Over and Over Again
- Jul 28, 2023
- 1 min read
The other week when I searched for and found the video to post here of Liza Minnelli singing, “And the World Goes Round,” that Kander and Ebb wrote for the movie New York, New York, I saw another video that caught my eye in the right-hand YouTube "other videos" column. It was a 13-year-old Minnelli appearing on a 1960 TV show hosted by the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper – and she sings, “Over the Rainbow”! Of note, she was three years younger at the time than her mother was when she introduced the song.
Here’s that video. By the way, though it says it runs “3:41,” that specific clip is only 2:15, and there’s more material after. And that other material is weird in its own way and worth sticking round for. It’s an adult Liza singing a reprise of the same song, but I’ll leave out what makes the occasion so offbeat and let that be a bit of a surprise.
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