I feel the same way. I shudder to count how many years ago this has been since I saw kids like this and that song was NEW and playing on the radio. Where did my life go??
I was 15 years young back in 1964 and this was one of my favorite songs then. It was a great time to be a teenager back then. Hell, anytime is a great time to be young! Damn! Just looking at those kids, the way they dressed and combed their hair, the music...I really miss those days!
I loved this era...was young but absolutely loved being a part of it.. Innocent fun..good friends..parties football games.dances..sweet shops..45 records.. crushes...homecoming..proms....hay rides..bonfires..kids don't know what they are missing
So did I. Wonderful times and memories. That's how I learned to do all the dances. I always felt so happy watching Dick Clark and American Bandstand when it was in Philadelphia since I lived in the suburbs.
I did to...my mom watched this made us kids watch too...but in the late 60s..though the 70s..The Girls are Cute..Damn I wish I was a Teenager in this Era!!!...I wanted to be in this Era doing Grade School....Wow I feel for those are being born now..thay missed the Whole Shebang!!!
I remember getting home from school and running to turn on the tv to let it warm up. My mother and I would turn on Bandstand and watch, and we'd get up and dance! It was so much fun.
We high school kids used to watch the show every day after school. We'd rush home because we didn't want to miss it. We lived in NJ and the show was in Philly, so some kids did actually go to the show sometimes. We looked forward to learning the new dances and then practicing at the school "sock hops." We thought the kids on this show were the coolest of the cool and wanted to be like them. We had our favorites. Mine was Pat Molittieri. There were also favorite couples, namely Justine and Bob. Lots of info about these great dancers online.
When my daughter was a teenager & getting ready for school one morning I walked in her room to hurry her up. Just as I walked in she had her back to her mirror and saying, yeah they’re tight enough talking about her jeans!! I said you’re lucky you didn’t grow up in my era. I graduated in 1967 and there was no jean wearing for girls to school!!! You wore a dress or a skirt with hose or some type of sock!! Watching this really took me back to the good ole days. My daddy used to tell me that all the time about his lifetime and I would laugh. I just didn’t realize how rough things were about to get!!! The 60’s were wonderful.
Yup. I graduated high school in '67. We had a girl sent home because she had blue jeans on and a boy sent home because he had loafers on without socks. I was shocked when I went to pick my brother up from school when I returned from Vietnam in 1970. I saw this guy with a beard, long hair, and blue jeans with holes in them. I asked who in the hell that grubby kid was. My brother said it was his English teacher! LOL!!
Love this song…I was only 9 years old but I still love this song today. The kids dancing were so clean cut and innocent. It was a big deal to hold hands or to get a kiss….
A huge part of American teenage culture for so long, this show was a must not miss kind of thing...but it lost something in the 80's and faded. Dick Clark remains unmatched as a dance show host. Handsome as could be, super nice, and forever young.
The early 60's here was a carry over of the late 1950's. Changes were coming fast. Just 3 years later in 1967 music and fashions were very different then in 1964.
Kids listening to clean music, dressed with decency and just having a great time. That's the way it was back then. That's what they put on tv, back when the country had codes and standards and if it did not meet those decency codes IT WAS NOT AIRED. Not like it is now. Now you can see and hear any filth on tv. That song was JUST LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET by the Reflections and it was a hit in 1964. Thank you for this post! I loved watching Bandstand on Saturday, especially when they played this song in particular.
Robbnok there was a LOT going on! At least now schools can be mixed and we can have diversity and listen to music from different cultures and learn dances from different cultures no offense to you Calvin! :) I’m sure people had fun in the 1960s, but sadly there was a lot of bad going on too
I was a kid growing up then but it was the best of times...family and school were great....Sundays were special...we'd shoot the breeze and talk about God.... whether we made it to the Church on time or not.
99ontguy1 growing up in England at that time we left school and were working full time at age 15 and 16. Quite different to the North American kids so we were definitely more mature, in my case I looked after myself financially after giving my parents a quarter of my pay packet.
Angela, paying your parents room & board was common in America, too. I remember (in the early 70s) my older sister giving our parents a little bit of her paycheck once she was a senior in high school. Most people that lived with their parents beyond high school paid their own way. It was different then than it is now. I don't suppose it's as common as it used to be.
