Rivera died back in Jan of this year (Jan 30, 2024)... Valente died about a week and a half ago (Sep 9, 2024). And of course, the great Boris Karloff (the guy with the shovel, for those who didn't recognize him) died on Feb 2, 1969 - almost exactly 4 years after this performance (Jan 1965) was recorded.
I was used to Carol Burnett and her humor, but to see Chita Rivera and Caterina Valente in this number playing it to the hilt just floors me. What a great treat.
I think the reason such clips are so "rare" is that it appears to be more lucrative to the rights holders to sit on their copyrights and license a fraction of 1% out to the rare documentary that wishes to use them, than to make them all available to us to begin with. So they sit and get forgotten, until anyone who might be interested is dead and gone.
@@bobhoke595 Anything that wasn't was done with a wink and a nod and innuendo and was totally hilarious. And no one was better at this than Tim Conway.
This is actually "The Entertainers," a CBS variety show from '64/'65 with Carol, Caterina, and Bob Newhart as the regular hosts and Chita and Boris as guests this week. Few episodes have survived, so it's little remembered.
I am blessed that this was still on TV (reruns) when I was younger. I have laughed so hard at so many of their skits to the point I couldn't breathe. These actors, comedians were so talented.
Carol took such crazy risks with these numbers. Of course it helps that her guests were stage and concert performers with great ears and able to nail these routines. I cannot think of anyone today who could do this weekly
@@armpitification True, but she was outstanding on the Gary Moore show as well. A bit before my time, but she has stated in interviews how much being on this show shaped her style, she was given a lot of room to express herself. There's a clip on YT of a Supergirl sketch she did on the Gary Moore show that's definitely worth checking out.
For the record, the uploader is mistaken: this isn't "The Garry Moore Show" either. It's "The Entertainers," which was on CBS in 64/65, after she left Garry but before her own show. But the point stands that she was so often willing to take a risk for a laugh, and we can see the payoff.
...and, to correct my earlier (incorrect) point about this being too early to be Morticia: The Entertainers was broadcast during the 1964/1965 season. This would put it exactly in the same season both The Addams Family and The Monsters premiered. (I'm so embarrassed when I spread misinformation!)
Actually This is from a Television Show Called the Entertainers, , The Entertainers was a one-hour American variety show which aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 through March 27, 1965. Produced by Joe Hamilton, the series featured three hosts; Hamilton's then-wife Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, and Caterina Valente.
@Commodore 64 People were used to live shows then, it’s very entertaining if you have learned to appreciate a fresh show every week appearing in your living room every week and you don’t even have to pay for it. Everyone knew the song, the skit probably reappeared in school shows at Halloween next year.
@Commodore 64 This performance was from SIXTY YEARS AGO (I'm struggling to refrain from calling you what it is obvious to most of us that you are). It's unfortunate that you were born with a compete dearth of imagination, interest in sociology, history, and humor. I was born in 1963. Throughout my childhood and early twenties, I worked with the Historical Society, restoring homes from the early 1800s and conducting tours through them at the ripe old age of ten years, restoring antique automobiles to ORIGINAL condition (not hopping them up as hotrods), and collecting, restoring antique clothing which we then modeled in a show consisting of spicy fun and humorous commentary with interesting short historical stories of interest, a professional singer performing songs with musical accompaniment, and an authentic Chesleston, performed by my mother, a professional dancer and teacher into her 90s. You, my dear, are out of your league. And if you do not know or understand what you are talking about, kindly refrain from rudely dismissing it out of hand. Try operating your brain before your mouth and fingers. There is a rich history of personal stories that anyone should be interested in exploring. For it is through history that we avoid repeating the mistakes of the past (such as Hitler and his Nazis arising in America), which is sheer stupidity. If the shoe fits...
@@kristieroybal4888 - You have no idea how hard I had to work NOT to respond to Commode 64, or whatever it's name is. Glad I didn't, since your response was much better, and far more polite, than mine would have been. Also, it seems you and I are about the same age. I very much remember watching things on TV that I'm quite sure the younger crowd would have no appreciation for at all. In fact, I just had a... er...um... "conversation" with someone concerning the old 1930s and '40s "Tarzan" movies, and Johnny Weissmuller... The poor kid had no idea that anybody before Disney ever made a movie about the character. lol Anyway, Carol Burnett, Dean Martin, and a whole host of other "fossils" were favorites of mine, even as a kid. And I very much miss not having their like on TV anymore. Because the crap that passes for entertainment these days just doesn't cut it for me.
