My 2 Aunts had a small cafe in Milwaukee. 15 year old Liberace came in to play piano there. Liberace would send them the first pressing of all his records. Very groovy😊
It’s vital that you don’t omit the "doodly doo doo" part… I’ve discovered that it’s THAT particular bit that REALLY gets their attention. You can thank me later.
I was born in 1967 and I remember watching stuff like this (Laurence Welk, etc) while spending the weekends at my grandparents house. Great memories of feeling safe and happy with people I love who have been gone for nearly 40 years. Where does the time go?
A friend of mine told me a story about Liberace which took place back in the 1960s if I remember correctly. Liberace had a concert in Boston and this friend of mine had tickets. There was a huge snow storm and most everything was cancelled so my friend figured the concert probably was as well. He couldn't confirm this though. He didn't want to take a chance that the concert wasn't cancelled so off he went from Western Massachusetts into Boston. Come to find out the concert was not cancelled. There were very few people in attendance due to the storm but Liberace gave the concert anyway. He instructed everyone no matter where they were sitting to all come down to the front rows near the stage. My friend said he spent the night telling stories, taking requests, getting to know concert goers and making the group laugh. Sounded like a great concert.
I’ll say it again. I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again. I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again. I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again. I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again. I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again. I’ve said this once before.
Many people blame one DJ for the end of the disco era but I believe it was the Brady Bunch Hour and their tribute to disco in which Alice is dancing to Shake Shake Shake Your Booty
It’s also weird to watch the counterculture become the dominant culture, I kind of like all of the wholesome, feel good nonsense. I never knew Id miss it until it was gone.
This is mind-numbing. After watching it three times and collecting my wits about me all I can say is this. Liberace was probably about 50 here, which today does not make a celebrity entertainer grasp at something like this to hang on to some kind of relevance to "the younger generation." But then this was the time when Frank Sinatra was photographed wearing love beads. Thank you ever so much for posting this beauteous clip.
@@severetiredamage6754I don't believe Liberace ever came out, officially. These were the times that denial was rampant. Nobody acknowledged child abuse, either. Hard to imagine in light of what we know now!
A lotta people back then wouldn't acknowledge, what for us today, would seem fairly obvious. Not just Liberace, but Rock Hudson. It took his (and Liberace's) succumbing to the effects of Aids, to convince us/them.
My mom would dress me up in hot pants. Different colors and white boots. I think I was 5. 1971. I got pictures😮 They were called hot pans, but they're really short shorts
I was in 6th grade and wanted patches on my jeans. My parents went to K-Mart and bought me these pants that were printed with patches. They were all different colors and I was distraught. I had to wear them to school because they paid good money for them. They looked like clown pants.🤡😢
Lucky you I have photos as evidence dressed in a full length long butterfly sleeves crochet dress… at the age of 5 or so. I had my two front teeth missing so I know the age… luckily that might catch the eye rather than my lovely pale blue outfit. My Mum did it with love when she knitted it. And let’s face it… I survived and have a great dress sense now , left to my own devices.
The classis of em all was Sunday night with Ed Sullivan. He'd have an act, of a guy spinning plates and saucers on long sticks wihtout breaking em.... followed by an opera Diva belting out a sleazy Broadway tune... followed by Ed himself doing a skit with an Italian mouse puppet named Topio Gigio. I too am old.
I'm seventy and remember my grandparents watching Lawrence Welk on a television with a halo light around the picture tube because they thought it was easier on the eyes in those days. The show performed "One Toke Over the Line", oblivious to what the song was about.
@@kathleenc8810 I was a little girl in the early 90s and I loved watching old Welk reruns on TV. When I wasn't listening to my Patsy Cline tapes or watching Wizard of Oz on VHS lol.
My grandmother went to school with Liberace when they were little kids in Wisconsin. She remembered that he was always busy practicing the piano while the rest of the kids were playing tag or hide and seek.
My great aunt was a blackjack dealer in old Vegas. When Liberace had a residency there it was busy on the weekend and a ghost town during the week. He would eat lunch with her everyday and she said he was the nicest man there was.
I worked at the Liberace Museum in Vegas briefly, in the early 2000’s. Got to touch his pianos. Nice to be among his cherished possessions. Sad the museum and Tivoli Gardens (his restaurant) closed after being open so many years, but the generations that admired him and found him interesting are gone. He was a talented man and his legacy should’ve been preserved for years to come.
I was looking for a video on how to install a tank bag on my new-to-me motorcycle and this popped up on the sidebar. Totally forgot about the tank bag.
Where he sings "Liberace's turnin' on" shows you just how eagerly mass culture and the mass media were to co-opt anything from the counterculture that could turn a buck. The excesses on stage are staggering to behold.
I wonder if this helped parents adjust to the massive shift in culture that was taking place? Obviously, kids thought this was ridiculous, but parents probably thought, "Oh, if this is what it's about, then it looks harmless and silly, like most things for kids." Either way, salute to corporations for trying to make a buck off it.
