I Enjoy Being A Girl Flower Drum Song Movie

[JeriTorres19]

i get my period every month get bloated and i have to buy pearl giving labor really sucks my boobs get saggy i dont enjoy being a girl

[rjthmson110253]

I believe the singer whose voice was dubbed in was B. J. Baker, who was married to Mickey Rooney.

[sassychic1011]

thumbs up if you're here because of blaire! :D

[sailorchibimoon1665]

Classical

[sailorchibimoon1665]

LOL

[Odinia7]

@biukucanoe hi, can you please allow this video on mobil....thank you

[biukucanoe]

@Odinia7 hmm, I thought it did will check.

[azianhoney]

She is my patient at my office and still looks as beautiful as she does in this video

[ebloomify]

my audition song for the school musical.... eep!

[BBpoipoi]

My grandmother took me to see Flower Drum Song when I was about seven years old. When I saw this scene with Nancy Kwan, I realized that I very much enjoyed being a boy. It took me a few years to figure out why. Ms Kwan made a very big impression on me. No cooties on her.

[pinkpriss]

@BBpoipoi I can't help giggling at that. I first saw FDS at about that age as well and not only did it serve as an early clue that I was NOT supposed to be a boy, it sparked my lifelong passion for acting, singing, dancing and musicals! Then when I saw Ann Margaret singing "How Lovely to be a Woman" in Bye Bye Birdie I could not wait to get the hell out of my male body! The next week I faked a weight trng accident and injury that got me excused from PE and refused to ever again get a haircut

[dramakittymeow]

Hello Dolly audition song?

[racheid77]

she only needs 20 minutes to get ready?? 

[cmikkonen]

sorry but sometimes being a girl sucks.

[uchihaitachi34]

I want her hair! its so pretty

[IamKesyerSoze]

I love how campy this song is! Pretty much about how wonderful it is to be a pretty girl lol How it puts me in the mood when I'm getting ready to go out.

[darilill]

i have to sing this song for chorus at one of my concerts

[WolfieMcMuffin]

That song clearly wasnt written by a woman!

[omgchriscolfer]

Omg we sang this in choir!:D

[Ellimir]

FYI, this is not the original version of this song. Flower Drum Song was written for the stage. It premiered on Broadway in 1958. "I Enjoy Being a Girl" was introduced by Pat Suzuki in the role of Linda Low. The original cast recording of the 1958 production is still available. Of course, there is no film of the original Broadway production.

[uncoolnerdalert]

lol who's Blair? I was sent by hayleyghoover.

[suprhero1]

Thats 70s show got me here!

[getmyhappy]

thumbs up if you like Blair's version better! :)

[LuckyStar12495]

Thumbs up if Blair sent you here ! :D

[cherrydudy]

@LuckyStar12495 whose blair?

[cynmarie33]

I will ALWAYS enjoy being a girl!! Love being feminine. Would hate to be a man, though I love them!

[lovepurple83]

You would think she'd need more than 20 minutes to get ready with all the singing!

[Seyahhsod]

HOLD ITIII ( This song was sang by Nancy Kwan, not someone else!)

She even tells you so:

watch?v=lDRbmK6tan0&feature=re­lated (2:35)

[BrutifulBrandy]

I love singing this song. I love this movie. I truly enjoy being a girl!

[TheAngelSpeaks15]

Try being a girl when you're on your period, when a guy says something perverted to you, when you have to deal with the typical, negative stereotypes surrounding women, or when you have to push eight pounds - give or take - out of your vagina. Lmao, it's times like those when I actually really hate being a girl.

[RandiSierra]

Gosh what gorgeous legs!

[SpaceWalkTraveller]

Great song from a great movie.

[jan992004]

bless you for uploading this :)

[biukucanoe]

@GeorgeLRockwell87 Not true, lots of Asian women happily married to blacks (and lots of Asian men not neccesarily happily married to Asian women...) Racial disharmony affects everybody, not just any one group.