Lisa67 About 20 years ago when my 2 kids started working, they’re now 42 I used to charge them room and board as well. It helps them yo budget and get used to paying rent for future.
There was an innocence in the sixties. But much more in the fifties. I was a kid in the fifties and both times were memorable. Of course the eighties were great too.
I remember being dressed like that, stove-pipe pressed dress-slacks, white socks, penny loafers, shirt and tie covered with my Varsity sweater or a sports jacket. Those were the days! Thank you for the video, Ciao, L
lancelot1953 Isn't that more late '50s than '64?...wow I guess the Vietnam War kinda affected the Americans to dress "more" conservative than the, Swinging London...in Britain. Well, sociologically.
Yes, it was a very good time. I'm 64 and grew up in San Francisco. Even in a city like San Francisco drivers yielded the right-of-way to pedestrians. And people had manners. God, I do miss those days!
One of the few memorable non-Beatles songs in a terrific year of pop music! I'm happy I lived then as a pre-teen, but it marked a difficult change from the shocking event the prior November, which was then only 6 months earlier. The Beatles did their best to help us kids get through that difficult transition with their exciting new music and style.
This is so cool to watch , not my generation at all but it is so interesting to see where some dance steps originated and how it trickles down to later generations in a more abstract way .
Ah, American Bandstand. I remember as a kid watching this every Saturday. Really enjoyed watching the kids dancing and the music playing. Almost makes me wish I were a kid again - but only for a moment.
Very cute and innocent dancing. The single "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" was put out by a Detroit label called Golden World. It's a great sounding single that sounds better when you crank up the volume a bit. The Reflections also put out another single that was also very good but not as big a hit; it was called "Poor Man's Son" and is a somewhat obscure oldie gem. Check out the robust background vocals near the end of "Romeo and Juliet"; this group of guys sounded great together.
Steven Kerry Golden World was bought out by Berry Gordy as their studio was better than the Motown Hitsville Studio. He also acquired quite a few great artists.
It was a great song, though ; the aussie band, Mental As Anything, did a great cover of it in the eighties (in fact I didn't know it was a cover until I heard this!)
The past is a distorted illusion. Or it selectively produces varied memories which are a byproduct of a whole boatload of experiences. Take 1964. Was it 'fun' to be in Vietnam? No, probably not. What about High School? Hell no, even more so. The songs were more pure, simple, honest, heartfelt. Maybe they were right about it dying way earlier, the music, in '59 with Buddy Holly. Talk about heart!
I would watch Bandstand religiously! My girlfriends and I would practice their steps and invented some of our own. We added more to this dance. Thanks for the upload!
@@Mell0wY3ll0w Yes, that's true... teen pregnancies back then too, but they got married and tried to make it work. Today it's 14 yr old girls having a baby and by the time she's 21 has 3 or 4 kids from 3 or 4 different baby daddies :/
I learned to dance watching these as a youngster, which led to a lifelong romance with dance. Need an update, watch Bandstand or Soul Train!! Also, I loved watching the last guy in the line is constantly watching the guy next to him for the correct steps, while the first guy in line is really getting with it! Hilarious!
I was just 3 then. I lived at the far South of Spain, in a village with its beach I used to go every day in Summer with my little friends and our parents. All was good manners and I recall people had real happiness on their faces. I also remember the parties that were held in houses in that decade, all teenagers used to dress the same way as the teenagers in this video. :´-)
innocence? just because people were more reserved doesn't mean they weren't as perverted as people are nowadays. Those dudes would beat up their wives and no one bated and eye.
It's obvious true. But in the 60's many people behaved quite different as people nowadays do, I'd say many of them were much more elegant, apart of that, harmful substances, such as drugs (we all know, they make people be quite mad), were not as known and used as nowadays are; so there were mistreatment, but less, there were rapes, but less, there were murders, yes, but less, and so forth. .. That's the difference !
This makes me happy and smile lol This was just before the country would be plunged into the darkness of the Vietnam war. After a few short years, it would lose it's innocence.
I LUV the clean fun days of New Dance steps to originally go with individual kinds of music ... like at the HOP everybody actually Hopped .... or The TWIST EVERYONE TWISTED! ... The music was original and so were all the new dance steps ... to match !!! ... Such carefree days ...
