American Bandstand 1967 - Somebody To Love, Jefferson Airplane
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- “Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out”. It‘s the beginning of the “Summer of Love” here in May of ’67 and Grace Slick’s “scorching” rendition of “Somebody To Love”, one of the first songs to come from the San Francisco counter-culture scene, is currently in the top 10, peaking at #5. The song has been out since April 1st (almost 2 months) and you can tell the dancers know it well as many are singing along.
AB Regulars Spotted: There are a lot of great regulars in this clip. We see Frank Vanderpuil with Marcia Silverman, Don Sanuskar with Peggy Waggoner, Olivia Favela with Buddy Schwimmer on the riser, and brief glimpses of Stan Soburn, Famous Hooks, Frank Herrera, and John Pollard (the young man with glasses raising up his hands in center of the floor)
…..And with the “Summer of Love” gathering only 350 miles north in San Francisco, I wonder if any of these kids put away their dresses and suits and joined in - “with flowers in their hair”….or if they even wanted to.
Airdate: May 27, 1967
The guy in the glasses is having the best time.
The ever dapper & debonair Dr. Pollard...🤣🤣🤣
00:18 The dude is narcissistic and it shows. Embarrassing the young lady with his actions as she tries to sneak away from the doofus.
Grace Slick - what a voice! Iconic.
Indeed
Grace Slick with that great haunting contralto voice!
My Senior Year of High School. We literally made up the dance moves as we went along. Pegged pants and shinny shoes. LOL 1967
There were a lot of pieces of dances that you could put together any way you wanted. It wasn't like the old Jitterbug where you started out with one thing and did it over and over. You COULD, but mostly we didn't do that.
My senior year too!
Toute ma jeunesse Ouai !!
Want kind of dance is that called that the blonde hair girl is doing it show's her feet..
Girls of today. Watch and learn.
They been there and done that.
40 years before you.
Clothes and hair...timeless.
And did it to real music!
50 years before you
@@susub75 But they'll get fifty more years when you won't.
Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!! My ERA!!!!!!!!!!! Great Memories!!!!!!!!!!! I'm 71 Still Rock n Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome music !I was a freshman in high school in 67 .Still dancing and still singing to all these tunes .❤️
God bless you Angie. Looked like it was a lot more pure and fun back in those days! I wasn’t around in the 60s but the music was rocking.
My mom said when she was a little girl, she'd watch American Bandstand with her mom and siblings and they'd all dance in the living room in front of the tv.
Lucky kid was I, the Jefferson Airplane performed “Live” at my high school.
Dena Bergman that’s amazing wow!!
Dang-that’s huge!
I love the very beginning of this song, "When the truth is found to beeeee lies and all the joy within yooouu diiiies"
That's my generation, best music, best cars and best girls. We all hopped into a car on a Saturday night with our friends, drank Boones Farm wine, passed around the joint and put in an 8 track tape, it was the best of times.
Lenny Anders Strawberry flavored rolling papers to boot. LOL 😊
@@Smiles4UFLHa-ha, yeah I forgot about those.
Lenny Anders Lol!! Papers with the wire, so you didn’t need roach clips, too. 😂
@@Smiles4UFL Oh yeah I remember those papers and weed for 15 and 20 dollars an ounce. Now, here in Las Vegas its over $450 an ounce!
Lenny Anders Holy crap! That’s what it’s going for now??? I remember getting Columbian Gold back then for maybe $40. Oz. Jesus..inflation hit that recreation hard.... Woah!!
Tall guy in the thick glasses loves to slam his fist into the palm of his other hand. He is feelin it
@Albert Dibari dr. john pollard?
Omg, you guys are embarrassing me.
Funny, I'm I noticed I was in the video screen shot of that video.
@@DrJohnPollard You are sensational, love watching you move.
Clark Kent is really getting into the groove !
these Los Angeles kids were magnificent.
love from Australia
#4, I'm going to start counting now. Even I'm in shock. I remember one show I didn't wear my glasses cause I thought it wasn't "cool" but glad I go over that.
I addition, I'm in Australia now too, so there. Aussie citizen.
Clark Kent lol
@@DrJohnPollard you had some dance moves going on here! Looks like you really were into this song!
@@DrJohnPollard Dear Friend no offence intended----I always thought clark kent was cool anyway---wearing glasses in CHINA --- means you are of above average intelligence !!!
@@larryj2953 I never took offense. Superman was my hero growing up as well. Plus people used to say I looked a bit like Christopher Reeve, which is funny now that I think about it.
Why can't we have music like this back again????
times are different, hip hop, rap has taken over, world is so different now, lots of people in music raised on digital devices, they can't write songs or play music well, they haven't learned their craft, with a computer you don't need a band anymore
Because this generation doesn't deserve good things.
@@criticalhard me from this generation: how dare you???
There are a lot of cover bands doing this music.
@@dout0rm942 Because you'll ruin it?
