Exactly what I feel about Mondays...
Yup. Here we go again...
To ease the old ennui on this Tacky Music Monday, let us marvel at the va-va-voom that was Miss Gwen Verdon, trying desperately to get her mitts on the (unsurprisingly uninterested) Tab Hunter...
Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets? Unlikely...
Have a good week, dear reader!
I'd like to be in bed, tossing papers aside as I grimace, instead of working. Bring me an extra blanket. It's chilly this morning.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Oh, staying in bed being grumpy would have suited me quite nicely today! Jx
DeleteI never tire of this song... nor of Gwen Verdon. (OK, I did have a major crush on Tab Hunter when I was a kid. I thought it was because I wanted to look like him.)
ReplyDeleteMiss Verdon was a delight! As was Mr Hunter, for very different reasons... Jx
DeleteI saw a tramp in town today, he was tab hunting, picking up dog ends at bus stops and putting them in his pocket, how much are cigs nowadays?
ReplyDeleteToo much. Jx
DeleteGwen Verdon doesn't get nearly enough credit. I love how she nails every single element of this routine, and does humor at the same time - just so much taste and thought going on here. WOW.
ReplyDeleteShe was one of the most underrated talents of all time! It was she, not Bob Fosse, who choreographed most of the routines for which he took all the credit... Jx
DeleteThe humor is so important to this number because the censors would never have allowed Gwen Vernon simply strip in the movie, It had to be a joke.
DeleteAnd she was great at playing that joke! Jx
DeleteI don't know if you saw this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Erqp3WPig it's the latest Dr. Who theme, performed by the BBC Radio Orchestra of Wales. Does that mean everyone gets their very own BBC Orchestra?
ReplyDeleteThe BBC has many, many strings to its bow. [boom, tish!]
DeleteSince Russell T Davies revived Doctor Who it has been produced in Cardiff, so it makes sense that the BBC Wales orchestra should get the gig... Jx
Always fab to see the fabulously talented Gwen Verdon.
ReplyDeleteOh and always lovely to see the fab Tab too.
He was cute. I wonder whethe he was shagging Roddy McDowell at this time..? Jx
DeleteOh! That's a trip down that ,mossy, cobwebby lane! Thank you! " and, little man, little Lola wants YOU..."
ReplyDeleteIt's a very much overlooked musical. Probably because it's title and subject matter mean very little outside the USA where nobody else plays baseball. Jx
DeleteEven though it was invented in England
DeleteThat's Rounders! It was a game played by girls when I was in school. Jx
DeleteActually I'm worried that's a factoid, I've never bothered checking it
ReplyDeleteThey are related ball-games, of course. There isn't a helluva lot in the "New World" that doesn't owe its roots to the "Old" - apart from lacrosse. Jx
DeleteMrs Slocombe had a bash at that song in an episode of AYBS
ReplyDeleteGood grief! Who was she singing it to? Jx
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