JOHNNY CARSON INSTERVIEW ETHEL MERMAN Aug 04 1979

[@raemerritt]

A voice like no other! ❤

[@scottmiller6495]

The greatest broadway entertainer of all time and what a wonderful singer and classy lady as well !!!!!

[@TheSilvergold45]

When I see Ethel I see the movie ''MAD MAD MAD WORLD " ETHEL WAS SENSATIONAL IN THAT MOVIE AND IN EVERYTHING SHE DID.. ONE OF THE GREATS OF ALL TIME !!

[@Three_Random_Words]

Yep, her and Jonathon Winters were the standouts in that.

[@nickpalmer3076]

A one off. Great that we can watch these videos.

[@audreyprousa9772]

I love her somuch!!! She gives her great voice the best their is!!!

[@williamdonahue6617]

The funny part is that off camera she swore like a sailor. "To star in a Broadway musical and do 8 performances a week, you have to live like a f-----g nun!" And that was the least of it.

[@1533ramsay]

Lucille Ball swore like a sailor too. However, it was never said in public unlike today. Buch of low lives...

[@williamdonahue6617]

@@1533ramsay Another time, Merman was backstage and heard a child actor use a naughty word. She said, "Where the f--k did that kid learn to talk like that?!" It just wasn't reported.

[@dddddadadad1796]

@@1533ramsay Lucille Ball was trashy anyway lom

[@Ryan-on5on]

The late, great Stephen Sondheim recalled in the HBO documentary film "Six by Sondheim" that the director of "Gypsy" tried to reign in Merman's off-stage swearing by starting a voluntary regiment where she would be forced to hand over $1 to him every time he caught her loudly uttering a foul or obscene word. Needless to say, Ethel's cooperation with the censorship ruse soon tired, forcing the prude to relent and stop punishing Merman for her colorful language.

[@Martin-iv6lq]

Ethel Merman once told Lucille Ball to go fuck herself right up her butthole. It never got reported. I was there. True story.

[@jeffneis553]

She was the BEST of the BEST.

[@James-em9qz]

Indeed...she had no peer.

[@marymagdalene3004]

Johnny Carson was so handsome!

[@arigatozaisho]

Ethel’s disco album is so awesome!

[@vapordave2234]

what an amazing "Insterview"

[@notanotherjamesmurphy5574]

*EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES!!!!!!*

[@dannydougin3925]

I just found a copy of her 1979 disco album sealed (no cut out) in a thrift shop for $.99!

[@KS-ro6in]

I can't wait to hear it Ethel

[@RBS_]

...ETHEL...The Woman who helped KILL Disco! ...ha-HAA!! ...Disco was already waning by August 1979, but when the "Ethel Merman Disco Album" was released, it was DOA! ...but of COURSE it has become a (Gay) cult Classic, and is currently out of Print....

[@jeshkam]

It's Lieutenant Hurwitz. Severe shell-shock. Thinks he's Ethel Merman.

[@jerrygann1688]

War is hell! 😂

[@fattymcfatso1083]

Too bad she didn't live long enough to release a grunge album.

[@ashley_ashbee]

😂 plaid shirt and everything?!

[@marcap9757]

Or a 80’s synth album

[@vapordave2234]

Shut up

[@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy]

Ethel Does Grunge would be an epic band name. 😂

[@lakehayden]

@@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy Ethanol 😂

[@FixitWithFoxy]

Funny how they can't fathom disco dancing

[@TheSnoopindaweb]

💬> Ditto what "SilverGold" said ["Everything's coming up Roses"] 🎶🎼🎵👌👏👏👏🤭🤗☺😁👀❗ G~G.

[@hi-railhardin]

Rotten Antenna TV edited out her performance.

[@jeesuekim]

i dont know all that happened also her family but he trained Rivers to be a host, and who knows when. You'd think he'd be so proud of that and all the blessings like everyone else. So i hate to comment without knowing fully but he made a lot of stars inc letterman on another late night. I feel if one's going thru that its something else i guess. But another like Bette no problem so it's weird. Whether stealing jokes or monarchy or what he's a private person. Or his act i presume... hm... the whole format vs others hm...

[@mariestreeting4213]

A voice like a Goose farting in the Fog 😆😆😆

[@dsantamaria713]

Love this Woman, dead or alive!! 😂😂

[@justinnampui4757]

Wat wife Jone are Joanne lol

[@user-in9qo3fs6g]

To Ms. Ethel Merman. As you and I are a team. I expect to hear from you on those days YOU ARE SO FREAKING EXCITED that you just had MAJOR Pooh/Diarrhea and Poohed away some more of your Mortal flesh. I have no way to explain to you how bizarre it feels to know that's what's happening. Love, Don xoxo

[@1533ramsay]

What happened to woman. No one has this kind of class today. Hollywood has turned into a shit box...men & woman or what ever pronoun you need to be associated with...🙄

[@rrickarr]

So true, she is so classy--an amazing woman, not only to hear, but also to see perform.

[@yourinsipidrecordcollection]

There is no one who is not associated with a pronoun. I don't understand this turn of phrase at all.

[@vino140]

Great pipes. But a major bore otherwise.

[@jl3322]

Judy Garland was the BEST singer of the 20th century!

[@James-em9qz]

I love Judy as well...I would say the greatest performer...yes...but I would say the best singer...Whitney Houston!