I don’t think kids thought it was ridiculous, in fact I know it. Different times. What happend now, corporations trying to make a buck off wokeness, and keeps backfiring on them but they still do it…more politically influenced now than then I would argue.
Kids with a IQ above room temperature thought it was ridiculous. It's sickeningly adonyne, white milk toast. I think these people tore off these outfits after the show. Poor guys had to wear those trousers.
@@blazel462Well, Ronald Reagan ran for president giving the same speeches as a candidate that he had been giving for years as a spokesman for GE. How much more political can a corporation get?
@@daniellebcooper7160 Liberace was the highest paid entertainer on earth. He had millions of fans. It sounds like you are jealous of his talent. Go whine and pout somewhere else.
If you ever watched SCTV, they had a Liberace (Dave Thomas) Christmas special complete with dueling pianos with Elton John (Rick Moranis), Ethel Merman (Andrea Martin) singing Silent Night off-key, and Orson Welles (the late great John Candy) being a temperamental divo during his Good King Wencelas soliloquy by screaming at the cameraman; it is hysterical. Dave Thomas looked just like Liberace in the skit. th-cam.com/video/9XxFHz15zcw/w-d-xo.html
Be sure to check out Eduard Khil and the Trolol Song to see what the Russians were doing at that time. Old Li and Eddy could’ve dazzled with a duet at that time 😂
I don’t know. I certainly experienced some fight or flight from watching this. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to punch my iPad or just run out of the room screaming.
I almost feel like this was an accidental advertisement for LSD! The kids knew what this all meant but the adults just thought they were being hip with all the Flower Power antics and groovy talk. 😂
In his later shows, Liberace became more flamboyant than ever. I can't believe that you can't believe that Liberace was gay. Notice in this video at 2:50. Apparently, if a guy is gay, he can get away with putting his hand on a woman's breast on live TV. Today that would probably result in a lawsuit.
Old person here, I remember kids back in the day actually liking this song and having it on 7" record. But I. think Simon and Garfunkel did it first? God it's been like 50 years haha
What a groovy way to start the weekend off with this musical and colorful performance with Liberace, and the young folks. Have a Groovy weekend David and friends 🌸💮🏵🌺
@@hugozapata3071 let's see, we have war in Europe and the Middle East, we have mass shootings every few months. I think the 60s sounded MUCH better than the crap lifestyle of the present.
Gotta hand it to him for keeping up with the times! Impressed with is dancing along with them. What's kind of sad is the overall push for these ideas in the 60s... it's overdone! Too much flower power... This was the moment the fad ended! LOL
As a young man In the seventies I worked at KMUV-TV in Sacramento. Liberace’s brother George also worked there as a movie host. I shot film and one day he asked if i’d like to go to Lake Tahoe where his brother Liberace was doing a show. I had dinner with the family as Liberace performed and afterwards shot a segment with he and his brother. At 1:30 am just a few of us including Lee went downstairs to the coffee shop for pancakes. It was great fun watching the patrons react to Liberace’s presence among them as well as the outlandish outfit he had donned.
I’m a straight guy, live and recording engineer for over 40 year, I love this! Thanks for posting! And to all those that feel a need to put this down, do you feel better about yourselves now?
@@MaryMerryKingOfTheWoodsIsHe Exactly. It's just that it hasn't aged well and I wonder what someone like Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix would have thought if they saw it back then.
Being forced to watch this more than once could be considered "cruel and unusual punishment"! I will speak with my attorney about this!.....ok, I'll watch it 10 more times, and that's it!
Tons of people decorated with those flowers during the 60s. I remember seeing them everywhere. Glad your mom was proud because they were pretty groovy.
Liberace never had to say it. Everyone in the biz knew and he got the utmost respect from everyone anyway because he was one of the greatest showman who ever lived.
this is priceless...Liberace was the kind of person you couldn't keep your eys off of..whether you were mocking or goofing or loving him...he had that personality that was fun to watch...
I have a lot of respect for Liberace. A prodigy and a great entertainer… a very talented man. This was fitting for the time and I guess in the grungy world we now live in, well it does looks a little out of place. I like it but I can see why the comments are a little sarcastic. I’m a dag for anything colourful and unusual.
My mom, a fantastic pianist, never missed Liberace’s TV show! Nothing could tear her away from his show. I, a teenager at the time, occasionally watched with her and thought he was a great entertainer with a dramatic flair. The candelabra was a cute touch. Neither of us knew he was gay at that time. Actually Stonewall hadn’t occurred yet, so the word gay hadn’t yet appeared in our collective consciousness. A very special talent!
@@1Talldancer Its a basic, happy, trippy song but this version of it, this video, is just plain cringey, creepy and stomach churning. I admit I was a big fan of Lee's when I was a kid and I still like some of his music, but this is just a nightmare. He did produce a great album around 1980 called A Brand New Me which was totally different to anything else he produced. Well worth a listen.
