I'm right there with you, born in '53 myself. I'd give anything to relive the 60s and 70s. Growing up in San Diego County, I took it all for granted. 😢
I grew up in 50's and 60's. I loved to dance. Electro swing incorporates bits and pieces of dances from the Charleston to 70's. Forgot the names,recognize the steps.thanks for the memories,keep them coming.
This is a modern re-creation of what an actual 1960s low-budget local TV dance show might’ve looked like. When this song was originally popular, though, such a program wouldn’t have been in color yet.
@winterdesert1 Well times change but yes I get your point . I am a Boomer in my 60s and in You Tube era and I find mysel even going retro before I was born .
Um.....they're all modern people😅(millennials.....) sweater boy.....surly has some surprises..... so chill on the nostalgia....the worst actions of that time (50's) 60's still resonate to this day......( during those times.....not everyone was happy....and you know that.....)
@@andreathomas2099 Who you are talking too ? I go retro before I was born to check out music and movies that I never experienced before but yes people do romanticize .
My friend and I did this show over the summer about 3 years ago. The tv station we volunteered at has had the same equipment since the 1980's. it's all analog technology.
If anyone cares, this song is performed by the Orlons. Just think these kids probably have had a bunch of kids and those kids have kids, and now we're getting ready to leave the world so more kids can be born.
The guy in the front to the left, the real queeny dancing one...he's not too bad but the others...oh my..they need to watch a few more videos from the time of this dance..too funny!! Better yet, wacth the original Hairspray 1988...that will help them a lot!! Now go and shake a tail feather before they integrate Tilted Acres!!! haha
For a better signal and for the radio to play louder, I would go on the front porch and held the radio up in front of the meter box for as long as I wanted to listen to the radio. Those were the good ole days.
I enjoyed this so much! I was a guest on one of these "Low Budget Late Shows"! I also entered & won quite a few "dance-offs" & "marathon dances" that were held at local "matinees" or indoor movie theaters that had stages back "in the day" (60's). There were also "rec [recreation center]" dances every weekend during the Summer, along w/ Drive-In movies. I can remember going to my first Beatles movie (A Hard Days Night) in the mid-60s. The girls in the audience were screaming so loud during the whole movie & we weren't able to hear anything! I first got a whiff of marijuana at a Beach Boys Concert in I think it was Santa Monica, CA, but I was pretty young when I went w/ a friend & her family, so I mainly remember the atmosphere, the crowd singing & dancing w/ the band, & all the refreshments we got! That's when I bought my first album. Boy did we have some clean fun back then! I don't know if teenagers today know what that's like.....actually interacting w/ others & engaging them in practical jokes, dances, or in playing street games like 4-square, kick ball, baseball, touch football, hide-n-seek, etc. until late into the night. The whole neighborhood would be involved, including parents cooking on the "Bar-B" (barbecue pits). In those days, many of us kept our doors unlocked or kept them opened, w/ only the screen door (yes, we had those) locked, during the Spring & Summer months. We never had to worry about burglars. We barely had 2 cents to rub together, but I wouldn't trade those memories for anything (except maybe Heaven).
I was born in 1962, had one of the first cell phones in the SF Bay Area, & now I see 👶🏼 newborns addicted to screens & parents happy to distract & morphine-drip screen time into every area. I got rid of tv in 1984- felt brainwashed! So, yeah. Real human interactions, play, good & bad, sometimes wonderful or horrible- but it was REAL! Tastes, smells, touches, sights, sounds of real people, in real places, doing human interactions. Video “Seeing” and “hearing” through an artificial screen & speaker are a new type of human “real” that we don’t yet know how it’ll impact us. But, the skyrocketing rates of social anxiety and autism kinda make one wonder… More violent crimes than in thirty years, likely due in part to desensitization from mass exposure and violent video games. Meanwhile, the trophies for “Best” killer of zombies cannot even run, jump, fight in real space and time, nor carry ANY of the “equipment” they get in the games… Fantasy No wonder this generation wants to grow up and be a unicorn… Ain’t no damned unicorns in the real world… Which it seems by merely saying so, one is “cancelled” by invisible people who probably bubble-wrap their 2.5 kids.
I frankly had not seen this sort of dance since I was a teenager over fifty years ago. It is nice to watch and to remember so many things and to realize without thinking I dance a mix of rock, watusi twist and frugg whenever I go to parties.
The first time that I heard this song, I was listening with a 9 transistor AM radio that was powered by a little 9 Volt battery. Reception was better if I stood near a fence, which I did for hours on end.
