I was a child (elementary school) of the 60's. I don't remember fun. I remember demonstrations, riots, anti-war propaganda, assassinations. Plus the war. Would rather be a millenial.
@@christianlibertarian5488 Well, I was raised in West Tennessee and we were definitely "behind the times" of most of the country. Things were and still are pretty low key. I'd see on t.v. what was happening in California and places like that and be puzzled by it all. I love the country life though.
Yes we did. And the fun was charged with a great fear set against a bright hope. The eternal balance. Today's great fear has become the simple lack of hope when, really, hope is always there...waiting only for permission.
@rama rambo Not even close, mate. Pollution was way worse in the 1960's, war in the middle east was full bore with tanks and air forces, nuclear armageddon was one misunderstanding away, Nixon bombing Cambodia and North Vietnam HARD, riots in major cities....Much quieter, safer, more peaceful, richer today.
I live in Albuquerque and I always watched Bandstand because I had a crush on a guy that danced there. I moved to California and he was at a gas station talking to the attendant. He asked me for a date. He went off to Vietnam and a I moved back to New Mexico. In 1993 we became engaged. It was fate!
And actually took time to do their hair instead of those nasty buns or shaved sides. And face, nose, eyebrow piercings are horrible. I find myself actually glad people wear mask. They’re doing mankind a service and I’m not talking health related.
@@albertvelasquez7089 Yup that was the 'Joker" in the deck back in 1967. Many of we guys would have a date with Uncle Sam in the not too distant future. US Army 11 Bravo mos, Infantry Rifleman.
Me too... Wish my grandkids could have that too... Oh the times are so cruel... But I shared the music with my kids and they love it too this day... Hope they pass it on...
It's impossible to believe. But yet it's true. We were the generation that was supposed to never grow up, but we HAD to. Fate had such terrible things in store.
I was thinking the same thing. I was 11 in 1967 and will be 64 shortly and when the kids stated their ages it was several years older then my 11 so these very young people are quite old now. God I hate the passage of time! The last couple years of the 60s were the best of times for girls to look like girls and boys look like boys. So many of the girls interviewed reminded me of the young ladies I remember back then. No Jean's here-skirts & dresses-yea!
@@chuckbuckbobuck I was born in '56 as well. Looking at this video, the girls look like they were in their 30's. Really interesting what changes happen over time.
I grew up in the 60,s 70,s and all of these songs just makes me wonder where the years went ,,I'm not sure but life seemed so much simpler and all the memories these songs brings makes me realise how life has changed ...
How absolutely true! I puzzle over “where the yrs have gone so quickly”, myself! I remember my own grandmother lamenting herself, those many yrs ago, when she was 65 yrs old( I was a young teenager & “my own life spread out on an endless path,”so way back when!” ) how fast time was passing by, for her. I was puzzled for I thought it would be just the opposite as a young 13 yr old. Didn’t time go slower when “you were old”( 65 seemed so “ancient 🤣” as a carefree teenager but 65 does not seem old at all now that I myself am 71 yrs old!!LOL!!!😂All these many yrs later I, myself know “exactly what my dear beloved( miss her still) was talking about & you too are talking about “j s!” I wonder where the yrs went myself & “those yrs” seem to continue to speed past “so very quickly for me still!” Wishing you the best “j s” & everyone reading this post! Thank-you too for these 🎵absolutely extraordinary 🎶videos! These are the best 🎵 videos & the best 🎼 blog/site ever!♥️
@@karenstrycharz1499 completely understand Karen. I watched American B.S. every Saturday. I remember all the song's, popular dances and even some of the teen's dancing on the show. Ask myself all the time, How did all those year's fly by so fast and why wasn't I aware of it happening. Loved those year's. Do not like where this world is headed today. I am 67. Also loved the Association "Never my love".
The "clean cut" should've never gone out of style ! ! Meals were at the dinner table and people practiced manners. Prayer and the pledge of allegiance were a part of school ! ! !
Dennis, I agree with you. I miss those years of innocence. Girls were girls, boys were boys, clean cut had manners and life was simple. No tattoos, piercings, or gang bang type clothes. Time truly has slipped away. Sad😔😔
@@rositarogers6560 and Dennis, you both forget the days of juvenile delinquents and "rebels without a cause." We always tend to idealize the years in which we grew up.
Why am i crying listening to this...so many good memories..my mom sitting on the front porch putting pin curls in her hair..my dad in the house after 6pm supper watching Gunsmoke or rifleman or wagon train
Girls were all pretty and nice back then, I married one and we're still happily married today, she's 66 and I'm 68, in April 2020 it'll be our 50th wedding anniversary .
@@usmc-veteran73-77 Where did you EVER get that from, Baby Boomers married- 2,3,4 times? Are you kidding?Nowadays, that’s all you hear, DIVORCE, DIVORCE, ! That’s IF they EVEN marry, most LIVE together, for gods sake, and go from one person to another, ( maybe that IS why you yourself don’t hear of AS MANY DIVORCES, not mane DO get MARRIED! Too stupid!
I watched this twice. I really enjoyed watching them dance and smile. The girls were pretty. The boys were handsome, and they looked so happy. I can't help but wonder where they are now, who is living, who has passed on. I hope they remained good and strong against all that lie ahead of them.
