The Great Kate Smith…Some Unusual Video Clips
The Great Kate Smith…Some Unusual Video Clips
In two of these, she performs with cameras as props, including a TK41. In the third…a real rarity, Jackie Gleason conducts the orchastra as Kate sings his theme song “Melancholy Serenade” which he also wrote. FYI, these are not from her NBC days, but from the early 60s when she had a show on CBS. The color clip with a real TK41 (and a fake TK11) is from a 1969 Screen Gems special which was shot at NBC as you can tell by the NBC exclusive sound baffle mod on the top of the small high voltage door. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU-LCbNhULg (color)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMGp6Cfa1Jk (CBS TK30)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rpYzWxam8o (Gleason)
Songs include: I’ll Be Seeing You / Fine and Dandy / How Deep is the Ocean / The Last Time I Saw Paris / Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone / Didn’t We…
Absolutely. I’m lucky if I can adlib a line now.
And all this time, I thought it was Lennon and McCartney. I like how Kate and Katy both changed the gender in the lyrics. As in the Grammy Beatle tribute.
At the 11 minute mark, she says “Paul McCarthy.”