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Uploaded by on May 23, 2007

Desi Arnaz at his badass best!

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  • i like how his hair gets more and more messed up as he goes. great performance.

  • Fun fact: Desi is invoking and welcoming Babalu-Aye, the Orisha (god) of healing and fortitude in Santeria. Watch how wild eyed he gets as he gets to the climax when Babalu supposedly arrives.

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  • What really makes this cool is that this performance was before Elvis on Ed Sullivan and you could deem it racy for the time when Desi takes off his tie. Remember, when Elvis performed the cameras would not show him moving his hips. I bet a million women who watched this back in the prudish 1950's were creaming in their panties, lol.

  • Desi was a cool mofo, nuff said.

  • Ricky went hard in the paint. Babalu would be pleased

  • I WANT HIS BAND !

  • Wish I could travel back in time to run my fingers through that hair... yum yum.

  • if justin bieber sees this he would shit himself

  • His hair

  • This guy was tremendous. His father was the Mayor of Santiago de Cuba....My grandfather used to work with him.

  • A la memoria de Desiderio Arnaz ..... ...

  • @darkfiresl2  - Yes - I believe a lot of Cubans are familiar with that concept. So sad he allows

    his roving eye to ruin his marriage. Sad when they divorced.

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