Sha Na Na - I Wonder Why (1973)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2020
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Sha Na Na is an American rock and roll group. The name is taken from a part of the long series of nonsense syllables in the doo-wop hit song "Get a Job", originally recorded in 1957 by the Silhouettes.
Billing themselves as "from the streets of New York" and outfitted in gold lamé, leather jackets, pompadour and ducktail hairdos, Sha Na Na performs a song-and-dance repertoire of classic fifties rock and roll, simultaneously reviving and parodying the music and 1950s New York street culture. Sha Na Na hosted the Sha Na Na syndicated variety series that ran from 1977 to 1981. 
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I’m now 60 years old in 2024 but I was a teenager in the 70s and I used to love watching these guys on the TV every week. I’ve always loved music from the 50s and 60s and watching these guys in the mid 70s on TV just wonderful. Long live Bowser!
Amen! If I could only turn back time. So many things I’d try to change. I had it all for a short time.
I’m 73. Loved them too. Seen them at our state fair one year in the early 1980’s
I’m 79. These were the best times!
Ditto
I’m 60 as well. Totally agree with you.
Well, I'm 81 years old and they still sound great!
FANTASTIC ! The Bassman is the Best !
Oh my goodness 😍 I'm in my 70's and these guys still make me smile 😊 😘
Agree! Meme potential! :)
What a difficult song to cover but Sha Na Na nailed it. The members singing this were pre-TV. The TV members of the group came to our city for a performance. I had two elementary school aged children who along with myself and my wife watched Sha Na Na every week. We all went to their concert and when we left there at the exit doors was Bowser and Lennie shaking hands thanking people for coming. They shook my kids hands and to this day they remember Sha Na Na.
That's awesome!
Bowser was/is my favorite of this group!
I had the same experience as a kid! They were cheesy, but what showmanship.
Well the 90% of the people here were at the TV Show... Bowser, Donnie, Denny, Jocko, Scott, Chico... Almost all of them ;-)
@@rolitamedia.emanagers They had 15 members but by 73 only 10. Vinnie Taylor died. Henry Gross went solo. This was mainly because of personnel changes. Chico always picked talented replacements. There were never more than 10 or 11 in the group at one time though. But if you count all the guys that were in the group at different times, there were at least 15.
Newfound respect for Bowzer ✌😎 he's got the mooves and the soundz
Many people wouldn't take a "gimmick" revival band seriously, but Sha Na Na featured many guys who were not only excellent musicians, but Ivy League trained professionals who went on to become surgeons, law professors and the like. More than meets the ear.
Yeah. Thank goodness this was before the ‘woke’ culture seeped in. Otherwise theyd be forced to have a female in the group. Village People was a great all guys group too. Sad all some people can talk about is which of the group were gay! I didnt know any were back then. Then again who cares!
They were a real performing band. They were never a gimmick. They were greasers.
This is great
Loved these guys! Drummer threw his drum sticks into crowd after performing in Detroit Lakes, MN. I got one! Fantastic group of talented guys!
@@wesleycook7687 We weren't authentic greasers -- wannabees was more the truth. I think back, and Columbia University undergraduates were mostly brainy and tightly wound. We were at least smart enough to know our acquaintances from earlier teen years who were greasers had had more fun.
I loved these guys...watched their show every week. What good memories :)
I just turned 45, January 25th of this year. I have only heard of Shanana from documentaries and other rock films. Still, many people are unaware of their existence. They're golden!
Used to watch it all the time. Loved those guys. Bowser was one of my favorite entertainers growing up. =)
I never missed their show .....
Watching this show with my parents on Saturday nights was one of the few bonding activities that we had when I was a kid (I didn't mean for that to sound so sad)!
