BS: Fred Astaire and MJ

Subject: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: gnu
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 07:40 PM

I like it..

Thanks bud.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: olddude
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 07:45 PM

That is awesome GNU ... got me smiling

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: gnu
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 08:07 PM

I have been watching Fred's vids for a while... great stuff.

I am so amazed and thankful for this new technology. Just YT alone helps the world come together as a community.

I know that sounds odd for me to say that right now. But, that video may change the perspective of some young kid as to the similarities and differences between whoever and whatever.

Or... it's just kewl. Whatever.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: gnu
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 09:16 PM

I do!

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 09:23 PM

What film was the original Fred-Ginger routine from? I know I've seen it, but they did so many.
I have to say that the blend of "Billie Jean" with the dance routine was masterful. It fit perfectly.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 09:27 PM

I've been trying to figure this out for years. Yes, I know this is a 'BS' thread, but what is the time signature of 'Puttin' on the Ritz'?

I think it's 4/4 with some syncopation in the lyrics, but I don't know.

Istanbul, not Constaniople...

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 09:34 PM

'Blue Skies', but the song was originally in a film titled, oddly enough, Puttin' on the Ritz, starring Harry Richman.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: michaelr
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 09:58 PM

Their steps don't really match the beat. Plus, it's a dumb song to begin with.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 10:14 PM

OK, the feeling of a weird rhythm is explained in this Wikipedia article.

Here's Smooth Criminal. (I'm still waiting for it to load.)

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 11:30 PM

Brilliant!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 11:34 PM

===I am so amazed and thankful for this new technology. Just YT alone helps the world come together as a community.===

Up to a point. But at risk of party-pooping, attention should be drawn to the 'Nazi music on YT' thread also... shall, if dropped off, refresh it as reminder...

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 01:07 AM

Here's the original from The Barkleys of Broadway (MGM 1949). Was originally to be Astaire and Garland...

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 01:38 AM

An MGM Production, of course.

One simply mentions these things ·····

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 01:40 AM

BTW — just out of curiosity — WHY is this a BS, below the line, thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 02:15 AM

Hi, MGM-
Unless threads are blatantly in the wrong place, we leave them where the thread originator put them.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 02:21 AM

Thanks, Joe — you know me: just inquisitive. Like that man in Dickens, "I want to know you know."

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Janie
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 05:43 AM

Thanks gnu. Can't think of a better way to start my day than watching those two dance!

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: gnu
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 07:10 AM

I put it in the BS because it's not blues or folk or of a serious musical nature to me. I, hopefully, have learned my lesson.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Stringsinger
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 10:27 AM

One of the most exciting Fred's partnership was in "Broadway Melody of 1940"
where he dances "Begin the Beguine" with his equal and match, Eleanor Powell.
The scuttlebutt was that they were so in awe of each other that they appeared a little
nervous.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: gnu
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 12:00 PM

Likely were! Great talent.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: GUEST,Doc John
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 01:41 PM

Can't be Blue Skies as that didn't star Ginger Rogers but Joan Caulfield. Unless that isn't her. Anyway superb stuff! Doesn't Fred lift your spirits.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: kendall
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 08:33 PM

I was born on Fred's birthday. That is, the anniversary of Fred's birth.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: Janie
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 09:06 PM

Oh dear, gnu, I'm afraid you are responsible for a new internet obsession. Been watching Fred Astaire videos for the last half hour!

Eleanor Powell was a fine dancer, but I preferred Ginger Rogers - she tap danced with such grace of movement - She and Fred Astaire matched each other so well in that respect.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 07 Dec 09 - 12:37 AM

Yay - he had many excellent partners [Garland, Powell, Hayworth...] — but it is the combo 'Fred & Ginger' that topped them all, that predominates in popular memory, & that has virtually entered the language as firmly as 'Gilbert & Sullivan' - or 'salt & pepper'.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 07 Dec 09 - 05:55 AM

... altho must add that his, IMO, best ever number on film was with Garland: 'A Couple of Swells' from "Easter Parade"; but that was a song-&-mime rather than an actual dance. When it came to actual dancing, his turns with Rogers were incomparable.

Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 12:45 AM

Though run a close second, if only that, by We Joined The Navy from Follow The Fleet - which was with Ginger. Both these by incompble [apart perhaps with Mercer, Porter, Gershwins, Rodgers/Kern-Hammerstein, Dubin&Warren ... but u-no what I mean] Irving Berlin...