Pat Adiarte Five Different Girls Hullabaloo '65

From the Oct 25 1965 Hullabaloo...One of the ironies of his performing career: he portrayed almost every type of Asian..except his own: Filipino.

"Five Different Girls" was one of three singles that Patrick recorded on the RSVP label. His next release, "We Gotta Stick It Out" (quite a title, Pat) was arranged by Herb Bernstein who also arranged Laura Nyro's original of "Wedding Bell Blues" and the arrangements are very similar as is the "sound" of the recording itself. Not surprising since I believe they were both recorded in the same studio across from the Brill Building, about a block from where Hullabaloo was rehearsed.

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Entertainment

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• Music
• Hullabaloo
• Patrick
• Adiarte
• Petula
• Clark
• 1965

[NoirFan01]

From this clip Hullabaloo looks like a rather progressive show for its time. You've got an Asian-American guy singing and dancing with four white ladies and one black lady. We take it for granted today, but such integration must have been shocking to some in 1965.

[LinoNewyork]

@NoirFan01 Progressive but really the intent was to differentiate this show from the others at the time. At the end of this clip Pet Clark links arms w/Patrick and they dance into the fade. About three years later she was in a special w/Harry Belefonte in which she placed her hand on his arm. The southern affils demanded a re-shoot or edit to eliminate this scene. NBC refused. At that period it was; Asian+white=OK, White+Latino=OK .

[kurtfostervideo1]

He is so cute!

[sonofapunman]

The girls would be naked to distract the viewer from the horrible vocals...

[deep71483]

Because the southerners hated specifically blacks for some reason.

[Lionel4482]

the first Will Hung!!!!!!

[rascal211]

Nice bouncy 60's song but it had lame lyrics. It is still entertaining because it has the 60s sound (horns, a melody and background vocals).

[pheet]

miss clarke asking and asian guy to be his girl #6.??? really some dangerous stuff on crossing the racial"lines...good for you pat!!

[AsianMen4Me]

I love it!