But they couldn’t dance! I would love to hear what music is playing in many of their heads, cause it certainly has no similarity to what is audible on Bandstand! Wish we still had a similar show to see if dancing has improved over the last sixty years!
I asked about that, too, but was reminded that kids like these were usually not sent to VN, even if drafted. It was the lower classes who bore an inordinate share of the horrors of that awful place. I saw it.
@@waynekozak1462 Come on Wayne -September 1950 - Truman sends the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) Indochina to Vietnam to assist the French. The President claimed they were not sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of $10 million worth of U.S. military equipment to support the French in their effort to fight the Viet Minh forces. Started with Truman then extended by every president there after, et al. When we got there the French left soon after. There are many tapes played by the history channel where Johnson tells Robert Strange McNamara that he isn't like that wimpy boy Kennedy, he will not pull troops out of Vietnam like Kennedy was planning. Johnson escalated the war for his own political reasons, he didn't want history to record him as a US President that lost a war. HE SHOULD ROT IN HELL - A good reference book "Vietnam: The 10,000 day WAR" We lost American soldiers every year from 1950 to 1975. God Bless all of them and their grieving families.
I was 16 in 1967. The best time of my life! Loved to dance and listen to music on records or the radio. I'll be an unbelievable age of 70 at the end of this year. Loved my time in the 60s.
I was 5 and my Dad and Uncle were both serving in Vietnam. Praise the Lord they both came home and are still living . I really enjoy the 60s music . Imagine teenagers today answering Dick’s question ? It would have be hideous.
Ah, when love songs were about real love and when slow a dancing was all swaying, giggling, and sweaty palms and none of that bumping and grinding stuff they do nowadays.
This song was released and playing on the radio in 1967. I was 7 years old. And the sentiment of those lyrics just penetrated into my heart and my soul . I love My Wife and I will spend my entire life with her.
When I hear this song, I am instantly transported back to my childhood home. I can smell cookies baking in the oven. It's raining and us kids stare out the window frustrated that we can't go out and play. So Mom's baking cookies to cheer us up. What a great time to grow up. Good music and being a kid meant climbing trees, playing football in empty lots, chasing butterflies and catching frogs.
That Question of the Day was totally dumb. The '67 kids really enjoyed dancing to Never My Love. I always loved this Association song because of its harmonies, lyrics, melody, and killer vocal arrangements.
+Adrian DeVore Yes, those things, together with the wonderful organ and guitar accompaniments, are what make this song one of the greatest and most beautiful of all time.
There was a lot of things that were good but they say everything was normal didn't mean normal was good period not to be a downer but Vietnam more race riots people have to fight for their voting rights just two years earlier etc etc
Girls never bugged me. I loved them all. I loved just dating. Never settled down until I met my future wife. Leap Year Night & a Blind Date 29 Feb 80. One yr later we married on the 1st Day of Spring 21 March 1981.
I remember these days - it’s heartbreaking how far our society has fallen away. Gone are the innocent and sweetness of people’s spirits especially. I am ashamed at the country I see now. How I pray we could have stayed within these same moral foundations. Currently mass shootings, tattoos, changing ones gender along with countless other absurdities have created a society of nearly full evil. I miss my youth so very much. The world was so much sweeter, calmer, and quieter.
Seeing the amazing Dick Clark is so wonderful & how I loved this song! I still do! What a “great walk down memory lane!” Loved hearing him read off all the “popular songs of the day!”
I'm 45 and really appreciate this era even though I wasn't born yet. The brunette girl in the very first shot of the dancers is the prettiest girl I've ever seen. That smile.....
I was born in 1977. I'm just so glad we have youtube to step back in time. I'm 45 years old, and somehow I've never heard this before. It's so beautiful
I love these videos! The AB episodes from the 50's & 60's are the best. I like them better than the ones I watched as a teen in the late 70's.. Thanks for playing them...
THE 60"DS BEST GENERATION OF MUSIC ! GLADNESS CREATIVITY JOY INNOCENCE HAPPINESS MORE SELF RESPECT NO OBESITY MORE SELF LOVE MORE RESPECT FOR OTHERS. GREAT TIMES. SMART SCIENTISTS INVENT A TIME MACHINE A.S.A.P. !
I never get enough of this song. I come back to this video every now and then to reminisce. Although I was actually born in 1967, I vividly remember this song playing on the radio in the early to mid 70s. I have a crush on a couple of dancers btw, lol.
Girls...girls..don't be hanging on Famous! There's my buddy Don out there smooth as silk. Don you always connected so well with your partners; never looking down at your feet or keeping a blank stare. You seemed to enjoy the dance and the gal you were with. Love Leonard's nonpartnering dance to this tune. What a great old song. It's good to hear it again. Have a slow dance with your sweetie. Thank you Aaron.....tons of memories coming back on this one. ❤
@@dancerdon9175 he has been such a delight to us all. His smile is never disingenuous. People like Famous can sometimes warm a tired heart with no more than friendly smile. HUG for you Famous!
@Jean Lankdon & @don sanuskar.....Don.....love the one you are with!!!!LOL So suave! Jean...Famous was such a genuine friend and had not even a bit of ego that excluded anyone from his circle. He had a great sense of humor which is what he displayed in this clip in the roll call.
