I graduated in 1981 what a time to be a teenager. I miss those years 😢. People would dress up and the ladies didn't need to put tattoos all over them selves. Just natural beauty. No talking on the cell phones instead talking to each other . Having conversations . It was a simpler time back then. I miss the 80s.
Cool 1982 Channel 24 ABC Toledo Ohio Showing American Bandstand Saturday's Afternoons after watching my Saturday morning cartoons when I was a youngster in the 80'S 😎
I was & am grateful for getting in. My older sister got us in even my cousin. Awesome to dance even though the camera doesn't see us. My sister ALWAYS watched over me plus my cousin in those days. Thank you, Sis. Love you. ♥️
I got on a few times because I had some friends who were on there regularly. It was a lot of fun and Dick Clark was so nice. I feel so lucky, like most of us, to have been there to enjoy the music and era of the 80s💗💗💗
Great show! Lived in Northern Indiana, probably had a snow warning that day as well. This was pre-Madonna, dress was preppy/new wave.Wonder how the kids today think about those acne medication commercials. Lol!
ABS help me with coping with the paissing of my mom in Oct of 81 I was 23 when she passed I would which it and would get in to the music and dancing I would turn 24 in September of that year so thank sharing this show
The weather report for Ohio which is where i lived at the time. I loved getting snowed in. The clothes, the big oversized blouses and the leather tie belt. I was so in.
I noticed 14 minutes in WDHO accidentally played their "Thunderstorm/Tornado Watch/Warning" sounder. If people wondered what that was, that's the same sound effect they used for the Wonkavision transmission scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!
I could swear I heard this sound effect back in 1970's Tomorrowland when my folks found out how much fun it was to take a family of six to "Feed the Mouse"...
I am now a permanent subscriber to your channel. These are some of the best videos I’ve seen from any RUclips’er posting classic stuff. You sir, are a God!
Memories of my childhood and teenage years. The commercials it’s like bringing a time capsules interesting enough most of those products no longer exist. And the commercials had no other ethnicities representation It took “America” a while to get it .
I met his wife after he passed. We were giving a talk at the same place! She was speaking on the cause of his suicide. Sad….she was really sweet though!
@@Naminski1a Yes I do and they were unique and fun, but I was too young to call those 900 numbers and I certainly didn't wanna charge my parents' phone bill lol But Bandstand had everything, Dance Contests, Rate a Record, Top Ten, Spotlight Dance you name it and also, the set to the 82-87 yeras were the best and the last good years of Bandstand, I like it better than the Disco Set When abc cut AB to 1/2 Hour, that's when it got bad and Mr. Clark had no choice, but to pull AB off of abc and move the show out of the ABC Television Center in HOLLYWOOD and into another studio and that's when he brought the show back to an hour
I was one of those people and enjoyed every minute of it. Actually it was a 80's thing which Carlton happened to be a part of. I still dance that way this day...😊
This was around the time when the US had high inflation and interest rates (albeit the interest rates in early 1982 were >10%) - similar to mid summer 2022.
Sneaker's 2nd album "Loose In The World" (January 1983) did NOT chart in Billboard Album Chart & the 45 single song "Believe Me Tonight" also did not chart in Billboard. They disbanded in late 1983 or early 1984. I also have all the Japan CD imports of their debut, "Loose In The World" (both albums on CD with bonus tracks NOT found on iTunes), also "Early On" (collection of demos & unreleased tracks), "The Unreleased Demos" (found on iTunes) & "Live In Japan" (1983 concert)!! Too bad that Sneaker might have been the next Toto or the next Little River Band!! By the way, Toto "I Won't Hold You Back" (from Toto "IV" 1982) reminds me of "More Than Just The Two Of Us"!!
