I was 15 and watched the show and listened to the music on my radio as much as I could. I even got in trouble for listening to my transistor radio on an earphone at school. It was a great time to be young.
Also of interest here, was Carolyne Barry (1943-2015), who was the Shindig girl with the dark rimmed glasses, who was also an actress who made her mark on numerous guest star roles-also billed as Carole Shelyne, who guest-starred on NBC's "STAR TREK" as "The Metron" being in "Arena" (Jannuary 19, 1967), and an episode of NBC's "THE MAN FROM UNCLE" ("The Cap and Gown Affair", April 14, 1967) also billed as Carole Shelyne. Carolyne Barry acted until 2013 before she passed away on June 16, 2015. she had a total of 22 acting credits to her career, but a popular Shindig girl dancer!
Rock, Soul, R&B, Folk, Country, Jazz, Funk, Psychedelic folk/rock - no colour bar, no prejudice, a 'do your thing' zone where everyone belonged. No other variety show was live, pure music, raw unfiltered production. Compare to Jambouree, Ed Sullivan, Smothers Brothers, American Bandstand, Where the Action Is, etc. etc. - no - Shindig! was the real thing. Even these old videos still communicate that positive energy and fresh vitality even now,
Be sure to listen to Donna Loren's acclaimed Podcast: "Love's a Secret Weapon". If you are curious about her early career or what she's doing now, tune in as she reads her memoir, chapter by chapter. With co-host Dr Adam Gerace and Special Guests. ruclips.net/p/PLiWNf08u_-XnvBLugNI1D-MEvuIDab9qk or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Terri Garr was one of the dancers and Glen Campbell,Leon Russel, and Billy Preston along with most of the wrecking crew in the house band,also Darleen Love and the Blossoms as back up singers.
@@marilynryan7822Hello?!!! Because it was filmed in California! (Editted as a post script: The biggest racial divide in our country today, is in rural America. You can debate who lit the match, but it was always there. The demographic is a big, red, republican, racist wasteland of white, "christian", neo-fascist, ignorance.)
I saw James Brown live in 1964. You knew then that you where watching something special. Something you’d never seen before and would probably never see again.
I was lucky enough to attend several tapings of Shindig, as I lived close to the studio in Silverlake and headed over there right after school let out. My God, the acts I got to see! I'll never forget Darlene Love or literally running into Lucille Ball who was there to see her son in Dino, Desi and Billy. Good times!
People watching today, who weren’t there, cannot possibly understand how together in the music scene all people were! We loved and embraced the black artists as white teens, same as we did any other band! The racism today is not on account of the white people of my generation, we loved everybody!🤷♂️
The 60s was the definite era for rock, pop, soul, country and all. There was so much creativity going on! And the best part was that we kids were exposed to all kinds on music and enjoyed it. Very much UNLIKE today.
When I went to Madera Elementary School wearing my white go go boots like the Shindig dancers, I was floating on a cloud of cool. It was a great TV show.
Geez Luise, this VHI retrospective was 33 years ago! My oldest was only 2, and my youngest was still 3yrs away from entering the world. How does time pass so quickly? I wasn't around yet for Shindig, but it looks incredible. I was a 70's kid & 80's teenager, the MTV generation. Just got married and started a family young.
@@misslora3896 Shindig was the first and only show like this in the world music of the teen generation.when they got James Burton to form the ShinDawgs it secured a world audience.
Wow, complex melodies that aren't simply pentatonic clones of every other song. Back before the industry shut down creativity & originality. RIP great music.
Glad I was so fortunate to have lived thru this era. Back when music was music and the talent was beyond definition. Singers that could actually sing and the bands sounded the same live as their records. With all due respect it is a pretty tough row to hoe for those that followed years later. Shindig was certainly a huge opportunity for many to advance their careers. Love it all.
WHO are the 79 people who gave this a thumbs down?! Donna, this brought back so many wonderful memories (including seeing our dear old friend, Dewey Martin, may he RIP) of a time that can never again be replicated. How extraordinary it had to have been to be such an integral part of something that prompted many of us who were NOT fortunate enough to live on the West Coast to start dreaming of "one day I'm going to..." I finally made that journey 10 years after Shindig went off the air, but have always remembered the sheer sense of awe I felt the first time that I saw the "Hollywood & Vine" street intersection signs. What joy this video evoked in me, personally, and I can't imagine how anyone watching it could fail to feel the same. Whether or not they personally ever "made that trip west." THANK YOU!
@@kentpearson4478 - Do they feel the same way about reading classic literature, since they weren't born yet when the authors walked the Earth? Nothing quite like life in historic deprivation, eh?