Where has this been all my life?! 😂😂😂 I was born in '74 so this was a decade before me, but I grew up watching the Carol Burnette show and this brings back some memories of her amazing talent. Thank you for sharing!
During his long entertainment career Boris Karloff only won one entertainment award and that was in 1968 when he won the Grammy for Best Recording For Children, with his recording of his reading of Dr. Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas".
I loved anything that had Boris Karloff involved. I still have the recording of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", and love listening to it. But it's pretty worn out now. I have it on tape, thank God , because the record got too scratched to listen to YEARS ago!
Carol, Chita, Caterina: the 3 "C"s! What a wonderful combination of voices and acting in this excellent, unique representation! This year, Chita and Caterina left us leaving Carol to carry all those splendid memories ..... Respect and much love for all these actors of those golden years!
Wonderful! Just in time for another Halloween 2024! Carol Burnett brings me back to the happy parts of my childhood. She was a pioneer in so many ways, especially showing that women can be smart and funny too!
I knew Chita and Carol would be great in this number - but the big surprise to me is Caterina Valente. Her comedic instincts are right up there with Carol and Chita.
A shame Boris Karloff's segment was cut. He had a marvelous voice. Carol and her fellow overtalented hams rocked the Morticia song/skit. An early Halloween gift! Ty!
@@jamesmcinnis208 When performers are ill prepared they fudge harmony, look to feet for guidance. It ruins the idea of spontaneity. These performers are very sure of themselves. They make it look easy.
Caterina Valente was so talented and beautiful. I remember watching her on the Ed Sullivan show. She not only was a fabulous singer, but she was an amazing tap dancer.
This has got to be one of the wackiest things that I've ever watched and I simply loved every minute of it. This was pure talent. Thank you for sharing this with us.
@@VanBrujah - I don't think Commodore 64 has managed to escape mommy's basement yet... In fact, I suspect she won't let it go outside 'til it finishes potty training. ( Can't have it shitting in the neighbor's yard, after all. )
Variety Shows of the 1960s and into the 70s were regular television's life style. How fortunate we were with the American talents who built the entertainment industry beginning from the Vaudeville circuit and Broadway theatre progresses those to the Silent/Talkis movies then progresses onto the Box television, along with the developing of Jazz out of the south and major cities. Imagine all the range of those American talents from everywhere becoming the seasoned pros that were their own unique gifts. Americana entertainment on the Variety Shows. 🎭📣🎼🎹🎙🎤📻🎥🎞📽💿📀💽🎷🎺📺 Wow, Boris Karloff!
This is some crazy Halloween fun! Too bad it's nearly a week late popping up on my feed this year - 2024. Thanks for posting! It's especially fun that the great Boris Karloff bookends the video, but sadly is cut off short at the end.
We sang I enjoy being a girl in elementary school. Same concert as one about President hoover. That was over 30 years ago! Have not heard either since. The hoover song starts----- we like to thank you mr. Hoover for showing us the way. We like to thank you mr. Hoover you made us what we are today -------- a song about poverty
Carol’s famous Tarzan call!! These 3 makes this skit so much more funny. Love their tribute to the Morticia Addams character, is wonderful. There is a reason why Carol’s show was so famous for 11 season’s and how she got some great guests on her show.
This is such a bizarre number. What I love about it, though, is that it’s from a time when television creators felt more free to take risks without audience testing things to death first. A gem, to be sure, but a very strange one.
Those were wonderful days where entertainment was really fun. Carol Burnett: our American treasure. Iconic and generous always to her fellow performers. Standing ovation. You all are dearly missed. Great love
I am Chita's HMU person and when we get to work together I always ask her about something she has done back in the day... I cannot WAIT to ask her about this! Thanks for the upload!
OMG! This was wonderful to see! True professional performers at their best and having fun doing it! A classy classic I didn't know existed! Thanks for posting this!
The Entertainers was termed 'a Summer Replacement Show,' at least in the beginning. John Davidson got his start there. He was the forerunner of Lyle Waggoner.
If I'd seen this on TV when it was new, at the age of 10 or 11, I wouldn't have been very impressed. But 60 years later I laughed throughout the three women singing.
