Richards Favorite Videos

Not my favorite rendition, but not bad. Was the first I ever saw or heard and always loved the song since.

The Jets mock the kinds of excuses authorities use to rationalize the existence of hooligums like themselves.Sondheim’s lyrics are so witty, and Russ Tamblyn is wonderful as Riff—I am not anti-social, I am only anti-work!

MOJO HATES MORNINGS! In fact, Mojo hates mornings so much that morning decided to exact revenge on him, which is to say that some unseen force decided to play this rather annoying tune on a tape recorder, CD player, or some other source of amplifying sound waves.

The song that you hear on this short music video is “Wake Up” from that very scary show Lazytown, or however you spell it. This is all just for fun. I love Mojo muchly.

This is CD audio dubbed over the cartoon, which explains the lack of sound effects.

In the famous dance routine in which Gene Kelly sings the title song while twirling an umbrella, splashing through puddles and getting soaked to the skin, he was actually dancing in water with a little bit of milk added, so that the water puddles and raindrops would show up in the filming. Kelly was sick with a 103-degree fever at the time.