+EPA18 The end isn't here yet, but I get your point. In many, many ways we are worse off morally and otherwise. The Beatles popularized recreational drug use helping to lead us down the road into present day drug culture. l look around at people with their asses hanging out of their breeches and tatoos with assorted metal stuck in their faces and wish for earlier days at times. Even the late 60's seem quaint compared to todays porn driven, drug smacked anything goes bad taste society.
+James Dunn The Beatles appeared on Sullivan Feb 1964 -- country still reeling from the Kennedy assination in Nov 1963. Those 3 weeks on Ed Sullivan were The Revolution. Nothing has been the same since.-- The girls here have gone Mod. The thing is..East coast guys were slow to change in the mid 60s- They didnt switch to the surfer look, summer of 63..but stuck with the do-wop influence style. Dick Clark knew Californey was the place he ought to be ..and moved. But old Bandstand was always the best
TV is where the problem began.Marshall McLuhan says it even changed the way people's brains 'work'. "The Media Is the Message".Most people growing up in the 50'a watched 2-3 hours a day. Today, the TV is on all day.It's not what you watch...the content is not as important its the process of viewing TV with it's dots and the brain combining them to create a 'mind image'.
I forgot about the dance called the Slauson. I used to do it during my high school years. Believe me folks it was a real dance, along with the mash potatoes, the jerk, etc.
Man, well behaved teenagers having a good time - hard to believe there was ever a time when something like this existed with what I see with teenagers nowadays. I realize some would call this conservatism - but frankly I wish I could have been a part of this. And I grew up during the Disco years. Anyway, so much for my commentary. But this is really nice - I like this.
I am thankful I lived during those years! I was 17 when this show was on in 1964 and the Kids were very well behaved and well dressed to. I wish It could have stayed that way!
I hear you, Gene! My mom was 19 in 1964 and had just gotten married to my father. She had the hairstyle with the flip at the end. I grew up in the 70's and graduated in the late 80's. We dressed up when we went out and were well behaved.
It was terribly repressive and you weren't allowed to express yourself as anything other than a carbon copy of this. I can remember my mom being humiliated in high school over dress codes because she was tall. Imagine having to kneel in front of a grown man as a teenage girl to have your skirt measured in order to prove you werent a slut. Skits like this don't show that reality.
G94, If they were really going at it in the back of a Cadillac then there should've been a lot more unplanned pregnancies at a time when abortion was illegal nationwide and it was very difficult for a teenager to get a hold of any birth control. Most teens were virgins. When there is tremendous social pressure not to do something then most won't.
actually you are wrong. Teen birth rates were much higher in the early 1960s than at present; in fact, rates for 18- to 19-year-olds were double what they are currently.
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I love how these are just kids and having a great time just dancing! The New generation has no clue!!!
NOT A SINGLE CLUE!!!
1964, the year I got married, I have nothing but good memories of the 1960's. Wouldn't it be wonderful to go back and live those years again
Yep
When times were good. Gotta love it and miss it.
They look so classy! Bring it back please!!!
I WAS 14 NOW I AM 68. ALL THESE KIDS ARE OLDER THAN ME. TIME PASSES SO QUICKLY. CHERISH EVERY MOMENT !
I feel the same way. I shudder to count how many years ago this has been since I saw kids like this and that song was NEW and playing on the radio. Where did my life go??
Great teens, clean and neatly dressed. Just dancing together having good clean fun. Its like a breath of fresh air you do not see everyday!
i used to play drums in this band. Sounding good. Nice to see.
Ed Victor You sir are a legend!!! Thank you!!
A backbeat, you can't lose it. So important.
That's AWESOME, time if your life, huh? 💯🌿👏💪🏿😎
Great!
The Reflections 1964. They were from New York City, I think?
I was 15 years young back in 1964 and this was one of my favorite songs then. It was a great time to be a teenager back then. Hell, anytime is a great time to be young! Damn! Just looking at those kids, the way they dressed and combed their hair, the music...I really miss those days!
Yes I was young back in 1964 too. I liked this song, it was very catchy back then. Isn't the girl closest to the camera lovely.
i was 7 in 64 that was my favorite too
@@mlang20 You had taste in music at age 7! LOL!