What a ‘ghoulish’ delight to see this now, since Halloween 🎃 is right around the corner. What a delightful time also, back then when people were just trying to have fun, without someone politicizing things, like Halloween. 🧛♂️
This just showed up in my feed, I'm so happy it did! I only know of Carol and Boris in this little video. So now I'm looking up the other ladies. I was born in 71 so I grew up watching Carols show. Love her! 💓
I don't know if this is from the Gary Moore Show, but it was one of my favorites from the time I was in elementary school all the way to high school. If I remember correctly Carol was leaving the show to star in a Broadway play and Gary, the cast and crew played the biggest prank on Carol on her final performance on the show. Remember, this was all in front of a live audience and being recorded! Gary did tell the audience what we all were about to see happen. There were props that were missing or out of place, doors that didn't open and nothing was the way it had been rehearsed. It was absolutely hilarious to watch her as she tried to adlib her way through that sketch. I wish I could see that episode again!
it's so strange to see something so old, from my parents' time and by parents I mean when they were children. and even stranger still to know that some of these performers are still alive today. it's just all around odd and mind boggling. thank you history :)
I know how you feel . I remember finding late night movies that were on back in the 70's ,when I was a teenager and where I first found the likes of Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford, and realizing that Judy Garland did more then just play Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
that was awesome, just some folks on a forgotten show, but even forgotten shows of that time still had good music and entertainers. what happened? how'd we get so far off track? why does everything have to be so awful now?
You obviously didn't watch the entire clip, or you would have known that would ruin one of the funny lines in the song. Too bad you're from The Immediate Gratification Club where you miss out on all the immeasurable tiny gifts life holds.
@@potatozincFunner fact: (more-fun?) Gothic goes back even farther, beginning in the late 1100s.. the "Victorian Gothic" was a Revival, in the 19th century.. Knowledge is power!
They had Goth in the 1800s. Ever read Edgar Allen Poe? Pale skin, thin and dying from TB, and they’d put belladonna drops in their eyes ti dilate their pupils to look more ethereal
@@trudygreer2491 Goth goes back to the Goths, a Germanic tribe who by their Volkserwanderung expansive migrations infiltrated Southern Europe and help cause the A.D. 379 fall of the Roman Empire: in the East the "Ostrogoths" (their language now extinct) and in the West (as, Spain) the Visigoths.
Y’all are talking about the origin of the word, not the style. The gothic people and gothic architecture aren’t the beginning of the current aesthetic we call goth. Maybe, the more modern aesthetic was loosely based off of aspects of these things, but it’s definitely not a direct evolution
i do not understand youtube algorithm but thank you for recommending this, Burnett & Rivera are mesmerizing and Valente too but unfortunately i never heard of her
Caterina Valente was very popular in Germany during the fifties and sixties and did a lot of movies often with her brother Silvio Francesco. And she had her owen TV show during the fifties called Bonjour Cathrine......she is still alive and living in Switzerland now.
It is such a treat to see Caterina Valente, easily my favourite singer of the 50's. (Her "Hi-Fi Nightingale" being my favourite album of the era). Damn I'm old.
RIP to the fabulous Caterina Valente, who died age 93 9. September, just two weaks ago.
Yes, maybe that's why this popped up- very glad it did and she's great in it...
😢
It hurts that two of these women are gone.
RIP Condolences to her loved ones.
@@OllyBockus❤🙏❤️🙏
This is from a show called THE ENTERTAINERS. It lasted 1 season this episode is from January 1965
That’s the month/year I was born. Enjoyed this - but I liked all those variety shows that were on TV when we were kids.
I watched it every night of the whole season. Formulaic but I still remember Carol’s skits.
i came along 8 months after you .
Thanks, I was wondering what this was from.
I was a year old when this air, but I loved all those variety shows. My favorite was the Sonny and Cher show. The Carol Burnette show a close second.
There could be 10 women singing together and you can still recognize Carol Burnettes voice in the crowd.
Yes, her voice is very distinctive and powerful.
Facts! Carol was so iconic
@@brittanylamb375 is. She’s still alive (knocking wood)
True statement!
IS!
Carol is still with us. 91 and. still working. Hope we can eep her around for a while.
Having lost chita Rivera this week, I was stunned to find this and it's a great one.l
And Caterina Valente just passed away on September 9th.
@@orangelion03farewell to great talent
We were fortunate enough to meet her when she read the Christmas story at the Candlelight Processional at Epcot . Seemed very nice.
