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Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 7/11/2006 at 1:42:00 PM ET
This morning I received a DVD that I had bought from an eBayer in the US last week. It's the 1974 Carol Burnett Show where she has Bernadette as her guest. I've just watched it and I have to say that just this one song "Blame It On My Youth" from Bernadette is worth the price of the DVD (and the outrageous postage costs as well).
Now, I have done a quick search here for Blame It On My Youth, in case I'm treading over old ground, but what it came up with was certainly nothing to do with the song just some twit who had an axe to grind and who didn't even leave his/her name.
I don't know this song - don't think I've heard it before - but I was so utterly blown away by her performance. She had me in tears, she had herself in tears.- - what can I say?
I know it's probably boring of me to write and enthuse about things that you guys have seen and heard a zillion times but you must understand - wouldn't you love to be experiencing these
Bernadette performances for the first time? It's like opening an enticingly well-wrapped gift, with each layer revealing a little extra delight each time ... will I ever get to the end of it - I hope not.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
|  Doc
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7/20/2005 | posted: 7/11/2006 at 3:54:45 PM ET
Scottie,You are sounding obsessed with Bernadette,just saying this to maybe make you think about it and get help if you are.Doc.
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| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 7/11/2006 at 3:58:42 PM ET
Oh, shut up! I thought you left a long time ago.
It's the Bernadette Peters board. Who are we supposed to talk about, pray tell?
|  Sister Rose
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Go Karen Go!
Scottie - feel free to go on and on. Having become a fan only a couple of years ago, I relate to your enthusiasm. Keep it up.
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| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 7/11/2006 at 4:57:03 PM ET
Oh, thank you, Doc.
Doc??? I presume you are one of the seven dwarfs?
You know, I rather like to think of it (in the words of the great Douglas Sirk) as a Maginificent Obsession.
And I am enjoying every minute of it, thanks so much for your concern, little one.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
|  mrbig
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| posted: 7/11/2006 at 6:39:20 PM ET
I have not seen this performance you are talking about, but now I am curious! Which CB show was it exactly? Do you know if they sell this DVD on amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.?
mrbig
"No matter what you say, Children Will Listen..."
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 7/11/2006 at 6:55:41 PM ET
It is still being sold on DVD. It's The Carol Burnett Show--The Collector's Edition, Vol 6 (1974). You have to get it. As mentioned, it's really, really good.
|  roselouise
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pennsylvania | posted: 7/11/2006 at 7:10:02 PM ET
does she do other things on the dvd besides sing that song? (not that that isn't totally worth it, i love that song but have never heard her sing it) i was just curious what else she did, if anything--dancing? skits? etc. thanks
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 7/11/2006 at 7:28:29 PM ET
The DVD has two full one hour episodes. The one with Bernadette has her playing a possessed 12yr old in an Exorcist parody (that was classic) and also participating in a musical tribute to Warner Bros composer Harry Warren.
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 7/11/2006 at 7:34:59 PM ET
Without sounding too obsessional I hope, I can only say that the DVD is so worth purchasing because Bernadette does so much on it. Apart from the great song I mentioned earlier she also takes part in a very amusing Harry Warren mini-musical and tap-dances her liitle feet off!
Then she is also the sweet but dangerous 12 year old who has the devil inside her and needs a liitle exorcism while visiting her aunt, Carol Burnett.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| Scottie
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oh, yes, almost forgot to say that the exorcism is too, too funny. The poor bedevilled Bernadette is purifed by being shown an assortment of "holy" images. Like a photograph Of Doris Day drinking milk and one of Pat Boone's white shoes - during which she is almost throwing up.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 7/11/2006 at 9:15:36 PM ET
I just finished rewatching it. So fun!
At the end of the show, there's a little taped segment where Burnett, Korman, and Conway chat. Carol says the Harry Warren number was one of her favorite finales, and then she says "in my next life, I want to be able to tap dance like Bernadette."
| Doc
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7/20/2005 | posted: 7/11/2006 at 11:30:42 PM ET
Karen,I just thought being a Doctor maybe just hearing what
I said might help Scottie... .No one else has ever sounded so obssesd like Scottie,everyone else and you included, soundlike very good fans too me,oh well, maybe the Doctor in me thought I could help.I just skim though this site every so often to hear what Bernie's fans have to say.....
Doc
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 7/12/2006 at 12:00:06 AM ET
Doctor of what, exactly?
| PTM
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6/26/2003 | posted: 7/12/2006 at 12:34:03 AM ET
Here's an excerpt from a review of one of her concerts in 1983:
"Peters is always on the brink of all out Boop-a-Doop -- her throaty purr, wrinkled nose, rose bud mouth and cuddly coquettery -- but she uses it to tease and play against. All at once, about halfway along, the litte toy lady is gone and a woman is standing there singing grownup songs at you-- "Blame It On My Youth."
It made us take her serously and stop gawking [The reviewer starts out the review by saying that before she sings a word, Peters summons up all sorts of unseemly sexist twinges]. She had the confidence and stage smarts to stand still and sing it straight at us, giving the words a chance. Peters did it so tenderly, repectfully and perfectly, I wanted six more like it."
PTM
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 7/12/2006 at 12:57:40 AM ET
So she sang it in concert into the eighties. As far as I know the song is best known, in the US at least, from Sinatra's version from the late fifties. I assume she was doing it as a sort of homage to him? Or is that too simplistic? She was definitely highly influenced by his recording work from that era. She's said as much, on several occasions.
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