YES America DOES have talent. Watch a young girl with pizazz do “I Enjoy Being a Girl” from Flower Drum Song:
The definitive version of this was done by Pat Suzuki in the original cast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enpHa8_D7ts
And then Nancy Kwan did a great version of it in the 1961 box-office flop version of the musical:
REPOSTED (publish date changed) by popular request from April 8, 2011
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.