I was just looking up which one mine was. It was red and perhaps merely Panasonic but the Eveready with the cat running through the 9.... that burns bright.
Most of them now don't have any decent voices for singing, just yelling or as in rap speaking the words to a beat which anyone can do. They didn't need to use obscenities either in lyrics to sell their music back then.
Okay, you guys had me fooled! I thought I was watching a program from the early to mid-'60s! I was looking at the girls thinking my gosh they are grannies now... only to find out it was filmed in 2014! Ya gots to love them! We need more of this kinda stuff 🤗
OMG you kids are awesome it looks like an early broadcast from American bandstand complete with skinny ties retro dresses and ponytails. Love the camera in the way and the commentators talkin and suddenly realizing there on the air great take off on early television awesome dancing keep it up guys what a pleasure to watch 😁😁😁👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
was 10 years old when i first listen to this popular song and now 67 ...and I am so glad see these kids whose parents were not even born when this song was a hit .......good on them . fantastic !!
I lived in Salem, OR from 1964 until graduating HS in 1969. Part of our PE curriculum from at least the 6th grade on required us to have 9 weeks of dancing. I can't remember what year/grade I was in but I do remember learning this dance. Great memories and music.
Find a stream of a movie called Strictly Dancing. Perfect for a mom and daughter who are obsessive about dancing. A little bit campy and lots of lines you can speak out while watching. Masterpiece. One of Baz Lehrmans bests.
Released by The Orlons in May 1962. Got to #2 on the U.S. charts...and #5 on the R&B charts. Sold over 1,000,000 copies and started the "Watusi" dance craze....
@@dickiegreenleaf750Esa chica de verde es el alma del baile. Y sí, por ella el video se parecía a los 60. No había mucha gente de color bailando en la TV de aquellos años ¿acaso vives en una burbuja o quieres cambiar la historia?
OMG, I was in 10th grade when this song came out. I remember two girls teaching me how to do this dance. I also think I dressed like the guys in this clip (back in the days before males torture themselves getting in and out of "skinny jeans" just for fashion). Love this group...such memories.
It's easy to imagine the producer and director discussing their casting choices from this group, "Ok boys and girls you were all excellent, thank you very much. Could the brunette in the green & black dress wait just a minute please. Thank you again everyone."
Born in ‘53 the 60’s and 70’s were a blast. I would relive them again. Less BS back then.
I'm right there with you, born in '53 myself. I'd give anything to relive the 60s and 70s. Growing up in San Diego County, I took it all for granted. 😢
I grew up in 50's and 60's. I loved to dance. Electro swing incorporates bits and pieces of dances from the Charleston to 70's. Forgot the names,recognize the steps.thanks for the memories,keep them coming.
Treasure! Treasure, treasure, treasure, James Copeland. You've set it to history, maybe history will bring back this great spirit.
They are so cute. Having so much pure fun dancing all together. Love this so much. ❤
Me too!!!
I don't know why, but everytime I see this video I have to smile 😊
I love it 👍
I suspect you are in good company.
Pure unadulterated innocence. So refreshing.
It`s just nice to see people dancing and enjoying themselves.
What a strange comment
@@seronymus And what is 'strange' about seeing people enjoying themselves?
@@makaha5750 😂.. Exactly , thar was big fun 👍
Enjoying their youth...
Love the innocence ❤❤❤❤
I just love these kids they're great
We need more low budget late show now in2020
OMG!! im out of Ipana!!! son?? Up.. There!?!?! You'll find a place called a "Liquor Store!!!"
Agreed. This is so fun. And I love the songs they choose. Ellington! The Orlons! The Marvelettes!
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"What is love, 5 feet of heaven and a ponytail" - The Playmates.
the queen on the back row right is feeling her groove.
I love this kind of music and now I love the dance that goes with it ;-)
Greatings from Sweden.
Belated greetings from the U.S.A.
I like the low budget late show.
The girl in the black and yellow belt
Best one lots of rhythm....beautiful all of them
This is a modern re-creation of what an actual 1960s low-budget local TV dance show might’ve looked like. When this song was originally popular, though, such a program wouldn’t have been in color yet.
They had moves that were nonexistent in the sixties, which clued me in to a recreation. Fun to watch since it did capture the spirit of the times.
They should have taped it in B&W to really fool people.
I LOVE THIS SONG THIS BRING BACK ALOT OF MEMORIES THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
Hey.. maybe low budget.. but it's first class fun ! Keep 'em coming !
American band stand started just as low budget.
Capt Larry Got me wanting more! Those kids were having a lot of fun, I could tell. Bet they would have choreographed a good "Stroll".
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You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe ! Luv your comment !
