Liberace - Camptown Races - Rare 1950's Footage I

[@kbrock9146]

Liberace was a magnificent performer and an astounding pianist. So nice that he always had to have his brother, George accompanying him.

[@Ferreal92]

This man raised the bar of entertainment by introducing a level of flamboyant showmanship that influenced artists for decades to come.

[@eternallife9786]

Beginning of the downfall

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

That man always has the biggest smile of anybody! He was always having such a great time!

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Mamamonkey Why do you say that?

[@mrgrimm415]

Why not?

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Are you saying he is a pedophile?

[@mrgrimm415]

Do you live in SF? Where?

[@riverwildcat1]

He was a real talent, and his arrangement keeps the spirit of Steven Foster.

[@buffuzo4201]

Saw him in Vegas at the Hilton in the 70s. He was one of the best acts I saw. Just a FUN show and an engaging man.

[@joejackson3668]

The man was brilliant....nothing compares to him now days.

[@oneblackhorse]

My gosh, he always made it look SO EASY.

[@jeanhooker6194]

Oil

[@philyip4432]

Wow , what a performance!! What talent !!

[@yngwenkang9801]

Nice song. I like that song played in the old days

[@Ptfsshenanigans]

The amount of energy he has this is so energetic

[@harryzhang4660]

The 50s was the last decade that Americans learned to appreciate old music.

[@666mrdoctor]

Well Sinatra had a nice career even after the 50' mate.

[@AnnaHerrick]

Naw!, I was alive and well then and music is as good as ever! You have to wee thru more trash to find it, but it is there!!!

[@happyninjafighter2]

I was born in 1996. I'm showing this to my 1 year old daughter. She was born in 2019.

[@eternallife9786]

It depends if your family has record collections I grew up with music that was famous all through the 00's 20's 30's, I know about the Great American songwriter Stephen Foster as a young boy the guy who wrote the song he also wrote old Susanna and quite a few other songs people would recognize

[@porkscratchings5428]

I saw him as a kid in London about 1978 or 79 at the London Palladium

[@philyip4432]

He never ceased to amaze me .

[@laopang91362]

He creates wonders.

[@phaedrabacker2004]

The man was a great pianist. Get over it.

[@TheRealJRC]

Awesome...I'd like to hear this on a Wurlitzer theater organ.

[@bobpaulino4714]

I travelled and maintained large HVAC equipment. Was blessed to have been present in many theaters and churches with incredible organs, musicians, choirs, singers, etc.while they tuned, rehearsed, or performed. Wish I had had an opportunity to record the amazing performances I was blessed to see and hear. Sadly, many of the smaller theaters with what once were amazing organs have closed and/or been razed. Difficult to find the same caliber of entertainers. So sad.

[@Ptfsshenanigans]

This is so amazing I love this

[@donfarlan214]

George liberace was a very good violinist

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

cool, fun to sneak this melody into any improv

[@gabbyyanson2470]

oh men... his fingers are like horses running too.. fantastic

[@MissRailfan]

Camptown as in Camptown PA there's a historical marker for it. Dedicated: Thursday, May 15, 1969 County: Bradford Marker Type: Roadside Categories: Cities & Towns, Music & Theater, Sports & Recreation, Writers GPS Coordinates: LNG: -76.2349, LAT: 41.7301 Location: Junction PA 706 & 409 at Camptown Marker Text: Stephen Foster's well-known song, "Camptown Races," was probably inspired by the horse races run from this village to Wyalusing. "The Tioga Waltz," Foster's first music, was completed during his residence in nearby Towanda and Athens in 1840-41. Camptown RacesView Dedicated: Monday, May 12, 1947 County: Bradford Marker Type: Roadside Categories: Music & Theater GPS Coordinates: LNG: -76.29536, LAT: 41.72697 Location: Junction US 6 & PA 409, 4.2 miles N of Wyalusing Marker Text: Stephen Foster's title for the well-known song is said to have been taken from nearby Camptown. Foster's residence at Towanda and Athens may have created the association.

[@paulofreire7520]

Legend 🙏🏻

[@booboonpam]

every person in my family loved him on TV, especially the gals!

[@bonanzajoe]

The greatest pianist ever.

[@buffuzo4201]

Great entertainer, but he would have acknowledged he wasn’t the greatest pianist. He couldn’t play Rachmaninov anywhere close to Horowitz. But Horowitz could NEVER do Vegas.

[@stevencoffman]

i met libby in a sears department store back in 1979 .and he doesn't sound like this his voice was normal sounding .this voice is just for showbiz

[@418cjpaul]

that was really good!!

[@meudeusefiel9820]

Wonderful.

[@gremlinuk1968]

Just wish my late gran was with us now,,! She would love this,,! RIP,, ! 🇬🇧♥️🎃 ad , am a kid in the 70s, born May 23rd, 1968, from northern Ireland UK,,🇬🇧

[@ozrocco]

Thank you.

