T'other night, for my sins I was sitting alone, watching television when a brilliant concert came on Channel 4 of all places, the elaborately titled - Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! does Judy! Judy! Judy! - Rufus Wainwright recreating Judy Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall concert.
Amongst many great hits, he sang one I haven't heard for an age - "Puttin' on the ritz". Here's Rufus' performance on Youtube, if you're interested, but what I found whilst looking for it was even better:
Fred Astaire, king of the world. Watch 'till the end - or at least skip to the middle.
Unbelievably good. I'm off to watch my old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films for the rest of the night.
Xx
Wednesday 16 January 2008
Puttin' on the ritz
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I almost bought my dad that concert on DVD for Christmas... he's a big Rufus fan and he's still blaming me for the fact that I stopped him from going to see him live by selfishly having a birthday. Glad you enjoyed it x x
Haha - selfish girl Hebs.
Let me know if you fancy going to see him live sometime, we'll make a date of it.
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