"Just An Old Fashioned Girl" is a popular song written by Marve A. Fisher and best known in its 1956 recording by Eartha Kitt.
Reviewer William Ruhlmann refers to the song as a "novelty... to exploit Kitt's promiscuous gold-digger image, as she wooed millionaires and their money.
"Just An Old Fashioned Girl" became a cornerstone of Eartha Kitt's stage act, as her popularity developed around the world at the same time as her novel and provocative image became less of an attraction to US audiences.
[1] It became her signature tune in Britain,[4][5] so much so that it is prominently mentioned in "The Cycling Tour," a Series 3 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
"Marve" Fisher (June 21, 1907 – September 1, 1957),[9] was an Illinois-born and Los Angeles–based writer of comic and novelty songs, including "Ring Those Christmas Bells", recorded by Peggy Lee and others, which Fisher co-wrote with Gus Levene.