@@peggela Famous seems like someone I'd love to know. He's the real deal. In today's world, we all need a Famous Hooks in our lives. I know I have a few...hope you do too. ❤
I’m in L.A. for a loved one’s funeral and while I am here I decided to visit the grave of Forrest Hutchins. I am here with my Bose speaker and playing this video on my phone at his grave. Left a small bouquet of flowers.
@@MarkJones9093 well that's understandable... and kinda sweet. So many of those boys were either puerile douchebags or handsome, but really stuck on themselves (Jim Miranda, Stan Soburn). I can see why Forrest caught your eye. He looked like a nice fella.. with a bit of a dark wit. Probably was a good husband and a great Dad. Ya got good taste there, Mark.
@@MarkJones9093 oh no. I knew Forrest passed but didn't know it was at such a young age. I wonder what happened to him. Bernie Cates and Frank DiVirgilio are two other AB regulars from that era who died young. My youngest brother died at age 21 and maybe that's why I'm so particularly bothered when young men die at an early age. I never watched AB and I'm not a big Dick Clark fan. BTW, before he got the Bandstand gig, Clark used to DJ at Frolics Ballroom in Allentown PA, the very place my parents met in 1957. My Dad had an invitation to be on AB in December, 1957, but he had a minor car crash in Doylestown and never made it to the studio. He applied later but he had turned 18 and they turned him down. A year later, he'd knocked Mom up, but I'll save that saga for later...
@@MarkJones9093 oh... and serious props for being open and honest about yourself. You can cut the homophobia in here with a chainsaw. These comment sections are more uptight than an Amish quilting bee.
The Association had hits with two of the best love songs of the era (or any era) Cherish & Never My Love, but my fave is still Along Comes Mary. Man I dig that song! --also I Dig Rock & Roll Music at #4
@Daniel Prohonas What do you mean by "Everything Billboard since 1949" exactly?. Do you mean every weekly record chart (Top 40 hit) since '49?...And where in the world do you store all those thousands of albums? 😊
@Daniel Prohonas What do you collect the 45 singles, The Billboard magazines, The albums...? That would be an awesome collection! I started buying records in 1968 and have kept them all.
I was 10 at the time and my sister was a senior. When her friends came over to the house they were all beautiful. The 60s were the last of genuine character. The 70s were plastic copies of one another.
I was ten. After age nine we were poor so no tv, no newspaper, no magazines. At 14 I was chased home from school every day by blacks but was friends with the blacks that lived next door. Then when I was 16 ... life changed.
I've watched this over & over. I'm SO envious of the self-confidence of Dave Cortez🤩 and Rob Molinelli 🤩prominently on display. At their age, I ALWAYS thought chics could NEVER be interested in gawky facial acne-ravaged me. I noted that @ 5:10, Dave has taken Alesse well away from the intrusive camera in her lovely face...I always smile at Rob saying "HI MOM" to the camera, @ 4:51, cracking Nancy right up. Love(d) Kathy's laugh & smile @ 3:03 as well.🤣🥰👍
Thanks Elizabeth. It was a most interesting time. For some odd reason I remember so much of those years even though it was over a half century ago now. Took a crazy trip with a practical stranger the summer of 1966 that I wrote a short story about. Friend of my Aunt took us from Utah to Illinois to visit my grandparents and we listened to Top 40 AM tunes the entire time. He drove all night in those pre-Interstate days and all kinds of weird things happened--a deer hit his car in Wyoming and he picked up a hitch-hiker in Iowa. He was only 20, smoked like a chimney and barely could keep awake near the end of the journey. I was 10 and my brother 9 but, needless to say, something like this trip wouldn't have happened to today. In the mid-1960's you grew up quicker and you pretty much were an adult at 20. Not so today.
I was a baby in 67. My dad was a high school teacher back then and he would hire his female students to babysit my siblings and I. The girls in the video could have been my babysitter lol!!!!
I turned 9 in fall of 1967. I was starting fourth grade and my great- grandfather died at very same time. He came to eastern USA with his British parents in 1881.
I didn't know that "“Never My Love”, {was} the 2nd most played song on radio and TV in the 20th Century". It deserves it. It is a mystical magical evocation of love! Though my fave love song of all time remains "This Guy's In Love With You" by Herb Alpert! Thanks for a great upload, Aaron!
Behind Little River Band's "Reminiscing" I think? While "Never My Love" is very nice, I like The Association's "Everything That Touches You" even more. I like everything I've ever heard by Herb Alpert except "This Guy's In Love With You." Because I think saying "if not I'll just die" is disrespectful mental manipulation. I think she should say she's in love with him only if she really is, only by her own choice, not in response to him saying what could be interpreted as a suicide threat.
78rpm....one of our first eleven vinyls.....Dad loved playing it a million times on our first player...HMV-Fiesta , a mono recod-player....I am talking 1960s , a small town in Himalayan North India.
A huge amount of sugar has been added to foods since then, especially in cereal, but actually practically everything. Watermelons and tomatoes have been bred to have twice the sugar as they had in those days.
Wow ! Our Generation had The Absolute Best Music Ever..!! And it's still being played 60 Years later..so that should tell you that My Generation Rocked. !
