Our Choice of YT Vid of the Wk. for the 1st Wk of Oct.2017 - "American Tango - Orchids in the Moonlight - Harry Horlick's Orchestra - 1948".

        For the first week of Oct. 2017 we chose a video uploaded by Dr.240252 on Dec. 27 - 2014 titled "American Tango - Orchids in the Moonlight - Harry Horlick's Orchestra - 1948". That famous Tango comes from an excellent movie from 1933 - "Flying Down to Rio" with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Dolores Del Rio and a few other talented stars who - unfortunately - faded away. It was the first movie in which Fred Astaire danced a minor dance with Ginger Rogers but they stole the show and subsequently made eight musicals together which were full of their great dancing numbers, good music even if the plot lines were not too believable - at times. 
      In "Flying Down to Rio" - Fred Astaire dances quite a bit with beautiful Dolores del Rio Argentinian/American movie star - who was also a magnificent tango dancer in addition to being an excellent actress. "Orchids in the Moonlight" became a famous Tango which Fred Astaire performed in his typical top notch manner with a beautiful star from Argentina - Dolores del Rio. 

      Vincent Youmans - the composer - simply outdid himself with this terrific Tango melody but the lyrics done by the prominent Sammy Kahn with some less known lyricist - Eliscu - also stand out.
       At any rate - have a good first week of October 2017 - everybody! Check here a week from today!

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