Ihad a 13 yr old aunt and a 15 year old uncle that helped@@felixmadison5736
I loved this era...was young but absolutely loved being a part of it.. Innocent fun..good friends..parties football games.dances..sweet shops..45 records.. crushes...homecoming..proms....hay rides..bonfires..kids don't know what they are missing
Ages 15 to 17, and they are dressed so nicely. Clean, polite. I used to rush home from elementary school to watch Dick Clark. Had my favorite dancers.
Yes I did too! Wish Carol House would write me Here she was a very Lovely young Lady.
So did I. Wonderful times and memories. That's how I learned to do all the dances. I always felt so happy watching Dick Clark and American Bandstand when it was in Philadelphia since I lived in the suburbs.
I did to...my mom watched this made us kids watch too...but in the late 60s..though the 70s..The Girls are Cute..Damn I wish I was a Teenager in this Era!!!...I wanted to be in this Era doing Grade School....Wow I feel for those are being born now..thay missed the Whole Shebang!!!
My favorite dancer: Carmen Jimenez. Wonder whatever happened to her.
@@Kinseydsp Intetesting comment here, I just posted about Bandstand and Carol House. I know what you mean, and I'd never be bored..LOL!! Robert at 68.
I can't imagine teens dressing up this way for school anymore! Wow they looked so nice.
I wish us teens still danced like this.
What an era...What a great time to be alive
I remember getting home from school and running to turn on the tv to let it warm up. My mother and I would turn on Bandstand and watch, and we'd get up and dance! It was so much fun.
Is your last name Turnblad by any chance?
***************** What a lovely memory!
I was so fortunate to grow up in that era.....I wish I could go back to those days....Great times...I really miss those days.
Boy, do I miss America's oldest teenager! Loved watching Bandstand when I got home. I was 11 when this song was released.
We high school kids used to watch the show every day after school. We'd rush home because we didn't want to miss it. We lived in NJ and the show was in Philly, so some kids did actually go to the show sometimes. We looked forward to learning the new dances and then practicing at the school "sock hops." We thought the kids on this show were the coolest of the cool and wanted to be like them. We had our favorites. Mine was Pat Molittieri. There were also favorite couples, namely Justine and Bob. Lots of info about these great dancers online.
When my daughter was a teenager & getting ready for school one morning I walked in her room to hurry her up. Just as I walked in she had her back to her mirror and saying, yeah they’re tight enough talking about her jeans!! I said you’re lucky you didn’t grow up in my era. I graduated in 1967 and there was no jean wearing for girls to school!!! You wore a dress or a skirt with hose or some type of sock!! Watching this really took me back to the good ole days. My daddy used to tell me that all the time about his lifetime and I would laugh. I just didn’t realize how rough things were about to get!!! The 60’s were wonderful.
Hello Connie, How are you doing?
Yup. I graduated high school in '67. We had a girl sent home because she had blue jeans on and a boy sent home because he had loafers on without socks. I was shocked when I went to pick my brother up from school when I returned from Vietnam in 1970. I saw this guy with a beard, long hair, and blue jeans with holes in them. I asked who in the hell that grubby kid was. My brother said it was his English teacher! LOL!!
Love this song…I was only 9 years old but I still love this song today. The kids dancing were so clean cut and innocent. It was a big deal to hold hands or to get a kiss….
I want to go back to the 60's too. These were great times!
Ppl used to be so elegant. I miss that.
I do too.
It's called being civilised.
"Suzie cream cheese"... a very elegant name for a lady.
Suzie cream cheese and
Now, THIS is Dancing With The Stars!!!!
15 yrs old, love this great dancers, miss the clean, respectful songs and the young girls and guys❤️❤️🌸😍😇
Greats song-brought back memories of the summer of 64 when I fell in love with that someone who is now my wife of 50 years .
Great songs during this era. Great to see young people dressed so neatly having a great time.
A huge part of American teenage culture for so long, this show was a must not miss kind of thing...but it lost something in the 80's and faded. Dick Clark remains unmatched as a dance show host. Handsome as could be, super nice, and forever young.
No giggles, no hesitation, no bullshit...
these mature 16 yr olds reflect the respect and dignity of our former society.
