Debbie and Louie demonstrate spectacular skill in this number. They rock, they spin, they circle, they clinch, they stretch, they turn----all the while they maintain a super fluid cross back step (popular at the time). The moves match the song perfectly. We are lucky to have this here for us to watch----Bill from Pennsylvania
I use to love the spotlight dance. Someone please upload more spotlight dances from American Bandstand on You Tube. These segments, the music and dancers were awesome.
Debbie and Louie were my favorite dancers on the show, they were so great. Wonder where they are now, what they're doing? Remember seeing Debbie on Happy Days and on a disco episode of Starsky & Hutch.
My name is Rico I was a American dancer and soul train dancer in 1976 - about 1978 I am in the movie a night at the Roxbury you tube with Enrique Iglesias I have worked with Celine Dione Jennifer Lopez and many more I am 56 and I still tear the clubs down here in Las Vegas nv.
HEY RICO, I REMEMBER YOU....I DANCED ON SOUL TRAIN THE SAME TIME YOU DID. GLAD TO SEE THAT SOME OLD DANCERS ARE STILL AROUND. I WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF RICHARDO FLEMMINGS. I REMEMBER YOUR BIG AFRO. DO YOU REMEMBER SOME DANCERS NAMED TONY AND CANDY, IF YOU DO PLEASE REPLY. I KNOW WE CAN'T GO BACK IN TIME.....BUT THANK GOD FOR THE MEMORIES:)
Hi Rico,have you ever been to Carnival Court at Harrahs?They have the outdoor stage and dance floor.You can dance till you drop to all the great songs we all grew up to back then.I almost did the times I went there lol.
Jose, I was in Mexico at a resort watching the lady teach Salsa dance and I thought just with those two moves she showed I could have had a lot more girlfriends!
I like looking at historical dances, I would love to have seen more of the black couple, I think they were good, the middle couple were way off beat, the first couple dancing for that song was absolutely perfect.
When I first saw "AB", that is the set that was being used at the time! If I ever win the lottery, I will open a nightclub! I would want the dance floor to look exactly like that set (minus the bleachers, Rate-A-Record stand, Top Ten board, and podium)! Plus, I would create a unique logo with chasers lights on it!
Thanks SO MUCH for this!! I've tried looking up their names online but to no avail...til now. They also danced on a dance show that was on Monday through Fridays that I'd watch every day when I got home from high school. For the life of me can't remember the name though! But it was such a treat to see them 6 days a week! And that show was an hour and a half long! I remember Gina and Rick were also on that show. I often thought Debbie danced with Rick when she was mad at Louie ha ha. Anyway, they were an incredibly attractive couple and awesome dancers.
OMG, I know this is an old post, but I've been trying to identify that show forever! I remember watching it after school in 1975-76 and that Debbie and Louie were on it but your post is the first reference to it that I've ever found! I have zero recollection of the name of the show, but thank you for proving that I wasn't imagining things!
Hahaha, yeah, I'm still dumbfounded as to the darn name of that show. I haven't given up though! And I remember the host of the show was some guy with brownish hair and a moustache, and, if I remember correctly, he was always flubbing his lines. LOL. I may be wrong but I think the host's name was Randy.
I FOUND IT!!! "The Music Thing (TMT) was an after-school Dick Clark dance/rock production. The show was a one-hour syndicated TV program which was apparently short-lived. It is only listed in LA Times TV schedule from 14 September 1975 through to 7 November 1975, and apparently was only shown on the US West Coast, on the (at the time) independent and trendy LA TV Channel 5. It does not appear either in Midwest or East Coast TV stations programming, so it was not a network TV program which may explain it not being listed in any of the TV reference books."
Yea I remember he was kinda cocky but he had a beautiful dance partner (who I assume was also his gf) and he wasn't too bad looking himself, and they were both the very best dancers on AB.
Debbie and Louie demonstrate spectacular skill in this number. They rock, they spin, they circle, they clinch, they stretch, they turn----all the while they maintain a super fluid cross back step (popular at the time). The moves match the song perfectly. We are lucky to have this here for us to watch----Bill from Pennsylvania
I miss American Bandstand and the great Dick Clark. TV has never been the same!
I'm 66 and I miss Saturday morning cartoons so much!
I use to love the spotlight dance. Someone please upload more spotlight dances from American Bandstand on You Tube. These segments, the music and dancers were awesome.
I’ve often said the best concert I saw in the 70’s was ELO
Debbie & Louie were awesome dancers
Gorgeous! Everything so gorgeous!
70s were so hipted, funky, cool, etc.
Debbie and Louie were my favorite dancers on the show, they were so great. Wonder where they are now, what they're doing? Remember seeing Debbie on Happy Days and on a disco episode of Starsky & Hutch.
From what I remember hearing I think she is married with children and Louie ended up being Howie Mandel's Manager!!
Great song...great memories..so glad that I experienced this time in our history.
Que bonito bailan!
Me encantó!👏👏👏
Chris and Yvonne used to dance on Soul Train, too. this is terrific footage! thank you for sharing!
nickfreshalive I knew you would come in here and drop those ST facts. 🤗❤️
My name is Rico I was a American dancer and soul train dancer in 1976 - about 1978 I am in the movie a night at the Roxbury you tube with Enrique Iglesias I have worked with Celine Dione Jennifer Lopez and many more I am 56 and I still tear the clubs down here in Las Vegas nv.
can you share memories of American Bandstand did you make friends with other dancers? Did you know Gina, Debbie, Peaches, Myra?
