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Start off your Christmas season with PIZZAZZ. And to help you out:
So here…for a special holiday treat…is a RARE find: a “lost” Christmas song showstopper, from a 1965 ABC TV one-shot network airing of an original musical about Red Riding Hood. In this zippy holiday song, you’ll see a young Liza Minnelli playing Red Riding Hood dancing with the great Cyril Ritchard playing the wolf dressed as Grannie. It is MUST viewing for the holidays — and for those aspiring to go into show biz (just watch their moves and ENERGY..and of course it’s great to have a superb song as well).
It’ll get you in the mood for today (but don’t try those dance moves if you have a bad back):
(Reposted and revised from December 2012)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.