I remember some of the regulars on the show.I was a junior going to San Gabriel high that year.I had already signed up for the Selective Service System.I remember some of my friends already in the service went awol and headed for Canada.everyone was scared ,I feel bad for them breaking the law but I glad there name not on the Vietnam memorial wall.
greatest song of the 1960s
We did have fun growing up in the 60's, didn't we folks?
Yes Yes Yes Yes, how I miss those days.
I was a child (elementary school) of the 60's. I don't remember fun. I remember demonstrations, riots, anti-war propaganda, assassinations. Plus the war. Would rather be a millenial.
@@christianlibertarian5488 Well, I was raised in West Tennessee and we were definitely "behind the times" of most of the country. Things were and still are pretty low key. I'd see on t.v. what was happening in California and places like that and be puzzled by it all. I love the country life though.
Yes we did. And the fun was charged with a great fear set against a bright hope. The eternal balance. Today's great fear has become the simple lack of hope when, really, hope is always there...waiting only for permission.
@rama rambo Not even close, mate. Pollution was way worse in the 1960's, war in the middle east was full bore with tanks and air forces, nuclear armageddon was one misunderstanding away, Nixon bombing Cambodia and North Vietnam HARD, riots in major cities....Much quieter, safer, more peaceful, richer today.
I live in Albuquerque and I always watched Bandstand because I had a crush on a guy that danced there. I moved to California and he was at a gas station talking to the attendant. He asked me for a date. He went off to Vietnam and a I moved back to New Mexico. In 1993 we became engaged. It was fate!
Awe how beautiful☺️💖 I was born in 1993.. I hope to one day fall In love too 💓
WOW ! what a story for the ages can you give details?
Beautiful story & thanks for sharing! Wishing you both the best!♥️
Yawn!!!
Wow! Thats mindblowing! Thank you for sharing that incredibly interesting love story!😃👍✨💖✨
That is a beautiful song
Ah yes, this was when girls had pert bottoms, slim figures and NO tattoos
I agree. Even though they were teenagers they were beautiful women.
Same goes for the men!
And actually took time to do their hair instead of those nasty buns or shaved sides. And face, nose, eyebrow piercings are horrible. I find myself actually glad people wear mask. They’re doing mankind a service and I’m not talking health related.
Someone please invent a time machine so I can relive my teenage years.
I hope there is room for one more inside your time machine.
Working on it as we reD each others texts.
You guys would probably end up in the Twilight Zone going on Search and Destroy mission pleiku Vietnam,1968
@@charlesvandenburgh7008 I'll come with you as well it was a year I left school it started work they were happy times
@@albertvelasquez7089 Yup that was the 'Joker" in the deck back in 1967. Many of we guys would have a date with Uncle Sam in the not too distant future. US Army 11 Bravo mos, Infantry Rifleman.
I'm so glad that I grew up during the 60's!
Omg so am I the lessons I learned carried me through my life peace love and rock and roll
I'm glad you grew up in the '60s too.
Me too... Wish my grandkids could have that too... Oh the times are so cruel... But I shared the music with my kids and they love it too this day... Hope they pass it on...
Great music in the 60s. These kids are my age. I was also 15 in 1967.
Me too...I graduated high school in 1967
These kids are in their late 60's and 70's now. Hard to believe.
It's impossible to believe. But yet it's true. We were the generation that was supposed to never grow up, but we HAD to. Fate had such terrible things in store.
I know, I'm one of them ... really miss those days!
I'll be 55 soon and I envy them.
I was thinking the same thing. I was 11 in 1967 and will be 64 shortly and when the kids stated their ages it was several years older then my 11 so these very young people are quite old now. God I hate the passage of time! The last couple years of the 60s were the best of times for girls to look like girls and boys look like boys. So many of the girls interviewed reminded me of the young ladies I remember back then. No Jean's here-skirts & dresses-yea!
@@chuckbuckbobuck I was born in '56 as well. Looking at this video, the girls look like they were in their 30's. Really interesting what changes happen over time.
I grew up in the 60,s 70,s and all of these songs just makes me wonder where the years went ,,I'm not sure but life seemed so much simpler and all the memories these songs brings makes me realise how life has changed ...
Truth Indeed
How absolutely true! I puzzle over “where the yrs have gone so quickly”, myself! I remember my own grandmother lamenting herself, those many yrs ago, when she was 65 yrs old( I was a young teenager & “my own life spread out on an endless path,”so way back when!” ) how fast time was passing by, for her. I was puzzled for I thought it would be just the opposite as a young 13 yr old. Didn’t time go slower when “you were old”( 65 seemed so “ancient 🤣” as a carefree teenager but 65 does not seem old at all now that I myself am 71 yrs old!!LOL!!!😂All these many yrs later I, myself know “exactly what my dear beloved( miss her still) was talking about & you too are talking about “j s!” I wonder where the yrs went myself & “those yrs” seem to continue to speed past “so very quickly for me still!” Wishing you the best “j s” & everyone reading this post! Thank-you too for these 🎵absolutely extraordinary 🎶videos! These are the best 🎵 videos & the best 🎼 blog/site ever!♥️
@@karenstrycharz1499 completely understand Karen. I watched American B.S. every Saturday. I remember all the song's, popular dances and even some of the teen's dancing on the show. Ask myself all the time, How did all those year's fly by so fast and why wasn't I aware of it happening. Loved those year's. Do not like where this world is headed today. I am 67. Also loved the Association "Never my love".
