Bye Bye Birdie.mpg

Theme Song's Intro and reprise sung by Ann Margret

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Film & Animation

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• Bye
• Bye
• Birdie

[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.

[WildmanWoodie]

Who's Bertie?

[gciking]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.