'JITTERBUG WHODUNNIT' JUDY GARLAND, RAY BOLGER AND JANE POWELL.
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2010
- Performed by Judy Garland, Jane Powell, and Ray Bolger on 'The Judy Garland Show,' taped October 11, 1963. Judy & Ray - with Jane Powell, Judy's replacement in 'Royal Wedding' - gave us a wonderful gift by putting this number together. A deleted song from 'The Wizard Of Oz', 'The Jitterbug' footage is all but lost except for home movies ... AND THIS!
When it was first previewed in the summer of 1939, 'The Wizard Of Oz' was nearly two hours in length, which some believed to be too long. So a number of scenes were shortened, and several dropped entirely, such as 'The Jitterbug,' an elaborate number that came right before the winged monkeys captured Dorothy and her friends in the haunted forest. It's still referred to in the movie when the witch tells the monkeys, "I've sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them!" No one is exactly sure why it was cut, since it took several weeks to choreograph, rehearse, and film, and cost quite a bit of money. The best guess is that it was too lighthearted for the dramatic tension of the story at that point, and unlike the rest of the musical numbers, it was extraneous and didn't advance the plot. 'The Jitterbug' number was devised by Harold Arlen and E.Y Harburg to showcase Garland's talents.
JUDY: Did you just hear what I just heard?
JANE: That noise don't come from no ordinary bird.
JUDY: It may be just a cricket , or a critter in the trees.
JANE: It's giving me the jitters, in the joints around my knees.
JUDY: It's a whozis.
JANE: It's a whosis?
JUDY: It's a whatzis.
JANE: It's a whatzis?
JUDY: Whozat?
JANE: Whozat?
BOTH WITH RAY BOLGER:
Who's that hiding,
In the tree top?
It's that rascal
The Jitterbug.
Should you catch him buzzin' round you,
Keep away from the Jitterbug.
Oh, the bats and the bees
And the breeze in the trees
Have a terrible, horrible buzz.
But the bats and the bees
And the breeze in the trees
Couldn't do what the Jitterbug does.
So be careful Of that rascal
Keep away from
The Jitterbug!
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How great to see Judy and Ray together after all those years. Amazing that Judy was a teen in Wizard of Oz and here she is in her 40s still performing with him. Wonder how that was for the cast of Wizard of Oz to see Judy become Garland through the years
She was Garland already when she made the movie.
RIP to Jane Powell (9/16/2021) and them all. Am sure they’re making beautiful music in the great beyond. Talent, beauty and class of the likes I feel we won’t see again. This clip makes me happy :)
They need to bring back the variety show like this. Cute rendition of the cut 1939 song.
I had heard that Carol Burnett said that variety shows of yesteryear would now be too expensive to do that the networks would never do them.
They cost too much, never coming back
Thank you for all Jane Powell 😔 RIP🕊️ We're still in Support and Love😔❤️
This is one of my favorite show of Judy Garland and Jane Powell ❤️
This is totally fun to watch and excellent to learn about. I love watching The Judy Garland Show, especially when it showcases her dancing.
Awesome! I love it! Ya know, I really wish there was a channel on TV that would show old variety shows like this. Even TV Land has gone the way of reality TV, which I can't stand. In fact alot of today's programming I have no use for, and I'm 36. It's ashamed that you have to go on the Internet now to watch old shows. Yes I may sound old fashion, but I would rather watch The Judy Garland Show over Jersey Shore or The Hills any day. Thank you so much for posting this!!
And to think they took this awesome talented lady's show off the air after only one season. They didn't even tape this legend's program in color. What an insult. I am a 66 year old female. She is my absolute overall favorite performer. I love her so much that I even named my 7 year old palomino Judy Garland.
Mindy
100% agreed. I’m 47 and only have the desire to watch pre-2000’s television and movies. Casting today is so bad that it’s insane. Tired of seeing 25 year old male models cast as lead detectives or CIA top brass. Reality check, most 25 year old guys these days are living in mom and dad’s basement playing Minecraft...
@@longgrayline8055 I am so grateful that I was born in the fifties. Born and raised in New Orleans. Wonderful childhood. Safe. TV was great back then.
Dorothy: Scarecrow will you stop messing around with the spotty cape, I'm trying to dance with my friend
Scarecrow: sorry hunny
Ray's eyes at the end are money. :)
Love Ray Bolger. No one could have played the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz but him.
This is new to me. Boy, how I wish musicals would come back. We have no one anymore.
I am a huge fan of Judy Garland and used to have over 90 of her record albums ! I thought Judy was funny and a very sweet fun lady not at all what the tragic way they made her out to be no way a tragic figure no way !
I wish they hadn't of cut this from the Wizard of Oz. I love it!!
I like the original version better. Not sure if it's in any other books but the Official 50th Anniversary book (1989) shows two or three pages of the jitterbug scene in the script from the movie, which describes their actions before and during the song (they each get bit one at a time and comically slap each other trying to get the bug).
Besides breaking the dramatic tension of the story, it would’ve dated the movie in a way that none of the other songs do.
What a gem!!!!!!
I NEED those outfits!!!! Gorgeous
I came here from the Randy Rainbow parody of this song, "The Bunker Boy." Anyone else? 😊
Same I had to google what it’s a parody of lmao
No
Thank you so much for posting this!!
Jane was the cutest entertainer of all time.
Great. Watched it more than once!!
Wake Me Up before you Go Go. The Jitterbug!! The Jitterbug!! The Jitterbug!! LOL. Mr Ray and Cape!! thank you for posting.
EXCELENTE.
Cute!!!
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Ending reminds me of Mothra.
I wish they hadn’t of cut this out of the movie I like this song
ONLY TIME I EVER SAW JANE POWELL LOOK TALL...JUDY WAS REALLY SMALL..BUT TALENTED....ALSO JANE POWELL...
Judy was 4'11" while Jane was 5'1".
@@MaskedMan66 Jane was actually 5 feet but she liked to say she was 5 feet 1 and a half. That however was Debbie Reynolds's height as she liked to point out to Jane Powell.
@@Dory8 Thanks!
Its too bad the whole footage of this song from "The Wizard of Oz" isn't available.
@ginger1961 i agree :)
They changed some of the words to the song.
They sort of had to.
maybe they could edit this into the deleted part of OZ - just a thought
🛢️
judys moom was meam
Clearly the song "Bali H'ai" from South Pacific ripped off this melody.
Or its composer arrived at it independently, as tends to happen.
@@MaskedMan66 Well, you're more generous than I am.
@@akrenwinkle Just presenting an alternative.