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@@barbarapendergraft7735 I love you
Nice to see a real life Corny Collins Show. Love it, best find on You Tube for a long time.
This is the greatest video ever!
Too, too, cute!
Annette Funicello had a hit with this too. Also on RUclips!
You can't beat the times of your youth.
so clean and wholesome
The girl in the green dress knows her stuff enjoyable to see good dancing
What FUN without drinking ,sex, drugs -bring it back !
I like it
They're just too cute.
SO INNOCENT AND BEAUTIFUL DANCING IN UNISON. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. ON A FUUNY NOTE I TRIED IT BUT COUILD NT DO IT 🤣😂
LOL So many memories
Okay why is this video quality so..good? Were talkiin what 1964? Low budget late show?hell they had. Better cameras than carson dif
Ponytail girl with braces for the win! 💃🏻
The girl on the far right in the black and white is the best dancer. She should've been in the middle! Plus, she looks so darn happy! Makes me smile.
The kid with the glasses is really good.
Love his side moves!
Loves the boy with the glasses… I wonder whatever happened to him! A perfect dancer next to the cute chick in the green dress
I agree we need more fun like this. Do you see how happy they are? Do you think they went out and killed someone when they were done?
How many of the dancers can still do the dance today?
Momentos de descubrimientos!para bailar pensar positivo!!!
Where are these people now?
Gosh look at that. No tattoos or cell phones, and everyone seems so happy.
@winterdesert1 Well times change but yes I get your point . I am a Boomer in my 60s and in You Tube era and I find mysel even going retro before I was born .
Um.....they're all modern people😅(millennials.....)
sweater boy.....surly has some surprises..... so chill on the nostalgia....the worst actions of that time (50's) 60's still resonate to this day......( during those times.....not everyone was happy....and you know that.....)
@@andreathomas2099 Who you are talking too ? I go retro before I was born to check out music and movies that I never experienced before but yes people do romanticize .
What do tattoos have to do with anything lmao tattoos have been around for thousands for years.
And they were so clean. The Hair was styled.
Would they consider doing the Batusi?
Does anyone know what year this program was on TV. Really love this, from Terry from across the pond
My friend and I did this show over the summer about 3 years ago. The tv station we volunteered at has had the same equipment since the 1980's. it's all analog technology.
Oh no wonder it looks like something from 30 years ago. I was not buying the "2014" claim!
If anyone cares, this song is performed by the Orlons.
Just think these kids probably have had a bunch of kids and those kids have kids, and now we're getting ready to leave the world so more kids can be born.
Best low impact cardio
The guy in the front to the left, the real queeny dancing one...he's not too bad but the others...oh my..they need to watch a few more videos from the time of this dance..too funny!! Better yet, wacth the original Hairspray 1988...that will help them a lot!! Now go and shake a tail feather before they integrate Tilted Acres!!! haha
Adorable ❤️
I love Americana.
No ugly tattoos or piercings on these pretty women.
thanks
The funny thing is that they never did the actual “Watusi.”
nope they didn't did they?
Gawd they're cute. I was about 5yo then. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This song has the same beat and rhythm as the Monster Mash by Bobby Picket.
Watusi!
Can I ask..where are they now ????
Where are they now?
I want Caroline to dance on my back.
The actual Watusi is not a line dance but aside from that these kids were good.
I can watch this again and again and still want to watch it....again.
ME TOO!
Me three. Where are all these people today? Very old, for sure... like me.
The big guy may not be the best of the dancers, but he is definitely having the most fun :)
Thank you for noticing him
He's a dancing fool!!!😄😄😄😄
That's for sure!!!!!
I love that guy!!!
I love the 60s dances, and I love these kids for doing them.
Pedophile!
This is not "retro". It was done in 2014. But it IS Great! Love that Cute girl in the middle of front row! (shorter skirt)...
For a better signal and for the radio to play louder, I would go on the front porch and held the radio up in front of the meter box for as long as I wanted to listen to the radio. Those were the good ole days.
This was my very first "favorite" song, when I was five. Like you, I remember listening to it on the front porch.
@@57highland alright now. Those were the days.
Nice clean cut kids enjoying themselves ,makes me wish I was young again.
We are FOREVER YOUNG😉
Hard to see Clean Cut kids nowadays.
@@vinsnan6259Depends on the cutlery one uses.
These kids are the cutest.
I love their young smiling faces. Made me smile too.
