PERRY COMO & LENA HORNE Sing a Medley 1960

This is some of what you missed, kids - a great medley sung by Perry Como & Lena Horne in 1960.

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Music

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• Lena
• Horne
• Perry
• Como
• TV
• Variety
• Jazz
• Pop
• Broadway
• Music
• 1960

[mca1218]

Elegance personified. Echoing both BlondeRabbitt and NYCguys2007, this clip is all the more extraordinary because this form of musical entertainment is gone today. Something got lost in the transition between the 1960's generation and what we currently display on television now. And I love the very end when Como takes Horne's hand for the curtain call- a small, but significant gesture considering this was still in the age of race relations breaking ground on network television. Thank you.

[Lockemeister]

Closest I ever saw Perry Como to breaking a sweat! Lena Horne definately very stunning!

[SpazChat]

It's sad, but this kind of show wouldn't even make it out of the test pilot stage today, cause there is no one grabbing their crotch, shouting expletives, flippin' over themselves, etc.. Lena Horne and Perry Como were before my time, but I am glad I discovered these clips

[trajan75]

@MrSluggo666 When my father came from Sicily in 1920 South Italians weren't considered to be really white. A lot of Italian American singers were thus quite open to performing with black entertainers. Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and Tony Bennett to name a few.

[MrSluggo666]

Ah nothing like a whiter than white singer and an off white woman !

[snoops71]

@NYCguys2007 Oh Ok, thanks for letting me know!

[NYCguys2007]

@snoops71 Copies of the program are available check Amazon.

[snoops71]

@NYCguys2007 I've never seen it before, just a clip here and there. So, she touched his arm? You can tell a lot by body language, so that is something I'd like to see. I read the song was political in nature. I also found out just a day or so ago Chrysler was the sponser who got nervous. Thanks for giving me some extra info on it :) I've been hearing about the whole thing for years now.

[NYCguys2007]

@snoops71 LOL. Btw, Petula Clark didn't touch Belafonte's hand, she touched his upper arm. It looked very forced and unnatural to me. I think the sponsor was most nervous about the political and "militant" theme of the song. You gotta see that boring show!

[snoops71]

@NYCguys2007 And knowing those two, I'm sure they both enjoyed it. Who was gonna mess w/ Frank anyway? Guy had everybody scared of him.

[NYCguys2007]

@snoops71 it was one lone sponsor who was nervous about the very unsexy touch of Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte in 1968. In the mean time, Diahann Carroll was kissing Frank Sinatra on the LIPS.

[snoops71]

@NYCguys2007 I don't know, when Harry Belafonte and Petula Clark appeared on her TV special together, and she touched his hand, the suits had a fit. They threatened to remove that part, but she stood strong, so they left it in, and this was in 1968. However, on Hollywood Palace, Sammy Davis Jr and Peggy Lipton got pretty close that same year, and I don't believe there was a huge backlash, so I guess you didn't always know what would happen.