Big Spender

Paula Kelly (third from right) and Chita Rivera (second from right) as seductive dance hostess girls performing "Big Spender" in
Sweet Charity (1969).

"Big Spender" is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical Sweet Charity, first performed in 1966. Peggy Lee was the first artist to record the song (on single released on Jan 29, 1966), also on the album Big Spender (released July 30, 1966). It is sung, in the musical, by the dance hostess girls; it was choreographed by Bob Fosse for the Broadway musical Sweet Charity and the 1969 film Sweet Charity.[1] It is set to the beat of a striptease as the girls taunt the customers.[2]

  1. ^ Listing with plot synopsis and production notes tamswitmark.com, accessed March 17, 2009
  2. ^ Furia, Philip, America's Songs (2006), CRC Press, ISBN 0-415-97246-9, p. 287