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  • You can tell by their grins the 3 girls watching Liberace's hands

    were getting wet, but the poor things had to go take cold showers.

    What a talent, and what an amazing guy.

  • he totally nailed those bitches

  • 9 dislikes!? They must be jealous of his technique! Seriously this guy amazingly unique!

  • MY MOTHER LOVED THIS MAN AND I GREW UP TO LOVE HIS MUSIC AND PERSONALITY TOO.

  • Too bad he was gay, he probably would've had an amazing time with those gals after the show!!!

  • damn, what a waste, he such a handsome man

  • Fast, but nobody is faster than Vladimir Horowitz was.

  • Wow! That's fast!

  • and really very unpretentious strangely enough. Just joyfully sharing his talent.

  • What is the name of that music?

  • @UkrainianHistVideo The 12th Street Rag

  • @showmanlee thanks!

  • @UkrainianHistVideo 12the street rag @spongebob squarepants ^^

  • Fast son of a bitch.....:)

  • sheer brilliance.

  • Liberace's hands were much smaller when he was younger,

    but his speed didn't diminish with age.

    What a great guy! You couldn't help but love him and

    his personal life was, as it should be, HIS OWN BUSINESS!

  • @GooglFascists except that when you're that famous, nothing's your own business anymore, not with the press. I'm not commenting on how things should be, but how they actually ARE.

  • That is what 8 to 10 hours a day practicing your craft will get you. Some say he was ok some say great, I say he was the Greatest. He was a common man who never forgot where he came from

  • @MrLonesomeJohn I disagree--Liberace was great not because he practiced 8 to 10 hours a day practicing (you run into seious fatigue problems that way) but because he had an inherent talent that made it so he could play like that without having to practice so much. Maybe he practiced a lot during his school days, but I guarantee you he didn't have time to practice 8 to 10 hours every day when his career really took off.

  • 1:11 is awesome, and the wink tops it off. i almost died laughing.. what can i say, they guy was a mack with the ladies

  • The girls are trying their hardest not to look fake :P

    

  • i wonder what triple time is like. ?

  • Damn 3 hot babes for the time alone in the room with Liberace even then I guess they knew they were safe

  • all I have to say is OMG. Double time deserves some sort of award. LIBERACE ftw! :D

    

  • Don't the girls just love him?

  • Amazng!

  • I am amazed and inspired. How the hell does he hit the right notes at THAT speed. And all of those fills at the top end of the keyboard! Incredible.

  • A superb pianist who could play any and all kinds of music and a top-notch entertainer to boot.

  • totally amazing

  • AMAZING!

    

  • he's one fierce beast

  • Piano God

  • A perfect wink.

  • The girl in back looked like she was only there cause she was paid to be there. It was kind of the thing back then to use good looking womwn like living furniture to dress a set up.

  • @Klaaaan1 you're right

  • wow O_o this just blew my mind

  • Liberace VS. marasy8. THAT would be an epic showdown.

  • OMG, double time! and he doesn't even look at the keys the whole time while doing it!

  • He is still the stuff that legends are made of and few, if any can compare.

  • Amazing! Still managed to wink at the girl!

  • @gregoryagogo one of the best comments on youtube

  • @gregoryagogo - managed? he owned it.

  • Not to mention the fact that you never see him using any sheet music. incredible.

  • I never realised he was that good. Being a teenager in the 70s all i knew about him was when people did impressions of him with massive wigs and rediculous rings etc. I never realised he was so talented and so huge around the globe. Excellent.

  • Incredible!!! that run at 1:13 isnt human, and the wink he delivers to the ladies afterward is the icing on the cake haha!

  • There's a line in 'Mr Sandman, send me a dream' were they ask for a man with wavy hair like Liberace. Now I now I know. He wasn't gay was he?

  • Is this real?

  • Wonder what Lib did when those chicks dove for his zipper.

  • @mocus1 I presume he asked for their brother's telephone number !

  • @mocus1 when they couldnt get past the rhinestones, he respectfully gave'em a good slap.

  • awesome unbelievable amazing

  • holy shit! this was amazing!

  • Damn!  He was really amazing.

  • Imagine that poor girls heart throbbing. If every girl in the world wanted me, I'd be gay too

  • Thank you for posting a video with such superbly nimble piano playing! Very impressive indeed, and of course most enjoyable.