I was four years old and watched it religiously. I remember walking up and down the block singing these songs - Sherri, Big Girls Don't Cry, Hang on Sloopy, etc. My hair had never been cut, long blonde hair and in '67 I got a Beatle haircut😅 Everyone was stunned when I went to school. My teacher said, It looks very nice Lolololololll
They don't show The Righteous Brothers till the end credits, but they were a big part of Shindig. They had the house band, but also the house singers, The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Sherman, Donna Loren, and The Blossoms featuring Darlene Love to name a few. Watched this every week. Even in the Army overseas, AFN would show them on tv's on base.
I watched Shindig when I was 10-12 years old. The energy was intense and palpable. I was always riveted by it, so much so that my parents tried to restrict me from watching it. Funny thing though - they could never present a clear cut argument for why. I think the wildness scared them and they didn't want their kid to share in that. Fortunately, none of that stopped me from becoming a professional musician and bringing that wildness to life every time I performed. Now I'm 70 and I'm still doing it. Very grateful to Shindig for that inspiration.
The best thing about Shindig was getting to see so many of the British Invasion acts, also Motown and it gave 50's rockers a second chance to perform their hits from the 50's and early sixties. Live music, live rock and roll, R&B and pop what a wonderful era for music.
I fell in love with jackie de shannon,i tear up with her singing what the world needs now.first time i saw petula clark singing downtown with all the excitement and joy of our sixties.once in a life time.
I loved Shindig and American Bandstand! As a 10 year old in '65, I was mightily impressed about all of it. Why I didn't pursue a career in entertainment was a regret I look back upon. I ended up entertaining people all my life anyway! Thanks for the vid!
Shindig was one of the very few shows of that era where you get to actually hear the bands play live which was unheard of at that time very cool to see all that good old stuff again
I was 9 years old when "Shindig" premiered on ABC; absolutely the best. My favorite Shindig dancer was Carole Shelyne (later known as Carolyne Barry)--the blond with the black goggle glasses--RIP Carole.
My go go boots, mini skirt and turtleneck sweater days white blue eye shadow, thick black wing eyeliner, false eyelashes, white lipstick and a either a bee hive or a straight long do. Good days, great memories.
When I got the VHS tapes of "Shindig!" clips decades ago, Zsa Zsa Gabor singing (sort of) was a complete surprise that gave me repeated attacks of uncontrolled laughter. "Vere that vig-hat on my HEAD!" (9:49).
Shindig was nuclear! The quantity of talent on stage at any given moment was unquantifiable! I'll never forget when it hit TV. It was truly unlike any show of the time. The energy would arc right through the TV set and singe the furniture! I'm grateful for my life and cherish every day. However, if I had a time machine, I would go back to this time and be in the audience for every show! Thanks Donna! "Baby, you're the ginchiest"!
I can't understand why this show isn't remembered better, or referenced like the Ed Sullivan show still is. Shindig: Groundbreaking, loaded with talent, and just plain fun. Music for the last 40 years has been so corporately controlled. Back then, anyone could be a "one-hit-wonder" and end up on TV! Shindig is of that era--looser, with teenagers telling producers what they liked and wanted, instead of the other way around. There is a tremendous amount of magic in that. Shindig captured the magic of being young.
@@jeffclement2979 Originality and passion and integrity kept evolving for decades and we thought the bar had been set and it couldn't ever get worse. Boy were we wrong.
As the say, imitation is the finest form of flattery, but at least it was ABC-TV ripping off itself when they created SHEBANG which ran on the weekends, to the best of my recollection and SHIVAREE which was an ABC local show in Los Angeles and may nt be familiar to the world at-large.
Yes it is good music but let’s not forget our parents and grandparents said the same about our music, flush it down. Every generation will say the same thing.
Cudahy 1960 Anyone today compare to James Brown (he wasn’t actually a favorite of mine except for “Try Me” but he was very talented) and Jackie Wilson? Or Nat King Cole? Or The Beatles? Or Elvis? Or ...
Dick Clarks American Bandstand had nothing on Shindig! When I see these videos today, it makes me long for these good ole days! The youthful energy of this show could power a good size town! Wayyyy ahead of its time for sure!
@moon glow Absolutely! I used to watch this every time it was on. Shindig! focused on a broader variety of popular music than its predecessor and first aired for a half-hour every Wednesday evening, but was expanded to an hour in January 1965. In the fall of 1965, the show split into two half-hour telecasts, on Thursday and Saturday nights.
