Liberace Show #50, Master 413
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
Liberace Show #50
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
Opening segment, Liberace (in silhouette) briefly performing the pop hit, "I Don t Care" while "Liberace" in cursive flies towards camera; MS Liberace singing and playing piano; at outset, Lib takes a bow, thanks the audience.
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
Liberace dedicates the next song to all the French Canadians. Liberace performs the French folk song "Alouette" only with a more up-tempo and contemporary beat; Liberace plays piano while brother George Liberace and two other violinists-- as well as clarinet, cornet and French horn-- play nearby. At outset, Liberace bows and then cuts to commercial.
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
Liberace and Orchestra perform "Tales From Vienna Woods" in a Columbia recording studio. Camera is situated predominantly from inside the engineer booth, from over the engineer's shoulder; entire group is seen through glass window; some of the musicians smoke cigarettes, drink coffee. MS Liberace flubbing a note on piano, turning to his brother George and saying, "Even Tuscanini makes mistakes." They try another take, this one making it past the sour note, the engineer giving the OK sign. MS Lib stopping the take again, telling George that the violins need to be "real schmaltzy"; Joe the engineer tells the violin players to stand. They do an insert take. MSs violin players, harpist. Good stuff.
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
Trickster Liberace performs his hit "I Don't Care" in a record store to a swooning teenage white girl unaware she's being serenaded (she thinks it's the record she's hearing in the listening booth). MS Liberace in record store, perusing the racks, chatting with male salesperson; MSs white teenage girl entering the store, requesting the record because when she hears him sing, "It's like he's right here"; MS scheming Lib overhearing the exchange. CUs lily-necked girl crossing her stars in the booth, swooning, daydreaming. MSs Lib singing from behind her. MCUs stylus on spinning record (turntable, vinyl, record player). She's completed duped, doe-eyed.
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
A young white male salesperson in a music store sells Liberace a pair of maracas; Liberace passes them over to George Liberace who shakes them happily. The salesperson gives Lib a casaba (the instrument, not the melon), then a jawbone and a cantina. Lib dispenses the rhythm instruments to his band (and the salesperson) and they jam on "Perfida-- Tonight", Lib on a handy piano.
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
A young white woman named Helen asks Liberace to autograph the record album she just bought; ECU Lib drawing a piano on the LP cover. Liberace asks to listen to the album; he moves to a listening station. CU record being placed on turntable, stylus being lowered to vinyl. CU timpani drum being beaten. Liberace, wearing black tuxedo, performs "Cornish Rhapsody" on darkened TV studio set; CU violins & cello strings being strummed. At outset, Liberace takes record off player.
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
Liberace chats with a white man about "happy tunes". Liberace and select members of band perform "Come On Get Happy"; Lib sings while everyone in the record store claps and sways to the rhythm; Lib solos on piano; at the end, Lib hollers for everyone to "get happy".
Liberace Show #50, Master 413
Liberace closes show. Credits roll.