Sneaker's success IMO can be accounted to the then-program director of WNBC (66 AM) in New York who as I remember was known to have a very conservative playlist whom Howard Stern referred to as "Pig Vomit" in his 1995 autobiographical motion picture "Private Parts" (based on his book that came out a year earlier and where that PD was otherwise known as "Kenny"). "More Than Just The Two Of Us" got excessive airplay on WNBC and very little airplay on any other station in NYC (at a time NYC had no legitimate Top 40 station as WABC was in its final days as a music station before going Talk on May 10, 1982 and the closest was actually WYNY-FM (97.1) that was really Adult Contemporary) and basically got to #34 on the national charts almost entirely because of the excessive airplay it got on WNBC (it did get played on stations elsewhere as well,. but NOT to the extent it was played on WNBC). Where this was really notable was WNBC's year-end survey for 1982 where that song for the year was well ahead of The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" that was a #1 song nationally.
I was born 1/4/82, so I was 12 days old when this aired and I was stuck in a crib when I should of been Disco-ing with these teens that look like they're pushing 40.
@@thankthelord4536 from 1980 and 1982, Dance Music still had that quintessential Disco sound (strings, horns, etc). It wasn't until 1983 when it all went completely electronic.
Love your channel and content. I just subscribed. Could you please post more full episodes of AB? I watched every Saturday as a kid in the '70s and as a teen in the '80s. I'm now 57, and this really takes me back to the best years of my life. Thanks so much!
Me too I am about to be 58 the first of the yr and I loved those days too. I watched every Saturday since I was three. Born in 66 and didn't miss this as long as it was on. Loved it. Couldn't get enough. Music was good back then. Wish I had a time machine to go bk and live those yrs over again. I would happily.
Where is the episode where American bandstand played Led Zeppelin the song called Carosoulambra in it's entirely Without commercial break may 5th 1981 I'm pretty sure that was the date I saw on the TV screen
If I could go back to that date I wouldn't be at American Bandstand, I'd be at an Ozzy concert watching Randy Rhoads play. Poor guy only had 2 months left to live.
Dick Clark was geniu$. Interesting that the show became more inclusive. It's amazing how bad the fashions were, the guys are so effeminate, and there was only one (1) obese person on the set...Love the commercials. I loved the 80s.
There was only one obese person because they were rare, not like today with over 60 percent of young people being overweight or obese. The fashions? They were awesome in the 80’s. You must be a millennial.
@almad It's weird. I was a Teen in the 70s, and whenever I see pics of myself and other people from that time, I cringe big time! I can't believe we thought the clothes and hairstyles we wore back then looked good to us. But at the time we did for some reason. But looking back, I think the 70s were a fashion disaster decade. 😊
Was Del Shannon a popular musician among the young people (like high school and college kids) back in 1982? I figured he would have been a popular act for people in their late 20's to 30's at the time.
The early 80s seems to have been a big time for remakes and redos. Stars on 45 had a hit with a song that had sections of songs from "Venus" by the Shocking Blue, the "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies, then songs by the Beatles all joined by hand clapping. Larry Elgart had a danceable remake of songs from the big band era with a backbeat of hand clapping called "Hooked on Swing". Not to be topped by those were the Spinners with "Cupid/I've Loved You For A Long Time", Van Halen with Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". So many remakes in the 1980s were of songs popular in the 1960s and 1970s: "Angel of the Morning" - Juice Newton, "I Want Candy" - Bow Wow Wow, "Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes, "The Tide Is High" - Blondie, "Harlem Shuffle" - Rolling Stones and a bunch more.
I definitely like Diana’s cover of “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” more than the original. Maybe it’s because I was alive in the early ‘80’s but not the ‘50’s.
I graduated in 1981 what a time to be a teenager. I miss those years 😢. People would dress up and the ladies didn't need to put tattoos all over them selves. Just natural beauty. No talking on the cell phones instead talking to each other . Having conversations . It was a simpler time back then. I miss the 80s.
I hear yah. Was 19 in 82.
And obesity or overweight was at a all time low
So True 😊
American Bandstand and Soul Train. Those were the shows I watched on Saturdays. Thank you SO much, Dick Clark and Don Cornelius.