[dancerchickayana]

@GeorgeLRockwell87 I'm half Black and half Asian. My mom's Japanese and my dad's black. I know plenty of other Blasian people. Race has nothing to do with love, love has no race or gender.

[TheFashionVavilon]

@GeorgeLRockwell87 That must be the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

[msbombshellicious]

@GeorgeLRockwell87 soooooooooooooo not true! my grandmother was korean and my grandfather is black!

[dancerchickayana]

@msbombshellicious I totally agree! There are many mixed Asian and Black individuals! Love has no race <3

[IamKesyerSoze]

@GeorgeLRockwell87 Yeah - try working on base and say that.

[Broadwaybaybee]

20 people don't like girls...

[okaygirl141]

I watched the film when I was really young and the only thing I remember from the movie is this song!

[KatGirl77777]

suh-luh-tty

[pinkpriss]

I am an avidly indulgent transvestite and this vid is number five on my "Music to Crossdress to" playlist! Right along with "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story, "How Lovely to be a Woman" from Bye Bye Birdie, "Femininity" from Summer Magic, "I am Just a Girl" by Abba, and many other girlishly delightful gems that make me run like a girl to my trove of makeup, lingerie and other pretty, frilly, sparkly things as I visibly quiver like an intoxicated Amish schoolgirl in a Fredricks of Hollywood!

[OfShadowandSubstance]

@pinkpriss Right on, that is so awesome!

YOU RULE.

[pinkpriss]

@OfShadowandSubstance Thank you! I think YOU are pretty awesome yourself for for both holding and voicing that sentiment!!

[OfShadowandSubstance]

@pinkpriss Ah, thank you! :D

*huggles*

[bootsybrown]

thats when girls were girls

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

I love the harmony at 4:18.

[materialgirl8707]

I love this song and I love the way Nancy Kwan sings it! She sings so lively and sweetly! :)

[SotR59]

@materialgirl8707

Actually Nancy Kwan did not do the singing in the movie it was a voice over by B.J. Baker

[Wolfzareawsome]

i have to sing this in choir

[biukucanoe]

At jr high honors assembly, dresses are back, and they're about the same length as they were in 1970. Poofy dresses are new. But back then the teachers wore the same length outfits as the students.

[biukucanoe]

At jr high honors assembly, dresses are back, and they're about the same length as they were in the 70s when I was in school. Poofy dresses are new. But back then the teachers wore the same length outfits as the students.

[SallySatisfied]

For some reason I was censored. All I said was; wow this was so wrong ten years later, and how any of us who acted like that ten years later were seriously ridiculed. Be glad, be very glad, if you missed the Women's Liberation Movement in the U.S. I remember being personally told by a libber that I should stop shaving my legs because I looked too "sexy" with my legs shaved.

[SallySatisfied]

Good God, I thought this kind of thing was made illegal in 1972 when I was 12.

Let me tell you what, the feminists around us in the '70's made sure no one BUT the transvestites were thinking like that.

Girls acting/dressing/feeling like that ever since have been called SPOILED, or ENTITLED. I surely get a load of trouble from my MIL , FIL and DH for the least bit of feminine indulgence. In fact, what am I doing here right now when I should be toting that barge and lifting that bale?

[michelformika]

Her teeth are not. But, pearls AND she talks on the telephone for hours with a pound and a half on her face.

PEARL CREAM!!!!

P.S.

Who's voice is this?

[kendavy57]

And those of us who are hetero males are very grateful that Nancy did this number!

[gainsbourg66]

The film version of this song is so ridiculously, painfully slow. It is 100 times better at a faster pace.

[Akosuaification]

I enjoy being a girl! And I love this song!

[lovewishes1]

i love this song

[annazoeleibel]

she can't sing

[H2fl0wers]

so girly girl :>) it's fun

[eleventhdr1]

well does this include all of us males who are tg cd lg sissy hmm i do wonder we enjoy being girls to! ah well!

[SkyOfTh3Ler]

I picked this song as my broad way song for my Vocal Tech class.

