More Golden Horseshoe Revue, December 1976
I have three more very nice photos from the classic Golden Horseshoe Revue show, circa December, 1976. It still featured Wally Boag, Fulton Burley (seen here), and Betty Taylor. And lots of purty gals! Fulton Burley (or as I called him, "F.B.") sings "The Girl On the Police Gazette" (a song by Irving Berlin), with dancers dressed scandalously. There are no bare ankles here, but what if there had been?? For your edification, The National Police Gazette, commonly referred to as simply the Police Gazette, is an American magazine founded in 1845. (It) became the forerunner of the men's lifestyle magazine, the illustrated sports weekly, the girlie/pin-up magazine, the celebrity gossip column, Guinness World Records-style competitions, and modern tabloid/sensational journalism.
These gals appear to be performing the can-can, a dance all about recycling. You all remember the accompanying lyrics:
🎶The recyclability of a material
depends on its ability
to reacquire the properties
it had in its original staaaate🎶
I admit that the message seems a bit out of place, but who's complaining?
And finally, Betty, Wally, and F.B. take a well-deserved bow after completing their 10-millionth performance of the Golden Horseshoe Revue. A good time was had by all!
3 comments:
Major-
A classic-! And not bad indoor images, either.
Thanks, Major.
"F.B." looks like a snake oil salesman here for sure, with that very stripey suit. Not sure why but the gals remind me of decorated cupcakes that you would see in a bakery.
Major, you have a certain way with words and lyrics, set to a familiar tune. ;-) If Melissa sees this she will probably do a face palm.
Oh my, we can almost see a little too much of the can-can dancer closest to us. 8-\ We may need to use one of Tokyo!'s white ovals! (I'm sure she's wearing some frilly under garments..... right?)
That's quite a hairdo Betty has. It looks like there's a Pomeranian napping atop her head... Or maybe a tribble. And Wally's wearing his 'dorky cowboy' costume, with the floppy hat and extra-shaggy chaps.
Like the previous scans in this series, these are really good, clear photos of the GH Revue. Thanks, Major.
Recently I described seeing the Police Gazette number, but this is the first time I've seen a photo of it anywhere.
To repeat the song's context: Back in ragtime days Irving Berlin wrote "The Girl on the Magazine Cover", a polite ballad about a nameless beauty on a respectable, unnamed publication. In 1937 20th Century Fox produced "On The Avenue", a musical with new songs by Berlin (who also got story credit). "The Girl on the Police Gazette" is a sendup of the Gay 90s, with Berlin kidding his older song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awML2WjY8W8
The old-time Police Gazette was remembered as being near-porn in its time, filled with scandalous and likely fictional stories, illustrated by engravings of buxom beauties in unseemly situations. It was not to be displayed outside of emphatically male strongholds, like the barber shop. To do a quaint, nostalgic song about it was a joke in itself. Imagine young Pat Boone unironically crooning about a Playboy centerfold.
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