Indeed.
The "clean cut" should've never gone out of style ! ! Meals were at the dinner table and people practiced manners. Prayer and the pledge of allegiance were a part of school ! ! !
Dennis, I agree with you. I miss those years of innocence. Girls were girls, boys were boys, clean cut had manners and life was simple. No tattoos, piercings, or gang bang type clothes. Time truly has slipped away. Sad😔😔
@@rositarogers6560 and Dennis, you both forget the days of juvenile delinquents and "rebels without a cause." We always tend to idealize the years in which we grew up.
can you say "women's lib"???
@@alanbuxbaum3190 And now we have gangs that murder on a whim. We didn't have to lock our house or car doors. I'd rather go back.
@Dan Gabor That must be some kind of record LOL
Why am i crying listening to this...so many good memories..my mom sitting on the front porch putting pin curls in her hair..my dad in the house after 6pm supper watching Gunsmoke or rifleman or wagon train
Loved the 60's
Me too
Suzie Paris what a great time to be young 😊
@@debbiecarruthers7621 yes it was
you practically just described my life as a child in the 60s.
Muscle cars, Mini skirts & great Music..."we thought those days would never end"✌
Oh how I loved the 60's . . . .muscle cars . .the music . .dancing . .Myrtle Beach SC. . .crushes . . .life!
@@kathrynmiller9622 "Today's youth are angry, because their music sucks"😄
Back then couldn't wait to get home from school to watch American Bandstand! It was the Best of Times for many of my Generation...wonderfulmemories...
Wasn't it always on Saturday morning?
Girls were all pretty and nice back then, I married one and we're still happily married today, she's 66 and I'm 68, in April 2020 it'll be our 50th wedding anniversary .
50 yrs Wow. Ive been happily married 39 yrs. Most of the Baby Boomers have been married 2, 3, & 4 times.
Congrats :)
Congratulations!!
Congratulations!
@@usmc-veteran73-77 Where did you EVER get that from, Baby Boomers married- 2,3,4 times? Are you kidding?Nowadays, that’s all you hear, DIVORCE, DIVORCE, ! That’s IF they EVEN marry, most LIVE together, for gods sake, and go from one person to another, ( maybe that IS why you yourself don’t hear of AS MANY DIVORCES, not mane DO get MARRIED! Too stupid!
I watched this twice. I really enjoyed watching them dance and smile. The girls were pretty. The boys were handsome, and they looked so happy. I can't help but wonder where they are now, who is living, who has passed on. I hope they remained good and strong against all that lie ahead of them.
We were 16 in 1967 > we know all the songs of the era & watching this is Wonderful. Here we are in 2022 ....OMG! Run for Lives!
On croyait tellement à l amour ...❤️
They look so mature for their age and they were so young!
I asked the same question when I first saw The Stroll recorded in the 1950's on the local TV station, what lied ahead for them.
The teens looked so much happier and healthier back then.
That is a true statement.
They generally dressed better than today's teens!
They had to be in order for Dick Clark to approve their appearance on a taped show. Straight-laced, as was they were called.
But they couldn’t dance! I would love to hear what music is playing in many of their heads, cause it certainly has no similarity to what is audible on Bandstand! Wish we still had a similar show to see if dancing has improved over the last sixty years!
Watching this I couldn’t help wondering how many of the guys were in Vietnam in the next couple of years. Tough, turbulent times in some respects.
I asked about that, too, but was reminded that kids like these were usually not sent to VN, even if drafted. It was the lower classes who bore an inordinate share of the horrors of that awful place. I saw it.
You’re spot on - it was the lower classes who did the bulk of the fighting.
@@endgame6979 It was JFK who first ordered the troops into Viet Nam. Far be it from me to defend LBJ, but he didnt start the war.
@@waynekozak1462 Come on Wayne -September 1950 - Truman sends the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) Indochina to Vietnam to assist the French. The President claimed they were not sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of $10 million worth of U.S. military equipment to support the French in their effort to fight the Viet Minh forces. Started with Truman then extended by every president there after, et al. When we got there the French left soon after.
There are many tapes played by the history channel where Johnson tells Robert Strange McNamara that he isn't like that wimpy boy Kennedy, he will not pull troops out of Vietnam like Kennedy was planning. Johnson escalated the war for his own political reasons, he didn't want history to record him as a US President that lost a war. HE SHOULD ROT IN HELL - A good reference book "Vietnam: The 10,000 day WAR" We lost American soldiers every year from 1950 to 1975. God Bless all of them and their grieving families.
I was one . Graduation in 68’ and Vietnam in 70-71 . 25th Infantry Division. Still remember and love the music to this day. So does my grandchildren 😊
This song still gives me goosebumps. So beautiful...it takes me to a space in time I wish I hadn't had to leave
Michelle Hershey yes it does!!!
As a junior in high school in Long Beach, this song gave me my first girlfriend.
Same
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Same!!
Back in the day when dancing close was moral and right ❤
I was 16 in 1967. The best time of my life! Loved to dance and listen to music on records or the radio. I'll be an unbelievable age of 70 at the end of this year. Loved my time in the 60s.
Yo tengo. 56 años me gusta esa época salud y más vida para usted bendiciones
Me too
I fell sorry for the kids now a days
We certainly did 😢
Cherish and Never My Love takes me straight back to high school and the school dances.
