American Bandstand 1976 - Let Your Love Flow, The Bellamy Brothers
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- Airdate: May 1, 1976
For Leap Day today I’m leaping out of my comfort zone and into the mid-1970’s. Ayyyyyy!
As disco rules the charts, (the previous song played was “Boogie Fever”) it’s The Bellamy Brothers that have the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 today.
The strict dress code and age restrictions of the 60’s are long gone and the Barry Manilow theme and even larger set are just over a year away (Fall 1977). There are several regulars dancing in today’s episode including Louie Novoa, Debbie McKay, Fred Vuittionet, James Phillips (also danced on Soul Train) and Yvonne Perez but the only regulars I could clearly spot were Mark and Jo Ann Orgel front-and-center at 0:56. You can also catch a rare glimpse of Dick Clark on the dancefloor at 0:32 clapping along for that little kid.
The lovely lady Dick is referring to is Melissa Manchester. The other guests on today’s show are The Commodores and Arte Johnson.
This clip reminded me of when I was a dazed and confused kindergartener with my “Super Friends” lunchbox (with thermos!), green bell bottom pants, and a collar so big, the wind could’ve carried me away like the flying nun. Back then, I occasionally watched little bits of Bandstand after cartoons on our 19-inch Zenith and I remember the teenagers from the local high school all dressed just like the Bandstand kids and were just so cool.…..ok, that’s enough of my self-indulgent reminiscing, lol.
Let your love flow and have a happy Leap Day everybody!
60’s singers and groups in the Top 40 this week: John Sebastian - Welcome Back (#4), Diana Ross - Love Hangover (#10), Paul McCartney/Wings- Silly Love Songs (#12), The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (#16), Glen Campbell - Don’t Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye (#28), Neil Sedaka - Love In The Shadows (#34), Elvis Presley - Hurt/For The Heart (#38), Paul Anka - Anytime (I’ll Be There) (#40).
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It was great being a kid in the 1970's.👍♥️
The best times ever!!! Growing up as a teen in that Era with all the fantastic music and so much freedom and peace between people without the violence like today ❤❤❤❤❤Peace to all
Bellamy brothers is a good super vibration music! That kid dance!
These were the most beautiful times. God bless you all. These were the days when people was just beautiful people no fake. Just terrific I cry wishing we could go back to normal.thank you all you beautiful people.
Can those little ladies and the gents dance! Wonderful!
The world needs this song today more than ever!
*In Loveable'Huggable'Amen* 💗💖💗
Amen!
Agree
I love this song. I always have.
We need more of this in the world
Happy smiling people ☺️ Ah, those were the days ... simpler times without a doubt!!!
I was 10 years old when that song came out.
Watching this is like stepping into a time machine!😉
Right on.Great time I was 28,in 76
Looking at this video and many other ones like it I don't see the big racial divide that everybody was yelling about to be quite honest back then I watched this I'm 60 years old now and I watch it and I never even noticed the blacks and whites all together enjoying each other they were all just a group of great people enjoying their self
I remember the songs, but I wasn't watching American Bandstand at that time. I had graduated high school and enlisted in the army. While music was always a part of my life and still is, there was more important things at that time. And I was becoming mature and I was in love.
cool music cool people equals heaven
God looks down on his creation and expresses sheer pleasure seeing his children enjoying the gifts he has bestowed upon them.
Will our children be able to experience this feeling of freedom and innocence?
Watching 2024. Watched this on saturday mornings when life was better
everyone is so loose and cheerful wow
No worries! No constant distraction of a cell phone.
And slim 🙂
@@bren70ssss94 It was 1976.
There was more smoking, less eating, and no smartphones/laptops to make people couch potatoes.
Way more people smoked in the 70s, which was a natural appetite killer.
You didn't have nearly has many pizza places, burger joints, or sandwich shops. There were no sports bars serving wings with 8 million TVs showing sports - you went to a bar to drink and maybe they had pretzels and peanuts and a 10 inch B&W set up in the corner..
On TV you had your 3 networks, PBS, and maybe a fuzzy UHF station...that was it - no cable/satellite, no Netflix, no streaming.
The only computers you'd find were in government office buildings, and were as big as a refrigerator, so there was no Twitter, no Wikipedia, and no You Tube for people to spend hours on
And if you wanted to talk on the phone, you could only go as far as the cord would let you.