The Hell's Angels were at at Altamont around the same time this dropped. Elvis was a drug addicted mess. Miles dropped out and was a coked up recluse. The list of folks who died due to drugs during this time is pretty big. Entertainment had it's darkside in the late 60s early 70s.
My grandmother adored Liberace and said people gossiped he was "that way" out of jealousy and it was just a matter of time for him to find the right girl.
David, you’re doing a terrific job showcasing intriguing, thoughtful and yes sometimes entertaining clips from film & tv projects of the past. Thank you, and we’ll talk some time in the future, I hope.
This Lemon Sisters song could only have been performed in the 1950s - th-cam.com/video/-MOG6lhn6Qs/w-d-xo.html
always a great to start the day with this video... makes me smile every time...
Wow! What a great time capsule.
Well 60s but yeah
My 2 Aunts had a small cafe in Milwaukee. 15 year old Liberace came in to play piano there. Liberace would send them the first pressing of all his records. Very groovy😊
Yeah, I've heard good stories about him. Good guy.
Solid, man!
I knew him. He was a very selfish lover.
As a "young" lifetime Milwaukee resident that's a pretty cool thing to know.
Wow!
They brought back capital punishment the day after this aired.
🤣🤣🤣
Fkn EPIC 💯
😂
wearing that is punishment enough!
This could be considered capital punishment.
When I want to relate to the youth, i also use the line, "Hello young folk, whatcha shakin'? I gotta try that scene you're making!"
😁😂
Try it next time you are being carjacked by "teens"
@@whiteshark0000 “Teens?” You mean Wally Cleaver, Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford?
It’s vital that you don’t omit the "doodly doo doo" part… I’ve discovered that it’s THAT particular bit that REALLY gets their attention.
You can thank me later.
😂
Looks like I chose the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!
😂😂😂
Immediately pictured that scene!!! 😂😂😂
thanks for making me laugh
I’m back on the gear now
I was just thinking of that line couple days back iconic.
I was born in 1967 and I remember watching stuff like this (Laurence Welk, etc) while spending the weekends at my grandparents house. Great memories of feeling safe and happy with people I love who have been gone for nearly 40 years. Where does the time go?
I was born in 1957 and I remember seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in three piece suits.
I was born I 1961 and remember those flower decals were everywhere when I was 6 or 7. Cheers from Montreal
@@johngore7744 and smiley faces
Simpler times.
...to your grandchildren, pass It along 😊
This makes the Osmonds look like Black Sabbath!
The Osmonds - Crazy Horses
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Right on!😅😅😅😅
Oh Satan Make Our Nerdy Demo Sell! O S M O N D S.
@williamlidster5850 Makes Black Sabbath look like Mozart.
By the way, I loved the Osmonds, especially their first albums! Crazy Horses, The Plan, Phase Three were all great eclectic rock-n-roll!🤟🏻
This makes Lawrence Welk look like the Sex Pistols. My eyes and ears are mad at me for putting them through this.
Haha best comment.
@@nickhill8612 The ultimate cornball group. Just plain awful.
@@giovanna722
Haha you are right.
That deep baritone _”feelin groovy”_ he finishes with clinches it!
@@brianarbenz1329
Haha yeah
all accounts of this man are that he was kind and generous to everyone he met.
True. It is very difficult to say bad things about him. He was a very decent man.
I like Liberace, and this was not a horrid rendition. Points for trying, at the very least.
A friend of mine told me a story about Liberace which took place back in the 1960s if I remember correctly. Liberace had a concert in Boston and this friend of mine had tickets. There was a huge snow storm and most everything was cancelled so my friend figured the concert probably was as well. He couldn't confirm this though. He didn't want to take a chance that the concert wasn't cancelled so off he went from Western Massachusetts into Boston. Come to find out the concert was not cancelled.
There were very few people in attendance due to the storm but Liberace gave the concert anyway. He instructed everyone no matter where they were sitting to all come down to the front rows near the stage. My friend said he spent the night telling stories, taking requests, getting to know concert goers and making the group laugh.
Sounded like a great concert.
The movie said differently. (Great acting.)
I'm feeling 23% more groovy than before after watching that.
19% here.
I'd feel groovier if the bubble cut had the perky knockers.
I'm not sure I feel much groovier, but I am definitely digging that scene!
😂
I'm in minus grooves
I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again. This makes the Brady Bunch Variety Hour look like Breaking Bad.
Brilliant!
I’ll say it again.
I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again.
I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again.
I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again.
I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again.
I’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again.
I’ve said this once before.
Yeah but this video doesn't have Alice or a fake Jan.
Many people blame one DJ for the end of the disco era but I believe it was the Brady Bunch Hour and their tribute to disco in which Alice is dancing to Shake Shake Shake Your Booty
Yikes, awful stuff
It’s interesting to watch the dominant culture try to absorb the counterculture.
