Groovy Friday – Calypso Twist Italiano
It’s Friday! This is a delightfully groovy little clip featuring Lara Saint Paul. She started her career in 1962 as Tanya. A couple of years later, she’s rocking the Buckingham Palace look...
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Groovy Friday – Shake, Shake, Shake
It’s Friday! I know nothing about this clip except that it’s groovy and it comes from the Greek film “Teddy Boy Agapi Mou.” In the five years I’ve been doing “Groovy Friday,”...
Groovy Friday – Ten Little Indians…and More!
It’s Friday! Let’s take the nasty taste of last week’s prank out of your mouth with some spicy Bollywood fare. This is from the film “Gumnaam." If Wikipedia is to be believed (and we...
Groovy Friday – Meiä Veera
It's Friday! Meet Erkki Liikanen (pronounced Ree-kee Lik-on,) Finland’s greatest musician, here performing his biggest hit, Meiä Veera (My Cauliflower.) Discovered while eating a herring sundae...
Groovy Friday – Bon Jour Bucharest!
It’s Friday! Not much dancing this week, but groovy just the same. There’s precious little about Nancy Holloway on the internet. An American, born and raised in Cleveland, she found her...
Groovy Friday – Let’s take a ride!
It’s Friday! Here’s Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. If you’re not familiar with the enormous influence Herb Alpert had on the music industry in the latter half of the twentieth...
Groovy Friday – Fire in Rio with Sacha Distel
C’est Vendredi! Sacha Distel wants to be your valentine and who are you to say no? Just look at him. Il est tres beau, non? The man was romantically involved with Brigitte Bardot for a couple of...
Groovy Friday – The Wham of Sam
It’s Friday! Last week I introduced you to Juliette and the Good Company. Despite the ethnically diverse group of unknown dancers in that clip, I heard from many that it was one of the...
Groovy Friday – Our Pet, Juliette
It’s Friday! It’s time for an English language clip here at Groovy Friday, but I’m not ready to bring things back to the U.S. quite yet. Let’s go to Canada instead. This is from a Canadian...
Groovy Friday – Meet Helen
It’s Friday! If I chose to do so, I could fill a year’s worth of Groovy Fridays with outrageous Bollywood musical numbers and if I did, half of them would feature this woman. Known simply as...