Rivera died back in Jan of this year (Jan 30, 2024)... Valente died about a week and a half ago (Sep 9, 2024). And of course, the great Boris Karloff (the guy with the shovel, for those who didn't recognize him) died on Feb 2, 1969 - almost exactly 4 years after this performance (Jan 1965) was recorded.
@stevecannon4780 Sorry you lost her... how long were you two married?
I was used to Carol Burnett and her humor, but to see Chita Rivera and Caterina Valente in this number playing it to the hilt just floors me.
What a great treat.
I thought that was Madeline Kahn.
Carol's facial expressions in this are INIMITABLE!
Yesssss!!!!
Boris Karloff as the gravedigger to the tune of Whistle While You work 😂
Considering the old adage of "whistling past the graveyard" makes it extra funny.
In a cameOOOooo.
Oh that’s great! I didn’t pick up that it was him!!!
And he sings chim chim charoo to end it?!? What universe is this? 😂
@@jenngill7772 it's a weirder timeline than we were in last week.
THEIR HARMONIES THO!! Even the tight chords with tension - clean and tight and right on pitch. What pros.
Must have been bent over a caldron all day working on that! LOL!
3 parts, the whole song!
This justifies RUclips existing. How many other places does this even still exist, much less in a way that people can find out about it?
YT controllers like witch narratives and anything else linked to the dark side but they work very trying to suppress the truth
Agreed!
Rumble or Odyssey, for starters.
Agreed!!
I think the reason such clips are so "rare" is that it appears to be more lucrative to the rights holders to sit on their copyrights and license a fraction of 1% out to the rare documentary that wishes to use them, than to make them all available to us to begin with. So they sit and get forgotten, until anyone who might be interested is dead and gone.
I miss variety shows! Growing up in the 60s and 70s there was a variety show or a special on every week.
I know, huh? There was a certain 'special something' about the 60's and 70's! 😢
People get amazed when I tell them Julie Andrews had a variety show. 😄
Sonny and Cher/Donny and Marie were my faves!!
i miss them too! So much! Often pretty darned wholesome too!
@@bobhoke595 Anything that wasn't was done with a wink and a nod and innuendo and was totally hilarious.
And no one was better at this than Tim Conway.
It’s not easy to sing harmonies that close. This is beyond awesome! I never thought I’d hear Boris Karloff doing Chim-Chim-Chiree. 😂🖤
A great emotive voice ... he could do far more than Frankenstein grunts.
@JudgeJulieLit And the "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" recording, and animated show.
The Carol Burnett Show had the most fantastic sets, costumes, comedy: and featured many leading black artists. Her show is still worth watching today.
A genuine trailblazer!
This isn't her show, though; it was never in black & white.
Description says Gary Moore show but yes Carol's show was the best
This is actually "The Entertainers," a CBS variety show from '64/'65 with Carol, Caterina, and Bob Newhart as the regular hosts and Chita and Boris as guests this week. Few episodes have survived, so it's little remembered.
I am blessed that this was still on TV (reruns) when I was younger. I have laughed so hard at so many of their skits to the point I couldn't breathe. These actors, comedians were so talented.
Carol took such crazy risks with these numbers. Of course it helps that her guests were stage and concert performers with great ears and able to nail these routines. I cannot think of anyone today who could do this weekly
I agree except this wasn’t on her show.
@@armpitification True, but she was outstanding on the Gary Moore show as well. A bit before my time, but she has stated in interviews how much being on this show shaped her style, she was given a lot of room to express herself. There's a clip on YT of a Supergirl sketch she did on the Gary Moore show that's definitely worth checking out.
For the record, the uploader is mistaken: this isn't "The Garry Moore Show" either. It's "The Entertainers," which was on CBS in 64/65, after she left Garry but before her own show. But the point stands that she was so often willing to take a risk for a laugh, and we can see the payoff.
This is not from.the Carol Burnett Show.
...and, to correct my earlier (incorrect) point about this being too early to be Morticia: The Entertainers was broadcast during the 1964/1965 season. This would put it exactly in the same season both The Addams Family and The Monsters premiered. (I'm so embarrassed when I spread misinformation!)
Yes, the women are amazing and terrific, love , love, love them.......but
BORIS KARLOFF at the end is EVERYTHING!!!
Actually This is from a Television Show Called the Entertainers, , The Entertainers was a one-hour American variety show which aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 through March 27, 1965. Produced by Joe Hamilton, the series featured three hosts; Hamilton's then-wife Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, and Caterina Valente.