🤛🏽💯
😎👉 the 80's will never die we need to bring it back .
Wish we could❤
My kind of America! Miss the 'good ol days'! 🇺🇸
Yes no cellphones~
@@Somethingwicked1x ya i dont think thats what they meant.....
@@kerrbear1980 SO Who cares? That's what I meant. I can't stand sheep on their phones.
@@Somethingwicked1xThen why are you using your phone right now? 🤡
@@gdawg1585 I am on a home computer & I don't want a cellphone. Cellphones are for sheep.
Simpler days back then. I miss it. I want to go back in a time machine.
no cell phones , back then people talked , today grrrrrr oh well .....
I’m in
👍
Same! Take me with you ☺
Cool 1982 Channel 24 ABC Toledo Ohio Showing American Bandstand Saturday's Afternoons after watching my Saturday morning cartoons when I was a youngster in the 80'S 😎
Now it's NBC affiliate and call letters are wnwo
I turned 18 this year and had been watching this show since I could crawl. The music between the eras I watched it from the 60’s the 80’s was on fire!
I am young aswell, i find myself watching this more than the music now, this show looks soo fun
These could be the children of those on the earliest episodes of AB. And these kids are now grandparents!
I am so grateful for you sharing these vintage episodes from your collection. Thanks again!
Remember watching American Bandstand every Saturday afternoon
I was & am grateful for getting in. My older sister got us in even my cousin. Awesome to dance even though the camera doesn't see us. My sister ALWAYS watched over me plus my cousin in those days. Thank you, Sis. Love you. ♥️
I also turned 19 in 82. What a great era to grow up in.
This video just turned 40 this past January. How time flies.
Sneakers- To young to remember but their song is beautiful ❤
I got on a few times because I had some friends who were on there regularly. It was a lot of fun and Dick Clark was so nice. I feel so lucky, like most of us, to have been there to enjoy the music and era of the 80s💗💗💗
WOW , does this bring back memories. Love it commercials and all.
Love these American Bandstand videos commercials & all. Such nostalgia!
Class of 82 and good times!
Class of '83 here
Awesome Del Shannon. I got this album recently on vinyl.
Great show! Lived in Northern Indiana, probably had a snow warning that day as well. This was pre-Madonna, dress was preppy/new wave.Wonder how the kids today think about those acne medication commercials. Lol!
Meanwhile in warm, sunny Southern California, these kids were dancing to The Go Go's.
ABS help me with coping with the paissing of my mom in Oct of 81 I was 23 when she passed I would which it and would get in to the music and dancing I would turn 24 in September of that year so thank sharing this show
I was 20 then I could have been on American Bandstand which was on Saturdays at 12:30.I just turned 63 where did the years go such memories.
Like this Monday, Thursday, Friday Sunday I been saying this since 1987
The weather report for Ohio which is where i lived at the time. I loved getting snowed in. The clothes, the big oversized blouses and the leather tie belt. I was so in.
Well..disco was over with..and for a while..they were remaking classic 50s and 60s song. Quite cool.
my birthday was on this day. I turned 18 and I watched this every week
I was 18 1/2 and a freshman in college and I used to watch this every weekend too! Great memories..... doesn’t seem that long ago lol.
Loved this show every Saturday, always had to be in front of the tv when it came on .
Watching this on the same day, it aired 41 years ago
Brings back so many memories.
Those were the days. Too bad there’s no place like that for kids today So why not ? ❤❤❤❤
How ironic, a 3 Musketeers chocolate bar commercial followed by a Clearasil commercial.
Before and after
I am a Grand Rapids native myself! That's where Del Shannon is from.
Thanks for leaving in the commercials... brings back great memories of my high school days.
The irony is I never knew about american bandstand until vh1 started airing the reruns.
That’s not irony. It’s information.