  • It goes with my theory that great music transcends all prejudice. Hardly anyone knew that "Lee" was gay in the 1940s but by the time they figured it out, no one cared. I know some hard core racist old dudes that say they hated n*****s but loved Nat King Cole. Music touches the fiber of out existence. Thanks Lee!

  • sexual prowess has nothing to do with talent!!! the man was a great piano player and entertainer, anyone focusing on his bedroom is a focking idiot!!!

  • Majic pores out of him when he puts on a show...amazing!!

  • If you dislike this, you need to pull your head out of your butt and grow a brain.

  • The two smiling ladies in the background obviously don't know ;-)

  • He was child prodigy and fantastic player until he decided to become Las Vegas clown and stopped practicing. (Well... for $50 000 a week (I would do the same).

  • Liberace appealed to the ladies and considered himself a sex symbol. His sexuality was his own business which he preferred to keep it the way. That's why he sued anyone who made claims about his sexuality (being gay). He choose to keep it private and too bad the world today can't take that as a lesson. Being openly gay isnt the way everyone wants it especially in his case when 80% of his audience were females!

  • @pompom11  Well said!! I completely agree with your comment. It's a shame that so many "closet-gays" live oppressed lives by "keeping it in the closet." Oppression is the opposite of "progression"...staying idle, not moving forward or rising above adversity or opinion.

    Without a doubt, Liberace exuded true talent and showmanship; as do droves of others in the world who are gay.

    Gay, Straight or Bi....

    talent is talent, love is love and people are people. PERIOD. :)

  • Shut it about his sexuality. His music is great.

  • @CammehYaBams Thanks for saying that

  • Who should really care Talent is talent...Rock Hudson was a leading man, all new he was gay, guess that is what an actor really is. Please judge by what people do not what they are....

  • fkn amazing !!

  • It gets rather tedious to listen to people bash Liberace for his gayness. You'd think that by now people would be more educated and get off his back. Few have ever had so much success as he did in his life. Or made as much money entertaining and performing for so many people.

  • What an imcredible talent and showman.

  • @klous999

    lol, I'm gay myself, didn't know that... just reminded me of the college humor sketch.

  • Learning piano to get laid.

  • Virtuoso! He defines the word here!

  • wow is there sheet music for this???

  • woww... is there sheet music for this?

  • blessed with talent we will never see again .....

  • not great piano player and sick is sick

  • Dave here. Our family watched Lee when he was on TV in the fifties. Thoroughly enjoyed his talent. My mother and youngest sister sat in the front row at the Daytona Jai-Alai fronton where Liberace performed. Between acts he went down and talked with the audience. He stopped & asked my 16-yr.-old sister if she'd like to touch the pink pom-poms on his outfit. After she did, he said, "Now you can say you held Liberace's fuzzy, pink balls!

  • A duet with Art Tatum would have been interesting.

  • what a fit piano player

  • was he classically trained?

  • Wow! What talent. Very impressive.

  • damn....that's impressive!

  • They do say the only thing they couldn’t sell on the Antiques Roadshow was Liberace's piano stool, dirty bastard.

  • I don't get it. If it takes him 1 minute to play it in regular time, then why does it take him more than a minute and a hlaf to play it in double time?

  • god damn thats speed holy shit thats bad ass

  • OK! Which one of you homophobes wants to play next!

  • absolutely amazing! 

  • on the double time, is that left hand stride even possible at that speed? Incredible.

  • He was gay but who cares he could play the hell out of a piano

  • Liberace was a awesome master of the piano, one of the greatest that have ever peformed, regardless of any negatives, we will leave his final performance between him and God, for only God knows, not man.

  • those dames are loving it haha, that's some real class by Liberace!

  • He could PLAY then!

  • uh.......Holy shite. Speechless about that double time...

  • @VocalEdgeTV

    Ya, me too. How the hell did he do that!!

  • @octave7 RIGHT?? He just didn't miss. I didn't really know anything about him. He was a beast.

  • Michael Travis designed all of his clothes.Look it up on the internet.

  • damn.. that one broad was jockin' em'..

  • Technically, Liberace was right up there with Art Tatum and JoAnn Castle as one of the best keyboard players of the twentieth century. Like Tatum, he could routinely incorporate 32nd note runs into his work, and he comes close to doing just that in this clip. Great stuff!

  • @MikeBlitzMag Not attempting to open up a can of worms, but JoAnn Castle was a barrelhouse-ragtime-stride pianist who for many years appeared on the Lawrence Welk Show. I'm wondering if she belongs in the same category as Liberace and Art Tatum?

