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Oh! Calcutta! is an avant-garde, risqué theatrical revue created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, debuted Off-Broadway in 1969 and then in the West End in 1970. It ran in London for over 3,900 performances, and in New York initially for 1,314.
The German version has lyrics by Hans Bradtke, and is titled "Kalkutta liegt am Ganges" (Calcutta lies on the Ganges). In the English-speaking world, the song was released under the title "Calcutta", and the American songwriting team of Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss wrote English lyrics, celebrating the charms of the "ladies of Calcutta."
Oh! Calcutta! is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band the Lawrence Arms, released in 2006 by Fat Wreck Chords. It is the band's third and last studio album to be released on Fat Wreck Chords. Brendan Kelly has stated that this is his favorite Lawrence Arms album. Punknews named this album the #1 album of 2000-2009.
"1 Thing" is a song by American singer Amerie from her second studio album, Touch (2005). Written by Amerie and Rich Harrison and produced by the latter, the song is influenced by go-go rhythms and prominently samples the Meters' 1970 funk recording of "Oh, Calcutta!", written by Stanley Walden.
His organisation of Oh! Calcutta! in 1969 was another important victory in that campaign. [4] Tynan fiercely opposed censorship and was determined to break taboos he considered arbitrary. [citation needed] Tynan's left-wing politics and lifestyle made him something of a poster boy for 1960s radical chic and champagne socialism in London.
His 1946 reclining nude, shown from behind, is inscribed Oh! Calcutta! Calcutta!—a pun on the French pronunciation "quel cul t'as" ("what a rear you've got"), [4] a photographic collage with oil paints from a reproduction of André Steiner's nude photograph in the July 1935 issue of the magazine Paris Sex-Appeal. [5]
Keats debuted on Broadway in the second cast of Oh!Calcutta! and appeared in over 80 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Emmy in 1977 for his role as the ruthless, Great Depression-era entrepreneur Jay Blackman, who clawed his way to the top of the "rag trade", or clothing business, in the 1977 miniseries Seventh Avenue.
Oh! Calcutta! (Fat Wreck Chords, 2006) Metropole (Epitaph Records, 2014) Skeleton Coast (Epitaph Records, 2020) Other Releases. Shady View Terrace / The Lawrence Arms (Split, Asian Man Records, 2000) Present Day Memories (Split w/ The Chinkees, Asian Man Records, 2000) Fat Club (7-inch EP, Fat Wreck Chords, 2001)