Happy birthday to the late great Del Shannon
I noticed 14 minutes in WDHO accidentally played their "Thunderstorm/Tornado Watch/Warning" sounder. If people wondered what that was, that's the same sound effect they used for the Wonkavision transmission scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!
It was a blizzard warning. Hopefully no tornadoes in Ohio in January.
@@TravelinBand747 Oooh!
I could swear I heard this sound effect back in 1970's Tomorrowland when my folks found out how much fun it was to take a family of six to "Feed the Mouse"...
I thought the uploader inserted those audio effects to escape the wrath of RUclips's Copyright Police.
@@LogoMan7777 Ha, you wish! This was what I used to hear on 24 all the time these storm watch/warnings happened!
I am now a permanent subscriber to your channel. These are some of the best videos I’ve seen from any RUclips’er posting classic stuff. You sir, are a God!
Wow, let's go back in time
World was such a better safer nicer place back then
23:33, 23:54 - That's Jo Ann Orgel, an AB alum of 11 years (1971-82).
Yeah your right. I think she looked better in the 70s
From a simple time ! Better times then vs today
What a great time
Love this show
Sneaker's hit "More Than Just The Two Of Us" was produced by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter who was a member of both Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers.
You could tell it was a Becker/Fagen song. It had a Pretzel Logic vibe.
Yup can hear the influence of the Doobie Brothers sound.
Memories of my childhood and teenage years. The commercials it’s like bringing a time capsules interesting enough most of those products no longer exist. And the commercials had no other ethnicities representation It took “America” a while to get it .
Interesting to see the change in fashion from disco to new wave
I met his wife after he passed. We were giving a talk at the same place! She was speaking on the cause of his suicide. Sad….she was really sweet though!
I graduated in 82
I really want to see the October 30, 1982 full episode of American Bandstand on ABC with musical guests Janet Jackson and Laura Branigan.
Same here, VH1 aired it as part The Best of American Bandstand, but they were cut to 1/2 hour and they even edited the closing credits as well
@@tnawcwvictoria Do you remember American Bandstand Dance Contest?
@@Naminski1a Yes I do and they were unique and fun, but I was too young to call those 900 numbers and I certainly didn't wanna charge my parents' phone bill lol
But Bandstand had everything, Dance Contests, Rate a Record, Top Ten, Spotlight Dance you name it
and also, the set to the 82-87 yeras were the best and the last good years of Bandstand, I like it better than the Disco Set
When abc cut AB to 1/2 Hour, that's when it got bad and Mr. Clark had no choice, but to pull AB off of abc and move the show out of the ABC Television Center in HOLLYWOOD and into another studio and that's when he brought the show back to an hour
@@tnawcwvictoria What’s the American Bandstand Dance Contest and what are the prizes?
@@tnawcwvictoria Totally agree, the best years 82-87
So strange to see the weather alert and realize we both watched this show on channel 24.
Late 70s Early 80s
@imacjason i don't mean to hassle you but do you have anymore American Bandstand episodes coming up. We love these!
bass player for Del Shannon is the late Howie Epstein, who played bass with Tom Petty.
Those were the best days wish I could crawl into my phoner and just stay there
Tom & Del were singing. Tom apologized to Del when he took Howie away from Del to replace Ron Blair in The Heartbreakers.
The song "Don't Let Me In" was originally ran 3:45 on album. There is 23 more seconds on the Japan import CD which is 4:08 which fades out.
This is the carlton dance people!
I was one of those people and enjoyed every minute of it. Actually it was a 80's thing which Carlton happened to be a part of. I still dance that way this day...😊
Tom Petty produced Del Shannon's remake of "Sea Of Love"-Del is namechecked in Tom's 1989 hit "Runnin' Down A Dream".
Del was briefly considered to be a replacement for Roy Orbison in the Traveling Wilburys. Jeff Lynne was producing an album for him at the time.
This was around the time when the US had high inflation and interest rates (albeit the interest rates in early 1982 were >10%) - similar to mid summer 2022.