Thank you!
@Commodore 64 People were used to live shows then, it’s very entertaining if you have learned to appreciate a fresh show every week appearing in your living room every week and you don’t even have to pay for it. Everyone knew the song, the skit probably reappeared in school shows at Halloween next year.
I thought this was great.
@Commodore 64 This performance was from SIXTY YEARS AGO (I'm struggling to refrain from calling you what it is obvious to most of us that you are). It's unfortunate that you were born with a compete dearth of imagination, interest in sociology, history, and humor. I was born in 1963. Throughout my childhood and early twenties, I worked with the Historical Society, restoring homes from the early 1800s and conducting tours through them at the ripe old age of ten years, restoring antique automobiles to ORIGINAL condition (not hopping them up as hotrods), and collecting, restoring antique clothing which we then modeled in a show consisting of spicy fun and humorous commentary with interesting short historical stories of interest, a professional singer performing songs with musical accompaniment, and an authentic Chesleston, performed by my mother, a professional dancer and teacher into her 90s.
You, my dear, are out of your league. And if you do not know or understand what you are talking about, kindly refrain from rudely dismissing it out of hand. Try operating your brain before your mouth and fingers. There is a rich history of personal stories that anyone should be interested in exploring. For it is through history that we avoid repeating the mistakes of the past (such as Hitler and his Nazis arising in America), which is sheer stupidity. If the shoe fits...
@@kristieroybal4888 - You have no idea how hard I had to work NOT to respond to Commode 64, or whatever it's name is.
Glad I didn't, since your response was much better, and far more polite, than mine would have been.
Also, it seems you and I are about the same age.
I very much remember watching things on TV that I'm quite sure the younger crowd would have no appreciation for at all.
In fact, I just had a... er...um... "conversation" with someone concerning the old 1930s and '40s "Tarzan" movies, and Johnny Weissmuller...
The poor kid had no idea that anybody before Disney ever made a movie about the character. lol
Anyway, Carol Burnett, Dean Martin, and a whole host of other "fossils" were favorites of mine, even as a kid.
And I very much miss not having their like on TV anymore. Because the crap that passes for entertainment these days just doesn't cut it for me.
I'm definitely not disappointed this showed up on my feed.
Where has this been all my life?! 😂😂😂 I was born in '74 so this was a decade before me, but I grew up watching the Carol Burnette show and this brings back some memories of her amazing talent. Thank you for sharing!
❤❤❤❤ i love very much this song with Carol Burnett She so comics. Caterina Valente so funky and Chica Rivera is very funny.
I love the Morticia outfits.
Carol's outfit made her look a lot like Cher.
During his long entertainment career Boris Karloff only won one entertainment award and that was in 1968 when he won the Grammy for Best Recording For Children, with his recording of his reading of Dr. Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas".
Thanks for tjis information. It's a shame his part was cut from this clip.
I loved anything that had Boris Karloff involved. I still have the recording of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", and love listening to it. But it's pretty worn out now. I have it on tape, thank God , because the record got too scratched to listen to YEARS ago!
@@samanthafairweather9186 you should get your tape transfered so you don't have to use it again. It's a collectors item!
Carol, Chita, Caterina: the 3 "C"s! What a wonderful combination of voices and acting in this excellent, unique representation! This year, Chita and Caterina left us leaving Carol to carry all those splendid memories ..... Respect and much love for all these actors of those golden years!
I’m 63. TV was so much fun back then. ❤
Can we take a minute to appreciate how astonishingly tight their harmonies are?
And right on key; no autotune.
As tight as their dresses 😅
This is the kind of stuff the internet was made for. Also loving that Addams Family vibe in this.
Boris what a treat! What a beautiful voice!
My heart grew three sizes.
Annoying that he was cut off at the end of this video.
Wonderful! Just in time for another Halloween 2024! Carol Burnett brings me back to the happy parts of my childhood. She was a pioneer in so many ways, especially showing that women can be smart and funny too!
Man. Carol Burnett was a highlite of the weeks TV when I was a kid. The whole family made sure we didnt miss a show.
They are so darn cute. And I love Mr. Boris Karloff.
Actually, thank the RUclipsrs who put this stuff up on RUclips. The RUclipsrs of the ones to thank.
Meanwhile they are receiving copyright strikes. LOL.
I knew Chita and Carol would be great in this number - but the big surprise to me is Caterina Valente. Her comedic instincts are right up there with Carol and Chita.