  • @dallaskenn Technically I think she does. Each of the three of them pursued different musical directions, but then again, each one of them excelled at what they did. For my money, I would not exclude any of them from my record collection.

  • i would've fucked all them white bitches in the 40s

  • It's a difference between talent & a gift. He was truely gifted!

  • look abit like jerry lee ~ 

  • he mesmerized the chicks with the virtuosity

  • Actually, he was a good piano player.. not just a showman. Too bad society beats down everyone who is not part of the accepted "in crowd".. i.e. white, protestant Christian, straight, male, and employed as a salaried government employee with health insurance and guaranteed retirement pension.

  • @Boydd21 Talk about stereotyping. I don't see one person here bad mouthing Liberace. But you're stereotyping and bad mouthing several groups of people who didn't even weigh in with comments here. Liberace was a superb piano player. Leave it at that. The rest doesn't matter.

  • @MikeBlitzMag Society has cliques. Organized groups promote viewpoints & agendas, & react when challenged. Look at your reaction: you felt threatened by my 2 sentence comment. Could a non-famous Liberace completely avoid gay bashing in that era? Did he live free of fear of being outed, career destroyed, physically/mentally/emotionall­y bashed? Look at history. Who defined "righteousness" and enforced it? Hints: Slavery, Nazis, Crusades, Native Americans. The unspoken "rest" absolutely matters.

  • @Boydd21 To that effect, Liberace did survive. His preferences in such matters were never a secret. But, like the true artist that he was, that didn't define him. To hang his legacy on sexual orientation, which has nothing to do with his capabilities as a pianist, is to cheapen his legacy by saying that it didn't matter that he could play circles around pretty much any other pianist out there. That's an insult to his undeniable artistry.

  • @MikeBlitzMag Yes Liberace survived, & thrived. His preferences were definately secret until his later years & a publicized break-up with his young, & last lover. Look at $25 Million libel lawsuit against Confidential Magazine, 1957. Mocked by kids because, in part, he avoided sports, so he was driven to excel at piano. Sexual orientation absolutely impacted his pianist capabilities from early on. "Mr Showmanship" was not an artist. Critics berated him. "I don't give concerts, I put on shows."

  • @Boydd21 I always sensed a bit of satire in his "I don't give concerts" comment in that it was not necessarily what he believed of himself, but what he sensed certain critics thought of him. But here's the thing - he has been gone for a number of years now. His records and film clips have survived. Invariably they showcase an artist who technically was within the top 5 pianists in the world. Like Berry Gordy said, it's what's in the grooves that counts. In that respect, Liberace had what counts!

  • @MikeBlitzMag I still disagree. Liberace, JoAnn Castle, Art Tatum were American entertainers. Liberace & Castle played loud, fast with glitzy customes/staging for live popular entertainment. Tatum: very good jazz musician; Oscar Peterson also. Liberace was highest paid entertainer in world; 1950's-70's; a top businessman: owned antique store, restaurant, published cookbooks, had motel chain, men's clothing line, shopping mall. Best pianists? No. Try Rubinstein, Rachmaninoff, Arrau, Horowitz.

  • @Boydd21 To a degree, yes in that Vladimir Horowitz, Serge Rachmaninoff, etc. were technical virtuosos. But the advantage that Liberace, Castle (and Tatum, to an extent) had was that, visual enhancements aside, their performances were not only technically 1st rate, but they had something the technically obsessed often overlook: heart. Peter Tork once said of Ten Years After guitarist Alvin Lee, "He's technically hot, but he bores me silly". Liberace's music was technically hot. But never boring.

  • absolutly

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  • This is why I love youtube - came across this whilst searching for something else - but what a gem!

  • Believe it or not my Aunt Helen taught him piano when he was a little boy.She said he was her best student and the fastest learner,because he had a natural talent for the piano.

  • that some awesome novelty piano - had no idea he had such good chops, though if i remember rightly padereski discovered him. :)

  • wow he was gorgeous! such an amazing person...he inspires me everyday

  • yeah... liberace seducing women with his mad skills, that's a believable scenario! *roll eye*

  • Very Impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Try listening to Tommy Johnson Boogie, another very impressive Piano Player!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • What were the women for ? to hold up the Piano?

  • @stihlthebest lol, That's good.

  • wow, again i say, wow

  • just fucking awesome

  • is that actress stella adler?