Sneaker's 2nd album "Loose In The World" (January 1983) did NOT chart in Billboard Album Chart & the 45 single song "Believe Me Tonight" also did not chart in Billboard. They disbanded in late 1983 or early 1984. I also have all the Japan CD imports of their debut, "Loose In The World" (both albums on CD with bonus tracks NOT found on iTunes), also "Early On" (collection of demos & unreleased tracks), "The Unreleased Demos" (found on iTunes) & "Live In Japan" (1983 concert)!! Too bad that Sneaker might have been the next Toto or the next Little River Band!! By the way, Toto "I Won't Hold You Back" (from Toto "IV" 1982) reminds me of "More Than Just The Two Of Us"!!
“More than just the two of us”is a great track. Too bad you can’t find it on iTunes.
@@almad4355 That song is on Apple iTunes!!
@@matthewclark9652 Maybe in the US verdin, but not in Canada, sadly.
Sneaker's success IMO can be accounted to the then-program director of WNBC (66 AM) in New York who as I remember was known to have a very conservative playlist whom Howard Stern referred to as "Pig Vomit" in his 1995 autobiographical motion picture "Private Parts" (based on his book that came out a year earlier and where that PD was otherwise known as "Kenny"). "More Than Just The Two Of Us" got excessive airplay on WNBC and very little airplay on any other station in NYC (at a time NYC had no legitimate Top 40 station as WABC was in its final days as a music station before going Talk on May 10, 1982 and the closest was actually WYNY-FM (97.1) that was really Adult Contemporary) and basically got to #34 on the national charts almost entirely because of the excessive airplay it got on WNBC (it did get played on stations elsewhere as well,. but NOT to the extent it was played on WNBC). Where this was really notable was WNBC's year-end survey for 1982 where that song for the year was well ahead of The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" that was a #1 song nationally.
I was born 1/4/82, so I was 12 days old when this aired and I was stuck in a crib when I should of been Disco-ing with these teens that look like they're pushing 40.
My daughter was born September 8th 1982 and she like the 50s to the 80s music and she hates rap music praise God, loves Gospel music
The disco era was over by 1980.
@@thankthelord4536 from 1980 and 1982, Dance Music still had that quintessential Disco sound (strings, horns, etc). It wasn't until 1983 when it all went completely electronic.
Im as old as this videos...40 😅...
1/16/1982
a week before the gogo's made their network debut
Love your channel and content. I just subscribed. Could you please post more full episodes of AB? I watched every Saturday as a kid in the '70s and as a teen in the '80s. I'm now 57, and this really takes me back to the best years of my life. Thanks so much!
Me too I am about to be 58 the first of the yr and I loved those days too. I watched every Saturday since I was three. Born in 66 and didn't miss this as long as it was on. Loved it. Couldn't get enough. Music was good back then. Wish I had a time machine to go bk and live those yrs over again. I would happily.
I was only 20 working in Franklin Newhampshire as an afternoon drive DJ at WFTN radio. Lakes region area. Great times.
82. ..I was in tenth grade. Some of those outfits are too much ..lol
When American bandstand came on that meant it was time to turn off the tv and go outside and play after watching cartoons all morning.
me was binging on more tv intro primetime depending if my mom didnt drag me outta the house to go to the mall or go food shopping lol
Howie Epstein on bass for Del Shannon. Howie would soon replace Ron Blair in Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
To say Tom Petty's fingerprints are on Del's new track is a tad of an understatement. That said, it works pretty dang well.
Where is the episode where American bandstand played Led Zeppelin the song called Carosoulambra in it's entirely Without commercial break may 5th 1981 I'm pretty sure that was the date I saw on the TV screen
all these kids are now pushing 60 y.o.
Classic AB episode 1982
Robert Plant did sea of love too around the same time. The honeydrippers
1984 actually.
Yes in deed.
RIP Del Shannon, I wish he didn't take his life.
"Lip Lickers" lip balm commercial. Way too racy & sexist by today's politically correct/woke standards.
