Did Someone Say "A Party?" - Artie Shaw

Funny Valentine

Did Someone Say "A Party?"
Music For The Girl Friend
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
The Petty Girl as featured in Esquire
Decca Records DL 8309
1956

From the back cover: The Petty Girl as featured in Esquire

In his portraits of enticing young ladies for Esquire Magazine, Artist George Petty has performed a truly epochal marriage of the physics of the curved line and the intangibles of glamor.

The alluring image of the Petty Girl multiplied across the nation during the years of the famous Esquire Calendar, and soon spread across the world as the wartime international pin-up favorite. The Petty Girl took her place once again in Esquire's peace-time calendar, and a whole new generation of admirers proclaims his smiling girl with the the direct gaze and the indirect curves.

She has incited poets to untold numbers of quatrains, young men to derring do (and to an occasional don't) and now, with Orpheus sending her surreptitious grace notes, the Petty Girl sweetly and easily turns the key to musical enjoyment. Like the maiden in the nursery rhyme, "she makes music wherever she goes..."

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