I love this song, but its so tough for me to sing blehh.

xD

Oh well<33

[SuperNekofan]

I love her hair!!!!!!

[Rachman1337]

This bitch is hot.

[mutinlupa]

Nancy Kwan is a great example of a Eurasian beauty.

[comicfan69]

This was one of my mother's favorite musicals and I can remember watching it with her as I grew up. Nancy Kwan was just so beautiful.

[biukucanoe]

@comicfan69 Kwan still looks better than Joan Rivers

[Christina5Archer]

I see why this is one of the favourite songs of drag queens.

[misspunk76ify]

I hate this kind of music, but I LOVE this song

[MelancholeeBaby]

I only like this version

[ThePhantomBlonde]

For the record...BJ Baker did the singing for Nancy Kwan.

[biukucanoe]

@ThePhantomBlonde A damn shame they didn't sign up Pat Suzuki, but Baker had better hollywood connections, which is also the reason they picked Kwan who was a rising star in the 60's bombshell wars. Asians don't have anybody to compete with the likes of Gaga or Madonna today, though we just got a Tiger mama from hell.

[Nickigirl199927]

@saez999

i know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[cecmtz]

I loved this movie as a child!

[klabkebash]

Hey.. Isn't that the Japanese Boss from Die Hard? The one who didn't know the Code and got his brains blown out?

[biukucanoe]

@klabkebash Yes, James Shigeta, ibdb: Hawaiian-born James Shigeta was for a time the biggest Asian-American star the country had known for decades. ...culminating in his most important one, the lead in Ross Hunter's glitzy production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Flower Drum Song (1961). Supporting parts followed, .. His status as the foremost Asian leading man of 20th century American film will endure undiminished by an erratic career.

[Denali567]

This was my ballet solo when I was 5. :') So many good memories.

[cyberjoshy]

My grandmother told me that when this movie first came out, this particular song was considered controversial. Because many women called it "sexist". I'd really like to read what some of today's women think about this song.

[itbevee]

@cyberjoshy I still would say this song is sexist, because it emphasizes enjoyment of ones own looks. What happens to this "girl" in ten years when she isn't the prettiest young thing anymore? True this is one girl, and she plans on getting a guy with her looks, for a stability, but really, we are more than that. I am only judging the song for itself, I don't know anything else about the musical, so perhaps she is a wonderfully generous, educated woman, but that is all I see.

[biukucanoe]

@itbevee "sexist" is SOOO late 60s and early 70s. This was set in the late 50s, which is really the late late 40s. Her character is the antithesis of the virginal "china girl" immigrant who stows away illegally, but the song has transcended its original Asian American backstory.

[aiiideen]

@itbevee it's the 50s what do you expect? Don't go all feminist, I'm a girl to but I am doing the play in a few months, she likes being a girl, It's not that bad to like being pretty, whether you like being whistled at that's your think, I don't like it either :)

[daytripperyeah]

@itbevee of course it was sexist it was written in 1958 and went to flim in 1960. ALL women were expected to give everything up to marry and have babies.

[biukucanoe]

@daytripperyeah It's 2011. Most women STILL expect to marry and have babies. Thank god.

[sanriochica333]

oh wow she's an amazing beautiful woman. I've never seen this movie before, I need to.

It's a shame that they don't have more movies with asian leads now :/

[biukucanoe]

@sanriochica333 Flower Drum song was based on an actual night club called Forbidden City which was a showcase for Asian American talent. Asians were actually MORE prominent on American TV and movies in the 1950s and 1960s than now, perhaps because of the influx of immigrants who were more interested in other things than show biz, and a civil rights era ethic that frowned on the very ethnic stereotypes that helped to sell Asian parts.

[PinkoLady]

Wearing heels in bed... what a woman.

[Sanbika89]

Nancy Kwan sure was beautiful but Pat Suzuki sings the ultimate version of this song.

[33miyaz]

Wow, i havent heard this song in forever..... =D

[joeblowthehot]

would she still be hot with SHORT HAIR?

[PinkoLady]

@joeblowthehot Pretty sure she had a bob at one point and was still totally gorgeous.

