Fred Astaire Special - ASTAIRE TIME (NBC; 9/21/1960)

[@MichaelManion]

O my you can't beat Count Bassie! Fred Astaire is fabulous!

[@cameronboushehri9423]

If you could upload the other Fred Astaire color tv specials, An evening with Fred Astaire 1958, Another Evening 1959, and the Fred Astaire show 1968, I’d be very grateful.

[@ingridbergman2583]

Thank you for posting. I’d rather watch this than what’s on TV now.

[@wezie13]

The Count and his Orchestra! Such Excellence on top of Astaire!

[@patricemoran7469]

Fred made a number of fun shows with Barrie Chase. When you realize he had been a stage performer as a child into adulthood with his sister Adele...then after she left the act to get married...He carried on as a solo performer and shortly thereafter was making movies in Hollywood with Ginger Rogers....continuing on with Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland, Vera Ellen, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron, Audrey Hepburn. Amazing career...Amazing one-of-a-kind dancer/actor As others have said...there will never be another Fred Astaire. (He's probably right now inventing some new dance moves up there in heaven).

[@dillysgirl4ever]

Awesome!! Fred Astaire and Count Basie on the same show! And it originally aired one month and one day before I was born. SWEET!!!!

[@Lucy00682]

So glad to find this, how wonderful

[@johncarync]

Astaire was 61 at the time of this broadcast. Still amazingly light on his feet at that age.

[@woutthielemans5073]

Great to see this back on youtube!

[@cor-z8m]

Wow! Thankyou!

[@lindakrause4597]

Thanks for posting this gem!

[@HobartBloke]

Fred's version of 'Miss Otis Regrets' is tantamount to a posthumous tribute to Cole Porter, one of his closest friends. Cole had lapsed into silence in 1957; years of pain from his riding accident had finally defeated his will to work. He would die in 1964. One wonders if Porter appreciated one of his most poignant, even brutal, songs being played for laughs.

[@chattyroz2934]

This was made in 1960 when Cole was still alive. There were two tributes to him here. I don't think anyone ever did greater justice to Thank You So Much Mrs. Lowsborough-Goodby than Fred Astaire did here and as for Miss Otis Regrets, Cole would have loved it. It was always the perfect send up of his rarified world.

[@juanmonge7418]

He also did “Miss Otis regrets” in a Dick Cavett show interview in the 1970’s.

[@liberte5847]

Merci beaucoup from Paris France 👍 👍 👍!

[@MarkFriedman-qi4cz]

That early almost primitive NBC Color identifier was voiced by nine other tha veteran NBC News broadcaster BEN GRAUER , who did the Times Square ball drops on the Tonite Show with Johnny Carson in the 60’s.

[@kiwiarticfox]

thank you for sharing this! the specials are very hard to find!

[@ThePastRediscoveredArchives]

A pleasure. Thanks for watching!

[@fernandateani4432]

Grazie mille di avermi fatto rivedere ciò ❤️ che,, mi piace vedere e ascoltare,,il ballo e La musica,, e tanta grazia e gentilezza e serenità 🍀🌻 e allegria, grazie ancora

[@rennerbd]

He was 61 when he did this special. Before he made movies, he and his sister Adele were a child act in vaudeville starting when he was 8. He was tap dancing since he was 14. So at the very minimum, he had been tap dancing for 47 years. I wonder how many of his critics could perform as he did for that long. His last special was done in 1968 when he was around 68 or 69. How many artists could dance for that length of time? In addition to his dancing, he introduced many songs from the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Kalmar & Ruby, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Cole Porter to name a few.

[@scook5599]

Only the best worked with Fred on this special. Did you see the list of credits?

[@esmeephillips5888]

The identical twins in the mirror sketch were 24 y.o. Ruth and Jane Earl from Ames, Iowa. Trained by Eugene Loring, they were discovered by Hermes Pan, whom they said kickstarted their career of more than ten years. They were befriended by Buster Keaton and ran with Sinatra's Rat Pack; Ruth married Henry Silva. Jane was the one who got the dialogue in this scene, which she said was their proudest memory- hoofing with Number One.

[@BellaFirenze]

My cousins!

[@juliesuris8906]

⁠@@BellaFirenzeVery talented! I just looked them up and realized they were in Irma la Douce. Dancing with Mr. Astaire and in such a prestigious film as Irma la Douce is nothing to sneeze at. Well done!

[@juanmonge7418]

@@BellaFirenzeare they still with us?

[@AuntieMamie]

Evidently Mr Astaire Loved jazz. Can you imagine the practice and discipline it took for him to create this show? So sad new generations aren’t particularly interested. On a personal note, he adored Miss Chase.

[@jadezee6316]

among the most inventive artists the media would ever produce....in the class of Chaplin......is Fred Astaire

[@jeffpiegari4942]

Anything more

[@juanmonge7418]

What is the music that starts when Barrie comes on at about 1:53 ? It’s driving me crazy.

[@ThePastRediscoveredArchives]

It's a jazz arrangement of 'Anitra's Dance' from the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg.

[@juanmonge7418]

@ thanks! I think that I remember the music from a television commercial. I did listen to Peer Gynt suite for the first time.

[@MrSuperbatone]

Love this - anything by Fred Astaire! BUT! Couldn't you guys at "The Past Rediscovered Archives" have done a little COLOR CORRECTION?

[@juanmonge7418]

I remember reading that the original special from 1958 was painstakingly restored by the film department at UCLA. Imagine how bad this one had to be. Thank you to whoever restored these masterpieces.