Liberace and the Young Folk are feeling groovy!

Thanks, I needed a laugh today

so bad it's good!

I usually hate this kind of shit, but this made me smile. Liberace could cut a rug!

I'd kill for a pair of those floral pants.

The tall guy is a toe-tapping, head-bopping gay.

LIberace ALWAYS smelled cookies.

Who knew Lee was so light on his feet?

That’s quite a helmet of hair he’s sporting.

LOVE the fashion! Nothing beats the time period from 1965-1979 for crazy clothing.

L’s vest in black was all the rage at Folsom this year

That’s all that Liberace is the least gay thing about that clip

I wonder if any of those guys are DLer eldergays today.

The cautionary tale for not trying to follow trends or keep up with what the kids are doing...

It's SO American, isn't it?

Love it. They're so square they make the acts on Lawrence Welk look like the Jefferson Airplane.

It's of its era and very overproduced.

It's 1968 for christ's sake. Shows like Red Skelton were integrating. Not a single Black in the chorus. Shame.

was this right before the hip replacement?

When he starts playing the piano, he obviously has trouble adjusting to the “groovy” beat. Barbra Streisand had the same problem when she started doing pop covers and always sounded oddly stiff and out of time.

Yes, r17, I noticed that, too. A little jarring. Oh well, he tried.

There's a performance of this song by Gwen Verdon on Carol Burnett's variety show that I suspect many here would appreciate (male dancers in skin-tight white bell bottoms). I would post it, but my phone's being an asshole.

R13 You called?

Myron Floren, Lawrence Welk's accordionist, introducing Gale and Dale singing "a modern spiritual."

[quote]Barbra Streisand had the same problem when she started doing pop covers and always sounded oddly stiff and out of time.

she only started to get it when she did Star Is Born

Oooooh those pants ! just shows how embarrassing trends are : looking at you tatoo freaks ! Nothing like the past showing them their future.

you liken those pants to the tattoo freaks?

It’s an acquired taste. A little corny. A little cringy.

Trust me, no one wore those pants out on the street.

American TV did 60s pop culture in the most peculiar way.

This was their take on Swinging London

What culture is this?

Something Gary should have talked her out of but didn't

Case in point: when Barbra performs Laura Nyro’s ”Stoney End” she almost sounds like Mrs. Miller.

r27, beat me to it...

Mae West performing “Light My Fire”. She changed “funeral pyre” to “flaming fire”.

Here's the entire special

Our [italic]Lucy in London[/italic] thread from 2020

Dame Shirl's "Light My Fire"

Speaking of Mrs. Miller ...

I love these old people doing the 60s, it's hilarious.

I heard about Mrs. Miller that she wasn’t in on the joke, and that she really thought the kids were digging her. She was apparently devastated when she realised she was a laughing stock.

She claimed that in the recording studio, the conductor would fuck with her by cueing her to sing a beat ahead of or behind the musicians.

My grandma sang in the same style as Mrs Miller. I think I heard that singing style for the last time when visiting a retirement home in the early 2000s.

They say she was a total top

Groovy, baby!

Not everyone came across as an idiot. Some older folk NAILED the '60s sound.

I usually love these kinds of campy clips. But Liberace has always nauseated me. So plastic with the hideous fake smile and pounds of make up. It speaks volumes of his absurdly closeted nature. Just seeing that aging freak next to the young male dancers is disturbing. He looks like Ethel Merman about to ravage a three layer cake.

That yellow vest...

Lee loved to take golden showers

Thank you R32, that Lucy in London thread made me laugh.

It was a Thursday!