I have had vivid memories of seeing this on TV for years and years, and now I get to see it once more. Isn't it wonderful that so many of those wonderful things we thought were lost to time have found a new life on TH-cam. Thank you so much for preserving this and sharing it with us. Just wonderful - both Fosse and Verdon.
Kim, yes I am too. Obsessed with Gewn Verdon. Especially when she and Bob Fossie did dances together. Last time I saw her on TV was on a Walker Texas Ranger 1995 area. Not sure, loved her on Magumn PI Tom Selleck, she played a his Mom. I loved her dancing, esp from 1958? movie Damn Yankees, Who's got the Pain, with Bob Fossie. And as the Siren Lola. Whatever Lola Wants Lola Gets. I watch these 2 dances every day. Found a few of Bob Fossie dances on UTUBE. He and Gwen were so cute together. Sigh, I miss the old 🎼 Musicals and all the great dances, and talented Dancers.
From the Fosse Bio by Sam Wasson, page 237: In Oct '68, with the bulk of editing (Sweet Charity) behind him, Fosse took a moment to repay Gwen the only way he knew how. He choreographed two pieces for her (Verdon's) appearance on The Bob Hope Show. "Cool Hand Luke" and "Tijuana Brass". Each betrayed the softness he tried so hard to conceal. "Cool Hand Luke," especially - Fosse's most warm-hearted creation, a matador's lullaby devoid of ironic comment. Accompanied by Lee Roy Reams (Stage right in opening) and Buddy Vest, Gwen strutted and snapped through "Luke" with elegant machismo, receiving in wide welcoming arms Fosse's plaintive offering to her sensuality. "Every moment of creating this dance,: Reams said, "was a pleasure and a joy.
Buddy Vest was in Sweet Charity on stage and screen. Also Hallelujah, Baby! with Leslie Uggams and Dreamgirls. He also played Zach in A Chorus Line. He did numerous Ed Sullivan shows as well as The Dean Martin Show. He passed away 20 years ago today...February 10, 1995.
The men can't swing their hips as much as Verdon. They look more angular. I love that Fosse used them to contrast the difference between male and female bodies.
It is a wonderful surprise to discover this video! Gwen Verdon´s magic movements in Bob Fosse´s masterpiece choreography! This is absolutely awesome! I love it! Thank you very much for share this video! :)
The second song heard is "Mexican Shuffle," originally recorded by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and very familiar at the time from a series of commercials for Clark's Teaberry chewing gum.
The part where she smoked then ground it out and went into a few Twist steps was a respectful nod to Chuck Berry who made "The Twist" a household word and dance. He was on a show- probably American Bandstand and showed the guests how easy it is to do the Twist. He asked for a cigarette, lit it and threw it on the ground. He put his toe over the cig and ground it out while swiveling his hips! He 😆
Now I see where the " I Get Lonely" video by Janet Jackson was influenced by, even the hand snaps. The choreographer, Tina Landon must have been a fan of Gwen Verdon.
@@VeeMac Bob Fosse created moving , living art 🎨🖌️🖼️ .. it is HE we should all be thanking .🗿... Gwen was simply the best chosen messenger of his Genius.. .when paired along with him.. . the two of them together on a stage was magical.🎁🎁🎇.. the best dancers of their chosen style.🤩❤️🎓🎓.. no one else can match them .🏆🏆... No one... 👑👑
I wonder how many in the TV audience, at hearing the opening notes of the "Tijuana Brass" number, were expecting Verdon and co. to dance the Teaberry Shuffle...
People making films and TV shows today should be forced to watch this. The camera actually allows us to SEE the dance! None of this flippity floppity up and down and all around that destroys every moment these days.
wow you think about some of the great music that producers have sampled... but i think of MJ when i watch this and he made a body of work out of this beautiful piece big shout to the contributors if the art world
If anyone has seen The Intro choreography to Beyoncé’s “Formation Tour” it feels very that towards this performance. Very loose, but I can see it. Anyone else?