Obviously it still happens today, but it DOES NOT COMPARE to how it was done on variety TV during the ‘60s-‘70s
It is interesting to see how someone can turn everything into a race issue
@@anthonysmith8946 I thought it was a hipster vs bubblegum issue
@@KKAkuokuthere is no counterculture to absorb today. Corporations make the culture and the masses eat it up.
It’s also weird to watch the counterculture become the dominant culture, I kind of like all of the wholesome, feel good nonsense. I never knew Id miss it until it was gone.
This is mind-numbing. After watching it three times and collecting my wits about me all I can say is this. Liberace was probably about 50 here, which today does not make a celebrity entertainer grasp at something like this to hang on to some kind of relevance to "the younger generation." But then this was the time when Frank Sinatra was photographed wearing love beads. Thank you ever so much for posting this beauteous clip.
Fun Fact: The Liberace Show is the only one in TV history where no women ever reported being sexually harassed.
Yes, but the fashion police were called...
😂
Starting a sentence with fun fact
Not grooovy
No women but what about the men❓ 😮😂
@@chrisbabaero5147 It was all consensual. :)
My grandmother refused to believe he was gay. Yep... different times.
I’m gay and would never act, look or sound like this.
@@severetiredamage6754I don't believe Liberace ever came out, officially. These were the times that denial was rampant. Nobody acknowledged child abuse, either. Hard to imagine in light of what we know now!
@@giovanna722people acknowledge child abuse, especially with priest, back then. It was a joke until it became a trauma
A lotta people back then wouldn't acknowledge, what for us today, would seem fairly obvious. Not just Liberace, but Rock Hudson. It took his (and Liberace's) succumbing to the effects of Aids, to convince us/them.
That reminds me of when I was talking to a flamboyantly gay guy, and mentioned George Michael coming out, and he exclaimed, "Child! From WHERE???"
my mom made me a pair of of those pants to go with a big faux fur vest - I was eight and so groovy
Awwww... What a groovy mom you had! 😃
Me, too!
My mom would dress me up in hot pants. Different colors and white boots. I think I was 5. 1971. I got pictures😮 They were called hot pans, but they're really short shorts
I was in 6th grade and wanted patches on my jeans. My parents went to K-Mart and bought me these pants that were printed with patches. They were all different colors and I was distraught. I had to wear them to school because they paid good money for them. They looked like clown pants.🤡😢
Lucky you I have photos as evidence dressed in a full length long butterfly sleeves crochet dress… at the age of 5 or so. I had my two front teeth missing so I know the age… luckily that might catch the eye rather than my lovely pale blue outfit. My Mum did it with love when she knitted it. And let’s face it… I survived and have a great dress sense now , left to my own devices.
It's so cringingly bad, but so watchable at the same time. It's a gem!
Omg they're like if cupcake sprinkles came to life as singing people lol
Perfect comment!
Totally hilarious 😂
😂😂
Hahahaha!!
LOL
Paul Simon was on suicide watch for 6 months after this aired.
Me now.... >.
@@bradleybuyer5541oh no! 😱
😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Hopefully some royalty checks arrived before that 6 months was up.
What in the actual hell did I just watch😂
Heterosexuality go flying right out the window
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I remember these variety shows all too well. God, I am old 🤣
...me, too
@rosesperfumelace... this performance with Liberace and the Young Folks, come from "The Red Skelton Hour" the year was 1968
And all power to you, madam!
The classis of em all was Sunday night with Ed Sullivan. He'd have an act, of a guy spinning plates and saucers on long sticks wihtout breaking em.... followed by an opera Diva belting out a sleazy Broadway tune... followed by Ed himself doing a skit with an Italian mouse puppet named Topio Gigio. I too am old.
My mom lived for these! 😂
I am sure this is exactly what Paul Simon visualized as he was writing this song
Well, this is all I’ll see whenever I hear this song again, it’s in my brain now 🤯
😂😂😂
Oh well, when Paul gave permission for them for them to butcher his song, HE was laughing all the way to the bank!
😂😂😂😂
@@andreshernandez1180😂😂😂😂
My groovy levels were dangerously low. I had to pull over and watch this before safely getting back on the road
😂
That is hilarious dude!! Thanks for the laugh!
same! lololol
feeling groovy with this comment
The closest Liberace came to women.
Lol
He had to wear an athletic cup to hide his, er...
@@rr7firefly It was tiny.
Yellow PVC waistcoat, feelin' sweaty.
😂
This song in a deodorant commercial …. “Feelin’ Sweaty” … “Feelin’ Stinky” ….🎶🎶
Smock
Security Hi-Vis! 🤗
That's funny
60 yr old grandma here, I grew up watching Liberace with my mom. Never before seen him dance or dress so groovy 💃🏾. Made me smile 😊
I'm your age and still play in a punk rock band, ride bikes, surf, and in San Diego, feeling groovy 👍
I'm seventy and remember my grandparents watching Lawrence Welk on a television with a halo light around the picture tube because they thought it was easier on the eyes in those days. The show performed "One Toke Over the Line", oblivious to what the song was about.
