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Frank Spagnuola
Добавлен 13 май 2012
American Bandstand Regulars Interview
This is the interview with Arlene, Kenny, Frank and Carole about their days on American Bandstand and their experiences with the Golden Boys.
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These were the best of times
Over 200 regulars…wow.! I wonder how many boys were drafted in the late 50s (like Elvis) and 60s. I love to see the joy these kids bring to each other. I can’t remember my partners wrapping their arm around my body during a slow dance. How great was that!!!!
We all were dancing at home to American Bandstand on TV. We watch every dance move they made and did the exact same thing. It worked.
My mom and my sisters used to watch American Bandstand and dance in front of the TV after school every day!
You have to remember that Walt Disney owned the station and the program and he was a racist. Walt did not like negro music and so he found people he did like and put them on radio and TV and forced it down your throat. Fabian could not sing. Annette and Frankie were not any better. My mom loved Bandstand and her family did not own a TV. The neighbors would allow her to sit on their porch and look in through their window. I was brought up listening to this music. I'm almost 60. I can tell you the words to any songs played after 1955. We had daily sock hops when I was little.
I never in a million years would ever ask a guy on a date let alone ask them to prom! Guys are the initiator and girls the responders.
I am 77, and I remember dancing to this music in gym class every Friday! Fun times!
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good video..memories.
I loved Bandstand in the 50's and early 60's..great music and fabulous dancers..What a innocent time it was..
Jerry Blavatt WHAT MEMORIES!!!!!!!!
Carol Gibson is beautiful.
Oh, that was such a joy to watch. I was 12 yrs old and I remember thinking...I'm much too young to be on Bandstand....but then I found out that a lot of kids lied about their age...haha...This was one of my favorite shows ever! And Arlene & Kenny were my favorites! So fun to see them now..and hear their stories.
Wonderful video...
I loved Arlene... still do.
I Loved this Show, so much.
She was beautiful so dont say you were not Arlene❤
I am 76 now, and just told my hubby of 57 years I am watching Bandstand! Fun to go back! I loved dancing…my sweet hubby hated it…lol!
FROM SPAIN....IS It beauty USA?? ......i LOVE classicss 50s.....BUT its so hard can understanding english ......seems funny this old classicss on T .V i was born in 1978.......always are seein or watchin old American shows FROM past ...dont know understanding why BUT seems as so funny!! Greetings FROM SPAIN
And greetings to you from America.
My very favorite ended this clip....Frank Vacca!
As long as I have a memory, I'll always recall the AB theme music!!😊😊
does anybody know what happened to monte montes?
Live hearing the regulars tell stories
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5:56 Wow! Before 5 digit zip codes existed!
I never missed Bandstand. All of the girls in my group watched it every afternoon. We knew all the kids names and who was dating who. It was a teen soap opera!! After high school I didn’t watch it anymore bc I was busy going to school to be a hairdresser and dating! No time to think about the kids on bandstand now!
Arlene, you were So NOT homely…Actually, you remind me of Annette Funicello
Loved Philly AB!
I don't know why Arlene says she was homely. She was cute and very popular with the national audience
Yes indeed all the girls in my high school kept up with Arlene and Kenny!!!!
I heard most of them be gay
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I love 💕 this. Watched from SF CA. 4PM west coast time. Began in the late 50s into high school in the early 60s. Thanks Arlene and Kenny for this memory ❤️🙂❤️🙂.
when arlene says any parent nowadays would be happy to have thier child on a show like this i count myself lucky as i was on american bandstand as a regular 1976 through 1979
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I was way too young to be on Bandstand; but I So enjoyed it.
This is the way I danced on bandstand. I’m 85 now. It was so much fun. I danced all my years since then.
Margaret were you one of the regulars? If so did younknow Pat Frank Arlene? Tell me some stories please
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Time really flies by fast! These were good times.
Time flies by so fast!
Kid's stuff!
It definitely is a great video clip! Thanks.
Love Kenny Rossi song she loves me she loves me not 🚭🚫
Love Kenny and Arlene
Thank you for this Frank! Here’s a little something for fun: ruclips.net/video/2JRPDTlisTk/видео.html
Cool stories about Bobby Rydell! Especially going to the prom with him!
What a fun video thanks to Arlene and Kenny for sharing such wonderful memories ❤😊God Bless you both.. Drove by the station once and saw the regulars going in but my dad wouldn't stop he worked for J.and J.there in Philly .I was around 9 or 10 at the time. Then we moved back to California a few yrs later..Los altos.,(yuck) then after my parents divorce mom took us 5 kids to the prettiest and fun place of all.Laguna Beach ⛱💙and here I be. Thanks mom.you picked a good one.👍please let us know of all the "regulars" that are not with us any longer and the ones still here..what they are doing etc. Thanks so much for this video..love it.💞
This is Kool 🐧 Need to save and watch later !!
The start theme for the show is music from GLEN MILLER band from the 40s
No, the theme was recorded by Les Elgart and His Orchestra, recorded in 1954.
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that's a great description of the 50's, innocent. when i look back the loss of innocence came with the kennedy assassination, i think it was a slow decline from there on.
Yo siempre veía American Bandstand y recuerdo a Frani, Arlene, Carol y me acuerdo de un chico creo que su nombre es Mike Balara que bailaba con todas ellas me gustaría ver si tienen algo sobre él. Me encanta poder volver a ver todos estos vídeos. Gracias
Such a wonderful wholesome time. So very unlike the kids of today!!!
"So very unlike the kids of today?" That's a generalized statement. Yes, most of the "American Bandstand" kids were good kids. And there are good kids today as well, (I should know since I work with them.) And there were bad kids back then as well. Often, Philadelphia's violent street gangs would pick on the "American Bandstand" kids for the "fun" of it, and sometimes they would physically assault them, like what happened to Ken Rossi and Arlene Sullivan when they had to face off against a violent street gang after getting off of The El. The Green Street Counts of Philadelphia murdered 61-year-old Jacob Ewald in a 1953 bungled bar robbery (one of their own would later murder a father of five named Robert Kehoe the following year), a 41-year-old housewife, Martha White, was shot down when two rival gangs were having a running gun fight in the middle of Philadelphia's streets in 1957, and on April 25, 1958, just outside of the University of Pennsylvania, literally one mile away from where "American Bandstand" was being taped at WFIL, a South Korean foreign exchange student named In Ho Oh, was beaten to death by a youth gang led by 19 year old Alfonso Borum. Borum and his crew did not know the Korean student, but they had been ejected from a local rock and roll record hop, and in their frustration, came upon the South Korean as he was mailing a letter to his family. His Korean family were born-again Christians and actually wanted forgiveness for the boys but Mayor Jefferson Dilworth had had enough of the youth gang violence, especially after Governor Leader had actually paroled members of The Green Street Counts for serving less than 2 years for the murders that they committed. You had bad kids back then too, and that's not to say that "everyone" was bad, but you had them. For anyone else following this thread, remember, a teenager of the 1950's would have been either born during or raised during World War II in the 1940's. Juvenile delinquents were not goofy pranksters like what we saw in "Grease." They were marginalized inner city yourh whose home lives were disrupted because their fathers often had undiagnosed PTSD following the end of World War II the previous decade. Those are just uncomfortable facts.
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Remember them so well!!!!
Bobby Rydell! Weren't you lucky.