Parkinson: Fred Astaire Interview 1976

well the fuss was all about of all the Hollywood legends he was the one I most admired most wanted to meet it happened in 1976 and he didn't let me down and like some stars who are uneasy and lesser accompanied by bodyguards managers publicity agents hairdressers and ear nose and throat specialists Astor turned up unaccompanied a slight and graceful figure he made no demands except that we get it right but that was always his attitude his method of choosing film clips to illustrate the interview was typical of the man they were selected not to emphasize his dazzling genius but to reveal the pride he had in overcoming a particular technical problem one memory remains backstage awaiting the signal to start the show I sense that the stare was a little nervous parted has set him down but mainly to stop myself fainting I told him that as a kid I used to imitate to walks his and John Wayne's I did a demonstration he told me that Wayne had once said that he copied his walk from Fred Astaire the signal was given I walked on to introduce Fred Astaire and felt from the top step to the bottom take two I went backstage Astaire was laughing guess you got confused between me and the Duke he said and then he demonstrated how it should be done I come to think of it that was what he always did show how it ought to be done so let's go back 12 years and remember not just a wonderful entertainer but a very nice man [Music] [Applause] [Music] of my special guest tonight a few quotes from his friends James Cagney's said the truth is white tie and Tails and all he's got a little of the hoodlum in him Irving Berlin said I'd rather have him introduce my songs and any other performer and Gene Kelly said I'm the truck driver he's the aristocrat he received an Academy Award for and I quote his unique artistry and his contribution to the technique of motion pictures on the debit side there's a judgment of some movie mogul who said of his first screen test contact can't sing conducts a little well that executive is long gone the money assessed is still with us still what he always was the man who created film dance the man who'll be remembered as long as film exists ladies and gentlemen Fred Astaire [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I think I must establish first of all Fred because I do have to know you don't like being interviewed do well with you I love it I'm sure but he once had a reputation in America didn't you once nominate two I think among the by the gossip columnist from the ten least cooperative stars in Hollywood yes I I was and I've several people who were very envious of me for that I remember Ronald Koeman was furious because he wanted to be first and because that goes way way back but it was it was all in front anyway because there was nothing you know all those things you read in the paper and they sound a little rough but they're not no they're not rough I was interested also in reading your biography to find out that in fact your sister Adele had a nickname for you which was moaning Minnie well I know that when she wasn't the only one it was some friends of mine some fellow friends in my economy because I was worrying about things all the time and I never ever there's a job to do and showbiz you worry about it and they used to kid me about it so that was I got used to that that was so long ago I heard that one for a long time how long in fact have you been in show business hmm well you mean how long I actually have well I'll tell you see I started at the age of four and a half appearing professionally and if you add that up to now I have been performing professionally for 71 years thank you I didn't say it for that purpose thank you so much i i broke me up when i when i thought about it oh my gosh ck this can't be but it is actually so cuz i was born in 1899 and four-and-a-half I went I went to New York and and no I appeared about four and a half but I went to New York I was about four and then I was there was some kind of a professional appearance that occur around that time so I added it all up and that's what it is so I interviewed Bing Crosby recently and he thought he was a veteran he's only been 50 50 years child but you work it out you qualify for three gold watches were you in fact you were reluctant to go on the stage which I mean in the sense that you didn't have any ambition you're more or less forced into it I I don't remember I wasn't forced I went by my sister Adele was going to to New York she was going to dancing school and stage school and so I went along too and the first thing you know I was in it it I don't know I was doing this they staggering that thought of it I mean you think that somebody was contributed as much as you have to the dance that you really have no sort of blinding ambition you didn't so know right at that point four and a half I didn't I used to mice or anything you know I found out pretty soon well what was it like I mean those days of vaudeville and and those terms it's fairly rough the audience did you had to play - well we played in some pretty crummy dump Sun when we were in small-time bar de Ville and what I do remember is that we were on the bill with a dog act and the dog act had the star dressing room and we had to climb a ladder to get