Music video: Les Ballets Jackson "Fiesta Hippie"

Spike Priggen sells DVDs of old Scopitone videos. (Scopitones were jukeboxes that played 16mm movies that were precursors to music videos. Read about them on Wikipedia.)

Spike just sent me this bizarre Scopitone movie called "Fiesta Hippie,: which stars Les Ballets Jackson, a topless troupe of French dancers dressed in Roger Vadim fantasy outfits.

Les Ballets Jackson "Fiesta Hippie"

[#1 posted by akbar56, May 19, 2009 9:35 AM]

and if you think the song is familiar...it is a version of the original used as inspiration for the Futurama theme:

http://www.theendoftheuniverse.ca/node/814

[#2 posted by skramble, May 19, 2009 9:50 AM]

wow, check out the Fruit Loop Troupe in full effect!

[#3 posted by urwhatuiz, May 19, 2009 9:51 AM]

Also used: King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King"

[#4 posted by LightningRose, May 19, 2009 9:57 AM]

The music from the first third of the video is an excerpt from King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King".

[#5 posted by monkey, May 19, 2009 10:07 AM]

costume changes can't make up for questionable choreography, can it?

[#6 posted by kuanes, May 19, 2009 10:12 AM]

Anyone else get bombarded by redirects and pop-up ads off of this (parade.com)?

I know that we sometimes have to bend somewhat to the almighty dollar, but that was ri-donk-ulous!

[#7 posted by Happi Devil, May 19, 2009 10:13 AM]

Oh. My. God. This is freaking A.Maze.Ing!

Yeah, totally picked up on the Futurama theme as well!

[#8 posted by arkizzle, May 19, 2009 10:32 AM]

Akbar, cool!

I always thought that the inspiration for the Futurama theme was (also French) Jean-Jacques Perrey's E.V.A.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0f4LEaSCo

Also a great tune (and better in my opinion), but I'm glad to know the correct original :)

[#9 posted by Adam Stanhope, May 19, 2009 10:49 AM]

Court of the Crimson King?

[#10 posted by arkizzle, May 19, 2009 10:52 AM]

The inspiration-of-the-inspirtation is a dangerous game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4_f6pfabQk

[#11 posted by Roast Beef, May 19, 2009 10:57 AM]

1. Full warnings about toplessness, but the dude-butt was a surprise.
2. A hippie fiesta where nobody's smiling? What a bummer. I can forgive a lot of choreographic and performance snafus if the dancers can just convince me they're enjoying themselves.
3. For my money (lol) this remains the standout dance-related offering on bb of late.

[#12 posted by arkizzle, May 19, 2009 11:13 AM]

RoastBeef,

3. pfft! :)

Surely this beats the pants off that:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/17/raquel-welch-spacegi.html

[#13 posted by Daemon, May 19, 2009 11:23 AM]

Essentially totally dead at the moment. Spent the last several minutes buffering, and still nothing.

[#14 posted by Roast Beef, May 19, 2009 11:32 AM]

Arkizzle--I don't know about pants (those seem to be in short supply in these videos :). Raquel Welch in a Cyberwoman outfit dancing groovily in Mexico is most certainly a Wonderful Thing. And it doesn't hurt that Les Ballets Jackson make Raquel Welch look like Suzanne Farrell.

Still and all, I stand by my opinion of the clockwork ballerina, because she made me cry. Agree to disagree?

[#15 posted by arkizzle, May 19, 2009 11:53 AM]

Agreed :)

(Actually, I really liked the ballerina too..)

[#16 posted by Anonymous, May 19, 2009 12:33 PM]

This video is so hilarious !

Music :
1/ In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson, 1969

2/ Psyché Rock, by Pierre Henry et Michel Colombier , 1964.

Both are great tunes.

[#17 posted by Manooshi, May 19, 2009 1:07 PM]

Lol! This is awesome... not to mention, one of my favorite King Crimson tracks!

Anyone in LA catch King Crimson at the Wiltern back in '95? One of the best shows EVER.

[#18 posted by Roast Beef, May 19, 2009 1:29 PM]

Arkizzle: Cheers.

[#19 posted by cstatman, May 19, 2009 2:45 PM]

i am at a loss of words

[#20 posted by nosehat, May 19, 2009 2:55 PM]

Astonishing! Also, that sounds like more than "inspiration" for the Futurama theme. That pretty much is the Futurama theme.

[#21 posted by RumorsofmyDemise, May 19, 2009 3:20 PM]

"Don't Dream it Be It."
Anyone?

[#22 posted by Xopher, May 19, 2009 3:24 PM]

Rocky Horror Picture Show, the refrain during the pool orgy.

What do I win?

[#23 posted by arkizzle, May 19, 2009 3:34 PM]

Less time watching Rocky Horror?

Go, spend it wisely :D

[#24 posted by gATO, May 19, 2009 3:35 PM]

The Pierre Henry tune made me want to listen to some Add N To (X), heh..!

Any ideas on what could be the name of the final piece of music, during the fadeout?

[#25 posted by Enormo, May 19, 2009 5:06 PM]

I'll interpret...

Boy dancer, "Wanna bawl?"

Girl dancer, "Far out!"

[#26 posted by nosehat, May 19, 2009 5:21 PM]

@#10 Ark:

The inspiration-of-the-inspirtation is a dangerous game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4_f6pfabQk

LOL, I've never seen that before. But they forgot "Blue Moon", and "Heart and Soul", and "Sleepwalk", and ... probably 1000s of other songs. I know from personally experience that those 4 chords are very easy to fall into if you're just noodling around. I wonder why? I wonder if there's something about those ratios that clicks with human brain chemistry? Or I wonder if it's just because we've all been exposed to them so frequently that they just sound "right"?

[#27 posted by Anonymous, May 19, 2009 7:46 PM]

This clinches it - I'll never get art dance.

[#28 posted by klg19, May 20, 2009 7:04 PM]

Actually, the costumes seemed less Roger Vadim and more Rudi Gernreich.