  • our neighbor made his wigs (seriously lol)

  • "The Master of Showmanship."

  • I have been a fan of Liberace when T V First apeared. One thing that has been an irritant with me is when he could play a song so fast that it is or was not intertaining. I suppose that no one pointed that out to him. Otherwise, he was a fantastic entertainer.

  • Piano Master. He was quite hansome in the 40's. Art Tatum is no contest lol

  • @PaulMcCann92 Agreed he was very attractive here

  • Liberace was rather handsome when he was young but got kinda scary looking when he got old.Too bad he lived in a time when being gay was criminal,such a talent like that deserved better.

  • @DarthKreeg Agree with you on both accounts,it does suck that he was probably treated like crap for being gay

  • @DarthKreeg - Liberace was gay???

  • @airtech4 yes he was.

  • @DarthKreeg I would have to agree with you here. Quite a handsome young man, but I guess physical beauty is only temporary. We all grow old and, eventually, we lose our physical attractiveness. And it is unfortunate for him and many other gay men who grew up in those days and before that.

  • @DarthKreeg, Lee was forced into court by that idiot that outed him in the 1950's when he was touring in Europe. He was sworn in, asked all kind of questions about the way he dressed, the scents he wore and his sexuality. Because being gay then was criminal he chose to deny it which meant he committed purjury. That can screw up a person's head, not to mention what it would do to ones self esteem. God bless you Lee.

  • @DarthKreeg Hey, lots of people are good looking when they're young and get scary when they age.....

  • @DarthKreeg I agree the man was a piano genius RIP LEE

  • @DarthKreeg Like hello, being the highest paid piano player in the world isn't exactly discrimination. I'm gay and my LGF Maggs and me don't shave which is like totally criminal today.

  • man, that guy was pimp..

  • ...he practically molested those ivories

  • This must be the youngest video recording of Liberace in existance. Maybe it will go down in history, and Liberace will be rediscovered and be famlous in the future like some other excellent musicians after they have passed away.

    Seems like gay men can really play piano & organ and perform popular music well. They got what it takes! In my opinion, I could not see a straight man perform music this well. Joe.

  • @JoePeterzak I have discovered him through youtube!!! And WOW what a talent,and I am 28 but i don't really like that much music geared towards my age group,I much prefer Liberace over any 'artist' around today. I generally listen to broadway type music

  • @JoePeterzak Most jazz pianists are heterosexual.

  • @dallaskenn Prove it.

  • @7beers Enter the jazz subculture and ask around. It's common knowledge, if it were any different percentage wise we'd know by now.

  • this video rox

  • what is the point of having those women if they're supposed to be like slightly shifting statues?

  • @josiah566 . i think they look quite sexy , and not plastic like many modern chicks

  • eye candy for him haha

  • and wavy hair like liberace

  • wow. i had never heard of liberace before in the 19 years of my life up until a couple months ago, but his control of the piano was amazing. a great performer.

  • GAY PEOPLE ARE GOOD AT EVERYTHING

  • Yes we are!

  • This is what you call real talent!!!! I love Liberace,he seemed to love the fans too which is now rare

  • NOW i see why he was famouse i always heard about him and wondered who he was and now im all like WOW

  • this is incredible!!!! he was a genius!!

  • He did more with his life than you will ever do, and has more talent than you. Nothing about his sexuality could change that.

  • @DingoHunterDan

    It seems to me that you are very interested in Liberace, this is the third comment you've made on one of the youtube postings. The strange thing is that all of your comments are very homophobic - well I guess it takes one to know one, you big queen!

  • @DingoHunterDan . you wouldn't know a dingo if it jumped up and bit you in the @rse . so what ! he's still a top piano man !

  • women?

  • Excellent!

  • double time, thats the shit

  • What a talent! No matter what anyone says about him, they can't take away what he was......VERY TALENTED!!!!! Thanks for posting!

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  • you're an idiot...

  • Wat a talent!

  • WOW!!! Is all I can say

  • WOW i love this another nice little gem,what a REAL talent you just don't them like this anymore

  • I love the ending!

  • He had it all back then, good looks, great talent and of course.......da GIRLS! :-P

  • @weatherboi he was a gay :)))

  • Thanks, I know he was gay, and so did the world......BUT he still had it all :-P

  • Girls? dude he was a flame, no girls for him

  • Well, he had da BOYS! But anyway...

  • Great stride piano!