The whole ballet is worth listening to, folks!     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayane(ballet)

Interesting note near the bottom of that page:

Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured one of the less up-tempo sections of the Gayane music: the Adagio.

(In the jogging_around_the_artificial_gravity_wheel scene.)

What is going on?  Funk, mambo #5, now this?

Ed Sullivan & jugglers..............right?

Please don't play this again. It puts my nerves on edge.

lol@ 

Plate spinning?  Psssh.  My generation has the masturbating bear. 

 iTuner wrote: 
Why not? Especially right after Perez Prado. Bill likes to keep 'em guessing...

ok..flash back to ed sullivan and the guy spinning the plates on a stick to this song..

Wow... haha. Haven't heard this in ages. Thanks!

 Cynaera wrote: 

Cynaera, "The Hudsucker Proxy" is really good. It's a Coen Brothers' salute to 40s screwball comedies. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hudsucker_Proxy

Tim Robbins plays a rube working in the mailroom of a huge corporation. Paul Newman's character, a member of the board, promotes the bumbling Robbins to be the President of the firm in an attempt to push the stock price down and take over the firm for himself. 

Things go awry when Robbins, in an attempt to actually succeed as President, puts out the hula-hoop...which becomes a huge hit, driving up the company's stock price. Hence the scene you watched on Youtube. 

Wow, this is the RP I loved and missed!! not the 24 hour Dillan / Young.

Reminds me of spinning plates on a stick  from the Ed Sullivan Show

 sirdroseph wrote: 
Me too, or at least a grin.  Also have to give the orchestra props.  With such a fast tempo your timing has to be PRECISE!

 Yoohoo......Go rp.      THIS GUY HAMMERS TO THE BEAT.

Cool. Could be followed by Billy Joel's "Stilleto" for a less frenetic, more psychotic interpretation of the theme.

 IrieTom wrote: 

Ah, yes — this song brings back memories of those great Buffalo Sabres teams from the 70s (I was a wee lad when the Sabres/Flyers played the infamous "fog" game in Buffalo, one of the weirdest games ever played. One of the Sabres players used his stick to bat down a bat that flew down to ice-level during that game). Anyway, a cool theme song for the team. Don't know if they still use it.

I grew up in western NY in the '70s- every time I hear this, I think of hockey.

 Tamster wrote: 
AHAHAH I just posted about the same sentiment!

THAT will get your chores done FAST!! 

WOW, I just did ALL of my housework while this song played........high energy !!!!

I have this uncontrolable urge to do some plate spinning.

this is medieval with the m of may.
don't spoil april with it. 

 kcar wrote: 
I watched this, and I guess I'm clueless. Perhaps seeing the movie might help me understand.

My dad used to play this when I was growing up - it scared me, fascinated me, intrigued me, and ultimately gave me the most joy I could glean from music.  Holy wow - I LOVE this!  Thank you to whoever uploaded this, and thanks to Bill and Rebecca for letting it be here for everyone to hear. Gotta take a couple of deep breaths now - it's like Dad is here with me now, and grinning....

 DoctorHooey wrote: 
Wow, yes! I'd totally forgotten about this scene. Brilliant. Tim Robbins' face at the end is perfect—goofy rube in heaven. He might have stepped out of a Dr. Seuss book with that look. 

There was a Jimmy Cagney/Arlene Francis movie called "One Two Three" that also used the Sabre Dance quite well.  

Watch out for the juggling clowns and all their knives.