Middle School Dances in the 80s. The music, the drama, the blatant lack of chaperones chaperoning.
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- Middle School Dances back in the 80s. The music, the dancing, the drama. The blatant lack of chaperones chaperoning.
#1980s #80s #schooldance #backintheday #oldschool #memories #ilovethe80s
Dances and skating rinks. Were the next level.❤
Overnight skating 🛼 when you got locked in until 6 am 😅
Yeah that takes me back- waaaayyy back. But for us girls we basically had to dance with ourselves because the guys would only hit the dance floor when a hip hop song came on so they could breakdance. As for chaperones? I honestly can't remember ever seeing any of them around so he def got that right. We used to also have clubs that catered to under 18 kids and that's where the REALLY interesting stories took place. But I wasn't allowed to go.
I came here to comment roller skating rinks❤😂
Ahh yes, forty years ago at the age of 13, my first paying job was working at a skating rink and the dj was my boss and his wife ran the ticket window, vinyl records were used, and our music was the best for roller skating!
i know a 56 year old guy who Still Roller skates Weekly
The middle school dances were so brutal.
Everyone standing against the walls to scared to approach each other.
Dances weren't allowed at my middle school. The principal was a church elder, and thought dancing was evil.
@@lifeinpodunkville543 was he played by John Lithgow in the movie?
@@lifeinpodunkville543 religion ruins everything.
Same here. Went to a independent baptist school and it was ALL the devil's music 😂@@lifeinpodunkville543
I am a music guy and EVERYTHING in my life from the 70's and 80's is tied to music. I can recall a lot of my middle school time and the music tied to it
Same . Audiophile completely.
Same. If you're musical, you will tie life experience to music of the day or music you heard.
Music is tied to all of my memories. I’ve always loved music more than most of the people around me.
Same here
"Lady in Red," played SO much back then. Too much!
Every 5th song on the radio!!
I got a red dress 💃... cause the other girl had a white dress 😂
Crap that was a flashback.
& at my school there was always someone gonna fight someone after the dance.
Middle school dances in the gym:
All the theater kids, all the dance kids, turning the gym into "Fame!"...
We were lucky to have been in school where & when we were, and owe Miss Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis a huge thank you for demonstrating how to integrate schools (and students) successfully.
We had zero clue our kindergarten to 12th grade class was going to be making history, and make the Koch Brothers so mad they would attempt to buy the 2009 school board elections when our kids just wanted the same opportunities we had ...
(And yeah, I learned 2 people with braces SHOULD NOT KISS🤣)
😮😳
Somewhere, I still have a picture of me and my “first love” dancing at one of those things. The Ringwald-core was strong in that outfit. LMFAO
8th grade I had a band and played 3 songs at a dance. We weren’t good we weren’t bad, but it put me on the map with a few young ladies.
😂😂😂
And since I only lived 3 miles from my school, my mom said I could walk with my friends.
One brought some drinks and one brought some J’s.
Danced for 2-3 hours and walked home. I was 13.
Thanks mom!
(54 now and a super proud Gen X er)
I feel the same way about those middle school dances they were amazing dramatic and the best time of my life
Phil Collins “Against all odds “ brings me right back to a random 8th grade dance, dancing with my crush 😊
I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me CRY😆🖐️
"One of the Jennies".... hahaha! So true! There were 4 in my class.
At one, we relentlessly requested a particular song.
They warned us they would turn it off if we did "that thing" and never play it again....
🎵🎶"Here she comes now sayin' Mony Mony..."🎶🎵
Us: HEY! GET LAID GET F**CKED!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, that was a bonding moment
To this day I still sing that part in my head (and sometimes outloud😂) every time I hear that song!!🤘❤🤘
We did that in Northern NJ. I didn't realize it was so widespread. Honestly thought it was a jersey thing.
