David Lee Roth – anybody remember him? Anybody? Lead singer for who? Oh, yeah… Van Halen. Left the band in 1985 – rejoined the band in 2006. What did he do in between? That’s a span of 21 years! What did David accomplish during all those years on hiatus??
Well, most notably, this song. Just a Gigolo was made famous by Louis Prima in 1956, who had the genius to couple it with another popular tune at the time, I Ain’t Got Nobody. Then, in the mid-eighties, David Lee had the same amount of genius to redo it as a rock/swing/jazz combination – which produced a hilarious video (click below).
I don’t like a lot of horn overpowering the lead vocals, so I toned down the brass section a bit (singers will appreciate that). It’s on the Jazz/Swing list – go get the midi and have fun with it. The leads are on tracks 1, 15, 16. Mute ’em and sing your butt off!
Stageworthy Backing Tracks by Dave Zobrist 