"(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It" is a song written in 1946 by Sharon A. Pease,[1] a Chicago pianist and a columnist at the DownBeat.
[4] Producer Dave Dexter Jr. brought Julia Lee to Capitol Records expecting her to appeal to both black and white audiences.
[2] The song material at the time was considered too risqué for the radio, so its chart results (and the ones of the Lee's next big hit, King Size Papa) were achieved with practically no airplay.
[3] The recording successfully crossed over into the pop music market, where at the time Bing Crosby and Perry Como reigned supreme.
[2] In "Snatch and Grab It" Pease had shown an ability to match the material to a performer, the "three-minute lesson in lechery bursting with thigh-slapping vulgarity" fitted Lee's onstage persona.