Therefore, people actually had to go outside and do stuff.
Right!? So much more fun than the stiff/stuffy 50s and 60s
Unlike these days.
Great song. 1976, I was a 21 yr old United States Marine stationed at Camp LeJeune, NC. Please send me back. Semper Fi
yup
thats what we looked like
cheers
These old American Bandstand clips are fascinating for so many reasons...multiple aspects of pop culture all rolled in to one perfect time capsule: Fashions, hairstyles, music, slang, dancing, products, advertising.
1976 - NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE AGAIN.... - 🎶Let your love flow 🎶 (The Bellamy Brothers) - Always brings a lump to the throat this irresistible, shamelessly unsophisticated melody.... Can't say exactly when it was, but just for a moment there was simple-hearted hope for America. Then......the Marxist professors taught everyone that unhappiness was a duty.....
I love American Bandstand!! It got me thru my teenage years. Used to wait for it to come on every Saturday. Noone could interrupt me, lol. There will never be another show like this. RIP Dick Clark and AB!!
Neo
Amen
Oh to go back to 1976 when I was a senior in high school,music was great and not a care in the world. So glad we can still listen to this music and reminisce those days.
Good gosh this is so enjoyable to watch
Will we ever see this again in our lifetime?. Dick Clark brought white and black kids together through the power of music and dance. Bringing people of all races, religions and backgrounds together in peace ☮️ and harmony is what life is all about. I do not see one unhappy person in this video. All I see are young people having fun together! Thank you Dick for the wonderful memories and American Bandstand! Rest in peace ☮️ you will never be forgotten.
Dick Clark was a gift from God. I miss him dearly.
Amen !😁👍
Dick Clark was probably one of the smoothest white men on TV he was cool as host of American Bandstand and his little chit chats before songs.
Kids were way cooler back then
in my 70' t brilliant time
Innocent times!!
Joy Thank you
yesterday at a meeting at work they asked what song could you listen to on repeat- I said Bellamy Brothers - let your love flow... Very disappointed most of the room did not know who they were ---
Fine song., Great people dancing
I love American Bandstand I love all the dancers on the show the best dance show of all time!!!! I love 70s music like disco the fads the hairstyle and lots more too!!!! Thanks so much for posting this video!!!! I love it!!!! I love the 70s!!! Can you dig it!!!!!
I can dig it! 😎
I was so sad when American Bandstand went off the air in 1989 that was one of my favorite dance shows of all time and Soul Train Dance Fever and Solid Gold too bad that they don't make good dance shows like this anymore!!!!!
What is this, people of all races, dancing together and having a good time? I keep hearing Americans are all racists. Who is correct?
@@shack8110 Back then we didn't have time to spread lies about the races. We were too busy living our lives without a bunch of idiots on something called social media and in politics telling us how to think and how we were living. Sometimes I think we were better off with no social media like Twitter and Facebook, no 24-hour news and no big-mouth constantly bitching politicians.
@@shaheedturner3652 You are right. All of the dance shows on tv now are crap.
Watching this video brings so much memories! Saturday mornings at 11:00 AM, ABS would be on. 1976 my husband was getting deployed to Okinawa we were married 2 yrs at the time, stayed married for 46 yrs until his sudden passing in 2020 😪 Thanks for sharing this video 🥰
Im sorry for your very big loss
I was 7 when this song was L.A.'s top radio station during that bicenntenial year of 1976. 🇺🇲🗽🎵🎶😁
Dario Witer I remember those “skyrockets in flight” on that big July 4th.
Speaking of bicentennial, there was for 2 years leading up to that day Bicentennial Minutes, a series of shorts that ran nightly on CBS at the end of the hour and featured celebrities speaking of events in American history. That show was even spoofed and parodied by comics on TV.
@@YCDTI I really want to see Laura Branigan in American Bandstand from 1982. She sings “Gloria”.
@@YCDTI YES!!!!! That's another great song from '76..."Afternoon Delight." 😁😁😁😁😁
All of these people are my age, except for the little guy. American Bandstand used to be on late Saturday mornings around 11. My sister and I would be glued to the TV. We never thought those days would end.
The little guy is my age. 🤗
My senior year... I'd have my cassette recorder ready to tape my favorite songs.
How about those Saturday morning cartoon lineups. That’s was the best. Bandstand would come on afterward.