to the resolute effect that makes sense all to get the dogs up they couldn't plant you can in fact in Kosovo no most extraordinary Ruiz in your career was the 20s when you came to London with a series of magnificence or musical comedies Gershwin numbers and stuff like that and literally took the place by storm didn't you all we had we had a very very happy thing there was a successful we were very course very excited about that I'm scared to death when we arrived I can tell you that yes I know that you're in fact you're gonna sing a song for us about London commemorating London was in fact written for you by George Gershwin when the many songs that that great composer did in fact right through and in fact I suppose that your rendition of it is the definitive one is that lovely song a foggy day in my [Music] I was a stranger in the city out of town where the people I knew I had that feeling of self pity what to do what to do what to do the outlook was decidedly blue but as I walked through the foggy streets alone it turned out to be the luckiest day it had me low it had me I viewed the place with alarm by the British Museum had lost its charm I [Music] wonder could this thing last but the age of miracles hadn't passed before suddenly I saw you there and through foggy London town the Sun was shining [Music] everywhere [Music] how long I won could this thing lands but the age of miracle hadn't passed for suddenly I saw you there and through foggy London town the Sun was shining every [Music] [Applause] did you know the little confusion there I like that I was a little bit confused about the place at all then I said ah the museum that's it gets me out about the stuff you did in in London with with Adele and you were a doctor weren't you at the time by the aristocracy what in those days I suppose was the Jets that you were some darlings of them I do you have much difficulty with the language at all when you came away well I I couldn't understand a lot of it you know the very fast talking a language they get they say III say you can't do that so everything of me well I got used to that I love it are you putting me on was very different to you in the sense that she was a she left parties and things didn't you and you never have gone in for that sort of thing at all well I didn't love him as much as she did I used to go once in a while I wasn't too happy about parties no but I was always worrying about those job you know and I got doing the job I was always worrying about whether it was gonna be right and it was kind of fun I kind of enjoyed worrying I guess or something I've always perhaps till morning Minnie wasn't ever a time when you when you worked with the Adele here or anywhere else in fact we're what we might call her social habits interfered with with her work oh yes well I mean I wouldn't not here but there was a pleasure at home I remember we were opening a play called funny face and it happened to be a very big success in New York and the second night my little sister went out to a party and was having some cocktails him some enjoying the fact that the play did well the night before and she didn't show up the overture started little Delhi wasn't there and of course I was why did you start the overture without her and then some No so anyway she strolled in she didn't do that that was not a thing but she was so I said can t really get in there and get him that dress wrong we're on in this show must go on she's or what why or something then she got in and she made the air first entrance which wasn't quite quick there was a little something ahead of that and she got on there and then we had a number and she was marvelous she made me laugh and I was bawling but anyway when I got off the stage and there was some of applause for the people thought that was bomb I went wake up in the slammer you know like that I never hit her before and we never quarrel in our what are you doing but she came back the rest of the show and she was fine she I mean she just to was her dignity was hurt or something so anyway there was no more said about it I'm I gave her 20 bucks and I said here go and buy yourself a new watch or something I don't know she's marvelous today I see her all the times he's Marvis but she of course get married didn't she and she married into the aristocracy and yeah she retired she retired how much of is that a blow to you at the time oh no I was kind of glad she did because she didn't want to work anymore and it wasn't easy to get her to rehearse and she I'd say oh we ought to try that step over something why so she'd come alright our warm up a little bit and she do a few little nothing exercises and and she wanted to retire so it was fine so I would I could say well I know I got to get on and do something myself sometime and then when I did of course everybody missed her very much because she was very very successful yeah a very good comedian this time for getting a very clear idea of wanting to do with certain things in the dumps that hadn't been done before at this stage when Adela left you and you're moving toward the movies well I always had that in mind I did at that point I wasn't sure about movies if I didn't hadn't even started were still doing his shows I did I did the gay divorce in New York and then I brought her