Depending on your definition of groovy, when did Liberace NOT dress groovy?
@@kathleenc8810 I was a little girl in the early 90s and I loved watching old Welk reruns on TV. When I wasn't listening to my Patsy Cline tapes or watching Wizard of Oz on VHS lol.
It was always a groovy day when Liberace was turnin' on. 🌼🌼🌼
Old Milwaukee kid here...we grew up watching/listening to our hometown boy....man we were lucky! 😊
My grandmother went to school with Liberace when they were little kids in Wisconsin. She remembered that he was always busy practicing the piano while the rest of the kids were playing tag or hide and seek.
He was out riding the Hersey highway
... as a child? @@CharlesAnsman
@@CharlesAnsmanI'm sure people will be watching videos of you and enjoying your contributions to society 50 years from now. Hater.
He already had a goal and being good at tag wasn't going to get him out of that town.
@@APerson-dq4hl Truth.
OMG you could scare zombies off with those outfits
Really? I need to find clothes like that pronto.
@@websurfer5772 🧟
Seeing this I need to run to the bathroom and wash the "gay" off of my eyeballs with soap and water 💦.
Yeah I like those pants too. 😂
@@pippishortstocking7913 I always liked Pippi too. 🙂
My great aunt was a blackjack dealer in old Vegas. When Liberace had a residency there it was busy on the weekend and a ghost town during the week. He would eat lunch with her everyday and she said he was the nicest man there was.
I think Betty White said the same thing about him.
I never did psychological drugs, but I think this is a pretty fair representation.
He doesnt't appear to be violent.
He didn't hit on her is why she said that.
Never heard a bad thing about Liberace.
I’ve never done hallucinogenic drugs, but I’m guessing this is what a bad trip is like
I smoked weed, watched the news, and it looked like this.
The first time I saw The Exorcist and Apocalypse Now I was tripping on acid. I can assure you this is more horrible.
@@fearedgenius7020 I believe you
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A bad trip is absolutely horrific. This is just very gay.
For all his detractors, remember, he coined this famous line, "I cried all the way to the bank."
Actually it was Gene Simmons from Kiss who coined that line
I still think it's a travesty that the Liberace museum was closed and none of the rich Hollywood elite stepped up to save it. He was one of a kind.
I used to live off of Ivar and between Hollywood and Sunset, I was wondering that exact same thing, the building is all boarded up now.
Oh, how sad. He was one of a kind. A master pianist, he loved everything flashy and he really seemed to want people to enjoy themselves.😊
They lost the keys to his piano?
There is one in Las Vegas
I worked at the Liberace Museum in Vegas briefly, in the early 2000’s.
Got to touch his pianos. Nice to be among his cherished possessions.
Sad the museum and Tivoli Gardens (his restaurant) closed after being open so many years,
but the generations that admired him and found him interesting are gone.
He was a talented man and his legacy should’ve been preserved for years to come.
I was looking for a video on how to install a tank bag on my new-to-me motorcycle and this popped up on the sidebar. Totally forgot about the tank bag.
Make sure you pick up a yellow vest
Lol
Hahahahaha as one would!
Now you feel groovy
Maybe it’s telling you that you need a GROOVY tank bag.
Where he sings "Liberace's turnin' on" shows you just how eagerly mass culture and the mass media were to co-opt anything from the counterculture that could turn a buck. The excesses on stage are staggering to behold.
The Love brothers wore those pants when they wrestled.
Still are really...
Liberacé on LSD?! 😱
I feel like I'm on lsd watching this
@@rdr6666 I'm sorry for the bad trip
Liberace: “What could be better than a bouquet of roses on my piano? Tulips on my organ!”
After watching this I have achieved maximum groovyness.
😂💀
That's illegal in Idaho.
When Liberace turns on, everybody turns on.
Use it wisely and don't squander your grooviness. Some people just slide into drugs and sex.
I wonder if this helped parents adjust to the massive shift in culture that was taking place? Obviously, kids thought this was ridiculous, but parents probably thought, "Oh, if this is what it's about, then it looks harmless and silly, like most things for kids." Either way, salute to corporations for trying to make a buck off it.
That’s the nicest thing I’ve seen said about this. Kindness is so very rare.
I didn't think it was ridiculous
I don’t think kids thought it was ridiculous, in fact I know it.
Different times.
What happend now, corporations trying to make a buck off wokeness, and keeps backfiring on them but they still do it…more politically influenced now than then I would argue.
Kids with a IQ above room temperature thought it was ridiculous. It's sickeningly adonyne, white milk toast. I think these people tore off these outfits after the show. Poor guys had to wear those trousers.
@@blazel462Well, Ronald Reagan ran for president giving the same speeches as a candidate that he had been giving for years as a spokesman for GE. How much more political can a corporation get?
What happens when there's no weed, booze, or coke involved.
Or heterosexuality
How do you know they weren’t using drugs. I grew up in the 60s and everybody was stoned….and these guys look very very happy. Suspicious.
