Welcome back to YouTube Tuesday, the day of the week where I get to be really lazy and instead of posting anything of substance I distract you with a shiny video. This week I present…something kind of strange.
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This is a commercial from around 1966 or so. The actor playing Supeman is Bob Holiday. Bob portrayed Superman/Clark Kent in the Broadway musical It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman, which as a musical is actually pretty good. I saw this video on a friend’s Facebook post and thought it was kind of keen so I wanted to share it here. I realize that musicals are not everyone’s cup of tea but I happen to like them quite a bit so I was happy as can be back in 1993 when I stumbled upon a new release of the cast recording. The musical gets kind of a bad rap mainly because of the 1975 ABC television production and when you actually see it…
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ApypH5wko
…you can see why, but the original version is quite charming.
Really. It is. Stop looking at me like that.
More to follow…