over here to London we played the Palace Theatre with that and it was from from that one that I went into the movies actually after that in fact to me you were quite old weren't you were going to buy by professional standards when you went to the movies 34 weren't you something like that well yeah I was it was in 1933 and yeah one thinks of oh you can think of half-a-dozen so more perhaps outstanding solo routines that you've done in movies without doing all kinds of different things with different props and they well but what about about one of my favorite sequences of yours my film called carefree which is the one way you hit the golf balls I mean whose astonishing precipitous pursuit before we before we talk about that before we explain it let's say have a look we've got a clip here as I say it's from some called carefree and it really is an extraordinary piece of what imagination and execution it's coming up that was incredible I really love doing that number had a lot of practice had a one of the things I remember particularly in order to keep the balls in the view of the camera there was a we had a tree where we the location we did this was a tree in the big tree background so you can see this little white ball because some people think it was done tricking it wasn't but I was hitting him and they were going straight but they were going up Oh too quick and out of have the camera lens thing so the camera I say can't keep those little lower please it live as I said look I got enough trouble getting it so anyway I flattened my swing and I kept him down and anyway yeah now listen I didn't realize in fact until I started doing this brother I knew most things about you but I didn't realize I must admit that in fact you were a songwriter as well as well I was sort of a disappointed song summer I taught for years every there was a kid I used to love to try and write songs there were some of those terrible songs there were I got sort of disgust at all that's often I wouldn't wouldn't keep them and then I've got a few that went alright never too much okay just recently I started doing it again and got a couple of things doing now well the first one you're going to sing is in fact a song about Los Angeles isn't it yeah yes that's fine and it's called city of the [Music] [Applause] [Music] gather round me join me in a toast to that California town I love the most [Music] city of the Angels prettiest city of the Angels that's the only place I really want to be wife's a taste of honey when the days are bright and sunny why a dream not picking money off a tree city of the Angels British city of the Angels how I hate to leave her even for a while [Music] especially when it's cloudy she's got ways of saying holiday making everyone so prom he wears a smile l.a donneson begin to describe [Music] she'll stay under your skin like a dame became quite famous now if you've got a craving if you're looking for a Haven all my best advice I'm saving for the N train or a boat or jet they're just as soon as you can get there and I'll bet that you'll be met there by a friend splash in the sea and fall cash in pari and roll just a little change to make the city of the Angels your Hall [Music] you gotta Craven if you're looking for a haven all my best advice I'll tell you once again train or boat or jet they're just as soon as you can get there and I'll bet that you'll be met there by a friend Oh somewhere the hearts are fine where the stars still shine now you'll be sittin pretty in the city of those angels of my [Music] [Applause] [Music] I co-writer did a great deal of work on this but I had the idea and I had a part of the tune and had the title and a part of the tune of a boy named Tommy wolf is a very good good musician songwriter he did all the stuff and put it together nicely put so I I really like the song I you know it's in that album that you only find a frustrated songwriter as you say aren't you yeah my music my art I just had that song here what can you use it on I suppose therefore then that the the men that you admired most of all that you met throughout your long career show business will be those great writers in fact who wrote songs for you oh I was admired those men tremendously because I you know Cole Porter and Gershwin Jerome Kern and there so there are about four or five the top men that did wonderful things and they wrote these songs before the pictures that I was doing anything for me it was great so many people not just Kern and Berlin and people like that who will always believe that you were the best interpreter so on but a lot of jazz musicians nowadays always say that rate you was one my favorite singers I mean what does the quality do you think it's very flattering and I you know I love it it makes me very happy I don't know I really don't know I know Mel Torme has always got something very kind of savoring Sinatra Tony Bennett they don't like what I do and those fellows can be consumed they've got pipes which I ain't got but I throw a fake note there somewhere I get around I think what they like is that that they that they they know I mean what I'm doing and I'm trying to do what the composers got there and if I bury on a little bit it isn't too much I know as a composer myself I have somebody seems the song of my time listen