I may have seen the Aretha performance at that time. Love the part when Aretha hits that high note and Darlene Love says like, "sing that song girl"...lol
Even though it's been 50+ years, I still remember those Shindig dancers (which was, to be honest, the man reason most guys my age watched the show in the first place). Wow . . .
Shindig! was an American musical variety series aired on ABC from September 1964 to January 1966. PS - glad that some of these recordings survived. PS2 - glad to see Flo and Eddy!
This was terrific. I was a kid, Vietnam was unfolding all it's blood and rock seemed to be about hope and expression. Good to recall. Nice work, you guys. PS Never seen a hotter live show than Jerry Lee Lewis. Must've been electric in that studio
What a great program! It was pretty innovative in its day. Way too bad it was cancelled. For the first time since American Bandstand, the kids had their own show, full of energy and great music!
Can’t believe that we were treated to something this great for free! Who knew it wouldn’t last forever😢 There is no way something this great could be put together today
Funny, all the 60's artists looked old to me back in 1991.... now watching it they look so young....except for Howard Kalyan....he looked old at the beginning of the 70's, then never aged a day
I remember this show from my childhood. Nice mini-documentary but should have been longer. It seems like maybe they couldn't get the rights to show the Shindig performances by the Beatles or Stones, but those performances are available elsewhere on RUclips. Wow!... the very early (pre-Atlantic era) Aretha Franklin was great! And Jackie Wilson, Roy Head, James Brown etc...double wow! I wish they had shown a least a short clip of Howling Wolf; he did a killer performance on the show and it was very unusual for a real Chicago blues singer to be on national TV. One of the coolest thing about this show is how much was live and how little was lip-synced. I've spent the last hour or so watching various clips form the show and most of it was not lip synced. However one of the Beatles' performances seems to use a backing track but with live vocals.
I remember watching Shindig every Wednesday night and Saturday night in the mid sixties. Fab and gear show was Shindig a blast from the past. Thanks for sharing the video it brings back memories for me when i was a teenage girl in the mid sixties.
Oh, Mercy! There was an amazing AM radio station ( KILT ) out of Houston, TX. that simply played all this amazing music, its format was like that of Shindig, Aretha, then the stones, Little Richard, etc. And then the Beatle's new single would play and the world stopped for those few moments.
I miss these songs and the beautiful people that sang and performed on shindig. I feel so upset when I hear todays music, what a difference and innocence. Much more fun.
Always loved this show. Donna Loren& the Rightous Brothers befoe they were known. Sometimes i only wanted to see them, not those English groups. Late 50's & 60's. First time seeing Gene Pitney, my all time favorite even today.
The '50s were my childhood years with Elvis Presley and many others, but I remember them very well. The '60s were my teen years and a lot of girl groups came into play and then The Beatles and the British Invasion and too many groups to list. There were also Motown and many other American groups into my adult years. The '70s groups had even more rock and roll groups including Disco but not all were Disco but it dominated for a while.The'80s brought MTV and although there were some good songs, there just weren't as many. I had to listen to oldies stations to listen to the music I grew up on. VH1 was similar. Things had changed and not for the better. The '90s until today just didn't have it except listening to the oldies. Now there is You Tube and I take advantage of it. I was in my senior year in high school when Shindig came on television, then Hullabaloo. I was born at just the right time.
My background & musical experiences are similar to your own. The only difference is that the British group Keane, who emerged in 2004, really took me by surprise (I'd given up finding anything new I could relate to by then). Their first 4 albums prove, to me, at least, they're as important & relevant to their era as the Beatles to the 60's. Shindig was never broadcast here in UK, but watching it now, it's fantastic!
@@mikephalen3162 Not phony .. just natural youthful enthusiasm and exuberance for stellar , genuine talent ... Talent that is very rare today ..👍👍💪 ⭐🎵🎶...😃🙂😎☕☕. ☮️. ☯️🍀🌴
I'm very agree with Sabrina Wilson when she said, those days the performers put feeling in their songs that's why people loved and still love those songs the prof is that today they are considered classics
I saw him play live when he was about 40 (just before his health crisis) - and he was the best dancing singer I ever saw. He still had moves Mick Jagger only ever dreamed about!
The Shindig Show. Never forget the time it came to Salt Lake City and the no longer in existence, Terrace Ballroom. This fast-paced show shuttled performers from the hotel to the Terrace all evening. After that show, Larry Henley of the Newbeats introduced me to a lovely, blonde-haired young y, Sue Thompson. A friendship that has continued for 55 yrs. What a show it was. So many performers, dancers, props, how did they ever make it all happen and keep it affordable?
Who all listened to this in 1964 and still listening once again in 2024?
