You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two
"You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" | |
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Released | 1960 |
Songwriter(s) | Lionel Bart |
"You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical Oliver!, and the 1968 Academy Award-winning film Oliver! based on the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The musical was penned by Lionel Bart, and was first shown in London's West End in 1960.
Background
The song is sung in Fagin's lair in a scene based on the section of Dickens's book where Fagin (played by Ron Moody in the film) teaches Oliver Twist and the rest of the boys how to pick the pockets of gentlemen so as to be able to steal their handkerchiefs, etc., without being detected. It is the first song in Act I Scene VI.
Fagin and the boys loosely dangle various "hankies" from their pockets while dancing around the room and doing gymnastics to show Oliver how easy it is to steal one without it being noticed.
Although less pronounced than "Reviewing the Situation",[1] this song has a Jewish melody.[2]
This song is sampled in the 2004 song "Large Amounts" by Ludacris, from the album "The Red Light District".
The time signature of this song is 4/4, and it is in the key of F minor.[citation needed]
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- Oliver Twist (1912)
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- Oliver Twist (1916)
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- Oliver Twist (1933)
- Oliver Twist (1948)
- Oliver! (1968)
- Oliver Twist (1974)
- Las Aventuras de Oliver Twist (1987)
- Oliver Twist (2005)
- Manik (1961)
- Chitti Tammudu (1962)
- Oliver & Company (1988)
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- Twist (2003)
- Boy Called Twist (2004)
- Twist (2021)
- Oliver Twist (1962 TV serial)
- Oliver Twist (1982 American-British TV film)
- Oliver Twist (1982 Australian TV film)
- Oliver Twist (1985 TV serial)
- Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist (1996 TV series)
- Oliver Twist (1997 TV film)
- Oliver Twist (1999 TV series)
- Oliver Twist (2007 TV series)
- Oliver! (1960)
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- "Consider Yourself"
- "Food, Glorious Food"
- "I'd Do Anything"
- "Oliver!"
- "Oom-Pah-Pah"
- "Where Is Love?"
- "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two"
- "Be Back Soon"
- Oliver! (soundtrack to the 1968 film)
- Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001 TV series retelling)
- Fagin the Jew (2003 graphic novel)
- Oliver and the Artful Dodger (1972 TV film)
- I'd Do Anything (2008 TV series)
- Dodger (2022 TV series)
- The Artful Dodger (2023 TV series)
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