Bye Bye Birdie.mpg

[lindasiouxsan]

I was just a young girl, and I loved this movie and Ann Margaret. Such different days than today in the age of robot computers.

[Sheri451]

Cute.

[apolloscalypticus]

very amusement!!

[MrBizzarobrian]

Man oh man she`s hot!!

[varon1979]

gosh!!....i wanna marry ann margret and listen, her, singing like this EVERY NIGHT!!. matt

[phlashba]

The All-American Golden Girl --- nobody ever did it better than Ann! Fantastic!

[Ballsarama]

Also, I don't think there had been a popular movie that had a major character do a filmed into and ending in the way this movie did. It definately put a different emphsis on Ann Margaret and her character that the stage musical didn't have. Usually thee would be intros and endings with the ensemble casts for film musicals...but this was different. Seeing it in the movies with it's non backgound blue and Ann's spirited performance made quite an impact, and, as other have said, launched her career

[Ballsarama]

I might point out that when the movie was released in '63, we had the Beatles in '62, original rock & roll for a decade from '51. If there was a little "annoying" character in the film...pop music was an anoyance to adults at the time. The movie was cute as well. There was a certain smoothing of rock & roll due to the mid '50s scandles of Chuck Berry's Man Act arrest and Jerry Lee's marrige to his young cousin. It's probably why "Colonel" Parker allowed Elvis to do some easy Army time.

[Dexcab]

@etraig It's intentional... in the opening clip she's a lovestruck "girl" and by the end of the movie she's become "a woman," hence her more mature appearance and her confidence.

[etraig]

just noticed that her hairstyle is a little different in the opening and closing clips. more sleek and set at the end. they might not have been filmed on the same day. or could it be the sleekness is meant to go with the sassy attitude of closing?

but wow! no one is like her, just like Roger said about the "mad men" Patio soda ad.

[MickScarborough]

Ann Margaret blows away the modern chicks

[SEVFEST]

This looks exactly like I saw it the first time in my life at the Ewing Drive In..

[silenthillmaster755]

@Lovedyouboii its suppoesd to, its the end of the movie shes grown up

[kitkat32795]

i love how she has to keep running up to the screen =)

[JohnnyX2006]

A Godess singin...

[LondonPride25]

Perfect breasts, decent singing voice.

[InvadorKim]

i like the song a lot. i don't think she's that pretty, but thats probably because i wasn't really alive anywhre near her time.

[latinahoney123]

I love this movie my mom got me into this havent seen this in yrs! didn't think I would find clips on youtube :)

[LittleMissCD]

I'm doing a medley of this show at my school and this songs part of it...can you spell OBNOXIOUS?

[zodd1985]

Fap

[HabitHobbit]

for some reason I love this freakin song, can't get it out of my head.

[reecolor]

Paul Lynde said "Bye Bye birdie should have been called "Hello Ann-Margret"

[tobesters]

she sings "bee-wudifuwwy"

[IDLERACER]

If one has never seen the movie before, and has watched nothing but this intro and outro, it would only be natural to assume that it's a film about a girl who searches for, and eventually finds, a vibrato.

[lalilul3lo]

@IDLERACER at first I thought you said vibrator. Then I put on my glasses.

[pearljam5877]

Im sure that there are thousands of people that could sing this better than her. But i guarentee not one can sell it like she can. At about 1:20 my heart absolutley melts.

[2441822831]

Also, if you check the lyrics in both parts, you see the how the emotional performance supports them. She's a fawning lovesick teen in the intro-and a more self assured young woman in the second. The gestures and body language also telegraph it-the intro has more "cute" waves. The ending has her waving up her hands for "...the army's got you now...", like she doesn't care. Even the last has a more mature sexual vibe to it. At the time it was effective-and bookends the movie.

[disneyfan1326]

she dosnt care, she dosnt like conrad in the end

[2441822831]

I might add that Charles Strauss, who wrote the music for this show, would write sections of songs that would be out of the range of a singer to intimate a child or teen...which this tune does have. He wrote "Tomorrow" for Annie also...and you have a lot of high notes...appropriate for a child singing.

[2441822831]

I have to agree with Madcan, some of the subities of older media are misunderstood by those used to characterisations in current media like music videos. If you notice, Ann sings in a real teenybopper voice for the solo intro-she's in love with Conrad Birdie then. She's been ignoring the guy she really cares for and realizes it at the end. The ending solo is more assured and even taunting of the memory of Birdie. If you notice, they even added a some reverb to her vocal to make it a bit bigger.

[CubicalGirl]

I heard that this is on Broadway right now

[rainman0006]

Mad Men has made this song popular again.

[anchower]

Sexy, for some reason.

[gciking]

Thanks for the excellent response, Madcan8. I was going to delete theoe idiotic remarks from apxmusic , but I'll leave them up to show everyone how obtuse they really are.

[Madcan8]

The problem with utube is that people like "apxmusic" whom is not smart get the chance to show the world just how stupid they are. Birdie is a satire (big word apx) on the pop music industry. That's why AM sings in the baby voice. She sings "Bird-Hee" because she's pretending to sulk like a child. She's not being serious. And why would you punch her in the face? Are you for real? Or is it just no one as hot as Ann-Margret then or now, would look at you twice and you're a very sad person.

[JeffyJeffjeffm31191]

Ann-Margaret was the sexiest woman of her day!

[gciking]

Where can you see this video on Mad Men? I watched two episodes and never saw it.

[guywholikesthings]

I believe you see it first in Season Three, Episode 2, then again a couple times in the following episodes. The team creates a shot-for-shot duplicate in order to sell a low-calorie soft drink.