I did and I had my transistor radio to my ear when I wasn’t in school. 93 KHJ Boss radio Los Angeles…
Me. I was in third then fourth grade at this time. Still love all the music and I knew who the artists were. The dancing the fun and exciting.
@@otaku1524 me always
I was 15 and watched the show and listened to the music on my radio as much as I could. I even got in trouble for listening to my transistor radio on an earphone at school. It was a great time to be young.
I was 8 then, 68 now😮
Also of interest here, was Carolyne Barry (1943-2015), who was the Shindig girl with the dark rimmed glasses, who was also an actress who made her mark on numerous guest star roles-also billed as Carole Shelyne, who guest-starred on NBC's "STAR TREK" as "The Metron" being in "Arena" (Jannuary 19, 1967), and an episode of NBC's "THE MAN FROM UNCLE" ("The Cap and Gown Affair", April 14, 1967) also billed as Carole Shelyne. Carolyne Barry acted until 2013 before she passed away on June 16, 2015. she had a total of 22 acting credits to her career, but a popular Shindig girl dancer!
1962, '63, '64, and '65. I was 12, 13, 14, and 15 years old. This was the scene back in the day...
What a great time to be a teen-ager!
My mom was a teen in those years. She brought the music forward with her! Had me in 65 @19! I remember Christmas of 1965, 8 months old 😎
Me also. Lucky us
We're the same age. remember Halobaloo?
Rock, Soul, R&B, Folk, Country, Jazz, Funk, Psychedelic folk/rock - no colour bar, no prejudice,
a 'do your thing' zone where everyone belonged. No other variety show was live, pure music, raw unfiltered production. Compare to Jambouree, Ed Sullivan, Smothers Brothers, American Bandstand, Where the Action Is, etc. etc. - no - Shindig! was the real thing. Even these old videos still communicate that positive energy and fresh vitality
even now,
Be sure to listen to Donna Loren's acclaimed Podcast: "Love's a Secret Weapon". If you are curious about her early career or what she's doing now, tune in as she reads her memoir, chapter by chapter. With co-host Dr Adam Gerace and Special Guests. ruclips.net/p/PLiWNf08u_-XnvBLugNI1D-MEvuIDab9qk or wherever you listen to podcasts.
I will never forget Shindig! (67yrs. old in 02/2020)
So was I
Terri Garr was one of the dancers and Glen Campbell,Leon Russel, and Billy Preston along with most of the wrecking crew in the house band,also Darleen Love and the Blossoms as back up singers.
Wasn't Toni Basil a dancer on there too ?
@@harvey1954 Yes, she was.
James Burton lead guitar
@@BernardBouchard-qq9kqJames Burton played with all the top artists. For example, Elvis Presley. Also, Ricky Nelson.
@@harvey1954 Toni Basil has a dance room in her home, still rocking out today.
What should be noted is that all music no matter race or gender was loved and accepted equally!! I remember, I was there!!!!❤️
One of the reasons it didn't last long in Jim crow middle america.
@waynerog… Not true American Bandstand showcased Black entertainment back then.
@@marilynryan7822Hello?!!! Because it was filmed in California! (Editted as a post script: The biggest racial divide in our country today, is in rural America. You can debate who lit the match, but it was always there. The demographic is a big, red, republican, racist wasteland of white, "christian", neo-fascist, ignorance.)
Me to
well sed!!
I got white gogo boots because of shindig. I loved that show! Thanks for the memories.
Gretchen coming back in style
Robert DeSantis to bad I don’t have them anymore. 😃
Gretchen were they short ones or the knee high ones?
Robert DeSantis knee high of course😃
Gretchen zipper or pull on?
Back when music actually HAD a melody. And real instruments. And the singers could really sing. I wish I had grown up back then!
Was Darlene Love one of the full time singers on that show?
Yes you're right,singers had real voices,talent and could carry a tune.
I saw James Brown live in 1964. You knew then that you where watching something special. Something you’d never seen before and would probably never see again.
I was lucky enough to attend several tapings of Shindig, as I lived close to the studio in Silverlake and headed over there right after school let out. My God, the acts I got to see! I'll never forget Darlene Love or literally running into Lucille Ball who was there to see her son in Dino, Desi and Billy. Good times!
Shindig paved the way for music videos/MTV.
What a time to be alive 😉🥰
Good time to be alive if you were white middle class.
People watching today, who weren’t there, cannot possibly understand how together in the music scene all people were! We loved and embraced the black artists as white teens, same as we did any other band! The racism today is not on account of the white people of my generation, we loved everybody!🤷♂️
Racism today is on account of the Democrats and race hustlers.