to see where they do it right what about when these guys are all you all knew no you knew very well indeed I mean Gershman for instance either fascinating man I mean oh yeah fine musician a great writer he also he was a frustrated dancer wasn't he well I don't know that he was that but he liked to tell me how tell me did he playing the piano for a rehearsal but she did quite often because he enjoyed it wonderful sense of humor a cheerful father marvelous guy and he'd get up in a penny said look why don't you do that and do that's try this and then get up and show me this step one more time please George all right we'll use it later as soon as we can we'll get it sometimes you give me something but usually he'd say that when we were getting stuck on getting from one step to another sometimes a connecting step was a thing and he'd say how about this so he helps us always help how much of the a lot of these numbers that you you danced for these people wrote them you were dressed up in what became your you're still trademark the top hat the white tie and Tails two questions how much is that really you well I don't like wearing a full dress suit I hate it well I had so much of it that people thought though that I was born and I began but it was necessary for the thing we were doing at that point and I actually haven't worn worn it anywhere in a film and I had to wear to a couple of shindigs I went to recently but I just if you know it made you dance very well unless every girl I've worked for that good listeners ever look at it probably was the last time that you appeared on screen in in that rig and that was in blue skies well that isn't full a suit well when you're talking about it's a it's a tail [Music] [Applause] [Music] you enjoy watching that well interest me to see it again I haven't seen lately and I I mean I know what's there because I've always remembered it was very complicated to get a take all that stuff the screens at separate screens and one I was for one thing alone and then they had changed the set so is that the one line would go this way and that was another shot and then the other line would go that way in other words there's a multiple amount of of you I was green yeah I've split screens put you all together there's a very complicated process but it wasn't all ready to look finished until about three months after it was made and I was very anxious to know how they could ever get time together so other wonderful Department of special effects could get that all synced properly that's that's what I worried about mostly you know cannot the Akane's don't you oh I've broken a lot sometimes sometimes on purpose they got mad something because I wasn't getting something I was trying to get then I think I'll tell you another slight technical thing that always puzzled me whenever I see that sequence and that's how do you get that cane off the floor to shoot into your hand oh well it's not trick photography it is that it's a mechanical thing there was a little hole in the ground in this down the stage it had a little little thing that shot up and when the King was there it went like that came up on had two out there had to press the button just right and we had to have a musician to do it because we have the timing had to be just a fraction ahead of the bet beat because if you hit it on the beat it would have been a little late and throwing things out so he had to go things like that and you pray all the time that they're going to work that was supposed to be a retirement movie that wasn't it yeah announced at the time that after that you'd finished why was that what at that time were you thinking of retiring well I think I think everybody gets that feeling they come to I said look I've done about all we can do now I think I'd want to quit now I actually did decide to retire them and well then something happened I I think I think it was you know this back says a number of years I can't exactly but I think it was so I know Kelly Jean Kelly was doing a movie called Easter Parade and he fell out of it because you'd heard his leg and then they got after me and said when I come over and take it over and start over again and do it with me and then he called me and it looked like a good show and so I did it that's it that's all so I was back in business again so then I stayed again for awhile and then I had ideas again and quit again I think people do that so I can't do anymore they can't think of any more you think you can't and then I don't know but your mother wants you to return in fact when you're 35 oh my mother yeah my mother my mother was one of me she said she said Sonny I think he should retire when you're 34 I don't know why she didn't say 35 but you still you I said why she said well you started so early and that's time but she's such a wonderful woman my goodness guys you see that it's cute ideas and I said well I'm afraid it isn't it isn't gonna be possible so that was all it was of that I'm going to ask you a question well I'm not gonna ask you a question the question I'm not gonna ask you is what who was your favorite dancing partner because you're not gonna give me an answer that are you well I can't because I've always I've always said my favorite dance partners being Crosby I let's me out I mean I mean Kelly's Dean