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Spinners are great band

I was 17, in 1989, im a Freestyle Mix Master, now. Love Betty D, Freestyle Forever

The Moody Blues for a Spotlight Dance was horrible, The Commodores "Lady" was a better fit for the Spotlight Dance

"Whew humph"❤

Never again❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Wow

No peter brown?😂

When people enjoy wonderful music and just dance! What memories!

That Spotlight Dance was great with Kool & The Gang

Even Thimoth fell victim to tragic 80's hair!!!

where's peter brown?

So talented, and such a cutie. 💟

Still have their cassette Take it While It’s Hot. Bought it back in 1989

Those days they speak softly and clearly.

Wow, never seen this before, he is so good & loved him with The Eagles.👍👏👏👏♥️

Linda Howard was a Soul Train dancer

Love the spotlight dance segments

You can't go wrong when you play Rick James! 🥳

Great song, Sweet Sensation can really dance and sing. Betty LeBron was really beautiful, I am glad I bought there CD in the late 1980's.

We don't hear music of this high quality anymore! The Spinners were a cut above the rest! Thanks Guys!

LOVE the mustached guy and the girl staring at each other during the Christopher Cross song. So dramatic! 😄

😊🧿❤️🧿❤️

I’ve always thought Ryan Seacrest would be a great new host for American Bandstand like he was on American Idol and took over for his friend and mentor DickClark on New Years Rockin Eve

Beautiful beautiful voice

THIS GUY !

Yes I love freestyle music it expresses alot ofvemotions of 😘 love,I've been lock out from the world world

is a big hit though time i miss it bring back freestyle

Schmit.

These songs are awful for the 80s

Them MO-f😊ES can sang!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩 I LOVE THEIR HAMONY AND STAGE PRESENCE IS UNMATCHED, EVEN THE SONG BODY LANGUAGE HAS MY ATTENTION (hearing this song for the first time). I WAS A YOUNG KID IN THE 70'S AND I FULLY REMEMBER THEIR MUSIC PLAYING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, HOME IN THE APARTMENT CLOMPLEX (BUILDING) WHERE I LIVED. WE KIDS PLAYING OUTSIDE HOPSCOTCH AND 4-SQUARE TO THEIR MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND. 😁😁🥰🥰

I also note the audio quality of the edits: the first five minutes, making my way back to you, a disco-fied redo of a song made popular by The Four Seasons in 1966, the audio tape hiss is almost like a horrid screech and I can imagine people clicking away at the start right there because the audio of the melting VHS tapes is a bit painful to hear in places. this careful edit must have used audio from the board in the studio, why they used the clock timer in order to perfectly* sync it (*at least perfect enough to be audibly indistinguishable to the average naked ear as far as the timing of the two different video pieces and two separate audio tracks). When the gym workout video starts up, you can hear the audio quality be so crisp... hm they possibly could have used the vinyl album to do the track matching... unsure if this edit was by someone at Bandstand in an official capacity or if this is just a fan edit. the audio is extremely crisp and clear during the work out video after having been a screeching mess on the first song and then it at the end it returns to the scratchy sounding melted vhs tape audio. would be nice to clear up the noise form all that audio with professional sound engineers

Can anyone make out exactly what Dick Clark says at the beginnging starting with 0:47 he says "Henry, Billy Bobby, Pervis, and John. the first time I've ever (laughter) introduced Pervis is it ____ is it? I swear I didn't say that. If that's on video tape anywhere I'm going to burn it" o.0 This episode happened not quite a year after the disatrous Thursday July 12, 1979 "Disco Demolition Night" in Comisky Park baseball stadium in Chicago, Illinois. (rioters cornered a man who drove his car into the wrong neighborhood, and were about to do harm to him until one person in the mob recognized him as one of the players on their baseball team) Trying to figure out exactly what that word or words are he says between "Pervis" and "swear I didn't say that"... If you can figure out those specific word there it would be awesome since it's all going into my new book I am starting to write about Disco Music and it's impact on American culture and the world as well as its' origins and legacy. Thanks

it is from that same date episode, but being only the final minutes of the full hour episode... the title of this upload I see as misleading in light of the facts about the special report on the disastrous failed attempt to rescue hostages in Iran interrupting "The Spinners" (newly inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 11/3/23) singing their 1980 hit "Body Language". i mean... it's just a michael jackson record and commercials and there's no spinners music and no video or picture of any spinners and dick clark is there for a moment but he says nothing about them, he just says" here's the biggest singer of the 80s, michael jackson" and they play "Off the Wall" and cut to the Soul Train dancers before going to commercials and that is all that I see in this clip.