Good clean show for kids
ShaNaNa were on tour in western Canada in the early 70's. 3 of the members brought an equipment case into the locksmith shop I worked at because they had locked the key inside it. I picked the lock open for them. The case was labelled with the band name, so I asked if they were with the band, They said yes and asked if I was going to the concert. I pulled 9 tickets out of my pocket and they were impressed. They dedicated a song to me that evening, nice touch. They were really nice guys.
Was it the festival express ?
Great memories of a great band.
That would explain how they came to party on the Mass. South Shore in 1976!
@@SC-sf8xt No just a regular tour, as far as I know. The Regina stop.
Nice!
We need something like these guys on tv again. The variety show has gone the way of the dodo, and we need it back desperately, but this kind of music is so much fun that we need to have young people experience it and us older folks need fun, too!
Yes we need it back. Unfortunately music nowadays is nothing but somebody rhyming a song? Dropping F-bombs to help teach our 6 and 7 year olds how to swear and cuss. Sagging his drawers down around what God gave ya to sit on. Ain’t music these days just peachy?
@@timwalcott6268 today? Sounds like you could be describing music from 20+ years ago. Oh, and you forgot beats are made for twerking too....just "peachy" indeed 😂😂
Well maybe you should teach your children and your grandchildren.
But you don't, and you whine and cry about today's children, that's YOUR fault.
Make sure you do your part and share this!!!!
Way back in the day, let’s face it, they were viewed as kind of a corny gimmicky act, given the state of then prevailing music. Saw them Rutgers 68, 69 or 70, I forget. Rutgers was a pretty ultraleft place back then, Vietnam etc. So a bunch of my fraternity brothers got sloshed, our girls, and went to the show. Kind of a s**ts and giggles thing. We were so wrong! Full house.After just about every song, standing ovation. They were amazing. Curtain call or two. After the second one, people going crazy and they said they were coming into the audience for photos and autographs. which they did. Cameras with the pop in bulbs. These guys could not have been more talented, more nice, or more gracious. Personally, I could not be more delighted by the wonderful comments here. 50 Years or so it’s a long time to be remembered and appreciated. Long live Sha Na Na
Sha Na Na was super. What was better was being there in the 50s for the first go around. Glad you enjoy the music. It may prove to be the best time America ever knew. WW2 was over, the survivors came home and America blossomed. They were the “Happy Days.”
And we loved gas and oil and illegals didn't come across unless they were invited we were America and Americans
@@davidreed6264 That was when America had some of the most lax immigration laws and had removed race as a grounds for exclusion. Please, read a history book just once.
@@davidreed6264we still love gas. I'll go outside and breathe my exhaust pipe. We need to get a life brother. This show was from the '70s not the '50s.
Yes. Korea was awesome.
@@Nipit-po8fl Yes, the show was from the 70s but the music was from the 50s and 60s. Another generation had arrived yet the 50s sound lived on even to today. The music was not just one sound but many, and came from different regions of the country. All in all, at least from a music perspective, it was a good time to be alive.
Their harmonizing was SPOT ON!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
All the lovely voices.
I love this kind of music. Too me it's one of the greatest era's of all time.
Unless you were a minority. Then it sucked balls.
@@seanjones2456 This type of music was for everyone.
Sha NA NA, One Of The Great Singing Group’s Of The Old Happy Day’s Gone By !!! They Were Just FABULOUS ❤️ 😊 🎼 🎶 🎵 👌
We loved their shows 👍
Damn! This was great!
I totally forgot about these guys. I loved them. I particularly remember Bowzer, the tall guy with the deep voice. What good memories!
I loved his monologs! I was too young to understand them, but I loved his delivery! My favorite was the one where he was "quoting" Atilla the Hun! All I knew about Atilla the Hun was that they said he was bad in the Superman comics, so I was a bit scandalized to hear Bowzer say, "As Atilla da Hun once said..." yadda yadda. "So, Atilla...tanks!"
Loved this show as a kid.
My favorite song featuring Donny!