Who is she?
@@GjpgrD a French singer, still going strong at 90
Caterina Valente is awesome, an absolute superstar. She worked with the greatest musicians and entertainers. Look her up.
Bery famous in the german speaking world!
Three C's, all of them great.
Thanks for sharing this classic from 1965!!
A shame Boris Karloff's segment was cut. He had a marvelous voice. Carol and her fellow overtalented hams rocked the Morticia song/skit. An early Halloween gift! Ty!
Do we even know what show this was?
@@MaskedMan66 It’s The Carol Burnett Show. I am wondering if it is the season when Mary Poppins was in Theaters?
@@buckjohnson1119 Not this clip; her show was never in black and white. Like the poster said, it's probably from "The Garry Moore Show."
Boris made chim chim cheery sound goulish.
@@MaskedMan66 👍Yes, I didn’t factor in the black and white. I was probably already in bed when that show was aired, when I was a child.
Gosh, I miss these old variety shows from my youth. They are golden.
Even in this very early skit, CB talent just shines through. She was such a pro, always on her mark, she never made a mistake.
I just read Caterina Valente's obit today. R.I.P talented lady!
Marvelous trio. Most audiences will have no idea how hard it is to make this performance look spontaneous. The precision was extraordinary!
There is nothing about this performance that says "spontaneous" to me. It looks quite well rehearsed and choreographed.
@@jamesmcinnis208 When performers are ill prepared they fudge harmony, look to feet for guidance. It ruins the idea of spontaneity. These performers are very sure of themselves. They make it look easy.
@@stevehinnenkamp5625 True!
Yes it was indeed . All at the top of thier game .
Caterina Valente was so talented and beautiful. I remember watching her on the Ed Sullivan show. She not only was a fabulous singer, but she was an amazing tap dancer.
This has got to be one of the wackiest things that I've ever watched and I simply loved every minute of it. This was pure talent. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Ditto!! Sooo entertaining and creative!
Boris Karloff at the beginning and end!..the original Frankenstein Monster 1931! A Legend of film/theater
@Commodore 64 Ok, Karen. Go back to mommy's basement.
@@VanBrujah - I don't think Commodore 64 has managed to escape mommy's basement yet...
In fact, I suspect she won't let it go outside 'til it finishes potty training.
( Can't have it shitting in the neighbor's yard, after all. )
Beat me to it. I'm glad we've moved on from that time in many ways, but there's stuff from then that's unbeatable.
Variety Shows of the 1960s and into the 70s were regular television's life style. How fortunate we were with the American talents who built the entertainment industry beginning from the Vaudeville circuit and Broadway theatre progresses those to the Silent/Talkis movies then progresses onto the Box television, along with the developing of Jazz out of the south and major cities. Imagine all the range of those American talents from everywhere becoming the seasoned pros that were their own unique gifts. Americana entertainment on the Variety Shows. 🎭📣🎼🎹🎙🎤📻🎥🎞📽💿📀💽🎷🎺📺 Wow, Boris Karloff!
This. This is why the internet was invented. Mission accomplished.
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True. Such a blessing.
And cats.
This is some crazy Halloween fun! Too bad it's nearly a week late popping up on my feed this year - 2024. Thanks for posting! It's especially fun that the great Boris Karloff bookends the video, but sadly is cut off short at the end.
We sang I enjoy being a girl in elementary school. Same concert as one about President hoover. That was over 30 years ago! Have not heard either since. The hoover song starts----- we like to thank you mr. Hoover for showing us the way. We like to thank you mr. Hoover you made us what we are today -------- a song about poverty
Three gorgeous, glamourous vampy vixens!
Oh my dad adored Caterina Valente - he had at least half a dozen of her albums when I was a kid. So fun seeing her!
That was cool. All 3 ladies still kicking around too.
Well now, just Carol Burnett.
Thank goodness for RUclips to bring up all my retro memories ❣️
Carol could blink her eyes and make it funny.
Carol’s famous Tarzan call!! These 3 makes this skit so much more funny. Love their tribute to the Morticia Addams character, is wonderful. There is a reason why Carol’s show was so famous for 11 season’s and how she got some great guests on her show.
This is such a bizarre number. What I love about it, though, is that it’s from a time when television creators felt more free to take risks without audience testing things to death first. A gem, to be sure, but a very strange one.
Not if it aired on Halloween.
