Sophie Tucker--Songs to Hold Your Man Medley, 1956 TV

[@jonny4u23]

Love her

[@darjoncc]

Thank u for this - she was a legend 🙏🙌love her Songs

[@unclelouie3828]

Good 'ole Sophie- we love her.

[@leemclaury6251]

Some of these days … what an entertainer !

[@mewhor]

Sophie Tucker singing Rock Around the Clock; priceless!

[@barbaraeffros4804]

Thank you Alan! Adore Sophie Tucker!

[@donnadavis9318]

Sophie and Kate Smith, in a class all their own!! No one can or has ever touched them, many have tried. True originals!

[@klmegm197682]

Beautifully spoken!

[@malkline2446]

All my life, old people singing and dancing have been my idea of the ultimate in entertainment, and if they can tell a joke and not mangle the punch line, I think they're comic geniuses. But Sophie Tucker was as old as vaudeville and singing rock around the clock. Priceless

[@chrisn7259]

That dress is wild. Kind boho glamour years head of its time.

[@monitortop]

Great, Allen. Thanks for putting this up!

[@russianprincess3673]

Unique n Special ♥️

[@XX-gy7ue]

WOW !

[@TJ1920]

now that’s entertainment. Sophie Tucker

[@rickrock4069]

her singing voice gone by this time but she was great showmen

[@Wanamaker1946]

She’s the remnants of Vaudeville. Those movie palaces were first vaudeville House’s. They only had 35 ft stages from the proscenium arch to the rear wall. She’s indeed adapted her Act for the modern audience. This dame is the bomb.

[@monitortop]

Something not well-known is that Sophie Tucker, in the first decade of the last century, pretty much invented the nightclub act. She was not (who would ever guess?) a blushing flower when it came to furthering her career. She made a deal so that after her stage/vaudeville performances, she would go to the famous Reisenweber's, and do a show that was impromptu, treating the audience informally as her guests, rather than doing a fixed presentational act. She had her issues, but she was tremendously important to the development of show business. Isn't Ed Sullivan's obvious affection and regard for her touching?

[@Wanamaker1946]

@@monitortop Yes, he is. He was such a lurch, but handsome once. TV was in many ways, the offshoot of Vaudeville. Lucy & Desi Arnez Acts we’re pure variety.

[@virghammer1]

“Ed Sullivan - what a lurch - “ - you crack me up, man! Apt. ❤❤❤

[@hiranpinel9898]

deusa de um tempo... muito bom

[@TJ1920]

This from someone who’s been divorced at least 4times