I was born in 74 and grew up in the 80s. Great times. Watching these music videos makes me wish it was anytime befor 2001.
I was 17 years old and never missed the show when I got home from school! Good stuff and one of my favorite songs of all time!
So fun to go back and reminise....I always find myself smiling...good times!!
Hello Anita, How are you doing?
@@Kelly-nm4kw hi, Kelly
We went to see Romeo and Juliet last night. For the first time in decades this song popped into my head. And I'm so glad! Great song
My sister and I are the youngest cousins of the family and started to watch AB around 1970. I could watch these 60's clips all day!
13 years old watching right now. I love it so much. This is the dance that I've want
love the guys long slick back hair. Love these oldies dancing videos
Long grease slicked hair...
@Joey B Agreed !!! I have no idea what this "Paula Johnson" is thinking, it is twisted...
The early 60's here was a carry over of the late 1950's. Changes were coming fast. Just 3 years later in 1967 music and fashions were very different then in 1964.
Both were down the drain and still are.
fg6971 yes indeed!
Great song. Forgot about this one. The dancing is great Period Dancing. Kids getting together and having fun.
Kids listening to clean music, dressed with decency and just having a great time. That's the way it was back then. That's what they put on tv, back when the country had codes and standards and if it did not meet those decency codes IT WAS NOT AIRED. Not like it is now. Now you can see and hear any filth on tv. That song was JUST LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET by the Reflections and it was a hit in 1964. Thank you for this post! I loved watching Bandstand on Saturday, especially when they played this song in particular.
Give it a rest, there was plenty of crap going down back then!
Robbnok there was a LOT going on! At least now schools can be mixed and we can have diversity and listen to music from different cultures and learn dances from different cultures no offense to you Calvin! :) I’m sure people had fun in the 1960s, but sadly there was a lot of bad going on too
I was a kid growing up then but it was the best of times...family and school were great....Sundays were special...we'd shoot the breeze and talk about God.... whether we made it to the Church on time or not.
@@Robbnok Your reply was mean. You missed the point of my comment. You did not have to be cynical and cruel.
I’m 72 know but when I read this it’s just like my old folks complaining about my generation….
15 and 16 year old girls seemed so much more mature back then than they do today!
99ontguy1 growing up in England at that time we left school and were working full time at age 15 and 16. Quite different to the North American kids so we were definitely more mature, in my case I looked after myself financially after giving my parents a quarter of my pay packet.
Angela, paying your parents room & board was common in America, too. I remember (in the early 70s) my older sister giving our parents a little bit of her paycheck once she was a senior in high school. Most people that lived with their parents beyond high school paid their own way. It was different then than it is now. I don't suppose it's as common as it used to be.
Lisa67 About 20 years ago when my 2 kids started working, they’re now 42 I used to charge them room and board as well. It helps them yo budget and get used to paying rent for future.
99ontguy1 they were more mature.
Yes they did
They'll all be 73 now.
How wonderful, because of RUclips, they have this clip as a momento of those years.
S-CUTE!! Days gone bye. Bringing back memories!
Those were the days my friend, if you can remember them.
We sure do need happy music like this for our soul, these days!
Ha...if you only knew then...
I have to agree with that…..;)
@@toddinthemiddle Yes, I agree, Robert at 68, and these guys are about 7/8 years older than I was at the rime.
Those kids were very lucky. They grew up in a great era. Today can't hold a candle to it.
Amen
It was fine as long as you were a nice white straight male.
Whats wrong with being a nice white straight male?
Absolutely nothing, Randy. They built this country.
Truth
Societally, we fell so far down, wish we could go back, clean, moral, courteous kids. God was still in school and home.
I can't get enough of this video...the dancing, the music, the times, and Dick Clark. Connie from Fla.
American Bandstand was a Saturday morning staple when I was growing up! :)
Hello Patricia, How are you doing?
looks like a great time to be a teenager .
It was, hadda be there before the hippie crap. Robert at 68.
There was an innocence in the sixties. But much more in the fifties. I was a kid in the fifties and both times were memorable. Of course the eighties were great too.
