Solid Potato Salad - The Ross Sisters

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In this classic footage from 1944, the Ross sisters, Aggie, Maggie and Elmira, sing and contort all over the place. Just think: these ladies are now someone's grandmother. Can your gran do that?

  1. By: Ariel Groman
  2. Categories Music & Dance
  3. Views 2,029,319
  4. Added :22-Jun-06
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  • In a limbo contest with these girls

    I would SO totally lose.

    By lelandtilden 1215912258
  • Totally hot...

    Get the apple... get the apple... SHE GOT THE APPLE!!! LOL!!! XOXO Lisa :D

    By girliciouslisa 1215981424
  • I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!

    I wish talent like this could prevail today... where are performers like this?

    By cutestsupermodel 1215912098
    • From the golden age to the digital age..

      They are on the internet!

      By UnknownDavid 1218552790
  • And to think...

    some people can't touch their toes!!! these girls put today's talent to SHAME!!! LOL

    By floatyhead 1216258499
  • tubular...

    these lassies are a class act!

    By five star man 1216357547
  • Ross Sisters

    Their actual names were Vicki, Dixie, and Betsy Ross and they originated from Colorado City, Texas. Their song in Picadilly Hayride (Five Minutes More) was later covered by Frank Sinatra. They were summoned to a command performance before the King and Queen of England on Nov. 4, 1946. I have no idea how they came onto the scene in New York (did stage and revues there) or what happened to them afterwards.

    By PoppaPig 1173757286
  • Lindsay, Laverne & Betty

    These ladies appear in this movie named "Showboat Serenade" in 1944. They also appeared in The Three Stooges short "Gents Without Cents" also from 1944. In both they appeared as 'Lindsay, Laverne & Betty'. Also, this music is used in "The Godfather", when Tom Hagen goes to see Jack Wolz in Hollywood ...

    By peepff 1188412501
  • id love to be able to

    sit on my head

    By LiVeRpOoL_lAd 1150993097
  • One big difference ..

    between these amazing girls and today 'entertainers' .... TALENT!

    By chinacockney 1149990522
  • I have watched this more...

    than any other video. This is one of my absolute favorite Metacafe vids! Just awesome.

    By ntegrty71 1169489049
  • Ross Sisters

    Does anyone know where they are know???

    By EDYroze 1272060842
  • Yeah

    heeeh ..nicee btw check out LiveDona.com for really hot girls

    By abezocolima 1263236215
  • They were GREAT ladies!

    They were GREAT ladies! I should know, Betsy was my mother and Vicki and Dixie were my aunts. All three sisters married and had children, my mother, Betsy had three, myself (son) and two very beautiful daughters. Aunt Dixie had two, a boy and a girl, both very attractive. Aunt Vicki had two daughters who are also beautiful. My mother and father both appeared on the Ed Sullivan show many times.

    By Gadabout 1224288891
    • amazing

      they probably would of never tought millons of people would be watching this tape on our computers today...in amazement..is anyone still alive..???

      By EDYroze 1272061241
    • Impossible to get info on these three

      HI - I was happy to see your response here. It's impossible to get info on the internet on these amazing women. They blow away any contemporary performer yet seem to have disappeared in the late '40's. Are they still with us and do they know what a hit their youtube video is? I hope you and the other children are all successful and happy, and that your mom and aunts are all well and happy. Why do they disappear from view when they must have been in great demand?

      By Pittsburgh8 1271589475
  • What is this

    Really Great These young sisters are really wonderfull, i appreciate the for their good practice and show, WONDERFULL

    By appan07 1220181271
  • its a rose not apple.......

    incredible!

    By danandlen 1218046979
  • WOW!!!!!

    I do gymnastics but I can't do that I tried it and i cant put my head in that position. LOL That is some real TALENT!!!

    By Savi08 1217881787
  • great job!!!

    great vid. these gals are teriffic, luv watchin them...
    5*****rS for em....

    By bellybotton 1217736284
  • Unreal !!!

    I need a girl like that!!!

    By Creative Mind 1216881014
  • totally awesome

    I would hurt myself

    By silly goose 1216748184
  • That cannot be real!

    The bit where the lead girl walks around herself while lying down - surely that's not possible? Unless her upper body was disconnected from her lower half at the waist!
    I think the one on the left at the beginning runs a little knitting shop in Manchester now.