I love this song thank you very with all my heart ❤😂
I enjoyed this so much! I was a guest on one of these "Low Budget Late Shows"! I also entered & won quite a few "dance-offs" & "marathon dances" that were held at local "matinees" or indoor movie theaters that had stages back "in the day" (60's). There were also "rec [recreation center]" dances every weekend during the Summer, along w/ Drive-In movies. I can remember going to my first Beatles movie (A Hard Days Night) in the mid-60s. The girls in the audience were screaming so loud during the whole movie & we weren't able to hear anything! I first got a whiff of marijuana at a Beach Boys Concert in I think it was Santa Monica, CA, but I was pretty young when I went w/ a friend & her family, so I mainly remember the atmosphere, the crowd singing & dancing w/ the band, & all the refreshments we got! That's when I bought my first album.
Boy did we have some clean fun back then! I don't know if teenagers today know what that's like.....actually interacting w/ others & engaging them in practical jokes, dances, or in playing street games like 4-square, kick ball, baseball, touch football, hide-n-seek, etc. until late into the night. The whole neighborhood would be involved, including parents cooking on the "Bar-B" (barbecue pits).
In those days, many of us kept our doors unlocked or kept them opened, w/ only the screen door (yes, we had those) locked, during the Spring & Summer months. We never had to worry about burglars. We barely had 2 cents to rub together, but I wouldn't trade those memories for anything (except maybe Heaven).
Yep, those were the days. 40 years from now the oldsters will reminiscing about Spongebob and X-boxes I suppose.
I was born in 1962, had one of the first cell phones in the SF Bay Area, & now I see 👶🏼 newborns addicted to screens & parents happy to distract & morphine-drip screen time into every area. I got rid of tv in 1984- felt brainwashed! So, yeah. Real human interactions, play, good & bad, sometimes wonderful or horrible- but it was REAL!
Tastes, smells, touches, sights, sounds of real people, in real places, doing human interactions. Video “Seeing” and “hearing” through an artificial screen & speaker are a new type of human “real” that we don’t yet know how it’ll impact us.
But, the skyrocketing rates of social anxiety and autism kinda make one wonder…
More violent crimes than in thirty years, likely due in part to desensitization from mass exposure and violent video games.
Meanwhile, the trophies for “Best” killer of zombies cannot even run, jump, fight in real space and time, nor carry ANY of the “equipment” they get in the games…
Fantasy
No wonder this generation wants to grow up and be a unicorn…
Ain’t no damned unicorns in the real world…
Which it seems by merely saying so, one is “cancelled” by invisible people who probably bubble-wrap their 2.5 kids.
well written!!!❤
sooo, this was filmed in 2015, if you google KCTU Dancers more vids come up.
The simplicity and sheer joy they are having is so uplifting.
They are great and very happy
Oh Puke....
Mad crushing on the red head in the middle
@@julienneangelocarpo2229 lol not like they're all underage or anything... 🙄
I love it.
the young man in the right back corner cracks me up he is just having such FUN
I frankly had not seen this sort of dance since I was a teenager over fifty years ago. It is nice to watch and to remember so many things and to realize without thinking I dance a mix of rock, watusi twist and frugg whenever I go to parties.
Rock on 🤙
These young people are amazing!
I love the way this generation is enjoying themselves dancing to the wah watusi! Good Job guys!!
I can't imagine how much fun those kids had putting this show together. I like the debonair announcer and dancers are all so special!
YES! LET. US. ALL. DANCE. AND. BE. JOYFUL. AGAIN!
AMEN!
I couldn't even imagine myself dancing on live T.V. ever ! Thumbs up to all.
@josef mengele LOL! Be nice!
The first time that I heard this song, I was listening with a 9 transistor AM radio that was powered by a little 9 Volt battery. Reception was better if I stood near a fence, which I did for hours on end.
April Ross
Seems like yesterday, sister.....
@Joan In Florida And you had to pull up the antenna. Mine had a brown leatherette case.
@@michelleg2112 lol mine did too, listened to Honey radio am 56 in Detroit area.
I was just looking up which one mine was. It was red and perhaps merely Panasonic but the Eveready with the cat running through the 9.... that burns bright.
Lucky You April, Mine was only six transistors.
What a great time I had growing up with all of this music. Wouldn’t trade it for the music of today for anything.
Most of them now don't have any decent voices for singing, just yelling or as in rap speaking the words to a beat which anyone can do. They didn't need to use obscenities either in lyrics to sell their music back then.
@@Tlyna1952 so many songs from the 60s are about doing heroine its not even funny
Same here Lola!
@@MrJizzinmypantz Legit? Can you tell me some good ones?
Okay, you guys had me fooled! I thought I was watching a program from the early to mid-'60s! I was looking at the girls thinking my gosh they are grannies now... only to find out it was filmed in 2014!
