A-side "Ebb Tide" Released 1962 Recorded 1958 | B-side "The Stripper" Format 7" vinyl Genre Jazz | |
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"The Stripper" is an instrumental composed by David Rose, recorded in 1958 and released four years later. It evinces a jazz influence with especially prominent trombone slides, and evokes the feel of music used to accompany striptease artists.
The song came to prominence by chance. David Rose had recorded "Ebb Tide" as an A-side of a record. His record company, MGM Records, wanted to get the record on the market quickly, but they discovered they had no B-side for it. Rose was away at the time the need for the B-side song surfaced. An MGM office boy was given the job of going through some of Rose's tapes of unreleased material to find something that would work; he liked the song and chose it as the flip side for the record. It was the theme melody in the Swedish record sales list Kvällstoppen inte the 1960s The song reached number one on Billboard's Top 100 chart in July, 1962. It became a gold record. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 5 song of 1962.