HEY RICO, I REMEMBER YOU....I DANCED ON SOUL TRAIN THE SAME TIME YOU DID. GLAD TO SEE THAT SOME OLD DANCERS ARE STILL AROUND. I WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF RICHARDO FLEMMINGS. I REMEMBER YOUR BIG AFRO. DO YOU REMEMBER SOME DANCERS NAMED TONY AND CANDY, IF YOU DO PLEASE REPLY. I KNOW WE CAN'T GO BACK IN TIME.....BUT THANK GOD FOR THE MEMORIES:)
Hi Rico,have you ever been to Carnival Court at Harrahs?They have the outdoor stage and dance floor.You can dance till you drop to all the great songs we all grew up to back then.I almost did the times I went there lol.
Sadly. i was 5 in 1976 starting school.I only remember Maxine Nightingale when she performed Right Back Where We Started From.
Jose, I was in Mexico at a resort watching the lady teach Salsa dance and I thought just with those two moves she showed I could have had a lot more girlfriends!
Hey way cool man some rock n roll on American bandstand
Jan. 3, 1976 was the original air date, IINM.
1st couple had mad skills. ELO was cool.
I Think This American Bandstand Was From Early 1976.
The intro says episode 47 AB 75 so towards the end of '75.
Def not October 76
Debbie & Louie were my favs!
I like looking at historical dances, I would love to have seen more of the black couple, I think they were good, the middle couple were way off beat, the first couple dancing for that song was absolutely perfect.
When I first saw "AB", that is the set that was being used at the time! If I ever win the lottery, I will open a nightclub! I would want the dance floor to look exactly like that set (minus the bleachers, Rate-A-Record stand, Top Ten board, and podium)! Plus, I would create a unique logo with chasers lights on it!
Michael Williams Yep. This is the first set I remember also.
Ouch! Leisure-suited madness!
Thanks SO MUCH for this!! I've tried looking up their names online but to no avail...til now. They also danced on a dance show that was on Monday through Fridays that I'd watch every day when I got home from high school. For the life of me can't remember the name though! But it was such a treat to see them 6 days a week! And that show was an hour and a half long! I remember Gina and Rick were also on that show. I often thought Debbie danced with Rick when she was mad at Louie ha ha. Anyway, they were an incredibly attractive couple and awesome dancers.
OMG, I know this is an old post, but I've been trying to identify that show forever! I remember watching it after school in 1975-76 and that Debbie and Louie were on it but your post is the first reference to it that I've ever found! I have zero recollection of the name of the show, but thank you for proving that I wasn't imagining things!
Hahaha, yeah, I'm still dumbfounded as to the darn name of that show. I haven't given up though! And I remember the host of the show was some guy with brownish hair and a moustache, and, if I remember correctly, he was always flubbing his lines. LOL. I may be wrong but I think the host's name was Randy.
@@daliav-f8629 That's more than I remember! I'm determined to get to the bottom of this! 😆
I FOUND IT!!!
"The Music Thing (TMT) was an after-school Dick Clark dance/rock production. The show was a one-hour syndicated TV program which was apparently short-lived. It is only listed in LA Times TV schedule from 14 September 1975 through to 7 November 1975, and apparently was only shown on the US West Coast, on the (at the time) independent and trendy LA TV Channel 5. It does not appear either in Midwest or East Coast TV stations programming, so it was not a network TV program which may explain it not being listed in any of the TV reference books."
This HAS to be it, except I watched it in the Philadelphia area so it's not true that it was only on the west coast.
They should have paused a second and looked I. The camera when they said their name. I love the last couple.
I wonder who the guest star was from Happy Days on this AB episode?
Pre Saturday night fever
The music is reversible, but time is not! Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!
I think of gta4 when I hear this song lol
Too bad they cut the song
Dick Clark and Debbie also appeared on the Dating Game, she won a trip to Lima Peru. It's on youtube.
This is from January 1976 not October
The song ok the episode is from 1976 i had ok to enter some archives of DK 13 years ago
@@elodevi Which episode? JANUARY 10, 1976 EPISODE. The song came out in late 75' my apologies. Bobby Womack/David Geddes/ Pat Morita interviewed
@@rufus317 I has this info
No morw
Gabe Kaplan was stiff but his partner had moves, JJ was Dy-no-mite but Eric Estrada took top prize
Hilarious !
Louie & Debbie did not win the 1976 American Bandstand dance contest. It was won by Johnny & Lynda.
What did the last guy say his name was? He seemed kind of cocky. Lol
Louie Navao
I thought that too.Kind of cocky but a great dancer.
Yea I remember he was kinda cocky but he had a beautiful dance partner (who I assume was also his gf) and he wasn't too bad looking himself, and they were both the very best dancers on AB.
I was born in the wrong century
The Black couple only got 3 seconds of spotlight.
Lol
Memories:-)
Louie also danced with the gorgeous Gina Sprague in 1977. Debbie left AB to do "Happy Days".
Yea I remember seeing her on there but missed her dancing with Louie. Gina WAS cute too but she could never replace Debbie.
Gina, Chris, and Yvonne all danced on Soul Train also.
@@MsTexas73 what ever happened to Chris Benebe?
NYMets73 I’m not sure. But I can ask his partner on Soul Train, Thelma Davis.
@@MsTexas73 Wow you know Thelma David, I remember her. Yes, ask her if you don't mind. Soul Train and Bandstand were my favorite shows growing up.
Not really a dancing king of song.... Awesome though.