@@chiarac3833Quebec, Canada, in a dance party overlooking icebergs on the St Lawrence Seaway, and the francophones were on one side of the banquet hall and the anglophones were on the other, no mingling all evening ... until Mony Mony comes on and finally the kids find common ground. The chaperones just decided they couldn't understand what we were saying because we were finally getting along. It was awesome. 😂
@@04beni04 Definitely awesome!! 😃
@@chiarac3833 Right?? Things still managed to make the rounds even without social media
We used to have “teen” nightclubs back then too. It gave us something to look forward to every weekend and it definitely kept us out of trouble and off the streets.
I loved dances. But I’m also transported back to the skating rink when I hear Faithfully or Amanda. I also had parties at my house often in HS, because my dad traveled often for work, and we would always put Journey in the 6 disc changer.
"Oh Mickey you're so fine, you're so fone you blow my mind..."
My first kiss was at an 8th grade dance.
Me too! Well, technically Jr. High.
Back through the mists of time again. Air Supply is playing in the gym and my seventh grade class is dancing, breaking up, making up, getting together, and sneaking out to drink/smoke out the side door, because the teachers are drinking/smoking out the back. The restrooms are full and so are the classrooms, where kids have snuck in and are finally learning something. Sigh! What a blast. 😊❤
Remember walking out to those songs at home homecomings. Sister Christian seems to stick to walking out to and maybe a few Brian Adams songs. lol.
roller skating rinks!
We didn't have dances in middle school, only high school.
We didn't either. Our principal was a church elder and said dancing is sinful & evil.
@@lifeinpodunkville543FOOTLOOSE!
😂 that's why that song urks me! I remember middle school camp week. We had a dance there. Don't remember dances at my Middle School, but HS had a few.
I never went to middle school dances. I also skipped most high school dances because my boyfriend wasn't in high School.
I was the undiagnosed autistic/adhd hot girl 😂 I danced way too much at all the dances in middle school. Looking back now, I think people thought I looked crazy, but I was having the time of my life! Still do, and honestly don’t gaf. 🤘🏻 I even started soul train lines, I was in my own show in my head! 💃🏻
My friends and I went to dances. N9 dates, unless you had one. And we all started the dancing. No holding up walls!
Sock hops! 😂 I ran into the wall with braces on, jumping around to "Jump Around".
Yes! Middle school dances were the best! Ah, good memories 😊
Oh that hits right in the feels… 😂
I remember electric avenue. A lot of the kids in my class are now on my FB.
We started having sock hops in grade school. I absolutely love it.
Our middle school dances we were only allowed to go if we had a grade point average of a C or higher! I'll never forget that my favorite dance was when I was crushing on Danny R. I crushed on him for 4 years. I just turned 64 yesterday and I still think he was the best "man" ever in my life. I tried to match up every man in my life to Danny! I loved dances.
Oh gawd...🤦 my oldest (daughter) just started 6th grade. I'm not prepared as a girl dad
It's just not the same now. Everyone is sitting around taking selfies and updating their profiles while the "outcasts" are the ones that dance. Sad times
Middle school dances 🥰🥰🥰 My first kiss with Jimmy ... wearing those thick wooden high heels but immediately taking them off before the dance cuz i was taller than all but 2 boys at school ... wearing Love's Baby Soft and strawberry lipgloss. BEST music ever! Thanks for the awesome memories, Jono! ❤
Ayoooooo those were the best! I’m 48 years old now and I still love the music from back then. Faithfully was a teenage love classic! Skid Row’s “I remember you” was among the best as well.
I didn't go to dances, I was very shy, but we went roller skating a lot. I have music flashbacks of skating in the late 70s, early 80s❤
Stairway was always the last song at my MS dances. You saved that one for someone you wanted to be with for a while
Ours way Never Say Goodbye! It was always the last song ( played at 9 pm) at every jr. high dance!
I laughed knowingly at your last statement.😂🎉😂
Our dances were after school. Now they're during the day. They actually have activities for those that don't want to dance. They have a movie, bingo, arts & crafts. No more hugging the wall trying to be invisible.
