"YOU'VE GOT THE BEST OF ME" Buddy Ebsen RKO Pictures Lacquer 1941 E
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ALONG WITH "CITIZEN KANE," one of the more frothy productions at the RKO studio in the spring of 1941 was "THEY MET IN ARGENTINA." Starring Maureen O'Hara, the second leads were BUDDY EBSEN and DIOSA COSTELLO, who cut a rug to "YOU'VE GOT THE BEST OF ME." In this delightful number, Buddy and Diosa are a great dancing pair, set off by the 'Mutt & Jeff' differences in their height - Ebsen was six-feet-four and Diosa a petite five-foot-three!
(n.b.: Buddy Ebsen, of course, is best known in his '60s TV role as Jed Clampett, of "The Beverly Hilbillies.")
THIS 12" 78-rpm studio lacquer is the original pre-production record of this number, used on-set. The finished film shows E. and D. tap-dancing, but this record has only singing and music, with the taps added to the playback. It's a fascinating document of the pre-magnetic tape era of movie making.
The flip side is another production number from the same film, "CAREFREE CARATERRO," sung by a lusty Latino quartet.
"They Met In Argentina" seems to have been in line with the FDR "Good Neighbor Policy," which promoted amity among the Western Hemisphere nations during WWII, and triggered a spate of pictures like Fox's "Down Argentine Way," Disney's "Saludos Amigos," and this one.
THIS original 1941 twelve-inch 78-rpm lacquer by RKO studios, dated in pencil "March 1, 1941," is nominally in E condition.
PHOTOS: 1) poster, "They Met in Argentina" 2) and 3) Screen grabs of Buddy Ebsen and Diosa Costello in this very number, from the film. If you want to see the whole dance, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq6eUM_2XMU
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