8:01 to 10:36 The (Detroit) Spinners, new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees as of 11/3/23, are visually MIA in the video!! "what song are you going to do?" "our new hit Body Language" 8:01 Dick Clark yells "ladies and gentlemen, The Spinners!" (cut to footage of people working out in a gym. (interrupted on live TV by a special report about the failed hostage rescue attempt to save hostages in Iran. nice to hear the full audio here, thank you uploader!) and they flip back from the workout video to The Spinners at 10:36 the change is right at 10:37 with Pervis holding up his hands in the air singing "shake your thing" after we saw the photo of the burned body in the plane wreck on the receiving end of television viewers at that time on 4/26/80. Crazy that first few seconds too where they're like "and what is your child's name? Reagan? that's nice, (s)he's not going to be president one day are they?" wow what

The footage of people working out was a curious feature to me, since I saw this version first and had my mind blown when I found the other version regular TV viewers must have seen at the time! (I was only 4 months old then) The Special report showing the photo of the charred burned corpse cuts out 2 minutes and 34 seconds of their last number, their moderately successful disco dance hit "Body Language". It cut away during the interview between that song and the previous one. After seeing the photo of the burned body amid the plane wreckage, they plop you right into Pervis Jackson's hands in the air shaking and he's singing the line "shake your thing". So crazy. It's going to be a crux moment of the new book I decided recently to write about disco music. There's somehow a huge connection with Nixon and Reagan administrations shifting things into white power mode, not to mention Reaganomics being a brutal oppressor for poorer minorities, kind of as a huge cultural rebuttal to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which aimed to prevent racial discrimination at the ballot box being a keystone moment that I believe paved the way for what would emerge in popular culture a kind of music people would call "Disco" (before it turned into white DJ guys that can't sing or play instruments or dance just scratching records in the 80s that eventually would morph into the present autotune laser light generation) We also can't leave out mention of what is known as the "Kill Disco Movement" fiasco and how it accidentally turned into a "kill-black-people's-music riot" which he claimed was not the original intent of the Radio DJ guy who created that event after being fired from a station from protesting against Disco becoming the most popular music of the late 1970s. (1976 to 1980 basically) His "stunt" was a contributing factor to the broad censorship and extremely detrimental effects that the idea of "kill disco" had on many amazing African American performers' careers and many of them, like latina megastar disco queen Irene Cara, turned to drugs as a result.

Congratulations on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽

Where was The Jam then ?

Legends!

Their 2nd hit "He's a Pretender" was great too! The LP version of this was hypnotically wonderful!

Call Me Lightning tends to get overlooked in the list of hits by The Who. Good record!

I would kiss all those lovely girls feet They beautiful 😍

The 80s custom of free-coke-in-the-green room just keeps on giving😂

When these ladie get to clapping, skipping,dancing, spinning, and hair tossing while singing is the absolute best

“White guy dancing”. LOL…

Canned audience sound

Where did that man get his energy???

The teens didn’t know whether to dance fast or slow to first song. They looked lost. 💃🕺

@esthergarcia1373 0 seconds ago Loved seeing the Rascals again. I remember watching this segment on TV when it came out. I grew up on seeing American bandstand with my cousin. I remember seeing the guy who sang the monster mash and continued seeing American Bandstand til it’s cancellation. I did miss a few of the final shows because of other teen activities and preparing to graduate high school, etc. those were the days..❤️🙏🏻😎

Love the dance moves 🎶🎶

They are DYNAMIC! That Linda Howard was something special. Couldn't take my eyes off of her.

This song bring back so many memories