I loved school dances. I had my girl friends and a couple guy friends to dance w if we currently didn't have a SO. Those same guys stayed my dance partners all thru HS, too.
I got that beat, my brother & I always think of Swim Club Pre-Teen dances when we hear Cream’s Sunshine of Your Love ❤
My middle school also had “formals” and that was my introduction to heartbreak. Ah, living and learning, 80s style.
Junior High dances atarted in '77 for me. Mr. Kelly was in charge of music, so we had a good bit of DooWop and Motown, along with some current stuff. What i remember most was that Robert John's Sad Eyes was used as the multiplication dance, and that was the best time to use the restroom.
Yeah, I remember middle school dances. Sadly I was more like Screech for saved by the bell. Or one of the Big Bang Theory cast members. 😂
Jimmy, Johnny, David, Brian... Turned into Kevin, Kyle, Chad, Tucker 😂😂😂
6tugrade dance, 1973, BTO Taking Care of Business! A star dancer (me) was born. Thank you for the memory jog!!!❤
Spandau Ballet - True, can't hear it without thinking of a HS Dance I went to.
I'm looking at my middle school prom picture right now..lol
Great times, you nailed it perfectly.
Thinking of dances and parties and after parties from back in the day makes me realize how much social media has taken away from my kids. Because they can just go home and text or whatever they do not have the big desire to hang out with each other like we did. And those parties or hangouts were some of the best times of my life. Imagine a shared meme with your friends being the memories or your adolescent years.
I wasn't in junior high in the early 90s, but I agree, the dances were wild and feral. I also get instantly transported back with the music. It was at one of these dances that I drummed up the courage to ask a boy to dance after chickening out many times. We are now married with 7 kids, been together ever since that dance :)
I loved those dances the teachers were always outside 😂😂😂
Smoking?
Graduated in the mid 80s. A lot if early 80s music tairs me back to the gymnasium at my Junior high sock hops.
We wandered the halls, with drinks, and ran around singing "I wanna be an airborne ranger..." and repeating lines from other movies as loud as possible to get an echo off the lockers. Eventually, a few of us had to pee, but the only bathroom unlocked was a second floor boys room. Some of us girls learned how to pee standing up so we could use a urinal. Lol.
My youngest daughter just went to her Homecoming dance Saturday. Sigh…
Only 1 more dance ( Prom) for her to go to and it’s all over…
Mom ( me) will not get to go through the excitement of watching her pick out dresses, accessaries and shoes. Watching her get ready. Helping her with her make up. Having her borrow items from my closet, jewelry box or make up. The excitement of her friends over and i take photos to send to their parents. My excitement to send photos to my family.
oh…. we are getting older…. 😢 Im very happy to experienced it through “mom eyes”. ❤️
It makes me reminisce about my high school days ❤
My Middle school alternated every other month, dance and rolling skating 😊
Oh my goodness, I swear you are so freaking funny. Every time I listen to you I am definitely a subscriber every time I listen to you I don’t even have to close my eyes, but I see all of the memories that I have experienced. Love you to death by the way, I love your blue eyes.❤❤❤
Ugh... Eric Clapton, wonderful tonight. I'll never forget her or that dance. She was it for years...
Random fun school dances in the gymnasium is real. Best memory of these was in 3rd grade dancing with my tennis partner to Debra Laws’s “Very Special”.
Biggest thing I learned from jr. high dances is who ultimately was in charge and it wasn’t the teachers. Revenge can be surprisingly sweet.
The reason why entertainment sucks is because we got all the good stiff in the 1980's .
They don't have any new
Went to eighth grade graduation dance, and surprised everyone, by dancing and not caring that it was by myself. I just liked the music. Some of the guys tried to get close to me, but I reminded them that they were interested in other girls, or so they told me earlier. I had fun. I even went to my winter formal in high school and my own senior prom. All times,I had fun. Winter formal and prom I had dates. I think they didn’t realize I like to dance.
OmG! Flashing back in time!