American Bandstand is the closest thing to a time machine we have.
Happy new year 1982
If I could go back to that date I wouldn't be at American Bandstand, I'd be at an Ozzy concert watching Randy Rhoads play. Poor guy only had 2 months left to live.
Del Shannon shot himself on 2/8/1990, after which his widow filed suit against the makers of Prozac.
Do you have any American bandstand episode from 1986-1987-1988
By the late 80s they were running music videos like everyone else. So American Bandstand fell down hill after that.
Awwwe, Del Shannon....
He's from Coopersville, MI. Just down the road from where I grew up.
Sneaker is so underrated
Maybe it was the name... maybe they should have called them selves The Snikeys..😂
wondering what are all these peeps upto these days...they dancing so cool
They're still dancing. They've never stopped. They've been locked in the AB studio since 1982. 😁😉
Love
Will either of those become a hit? Are those new releases in the recording industry?
R.I.P Del Shannon.
i was born only a few weeks earlier December 21st.
At 20:45 is a rare glimpse of Dick pushing his lectern off stage during a song. IATSE can't be happy.
Lol. Union guy here ...I get it
Dick Clark was geniu$. Interesting that the show became more inclusive. It's amazing how bad the fashions were, the guys are so effeminate, and there was only one (1) obese person on the set...Love the commercials. I loved the 80s.
There was only one obese person because they were rare, not like today with over 60 percent of young people being overweight or obese. The fashions? They were awesome in the 80’s. You must be a millennial.
I wonder whatever became of that obese dancer? I remember seeing him on the promos for VH-1s reruns.
@almad It's weird. I was a Teen in the 70s, and whenever I see pics of myself and other people from that time, I cringe big time! I can't believe we thought the clothes and hairstyles we wore back then looked good to us. But at the time we did for some reason. But looking back, I think the 70s were a fashion disaster decade. 😊
And on Soul Train: L.T.D. and James Ingram.
Was Del Shannon a popular musician among the young people (like high school and college kids) back in 1982? I figured he would have been a popular act for people in their late 20's to 30's at the time.
I also watched bandstand on saturdays & i too remember the fat black guy. 1983 was the best! The fljrts, bananarama, bow wow wow, the thompson twins!
Yeah he always did the same dance. Flopping his arms around like a grounded goose...😊
Wow....funny...a band called "The Text Tones" in 1982!
At 33:53 you want to pause and slow down playback speed. Enjoy fellas.
Who was the heavy set black guy? He could throw down.
I've wondered that myself.
I think if you talk about true icons dick Clark would be in conversation because American bandstand is the best place to be for the best of the 80,s
2:40 There's Missy Mafrici alongside Jo Ann. She was a "looker".
Kenny Rogers won for fave male pop vocal.
1 was 20 years
Good years
Is it just me or are the first three songs remakes?
They are.
The early 80s seems to have been a big time for remakes and redos. Stars on 45 had a hit with a song that had sections of songs from "Venus" by the Shocking Blue, the "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies, then songs by the Beatles all joined by hand clapping. Larry Elgart had a danceable remake of songs from the big band era with a backbeat of hand clapping called "Hooked on Swing". Not to be topped by those were the Spinners with "Cupid/I've Loved You For A Long Time", Van Halen with Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". So many remakes in the 1980s were of songs popular in the 1960s and 1970s: "Angel of the Morning" - Juice Newton, "I Want Candy" - Bow Wow Wow, "Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes, "The Tide Is High" - Blondie, "Harlem Shuffle" - Rolling Stones and a bunch more.
23:51 & 25:17 - pin shots meant one thing - JOANN ORGEL!!
I definitely like Diana’s cover of “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” more than the original. Maybe it’s because I was alive in the early ‘80’s but not the ‘50’s.
I like the 50s version better I listened to the old music with my mother ,Diana Ross's voice irritates us
28:48 my favorite part of AB!🙂
Billy Preston on the Mini Moog