Ethel Merman and the Muppets

These clips always makes me smile.

The first is a medley of Ethel's greatest hits, with Ethel duetting with various of the Muppets. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think she realizes they're puppets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFklQhH7q4

The second is the famous "Soft Show Business" in which Ethel uncharacteristically sings "There's no Business Like Show Business" softly and sweetly, to comfort Fozzie, who's been a big flop. She's so tender when she says "The closing when the customers don't come"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF5jUPu76FQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF5jUPu76FQ

Then she takes the 2nd chorus BIG.

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Updated On: 2/11/08 at 08:54 PM

Updated On: 1/27/09 at 04:12 AM

Loved them, adorable

Thanks, but you had to go and quote an Olivia Newton John song in this thread?!?

Couldn't you have told me you love me in more Mermaniacal terms?

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You coulda said you get a kick outa me.

Or that you hear singing and there's no one there.

Or that I'm the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

Or you could have offered me an eggroll or some fried rice or a ginger-peachy lychee or a napkin or a chopstick or a chair.

Sheeshh...some people!

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And my musical education continues.

Ohhhhh...Calvy, you know that anytime you want you can put your head on my shoulder, you need someone who's older, a rubdown with a velvet glove.

(I never understood...why a velvet glove?)

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PJ, you're the top.

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