Please Subscribe. A scene from the 1963 film version of Bye Bye Birdie staring Ann-Margret and Dick Van Dyke. Kim (Ann-Margret) gets pinned by her love interest and Ursula spreads the word.
“Getting pinned” did not mean sex. It meant the guy no longer wanted to be a player and date only one girl. He would give her the pin he received for a specific school accomplishment (in high school, usually a sport). They were then “going steady.” She would wear his pin on her clothes so other guys knew she was not available to date. Back then this was a huge deal and totally innocent.
She was the very first Gossip Girl haha 😂 She even told the other girl she was going to do it. “Hang up so I can tell everybody in our school through cuz I just can’t keep my DAMN MOUTH SHUT!!! Lmao
why is Ursula always trying to stir-up trouble? First using her youngest niece’s fascination with a far different culture as a bargaining chip against her brother to try and usurp the kingdom. And now this!!!
When I was in college I had the pleasure of being one of the singers on this recording. It was so much fun to do! Annargret came in to the studio while we were recording, very sweet. Fun memories.
I love the haters starting at 1:50. Proving even back in the day people loved to through shade on people. The music that accompanies the hate is even better.
I was obsessed with this movie as a child! I watched it countless times and know all the songs! I thought Ann Margaret was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen and I wanted to be just like her!! haha
I did this show for cummunity theater while in college and played one of the teens. This was my favorite number to do and we recreated the colored stacked blocks they had in the original Broadway show. It was so much fun.
This song is totally an ode to the rotary dial phone. Maybe the best example I know of. They were stationary if you recall. You ran to it, and picked it up when it rang. Only a few places in the house could you talk on it, and if your talking bothered someone else, they had to move, not you. You also had to share it but it was forbidden to secretly listen in on someone's conversation from another phone. Privacy was not always guaranteed. Ah, the memories.
This is where the term ''What's the Story, Morning Glory?'' came from. That album of the same name by British rock band Oasis has now sold 22 million copies (16x platinum) and is the UK's 3rd best selling album of all-time. Noel Gallagher from Oasis dated an American girl from San Francisco who kept saying it because of this film. He used it in a song, named the album after it and the rest is history.
Hi JudgeHill83, car phones have been around since the late 1940s starting in larger cities. They had the equipment in the trunk to make the calls. It used the Civilian Band (Ham Radio). Martin Cooper was the first to invent a Cellphone in 1973 at Motorola and on April 3, 1973 he made the first truly mobile call.
Given the time frame and social genre, most of the kids in this town would either become draftees, protesters, or war widows with Viet Nam right around the corner!✌😎
I think more of the Jets and Sharks would have been drafted than these prosperous middle class boys...many of them (and the girls) would have been encouraged to go to college.
Paul Duca Quite a few, but things were different than today. Lots of the things associated with modern wars were not clichés like they are now. In fact, most were taboo, and it was not uncommon for families to never allow talk of someone from their family who had been killed, so as not to "upset" other people, both in and outside the family, since there was so much controversy about the war, that it would only make matters worse to quarrel with someone over a mentioning of the deceased. Also many middle class kids felt morally and socially obligated, rather than entitled, so opting out of some form of conscientious behavior was often frowned upon by one's peers, often to the disdain of parents who grew up during WWII, and were taught that all America's wars were moral and just.
Always liked the playboy/bad boy was just super supportive, while his friends called him stupid. Just "he's going steady now. Good for him, I'm glad they found each other." As he rides with a full harem.
People who predate cell phones will not necessarily understand that many of the telephones shown in this musical number were in impossible locations where no phone ever really was.
I saw this movie as a teen about 50 years ago when it first came out. Loved it. This is one of two best songs, the other was What's the Matter with Kids. Best actor and actress in this movie: Paul Lynde and Maureen Stapleton!!!
My school did bye bye birdie and our school is known for the great performances they do and I can honestly say this play was one of the best they've done. I loved this song in it.
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In her mind, she is saying either these lines: "Sweet heavens! The system wasn't designed for this! MAKE IT STOP!!" "Oh, sweet heavens! I cannot work under these conditions!"
Who remembers the remake, sometime in the 90's?? Chyna Phillips was Kim MacAffee, that guy from Seinfield played the guy at the office and Vanessa Williams played his secretary. That was so cool!!! I'd never heard of Bye Bye Birdie and I watched the remake on TV with my family and I was instantly fascinated. Great times!