@@jamesmcinnis208 no, it’s STILL really weird.
@@yelanates okie dokie
And they buy into it 100%!
I expect weird shit from Carol Burnett. LOL.
Those were wonderful days where entertainment was really fun. Carol Burnett: our American treasure. Iconic and generous always to her fellow performers. Standing ovation. You all are dearly missed. Great love
Un genio Karloff . 🤝🇦🇷👍👍👍💀
So glad I stumbled across this video.
I am Chita's HMU person and when we get to work together I always ask her about something she has done back in the day... I cannot WAIT to ask her about this! Thanks for the upload!
What does HMU stand for? I'm disabled and having Home Medical Aid, but the initials don't quite line up....
@@geekdivaherself Hair and Makeup!
wondering what she says about Caterina Valente
Fergus Saint John, you are a lucky person.
Please come back and tell us what she says.
Carol is absolutely gorgeous in this.
Boris Karloff a huge movie star sweeping up 🥰
His name should top the credits on this one!
What a bizarre treasure this is!
You nailed it perfectly, Joey!
I remember watching this on TV. It was quite a hit with us kids since the girls would mimic the routine. I was in 5th grade at that time.
OMG! This was wonderful to see! True professional performers at their best and having fun doing it! A classy classic I didn't know existed! Thanks for posting this!
No pitch gates fixing the notes, just singing.
The Entertainers was termed 'a Summer Replacement Show,' at least in the beginning. John Davidson got his start there. He was the forerunner of Lyle Waggoner.
Mr Karloff is superb. His vocals made the Grinch the classic it is today and forever!
Also Thurl Ravenscroft!
@@merryvollmer1924 Absolutely!
And an absolute pussycat in real life, too
And his LACK of vocals (a few grunts and groans notwithstanding) made Universal's 1931 Frankenstein the classic it is today ...
I love the soft tones of his voice. Here's a stretch, how about Boris Karlof as Atticus Finch? Times permitting it would have worked.
Talent like this doesn't exist anymore.
It was wonderful seeing three tremendous talents performing together. I am happy these video clips continue to exist.
And Boris as the cherry on top! ♥️
If I'd seen this on TV when it was new, at the age of 10 or 11, I wouldn't have been very impressed. But 60 years later I laughed throughout the three women singing.
What a ‘ghoulish’ delight to see this now, since Halloween 🎃 is right around the corner. What a delightful time also, back then when people were just trying to have fun, without someone politicizing things, like Halloween. 🧛♂️
This just showed up in my feed, I'm so happy it did! I only know of Carol and Boris in this little video. So now I'm looking up the other ladies. I was born in 71 so I grew up watching Carols show. Love her! 💓
Fantastic memories watching the Carol Burnett show in the 70s. The comedy will never grow old.
This was from the Gary Moore show, where Carol Burnett was to him what Vicky Lawrence or Tim Conway was to Carol.
@@RLucas3000 Thanks for the info. I didn't know she was on Gary Moore. I just adored her own show.
I don't know if this is from the Gary Moore Show, but it was one of my favorites from the time I was in elementary school all the way to high school.
If I remember correctly Carol was leaving the show to star in a Broadway play and Gary, the cast and crew played the biggest prank on Carol on her final performance on the show. Remember, this was all in front of a live audience and being recorded! Gary did tell the audience what we all were about to see happen.
There were props that were missing or out of place, doors that didn't open and nothing was the way it had been rehearsed.
It was absolutely hilarious to watch her as she tried to adlib her way through that sketch. I wish I could see that episode again!
@@annarodriguez9868 I would love to see that episode!!!
@@RLucas3000 No, someone else already mentioned that this is a tv series called "The Entertainers".
I remember watching oldies but goodies with my gran. Thank for posting.
it's so strange to see something so old, from my parents' time and by parents I mean when they were children. and even stranger still to know that some of these performers are still alive today. it's just all around odd and mind boggling. thank you history :)
Thank you present ;)
I know how you feel . I remember finding late night movies that were on back in the 70's ,when I was a teenager and where I first found the likes of Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford, and realizing that Judy Garland did more then just play Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
The writer, director, producers and of course actors and props etc of this show are soo unique (lack of a better word), I love it!
Im not sure why this exists.....But i am happy it does
that was awesome, just some folks on a forgotten show, but even forgotten shows of that time still had good music and entertainers.
what happened?
how'd we get so far off track?
why does everything have to be so awful now?
