Don Draper- Inner Music

Dedicated to Sherry. Don Draper watches the pretty girl dance. Is he fibbing to his daughter? The awful Maypole music gives way to this dreamlike, hypnotic theme. From the episode Love Among the Ruins, I think.

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[powerpuffgir1]

I've listened to Carousel...this isn't it. Still trying to find this particular piece of music. Does anyone know the name? Is it Carbonara?

[axecalibore]

@powerpuffgir1 It's a small part of Carousel by Carbonara. You Tube not letting me post the link for some reason. It doesn't start right away, it's in the middle some place.

[axecalibore]

Sally's pretty teacher Suzanne Farrell was played by Abigail Spencer. It's funny that David Carbonara would have titled this music Carousel, because that was a different famous scene in Mad Men, with a sad, rather than dreamlike, sybaritic melody.

[anticlimatic21]

You people are sick and twisted. Don is not a very developed feeler, not very in touch with his emotional side. Miss Feral is very much a feeler-- bursting with joy and happiness. He wants to FEEL what she feels. Feeling in general is very alluring to him, as it's such a foreign concept. Touching the grass is symbolic of his simple desire to feel what she feels...since she's barefoot, and also feeling the grass.

[NFDChiefRet]

@DandAinTac

IMHO: Don Draper is a complex character.

Draper's character loves women. When he sees someone attractive... beautiful... his mind drifts... and fantasizes a little. He sees his daughter's teacher, she is dancing barefoot... He subtly touches the grass... somehow, by touching the same grass the teacher's bare feet are dancing on, he also touches her feet, touches her. That's all he wanted. She appealed to him visually, he wanted to touch her.

Many men have similar thoughts....

[colorada85]

The scene is great and the music carousel also used when kodak presentation is fabulous. I think the fingers of donald draper and the music are simbolics, seems something sobrenatural and maybe morbid, like a conexion with the girl, the spring, his personal situation. He cant change.

[IndigentiaSumEgo]

Thumbs up if you thought of Spongebob Squarepants

[SoCal92057]

Draper wears American Optical (AO) sunglasses. The other brand (RE) was not even in business at the time the show is set in. Go to AOEyewearOnline. com

[randysuchy]

What if the grass and this long lost pagan ritual symbolize him getting in touch with a deeper more down to earth existance and the spirit of spring? I see him a bit creepy but more feeling the wave of a more natural existance

[depp8444]

@axecalibore YOu summed it up quite well DandAInTAc

[billeagle51]

Dam! that's one Lady that I wish was still on the show..Abigail Spencer. Classy Lady, loved her character.

[TheNoCoincidence]

she is so fucking marriable ..can you even say that? i am from germany..the intersting thing about mad men..i was in love with betty at the beginning and with every episode i could understand more and more how lonely one must feel to be with beautiful woman which is just flat and not deep at all...this woman here..wow

[tiberiusgun]

don's all like, "locked on target."

[chizzangs]

@DandAinTac nice comment, youtube needs more people posting educated comments like this