Leslie Uggams/June Is Bustin' Out All Over

[FK7]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:17am

I just posted this on All That Chat, so forgive me.....

Okay folks....

I am OBSESSED with the famous video of Leslie Uggams going up on the words for "June Is Bustin' Out All Over." It's truly incredible and I've been doing some searching and I wonder....

Does anybody know WHAT happened?!??! Has she ever spoken about this?? It's a relatively famous clip so she has to have been asked about it from time to time. What happened?? Please someone shed light on this mystery.

Thanks!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:26am

Girlfriend didn't know the lyrics. So she bull****ted through them, like any professional would. My personal favorite video is the one with subtitles. But the fact of the matter is, most of the people in that audience probably didn't even notice that she flubbed most of the lyrics.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:56am

The best part of the video is the face of that Queen in the linen jacket on the aisle as Leslie creeps by singing something like "the hubas and the jeebas and the zeepas and the deebas" - he knew exactly what the words were supposed to be...

And yes, Uggums has talked about it on talk shows: its one of those mortifying things that won't ever go away, but she has a good sense of humour about it.

[morosco]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:03am

Can you imagine how terrified she must have felt? But what a pro...she forged ahead.

[morosco]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:06am

"The best part of the video is the face of that Queen in the linen jacket on the aisle as Leslie creeps by singing something like "the hubas and the jeebas and the zeepas and the deebas" - he knew exactly what the words were supposed to be..."

Priceless!

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:30am

I hate June is Bustin' Out All Over so much...I haven't seen it, but I'd probably like her lyrics more...

[paradox_error]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 4:25am

It's a great song, especially if you know a stitched-up, painful, busty woman named June...

It is a little redundant though...

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 4:35am

And this makes me love her even more...I actually kinda like the re-write, it's entertaining.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 6:47am

And just thinking about this makes me laugh. I give her credit for forging on, but I really would have loved to have seen the "bubble" over her head in terms of what she was thinking while this was happening.

Updated On: 12/16/06 at 06:47 AM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 7:07am

I've seen it and love it- heard from someone at one point that she didn't have her glasses on and couldn't read the cue cards that had all the lyrics on them - but that may just be a rumor.
It IS one of the funniest things I've ever seen, though.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 7:13am

What year did this program take place?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:47am

1986 or so.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:45pm

And 20 years later... THIS is her legacy.

"huggas and bejeebas..."

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:48pm

Hey, as long as she has a good sense of humour about the whole thing - who cares? I adore her - she still has a magnificent voice - I saw her perform last year in a tribute to Harold Arlen at The Museum of Radio and Television, singing "The Man That Got Away" and it was perfect - not a wrong note or turn of a phrase, and it sounded beautiful.
Ms. Uggams - you GO girl.