Racist today is a tool used by the socialist democratic party
There is no systemic racism today. It's an ideology fabricated by the MSM and political Leftists. Get real.
This show was just SO fantastic! And the music was just SO much better than the music of today is!
You said it!
The 60s was the definite era for rock, pop, soul, country and all. There was so much creativity going on! And the best part was that we kids were exposed to all kinds on music and enjoyed it. Very much UNLIKE today.
What a time and a time it was!! My young friends and I would rush home to watch Shingdig!
I'm a Brit, but my all-time favourite music TV show is 'Shindig!'!!!
When I went to Madera Elementary School wearing my white go go boots like the Shindig dancers, I was floating on a cloud of cool. It was a great TV show.
My classmate Deanne wore knee socks pulled up higher than her go-go boots, and got teased for it. “Bullied” probably is a better word.
@@LeslieGMN Will Randy Rainbow help us keep our sanity ?!%!
@@tracymears8230 I hope so.
Shindig was a VERY important show. Right place, right time.
Geez Luise, this VHI retrospective was 33 years ago! My oldest was only 2, and my youngest was still 3yrs away from entering the world. How does time pass so quickly? I wasn't around yet for Shindig, but it looks incredible. I was a 70's kid & 80's teenager, the MTV generation. Just got married and started a family young.
@@misslora3896 Shindig was the first and only show like this in the world music of the teen generation.when they got James Burton to form the ShinDawgs it secured a world audience.
Wow, complex melodies that aren't simply pentatonic clones of every other song. Back before the industry shut down creativity & originality. RIP great music.
Glad I was so fortunate to have lived thru this era. Back when music was music and the talent was beyond definition. Singers that could actually sing and the bands sounded the same live as their records. With all due respect it is a pretty tough row to hoe for those that followed years later. Shindig was certainly a huge opportunity for many to advance their careers. Love it all.
That was talent!! Raw.... I'm honored to have been a part of that era...
WHO are the 79 people who gave this a thumbs down?! Donna, this brought back so many wonderful memories (including seeing our dear old friend, Dewey Martin, may he RIP) of a time that can never again be replicated. How extraordinary it had to have been to be such an integral part of something that prompted many of us who were NOT fortunate enough to live on the West Coast to start dreaming of "one day I'm going to..." I finally made that journey 10 years after Shindig went off the air, but have always remembered the sheer sense of awe I felt the first time that I saw the "Hollywood & Vine" street intersection signs. What joy this video evoked in me, personally, and I can't imagine how anyone watching it could fail to feel the same. Whether or not they personally ever "made that trip west." THANK YOU!
People who weren't even born yet.
@@kentpearson4478 - Do they feel the same way about reading classic literature, since they weren't born yet when the authors walked the Earth? Nothing quite like life in historic deprivation, eh?
79 idiotsno doubt
Listening to the Queen of Soul do‘It’s in his kiss’, gave me the goosebumps
Lots of young people are resentful of what we had growing up.
My God, some of this footage is just incredible. Aretha at the very beginning---already a phenomenon.
I was four years old and watched it religiously. I remember walking up and down the block singing these songs - Sherri, Big Girls Don't Cry, Hang on Sloopy, etc. My hair had never been cut, long blonde hair and in '67 I got a Beatle haircut😅
Everyone was stunned when I went to school. My teacher said, It looks very nice Lolololololll
I’ll bet you looked a dream
They don't show The Righteous Brothers till the end credits, but they were a big part of Shindig. They had the house band, but also the house singers, The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Sherman, Donna Loren, and The Blossoms featuring Darlene Love to name a few. Watched this every week. Even in the Army overseas, AFN would show them on tv's on base.
Huge. Those dancers in the background. And everyone is dressed tasteful and stylish... amazing.
Wasn't considered tasteful back then. The hair and mod outfits were horrifying to adults.
Yea, not like the hors of today! No fat peirced tatood ugly broads showing their fat asses and saggy tits
I watched Shindig when I was 10-12 years old. The energy was intense and palpable. I was always riveted by it, so much so that my parents tried to restrict me from watching it. Funny thing though - they could never present a clear cut argument for why. I think the wildness scared them and they didn't want their kid to share in that. Fortunately, none of that stopped me from becoming a professional musician and bringing that wildness to life every time I performed. Now I'm 70 and I'm still doing it. Very grateful to Shindig for that inspiration.
The best thing about Shindig was getting to see so many of the British Invasion acts, also Motown and it gave 50's rockers a second chance to perform their hits from the 50's and early sixties. Live music, live rock and roll, R&B and pop what a wonderful era for music.
Well said!
I remember watching this show as a preteen. The music and innovative energy back then was incredibly upbeat and fun.
