Shake Rattle & Roll - Part 3 - GIRLS!!!

This section is all about Burlesque. Includes cool archive footage of burlesque shows from the 1940's and 50's. As well as Vancouver's finest burlesque troupes. Featuring interviews with Cecilia Bravo, Melody Mangler, Shotgun Shaynin and Violet Femme. Rockabilly Documentary.

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Music

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• Documentary
• Rockabilly
• Vancouver
• 1950's
• Hot
• Rod
• Burlesque
• Rock'n'Roll
• Pin-ups
• Cecelia
• Bravo
• Melody
• Mangler
• Girls
• Dancing
• Retro
• Screaming
• Chicken
• Taboo
• Revue
• Fluffgirl

[tankgirl916]

I have been a huge fan of the rockabilly age for as long as I can remember, this doc has reminded me what its really all about. I think that people need to realize that its not just fast cars and even faster woman. It's a state of mind and the music steamed from Black culter(my culter) shows how america can take some great and transform it to a whole movement.

[FulltimeKira]

Thanks so much for your comment Tankgirl916. I'm so glad you felt that from watching it because that was my intention when I made the film. cheers!!

[killuminati63]

YES !!!  added to my oldies gals playlist !!

[zildan15]

cool pin ups looking girls, whats the song on 1:42?

[hellkoffin]

this is not a good thing to watch 

[weholdparties]

@TheMG63 I don't even want to BEGIN to discuss how these people handle women's issues. "Things were better back then because women were expected to wear pearls while they vacuumed and they made four course meals before the man got home and had no idea she had a clitoris" Give me a fucking break. Someone has spent too much time watching Leave it to Beaver.

[weholdparties]

@petal9225 Please, for the love of god do not tell me that you are equating minstrel singers to real jazz musicians.

[weholdparties]

@TheMG63 Burlesque was introduced to America by Lydia Thompson and her British Blondes in the 1860s. The burlesque that was performed until the 1920s derived from Thompson's form of burlesque which was bawdy, low brow, and sometimes even outright crass. By the 1950s and 60s burlesque had already begun to resemble the exotic dancing that these people seem to think is mutually exclusive. The modern idea of burlesque does not exist, it's an anathema.

[TheMG63]

@weholdparties I doubt if you could tell anyone when burlesque started or by whom, because no-one could make such a claim in view of the fact that it's been around for centuries - both the word and the genre. Unwarranted sense of nostalgia? Why, because there are aspects of the era that are less than rosy?? Name me one period of human history where that doesn't hold true??? In which case following your logic, no-one could have a warranted sense of nostalgia - thus missing the whole point!

[petal9225]

thats the same with jazz mujsic. . .when black people used to wear black suits glasses and hats it wasnt for fun it was to show that they are equal to the white ones. and this is now a lifestyle. . evryone has forgotten the history of jazz people. . jazz is not whiskey with 15 euros in the most expensive hotel and some bastards listen to something as if they are kings! the musicians are the kings and the music is the queen

[weholdparties]

It seems that the people in this video have an unwarranted sense of nostalgia. They make no mention of segregation, the Black List, the dirty burlesque acts that led to the modern day stripper. The redheaded woman didn't even know the year that burlesque started or by whom! And don't sugar coat strip tease or belittle exotic dancers. These people obviously never saw Josephine Baker do her banana dance. If you are going to devote your life to something you should know its history!

[MrCaptainobvious2009]

shotgun shaynin is so dam hot i think ill marry her