Eartha Kitt – Think I’m Being Had
An evening pause: Performed live on the Dick Cavett Show, 1969. The second half of the clip is Cavett interviewing her about her autobiography Thursday’s Child.
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I don’t know much about Eartha Kitt other than her singing the theme song for the Goldfinger movie. Dick Cavett is right, there is something scary about how she sings that song.
Still one of the best actors to play Catwoman as well.
Eartha Kitt could go boldly outside of the expectations. Love For Sale was usually sung as a “woe is me and my profession” song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEwWhq_aYuQ (3 minutes), but Kitt also sang it in a “come hither” way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPNfCM9I_Gs (3 minutes). Even for the 1960s, this was rather racy.
No wonder Cavett found her singing a bit scary.