[efren181]

so this is why they take so freagin long to get ready!!! busy singing rather than getting dressed!

[Barbiequeen89]

I need more than twenty minutes to get ready!

[HentaiSweetie]

Damn, she cute. 030

[alancwwong]

the singer sang it in a 'rough' way

[SatchmoSings]

You must learn to stop Communism.

[pennsyrailfan]

I was such a fan of Nancy Kwan back then and still am. Whether she was a femme fatale or the nice girl, she was great!

[MezzaLuna22]

She's not a girl. She's a woman.

[ASHMAYAY]

@MezzaLuna22 she' a girl at heart!

[jibberjabberwock]

This song is the ULTIMATE feminine anthem.

[Hoopermazing]

Man or man do trannies love this song!

[biukucanoe]

@Hoopermazing I was wondering how long it would take to get fans like this one....

[Hoopermazing]

@biukucanoe That should read: "Man, oh man..."

[Hoopermazing]

@Hoopermazing I, of course, meant to write "Man oh man..."

[etbella3]

@Hoopermazing If Janet Reno wore more makeup, I don't think she would have burned to death those moms and babies at Waco. Lipstick lesbians outnumber the butch variety due to this song.

[Katrina054]

Wow! :D This is totally awesome! :D I love this kind of song. I post videos of me singing to my Channel... Maybe I should make a video of me singing this song! Think I could pull it off..?

[obbor4]

Message to Nancy on behalf of the entire male gender living or dead: We enjoy your being a girl too!!!

[mamyjene11]

Totally singing this song for a Bye Bye Birdie Audition!

[AlessandraLaPosta97]

this is such a cute song!! it's halarious just singing it in singing lessons.

cideo is rly cute ^_^

[wdyslvr]

Always takes me straight to my hometown -- San Francisco!

[elmoluva31497]

If I sang 2:22 to 2:48 for an audition for Footloose, would that be acceptable?

[ItsEmmalicious]

her hair is so long & pretty!

[ushireborn]

i love this movie. this version of the song is fantastic.

i like the pat suzuki version, as well.

[MrBooRadly]

For some reason I keep watching this over and over....cant get enough

[giriciousgirl19]

@MrBooRadly it ALWAYS get stuck in my head!

[TraitorsClaw]

Man ...Nancy Kwan was so hot!

[biukucanoe]

she still does "oriental beauty" commercials on TV.... No asian / am women in a comparable position today, but with all the trouble young starlets getting into today maybe not such a bad thing...

[WSenator1]

@TraitorsClaw - You ain't lyin'! Those legs are to die for!

[ChynnaDahl]

This is a great movie musical!

[dreamofhorses]

This is so sexist...the lyrics mock women and reduce them to the status of girl. Disgusting, really.

[mksapper]

It's just a song! Jeesh!

[Cmet332]

well this is also like the 60's u moron....obviously they wouldn't do this today.

[ToruKun1]

@dreamofhorses

Too true, and one of the lines at the end REALLY makes me rage:

"When I hear the complimentary whistle/that greets my bikini by the sea/I turn and I glower and I bristle/but I'm happy to know the whistle's meant for me"

GODFUCKINGDAMMIT. THIS IS WHAT GROPERS AND PERVERTS AND LECHERS *THINK* YOU'RE THINKING. WHAT THE SHIT.

[lefredvoncarstein]

Halfway into the song the guy, punctual like most, is already waiting at the door and looking at his watch, wondering what takes all women so long to get dressed to go out.

[emmbee]

but the wait is so worth it.

[diamonddonut]

man, it's REALLY a happiness when oneself has a body for life that contains curves and anything you wear fits you 500% for both girls and boys.

lower your body fat and enjoy this song.

[LastFireHorse]

hey i do competitive dancing and my solo song is this song!

[saez999]

i enjoy being a girl too u know.....up until that special time of the month comes lol

[MezzaLuna22]

@saez999 But even still, it's not a big deal.