My my my... and of course they say Jazz is dead. With no choreographers or dancers or shows like this. And all the great teachers gone. Do you think Jazz is dead?
markie polo I console myself with thinking Mozart and Tchaikovsky are dead too and yet we still have them. Perhaps future generations will rediscover jazz and all its great choreographers and performers and try to recreate them, even bring something new to them. Problem is I don't see young people really knowing the difference between bullshit Broadway and the real thing. Maybe it will take another generation or two.
I mixed up the dancer w/ a painter. LeRoy Neiman because of first name...and there was a resemblance w/ the fake mustache. Oh we'll the brain was on half power LOL.
@markiepolo I love this clip! The first dance was in the show "Fosse" but done slightly different. The 2nd one with all it's syncopations and isolations is difficult. BTW: I thought this was from a Bob Hope special?
@markie polo. I am fan of Lee Roy Reams. He can be seen dancing in the "Sweet Charity" movie. He's also a great singer. I was lucky enough to see him the original "The Producers" tour in San Francisco . He was great!
Though, as pointed out below, Fosse knew how to contrast 'gendered' bodies (ugh - sorry for being so aridly academic), he simultaneously found an erotic ambiguity in the two: Verdon swaggers with 'silken' masculinity while Vest and Reams flicker between camp masculinity and being lushly 'girlie'. It's no surprise that Fosse's obsessions seemed to swirl around a notion of pornography without nudity: the slippery, free floating gender play, the 'extreme close up' isolation of the smallest body parts, the 'ironic' detachment from and satiric delivery of standardized show dance gestures, the body exposed as 'mechanism' and yet simultaneously re-established as lust object...fantastic. Just when you're about to say, "Oh, come on, Bob, I've seen those tight pelvic thrusts and extended arms in profile several time before..." he gets you and you are in, a voyeur lapping up every micro move, falling into the trap of, 'Well, anybody can dance that...oh, wait...oh, wait...holy S, this is a technical feat..."
Question : Why was Ms. Verdon NOT chosen for the lead in the film version of 'Sweet Charity' ? ...Nobody could move like Bob And Gwen ..🕺💃. Maclaine is good in the film .. but ... with all due respect to Ms. Maclaine , she is NOT Gwen.💃.. I will NEVER understand why Gwen was not chosen for the film 😳😔.🙁. She originated the role on Broadway .🤔.. She should have been the only choice for the film .🤨..It racks my brain to this day ..It was Gwen's to own ... nobody else ... what a crying shame... 😖😭☹️😩. ... .😠
@@jmason2838 The studio insisted. Fosse didn't have enough clout as a MOVIE director to sway them. I love Maclaine, too, but the movie could have been MUCH better. At least we got Buddy Vest, Lee Roy Reams and Ben Vereen in all the group numbers.
Just watched the movie of "Sweet Charity" for the first time in what, 20 years? Great to see both Lee Roy Reams and Buddy Vest on film with awesome Fosse direction and choreography, even without Gwen Verdon.
Okay, I’m not familiar with the female dancer. So, admitting to my ignorance- there are three dancers all performing the exact same moves. Why does the female get all the credit by commenters? Because the other two aren’t famous?
The other is Buddy Vest. Both he and Reams are very well known in the dancing and theatre worlds. Gwen Verdon is possibly the most famous and longest-lasting dancers on the Broadway stage. Won multiple Tonys, usually performing choreography by her husband, Tony- and Oscar-winning choreographer, dancer and director Bob Fosse. Gwen also starred in the movie version of "Damn Yankees" (Fosse choreography) with Tab Hunter, and did several highly-regarded guest roles on TV in the 1970's and 80's.
Also, they are most definitely NOT doing the exact same moves. Sometimes the moves are very, very close, but switch it to full screen to catch all the intricate give and take, as well as Gwen and the boys complimenting each other.
The other is Buddy Vest. They did a LOT of work for Fosse. They're both featured in the group numbers in the movie of "Sweet Charity", along with Ben Vereen.