Yes we had a great time with American Bandstand 😊😊😊❤
I was 5 and my Dad and Uncle were both serving in Vietnam. Praise the Lord they both came home and are still living . I really enjoy the 60s music . Imagine teenagers today answering Dick’s question ? It would have be hideous.
Thank Your Uncles for their service.
Did my senior trip in Vietnam...😢😢
So young and innocent. It makes me feel sad for some reason but I guess that's part of growing old. (I was 11 in 1967).
We all feel it. You are not alone 🌺
i just came into the world in 1967.
09/14/1967
😥
Me too Lisa!!
One of the greatest, most beautiful songs ever recorded! Love The Association.
Ah, when love songs were about real love and when slow a dancing was all swaying, giggling, and sweaty palms and none of that bumping and grinding stuff they do nowadays.
My favorite Christmas gift in 1968 was a transistor radio. I was 10 years old and I would listen to all these songs.
All of these young teens are now in their late 60’s & early 70’s in 2022.
I was 13 in 1967 and I always watched American Bandstand. I loved “Never my Love” and I still do!
The 60s was a tumultuous violent time this show gave some a sense of normalcy.
This song was released and playing on the radio in 1967. I was 7 years old. And the sentiment of those lyrics just penetrated into my heart and my soul . I love My Wife and I will spend my entire life with her.
When I hear this song, I am instantly transported back to my childhood home. I can smell cookies baking in the oven. It's raining and us kids stare out the window frustrated that we can't go out and play. So Mom's baking cookies to cheer us up.
What a great time to grow up. Good music and being a kid meant climbing trees, playing football in empty lots, chasing butterflies and catching frogs.
So true Rick
Well said
Life was good back then
hate to break to ya......this never happened....you dropped a whole tab of purple micro dot.......thus the image
Looking good and still having fun. The 60s were the best
These girls looked way better than those so called stars on today's Super Bowl half time show. They looked real and not plastic.
I agree, 100%. Love to return to 1968 and be a teenager again.
Take me back to the 60’s!! 60’s&70’s had the best music.
Agree Angela. The best music has already been made 💕🎶
The girl with the striped dress and short blonde hair is absolutely stunning…intoxicating laugh..Her name is Linda Hight …
She is so cute!!
I was only 3 years old but this is entertaining. Can we trade these times for those times? No tats, purple hair, phones etc
Tattoos >>> racism
Purple hair >>> homophobia
Phones >>> 50k+ lives needlessly lost in Vietnam
When this was popular,a guy I knew thought they were singing never buy love.
Never realized the dancers were so young! They looked they were all in their 20's or older.
Aaah, my youth. It was the best of times.
They had the best male group harmonies ever. Bar none.
Let's travel back in time to those years... when life was free and wonderful.
I was five years young. Amazing I'm still here after triple CABG.
I'm going to live another 20 ....... I hope ..... GOD Willing.
Whoever did the vocal arrangement is a genius.
That Question of the Day was totally dumb.
The '67 kids really enjoyed dancing to Never My Love. I always loved this Association song because of its harmonies, lyrics, melody, and killer vocal arrangements.
@Adrian you are so right. IMO 1967 was the standard by which the mid to late 60's AB was measured.
@@dancerdon9175 It was a musical barometer for so many great songs during that time period as reflected by social changes which influenced them.
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Right on Don!
1967 was the best year for pop music. So many fabulous songs I never tire of.
+Adrian DeVore
Yes, those things, together with the wonderful organ and guitar accompaniments, are what make this song one of the greatest and most beautiful of all time.
60's the best years! sweet memories, nice music!
Famous was the best dancer from California.
Ahh l was a mere 12 yrs old in 1967. What a magical time to grow up in. I'm 64 now and slimmer than most teenagers today. Very sad
I was 9 and yes a magical time indeed!
I am close to your age - wow how blessed we were to grow up when we did.
I was 13 years old on this airdate. Great times!
15 years old great music great times to be young in the 60s
So you were born in 1953, too ... Well at least we're still alive and kickin' lol
The era where literally EVERYTHING was normal
There was a lot of things that were good but they say everything was normal didn't mean normal was good period not to be a downer but Vietnam more race riots people have to fight for their voting rights just two years earlier etc etc
Look at that, boys dancing with girls. How refreshing to see.
Such good looking bunch and all smiles. Those were the days,my friend.
Girls never bugged me. I loved them all. I loved just dating. Never settled down until I met my future wife. Leap Year Night & a Blind Date 29 Feb 80. One yr later we married on the 1st Day of Spring 21 March 1981.
The year I graduated from HS ... 68,69,70 - Vietnam the music kept us sane😄, still does ... sane and sad 😂
I remember these days - it’s heartbreaking how far our society has fallen away. Gone are the innocent and sweetness of people’s spirits especially. I am ashamed at the country I see now. How I pray we could have stayed within these same moral foundations. Currently mass shootings, tattoos, changing ones gender along with countless other absurdities have created a society of nearly full evil. I miss my youth so very much. The world was so much sweeter, calmer, and quieter.
Truth Indeed AMEN
Well, this is from 1967, just one year before everything started to go wrong. And we are still paying for the consequences of that evil 1968 year.
I would love to time travel back to 1967 and relive the whole year knowing what i know now.