I fell in love with jackie de shannon,i tear up with her singing what the world needs now.first time i saw petula clark singing downtown with all the excitement and joy of our sixties.once in a life time.
Music and lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Wow, that was the station I listen too. KFWB ,KRLA, KHJ93,KGFJ Los Angeles back in the 60" Shindig. Dec 2019
KFWB and KRLA ....and don't forget 93KHJ.....all AM radio and all great.
My sons couldn’t believe that without a record player, all music came from 93 KHJ, Boss Radio.
Shindig was what I live for back then.James Brown was king! and you had a chance to see all the British bands.
After watching this "Shindig" belongs in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Period. Thanks.
put Jimmy O Neils can of BOSS HAIRSPRAY in
6:07
Hullabaloo too!
@@sandrasanders706 "Where The Action Is!"
@@argusfleibeit1165 No, not Sonny and Cher and Steve Alaimo.
I watched Shindig all the time but also remember Donna Loren from Dick Clark's Where The Action Is. She was the best! ❤
I loved Shindig and American Bandstand! As a 10 year old in '65, I was mightily impressed about all of it. Why I didn't pursue a career in entertainment was a regret I look back upon. I ended up entertaining people all my life anyway! Thanks for the vid!
A Simpler time - I love being Boomer - Brought tears to me watching - Happy memories -
Hurray for Motown, great groups with a fabulous sound along with many other fine groups of the time, lived it and loved it. simpler times
Shindig was one of the very few shows of that era where you get to actually hear the bands play live which was unheard of at that time very cool to see all that good old stuff again
Amazingly, "Shindig" lasted only sixteen months (September, 1964-January, 1966), but made a major impact on music, television, and popular culture.
That explains why I missed it. I was six.
I tried to comb my hair like Jimmy O Neil with BOSS HAIRSPRAY 6:01
@@libertyann439 < was 10 !
Amazing! Billy Preston, in that last frame, looked 20 years more mature than in the one with him backing Jackie Wilson!
@@sgraham1hotmailcom he was a teenager
damn this brings back soooooo many good memories of my childhood! amazing to see this again.
I was 9 years old when "Shindig" premiered on ABC; absolutely the best. My favorite Shindig dancer was Carole Shelyne (later known as Carolyne Barry)--the blond with the black goggle glasses--RIP Carole.
A doll
Love this , just old enough to remember this era, what music , what talent !
My go go boots, mini skirt and turtleneck sweater days white blue eye shadow, thick black wing eyeliner, false eyelashes, white lipstick and a either a bee hive or a straight long do. Good days, great memories.
When I got the VHS tapes of "Shindig!" clips decades ago, Zsa Zsa Gabor singing (sort of) was a complete surprise that gave me repeated attacks of uncontrolled laughter. "Vere that vig-hat on my HEAD!" (9:49).
Zsa zsa must be as bad a singer as Melania Trump
Lol, no Zsa Zsa, no!
Meanwhile the backup singers are egging her on: “Come on now, Zsa Zsa! Hey, hey, Zsa Zsa!”
Shindig was nuclear! The quantity of talent on stage at any given moment was unquantifiable! I'll never forget when it hit TV. It was truly unlike any show of the time. The energy would arc right through the TV set and singe the furniture! I'm grateful for my life and cherish every day. However, if I had a time machine, I would go back to this time and be in the audience for every show! Thanks Donna! "Baby, you're the ginchiest"!
I can't understand why this show isn't remembered better, or referenced like the Ed Sullivan show still is. Shindig: Groundbreaking, loaded with talent, and just plain fun. Music for the last 40 years has been so corporately controlled. Back then, anyone could be a "one-hit-wonder" and end up on TV! Shindig is of that era--looser, with teenagers telling producers what they liked and wanted, instead of the other way around. There is a tremendous amount of magic in that. Shindig captured the magic of being young.
And we pretty much took it for granted then...it wouldn't be that.good ever again
@@jeffclement2979 Originality and passion and integrity kept evolving for decades and we thought the bar had been set and it couldn't ever get worse. Boy were we wrong.
As the say, imitation is the finest form of flattery, but at least it was ABC-TV ripping off itself when they created SHEBANG which ran on the weekends, to the best of my recollection and SHIVAREE which was an ABC local show in Los Angeles and may nt be familiar to the world at-large.
What a great video. Best music ever. You can take today's music and flush it down the toilet. There'l never be music like that again.
not until somebody begins to work at it
Yes it is good music but let’s not forget our parents and grandparents said the same about our music, flush it down. Every generation will say the same thing.
