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Whatever Lola Wants

{{Short description|Song from the musical Damn Yankees}}

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Image:Joseph Karl Stieler - Lola Montez.jpg by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1847.]]

"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 to Joe Hardy 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,{{cite web|last1=McCormack|first1=Mike|title=A Rose by Any Other Name|url=http://www.nyaoh.com/History_Articles/10%2001%20-%20Lola%20Montez.pdf|website=Ancient Order of Hibernians|publisher=New York State Board - Ancient Order of Hibernians|access-date=15 September 2015}} an Irish-born "Spanish dancer" and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who later became a San Francisco gold rush vamp.{{cite web |url=http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/lola.html |title= Lola Montez |publisher=San Francisco History Index}}

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"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.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeW1irBKM8c |title=Honey West: Whatever Lola Wants |publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0758799/ |title=Whatever Lola Wants (2007) |publisher=IMDb}}

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.Classic Cars magazine, August 2010

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.

Mario Lopez and his partner Karina Smirnoff used the song in season 3 of Dancing with the Stars. Their tango to it was voted the best celebrity dance ever by the judges of Dancing with the Stars on their 100th episode. 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 the 2006 French film Hors de Prix (English title, Priceless) starring Gad Elmaleh and Audrey Tatou.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482088/ |title=Hors de Prix (2006) |publisher=IMDb}}

The song appeared in a 2011 Diet Pepsi commercial featuring Sofia Vergara and David Beckham, and in a 2014 Magnum Italian commercial, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ice cream brand owned by the British/Dutch Unilever.

In the Pen15 episode "Bat Mitzvah," Becca (Sami Rappoport) sings "Whatever Lola Wants" as she enters her bat mitzvah reception.

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External links

  • [https://secondhandsongs.com/work/48320/all#nav-entity Whatever Lola Wants - versions and originals] on SecondHandSongs
  • {{IMDb title|qid=Q2750096|id=tt0758799}}
  • {{IMDb title|qid=Q5212720|id=tt0051516|title=Damn Yankees}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080505215103/http://www.ibdb.com/show.asp?ID=2892 Damn Yankees] at the Internet Broadway Database
  • Hot Properties [http://www.tv.com/hot-properties/whatever-lola-wants/episode/546333/summary.html episode plot summary] on tv.com

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Category:Songs from musicals

Category:Songs written by Richard Adler

Category:Songs written by Jerry Ross (composer)

Category:1955 songs

Category:Sarah Vaughan songs

Category:Cultural depictions of Lola Montez