Seeing the amazing Dick Clark is so wonderful & how I loved this song! I still do! What a “great walk down memory lane!” Loved hearing him read off all the “popular songs of the day!”
Ah, yessss, I remember slow-dancing to this with my high school boyfriend. RIP, Danny❤
I'm 45 and really appreciate this era even though I wasn't born yet. The brunette girl in the very first shot of the dancers is the prettiest girl I've ever seen. That smile.....
I was born in 1977. I'm just so glad we have youtube to step back in time. I'm 45 years old, and somehow I've never heard this before. It's so beautiful
I love these videos! The AB episodes from the 50's & 60's are the best. I like them better than the ones I watched as a teen in the late 70's.. Thanks for playing them...
Me too
THE 60"DS BEST GENERATION OF MUSIC !
GLADNESS CREATIVITY JOY INNOCENCE HAPPINESS MORE SELF RESPECT NO OBESITY MORE SELF LOVE MORE RESPECT FOR OTHERS.
GREAT TIMES.
SMART SCIENTISTS INVENT A TIME MACHINE A.S.A.P. !
Wish I could give this more than ONE like!!!👍🤩😘
The girls here are my mom's age something i don't see today is how naturally beautiful they all are time has really gone to the dogs
I just wish, all of them had a beautiful life...and with a lot of love... All of them have that innocent faces, that we never saw in this times...
I never get enough of this song. I come back to this video every now and then to reminisce. Although I was actually born in 1967, I vividly remember this song playing on the radio in the early to mid 70s. I have a crush on a couple of dancers btw, lol.
Glad you enjoyed it. Come back anytime!
I'll guess one of them shows up at 3:10?
@@tomloft2000 yep! But my favorite is at 3:33!
I shared a little bit of tears when i heard those song..iheard my father when i was young..
Girls...girls..don't be hanging on Famous! There's my buddy Don out there smooth as silk. Don you always connected so well with your partners; never looking down at your feet or keeping a blank stare. You seemed to enjoy the dance and the gal you were with. Love Leonard's nonpartnering dance to this tune.
What a great old song. It's good to hear it again. Have a slow dance with your sweetie. Thank you Aaron.....tons of memories coming back on this one. ❤
@Jean Famous had a quip for anything and everything. The camera loved him and he loved the camera. Always affable on set.
@@dancerdon9175 he has been such a delight to us all. His smile is never disingenuous. People like Famous can sometimes warm a tired heart with no more than friendly smile. HUG for you Famous!
@Jean Lankdon & @don sanuskar.....Don.....love the one you are with!!!!LOL So suave! Jean...Famous was such a genuine friend and had not even a bit of ego that excluded anyone from his circle. He had a great sense of humor which is what he displayed in this clip in the roll call.
@@peggela Famous seems like someone I'd love to know. He's the real deal. In today's world, we all need a Famous Hooks in our lives. I know I have a few...hope you do too. ❤
Innocence--not jaded or raunchy. A bygone era. I remember it and miss it dearly
I’m in L.A. for a loved one’s funeral and while I am here I decided to visit the grave of Forrest Hutchins. I am here with my Bose speaker and playing this video on my phone at his grave. Left a small bouquet of flowers.
He came across like such a young gentleman.
@@MarkJones9093 well that's understandable... and kinda sweet. So many of those boys were either puerile douchebags or handsome, but really stuck on themselves (Jim Miranda, Stan Soburn). I can see why Forrest caught your eye. He looked like a nice fella.. with a bit of a dark wit. Probably was a good husband and a great Dad. Ya got good taste there, Mark.
@@MarkJones9093 oh no. I knew Forrest passed but didn't know it was at such a young age. I wonder what happened to him. Bernie Cates and Frank DiVirgilio are two other AB regulars from that era who died young. My youngest brother died at age 21 and maybe that's why I'm so particularly bothered when young men die at an early age.
I never watched AB and I'm not a big Dick Clark fan. BTW, before he got the Bandstand gig, Clark used to DJ at Frolics Ballroom in Allentown PA, the very place my parents met in 1957. My Dad had an invitation to be on AB in December, 1957, but he had a minor car crash in Doylestown and never made it to the studio. He applied later but he had turned 18 and they turned him down. A year later, he'd knocked Mom up, but I'll save that saga for later...
@@MarkJones9093 oh... and serious props for being open and honest about yourself. You can cut the homophobia in here with a chainsaw. These comment sections are more uptight than an Amish quilting bee.
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I was 17 in 1967. . .Entering my last year of high school. . What a great time to be alive. .
Did you get drafted though?
@@nuttybar9 Yup!! I sure was. . .9 months after leaving high-school
The Association had hits with two of the best love songs of the era (or any era) Cherish & Never My Love, but my fave is still Along Comes Mary. Man I dig that song! --also I Dig Rock & Roll Music at #4
@geofbrit59 In addition to their two monster hit ballads that you mentioned, there's the underrated: Everything That Touches You.
@Daniel Prohonas What do you mean by "Everything Billboard since 1949" exactly?. Do you mean every weekly record chart (Top 40 hit) since '49?...And where in the world do you store all those thousands of albums? 😊
@Daniel Prohonas What do you collect the 45 singles, The Billboard magazines, The albums...? That would be an awesome collection! I started buying records in 1968 and have kept them all.