Cudahy 1960 I know. It’s true. I think late 50s and early 60s was the best and today’s doesn’t compare. What if I’m right? Lol
Cudahy 1960 Anyone today compare to James Brown (he wasn’t actually a favorite of mine except for “Try Me” but he was very talented) and Jackie Wilson? Or Nat King Cole? Or The Beatles? Or Elvis? Or ...
Grandpa?!
This is unbelievable that they are all playing live, no taped anything. Just great.
Shindig was a really cool show. I remember being turned onto Peter and Gordon. Chad and Jeremy and I think Paul Revere the raiders too
That was the show of shows of the time. It was hotter than a $2 pistol. We never missed it. I miss it now
Dick Clarks American Bandstand had nothing on Shindig! When I see these videos today, it makes me long for these good ole days! The youthful energy of this show could power a good size town! Wayyyy ahead of its time for sure!
Except that "Shindig" lasted only a season or two, and "Bandstand" went on for 30+ years.
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@moon glow Absolutely! I used to watch this every time it was on.
Shindig! focused on a broader variety of popular music than its predecessor and first aired for a half-hour every Wednesday evening, but was expanded to an hour in January 1965. In the fall of 1965, the show split into two half-hour telecasts, on Thursday and Saturday nights.
@@myk602010 You have a great memory‼️ Thanks for the info! Glad to know you are still listening🎼🎶🎵🎸🎤
@@moonglow1311 I must admit Google is my friend. But I love to Enlighten people when I feel that some facts may be lacking.
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I may have seen the Aretha performance at that time. Love the part when Aretha hits that high note and Darlene Love says like, "sing that song girl"...lol
This ‘lil documentary needs to be three times longer. Loved it now, and then as a tiny kid, dancing in my go-go boots!
Same here..lol..my mind goes back to the dances back then..still do most of them..
Even though it's been 50+ years, I still remember those Shindig dancers (which was, to be honest, the man reason most guys my age watched the show in the first place). Wow . . .
Shindig! was an American musical variety series aired on ABC from September 1964 to January 1966.
PS - glad that some of these recordings survived.
PS2 - glad to see Flo and Eddy!
It was a great time to be growing up. Thanks!
Darlene Love is a backup singer for Aretha unbelievable!
This was terrific. I was a kid, Vietnam was unfolding all it's blood and rock seemed to be about hope and expression. Good to recall. Nice work, you guys.
PS Never seen a hotter live show than Jerry Lee Lewis. Must've been electric in that studio
Live performances! The Supremes, Darlene Love, Lesley Gore ... Amazing!
It was an awesome time to grow up with for sure
What a great program! It was pretty innovative in its day. Way too bad it was cancelled. For the first time since American Bandstand, the kids had their own show, full of energy and great music!
Can’t believe that we were treated to something this great for free! Who knew it wouldn’t last forever😢 There is no way something this great could be put together today
A great show. Lesley Gore brightened up every show she was on.
Give a listen to Lesley's "You Don't Own Me". More serious than her other "girly" songs. A real anthem of female empowerment.
nothing against her, but following Aretha in this video was not optimal. Aretha was mind-blowing.
16:06 Bobby Sherman is 81 now, 2024. All the best, sir!
I looked forward to “Shindig” and “Hullabaloo” each and every week.
Jack Good was my dad. Thanks for this. :) I had a dream this morning that I should watch this. Happy Father's Day to all (coming up).
Jack Good was an outstanding producer who knew exactly how to stage a rock show. He brought a wonderful, dynamic energy to Shindig !
@@quiltinspiration650 Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed his shows!
I wish we had music and shows like this now. I remember Hala Baloo, POP Dance Party and several others.
Hullabaloo
Funny, all the 60's artists looked old to me back in 1991.... now watching it they look so young....except for Howard Kalyan....he looked old at the beginning of the 70's, then never aged a day
The choreography for this show was great!
I remember this show from my childhood. Nice mini-documentary but should have been longer. It seems like maybe they couldn't get the rights to show the Shindig performances by the Beatles or Stones, but those performances are available elsewhere on RUclips. Wow!... the very early (pre-Atlantic era) Aretha Franklin was great! And Jackie Wilson, Roy Head, James Brown etc...double wow! I wish they had shown a least a short clip of Howling Wolf; he did a killer performance on the show and it was very unusual for a real Chicago blues singer to be on national TV. One of the coolest thing about this show is how much was live and how little was lip-synced. I've spent the last hour or so watching various clips form the show and most of it was not lip synced. However one of the Beatles' performances seems to use a backing track but with live vocals.
How exciting was the music of those times? I left a circus early to get home in time to see the Yardbirds on Shindig.