[gciking]

Thanks, I'll try and find it.

[irvingklaw57]

Look this up on youtube

MM Patio clip S03E04 "The Arrangements" Airdate 7 Sept 2009 ≈34:43-37:20

It's the segment.

[gciking]

Thanks very much, I'll look for it :)

[guywholikesthings]

haha...I love it that I'm not the only Mad Men fan who's been directed here out of curiosity :)

[canoman19]

I thought I was the only one who looked for her after watching Mad Men. I'm so obsessed with this song now. I just hope that nobody is going to ruin this song with some stupid DJ remix version.

PS: Kudos to all Mad Men fans!

[Mittlivsomsill]

As with all of the worlds most beautiful women, she's Swedish :)

[Aidooosh]

bra sagt!!

[barbx]

Why is her voice so screechy in the beginning? I'm with Peggy Olson on this one.

[WildmanWoodie]

She is playing a star-struck 16 year old girl in the first part, and she has matured and grown past her affection for Birdie in the second part.

Listen to the lyrics.

[randomloves74]

I agree! Her voice is screechy! She's beautiful, etc, etc. and I know people here are saying that her voice is fulfilling the role of a 16 yr old. but I can't help thinking please let this song be over! Its so shrill and dare I say it? Borderline annoying. Sorry you can give me negative thumbs down all you want.

[sauer82855]

Wow to think a show like Mad Men put Ann-margret a superstar of over 4 decades back in the spot light- she fit perfectly in the show and had gon on to a super star careeer from By Bye Birdie countly emmy golden globe and academy awardNominations -Mad Men had it right-- She has it and nobody knows exactly what that it was-- but she definitely has it and still does. Ann-margret-- Hello How you doing!!!!!

[WildmanWoodie]

Who's Bertie?

[gciking]

B irdie. Conrad Birdie plays a spoof character based on Elvis Presley who's being drafted into the Army.

[omgcrayonz]

mad men brought me here!

[veritasvg]

She was always hot.

I can see why they chose it for Mad Men. It oozes the early sixties.

[dizcrazyfoojin]

Cant stop watching. Shes cute. I also got this form Mad Men.

[cattoy80]

Did u know I am related to her by the way? My Grandmother was her cousin!!

[cattoy80]

You're a ......GAS! Lol I thought she was gunna say Ass XD

[Beccathepromomami]

I don't know any 14 year olds that act like this.

:/

[dumbblonde2770]

That's because she's 16. If you've actually seen the movie she preforms a song called "How lovely to be a woman" and signs the joys of finally growing up and becoming a woman.

[MayhemII]

Just pretend she's singing about RPattz.

[ledandelion]

Who says she 14? She's supposed to be 16...

[irvingklaw57]

I watch this movie only for the begining and end. What a joy to see this within the first minute of Mad Men.

[Irrenmann]

Boy, she nailed this. It's not so much shrill as it is supposed to be that of a young girl...sort of a raw quality. In the reprise, she has a more mature appearance and changed the singing to match.

Peggy was, of course, jealous of her...and of Joan...and of the male employees at Sterling Cooper...Peggy is jealous of a lot of people.

[WildmanWoodie]

You're right - it would help if people watched the movie and listened to the lyrics. That she is 'over' Birdie and more mature at the end is clear.

As for Mad Men, Peggy isn't a very nice person, ultimately. She believes herself to be, I think, but she has her demons.

[FinalVestige]

Wow...you guys too? Mad Men made me look this up...its addictive.

[OliverKick]

me neither...its mad men...they did this......i mean the context they put it into.....with peggy..........yes don..ur right, it does play with ur heart!

[emilletich]

I keep watching. What's happening?

[jeremyud]

I can't stop watching this, either.

[bunsofmolybdenum]

i really hate this but cant stop watching it

[fclark99]

I too saw this on Mad Men. Absolutely incredible it was almost hypnotic....I have watched numerous times. What a voice. Dana your right; so much sex appeal with so much class

[danawillis]

She has more sex appeal in her little finger than any of the modern skanks who pass for sexy these days.

[veritasvg]

I have to agree.

Our culture has become sick. Something's wrong with us, and I think it has a lot to do with money and the increase in affluence over the last twenty years or so. This all happened before in the twenties and it took a major depression and then a world war to unwind it.

[KPH777]

Just saw this scene on MadMen...and its now 29 viewngs later!  She is so much fun to watch.

[frankguevara]

im 22 years old. i find this to be one of the hottest things ever. chubby achieved.

[drone1977]

THATS ann Margrette.....the grumpy old men.....ann margrette.?

[ChaoticButterfly]

The one and only.

[psychoboysaz]

One of my favorite movies of all time. I love how she sings the song like an innocent little girl in the beginning, but by the end of the movie she has grown into a woman. God I ADORE Ann-Margaret.

[pship1962]

Fantastic quality! Absolutely love this movie. Thanks for posting such a good clip.

[Sparkles11141997]

♫♫♫

[Sparkles11141997]

(Bye Bye Bye)...no more sunshine (sunshine!) It's followed you away. I'll cry birdie! till ur home 2 stay!

[Sparkles11141997]

Bye Bye Birdie...I'm gonna miss you so, bye bye birdie! Why'd you have to go?

[momokamachimu]

... I have to go on a school field to watch this... Should be interesting...

[1940semochild]

whats the field trip? Anyway, this is a cute movie, you would enjoy it :)

[bobdimucci]

Ann Margret...my first crush...Thanks for putting together the intro & reprise...