You think just because you’ve seen one totally insane, batshit crazy 70s Italian TV production number that you’ve seen ‘em all?

Guess again. This 1978 clip features the eternally popular Raffaella Carrà (now 73) singing Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” as bald eye-patch wearing sci-fi weirdos… assist her.

That’s only the “night” part,  just wait until “day” comes around and the troupe of caped dancing “Aladdin Sane” clones show up to strut their stuff! “Gotta make way for the homo superior,” I suppose…
 

 
Don’t ask what it all means, just luxuriate in the unabashed weirdness of it all…
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Disco-tastic Italian Beatles medley from 1978 will melt your brain!

 
Sure, you can have your Joe Walsh, your Peter Frampton, your Katy Perry (and be sure to check out that preposterous headline in that link, there). When it comes to Beatles tributes, I’m very comfortable going with the delirious disco version that Italian dancer Raffaella Carrà headed up on Italian TV in 1978. She truly captured the essence of the Beatles.

Carrà was kind of a big deal in her native Italy as well as Albania, Greece, Latin America, and elsewhere. According to Wikipedia, “She was the first television figure to show her belly button on camera. This was met with heavy criticism from the Vatican.” I’m pretty sure they mean “in Italy,” there.
 

 
The video features at least a dozen dancers working their asses off—working hard. The medley gallops through eight Beatles classics in fewer than eight minutes, and each song gets its own stage set (there’s a lot of green screen)—naturalmente Carrà gets a different stunning outfit for each set/song. They seem to be obsessed with the Beatles’ Britishness—lots of Union Jack and bowlers throughout. I’d describe more but you really have to see it to believe it.

How is it possible that fewer than a thousand people have witnessed this glorious video on YouTube?? It boggles the mind! Press play and behold the tacky genius.
 

 
Thanks to Rachel Jensen!