I remember being dressed like that, stove-pipe pressed dress-slacks, white socks, penny loafers, shirt and tie covered with my Varsity sweater or a sports jacket. Those were the days! Thank you for the video, Ciao, L
And I was dressed just like the girls, took forever to get your hair to do that! Slept on huge rollers at night, no idea how I slept at all.
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You are very sweet, thank you for the compliment - we need more people like you in our world. May God bless you, Ciao, L
Rollers! You're bringing back memories. Did you use Dippity-Do? And whatever happened to that stuff?
lancelot1953 Isn't that more late '50s than '64?...wow I guess the Vietnam War kinda affected the Americans to dress "more" conservative than the, Swinging London...in Britain. Well, sociologically.
If I could only travel back to the 60's - even for just a few hours, it would make my day!
can I join you ,susie?
By being born in the early part of the decade... I feel that I've missed it !
If it was possible for me to do it, you are certainly welcome to join me. The more the merrier!
this was played on northern soul scene
yes please only I would want to stay there
Yes, it was a very good time. I'm 64 and grew up in San Francisco. Even in a city like San Francisco drivers yielded the right-of-way to pedestrians. And people had manners. God, I do miss those days!
Very cute! They look like they were having fun! The guy on the end was especially cute!
I was six when this show aired. These kids are 72, 71, 70. Wow!
I agree with the comments below indicating how nice this time was and the kids here.
Loved growing up in this era !
One of the few memorable non-Beatles songs in a terrific year of pop music! I'm happy I lived then as a pre-teen, but it marked a difficult change from the shocking event the prior November, which was then only 6 months earlier. The Beatles did their best to help us kids get through that difficult transition with their exciting new music and style.
I love Toni's voice and the good harmonies.
brilliant dancing much better than today
wonderful music in this era. mucho young memories!!
This is how most of us back then picked up the latest dance steps. I know I did! R.I.P. Mr. Dick Clark!
me too!
This is so cool to watch , not my generation at all but it is so interesting to see where some dance steps originated and how it trickles down to later generations in a more abstract way .
Ah, American Bandstand. I remember as a kid watching this every Saturday. Really enjoyed watching the kids dancing and the music playing. Almost makes me wish I were a kid again - but only for a moment.
Watched this every Saturday growing up still in school.. aways would tell my mom and sister want to look as pretty as the girls looked dancing..
Wow it always amazes me how teens back then looked so much older.
I’m 83years old now I gotta tell you these were the best times ever we had a lot of good fun Sadly it’s all gone now
Hello Theresa, How are you doing?
Every day I am very glad I was a kid in those days! Nothing today can compare!
I'd NEVER be bored with Carol House...guarenteed!!..LOL!!..her hair up and that black pencil skirt, 15 year old class on display..Robert at 69.
These teens were born in 1947,1948 and 1949.
That makes them between 70 and 72 today.
Crazy!
Kamikaze Yamamoto So?
@@Jleed989 he is noting the brevity and swiftness of youth
Not that old. My grandma is older than them.
Very cute and innocent dancing. The single "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" was put out by a Detroit label called Golden World. It's a great sounding single that sounds better when you crank up the volume a bit. The Reflections also put out another single that was also very good but not as big a hit; it was called "Poor Man's Son" and is a somewhat obscure oldie gem. Check out the robust background vocals near the end of "Romeo and Juliet"; this group of guys sounded great together.
Steven Kerry Golden World was bought out by Berry Gordy as their studio was better than the Motown Hitsville Studio. He also acquired quite a few great artists.
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It was a great song, though ; the aussie band, Mental As Anything, did a great cover of it in the eighties (in fact I didn't know it was a cover until I heard this!)
I agree 100% Steven. I crank this record up whenever I hear it. I'm also from Detroit
They also did a sound alike called"Like Columbus Did" right after R&J
We watched TV when we got home from school. This is how we learned each new dance EVERY time!!! Even as as far away as Arizona!
That was sweet and cute. They looked, dressed, and acted with a modesty that is long gone.
I was there I can tell ya it was an awesome time period
me too I graduated in 1964
+Irisheyes 490 👍👍
Awesome for those who lived it and for this country. It really was a slice of heaven.
ye s it was a clean wonderful time.