@@soggytom And we can't forget Tommy Rall, man he was great as Frank, in 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. And a great dance number with Bob Fossie in My Sister Eileen Great movie, too. They were all such wonderful dancers. Such great talent. ❤
Markie - what's the origin of the clips here? Reams was well known to me as a flamboyant painter popular in the late 60s/70s. Has to be the same man with that mustache. Great moves on canvas and stage now.
You're thinking LeRoy Neiman. I've seen both him and Reams laugh about the names getting confused. Especially since Neiman had a giant mustache and I've always seen Reams clean-shaven.
I have had vivid memories of seeing this on TV for years and years, and now I get to see it once more. Isn't it wonderful that so many of those wonderful things we thought were lost to time have found a new life on TH-cam. Thank you so much for preserving this and sharing it with us. Just wonderful - both Fosse and Verdon.
I'm obsessed with Gwen Verdon. Gwen, if you can read this from heaven, I appreciate your talent!
I'm right there with you! Gwen was a wonderful dancer. No, an outstanding dancer! I love her dancing.
Kim, yes I am too. Obsessed with Gewn Verdon. Especially when she and Bob Fossie did dances together. Last time I saw her on TV was on a Walker Texas Ranger 1995 area. Not sure, loved her on Magumn PI Tom Selleck, she played a his Mom. I loved her dancing, esp from 1958? movie Damn Yankees, Who's got the Pain, with Bob Fossie. And as the Siren Lola. Whatever Lola Wants Lola Gets. I watch these 2 dances every day. Found a few of Bob Fossie dances on UTUBE. He and Gwen were so cute together. Sigh, I miss the old 🎼 Musicals and all the great dances, and talented Dancers.
From the Fosse Bio by Sam Wasson, page 237: In Oct '68, with the bulk of editing (Sweet Charity) behind him, Fosse took a moment to repay Gwen the only way he knew how. He choreographed two pieces for her (Verdon's) appearance on The Bob Hope Show. "Cool Hand Luke" and "Tijuana Brass". Each betrayed the softness he tried so hard to conceal. "Cool Hand Luke," especially - Fosse's most warm-hearted creation, a matador's lullaby devoid of ironic comment. Accompanied by Lee Roy Reams (Stage right in opening) and Buddy Vest, Gwen strutted and snapped through "Luke" with elegant machismo, receiving in wide welcoming arms Fosse's plaintive offering to her sensuality. "Every moment of creating this dance,: Reams said, "was a pleasure and a joy.
Yes, matador and flamenco. I´m spanish and I though it was only my imagination, what an amazing mixing! Fosse is my favorite choreographer.
Thank you for this! Reading the bio now and went in search of this vid. Great stuff!!
Thank you all that history. These routines are timeless.
My eyes are only for Gwen! What a performer she was and how til this day, there is no one that can dance like she does.
I was there with Lee Roy when this was taped. Studio 4, NBC, Burbank. The music is COOL HAND LUKE...Lalo Schiffren.
Not the second song, it’s herb alpert
What year was this? I can't believe what age (range, hence my question) Gwen Verdon is here...and she just kept going....
@@marykelly-zp4ih 1967
Buddy Vest was in Sweet Charity on stage and screen. Also Hallelujah, Baby! with Leslie Uggams and Dreamgirls. He also played Zach in A Chorus Line. He did numerous Ed Sullivan shows as well as The Dean Martin Show. He passed away 20 years ago today...February 10, 1995.
The men can't swing their hips as much as Verdon. They look more angular. I love that Fosse used them to contrast the difference between male and female bodies.
All that isolation my word what a genius Fosse was, and what genius all of his muses and players were. ❤
I love her! So original, fluid, fun, and cute!
It is a wonderful surprise to discover this video! Gwen Verdon´s magic movements in Bob Fosse´s masterpiece choreography! This is absolutely awesome! I love it! Thank you very much for share this video! :)
The second song heard is "Mexican Shuffle," originally recorded by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and very familiar at the time from a series of commercials for Clark's Teaberry chewing gum.
