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05 Dec 09 - 07:40 PM (#2781702) Subject: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: gnu I like it.. Thanks bud. |
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05 Dec 09 - 07:45 PM (#2781703) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: olddude That is awesome GNU ... got me smiling |
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05 Dec 09 - 08:07 PM (#2781719) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: gnu 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. |
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05 Dec 09 - 09:16 PM (#2781757) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: gnu I do! |
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05 Dec 09 - 09:23 PM (#2781762) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Joe Offer 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- |
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05 Dec 09 - 09:27 PM (#2781766) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Jeri 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... |
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05 Dec 09 - 09:34 PM (#2781769) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Jeri 'Blue Skies', but the song was originally in a film titled, oddly enough, Puttin' on the Ritz, starring Harry Richman. |
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05 Dec 09 - 09:58 PM (#2781779) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: michaelr Their steps don't really match the beat. Plus, it's a dumb song to begin with. |
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05 Dec 09 - 10:14 PM (#2781787) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Jeri 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.) |
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05 Dec 09 - 11:30 PM (#2781823) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: JennieG Brilliant! Cheers JennieG |
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05 Dec 09 - 11:34 PM (#2781826) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: MGM·Lion ===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... |
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06 Dec 09 - 01:07 AM (#2781870) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Desert Dancer Here's the original from The Barkleys of Broadway (MGM 1949). Was originally to be Astaire and Garland... |
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06 Dec 09 - 01:38 AM (#2781876) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: MGM·Lion An MGM Production, of course. One simply mentions these things ····· |
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06 Dec 09 - 01:40 AM (#2781877) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: MGM·Lion BTW — just out of curiosity — WHY is this a BS, below the line, thread? |
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06 Dec 09 - 02:15 AM (#2781888) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Joe Offer Hi, MGM- Unless threads are blatantly in the wrong place, we leave them where the thread originator put them. -Joe- |
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06 Dec 09 - 02:21 AM (#2781890) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: MGM·Lion Thanks, Joe — you know me: just inquisitive. Like that man in Dickens, "I want to know you know." |
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06 Dec 09 - 05:43 AM (#2781947) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Janie Thanks gnu. Can't think of a better way to start my day than watching those two dance! |
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06 Dec 09 - 07:10 AM (#2781976) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: gnu 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. |
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06 Dec 09 - 10:27 AM (#2782089) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Stringsinger 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. |
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06 Dec 09 - 12:00 PM (#2782139) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: gnu Likely were! Great talent. |
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06 Dec 09 - 01:41 PM (#2782207) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: GUEST,Doc John 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. |
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06 Dec 09 - 08:33 PM (#2782499) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: kendall I was born on Fred's birthday. That is, the anniversary of Fred's birth. |
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06 Dec 09 - 09:06 PM (#2782519) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: Janie 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. |
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07 Dec 09 - 12:37 AM (#2782602) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: MGM·Lion 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'. |
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07 Dec 09 - 05:55 AM (#2782719) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: MGM·Lion ... 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. |
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08 Dec 09 - 12:45 AM (#2783513) Subject: RE: BS: Fred Astaire and MJ From: MGM·Lion 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... |