The past is a distorted illusion. Or it selectively produces varied memories which are a byproduct of a whole boatload of experiences. Take 1964. Was it 'fun' to be in Vietnam? No, probably not. What about High School? Hell no, even more so. The songs were more pure, simple, honest, heartfelt. Maybe they were right about it dying way earlier, the music, in '59 with Buddy Holly. Talk about heart!
this is so cute, wish i was born in this generation.
Great record and great dancing
I love her blouse with the patches, It was all about dancing back then.
I would watch Bandstand religiously! My girlfriends and I would practice their steps and invented some of our own. We added more to this dance. Thanks for the upload!
They dance very well! Nice job!
That was so cool. Those must have been wonderful times to live in.
love this song, great clip
Good, clean kids havin' good, clean fun...❤ it!
Gay and Lesbian have nothing to do with being racist. Try again. BTW, back then, people kept their business to themselves.
They were married by 16 with their first one on the way.
@@Mell0wY3ll0w Yes, that's true... teen pregnancies back then too, but they got married and tried to make it work. Today it's 14 yr old girls having a baby and by the time she's 21 has 3 or 4 kids from 3 or 4 different baby daddies :/
Ha good clean kids? I was a kid then
@@Mell0wY3ll0w yep that was me
I learned to dance watching these as a youngster, which led to a lifelong romance with dance. Need an update, watch Bandstand or Soul Train!! Also, I loved watching the last guy in the line is constantly watching the guy next to him for the correct steps, while the first guy in line is really getting with it! Hilarious!
This makes me so happy. Thank you!!!
Hello Margaret, How are you doing?
Cool kids. Reflections followed up with a similar sound but one I liked even more - " Like Columbus Did". The early 60's Soul/Pop/R&B was terrific.
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-- What a nice innocence of those years !
Yes all the girls were very Lovely and sweet, and the times were very innocent! I was 17 then and had a giant crush on Carol House 15 back then!
I was just 3 then. I lived at the far South of Spain, in a village with its beach I used to go every day in Summer with my little friends and our parents. All was good manners and I recall people had real happiness on their faces. I also remember the parties that were held in houses in that decade, all teenagers used to dress the same way as the teenagers in this video. :´-)
innocence? just because people were more reserved doesn't mean they weren't as perverted as people are nowadays. Those dudes would beat up their wives and no one bated and eye.
It's obvious true. But in the 60's many people behaved quite different as people nowadays do, I'd say many of them were much more elegant, apart of that, harmful substances, such as drugs (we all know, they make people be quite mad), were not as known and used as nowadays are; so there were mistreatment, but less, there were rapes, but less, there were murders, yes, but less, and so forth. .. That's the difference !
+Penske Material You are one sick puppy
This makes me happy and smile lol This was just before the country would be plunged into the darkness of the Vietnam war. After a few short years, it would lose it's innocence.
Yes Indeed
I bet those teens didn't have "bone spurs" when called by the draft board!
That’s for certain I was 13 going on 14 then . Vietnam would absorb me in 1969, and life was never the same again . It happened so quickly .
Gorgeous...well mannered and enjoying themselves!
I LUV the clean fun days of New Dance steps to originally go with individual kinds of music ...
like at the HOP everybody actually Hopped .... or The TWIST EVERYONE TWISTED! ...
The music was original and so were all the new dance steps ... to match !!! ... Such carefree days ...
I liked the way people dressed back then, especially the girls and women dresses.
Paula Johnson Obviously you have no taste.
Yeah, they were called clothes.
@Paula Johnson what's tacky
Au contraire, Paula Johnson, they most certainly do.
@Paula Johnson are you saying the kids in the video are tacky, (frumpy)?
clean cut kids...well mannered..i am from the 60s...does me proud....
what a decade! is anything I heard about the 60s true?
Me too. At 67 years old! Doc Mike USN
Kids today are no different to kids in the 60's. Good and bad apples in both. Rose tinted spectacles
Me too.. I am seriously troubled by the way kids are being brought up today.
@@suzycreamcheesez4371 What did you hear?
For '64, this dance display was actually pretty nice. :)
miss all those great dances
No tattoos or piercings on these beautiful girls!
Back then, a girl with tattoos was in a carnival freak show. And that is where they still belong.
