Ring Out the Old

It’s New Year’s Eve, which is a chance to celebrate the old as well as ring in the new.

To that end, let’s party like it’s 1973!

(Just watch the video for now, I’ll tell you about it later.)

This is two examples of Seventies excess mashed together.  The tune is “Nutbush City Limits” by Ike and Tina Turner, this having been recorded about the time Ike (teetotal till he was 30) began to spent $50,000 per month on cocaine, and then (when it became available) chase down his coke with crack, a side effect being the destruction of his career and marriage, and his near-destruction of his wife.

The video is from the film of the musical Sweet Charity, with choreography by Bob Fosse.  I don’t know how he got some of his dancers to do that stuff.  Or why.

Two overcontrolling gents trying to negotiate the Me Decade.  I think we’re all still feeling the hangover.