When I was in middle school, actually junior high where I grew up, had a teen center. We had dances every other Friday. So we had a lot of dances and a lot of drama. But it was fun.
We had several activities going on at the dances.i would always take in a movie... although early 80s VHS selections were a fraction of today.
Those songs were my senior prom jam.
Wow what a memory! And chaperones??? I don't recall them at my school. 🤣 The good thing about my school we had our cliches but everyone got along and several of us are still friends.
When the children cry playing during one of my junior high dances.
I found a classic hip hop station and it made me feel like I was at one of those dances
Any 80’s babies remember the much music dance parties ?
They would come to your high school (8-12) and put on the wickedest dance ever !!!
I remember my first "formal" dance. I was in the 6th grade. My date was also my first kiss. My very first slow dance was to, "When I See You Smile" by Bad English. I always smile when I remember that night.
We used to only stay at our dance for about 45 minutes, just to figure out where the after party was.. and then leave.
There was a boy that had a big crush on me in middle school. He was a bit shorter than me, and he would rest his head on my newly developed chest while we slow danced. He had the biggest smile on his face, and I was mortified. 😅😂
Bro... you forgot the awkward silence and guys on one side girls on the other for the first good 30 min.
I never went to any of them...
Whenever offers were made to attend, I always replied with silence and the middle finger.
Always say them as a waste of time.
Only went to one jr high dance. They announced after we were inside that no one could leave until 8pm when our parents came to pick us up. The chaperones found out we weren't afraid of the emergency exit and ran faster than they could. Our parents weren't going to waste time picking up 😂😂
Going to a Lutheran school, we didn't have middle school. And we didn't have dances at that age, sadly.
Never went to one because I wasn't popular enough to go to one other than alone. Then the one time a girl asked me to one, because I didn't have the confidence to ask them, I thought it was just a joke they were playing at my expense, and I said no.
My history is the opposite of that. Plenty of teamates or art friends to hang out with going alone.
I feel bad for the guy from art. Called my parents home phone. I told him no. I considered if I maybe I could handle it. No way. Too many cuter guys, and it would have destroyed my reputation. I should have approached more guys, because in Highschool I had a boyfriend who was a senior, graduated. Having a college boyfriend I missed out on more innocent boys. My first kiss was the valedictorian and he was super cute. Too bad he kissed like a golden retriever.
I had the other side of that. The only middle school one I attended was a girl who sat across from me in my English class and who I'd known since first grade, but we ran in very different circles. She'd been actively, and publicly, making... teasing advances... for a couple months then up and asked me to the dance. I had no reason to say no. On the day of we found out she'd asked five of us.... all five of whom paid for both parties.
I was the one who was there, and ignored by just about everyone. I was the fat girl with glasses. One other girl who was left out was the girl who towered over all others. She was tall and thin
Not only the dances. We had star watches in middle School. We would camp in tents all night long on the football field to look at the stars and Moon with one chaperone for 40 kids. Now that was educational!
Stairway was a lock. Better or worse? Yup, and a lot of both. Good times.
The only dance I ever attended was 8th grade graduation. It was an experience, for sure.
Those were the best chaperones. It was awkward enough for some people without judgmental parents too.😂😂❤❤
Middle school dancing was a pretty cool hangout time it was the beginning of being prepared for high school ❤❤
I remember sock hops before school in the mornings at my jr high. The songs that transport me right back to those moments are come on Eileen, stray cat strut, and should I stay or should I go.
We had live bands at our school dances.
3 of her friends and 3 frienemies filling up their teacups.
Phil Plantier taught me a lot back in middle school.
Omg... the drama.
I was born in 80 and went to middle school in the 90s but never went to any dances. I never knew of any because, unfortunately, I was in ESE (special Ed) classes, so I never went to any dances plus I had nobody to go with
We always had sock hops. They were fun
School dances could go either way back then. Some were great, others were memorable for all the wrong reasons.