This is the Bert Kaemfert version as it’s a lot slower
The part where she smoked then ground it out and went into a few Twist steps was a respectful nod to Chuck Berry who made "The Twist" a household word and dance. He was on a show- probably American Bandstand and showed the guests how easy it is to do the Twist. He asked for a cigarette, lit it and threw it on the ground. He put his toe over the cig and ground it out while swiveling his hips! He 😆
I love how fresh, modern, and relevant this still feels. It's timeless.
Now I see where the " I Get Lonely" video by Janet Jackson was influenced by, even the hand snaps. The choreographer, Tina Landon must have been a fan of Gwen Verdon.
Janet and Beyonce and many other performers, owe Gwen a debt of thanks.
@@VeeMac Bob Fosse created moving , living art 🎨🖌️🖼️ .. it is HE we should all be thanking .🗿... Gwen was simply the best chosen messenger of his Genius.. .when paired along with him.. . the two of them together on a stage was magical.🎁🎁🎇.. the best dancers of their chosen style.🤩❤️🎓🎓.. no one else can match them .🏆🏆... No one... 👑👑
Sorry but both Gwen and Bob were the great duo behind all of this. They influenced and fed each other.
Gwen was a badass!
Okay, those mustaches are doing it for me, big time
So much of "I Gotcha" from "Liza with a 'Z'" is a direct reference to this earlier piece. Love.
Fosse choreographed Liza, too - check out the film cabaret, fosse’s directorial debut.
i was thinking the same thing. in fact, i already lined up my next google search... Liza I Gotcha
This is so damn fantastic! Very unique
love the silhouette concept
Such balance and control
I wonder how many in the TV audience, at hearing the opening notes of the "Tijuana Brass" number, were expecting Verdon and co. to dance the Teaberry Shuffle...
I doubt there was an audience. Sounds like canned applause to me.
@@soggytom The TV audience, as in those who were sitting at home watching on their TVs. :)
@@MisterUptempo Ah. That makes more sense.
Oh great! now I’m sleepy cuz of the cool hand Luke music😂😂😂
Beautiful, just beautiful
People making films and TV shows today should be forced to watch this. The camera actually allows us to SEE the dance! None of this flippity floppity up and down and all around that destroys every moment these days.
So very true!
I remember seeing her in Damn Yankees every year during the World Series
Genius!! Love this!!
🤩Surreal dance silhouette is super eye candy!!!
Living masterpieces of a dance master.
Loving the legendary Fossé.💖
BRAVO
best ever choreo
LOVE!!!!!!
I see a lot of the same choreography that we get in the two Ed Sullivan show appearances, when she dances to "Mexican Breakfast" and "Feelin' Groovy."
Maravillosos. Gracias
wow you think about some of the great music that producers have sampled... but i think of MJ when i watch this and he made a body of work out of this beautiful piece big shout to the contributors if the art world
thank u so much 😊!!!!!!
If anyone has seen The Intro choreography
to Beyoncé’s “Formation Tour” it feels very that towards this performance. Very loose, but I can see it. Anyone else?
N we all should know that Micheal Jackson was inspired by Fosse and Verdon as well
@@MammaKush88 of course!
Fosse! Fosse! Fosse!
Before they turned his work into an inside out exaration
I suppose they were the first Pans People x
The first performance looks like it may have inspired Janet Jackson’s “I Get Lonely” choreography, it always reminds of it every time I watch it.
Ashonti Henderson Also reminds me of some of Beyoncè's "Formation tour" choreo.
Or MJ’s Smooth Criminal
its really good :D and i love it
WOW!!!
EXCELENTE MARAVILLOSO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thankyou!
My my my... and of course they say Jazz is dead. With no choreographers or dancers or shows like this. And all the great teachers gone. Do you think Jazz is dead?
