Can That Boy Foxtrot! Dialogue

[gossipguy215]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 12:44am

https://soundcloud.com/steven-carl-mccasland/15-15-can-that-boy-foxtrot-1

Here is Yvonne de Carlo singing the full "Can That Boy Foxtrot!" from "Follies" Try-Outs in Boston. I can make out what she's singing, but all of the dialogue is very muffled and fuzzy (and the audience laughs a lot). Can anyone make out what she's saying? Please and thank you!

Updated On: 6/14/13 at 12:44 AM

[brettarnett]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:02am

Found online

I know this grocery clerk,
Unprepossessing.
Some think the boy's a jerk.
They have my blessing.
But when he starts to move
He aims to please,
Which only goes to prove
That sometimes in a clerk
You find a Hercules.

He hasn't much that's plus
You might describe him thus
A false alarm,
A broken arm.
An imitation Hitler
But with littler charm.
But ohhh,
Can that boy foxtrot.

His mouth is mean.
He's not too clean.
What makes him look reptillian
Is the brilliantine.
But ohhh,
Can that boy foxtrot.
Who knows what I saw in him?
I took a chance.
Oh yes...one more flaw in him.
He can't dance."

As dumbells go,
He's rather slow
And as for being saintly
Even faintly no,
But who needs Albert Schweitzer
When the lights are low,
And oh boy, oh boy,
Can that boy foxtrot

Spoken
Very nice, but no dice. You just can’t foxtrot.
Good lad, too bad you just can’t foxtrot.

Right now as I speak of him
I hear those drums
And ohh the technique of him
He’s all thumbs!

His jokes are quaint
And fairly faint
He may be full of hokum but I’ve no complaint,
He often is a bore but on the floor he ain’t.
And oh boy, ohh boy
Can that boy foxtrot.

[gossipguy215]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:07am

Thank you, but I probably should have been more clear. I can make out what Yvonne is SINGING (I.E. the lyrics to the song), but i can't tell what she's SAYING (the link is a live version with more instrumentals then the now published version, so it differs. Yvonne is clearly saying things during the instrumentals, but because of the audio quality (or maybe it's just my ears) I can't tell what it is. I would assume something about the act when it was performed, and maybe something regarding the "football type" and the "poet type".

[brettarnett]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:12am

Maybe its just cause I'm using chrome but I don't see any link in your post.