@@nscales20 Yes... After cartoons BANDSTAND! I loved the Barry Manilow theme song.
@@annmcconnell2099 I didn't realize that was Manilow singing that theme song until I got much older. but yes those were the best times. The world was a much better place.
God Bless the United States of America ! God bless the world ! Peace .
That 7 year old kid will be 51 years old today. I was 15 at the time and it seems so long ago.
I'm 50 years old, so I woulda been that kid. I still miss the 70s. .. & did one of the dancers have on ace frehley makeup or am i seeing things?
@@freedo333 No.
He had star-shaped sunglasses (one of those "it was 1976 and you had to be there" things).
I can see why you thought that, though
That little boy was at least 3 definitely no 7 and he gotta be at least 47 now,im 46.
I was 8 at the time
I was 6 then about to turn 51 now. Use to love watching that show as a kid
Proud to be Mexicam-American ......................These are classic American songs !
This song and video helped me through the worst parts of UK Lockdown 2021.
Thank You to The Bellamy Brothers, and All the Joyous Dancers Xx
That three-year-old boy @ 0:37 is stealing the show!
I can definitely relate to this era of AB. I was a 14 year old middle school kid whose only concern was getting my homework done and hoping I could go skating with my best friends on Saturday night.
I use to watch American bandstand in the 70s every Saturday morning 🌞
That 3 year old boy is now 49 years old time is flying
I remember when this hit the airwaves in Australia... So many memories... I can still smell the perfumes the girls wore at the local dance halls.. and almost no make-up to be seen anywhere... no fake chest implants... Just beautiful, clean & wholesome girls.
Yes. I remember
Australia here! 🦘
WOW! that Lil' kid is 50 years old now! Time sure waits for no one...💃🏽🕺🏽💃🏽🕺🏽💃🏽🕺🏽
*_I LOVE the way they are dancing to this masterpiece song!!!
Who will be the boy who the dances
These are the good old days I was there on the 1970s and it was amazing. The fashion changed so much from ten years before in 1966 to 1976. Now a days there is no fashion everybody dresses like crap.
I agree
Wow the memories come flooding back. Thank you so much for these. They are truly a gift.
What a pleasant song that puts a smile on your face.
50-60-70- and part of80's where the best yrs ever love to bring them back Dick Clark was the best. And let's not forget Soul Train awesome to
Yes do not forget Soul Train
‘Soul Train’ was the original, and by far the better show. The dancers were mostly better and they always played dance music. ‘American Bandstand’ absolutely had its moments (some GREAT moments) and a lot of big prizes people could win, but some of the music they played was not so dance-oriented, and the dancers would look awkward. I can’t remember ever seeing that happen on ‘Soul Train’.
@@robsemail I think soul train was geared more for the African American community at the time. AB had disco as well as rock and roll musicians on. AB was mostly a white audience but it did have a significant black presence as the video clip exemplified
Awesomeness
American Bandstand started in 1952. The first.
Aaron....this really is a slice of the American population. Such a great representation and all so very relaxed, including Dick. I love it! I never tire of that song and the message of it is felt by everyone on that dance floor. Lyrics and melodies, ebbs and flows, rhythm and beats set the tone. How could you not get behind this song?
It was great seeing an old AB clip to one of my favorite tunes of my childhood!
We" ALL" got along and had a great DANCE time . Fun!!! 😁😃😉🌻🤹♀️💖
Heard this song in a grocery store awhile back and I instantly felt happy. 😀
I love watching these clips of AB from the 1974-78 set era cause most of the the times when Dick announces the artist and people start dancing in some clips you can see DC just chilling at his podium or trying to get down and boogie down it's kinda fun seeing him trying to do a few moves by the time when i was born AB was still using this set
Right. DC used to be at that podium groovin. 😄
He had the hots for Laura Branigan
The Chico and the Man Era Set
Loved this song very much
It's always nice to watch this again and again. This shows how much of an icon American Bandstand was and is. As well as Dick Clark. If it weren't for Dick Clark, American Bandstand would never exist. Dick and American Bandstand may be gone, but thanks to you, they will never be forgotten! God Bless Dick Clark and American Bandstand!