Good one!
Oh there were plenty of prescription pills and alcohol for liberace
Yeah it's pretty sad
I actually love these kind of shows. It was wholesome entertainment. And while it may have been corny, it was still fun to watch.
Please take your medication one hour before commenting, rather than one hour after thank you. LOL.
@@daniellebcooper7160 Lmao!
Got the whole family together
@tomasdavis - Wholesome entertainment... I agree. Something there is too little of these days... Cheers!
@@daniellebcooper7160 Liberace was the highest paid entertainer on earth. He had millions of fans. It sounds like you are jealous of his talent. Go whine and pout somewhere else.
Liberace makes Elton John look straight!!!
👍😆
That's hilarious!
If you ever watched SCTV, they had a Liberace (Dave Thomas) Christmas special complete with dueling pianos with Elton John (Rick Moranis), Ethel Merman (Andrea Martin) singing Silent Night off-key, and Orson Welles (the late great John Candy) being a temperamental divo during his Good King Wencelas soliloquy by screaming at the cameraman; it is hysterical. Dave Thomas looked just like Liberace in the skit. th-cam.com/video/9XxFHz15zcw/w-d-xo.html
Elton copied his persona from Liberace. If you want to play stadiums you can't just sit there and tinkle on the piano. You need to put on a SHOW
LOL
Remember, this was during the cold war and this is what terrified the Russians.
It still terrifies them.
@@erikgstewartI mean, those pants… 😬
Yes, homosexuals terrify Russians.
And rightly so.
Be sure to check out Eduard Khil and the Trolol Song to see what the Russians were doing at that time. Old Li and Eddy could’ve dazzled with a duet at that time 😂
So that’s where my mothers curtains went
😂😂😂
Absolutely classic comment! My compliments! Will take me a good while to get over this one!
No that was the Sound of Mucus.
@@walterroma7368I thought they were Gone With the Wind!
And the wallpaper from my grandma's bathroom! :D
I have to show my 8 year old this! He thinks I'm a dinosaur, what will he think of this?
Look at the bright colors. If they had filmed this in today's high definition, it would of killed us all.
Funny...😅
And probably true.
There's an actual point to that!
It's why pixels were invented
The colors man the colors.
Eye damage for sure!
When tv shows were designed to up your seratonin, now it's fight or flight.
I don’t know. I certainly experienced some fight or flight from watching this. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to punch my iPad or just run out of the room screaming.
@gojewla is it too happy for you?
@@gojewla millennial?
I had no idea Liberace was so good at dancing. He's definitely groovy
hahahahahahahahaha!!!
It was all in the pants.
@@leahtv7778 he had a good voice
I almost feel like this was an accidental advertisement for LSD! The kids knew what this all meant but the adults just thought they were being hip with all the Flower Power antics and groovy talk. 😂
I had no idea Liberace could dance.
Well, I've just watched it and I've still no idea.
He can't.
He was no Fred Astair but could do simple dance steps as well as a very nice waltz and foxtrot.
@@LLewis-vu9qfyour level of knowledge on this is groovy.
Or sing.
My doctor prescribed me to watch this as I've been feeling less groovy lately. I think it's working!
"I can't believe Liberace was gay. I mean... women LOVED him; I didn't see that one coming! No!"
Just like George Gershwin.
Just like Austin Powers (That's a Man Baby)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In his later shows, Liberace became more flamboyant than ever. I can't believe that you can't believe that Liberace was gay. Notice in this video at 2:50. Apparently, if a guy is gay, he can get away with putting his hand on a woman's breast on live TV. Today that would probably result in a lawsuit.
I saw it.
Boober
Old person here, I remember kids back in the day actually liking this song and having it on 7" record. But I. think Simon and Garfunkel did it first? God it's been like 50 years haha
I feel like having ice cream cake and Hot cocoa, going to bed at 7:30 and thinking pure thoughts🤔
“Doodlee-doodoo!”: best lyric ever
😂😂
Must've been the inspiration for Ned Flanders. Okily Dokily!
HAHAHAHAHA!!
Lol😂
Reminds me when Penny in Lost in Space becomes a rebellious mod go go dancer.
OH GREAT NOW I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT DR SMITH WITH LONG HAIR
Or when Opie Taylor joined a rock band in Mayberry.
@@captainpoppleton Me too! LOL. And flashing peace signs too. Groovy man!
I remember that episode. It probably got a large youthful audience for that episode.
Penny was SMOKING hot in that episode !
Far freaking out!
In less than 60 years, we've gone from feeling groovy to taking Wegovy.
What a groovy way to start the weekend off with this musical and colorful performance with Liberace, and the young folks. Have a Groovy weekend David and friends 🌸💮🏵🌺
Suddenly I feel 14 years old again (I'm 72 now).
Same age! I hear ya and I'm feelin' groovy 😂
You don't look a day over 70 😂😂😂
Me too!