I love the history of music in this country!
What happened to us?
Liberals.
If the energy from these shows could be captured it could light up Las Vegas..
,,,,Yep.
I remember watching Shindig every Wednesday night and Saturday night in the mid sixties. Fab and gear show was Shindig a blast from the past. Thanks for sharing the video it brings back memories for me when i was a teenage girl in the mid sixties.
Oh, Mercy! There was an amazing AM radio station ( KILT ) out of Houston, TX. that simply played all this amazing music, its format was like that of Shindig, Aretha, then the stones, Little Richard, etc. And then the Beatle's new single would play and the world stopped for those few moments.
I used to watch this show religiously. Had the best bands.
I miss these songs and the beautiful people that sang and performed on shindig. I feel so upset when I hear todays music, what a difference and innocence. Much more fun.
RIP Lesley. Shindig was THE BEST!!
Always loved this show. Donna Loren& the Rightous Brothers befoe they were known. Sometimes i only wanted to see them, not those English groups. Late 50's & 60's. First time seeing Gene Pitney, my all time favorite even today.
Wonderful presentation, "Real People, Playing Real Instruments". I remember this show.
I grew up during a great time for music!
Those vocals on Aretha! Wow!!
,,,Yep.
When MUSIC was MUSIC............So, happy to have enjoyed my youth MUSIC.......Im on my way out...So, good luck!!
RIP
The '50s were my childhood years with Elvis Presley and many others, but I remember them very well. The '60s were my teen years and a lot of girl groups came into play and then The Beatles and the British Invasion and too many groups to list. There were also Motown and many other American groups into my adult years. The '70s groups had even more rock and roll groups including Disco but not all were Disco but it dominated for a while.The'80s brought MTV and although there were some good songs, there just weren't as many. I had to listen to oldies stations to listen to the music I grew up on. VH1 was similar. Things had changed and not for the better. The '90s until today just didn't have it except listening to the oldies. Now there is You Tube and I take advantage of it. I was in my senior year in high school when Shindig came on television, then Hullabaloo. I was born at just the right time.
My background & musical experiences are similar to your own. The only difference is that the British group Keane, who emerged in 2004, really took me by surprise (I'd given up finding anything new I could relate to by then). Their first 4 albums prove, to me, at least, they're as important & relevant to their era as the Beatles to the 60's. Shindig was never broadcast here in UK, but watching it now, it's fantastic!
Lovely commentary… thank you, ‘
Ma’am!
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I just turned 64. My parents were 40s -50s kids. We always had a large table top radio.WRKO 68 am Boston Ma.
This so great. The kids are dressed nice and just enjoying the music... this would never happen today.
Yeah, let's have obedient little robots giving faux screams.
@@mikephalen3162 Not phony .. just natural youthful enthusiasm and exuberance for stellar , genuine talent ... Talent that is very rare today ..👍👍💪 ⭐🎵🎶...😃🙂😎☕☕. ☮️. ☯️🍀🌴
@@mikephalen3162 There was nothing "Faux' about it. Just lotsa fun!
Thank you so much! this is amazing Nostalgia with great childhood memories and real music with real talent! what a gem! many thanks!!!❤❤❤❤❤
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS THE LOVE WE HAD IN THE 60S.
It wasn't all love.
I'm very agree with Sabrina Wilson when she said, those days the performers put feeling in their songs that's why people loved and still love those songs the prof is that today they are considered classics
Those WERE the days. Wow just wow ... Brings back so many great memories. White go go boots. My era ... Good times.
Truly the wonderful years.
My favorite television show of all time!!
Jackie Wilson was something special
I saw him play live when he was about 40 (just before his health crisis) - and he was the best dancing singer I ever saw. He still had moves Mick Jagger only ever dreamed about!
Energy level is so frenetic! It's really fascinating. Beautiful!
Donna you are a Goddess, and I love being alive at the same time as you. Thank you so much for this, it's a record of our real history.
My gosh, this is terrific! Huge crush on Donna Loren! Aretha was fabulous! Roy Head, too cool! Loved hearing from the dancers!
Wow, this brought back memories and made me remember another similar show too called Hullabaloo!
My dad hated them both!!!😂😂😂
The Shindig Show. Never forget the time it came to Salt Lake City and the no longer in existence, Terrace Ballroom. This fast-paced show shuttled performers from the hotel to the Terrace all evening. After that show, Larry Henley of the Newbeats introduced me to a lovely, blonde-haired young y, Sue Thompson. A friendship that has continued for 55 yrs. What a show it was. So many performers, dancers, props, how did they ever make it all happen and keep it affordable?