The awful truth is only just beginning to sink in that the Legendaires video wasn't a parody.

Why the fuss? This in 1965 for goodness sake! Thanks for the link - thoroughly enjoyed this authentic slice of middle-American folk glitz-kitsch replete with archetypical trampish-clown and his attendant trinity of bonny circus girls.

In return I might offer this, from 1963...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruHQhNe-UM

That's some heritage you guy's have got there. You really ought to be proud of it.