You are feeling groovy again.
72? So groovy! Stay cool. Peace
a throwback to a time the world was filled with optimism.
It doesn't get much more optimistic than Liberace singing and dancing!
Filled with optimism and the Vietnam War. 😂
…and the terrifying threat of nuclear holocaust.
@@hugozapata3071 let's see, we have war in Europe and the Middle East, we have mass shootings every few months. I think the 60s sounded MUCH better than the crap lifestyle of the present.
@@ellisonsimon we have that now AND we have terrorist threats from religious zealots. What's your point?
This is what it would be like if the Lawrence Welk Show threw up .
Wow how can you be so colorful and so square ;)
Well that should tell you a lot about how square people were at that time. This was considered radical.
They're not mutually exclusive.
@@artytomparis Well said! Although actual hippies would consider it "plastic."
@@artytomparis Those pants are a crime on humanity, someone should pay.
@@andreshernandez1180 Too late dude. They've all passed away.
I’d just like to say that having come from that era we thought that this was deeply ungroovy at the time. And everyone knew about Liberace.
Knew what about Libarace?
@@live2groove everyone knew that he just needed to find the right girl
That man could play some piano,there is literally no genre of music he couldn’t handle. Let’s bring these pants back I like them.
Sometimes because you can, doesn't mean you should.
My TH-cam recommendations are going to be weird for a while after watching this.
you'd have to drop acid to really enjoy this number LOL
Well weed sure as hell isn’t doing it so I’ll take your word for it.
Flowered bell bottoms help, too!!
...or to perform in it, for that matter.
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry i am imagining the rehearsals now. Lol. There was a lot of intricate movement, and choreography, and music to sing.
Loved the little minuet riff…
I love the fact that the girls ask Liberace to "join the gang". 😅😂
A gay old time!
I don’t think this is what Fred had in mind. 🤣
Wilma!☹️
A yabba doo time
A "Breakin' 2" time
A Shabba- Doo time... 🎶
No Pun intended.
Gotta hand it to him for keeping up with the times! Impressed with is dancing along with them. What's kind of sad is the overall push for these ideas in the 60s... it's overdone! Too much flower power... This was the moment the fad ended! LOL
Let's face it, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Carlos Castaneda, and Librace were the Mount Rushmore of 60s alternative philosophy.
lol
I don't think Simon and Garfunkel had this visual when writing the song, Feelin groovy 😆
LOL
And Prof. Irwin Corey who made it to 102.
Only the male dancers were invited back to Liberace's place after taping
not at all true 🤣
The post-taping tapping
HA!!!
Whoa don't be so narrow-minded, my friend - Lib and Mae West spent four straight days bangin' away once...
@@mikelord9860 yeah she tried like hell to make him straight
As a young man In the seventies I worked at KMUV-TV in Sacramento. Liberace’s brother George also worked there as a movie host. I shot film and one day he asked if i’d like to go to Lake Tahoe where his brother Liberace was doing a show. I had dinner with the family as Liberace performed and afterwards shot a segment with he and his brother. At 1:30 am just a few of us including Lee went downstairs to the coffee shop for pancakes. It was great fun watching the patrons react to Liberace’s presence among them as well as the outlandish outfit he had donned.
Channel 31! Bob Wilkins! Loved that channel. Ahh the old days! 😂❤
@@bobmonroe3745 Bob Wilkins was at Channel 40. Great guy.
I miss Lee.I was not a fan during that era, but am now, especially after having viewed this and other videos of his performances and interviews.
And then later that night…
I’m a straight guy, live and recording engineer for over 40 year, I love this! Thanks for posting! And to all those that feel a need to put this down, do you feel better about yourselves now?
Someone in a production meeting actually had to say, "Hear me out, I've got an idea,,,,,,,,,,".
This was a popular song. No stretch to get contemporary costumes and sing, dance, and play piano to the song.
Hilarious😅
I genuinely want to know what Paul Simon's reaction was to seeing this.
@@MaryMerryKingOfTheWoodsIsHe Exactly. It's just that it hasn't aged well and I wonder what someone like Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix would have thought if they saw it back then.
@@ArtGirl82 He laughed all the way to the bank.
Being forced to watch this more than once could be considered "cruel and unusual punishment"! I will speak with my attorney about this!.....ok, I'll watch it 10 more times, and that's it!
Its like a train wreck! I can’t turn away! I totally sympathize with Alex DeLarge now.
oh come, no matter how bad day is, this video changes that day into a GAY-DAY! Be gay for 3 mins of your life
Mom decorated our bathroom with those big flowers- ricky ticky stickies. She was so proud.
awwww....I love it!
Tons of people decorated with those flowers during the 60s.
I remember seeing them everywhere. Glad your mom was proud because they were pretty groovy.
Son: So Dad, what did you do for work in the 60's. DAD: Well Son, I was a backup singer for Lib.... for.... Alice Cooper!