Kelly's exactly the same they won't you won't talk about your dancing partners why is that well it's difficult because the gowns are also good and you just don't want to say gee was I like that one better than the other one and it just it isn't we didn't he had the same few funds I just couldn't do it properly I mean I could each one had something special and to say which is the best I said well I really some are more effective than others and all that yes when it comes to actual dancing there's there are certain ways and styles and techniques that do so and I do I could go listing a whole lot of names but I don't want to get any priorities in here because I don't wanna hurt anybody's feelings well did your did your attitude as a perfectionist this warrior that you've admitted yourself being excuse me I must must say ginger was certainly one Yin or the most effective partner I had everybody knows that was a whole other thing what we did what we did I can't I can't say that I just want to pay tribute to ginger because we did so many pictures together and believe me it was a value to have that gal woo she had it she was just great yeah there are all sorts of rumors about you and ginger under in Hollywood fighting yes they were fighting yes that it was the biggest nonsense ever you told me we were talking before you told me there was somebody who yes as I said that there was a 25 year war my girls my dancers yes ridiculous absolutely nothing like James and I never had any fire I never had any when ginger kicked me down the stairs I loved it I yeah she was just the same way she could hardly just hardly wait for me to kick her in the ankle you know no actually seriously we never had a fight attention never never they were questionable conversations about the material and say well I don't like it I do like well I think they should know it done oh yes and no but you don't fight I can't fight with people I work with I can't I just couldn't do it it didn't happen but they the press weren't liked it that way so we laughed about it well let's talk about one part of that the in fact you can talk about with us without hurting his or her feelings because it happens to be a hat rack which you used in a film called royal wedding didn't you right yeah let's take a look at that clip first of all then we'll talk about it in a minute the secrets that I say from a film called royal wedding and it's you in a gymnasium and you start doing all kinds of weird things with the equipment there when you watch that play about that do you remember actually making it well a lot of it I really didn't because I saw earlier today as you remember a yes and I remarked about I really was surprised about probably at least a third of it at least a third of it I knew that there was things happened in the gymnasium because that was a part of the plot of them thing I went up there to I don't know what it was about that it was I was there exercise so I pick up this hat rack as the imagining making believe us the girl and dancing around but I didn't remember some of the stuff and makes me laugh when I see it I don't remember kicking that punching bag yes it would have been easy to go like that everything happens when you get something an idea working and there's all this stuff around we kept I remember one thing you might go on with this too long okay but I know in the gymnasium that scene there wasn't enough stuff to get so I said we'll get me some of those things and and then get me that horse which I and we'd get something for that and so we worked until we got got enough that I thought would be to make it make a lot of number out of some but you start off with gets going get a lot of things well one thing of course there you didn't have a problem with I mean you didn't you couldn't possibly problem with a little bit apart like that one problem you didn't have there you must often have had with with lady partners but the problem what they wore because was he's dancing around with girls and incredible creations it must have been difficult to time well sometimes they had things that just wouldn't work a whole lot of dress and I mean you couldn't see the the feet or anything and step on the thing and tear it or something and we'd find that out before we started shooting you'd find out a dress rehearsal or but a costume fitting or something and you'd always been asked me to come and see it and see if it worked and I'd say oh sorry baby can kind of do something and then they and they're always very wanting to do what would would work too because they realize but one or two things did happen funny and with ginger she had a dress on with a very heavy beaded sleeves were they way down here and they were waving around waited ton this stuff and I was doing this dance with there and getting it done I'm spinning around and the very first take this thing honestly don't didn't remember anything else about what it we just kept dancing until the thing was over and I kept saying oh now because he's nobody has said cut director didn't say cut he didn't say it because it happened probably just in back when he was turning around and what anyway I was groggy from this and that part me anyway and then we finished that whole thing and they wanted to take another for protection and they took I