Most people think that "burlesque" means female strippers walking a runway to bump and grind beat. But that only fits the form in its declining years. At its best, burlesque was a rich source of music and comedy that kept America, audiences laughing from 1840 through the 1960s.

Some sources try to wrap burlesque in a mantle of pseudo-intellectual respectability. Yes, it involved transgressive comedy and songs, but the primary attraction of burlesque was sex . . in the form of ribald humor and immodestly dressed women. Although many dismissed burlesque as the tail-end of show business, its influence reaches through the development of popular entertainment into the present.

Tracklist
Miche Braden & The Postmodern Jukebox - Sweet Child O' Mine,
Plas Johnson - Downstairs,
The Cousins - Some of the Days,
Bob Log - Log Bomb,
Syd Dale - The Hellraisers,
Quincy Jones & his Orchestra - Music for Pussycats,
Gentleman Jim and his Palace Pit Orchestra - C-Cup Blues,
Howard McGhee and the Blazers - House Warmin' (part 1),
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Go Daddy-O,
Ramsey Lewis - Blues for the Night Owl,
Joe Loss & his Band - Go Home Bill Ludendorf,
Bioshock Infinate Soundtrack - Everybody wants to Rule the World,
Gentleman Jim and his Palace Pit Orchestra - Second Honeymoon,
Bald BIll Hagen and his Trocaderons - Fascination,
Interludes - Scandelous,
The Runaways - Born to be Bad

Sounds clips from "It's Burlesque", "Burlesque Undressed" & "Behind the Burly Q"