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Brooklyn Bombshells bringing Busby Berkeley to the Coney Island Mermaid Parade!

Posted on June 15, 2008May 4, 2019 by

Check out this wonderful Busby Berkeley dance scene from the movie “Gold Diggers” (1933) featuring Ginger Rogers.  The song is “We’re in the Money,” of course. I love the awesomely weird Pig Latin bit toward the middle!

I’ve been brushing up on my Busby Berkeley knowledge because Yehoodi’s “Brooklyn Bombshells” dance group will be performing a Berkeley-esque number for the Mermaid Parade next week at Coney Island.  If you have never been to the Mermaid Parade, you must make it a priority to be there on June 21!

For those that need a refresher on what a Busby Berkeley number looks like, here are some other awesome video clips:

  • “Dames”. Note the “V” formation that is reprised in the “Big
    Lebowski” clip also in this list
  • “Fashions of 1934.” Fast forward to about 2:30 for the beginning of the full choreography.
  • Many will remember that “The Big Lebowski” has an awesome homage to Berkeley during the
    musical dream sequence . Fast
    forward to 1:20.
  • And another similar homage in the music video for the song “Shine” by the group Take That.  There’s even some nice b-boying in there!

Really fun stuff.  I’m so excited about the Brooklyn Bombshells routine!

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