Herb Alpert – Puttin’ on the Ritz
An evening pause: From the youtube page:
The Puttin’ On The Ritz music video is a creative collaboration between Alpert, artist Glenn Kaino and filmmaker Afshin Shahidi with choreographers Napoleon & Tabitha D’umo from So You Think You Can Dance and produced by Kerith Lemon. One long camera shot follows the lead dancer, Vincent Noiseux on a musical journey and features musicians Lani Hall, Bill Cantos, Hussain Jiffry and Michael Shapiro as well as corps dancers like Kherington Payne and others that have been seen on So You Think You Can Dance, America’s Best Dance Crew, Dancing with the Stars, This is It, Step Up and more.
Hat tip Tom Biggar, who notes that Albert makes some cameos, which I think includes both the bus driver and the bartender.
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The impressive part is that the video/film is has no cuts or edits. It’s one continuous take, so they had to get everything right from start to finish.
Alpert also appears as the barber. Thanks so much Robert for your wonderful video selections.
The Evolution Control Committee-
“Rebel Without A Pause”
(featuring Herb Alpert)
https://youtu.be/zcJTioKULCQ
2:10
Brilliant video! My eye keeps going to the tall, exuberant blonde woman in the blue minidress with the thigh-high stockings—she’s got GREAT dance moves, and not a lot of big-framed women make it into dance. But this whole video is full of great talent. (And I love the closing cameo shot of Herb Alpert and his wife Lani Hall holding hands. Awwwwww.)