+Sima Raft oh yes, this kind of great choreography and dancing is long gone. Like with ballet, it's over :(
markie polo I console myself with thinking Mozart and Tchaikovsky are dead too and yet we still have them. Perhaps future generations will rediscover jazz and all its great choreographers and performers and try to recreate them, even bring something new to them. Problem is I don't see young people really knowing the difference between bullshit Broadway and the real thing. Maybe it will take another generation or two.
Тhis mоviе is nоw available tо wаtсh hеrе => twitter.com/896466a6ac96a5004/status/795842800793198593 Coool Hand Luke
I can see elements of this in the silent dance break from Smooth criminal! MJ was a thief!
yass!
Wouldn't it have been cool if they had had a holster with six shooters.
What's the 2nd tune?
Who are the male dancers?
Lee Roy Reams who is a friend. I have to ask him who the other guy is
@@BalletBabyBoy thank you so much ! Yes please, ask who the other gentleman is. I can see his face a little bit and he looks familiar
@@renel2788 Buddy Vest
@@BalletBabyBoy thank you so much ! He's the gentleman on the right when they first start dancing, correct?
@@renel2788 I know Lee Roy very well and I am pretty sure he is on the right as you watch the film.
I mixed up the dancer w/ a painter. LeRoy Neiman because of first name...and there was a resemblance w/ the fake mustache. Oh we'll the brain was on half power LOL.
Maureen McFadden ii
Lee Roy Reams..a dancer?!? he has some kinda fluid hips he does... LOVE this clip. Where is it from? Did Jack Cole choreograph this one?
I know Lee Roy well he was a wonderful dancer. Fosse from Ed Sullivan
@markiepolo I love this clip! The first dance was in the show "Fosse" but done slightly different. The 2nd one with all it's syncopations and isolations is difficult. BTW: I thought this was from a Bob Hope special?
Rusty Phresh Yes it is from the Hope special
@markie polo. I am fan of Lee Roy Reams. He can be seen dancing in the "Sweet Charity" movie. He's also a great singer. I was lucky enough to see him the original "The Producers" tour in San Francisco . He was great!
Rusty Phresh
He is funny, crazy and great to be with. We get together often here with other luminaries I am friends with.
Though, as pointed out below, Fosse knew how to contrast 'gendered' bodies (ugh - sorry for being so aridly academic), he simultaneously found an erotic ambiguity in the two: Verdon swaggers with 'silken' masculinity while Vest and Reams flicker between camp masculinity and being lushly 'girlie'. It's no surprise that Fosse's obsessions seemed to swirl around a notion of pornography without nudity: the slippery, free floating gender play, the 'extreme close up' isolation of the smallest body parts, the 'ironic' detachment from and satiric delivery of standardized show dance gestures, the body exposed as 'mechanism' and yet simultaneously re-established as lust object...fantastic. Just when you're about to say, "Oh, come on, Bob, I've seen those tight pelvic thrusts and extended arms in profile several time before..." he gets you and you are in, a voyeur lapping up every micro move, falling into the trap of, 'Well, anybody can dance that...oh, wait...oh, wait...holy S, this is a technical feat..."
Holy shit. That's why I love his work. It's not just fluid, it's genderfluid. I see this in MJ Jackson, too.
Not everyone can say "I DANCED WITH GWEN VERNON"!!! HAD TO BEEN AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE IN A DANCER'S LIFE!!!"
True magic....she had no bones....absolutely stunning woman
Miss Verdon should have been in the movie version of her Broadway triumph, "SWEET CHARITY". Regrettably, she was only in a few films.
Question : Why was Ms. Verdon NOT chosen for the lead in the film version of 'Sweet Charity' ? ...Nobody could move like Bob And Gwen ..🕺💃. Maclaine is good in the film .. but ... with all due respect to Ms. Maclaine , she is NOT Gwen.💃.. I will NEVER understand why Gwen was not chosen for the film 😳😔.🙁. She originated the role on Broadway .🤔.. She should have been the only choice for the film .🤨..It racks my brain to this day ..It was Gwen's to own ... nobody else ... what a crying shame... 😖😭☹️😩. ... .😠
@@jmason2838 The studio insisted. Fosse didn't have enough clout as a MOVIE director to sway them. I love Maclaine, too, but the movie could have been MUCH better. At least we got Buddy Vest, Lee Roy Reams and Ben Vereen in all the group numbers.
