Leslie Uggams/June Is Bustin' Out All Over

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!

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.

"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!

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

It is a little redundant though...

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.

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

What year did this program take place?

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

"huggas and bejeebas..."

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