Before being repurposed by Terry Zwigoff as a catchy opening for his 2001 film Ghost World and crudely copped last year for a Heineken beer spot "The Date," this dazzlingly choreographed sequence was originally created by Herman Benjamin for Raja Nawathe's 1965 Bollywood suspense thriller Gumnaam built around a Shankar Jaikishan composition powerfully voiced by the legendary Mohammed Rafi. Had Ted Lyons & His Cubs – who appear on the bandstand synching the song Jaan Pehechan Ho (We Should Get To Know Each Other) for the film – actually performed and recorded the tune the following five minutes and thirty surreal seconds of masked hip-shaking madness could've been the greatest promotional music video ever. Some 47 years on, the stand-alone clip remains strangely captivating thanks largely to Benjamin's magnificent moves – that's Herman fronting the band as "Ted Lyons."
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