Ya gots to love them! We need more of this kinda stuff 🤗
They're very good dancers.
If I could've shook it like the gu y in the glsses I might of have a 1/2 chnce of having a girl friend in high school.
Yep. He won't have any problems. The girls love guys who can dance.
Me, too!
OMG you kids are awesome it looks like an early broadcast from American bandstand complete with skinny ties retro dresses and ponytails. Love the camera in the way and the commentators talkin and suddenly realizing there on the air great take off on early television awesome dancing keep it up guys what a pleasure to watch 😁😁😁👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
And not a tat in sight, nor make-up centimetre think on faces, clothing not showing copious amounts of flesh. Oh, those were the days.
Chill out grandad.
Lmao this video isnt as old as you think it is.
Zero "personal pronouns"
I loved dancing to this back in the day... So nice seeing these kids enjoying like I once did.
Hello Lorraine, How are you doing?
was 10 years old when i first listen to this popular song and now 67 ...and I am so glad see these kids whose parents were not even born when this song was a hit .......good on them . fantastic !!
So enjoyable. Such happy dancing. Life is to be enjoyed.
I thought it was.not be broke and warring 247 and threaten and criticized. And messed with mentally
This just blows me away, love the group and song, grew up listening to this, kids look clean and are having a good time!!!
I lived in Salem, OR from 1964 until graduating HS in 1969. Part of our PE curriculum from at least the 6th grade on required us to have 9 weeks of dancing. I can't remember what year/grade I was in but I do remember learning this dance. Great memories and music.
ADORABLE ❤🎉❤😂😂 Go Babies GO so Awesome !! Love this Song 🎉🎉😂
I really enjoyed watching these kids enjoy themselves showing off their routine. Keep on dancing!
Jay Igaboo Simple and sweet. Like life once was. Bless them.....they made me smile ...and remember!
like the girl in black dress
Take that
Jay Igaboo I still love the way it was there
Jay Igaboo .
Out of this 2.7 million views, I own half of them...First step of recovery is admitting you have a problem with my 9 yr old.
You must be delusional maybe it's cuz you're in recovery you own nothing of nothing of anything you own nothing
I'm the other half😂
❤
Find a stream of a movie called Strictly Dancing. Perfect for a mom and daughter who are obsessive about dancing. A little bit campy and lots of lines you can speak out while watching. Masterpiece. One of Baz Lehrmans bests.
Love this! I keep watching it over and over. So fun.
Released by The Orlons in May 1962. Got to #2 on the U.S. charts...and #5 on the R&B charts. Sold over 1,000,000 copies and started the "Watusi" dance craze....
white people i swear..
They are doing a combination of other dances....
its like an addiction i have to watch this video every so often great song great kids great choreography thanks!!!
It's so naturally uplifting it wipes all the negativity away. More stuff like this is needed in this age.
it's called tiktok
This corny video just makes me feel unexpectantly happy !
Yeah!
agree Kate LOL
the world before trump hating
Aaand, it doesn't involve twerking!
wish I met these girls around that time
This was a number one record for The Orlons out of Philadelphia.
Yes, it definitely came out of Philadelphia. I saw the Orlons in person. One of the greatest groups, I ever saw. Very entertaining.
My God, this is so awesome. ❤
I'm with you Ben. I absolutely LOVE this!!!
The girl in the green in the front row was the best. I was fooled thinking it was 60's because of her. Great job!!!!!
My vote for best dancer is the young lady next to her in the black dress with yellow belt.
@@TheBullyMomma Why so? Is this a race thing? She made several mistakes.
@@dickiegreenleaf750 , Since I’m white I really doubt it. I like fluidity in a dancer and she was very smooth in her movements.
@@dickiegreenleaf750Esa chica de verde es el alma del baile. Y sí, por ella el video se parecía a los 60. No había mucha gente de color bailando en la TV de aquellos años ¿acaso vives en una burbuja o quieres cambiar la historia?
@@congocuatro118 Thank God. The colored peopled had their own dance.
OMG, I was in 10th grade when this song came out. I remember two girls teaching me how to do this dance. I also think I dressed like the guys in this clip (back in the days before males torture themselves getting in and out of "skinny jeans" just for fashion). Love this group...such memories.
It's easy to imagine the producer and director discussing their casting choices from this group, "Ok boys and girls you were all excellent, thank you very much. Could the brunette in the green & black dress wait just a minute please. Thank you again everyone."
From the other comments it sound like she was the choreographer for this routine.
You’re all wonderful for keeping these dances alive😌 keep it up and thank you 😊