I’ve posted this before, but I’ll post it again. Here’s the greatest music video of all time! Joi Lansing, singing “Trapped in the Web of Love,” recorded for the Scopitone film company in the early 1960s. I’m not sure that the music video medium ever topped the weirdness, the greatness, the awkwardness, and the sultriness of this performance! Every time I watch it, my jaw is on the floor the entire length of the video!
Joi Lansing was a film actress and singer who had quite a career in the 1950s and 1960s. She was in films like Hot Cars and Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil. She was in tons of television shows (of course, I have a soft spot for her performance as Gladys Flatt, the wife of Lester Flatt, on the Beverly Hillbillies TV show). And she was in that drive-in film classic Hillbillies in a Haunted House. You all can go on about other film queens, but Joi Lansing? Come on—she had it going on!
Sadly, Lansing died at the age of forty-three in 1972. But she did leave us this immortal three minutes of musical film. No need to drop a tab of LSD, this video’ll do it for you, organically!