If anybody asked me what was the 70s was like, I just will show this video
So refreshing to see girls, who can move their eye brows and don't have rubber-boat-lips, and each of them looks different.
theyre not covered in tattoos either
LMAO 🤣
I was 20 then and I remember how nice it felt to dress like that.
70s chicks were hot. Natural beauty was in.
Agree
Love the dudes poppin' and lockin to country! Only the 70s...and actually 80s.
By 1976 life had really changed for me. In July 1976 my oldest son would be one year old. I thought he was the best baby in the whole world. My second son wasn't even a gleam in his daddy's eye. By this time my Bandstand watching days were long gone. If I'm honest, the change in music and a good bit of the dancing just wasn't my cup of tea. Having a baby really changed the economics of what I could do. My husband and I were only 20 years old and had no business being married and certainly not having a child. In any case, ABS was a long way off from being on my "must see TV" list! 😏 Life goes on, good times, bad times. You learned to play the hand that's dealt ya.
Thank you Aaron for these extraordinary videos of a time gone by. ❤
Hey there! I know what you mean. For me, by the very late 90s, I started working & lots of things that I liked started to take a back seat because of new priorities like saving money, paying my own bills, getting my own place. Then the music changed right up under me and... well... there's still some great stuff out now, but there's a reason why music older than me resonates more with me!
@Jean Lankton, first we grow into Bandstand then we grow out of it. The circle of life, lol. Being a mom was a lot more important than learning the latest dance moves to be sure.
@@YCDTI oh heck yeh! No one is a teenager forever; and if you are, people will start to talk about you. 😏 I didn't always know it but those were precious days. Watching Mr. Rogers was ultimately more important than Bandstand. I suppose what I did see of Bandstand in the 70s and 80s no longer appealed to me, because I didn't need it. I had a living room where I could play my records and dance with a baby on my hip. 30+ years later I did it again with a grandbaby. No records, but Sirius XM the 60s or the oldies channel.
I guess I'm one of those folks who likes a lot of music, but play me a good ol' 60s tune and you'll have my undivided attention! Hahaha!!! 😄
omg the seventies ...
Wow! I literally did not see this one coming. Only a couple of months shy of our Bicentennial celebration and I remember this song like it was yesterday. Very easy to dance too. I fondly remember the 70's and loved the hair and clothing styles of that time. Yes that even includes the leisure suits (which I wore one when I had my senior high school pictures taken, lol!). All different but tasteful as well. Thanks for the "leap" forward.
I had a great time in high school, went to college, married my boyfriend and had 2 kids in the 70s. My favorite decade!
Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??
U and me both - fav decade!
Dang, all these people are my age! I was 16 in May of 1976.
Hey! That's my generation! Thanks Aaron for this one, great video!
Nostalgia is so enticing but bittersweet…
I'm old skool!👈🏾 I have this downloaded on my phone.👍🏾
That's not really a "dance" song, is it? Especially for that one guy who's poppin and lockin and doing splits. 🤣
I was 22 at the time and I hate to admit it, but I had some similar clothes! My hair had been at its longest in 1972. By '76 I had been in the Navy and was working at a hospital. Consequentially I wasn't looking too far out.
One more thing..my poor father was going to pass away in a short while...only 57. His heart condition was something that today would have been an easy fix, but not in 1976.
🔊🇺🇸good show.
The 70’s were cool man ... and people were cool without trying because it was an attitude.
It don't matter the year it is.
It does matter your age though and growing up in the 70's as a teenager was Good Times!
God blessed us REALLY GOOD
Bringing back Memories. FOR REAL.
Wow I remember this one I was nine years old when I saw this. So many years ago no wonder why I deal so old
Let Your Love Flow was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart dated May 1, 1976. So this song was the most popular song that week! Written by Neil Dimond's roadie.
Enjoyed this fantastic historical Bandstand music 7 dancing
The 3 1/2 year old kid dancing at 0:42 will be turning 50 this year.
Great memories of being a teenager, had a crush.
I was 15 and we will never see this again watching this and seeing todays World unbelievable
Will there be some more early 1970s episodes in the future?
❤️❤️❤️
the good time born back 60s cant ever bring back
I enjoy these later American Bandstand videos much more than earlier ones. The earlier ones were stiff with many dancers. Later they became looser and more relaxed and expressed themselves with greater movement. Love it!
Nothing better than Banstand on Saturday
Oh PLEASE post more 70s clips...or even full episodes!