[crazyanimeidiototaku]

I loved this movie so much when I was little. I enjoy it even more now that I'm older LOL

[deathstare7]

I love this song. how fun and simply classic. I'll have to check this movie out.

[FalseDisposition]

I want her hair!

[irenestanciel]

How adorable.......I feel so special being a girl.........lol........we all are beautiful

[spannerworks1]

Pat Suzuki sang this song over dubbing as I have just found the LP in a charity shop.

Regards

Richard ;>)

[lsohwssno1fan422]

I chose this song to sing in a concert recently, and I had a lot of fun with it. I picked this song because I forgot how bad the original recording was. What a shame; it's a good song, and it was written by good people.

[MPSShanahan]

Who'd believe, given this gloriously sexy song and performance, that "Sound of Music" was just around the corner?

[biukucanoe]

fiddler on the roof was actually a similar theme, but much more successful.

[ArabianHaven]

This is my audition song.

[MsCupcakexoxo]

cool

[musicrocksursox]

This has a weird tune. I'm singing this song in voice lessons and its completely different.

[ThePagopago]

you think this is bad? try something by sondheim---like green finch and linnet bird

[gemathy]

0:48

[CapinTravin]

thanks for posting this!

this is the some I am using to audition for frenchy in grease :)

[Gilesfly]

Funny you should mention Gay. Lesbian singer PHRANC did this on her album of the same name on Island records.

[jay55also]

You gotta remember this movie debuted like some 40 years ago, That was how the society was pushing women perceptions in musicals. Nancy Kwan was one of the finest looking American Asian actresses back then, she def had a nice looking body.

[scotpens]

It's just a fun song from a musical from nearly 50 years ago. And lots of attractive young women DO enjoy playing with their sex appeal and teasing the guys -- and guys keep lapping it up!

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

Probably 90% of pretty girls enjoy it is this much. Nothing wrong with being a girl in this sense of being a girl.

[ZeffrixSidekixEvix]

this is my favourite song! and i love nancy kwan!

[IceIceChelsea]

The original was recorded by Pat Suzuki from the broadway show then B.J. Baker did the song for the movie ^^

[IceIceChelsea]

This is good but Pat Suzuki's voice was more flirty and fitted better

[MrsNickJonas961]

this song is great!!! =] this reminds me of me and my friendss =] my one friend does an amazing solo for dance to this song =] ily kel <3

[DorisDayFanatic]

I love this song, but I had never seen this version of it LOL! It's really good. Is this movie good because I saw it somewhere for like 7 dollars?

[biukucanoe]

yes, it's a very good movie (I liked it because it's the first and only popular movie and rogers hammerstein musical about Asian Americans)

[SmileyFace4646]

@biukucanoe i could be wrong but what about south pacific?

[biukucanoe]

@SmileyFace4646 Well, you've got a point about API = Asian Pacific Islander, but Asian American usually means Chinese or Japanese. The only caucasian in Flower Drum Song is the mugger.

[chowchow3000]

Does anyone know the name of the actual vocalist?

[MetalWolfNative]

Miss B.J. Baker

[disneysongtape]

If she is singing about how much shelike wering dresses, why is it at 2:45 seconds into the video she takes her dress or the stool and trow it across the room? Why not pick it up and place it somewhere else???  Bob

[tippymugs]

this is fucking priceless!

[Bajabeachtan]

what is she wearing? lol

[Bajabeachtan]

I'm doing this song for a solo in my choir and i was really nervous but i love the song now so im not so nervous.

[roxeysgirl]

same type of message as how lovely to be a woman from bye bye birdie

[virgofemme5]

This is one of the few musicals I LOVE. Every song is great, and I love the characters in this film. Thanks for posting!

[LadyFlameSniper]

I've never seen it, just ordered it and hope it's good.

[wanative57]

I've always loved this song. My wife thinks I'm crazy. :-)

[FeelaBustier]

This never gets old to me!!! Loves it!

[shortybear02]

Thanks for posting this. i watched this with my mom when i was a kind, and have loved it ever since!