Ohhhhhhhhh. Ann Miller is the reason I wanted to start tap. Why? Because she made it sexy. Actually, a lot of women made tap sexy (check out The Tap Girls doing Sing Sing Sing on the MDA telethon!) but I feel like we've sadly lost the sexiness in more recent times. There's nothing great about women tap dancing in flat shoes and dungarees, imho. It's always a subjective, personal thing, but there, I said it. My favourite Ann Miller number is undoubtedly Too Darn Hot from 'Kiss Me Kate' but she has many many incredible numbers where she serves the sexy sass! Including this one. Love it.
Although I prefer her Decca vocal to her movie vocal--though both are aces--with the movie you also get to hear the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, which is no small beer. As for the dance section, I always felt that they--Judy and Mickey--were held back by those clumsy boots.
This performance was recorded in 1958, he was 50 at the time. The earliest known video footage of a performance he did was him performing "Kicking The Gong Around" as part of the 1932 movie "The Big Broadcast" which also includes what I would say his best dancing captured on video.
9:43 Funnily enough The Beatles' performance was slotted right after Cab Calloway on the same episode! He did St. James Infirmary and Old Man River. Highly recommend those performances too.
Cab Calloway is just awesome, endlessly entertaining. To me he's in the top 3 of performers of all time. Love love the chemistry he and all the extras have here.
James came back for another performance on Ed Sullivan in October of 1966 and it was similarly incredible, highly recommend it. Try to find the 6 minute version on RU-vid it's great.
Carmem was very popular in Brazil in the 1920-30s but she became more of a caricature in the US. She even had to make a song responding to criticism about becoming americanized when she visited Brazil during the war I believe it was. The explanation for the fruit in the head given by Carmen was that she dressed as a baiana, a traditional dress of Brazil's northeast, and the fruits represented the women who carried fruits on their head for sale in the street. This she did wear already in Brazil You need to keep in mind the context of this with the Good Neighbor policy the US was trying to attract good will from Latin America in the context of the war against the Nazis and closed markets for movies in Europe. So yes it's literally propaganda, but it's put in positive albeit paternalostic light
Thanks for the background. I'm aware of a lot of it but not about the fruit. Numerous performers from Mexico, Central America and S. America ended up as "novelty acts" in the US. Take Charo for example! Some classically trained singers and musicians, in US they were cute.
Tiene varias canciones donde canta, como Bo Mambo, La flor de la canela, Kon Tiki, Inca Walts, llora Corazón, Carnavalito Boliviano, La Pampa y la Puna, Babalu, Montana, Suray Surita, Huayno, Noches de Moscú, etc.
Hello. The movie this scene “I Got Rhythm” is from “Girl Crazy.” The movie was filmed/released in 1943 when Judy was 21. The Decca recording being played instead of the actual soundtrack was made in 1944 when Judy was 22. I would try to view the movie with the actual soundtrack if I were you. ❤
It was only afterward as I was editing that I noted it was the Decca soundtrack. Not sure I will redo this video since it seems to sync up pretty well but if I can find it, I'll watch.
@@DarlingReacts The “I Got Rhythm” musical sequence of this movie is iconic. Busby Berkeley choreographed this elaborate number, but was later fired because of his treatment of Judy. The sequence was kept in the final cut of the film.
@@DarlingReacts yeah he was on there twice in 1966. It seems he had a falling out with Ed Sullivan from what we all try to gather on the James Brown Facebook pages. we don’t know the exact story but the one we hear the most was that Mr. Brown wanted to sing his message song DON’T BE A DROPOUT and Ed Sullivan thought it was too political or something like. in any case he was never on there again which is a shame because it Sullivan got 10 times the audience that shows like the Tonight Show or the Mike Douglas show. James Brown has been my favorite entertainer since I was 12 years old and 1968. I’ve seen him about 100 times in concert from 1971 until 2005, I have all of his albums all of his 45s, I met him a few times. And all that good stuff. I really like how enthusiastic you are about watching this performance and I hope you will consider James Brown performances especially the TAMI show from 1964. He performed four songs there but the best too if you could react to them would be PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and NIGHT TRAIN. The first one is by far the best example of the Cape routine and the second one has Mr. Brown’s most energetic dancing ever captured on film. Oh and about the cape Mr. Brown was a boxer for a couple of years but that’s not why he starts with the cape, it’s a combination of watching the old Pentecostal preachers and then watching Gorgeous George the wrestler in the 1950s and early 1960s, he used to always wear a cape into the ring.