Saw them at Old Chicago amusement park back in ‘77, I think it was. They were great. Had everyone moving and grooving. Old Chicago aint there no more- cool place. Long live Sha Na Na!!!👍🎸🥁🇺🇸❤️
Sha Na Na is a syndicated television variety series that ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of 97 episodes,[1] hosted by the popular rock & roll/comedy group of the same name. The show was produced by Pierre Cossette and originally distributed by the Lexington Broadcast Services Company. Each episode ran for 22 minutes.
I didn't know it was real. I once heard Sha Na Na mentioned in a show called Mission Hill when some guy asks "Hey, were you in Sha Na Na?"
AGHHHH! Bowser! Oh the 70's. God if I wouldn't break a hip, I'd be dancing right now.
Brings back good memories from my childhood this the midnight special Saturday night and The Carol Burnett show Jackson's family variety show and Sonny and Cher and Donny and Marie but the sha na Nas Saturday night live and The midnight special with woIfman jack used to watch late at night with my Grandma I love you Granny God bless you❤❤❤❤
My wife absolutely loved Bowsers deep voice. We both never missed one episode of Sha Na Na.
We used to watch their show back in the day. Our whole family would watch it, good clean entertainment and these guys could really sing and play! Thanks for the memories!❤
Elliot Gino Cahn and Richard Joffe doing amazing backup as always! Those two should never have left
Great sound. Loving that they are all-inclusive and have all different types of body shapes in their band 💗🌵🎸👌🎤🎶
Gay……
@@augustepiccard5335 , I know you are, so what am I? 🤣
In a word shanana is the greatest talent from all sides, damn good music, we need this today , in a lost world.
Word up homeboy! 👌🏻👍🏻
Totally agree.
I’m Brazilian and a Great Fan of Sha Na Na. since I knew then at WoodStock Filme
I saw Sha Na Na live twice in the early 70s. Truly brilliant.
Remember watching their show 👍🏻 I liked that kind of music as a kid still do
My kids loved Sha Na Na and I did, too. Watched them every week.
The original Rockabilly band! They were first and they are still the best.
These cool cats made me and all my buddies wanna be greasers in the mid 70's. How awesome that they performed Woodstock . Epic
There were probably more doctoral candidates on that stage in 1969 than in the entire audience.
Sha Na Na, in all its incarnations at least through the early '80s, was far and away the most educated and intelligent band in rock. They were living proof that one has to be smart to act dumb.
I remember being preschool age watching Sha Na Na while visiting my cousins. I recall being enthralled by Bowzer's deep voice. lol
Oh wow, talk about a flash back, I loved watching these guys they were funny Awesome ❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂
They Sure Were Talented ..
Love Them !!
From the 70's so I knew it was going to be good.
They were terrific! I saw them a few times when I was in my 20’s, 50 years ago! Ugh!
Just amazing. I miss these times.
You cant TOP THAT🙏😉😇🇺🇸AMEN. REAL MUSIC MAKES EVERYONE HAPPY😊. JUST AWESOME❤
Doo Wop has a special place in my heart were no one else has access. ..rama lama ding dong to you all!
I had no idea what I was about to see when I clicked on this.
Pretty good actually!!
That’s my childhood! Thank you!
Used to love these guys on tv
When TV was worth watching~My youth
Watched this as a kid haha. Wow! Thanks for the nostalgia😉🤘
I'm Brazilian and I met them through the movie Grease. They are amazing ❤️
Any Band that played Woodstock is Legendary
I had an Sha Na Na 8 track in my 66 Barracuda. Love the guys
Ill be 96 next summer, and I remember watching these guys on the radio when I was a teenager.
Television if you watched them. Radio if you heard them. 😉
@@phillipzx3754He was joking dude! Sheesh
@@shekelgrabberberg So was I, dude. Sheesh!
And he did it walking in the snow uphill both ways.
Sha Na Na has stopped touring. Thanks Donny and everyone else for all the years of enjoyment.
