I just realized that in the part about the burlesque dancer they censored the line "but later in the second act when she began to peel you could see that everything she had was absolutely real" and changed it to "and then she started dancing and her dancing made me feel that every single thing she had was absolutely real" and thus was the purity of the youth of America preserved.
I understand that most people just want to hear the isinging, but this song opens up to a specacular dance number that ends up with Gene Nelson dancing on top of a moving train, then jumping off to the back of a horse. Surely one of his finest moments! I'm asking someone to post the whole number for those who want to see it all.
@John Fugazzi He did all of it except for the jump onto the back of the horse (and what he did was some pretty spectacular dancing and lasso twirling and jumping). Actor/stuntman Ben Johnson (who can be seen earlier in the video bringing Will Parker's horse to the train station) did the leap onto the horse's back. The studios let Gene Nelson do some pretty crazy stuff during his film career, but they had a stuntman do the leap onto the horse.
When he sings about the stripper: "I could swear that she was padded from her shoulder to her heel / But later in the second act when she began to peel / She proved that everything she had was absolutely real!" They changed the middle part to "But then she started dancin' and her dacnin' made me feel." Lame. I hate how great plays and books suffered from the Hays Code during this time.
Yet, the Hays Code was okay with Oklahoma Hello and Will and Annie staggering back to the house near the end of the film after a night of who knows what. :-)