think we took about ten or twelve takes of this difficult dance I think it was called let's face the music and dance and we decided to stop working because we were too tired and come in the next day after doing hall you know it takes and believe me he wore ourselves out we went to look at the rushes they've got some quick rushes to see it on the film and the first take was the one we used in the picture the first one and I good gracious I didn't know and Ike and I couldn't even see where I got hit that's kind of and then there was a feather thing with ginger which became with kind of a legend around she had a feathered rested like a snowstorm it took off when that when the wasn't cheek to cheek and that would feathers in this thing and then she take after take them the screen was full of feathers and it was like snowing and then we'd have to stop sweep up the feathers in face when she molted enough we were able to go on with the dance and it was fine no well then because some people made that that was a fight it was no fight we were roaring was laughter about yes I still mourn about the reason why you've been over in this country which is to make some some records yeah well I've done I've done 36 records there's two albums that my me alone the solo albums and I have the one with being yes and I think that got called Bing and Frehley and I because I love being so much and I worked with in his pictures I've done the two with him and we got along so well and come I I think that's good enjoyed the job wonderful job on Monday on one of the album's two you've got a couple of your numbers one of which you're gonna see now yes the title of which I mustn't say oh oh I know that when you talk about this fella is as the deep yes a problem you've got a problem why you so mean to me why do you treat me this way you listen to me right now cuz I got this to say I love everybody I love everything how I love the dance baby how I love to sing I love my hands and uncles I love my cousins too but baby I can do without you every time you look at me with those cheating eyes I can see the devil in disguise I love spending money I love life that's true I love everybody oh yeah I love everybody I love everybody but you I [Music] love everybody I love everything I love to rock baby I love to sing swing as a loving friend now you're just bitter bitter and yeah I love dogs and horses cats and people I love everybody but you I love cheese and crackers I love ham on rye I love fortune cookies and I love chicken I love the sunny day time I left the night time too but listen here ex-girlfriend I got no time left for you now you averted Leroy Brown that super bat bat cat I got some kind of news for you you're super worse than that I love everybody but you everybody I love Frank Sinatra and I love Crosby being I love the great big cities I look the country to but I wanna make it loud and clear I don't love you I love to take it easy just to sit back and relax I love to wash the dishes and I love to pay my income tax I love Alice Cooper I love I love everybody I love everybody but you [Music] [Applause] rather rather bra frustrated songwriter I think you're frustrated rock'n'roll singer that's kind of a jump crazy jump I don't know I enjoy it yeah 11 Harry is my musician the Ola listen in fact you you can't claim entire credit that song can you know the writing of it no my daughter ever wrote well Jesus she's a co-writer of the part of the lyric yeah how much of a dish you write well there's been a question about that we're happy to pry it out but nice to get her out here and see if she'll tell us herself alright let's welcome Fred's daughter arborist and [Applause] in fact it's McKenzie isn't it yes to tell me about this song that you're supposed to written all part of it what in fact did you write that last number that we just heard fencing a little bit little nonsense bit about cheating eyes except that he says I didn't write that line I guess I really didn't write that line I said lion eyes in the beginning but we well we changed is that how I used every time you look at me look that's my line every time you look at yours my life with those lion eyes and then I we worked around and we call it cheating I thought it was solid I still think I thought of that in the first place you get I don't know I certainly didn't write any of those great news there X you put in oh thank you you get 25% of that though for that one line there no yeah sell anything anyway my name's on the show we talked about 25 percent dear father that's for sure did you ever have any ambition yourself to follow your dad on the stage not really I helped him out a bit on the television specials but that was all backstage yes production yes this is my first time in front of a camera but I think seems to be will you in fact on the land then where do we perhaps discouraged by him from going on to take up a crew no no he never he never discouraged me in fact I remember him saying quite often that he'd like 10% if I did go what were your agent anytime what were your thoughts read about this I mean did you I mean dancing is a very very mature ously hard life I mean did you want any of your children to do what you'd done no no no I didn't especially since none of them could dance I didn't I didn't want