I saw Sha Na Na in concert and they were fabulous. The look, the sound, the movements. Perfection!
A musical explosion straight out of Woodstock!
I watched them on tv a few times and I think that they were great
I'm 55 years old and this was the first time listening to a Sha na na song all the way through. These guys are fantastic.
Me too!
Also completely new to them...is that Bryan Ferry in the lineup?
@@blksbth1 Sorry I have no clue.
@@franzhaas3712 Just checked (which I could have done first but I was too excited at the song AND the prospect). Alas, NOT Bryan Ferry...but still one helluva a band!
@@nancyschneider9160 Me three.
Oh my gosh! The memories of my family dancing to the music on their sitcom. Sigh....
They were fantastic, I saw them at the Roundhouse in London around 1971 put on a terrific show
Amazing entertainers .. They are SHA NA NA
Always watched, and listened to these guys.!!! 💗💗💗💗🎶🎶🎶
I'm nostalgic for the 1970s nostalgia for the 1950s.
I haven’t thought about S-N-N in forever- they were hilarious and talented on their show. 👍😄👍
Thanks for the smiles and memories
I was actually a little kid in the early 70s watching Sha Na Na with my parents back then
Been listening to music all my life and I'm 60 now. Did not realise it could be this much fun 😄
Saw them live at Birmingham Town Hall in the early 1970s. They performed at the Woodstock festival. Great fun.
Miss these honestly entertaining times.
40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 💥
Where is it?!?!?
Its gone!!
We lost it!!
Thanks RUclips 😊for finding it.
I watched these guys every time I could, I think my whole elementary school did.
I grew up in the 60's so this has always been the music that l love.ShaNaNa when they perform are great.They always nail it.
I use to love this show as a kid
I'm glad someone is uploaded some sha na na na 😀
Wow. Totally forgot about them. They were amazing!! 💜.
Always Loved Sha Na Na …
my childhood favorite tv sitcom
The memories these guys bring. We used to see them every year at the auto rama shows as well as the weekly show on television.
What n the hell, can you imagine the amount of talent that must have been overlooked when they found this!!
Our entire family thought this show was great .. we all watched it together and enjoyed each other's company..
So good To see people that were actually talented Singers
One of my favorite covers!
This music video deserves more than a million views.
This is good stuff!!!
Now that is hard to do! Remarkable talent, a novelty act but top drawer.
Golden Age of Pop Music!!!!
Man, I used to love their TV show..... Always great.
Sometimes they sounded better than the original artists. They were underrated.
Ah the good old days.
A great blast from the past!
Saw them perform in Colorado at Red Rocks Ampitheater in the mid 70s. Unforgettable. I didn't even know who they were or what their show was, but a few friends convinced me to go, knowing I'd love it. They were right!🙃
WOW, WOW, WOW!!! I remember them from the late 70s here in South Africa. They were very loved and we couldn't wait for Wednesday nights to watch Sha Na Na.... Great times..........
If heaven really exists, I’d love to be greeted with this tune.
Loved these guys !! Went to see them.twice in South Africa at Sun City.
This show made me listen to music and in 2023 I’m still doing that rock n roll
This style of music is one of my favorites the harmonizing always hooks me in
My wife and I saw these guys live in 1973. They were a revival band before anyone knew what the term meant. High energy on steroids and a can of caffeinated drink.
I loved watching them on tv when I was a kid
I always love Sha Na Na. Thanks for sharing this. They harmonized so well! They make you feel as though you are back in the 1950s.
Sha na na was my first concert I ever attended. I was 19 and stationed in Hawaii. Late 73 or very early 74 before a deployment. Played in the Honolulu arena. I remember there were dancing couple’s in costume, dancing around in the arena as they played. Coolest show I’ve ever seen !
Sha na na were the Kings of Woodstock!
These guys just rock everytime😎
I miss these guys😊
Sha Na Na has their own website so you can go to it!