[3]
A film entitled Whatever Lola Wants, directed by Nabil Ayouch and starring Laura Ramsey as Lola, premiered on 11 December 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival and was scheduled for release in France on 16 April 2008.[4]
The Lola Car company is reportedly named after this song when company founder Eric Broadley heard the line "What Lola wants, Lola gets" in 1959.[5]
Norman Bailey played the song as a trumpet solo on the first live television broadcast of The Lawrence Welk Show on July 2, 1955.
Chiwetel Ejiofor sang the song for the 2005 film Kinky Boots.
The song was also used by Mario Lopez and his partner Karina Smirnoff in Season 3 of Dancing with the Stars. Their tango to it was voted the best celebrity dance ever by the judges of DWTS on their 100th Episode show. Several seasons later, Joanna Krupa and her temporary partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy performed an Argentine tango to the song, in Season 9.
The song was featured in an episode of Nip Tuck.
The song can also be found in a 2011 Diet Pepsi commercial featuring Sofia Vergara and David Beckham.
The song can also be found in a 2014 Magnum Italian commercial, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ice cream brand owned by the British/Dutch Unilever.
References
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Whatever Lola Wants at IMDb
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Damn Yankees at IMDb
- "Whatever Lola Wants"Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at MusicBrainz (information & list of recordings)
- Damn Yankees at the Internet Broadway Database
- Hot Properties episode plot summary on tv.com
- Whatever Lola Wants on YouTube