Look like ladies...now they are in their 70s
Not even pierced ear rings.
Real pretty woman 👩
Ladies dancing respectable and not like today’s girls that dance like strippers and wear hooker apparel.
1964 before things changed. The Beatles arrived about this time and the mid to late 60's were like a different era.
+James Dunn We see how the "hippie era" and the "new morality" was the beginning of the end for this country.
+EPA18 The end isn't here yet, but I get your point. In many, many ways we are worse off morally and otherwise. The Beatles popularized recreational drug use helping to lead us down the road into present day drug culture. l look around at people with their asses hanging out of their breeches and tatoos with assorted metal stuck in their faces and wish for earlier days at times. Even the late 60's seem quaint compared to todays porn driven, drug smacked anything goes bad taste society.
true. my brother was 'from' the 50s and early 60s pre-1964, and didn't relate at all to the 60s . close in time but totally different scene.
+James Dunn The Beatles appeared on Sullivan Feb 1964 -- country still reeling from the Kennedy assination in Nov 1963. Those 3 weeks on Ed Sullivan were The Revolution. Nothing has been the same since.-- The girls here have gone Mod. The thing is..East coast guys were slow to change in the mid 60s- They didnt switch to the surfer look, summer of 63..but stuck with the do-wop influence style. Dick Clark knew Californey was the place he ought to be ..and moved. But old Bandstand was always the best
TV is where the problem began.Marshall McLuhan says it even changed the way people's brains 'work'. "The Media Is the Message".Most people growing up in the 50'a watched 2-3 hours a day. Today, the TV is on all day.It's not what you watch...the content is not as important its the process of viewing TV with it's dots and the brain combining them to create a 'mind image'.
Look at what that age group used to look like. A lot of kids that age now look so much older. Oh this was a treat every Saturday!!!
So beautiful these young people are, not vulgar like in 2019 !!! OMG ! Please, somebody bring back the good times !
I forgot about the dance called the Slauson. I used to do it during my high school years. Believe me folks it was a real dance, along with the mash potatoes, the jerk, etc.
Dont forget "The Freddy" Bill
Yes, I remember the Slauson it was the first dance I learned. Still remember the clothes music and the fun we had back then.
Actually, it was called "The Slauson Shuffle."
And the stroll, the swim, the hully gully, the handjive, and the locomotion.
Man, well behaved teenagers having a good time - hard to believe there was ever a time when something like this existed with what I see with teenagers nowadays. I realize some would call this conservatism - but frankly I wish I could have been a part of this. And I grew up during the Disco years. Anyway, so much for my commentary. But this is really nice - I like this.
I am thankful I lived during those years! I was 17 when this show was on in 1964 and the Kids were very well behaved and well dressed to. I wish It could have stayed that way!
I totally agree with you. So do I.
I hear you, Gene! My mom was 19 in 1964 and had just gotten married to my father. She had the hairstyle with the flip at the end. I grew up in the 70's and graduated in the late 80's. We dressed up when we went out and were well behaved.
It was terribly repressive and you weren't allowed to express yourself as anything other than a carbon copy of this. I can remember my mom being humiliated in high school over dress codes because she was tall. Imagine having to kneel in front of a grown man as a teenage girl to have your skirt measured in order to prove you werent a slut. Skits like this don't show that reality.
@@tiredtears4177 Keep your libtard comments to yourself, will you? 😠
Oldies of the past just like this song playing of the 60 era. Growing up in the San Fernando valley. Down memory lane for the valley.
One of my favorite songs my youth❤️
Notice how neatly dressed the kids were-and not only neat but modest. Kids today could learn a lesson from this.
You are SO Right!
they were still going at it in the back of the cadillac
Don't judge a book by it's cover
G94, If they were really going at it in the back of a Cadillac then there should've been a lot more unplanned pregnancies at a time when abortion was illegal nationwide and it was very difficult for a teenager to get a hold of any birth control. Most teens were virgins. When there is tremendous social pressure not to do something then most won't.
actually you are wrong. Teen birth rates were much higher in the early 1960s than at present; in fact, rates for 18- to 19-year-olds were double what they are currently.
wonderful piece, thanks for uploading!!
One of the best songs of 1964.
I was 10 years old in 64, but remember all the songs.