"Whistle While You Work" ( _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ ) at the beginning, too.
No mention of legend, Boris Karloff in this? I miss the horror kings of this era. They were such nice guys!
wow. this is awesome chita rivera rest in peace.
This is amazing! Thanks for posting!
The second it started, I yelled at my phone; “hey, that’s Boris Karloff!”
I admit I thought it was Alan Napier
Well done! 5 points for Slitherin!
This is from the CBS show "The Entertainers" which ran from fall 1964 to spring 1965. Carol Burnett and Caterina Valente were regulars on it.
Should have been, “I Enjoy Being a Ghoul”.
😂😂😂
You obviously didn't watch the entire clip, or you would have known that would ruin one of the funny lines in the song. Too bad you're from The Immediate Gratification Club where you miss out on all the immeasurable tiny gifts life holds.
@@kristieroybal4888 yeah 98 likes on that = 98 people who didn't watch the whole thing and thought they could rewrite it better
These 3 are still alive!
🤣🤣
Thank you so much for posting this. What incredible fun. I was not familiar with Caterina Valente and now I'm down another fun rabbit hole.
OMG -This is awesome. What a treat! Thank you😊
I "thought" I had seen just about everything Carol Burnett ever did, but I never saw this before! What fun! Thank you for posting it!
I saw Chita Rivera on Broadway in 2003. She was awesome!
Brings back great memories.
Três Morticias!!!😉😉😉
I loved watching Carol on Saturday nights at 9 pm it was the TV highlight of my childhood
MTM, Bob NewHart, and Carol Burnette!!! Every Saturday night!
and this is the true origin of Goth.
Fun fact goth has been around since the Victorian era. As early as the 1700’s!
@@potatozincFunner fact: (more-fun?) Gothic goes back even farther, beginning in the late 1100s.. the "Victorian Gothic" was a Revival, in the 19th century.. Knowledge is power!
They had Goth in the 1800s. Ever read Edgar Allen Poe? Pale skin, thin and dying from TB, and they’d put belladonna drops in their eyes ti dilate their pupils to look more ethereal
@@trudygreer2491 Goth goes back to the Goths, a Germanic tribe who by their Volkserwanderung expansive migrations infiltrated Southern Europe and help cause the A.D. 379 fall of the Roman Empire: in the East the "Ostrogoths" (their language now extinct) and in the West (as, Spain) the Visigoths.
Y’all are talking about the origin of the word, not the style. The gothic people and gothic architecture aren’t the beginning of the current aesthetic we call goth. Maybe, the more modern aesthetic was loosely based off of aspects of these things, but it’s definitely not a direct evolution
Carol Burnett is a national treasure with an ear pull ✌❤ from Montana
This is so utterly ridiculous and silly and I'm completely here for it. Could not stop cackling all the way through.
true golden tv back when tv was great,,,how blessed i was to be a young boy at this time,,truly heaven on earth
Song from the Flower Drum !
amazing. where? where do you find this quality in performance anymore? tight, creative, fun and progressive. love it now in 2024.
i do not understand youtube algorithm but thank you for recommending this, Burnett & Rivera are mesmerizing and Valente too but unfortunately i never heard of her
Caterina Valente is a wonderful performer: singer, guitarist, dancer. Check this out: ruclips.net/video/AuEv942wOZs/видео.html
Growing up in Europe, I had often enjoyed watching Ms. Valente but did not know the other two. :-D
Caterina Valente was very popular in Germany during the fifties and sixties and did a lot of movies often with her brother Silvio Francesco. And she had her owen TV show during the fifties called Bonjour Cathrine......she is still alive and living in Switzerland now.
@@paulxberg1486 A record label called Collector's Choice has reissued several of her albums on cd a few years ago.
Caterina Valente is simply the finest entertainer in the world!
I can't get over what a KILLER look this is for Chita!
Long before her "Spider Woman."
THIS is entertainment! PURE talent! No digitizing, no augmentation, no faking it, and just having fun! I miss this….
It is such a treat to see Caterina Valente, easily my favourite singer of the 50's. (Her "Hi-Fi Nightingale" being my favourite album of the era). Damn I'm old.
Need to find that album…thanks
That was GREAT!!!! I never saw that growing up.
Should have given Boris Karloff a line!
Should have been "I enjoy being a Ghoul"! 😂
What a great thing to see , if wasn’t for you tube where else would you see it ? ,,,,,you wouldn’t.