I was on that stage in 1976 …. Lots of fun ….
That is awesome. I hope you had fun
SO COOL!!!!!!❤ I was 5 and this was my favorite song!! Where has the time gone ?!
Everyone on that stage would make amazing conversation, not so much today as they immerse themselves with their Tik Tok videos.
If I go back in time! I wished we just had the technology of today's World.
It has ruined everything, imo.
The dancers I recognised right away were Mike Garcia and Terry Solomon at @ :18. Terry has a fur collar and Mike is wearing a blue suit. The thing I notice about the 70s regulars were the girls: they dressed sexier, and they danced more freely. Compare Peaches Johnson's dancing in the 1970s to June Strode's dancing in the 1960s. And the set never looked better nor larger than in the 70s.
Maybe they were taping in a larger studio with room for way more dancers. Hey, if I had lived in So Cal at that time, i would've been down their dancing with them
I see KiKI dancing next to Terry Solomon and @ 0:53 Helena.
Bring this music back please
When this aired I was pretty much the same age as these kids. I watched a lot of AB around this time period, so I likely saw this originally when it aired. Aaron did you redo the music on this one, sounds way too good. I certainly remember JoAnn Orgel, I think she has a run on the show as long as Don.
JoAnn was on the show for 11 years, so she holds the record.
@Andrew Haberman, crazy times back then huh. Did I redo the audio on this, well yes, sort of. The original audio was kind of hard to hear, so I used the track from the April 3 Spotlight Dance and synced it. So, the song is still from the show, it’s just missing some of the background clapping noise from the dancers and now the song is a little clearer.
@Andrew Haberman JoAnn Orgel beat my time on AB by 2+ years. Amazing!
@@dancerdon9175 Hi Don, Did I see you on one of @ABdancers Jeff’s videos with you and Jo Ann on the show at the same time? Didn’t you cross paths briefly around ‘74?
@@YCDTI Bingo Aaron! Actually I seem to recall JoAnn, Debbi and Louie coming on to the show somewhere around the '72-'73 season. Time for the fact-checkers out there to help out with this one. ;--)
thanks for posting. I grew up with American Bandstand and this would have been right in the middle of my teenage years. Brings back memories. Hard to believe all those kids are in their 60's now but it was a wonderful time to be a teen and fond memories.
I was wrapping up the fourth grade when this was aired and remember watching AB on my family's 21" GE black and white set! The Commodores performed "Sweet Love" on this telecast (the clip is on You Tube somewhere) with Lionel Richie. Also, Dick Clark was dressing much hipper with this neo-gangster outfit! (Black suit and shirt, light gray time). BTW - the lunchbox of choice I owned at the time was for Hong-Kong-Fooey! (Remember that cartoon!).
@Kevin Goins, I loved Hong Kong Fooey! The theme song is buzzing in my head now, lol. Great comments Kevin.
I remembered watching Hong Kong Fooey but I carried a Holly Hobbie lunchbox and a wore a Vinne Barbarino t-shirt to school.
Adrian DeVore “up your nose, with a rubber hose”, lol. I think my sister had a HH lunchbox too.
@@YCDTI Lol....Horeshack was my favorite from "Welcome Back Kotter". 🙂
Also, I liked the show's theme song and used to jam to "Let Your Love Flow" when I was 10 years old.
My lunchbox was The Archies and I wore a Fonzie t-shirt.
Great song by The Bellamy Brothers. I like the song! I remember watching this on VH1 in the mid 90's and i do remember when The Commodores performed on here too! I hope you got this full episode and hope you gonna uploaded soon! Because i would love to see that! Keep up the good work, Aaron!
Thank you @Phillip Tucker. I appreciate that.
@@YCDTI No problem Aaron! Hope you uploaded that episode!
Never been a better host than Dick Clark. He made everything great
Oh thanks for the great clip. As much as I love 1960s "Bandstand", I also like the 1970s version. The 1980s version is pretty nice.
Like The Mamas and the Papas, The Brady Bunch Kids, The Bangles and Laura Branigan.
@@Naminski1a Yep
When teems were teens, kids were kids. Now look, guns, robbing, distruction. What happened
I was in Kindergarten when this song came out. Love this song. Brings bs k great memories of simpler times
I enjoyed the Bellamy Brothers.
i enjoyed you more.