It’s Labor Day and I’m still visiting friends and kinfolk in Utah, but I thought you might like to see this delightful YouTube video of Leslie Uggams completely blowing the lyrics to “June is Bustin’ Out All Over” at a Rodgers and Hammerstein tribute concert. Listen carefully to what she says. Also, watch her face while she’s messing up. It gets all pinched and scrunchy. Then keep watching, because whoever posted the video has made some helpful additions during the instant replays.
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JOAN!!
Very funny! But I must say that she did a remarkable job of keeping it together despite knowing of her suckage.
She is a good performer. All the more so because of how she just kept on going.
I agree that she did a good job of keeping that bizarre scat singing in time with the rhythm of the melody, but yeah, wow.
That reminds me of some bad dreams I have now and then where I’ve been given a big part in some theater show and forgot to learn my lines and it’s opening night and oh crap, I’ve got to find a script somewhere so I can somehow read off of it while on stage.
That video makes me laugh and laugh.
In case someone else is looking up the real lyrics:
June is bustin’ out all over
All over the meadow and the hill!
Buds’re bustin’ outa bushes
And the rompin’ river pushes
Ev’ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill!
June is bustin’ out all over
The feelin’ is gettin’ so intense,
That the young Virginia creepers
Hev been huggin’ the bejeepers
Outa all the mornin’ glories on the fence!
Because it’s June…
June, June, June
Just because it’s June, June, June!
So, hucka the bejeebers isn’t that far off…
I wish the person(s) who made the video had put the sound of a baby crying in the last replay.
Does anyone know where one can find this video now?
It’s nowhere to be found!
I think Leslie had a hissyfit and ordered it to be removed from the face of the earth!