JEZEBEL - Desi Arnaz (1951) 

I started watching this show again and I can’t stop watching this performance. It’s perfection from start to finish. Desi begins with his haunting, mesmerizing voice that brings me to tears. The tempo changes and the percussion 🥁 plays to a clean, precise, sultry dance 💃. Lucille finishes with comedic genius. Amazing!

After Cuban Pete, this is one of my Favorite I Love Lucy❤😊😂

Desi looked so young in the early "I Love Lucy" seasons, he was 34 in the first season. Lucy was 40 but she looked 10 yrs younger.

one of my favorite episodes! not just because of Lucy but that song!,and the way Desi sings it!

This still kills it today. So dramatic at the beginning then Lucy comes out with the chorus line and makes it funny.

I laugh every time I see this clip....The comic genius of Lucille Ball, coupled with the remarkable talent of Desi Arnez puts the episode right up there with Vegavitamin episode as one of the funniest of the entire I Love Lucy show. RIP Lucy and Desi and thanks for the memories.

I love the way she trips at 2:59. She must have rehearsed it a thousand times, but she makes it look so spontaneous. A true comic genius.

Always was my favorite number of Ricky's. Dark, sensual, and it hit you even harder because it was in a comedy show lol!

Damn that dude with the cow bell is the unsung hero of that piece. Love that cow bell. We need more cow bell.

"Jezebel" was gorgeous!!!

So funny when Lucy tries to block her from getting near Ricky, hahaha

My very favorite episode of the I Love Lucy series, due to t THIS brilliant performance by Desi Arnaz. His singing talent was absolutely amazing!! His showmanship, his acting, comedic talent and musical talent all made him an incredibly gifted performer. Handsome man, too. One of the greatest talents that the world has ever had! Great song-- and awesome dancing by Helen Silver

True comedy knows no age 🤣. It made me cry-laughing at ten in the 'Eighties, just as it did in the 'Fifties and still does in the 2020's. 🏆

A perfect number and true gem from Season 1: Excellent Desi Arnaz vocal and lovely appearance from 'Jezebel' dancer Helen Silver. Especially love when the drum tempo changes at 2:15 and Silver begins her dance down the stairs to center stage- just in time for the chorus girls and comic gold in a brunette Lucy disrupting the line as only she could!!

Desi sounds great here

Ay-yai-yai-yai, here comes Lucita! Hahahaha! That scene with Lucy dancing was epic!

My favorite song of the whole series :)

Omg idk how desi could keep a straight face and keep singing it was so much going on!😂😂😂😂😂 👏👏👏

Another hilarious musical moment by the Ricardos. Happy 65th anniversary to I Love Lucy

I keep on forgetting what a wonderful singer Desi Arnaz was. Thanks for reminding me!

I,LOVE THIS ONE, I,LOVE LUCY, SUCH A HANESOME MAN, AND LITTLE RICKY, WHEN HE PLAYED THE BONGO,S WITH RICKY, WATCHING IN 2024,🎉,. MRS.PERREAULT,.

Always liked Desi...

This is my favorite performance he ever put on that show. I still listen to this at least once a day.

Big fan of Desi and Lucy ❤❤

Desi was a very talented person, he was very handsome and sweet .

Timeless! Loved both of them since very very young, my mum also ❤️ and my grandchildren! Not many have crossed that generational divide,👵🇭🇲

Great. Two genius entertainers. So sad to know he cheated on her so much it broke her.

She didn't even know how this show was going to be a epic classic

This was a song that me and my siblings memorized. My grandmother only had a hand full of 45s for us. She had the Frankie Laine version. We loved this song!

This song is insanely good.💋

He sung his face off!!! My favorite one! ❤️

Love his voice, lmao when Lucy drives him nuts poor Ricky lol

My favorite i love lucy beautiful showgirls and lucy made it sizzle with magnificent laughter well done lucy i love you always and forever i love lucy !!

I love This Song. It Was Perfectly Done. Its Up There With Some Of The Best......

This is for me the best version of Jezebel

These 2 icons were amazingly talented! This is one of the first times Lucy snuck into Ricky 's show ! So glad it became a trademark of the series! Such versatility does not exist today! This is amazing musical talent coupled with an extremely comical performance , executed by 2 of the greatest, unsurpassed masters of comedy! Outstanding!

I cannot watch without laughing. This was from an era when women didn't often do physical comedy. It was brilliant.