    By KevinCon 1215090167
  • Where in the hell

    Are girls like this today?

    By DreamPharaoh 1214009810
  • lol

    the last thing is funny

    By Iurea 1213977838
  • fantastic

    fantastic stuff. yeah. hard to believe that they will now be in there eighties or dead

    By claphands 1213166708
  • Oh man...

    ... that was great, thank-you!

    By GirlsOnFilm 1212276950
  • The GOOD old days

    I often wish I was born in 1949, not 1979...
    SO much EXCELLENT music, and so many TRUE performers in the 50's and 60's.
    This video just goes to show the TALENT, and MULTI-talent that was out there back then!!

    And yes, there was a "slight" sexual tinge to the whole performance, but SOO innocently performed! The swinging 60's eh? ;-)

    By mrkay 1211772754
  • Solid Potato Salad - The Ross Sisters

    Mind blowing act. How does the leader do it? I wonder what became of such a great act.

    By doggus 1190691478
  • Where are they now?

    Does anyone know what happened to them? A REALLY extensive search (even in archane areas of the web) turns up nothing about these girls. The last thing that can be found about them is that they were in a London Stage Review called Picadilly Hayride in 1947. After that they just drop off the face of the earth, although their song from Picadilly Hayride was still being sold with their name attached as late as 1956. But there is no other mention of them. They appear to be totally forgotten.

    By DURound 1168223011
    • They were GREAT ladies!

      They were GREAT ladies! I should know, Betsy was my mother and Vicki and Dixie were my aunts. All three sisters married and had children, my mother, Betsy had three, myself (son) and two very beautiful daughters. Aunt Dixie had two, a boy and a girl, both very attractive. Aunt Vicki had two daughters who are also beautiful. My mother and father both appeared on the Ed Sullivan show many times.

      By Gadabout 1224290264
  • Ouch

    +shakes head+
    what happened to showbiz?

    By Ebil Teaaser 1164729202
  • Now I know why.....

    Now I know why my potato sald just never seems to turn out the right way.... I left out the cartwheels!

    By hotrose 1161528842
  • YEAH!!!!

    yeah my gran can do that...she does it wif her friends

    By farmer8787 1158033918
  • Ohhhh

    Great O_O Amazing

    By apple666 1157599686
  • blaaa

    prefere the chicken ceaser salad

    By ObR 1157178971
  • Sweet

    I kind of long for the days when entertainment was within human dimensions - just what a body could do spinning a plate or making cartwheels - I guess that is why I still miss the Ed Sullivan show. All the techno breakthroughs are really nice and serve their purpose, but we have gone to a place where there is too much emphasis on sex and violence, and there is a jadedness in the public now that translates into a need to top the latest depiction of the Apocalypse with yet more gore and fireworks. I hope one day we retreat from that.

    By voyeur99 1156689852
  • S**t

    what's this?!

    By szigi 1155897924
  • WOW!

    Can you imagine if Christina or Britney could do that?? (tho they'd prob do it in a g-string...lol)
    Those women were soooooooo fab - and they had real bodies - they didn't look anorexic! go girls!

    By honey-link-us 1155238021
  • Amazing video... one problem...

    I'm 99.9% sure there wasn't color television in 1944... Why is this in color then?

    By Esprite 1155047471
    • This wasn't television.

      This was from a movie, not television.

      The first colour movie, a short, was released in 1908.

      Colour just wasn't used often because of the expense.

      By metacrawler 1156131780
    • it's called colorization

      lot's of old movies had color added ...
      and another thing, talent, yes, genetics also. To be that flexible you must be born that way. It was kind of freaky to see them bend that much, but awesome! Such muscular control!

      By Nick Roman 1155112985
    • It's not called colourisation.

      The first colour movie was released in 1908.

      The first colourised movie was released in 1916.

      Colourisation and colour movies are two different things. Colourisation means colouring a black

      By metacrawler 1156132156
    • more...

      and white movie. A colour movie is shot using colour film.

      A different type of colourisation was developed in the mid 1980's for colouring old movies.

      By metacrawler 1156132261
    • Freaky is right.

      That's amazing. One part of me thinks, "This is amazing, I wish I could do that!" and another part of me thinks, "That's totally disgusting, it must hurt like hell, and their parents must have, like, almost killed them as babies by stretching their legs."

      By Bilbo760 1155506304
  • w....w....w....

