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Whatever Lola Wants (Adler-Ross) by Sarah Vaughan, orchestra conducted by Hugo Peretti The composer-producer team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, writers of such songs as “Rags To Riches” and “Even Now,” are best remembered for their two Tony award-winning Broadway musicals “The Pajama Game” (1954) and “Damn Yankees” (1955). The latter production featured the rousing “(You’ve Gotta Have) Heart,” a top-15 best-seller for Eddie Fisher, and this seductive number that Gwen Verdon introduced on stage. Vaughan’s top-10 juke box hit “Whatever Lola Wants” joins her “Make Yourself Comfortable” “C’est La Vie” and “How Important Can It Be?” in this collection of 1955 memories. See also Dinah Shore’s version of “Lola.” THE 1955 HITS ARCHIVE - here in one place, a good-quality library of original-release-version best-sellers and songs that made an impact that were either released or enjoyed a major chunk of their popularity within the calendar year 1955 (some were recorded in 1954).
