Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim
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“America” from the West Side Story revival.
Music video produced to promote the cast recording.
Celebrate America this Independence Day!
It’s only right to follow that with a soul medley of songs from West Side Story.
Every time I get tired of the twice-a-day schedule of this Tumblr, I find something like this, The West Side Story Disco Suite, and I am renewed.
You may not make it through all eight-and-a-half minutes, but I hope you’ll at least stick around for the amazing key change / sax & guitar thing that happens around 2:10, and then the spoken word bit at 2:38. Really, this is a track that keeps on giving.
AHHH! And then the serial killer version of “Maria” at 4:00!!!
Okay, there’s one good Ukulele Sondheim cover on the internet. (If you know of others, hit my submission box… but note: I said good.)
Did you know that before Debbie Allen was a punchline, she was a dynamite performer?
BONGOS MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER! (As does Sammy Davis, Jr.) (But Sweet Jesus, Mendoza’s hands must be SO TIRED at the end of a six minute medley.)
Davis & Mendoza committed this routine to vinyl for the Reprise album Sammy Davis Jr. At the Cocoanut Grove.
I went looking for Forbidden Broadway videos and found the real thing instead! Not really sure what Bette Midler is doing there, but Chita and Rita together for real!
פאק יאה אמריקה… בעברית (Fuck yeah America… in Hebrew!)