Son: "oh nice! Was she hot?"
two of the nicest men in showbusiness. Alice cooper was best friends with his neighbor, Groucho Marx.
@@dangerouslytalented that sounds like the making of an amazing comedy show.
Wtf....I remember that....man I'm old.
And more power to you, sir!
😂
Liberace never had to say it. Everyone in the biz knew and he got the utmost respect from everyone anyway because he was one of the greatest showman who ever lived.
He was a good person with integrity.
this is priceless...Liberace was the kind of person you couldn't keep your eys off of..whether you were mocking or goofing or loving him...he had that personality that was fun to watch...
Even when you wanted to. 😂
@@Chris-q9m i remember your gandma...older lady,grey hair?...
Now I know where Austin Powers got his dance moves from!!!
Yea baby....do I make you feel groovy!? 🕺
Oh BEHAVE! Yeah baby, yeah!
This is like eating a bowl of Sugar Pops, Sugar Frosted Flakes and Sugar Crisp all at one breakfast.
LOL
I think I need to call my dentist after all that syrupy sweetness.
When Liberace would get a bad review in the papers, he would say "I cried all the way to the bank".
60s . Happiest time of my life! Childhood! ❤🎉
Thanks, I cannot unsee those trousers now.
This is what happens when the old generation wants to fit in and it's cringe.
They hugest gay was about here lmao
Alright where's the paper towels I need to clean the puke off my computer screen.
I remember watching this on TV when it aired, and it was just as painful to watch then as it was to watch now.
and I don't think Simon and Garfunkel had this visual in mind when writing the song, Feelin groovy either
Well why are you watching it then
@@nicalodion72 It's like watching a car wreck - difficult to look away.
@@nicalodion72who wouldn’t watch it?!? I saw it too when I was a kid. I’m watching it now. I might even play it twice. 🤷🏼♀️
I have a lot of respect for Liberace. A prodigy and a great entertainer… a very talented man. This was fitting for the time and I guess in the grungy world we now live in, well it does looks a little out of place. I like it but I can see why the comments are a little sarcastic. I’m a dag for anything colourful and unusual.
My mom, a fantastic pianist, never missed Liberace’s TV show! Nothing could tear her away from his show. I, a teenager at the time, occasionally watched with her and thought he was a great entertainer with a dramatic flair. The candelabra was a cute touch. Neither of us knew he was gay at that time. Actually Stonewall hadn’t occurred yet, so the word gay hadn’t yet appeared in our collective consciousness. A very special talent!
Nobody in the world at large knew about Stonewall until 2022
How could you not know? He was so obvious! Lol!
Thank you for filling me with grooviness today. Very much needed.
This video should be played in all police interrogation rooms. The suspect would confess in 8 seconds
This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion, horrifying but mesmerizing. I keep coming back to it. Aaaah geez.....
My wife says amen!. But love the simplicity of it.
@@1Talldancer Its a basic, happy, trippy song but this version of it, this video, is just plain cringey, creepy and stomach churning. I admit I was a big fan of Lee's when I was a kid and I still like some of his music, but this is just a nightmare. He did produce a great album around 1980 called A Brand New Me which was totally different to anything else he produced. Well worth a listen.
You can knock it or be reminded of how low we have sunk as a society today.
We were pretty "sunk" back then too. Kent State and the Vietnam War. 😢
@@hugozapata3071 I was focusing on the entertainment industry, particularly music, which is trash today. Vile, throwaway, offensive trash.
The Hell's Angels were at at Altamont around the same time this dropped. Elvis was a drug addicted mess. Miles dropped out and was a coked up recluse. The list of folks who died due to drugs during this time is pretty big. Entertainment had it's darkside in the late 60s early 70s.
10/4
@@mjfromla and then came the Doors
My grandmother adored Liberace and said people gossiped he was "that way" out of jealousy and it was just a matter of time for him to find the right girl.
Or the right young man willing to undergo plastic surgery to look like him.
@@rustybeltway23732:41. 2:41😅😅😅
I know this seems cheesy but I have a soft spot for this.
After watching this I decoupaged my outlet covers and made a cosmopolitan 🍸 😊
I need my bell-bottoms, smiley face, troll with pink hair & Tang to rocket off with this number! Maybe Clem Kadiddlehopper, too! 😆☮️
Clem Kadiddlehopper? Red Skeltons alter ego. I remember him.
Don't forget your Space Food sticks and root beer Fizzies.
@@danherring5676I remember I tried eating a fizzie, not a good idea!
I need my Peter Max shoes and my furry red vest
@@danherring5676 and Tang
Aw, man. This I the grooviest thing that ever grooved. I'm, like, totally grooved out. Oh, yeah, I'm all about the groove over here.
This makes the Partridge Family sound like Philip Glass.
David, you’re doing a terrific job showcasing intriguing, thoughtful and yes sometimes entertaining clips from film & tv projects of the past. Thank you, and we’ll talk some time in the future, I hope.
Thank you.
David Hoffman Filmmaker