Prepare to cringe: Liberace's far-out "Feelin' Groovy" from 1968

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/12/prepare-to-cringe-liberaces-far-out-feelin-groovy-from-1968.html

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[CoralineInTime]

Well, shoot. Now i’m feelin’ groovey

[JDM]

[kiki]

That is like the most unhip thing ever. Like a Pat Boone cover version.

[Melizmatic]

REBOING:

Liberace and young folks performing "Feelin' Groovy" (1968) 

Originally published at: Liberace and young folks performing "Feelin' Groovy" (1968)  | Boing Boing …

[cannibalpeas]

I didn’t realize Liberace was a Munster.

[stinkinbadgers]

@frauenfelder

the perfect thing to watch for people who thought The Partridge Family was too transgressive.

About a year ago I rewatched about half of the first season, and there were some moments that were surprisingly dark.

[KathyPartdeux]

Tommy Smothers competed on the gymnastics team, where he tied for first place on the parallel bars at the California 1958 State College Gymnastics Championships.

[Gyrofrog]

[lastchance]

I like the way Tori Amos performs it:

Tori Amos 59th Street Bridge Song

[smulder]

@cannibalpeas

I didn’t realize Liberace was a Munster

… his mannerisms were calibrated for live stage shows, where people in the back of the hall had to be able to interpret his facial expressions

Zoom in with a TV camera and it looks bizarre

[tcg550]

@smulder

where people in the back of the hall had to be able to interpret his facial expressions

Neil Diamond said he originally started wearing sparkly shirts so people way in the back could see him without binoculars.

I’m always impressed by what performers have done for their audiences.

[wcullen65]

So guilty pleasure, I could NEVER cringe at Liberace…perhaps I should … but, I just can’t…

Admittedly, could that first group be any…stiffer (no pun intended)…? sheesh

…and, anyone who says they don’t secretly want a pair of those pants is selling stuff I’m not buying

[anon87143080]

[jeremydforrest]

Is it me or was the piano out of tune?

[anon3072533]

@tcg550

Neil Diamond said he originally started wearing sparkly shirts so people way in the back could see him without binoculars.

I’m always impressed by what performers have done for their audiences.

Why did Queen Elizabeth always wear bright colors?

Queen Elizabeth II, who died Sept. 8 at 96, was in the public eye her entire life and wanted to make sure her subjects saw her — literally.

That’s partly why she long wore festive, bright colors for her public appearances, according to royal expert Daisy McAndrew.

“She’s quite small — so sometimes just quite difficult to spot — so her dressers … decided some years ago that it would be helpful if she was brightly colored so that people could spot her easily,” she said earlier this year.

I recall reading somewhere else that she said that she knew that people sometimes traveled far and waited a long time just for a glimpse of her, and she wanted to be sure that folks way at the back of the crowds would be able to say that they’d seen the queen.

[FGD135]

I never knew the Prilblumen stickers came in XXL.

[YankInNewZealand]

@kiki

That is like the most unhip thing ever. Like a Pat Boone cover version.

Hey, Pat Boone is really hip.

[euansmith]

[Fred_Cairns]

Cringe THIS, suckers!

Feeling Groovy