The music I remember most is Righteous Brothers, 'Unchained Melody" or Marvn Gaye, 'Lets Get it On", Styx, 'Babe", Meatloaf, 'Two Out of Three Ain't Bad', Wings "My Love", Dan Fogelberg, 'Longer", Peaches and Herb, 'Reunited', or 'Evin Bishop, 'Fooled Around and Fell in Love',
We only had a few dances in middle school but 'middle school wasn't a thing where I went to school, we went 1 through 8 at one school and then four years of high school at a completely different school .
We had lot of girls with the same names, there was like 8 Michelle's, five Jennifers, several Debbies, and a dozen or more Lorries or Laura's. There weren't many original names then just repeats of the same over and over again. I think the class before mine had like 12 Beths, and five Lindas.
Fights were common at our dances, some got pretty out of control, usually it was against guys from a different school who showed up to make trouble. It got so bad that they stopped having dances for a year and a half after a car got burned in the parking lot and a couple guys got into a high speed chase going after someone who started a fight.
What I remember most is dumping 20 bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 into the punch bowl or several bottles of Everclear. We all would have beer in our cars, or hidden in a cooler under the bleachers or back in the locker room.
I remember one dance where a a few of us woke up 30 miles away the next morning in a barn.
We thought that was the worst of it till Monday when we learned that about half of those who were drinking had passed out or were found in various other rooms in the school with some of the girls.
Waking up with a cow licking your head, with a hangover and three girls you barely know in a barn a half hour from home with no memory of how you got there, or where any of our clothes were is something that sticks with you for years.
I was 15, the one girl was a senior, the other was a chaperone, and the other was the grand daughter of the people that lived there. We only found that our after she started to wake up, or sober up, and tell us that we were there because if we had gone to her house her dad would have shot me for what we did the night before.. Then looking out and realizing you don't recognize or know who's car you drove, and don't remember driving it. Then one of them says they think its the principals car, "How did that get here?".
I'm sure that was the last time the principal left his keys on his desk. (We drove it home, that day but left it in a mall parking lot with the keys under the mat. None of us ever figured out where we left our clothes but the girl who was a chaperone, (who was the much older sister of a girl in my class, said she seemed to remember me throwing hers out the window.
A girl I was seeing at the time, who I took to that dance, took my motorcycle home, which concerned me a bit because the one girl I was with was her older sister.
The only thing I was able to gather from that night was that the older chick, the chaperone from the dance, was the one who cuddled up to me on the ride home, and the one I had to hide till I found some clothes back at my house for her to wear. I got some strange looks from my dad that day after driving up to the house after being gone all night with a strange naked woman, but all he did was smile and shake his head. I took the chaperone home the next morning on my motorcycle.
At the time I was more concerned with having gotten one of them pregnant than the car we had apparently borrowed or the fact that one of them was 7 years my senior and naked as we walked into my house. At the time I really hated school, but looking back 50 years later they were some wild times, and how we all stayed out of any serious trouble is beyond me.
Definitely remember this...do kids still have this?
I remember those dances. My big crush was Amanda McGregor
Too funny my son was just talking about this very damn thing tonight😮 I think they're listening 😂
Yep. Almost every Friday night after a home football game
Lol spot on. It sounds like you were at my 8th grade dance haha
They’d happen right after school, in the cafeteria that had been transformed by adding brown butcher paper to all the windows, and piling all the tables & chairs to one side🤣!
In Junior high (grades 7-9) in the mid 70's, we called them "Sock Hops", like they did in the 50's.
Went to one: 8th grade Valentines Day dance at Catholic school. Aside from right now, I think I only reflected on it twice in 41 years.
Teen Club! It was at Tasker, Junior High.
The same one the Beltway shooters targeted before they got caught.
High School Teen Club dances after the football games! It didn't matter how many times you were blocked or tackled, you hustled your a** off to get there in time for several dances. The aches and pains weren't noticeable until the next morning.
Don't forget that the boys and girls would stand awkwardly at the opposite side of the gym not knowing what to do lol. I still have my middle school dance photo lol