opportu but she's always falling down any without well it's true that's really true yeah I know she just won't fall off this chair she's not clumsy this falls down once in a while you are still down in the dressing room really all by myself huh I do that before every show them and always after there's a rumor famous legend about your father in fact he keeps his drums in the bath is that true I made that famous I don't think I don't know well he denies it so no he doesn't keep his 'try no he doesn't he doesn't anymore they were there one day because there was nowhere else to put them he didn't play them in the bath but they were there I promise you I they were in the bathtub at one point I'm sure it's because you didn't have anywhere else to put them but and what about this this thing that I talked about your father earlier on about this of white-tie top-hat tales image I mean is he a bit of a slob round house no he's not a sloth yeah let me say there's never been anything but he's worn but I haven't thought was just great except a pair of socks did you love those socks well they had sort of barber poles stripes going up them and I think they were blue you've seen your Hollywood dad this movies and all this sort of thing I actually haven't seen them all well the girls have certainly seen most of them what's your own personal taste your own favorite song what he sings what kind of numbers do I can sing to say at the moment it's I love everybody I think my most 5:3 favorites I've been thinking about this for the last few minutes and I think foggy day is definitely one and one for my baby which now it's interesting because that song people associate with Sinatra in fact it was written for for Fred wasn't it but you did it you won for my babies but for Johnny Mercer yeah that was for a picture called whatever it was well it was the sky's limit the other one I love is is by myself by myself is a cold I'll go my way by myself yeah by myself by myself I think is the correct idling well my favourites if you ask me and you haven't well I'll tell you I was about to you're about to I know you're about to my favourites are the ones that in fact were written for for Fred by people like Gershwin and Koerner people like that the real standards and I know that Harry is put together lovely medley of them and I'd be delighted I'm sure the audience would if you'd go there so and sing the songs that you made famous does he can't remember the words it doesn't matter if it does [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with no kisses a fine romance my friend this is your kamar than the scenes in the Arctic Ocean at least they flap their fins to express emotion romance with no clinches a fine romance with no pincers you never give the orchids I send a glance now you like cactus plants [Music] this is a fine romance heaven and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak and I seem to find the happiness I seek when we're out together dancing and the cares that hang around me through the we seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak when we're out together dancing cheek to check oh I love to climb a mountain and to reach the highest but I don't enjoy it half as much as dancing cheek to cheek oh I love to go up fishing in a river or a creek but it doesn't thrill me half as much as dancing cheek to cheek dance with me I want my arm about you the charm about you will carry me through [Music] I'm in heaven and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak and I seem to find the happiness I see where are together dancing cheek [Music] you say [Music] [Applause] [Music] and I say neither now you say potato and I say but tato usually tomato and I like tomorrow tomatoes tomato potato Katara let's call the whole thing off but oh if we call the whole thing off then we must part know if we have a part then that might break my heart so if you like pajamas I like pajamas I'll wear pajamas and give away the pajamas for we know we need each other so we better call the calling off off let's call the whole thing they all left when Edison recorded sound they all left that Wilbur and his brother when they said that man could fly why they told Marconi the wireless was a phony it's the same Friday me said I was reaching for oh you came through now they have to change their too they all said we'd never get together they last [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] Duden up my shirt front foot in the shirt studs polishing my nails stamping out my dear to breathe an atmosphere that simply reeks with the class and I trust the jewel excuse my dust when I step on the gas putting down dancing in my tail dancin and potato down that entails [Applause] you have no idea how much I enjoyed that all right thank you wow I'm not going to follow it joking what shall I say all I can say is this thank you ever for coming along and talking to me and Fred Astaire worth simply thanks it's been absolutely novelist's thank you until they do very much till the same time next week goodbye [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Channel: David Benson

Views: 242,196

Rating: 4.8630013 out of 5

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Length: 56min 30sec (3390 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 17 2018