    W...T....F.... beeing born without a spine must be... GRAND....

    By bragonfly 1154732587
  • ....

    I've never seen anything like that. The music, the camerawork, the set design, even the cute goofy lyric, and their confidence, it's what TV should be. I'd watch more TV if this were on instead of American Idol, America's got Talent, Rockstar, Last Comic Standing, etc... It kind of relaxed me instead of that vicarious embarrassment that occurs with modern shows. It's nice. Not that I'm one for romanticizing the past but at least the shows were pleasant.

    By blankface 1154683999
  • omfg did u see that???

    the door closed on its own at the end :)

    By DoggyStyle 1152511205
  • wow

    i think it would be VERY interesting to have one of them as your girlfriend.
    one ticket to 1944 please

    By crunchy 1152321258
  • Bloody hell!

    Talk about supple! Amazing.

    By bigdavea 1151958136
  • wow!!!!

    do they actually have spines, jesus christ!!!!!

    By smash n grab 1151759529
    • you've got to be kidding me...

      I'd love to have one of those girls right now, they would for sure make me the happiest man on earth!! lol..

      By Mostaffa 1155192227
  • Makes my stomach turn...

    What a freak show.

    By slipshifter 1151725114
  • HEY

    I had a dream just like this once... cept everyone was naked... and when they got in the triangle formation they didn't do that weird flippy thingy.

    By AfroBob 1151234997
  • Hey!!

    That is my grnadma!!

    By ..............,..... 1151031790
  • Wow

    My back hurts all the sudden. I need some ass spin er, asprin

    By zzroach 1151010346
  • Magnificent!

    So talented and original!

    By bumble 1151000658
  • OMG

    Imagine the positions ya could have them in, OH S**t gotta go

    By archer1 1150978006
    • What do you mean imagine......

      I think they did every position possible in the video lol.

      By Mighty Hellboy 1153613861
  • THIS IS REAL

    real talent,,,i wish the artist from today can have at least half of the talent of this girls.

    By angie. 1150969920
  • At the beginning I was watching

    and thinking to myself delete it, they don't sing that great and they are not that hot looking. I stuck it out. Then they stopped singing and started doing that contortionist stuff, I felt a warm glow coming from my groin area. yep I had a chubby! I wanted in on that human wheel!

    By Bermo 1150335273
  • Old School Shows How It's Done

    Those girls were doing stunts that the best breakdancers today couldn't dream of doing...holy crap!

    By Philbisregin 1150224967
    • Hell yeah

      "Old School" rules, it's where it all came from. I caught part of an old movie done in the 1930's and there we're girs dancing behind some singer, and they we're dancing "hiphop!" Same style / moves .... I couldn't believe it! So much has all has already been done before and just recycles itself every few decades. Kind of like the hairstyles and black leather jackets of the 1950's "Greasers" made a comeback with "Punk Rock" or the 1960's "Rock / Bellbottoms" thing made a comeback with "Alternative." This clip was really entertaing, hope to see more "Old School" stuff!

      By bumble 1151002811
  • heh...

    Ok, now how do you discover a talent like that three-person cartwheel... WOOOHOOO!!!

    By Eric4x4 1149512874
  • FOURSOME

    FOURSOME TIME!! OHH YEA!

    By ElTIco 1149397363
  • A BLAST FROM THE PAST

    They were cute and amazing contortionists/ dancers/ singers/ acrobats....what a show I've never seen some of their "tricks" done by anyone.

    By Nightsinger 1149255731
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  • its a rose not apple.......

    hey totally hot its not apple its a rose,lol

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    Yesterday i saw them on uniformedmatchcom there has much more funny vedioes.Just go and sign up free.

    By yolanda$sexy 1215134845
  • fake...

    it is photoshopped

    By cloud9ine 1213251538
  • WOW!!!

    Is it just me, or did a lot of other sexual imaginations go wild watching this physical demonstration?.

    By MyTst_O 1212344813
  • !!!

    these girls have no bones!!!??i could do that in bed with the angels!

    By Mrlol 1157659744
  • Yeah

    Now they're all about three feet tall and look lie potato salad

    By nukedemall 1156985795
  • i wish but.....

    i wish i would be like them a singer and being flexible but........ my ass and V****a will go out and have freedom. heheheheh!!

    By gendell 1156867918
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