Just watched the movie of "Sweet Charity" for the first time in what, 20 years? Great to see both Lee Roy Reams and Buddy Vest on film with awesome Fosse direction and choreography, even without Gwen Verdon.
This aired October 14th, 1968.
Amazing saw this number in Fosse when it was on tour ...loved it and still do. Miss Gwen is such a joy to watch.
Look for it in Beyonces next video 😂
This was so lovely, soft and smooth with a Fosse touch.
Stunning, mesmerizing and exquisite!
It's a wonder la rude-tsky hasn't poured her usual dose of jealous "de-constructing" (whatever that means) acid on this gem...
it is incredible isn't it
@Ignacio Perez:
"rude-tsky"?
0:00 Cool Hand Luke
2:02 Mexican Shuffle
Okay, I’m not familiar with the female dancer. So, admitting to my ignorance- there are three dancers all performing the exact same moves. Why does the female get all the credit by commenters? Because the other two aren’t famous?
The other is Buddy Vest. Both he and Reams are very well known in the dancing and theatre worlds. Gwen Verdon is possibly the most famous and longest-lasting dancers on the Broadway stage. Won multiple Tonys, usually performing choreography by her husband, Tony- and Oscar-winning choreographer, dancer and director Bob Fosse. Gwen also starred in the movie version of "Damn Yankees" (Fosse choreography) with Tab Hunter, and did several highly-regarded guest roles on TV in the 1970's and 80's.
Also, they are most definitely NOT doing the exact same moves. Sometimes the moves are very, very close, but switch it to full screen to catch all the intricate give and take, as well as Gwen and the boys complimenting each other.
That was Janet I get so lonely
Fruitilisious
Richard, I'd *love* to share this with you and talk about it.......
Lee Roy Reams, Buddy Vest and Gwen.... A BOB HOPE Special.
Bob Fosse natch.
Bob Fosse's style, is still original
Priceless and Breathless!!....
02:44
Exquisite
What's the 2nd tune?
Tijuana Brass
markie polo Isn't Tijuana Brass just the name of Herb Alpert's band?
The song was called "We're Having a Heat Wave".
Thank you!
I think it's called Tequila
Wow this is really Cool!! Its Gwen Verdon dancing. I wonder who the 2 other dancers were. This is so great to watch!!!
One is Lee Roy Reams
@@BalletBabyBoy Thanks nice to know. I will be watching this again. 😍
The other is Buddy Vest. They did a LOT of work for Fosse. They're both featured in the group numbers in the movie of "Sweet Charity", along with Ben Vereen.
@@soggytom And we can't forget Tommy Rall, man he was great as Frank, in 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. And a great dance number with Bob Fossie in My Sister Eileen Great movie, too. They were all such wonderful dancers. Such great talent. ❤
@@leslieawest5062 And Rall had several numbers with Fosse in "Kiss Me Kate". But I didn't mention him since he's not involved with this performance.
Markie - what's the origin of the clips here? Reams was well known to me as a flamboyant painter popular in the late 60s/70s. Has to be the same man with that mustache. Great moves on canvas and stage now.
These are two dance numbers by Bob Fosse. Lee Roy isn't a painter I don't know where you got that from. The mustaches are fake.
You're thinking LeRoy Neiman. I've seen both him and Reams laugh about the names getting confused. Especially since Neiman had a giant mustache and I've always seen Reams clean-shaven.
beyoncé anyone?
Oh please fresh and relevant??? How 😂
Obviously you have no knowledge or understanding of great choreography and dancers. Go watch some of the latest Broadway crap...enjoy
Yes Ms gwen