You need to obtain or rent a copy of "Bathing Beauty" starring Red Skelton and
Esther Willams (circa about 1940 and is available on video and dvd)

The Tico Tico number shows her technique pretty well...hands AND feet. I'm sure
there are other movies but this was the best scene of the ones I know about.
She plays two songs and is given a nice amount of time in the film, considering
the film has absolutely nothing to do with her, or her character!

Enjoyable at the very least. (And the few times i've seen her she was ALWAYS
in heels!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mrchuk@...
> Sent: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:28:56 EDT
> To: ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Ethel Smith Does anyone know?
>
>
> Was Ethel a "peg leg" organists? Using just her left foot on the
> pedals?
> And did she play in high heel shoes as shown in her pictures?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck in Mississippi
>
>
> In a message dated 10/23/2006 8:05:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> hammondrobb@... writes:
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> It was on this date, 64 years ago, and it happened a bit like this. It
> was
> Saturday night in
> New York City. One of the most popular radio shows on the air, "Your Hit
> Parade", was
> about to introduce what would become their new star. Although the live
> or
> radio audience
> didn't know this story was fiction at the time, their new star was
> introduced like this by the
> shows MC: "You know friends, the other evening, a man of our armed
> services,
> on
> furlough in New York, had dinner in the Iridium Room of the St Regis
> Hotel,
> and while
> there, heard a young lady who played the organ. That young fellow
> thought
> the young
> lady was so wonderful that he could talk of nothing else and he has
> asked
> Your Hit Parade
> to put her on our program. Well, we're answering the request of that man
> in
> uniform who
> "left his heart at the St Regis Hotel" by presenting "Ethel Smith", the
> girl
> he heard on his
> big night in the big town. We hope all his buddies in uniform everywhre
> are
> listening right
> now, becasue here she is, Ethel Smith at the Hammond Electric Organ
> playing
> Tico Tico....
> And the rest is music history. Tico Tico went on to become a huge hit
> for
> Ethel, and in her
> own words "meant to me a Palm Beach Ocean Front Condo, and a music
> publishing
> business". Ethel was a huge hit on the hit parade, and ended up playing
> the
> tune in the
> MGM musical Bathing Beauty. Tico Tico has gone on to become one of the
> most
> recongnized Latin American tunes of all time, being recorded by
> hundred's of
> artists.
> Maybe our good buddy Don will upload a few odd ones to the MP3 section.
> Until then,
> give the ultimate version a listen, by the one and only.... Ethel Smith
> !
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