[@sertcom]

ÇOK GÜZEL HAREKETLER BUNLAR

[@hertelden1113]

AYNEN

[@wanderingfool7914]

I have this film at my house

[@DexterHaven]

Underrated keyboardist. Imagine him born today with a Moog synthesizer...

[@cowboykody6775]

He did it old school, not with new SHIT

[@windows9550]

How in the world was Liberace underrated?

[@theman0110]

To think this was recorded 100 years after the original albums release 😮

[@G6JPG]

Would that have been an album of sheet music, then - i. e. an actual book?

[@lauriwiren6398]

Everything sounds better when you perform it in tails.

[@godgave106]

Çok güzel hareketler bunlar

[@thebookwormofalexandria8732]

I appreciate classical American music and song wholeheartedly that I wish to become the embodiment of it! 🥳

[@lepabrena78]

Who dislikes this or anything that Liberace played?! Are you ok?!

[@thesmithersy]

Just tell the libs that he's playing a minstrel song and they'd eat their records

[@Tairqthephotoman2025]

No is racist dum ass

[@PotterPossum1989]

They don't matter

[@lincolnmerritt1547]

Is one of those fiddlers Les Tremayne?

[@vickiewupdafox5965]

Moon Mullican influenced him?

[@donfarlan214]

Is that George on the violin

[@michaelgreensmith9349]

Sure is !

[@bakubusspotter]

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[@riverwildcat1]

You'll love this version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/laXYpmiPqdCDf9Esi=exf0ELf6V0pFEz3M

[@karabiyik3604]

LOBOBOBOBLOBLOBLOB LOBOLOBOLOBLOBLOB

[@isabellehebert4553]

Wow

[@ekremabi8092]

Cok guzel hareketler bunlar burdaaa burdaaaaa basliyo simdi mutfakta lobololobolobloblob.

[@waynegray4248]

Mr.wayne Anderson Gray.

[@tiagogodoy1807]

Such a great song...but didn't know Joey Tribbiani could play the violin

[@drjohansafree]

Lool! it’s probably his great grandad in this video :p

[@negara54]

Do any of you fans know during which half of which decade Liberace was on TV and ladies would dress up to watch him, thinking he could see them too? Or is this just a myth? Thanks

[@GooglFascists]

It was the middle years of the 1950s, when many people also thought if you left a socket open without a light bulb screwed into it, your electricity would "leak out" and be wasted.

[@agentfungus9742]

+GooglFascists : I was living in those years. Where the hell did you ever hear this BS? Do you live in Texas or the South? Such stupidity. People have been going to movies since the 20s. I never heard that anyone thought that the actors were behind the screen.

[@brianthecanmm6637]

+Agent Fungus I saw it on a documentary about Liberace.

[@agentfungus9742]

brianthecan mm : One absolutely cannot believe what one sees on TV & the web. I guess in some ignorant little pockets of the US, some people actually believed that. Don't forget, the media and entertainment industry like to play up that anyone who doesn't live on either coast to be frightfully ignorant.

[@raspberryjuiceentertainmen719]

Is it just me or does Pedro Pascal shaved look exactly like Liberace

[@cazzycandy2631]

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[@loosecannon7060]

It would have been more entertaining if he had done it in Black face, ala Al Jolson.

[@GiganFTW]

Terry O’quinn anybody?

[@420JackG]

Ah, a more wholesome time. Men were men back, ya know?

[@7779roly]

Who knew that John Wayne could play the violin ?

[@arzutelman5098]

Çgh bu😂ben şok

[@katharinazeller-ziering9711]

Time to do some scetchy thing …. 😅

[@nathanielstringer6382]

LMFAO!

[@alank5560]

I still don’t believe he was gay...........

[@carolinareb301]

He was so inclined. He was the subject of a so-called "palimony" suit by homosexual Scott Thorson many years ago . The late pianist dismissed it as a disgruntled ex-employee. Thorson today is a resident in a Nevada prison: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thorson

[@eliogarcia3963]

Died in the arms of a woman...

[@olivelane7903]

No I am afraid lee did not die in th arms of a woman but he might have done if they had let him marry Joanne del Rio years ago I have been a fan 55years and keep putting the record straight about him he was at his best in the 1950s before the publicity boys got at him and spoiled him he did not need that plastic surgery best wishes to you xx

[@parkerplace2910]

Sadly, he died of AIDS.

[@jj9749]

Looking like he robbed Liberace

[@grdealz6794]

This is the song I hum when I'm going down on a chick!

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Mamamonkey Why do you say that?

[@mrgrimm415]

Why not?

[@josenunno9519]

+GR Dealz Lol, why this song?

[@doubleghod]

he is really, really gay