Who cant love this show????

WONDERFUL... OMG>. yes .. RIP DESI ARNAZ xx

that band tho!

My favorite episode!!!!

Lucy was so goofy lol 3:50

The dancer’s name is Helen Da Silva (not Silver). She is my great aunt :)

One of my favorite bits! A classic!

What was in the air when songs like this and Temptation were composed? Wouldn't happen today.

i love lucy öne of my favorite shows lucy iş funny ricky iş a great singer

Would always watch this every morning before I went to school ahhhh memories

3:32-3:43 😂😂🤣🤣 3:51-4:01 😜 Also, Desi's rendition of Jezebel is my absolute favorite! Its just so haunting!

Timeless Fun...seriously!! ^^

This is an amazing song!!❤️❤️

Desi was a good singer and dancer, too.

Wow! just wow!, 1950's sitcoms were awesome, nowadays all we have is mostly trash.

Yes Desi was a Latin looker. Reminds me very much of a boyfriend I once had. I love this song. It's sad that he turned into a Jezebel with other women and Lucy divorced him years later.

Lucy's comedic timing was perfection.

Lucy is me trying to exercise by dancing to a Bollywood song🤣

This was when the world could laugh and forget about racism fighting i love lucy

This was great, the funniest of musical numbers. Thanks for posting.

Desi does the best version of this song ‘Jezebel.’ Better than anyone else!!

Thank you so much for posting this. I have been trying to find this video for the longest. Thank you!

Gracias

It do not get much better......good stuff

Love Lucy!

Sing it!!!!

I wish they show a clip where Ricky was walking out of their bedroom closet wearing Lucy’s black wig on his head at the nearest end of that episode.

I cry I laugh so hard at this scene

The 'bell' cracked.

I like the one where he sings a Native American song

Love this episode and song. Why didn’t Elvis record a version?

his best song tho

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gerry wilson don't believe i forgot how lucy got into this number

This is a sexy song

I would not hesitate to state given the facts mentioned how Desi & Lucy used to set each other on some form of jealous rage, we cannot ignore the fact editing this particular scene into the show tends to bring humor as part the act. Specifically, however, I felt drawn to that particular episode mainly because of Lucy didn't hesitate to withhold her jealous rage while doing her comedy act. We must understand that both Desi & Lucy proceeded to form possession nature geared toward each other during their early courtship and eventually straight into their marriage. However, I should make the point in stating funny especially when I read how both Desi & Lucy used to intervene in setting each other into a jealous rage.

Black-laced blue jeans. LOLOLOLOLOL.

It’s scratching her back for me 😂😂😂😂

When Lucy gets between them on the platform.

This is the funniest ! I never laughed so hard almost from the beginning to the end.. this hilarious JEZEBEL, tacky but somewhat Graham like choreography to exaggerated exotic 50's night club scene was obviously meant to be funny.

Sing and usher in Jezebel - really!

Shakin Stevens sang this song pretty well too :)

No one and I mean of all the versions I’ve heard this is The One. Other than the comedic.

I think that this bests Frankie Laine's version.

LUCY is funny....lol

Not making excuses for him, but Desi certainly had the kavorka.

Everyone i recommend the "SKA CUBANO" version of this song

I never understood Ricky's reaction at the end when the audience started clapping. Why was he in a state of surprise?

E a segunda parte

That's NOT Jezebel.That's LUCY !!!! ;)))))

2:15

shoulder pads for days

would have been a million times better if they had a catfight and rosemary beat the shit out of lucy.

I hate that Hulu doesn’t have the complete series..all the episodes with Tropicana scenes are not included! 😭

Frank Sinatra couldn't intimidate Ricky Ricardo.

The frequency curve used to transfer this to whatever this is mastered on now is unfortunate. Harsh, lacking detail. Perhaps the original soundtrack curve was lacking, too... Unfortunate since 35mm film has always had so much to offer as far as rich sound quality.

Czechoslovakian version - Waldemar Matuška, 1964 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RLeXfShIlrw.html

Why did i never realize until this moment how demonic this song is😮😮😮😮

I'm Sorry but Lucy was one funny Lady

Oh for the Love of God 🤦‍♀️

That suit, it's like Colonel Sanders, Pee Wee Herman and David Byrne from Once in a Lifetime.

He did it better than frank laine

One of the few songs that he sang that he really sounded good singing, in my opinion.