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| Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:59 am EST 02/14/21 | |
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| as she performs the lovely "Dancing on the Ceiling" from "Evergreen". A very beautiful dancer indeed. It's a shame she and Fred Astaire didn't get to team up on screen as had been planned at one point back then. One of her films "First a Girl" was based on the German film which was later used as "Victor/Victoria" for Julie Andrews. | |
| Link | Jessie Matthews - "Dancing on the Ceiling" |
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| Would anyone know... | |
| Posted by: Amiens 11:14 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - PlayWiz 11:59 am EST 02/14/21 | |
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| .....of a cover of this wonderful song that was done in the past 20 (or 30) years by a contemporary singer? Or was it possibly used in another R&H project or an old MGM film? When I first heard the Matthews original this year in this clip it drove me crazy wondering where I'd first heard the song. I've searched online but never found an answer. TIA! | |
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| re: Would anyone know... | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:11 pm EST 02/16/21 | |
| In reply to: Would anyone know... - Amiens 11:14 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| This version by Frank Sinatra, from his 1955 album In the Wee Small Hours, is the one I grew up with. For me, it's the version, and no one else's comes close. | |
| Link | Sinatra: Dancing on the Ceiling |
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| There's also this version.... | |
| Posted by: LovestheShow 11:01 am EST 02/16/21 | |
| In reply to: Would anyone know... - Amiens 11:14 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| This is the 2nd time I heard this song, after Matthews. | |
| Link | Ceiling |
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| re: There's also this version.... | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 11:26 am EST 02/16/21 | |
| In reply to: There's also this version.... - LovestheShow 11:01 am EST 02/16/21 | |
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| Covered by The Muppets, The Supremes and Barbara Cook! | |
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| I love all these versions! | |
| Posted by: Amiens 07:36 pm EST 02/16/21 | |
| In reply to: re: There's also this version.... - Billhaven 11:26 am EST 02/16/21 | |
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| Thanks everyone for linking them. I also remembered that Barbra Streisand sang just a snippet from the song in her great version of "Down With Love" on her second album (and If I were cleverer, I'd post a link ;) ) | |
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| re: Would anyone know... | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 07:47 am EST 02/15/21 | |
| In reply to: Would anyone know... - Amiens 11:14 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| Dawn Upshaw has a charming album of Rodgers and Hart and covers it ( as do The Supremes and Sandy Stewart, among others). | |
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| re: Would anyone know... | |
| Posted by: Amiens 02:46 pm EST 02/15/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Would anyone know... - Billhaven 07:47 am EST 02/15/21 | |
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| Oh goodness! I think it's The Supremes version I must have had lodged in the recesses of my brain. Thanks so much for the nudge, Billhaven. | |
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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Posted by: young-walsingham 12:35 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - PlayWiz 11:59 am EST 02/14/21 | |
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| Thanks for this - quite enchanting and I don't think I've seen her dance before. Also, whoever designed and made her dress knew what it was all about. | |
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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:18 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:10 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - young-walsingham 12:35 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| Here's another vid I just watched with Jessie Matthews and Jack Whiting partnering in a tap dance number. What struck me, besides what a great partner she would be for Astaire, is that it is very good choreography, telling a story really well, without all the extraneous jumping and acrobatics some modern choreographers think is necessary in numbers that don't call for it. Plus Matthews was quite versatile and Whiting a very good partner indeed. I bet Gene Kelly was influenced by seeing some of these routines, as Matthews was a big star in her day and deserves to be rediscovered. The part with the thugs reminds of me some stuff in the "Broadway Melody" number in "Singin' in the Rain" and the "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" number Kelly did with Vera-Ellen in "Words and Music", and also a bit of a precursor of the way gangs were handled in "West Side Story". | |
| Link | Jessie Matthews/Jack Whiting "Tap Dance" |
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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Posted by: edinalex 01:59 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - PlayWiz 01:10 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| When I was at school, we used to have group outings to a nearby theatre. When I was 16 I saw Jessie Matthews playing the lead in The Killing of Sister George. | |
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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:59 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - edinalex 01:59 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| Wow, talk about range! | |
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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Posted by: HelenHaze 06:24 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - PlayWiz 01:59 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| I saw her as the Wife of Bath in Canterbury Tales in London in 1968 opposite Wilfred Brambell (the old guy from the Beatles Hard Days Night movie). She was sensational. | |
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