Dance
Hal Mooney’s BALLET WITH A BEAT
I regret that I cannot find the entire album online. But perhaps these two tracks will tell you all you want to know about turning ballet standards into exotic lounge music.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 17, 2023 -
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Category: Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1960s, Dance
The Coach With the Six Insides
James Joyce's novel FINNEGANS WAKE is notorious for its undecipherability. But somehow Jean Erdman, wife of mythologist Joseph Campbell (himself a Joyce expert) decided the book could be transformed into a dance.See video after snapshot.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 06, 2023 -
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Category: Literature, Music, Unsolved Mysteries, 1960s, Dance
Miss Jitterbug
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 25, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, 1940s, Dance
1960s Weird Go-Go Show
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 02, 2023 -
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Category: 1960s, Dance, Attractiveness, Sexiness, Allure and Personal Magnetism
The Third Man Theme
Semaphore and calisthenics as dance moves.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 20, 2023 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Dance, Graphics
Karloff’s Version of THE PEPPERMINT TWIST
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 16, 2023 -
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Category: Horror, Music, Television, 1960s, Dance
Oklahoma’s Square Dance Queen
Fifty-one ladies representing 51 towns competed. I wish I had a better picture of the winner.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 19, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Charities and Philanthropy, Regionalism, 1950s, Dance
League of Exotic Dancers On Strike
These Hollywood strippers, members of the League of Exotic Dancers, refuse to work because "the low wage scale of $95 at week" they receive when they take time off. They are (l-r): Champagne; Daurene Dare; Jennie "The Bazoom Girl" Lee, president of the league, Rusty Lane; and Novita.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 24, 2022 -
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Category: Entertainment, Dance, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, Burlesque, Exotic Dancing, Stripping and Other Forms of Staged Nakedness, Public Indecency, 1950s
Space Dance
Raquel Welch dances in a silver bikini to a jazzed up version of Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" — since Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey forever made that piece synonymous with space travel.The clip is from Raquel!, a 1970 CBS television special.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 04, 2022 -
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Category: Futurism, Music, Space Travel, 1970s, Dance
Topic I et II
"Topic I et II" from Pascal Baes on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 17, 2022 -
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Category: Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation, Dance
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