I love those dance moves
I was 10 at the time and my sister was a senior. When her friends came over to the house they were all beautiful. The 60s were the last of genuine character. The 70s were plastic copies of one another.
I was ten. After age nine we were poor so no tv, no newspaper, no magazines. At 14 I was chased home from school every day by blacks but was friends with the blacks that lived next door. Then when I was 16 ... life changed.
70’s was full of great music
Remember when I was that age 🎉Rest In Peace Terry😢
I've watched this over & over. I'm SO envious of the self-confidence of Dave Cortez🤩 and Rob Molinelli 🤩prominently on display. At their age, I ALWAYS thought chics could NEVER be interested in gawky facial acne-ravaged me. I noted that @ 5:10, Dave has taken Alesse well away from the intrusive camera in her lovely face...I always smile at Rob saying "HI MOM" to the camera, @ 4:51, cracking Nancy right up. Love(d) Kathy's laugh & smile @ 3:03 as well.🤣🥰👍
I keep having to tell myself... "Rob Molinelli is only 16... Rob Molinelli is only 16... Rob Molinelli is only 16..."
Read & "liked" a lot of your comments@@yossarian6799, greetings from A Land Down Under...
Thanks Elizabeth. It was a most interesting time. For some odd reason I remember so much of those years even though it was over a half century ago now. Took a crazy trip with a practical stranger the summer of 1966 that I wrote a short story about. Friend of my Aunt took us from Utah to Illinois to visit my grandparents and we listened to Top 40 AM tunes the entire time. He drove all night in those pre-Interstate days and all kinds of weird things happened--a deer hit his car in Wyoming and he picked up a hitch-hiker in Iowa. He was only 20, smoked like a chimney and barely could keep awake near the end of the journey. I was 10 and my brother 9 but, needless to say, something like this trip wouldn't have happened to today. In the mid-1960's you grew up quicker and you pretty much were an adult at 20. Not so today.
So many people were married by 20 and had started a family unlike the unnatural prolonging of that until your 30s.
Man, this bought back so many memories.
I was a baby in 67. My dad was a high school teacher back then and he would hire his female students to babysit my siblings and I. The girls in the video could have been my babysitter lol!!!!
I turned 9 in fall of 1967. I was starting fourth grade and my great- grandfather died at very same time. He came to eastern USA with his British parents in 1881.
I was 7 in 1967. Growing up in the 60’s was the best.
I didn't know that "“Never My Love”, {was} the 2nd most played song on radio and TV in the 20th Century".
It deserves it. It is a mystical magical evocation of love!
Though my fave love song of all time remains "This Guy's In Love With You" by Herb Alpert!
Thanks for a great upload, Aaron!
Also, BMI has Cherish at #22 and Windy at #61 in 20th century.
Behind Little River Band's "Reminiscing" I think? While "Never My Love" is very nice, I like The Association's "Everything That Touches You" even more. I like everything I've ever heard by Herb Alpert except "This Guy's In Love With You." Because I think saying "if not I'll just die" is disrespectful mental manipulation. I think she should say she's in love with him only if she really is, only by her own choice, not in response to him saying what could be interpreted as a suicide threat.
Beautiful kids back then 💖'em
78rpm....one of our first eleven vinyls.....Dad loved playing it a million times on our first player...HMV-Fiesta , a mono recod-player....I am talking 1960s , a small town in Himalayan North India.
These kids all look so nice !
I am a tail end baby boomer. I love this era of music and this song in particular. Could not help but notice how slim everyone was back then.
Yep. Everybody was skinny, no fast food joints on every corner.
I'm 64 yes we walked lots and didn't eat as much junk
A huge amount of sugar has been added to foods since then, especially in cereal, but actually practically everything. Watermelons and tomatoes have been bred to have twice the sugar as they had in those days.
We ate 3 times a day. Real food. No snacking and we moved around a lot . Before morbid obesity was normalized. Yuk
Wow ! Our Generation had The Absolute Best Music Ever..!! And it's still being played 60 Years later..so that should tell you that My Generation Rocked. !
never my love, such a song. so many memories.
What great times in America. Beautiful song still today
David Cortez reminds me of Mario Lopez
The lads in their suits and ties and girls in pretty dresses - no jeans or hoodies - take me back
I remember some of the regulars on the show.I was a junior going to San Gabriel high that year.I had already signed up for the Selective Service System.I remember some of my friends already in the service went awol and headed for Canada.everyone was scared ,I feel bad for them breaking the law but I glad there name not on the Vietnam memorial wall.
The year I was born, one of my favorite songs, it's so dreamy. I love all these kids and their smiles, so wholesome.
Innocence is the word to describe this.
Dandelion by the Stones, awesome record!
I was in a band and the guitar players girlfriend wanted us to do this song, ya right!
We did have fun . The 60s and the 70s great times
Absolutely those were the best years my life
I grab my grandkids and dance my heart out every time they come over! From age 2-10 we still go strong!
The first song I clearly remember at age 3. The late 60s had some great music.
I like the people - and the music. What a beautiful time. Take me back - back to that time. Many thanks for this video and nice music.
My sister used to watch this. It came on Saturday after the cartoons ended.
I was 3 days old when this AB episode first aired! Great song and a real time capsule. Thanks.