Grrrr. Another weekend disappears in a flash...
Here at Dolores Delargo Towers, we're still wearing black armbands, mourning the loss of the legendary Chita Rivera [read my tribute].
By way of a (further) fitting wake-up call on this Tacky Music Monday, I've found a marvellous piece of (audience-recorded) footage of the great lady at her very best, cavorting with her safety gays!
Gimme love, Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love, love, love!
Gimme love, Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love, love, love!
If there's a war on, don't bring me the news
Ask me to bull fights and I must refuse
But if you want to get my attention
Let's make love!
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love!
If there's an earthquake I will not attend
Gimme kisses, Gimme love!
If there's a plague don't invite me my friend
Gimme kisses, Gimme love, love, love!
But if you want to
Keep me looking in your direction
Let's make love!
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love, love, love!
Gimme love, Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love!
It's like giving to the needy
And I don't mind being greedy.
Come on, Chico, please be speedy
And bring me what I long for...
If there's a fire don't bring me a hose!
Gimme kisses, Gimme love!
Call me a coward, that's true, I suppose!
Gimme love, love, kisses, Gimme love
But all I want is beauty...
So...
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Hugs
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Squeezes
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Lips
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Kisses
So let's not make more trouble
Let's make love!
Gimme love Kiss
Gimme, Gimme love, love, love! Kiss
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, love, love Kiss
Gimme love, love Kiss, kiss!
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, love!
Gimme love, Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love, love, love!
Gimme love, Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love
Gimme love, Gimme kisses, Gimme love, love, love!
Gimme...
(Molina:)
Come with me...
Her name is Aurora
And she is so beautiful,
No man who has met her
Can ever forget her
They're madly in love
Forever in love.
Have a good week, dear reader.
Chita Rivera was perfection. Such a shame she wasn’t Rosie in the film version of Bye Bye Birdie, but a real Latina playing a leading lady Latina would have been too much for Hollywood to take.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you dear, as in fact I usually do.
DeleteAnn-Margret was the "hottest property in town" when they came to do that film (which was a sort-of-Elvis-pastiche, ironically, given she ended up in his next movie), so it's no surprise, really. Jx
DeleteA powerhouse of talent and charisma.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what age she was in that clip but she definitely still had It.
The dressmaker should be given a medal for sowing on those feathers so they didn't slip or fall off with all of those gyrations.
She was Fab beyond Fab.
RIP
By my reckoning, she was 63 when she was in this production - still lithe! As for keeping the feathers on - once a showgirl, always a showgirl, dear...
Delete...we should know! Jx
Chita Rivera comme on dit en parlance américaine un 'dance-gypsy' et un 'hoofer' de Broadway. Une 'powerhouse' qui pourrait illuminer Broadway. :)
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She certainly was "une powerhouse"..! Jx
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