Groovy Friday – Hungary?
It’s Friday! Hey, hey! Meet Margareta Paslaru. She’s a renowned singer, actress and composer from Romania who will celebrate her 73rd birthday this July. God bless her. This is from the 1967...
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Groovy Friday – New Year’s Eve Tips
It’s Friday Eve! Let’s try something a little different. In the continual search for groovy clips to post, I come across a lot of stuff that makes me say, “Ooo...so close.” In other words,...
Groovy Friday – Get Yourself a College Girl
It’s Friday! Let’s rock around the Christmas tree. This is a clip taken from the 1964 film “Get Yourself a College Girl,” starring former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley, Chad Everett and a...
Groovy Friday – The Young Generation
It’s Friday! Let’s get pretty! This healthy dose of grooviness and bad hair styles comes courtesy of the BBC and the song and dance troupe they created in the the late 1960s known as The Young...
Groovy Friday … er .. Wednesday – The Hully Gully
It’s Friday! No. It’s Wednesday! But this is Thanksgiving week and the weekend starts tonight, right? Hello. My name is Andre Dupuy and I’m the curator here at Groovy Friday. I usually don’t...
Groovy Friday – Das ist Calypso!
It’s Friday! Let’s get groovy with some music history! Back in the mid-1950s, there were two styles of music that were rapidly gaining popularity. One was “rock ‘n’ roll.” and the...
Groovy Friday: Soviet Grooviness
It’s Friday! Let's get groovy, Soviet style. Let’s start the weekend with this “Shaft”-like funk version of Chervona Ruta, a classic Ukrainian folk song written in 1968. The song tells the...
Groovy Friday – C’mon and Swim with Bobby Freeman
It’s Friday! Let’s get groovy with Bobby Freeman! Bobby Freeman was not a one-hit-wonder. He was a two-hit-wonder. He wrote his biggest hit, ”Do You Wanna Dance?” at the age of...
Groovy Friday – Les demoiselles de Rochefort
It’s Friday! Let’s get groovy, French-style! This is from the 1967 film “Les Demoiselles de Rochefort” and, yes, that’s Oscar-winner George Chakiris in the orange shirt and tie, dancing...
Groovy Friday – Cantinflas Bailando
It’s Friday! Let’s get groovy with the legendary Cantinflas. When I was a kid, my parents came back from a trip to Mexico bearing marionettes for me and my two brothers. One brother got a...