This was aired a day after the release of Sgt.Peppers....and nothing would ever be the same again. 😊
Lol, that’s true!!
All these kids are now elderly and retired! No doubt grandparents or even great grandparents.....HOW TIME FLIES! 🦅🦅🦅
Are you a hacker?
Eidann63 I guess you don’t comprehend very well...😭😭😭
@@peaceatlast8286 Enlighten me.
And back then as teenagers we had pure Oswald and Sandoz LSD that the Beatles also took in 1965 - all their music changed after that. My grandkids have no idea, they are far more conservative than I ever was, 1967 was the high tide mark back then, it's never been that high since ''the summer of love 67''
Do you mean Owsley? The Bear's work was good, all right. :-)
What a wonderful world!!
Happy days forever😊
Jb ( 65 years old) from Paris France❤❤
What an amazing year for music 1967 was , with fifties style crooners like Frank Sinatra mixed in with psychedelic rock, the Beatles, cheery popsters like Lulu and Pet Clark, and harder edged rock like this song
summer of love? it was a watershead year for many things, as was 1999 for us, though they had a woodstock and overcharged for water and food on one of the hottest days of summer, and it devolved in a riot, they also didn't empty the portapottys, but last year before the millinium and for me heading into my final year of highschool so yea it was a fun time and finally got more freedom to do stuff, and started working, for sure one of the last years they had shows with dancing everyday that was on mtv or the like, we also had a good mix of retro though with the popularity of austin powers and cher singing do you belive in life after love, yea good times, and dance music was starting to invade the mainstream beside just the euro artists, and kid rock burst onto the scene but yea he eventually matured into a good artist, oh and lets not forget in the same era carlos santana and rob from matchbox 20 singing smooth.
me and my husband saw Jefferson Airplane in the in Piano Beach ,I was like 17 couldn't hear for three days and so worth it
THAT BLOND IN THE BLACK SWEATER AND WHITE SKIRT AND BLACK SHOES IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
Yes amazingly beautiful!❤
Wow those were the days alright!!!
Every Saturday I watched American Bandstand. So glad it was on for so many years. So much fun to watch and Dick Clark was great.
I wish the young ladies AND young men of today would start a craze where they wore clothes like these kids did, so well put together. They'd be cool, that's for sure!
I've been jamming this song since 1969 when I was 3 years old even though it hit the radio when I was 1 year old!
67 was my senior year in high school. Girlfriend looked just like the gal up on the riser. Cars, sports, girls, dances, pep rally's, music, cruising, drive-ins, parties.........and the draft for VietNam.
The first big lady of Rock:Grace Slick. Great voice, beautiful woman.
I just watched this video four times in a row. Love the dancing and love the song. In May 1967, I was a month away from graduating high school, 3,000 miles east of LA. If one of these California cuties had shown up at my New Jersey high school, every guy would've had a crush on her.
My Generation ❤🎶🎶🎵🌙🌙💙 17 years old in 1967. What a time to have lived, I'm glad that I was along for the ride...what a ride it was and still is... 🇺🇸 😎 69 now but I have my memories.. it was so different than today 2019. --- what's good about it ! ? The love of most has turned cold 💔, weather extremes , scandals galore , way too much hate , lies, and
WAR , loss of civility among fellow citizens, Artificial Intelligence, breakdown of morals, anarchy, deep state ,climate change , mass shootings........................................................
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And yet people used to say, when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, that it was worse back in the 60's with all the War and racial tension. So it's worse now, interesting.
I agree, I'm 61. Would not trade growing up then compared to now. Best wishes to you.
@@philmullins136 I'm 61 too. I agree. I miss the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
WOW ! totally awesome video----great childhood memories for me. I have Noticed how almost half the people dancing are brothers dancing with their sisters LOL !!! very sweet........
This is how music should be------it was fun ---and you could get up and dance to it and really enjoy yourself--------------unlike the sad,bad,mad, depressing music that is ''popular'' now.
LARRY J How do you know half are brothers and sisters dancing with each other?
Great LSD song, that changed everything big time in 1966
If you haven't already, check out the Great Society's (Grace band before JA) version of this, White Rabbit, and Sally Go Round the Roses. True psychedelia!
The guy in the glasses gets it.
gk10002000 It seems that everyone dancing was really grooving to JA!
Gets what ? How to look like a dork that can't dance !!!
Michael Neel No! He was great, and was really into it.
Next stop - corner of Haight and Ashbury
How come everybody is dancing Salsa?
I love Grace Slick!
Before Janis, there was Grace!
Love the remix of this track.
When getting on the American Bandstand was the ultimate flex.
The camera work is awful, of course, but those kids dancing, just free-styling it. Just getting into the groove. How cool is that? This is a perfect distillation of teens at that time in history.
The girls back than where just so beautiful and not FAKE like today. The guys so respectful of the girls not like today. Amazing generation I was born in 59 missed them by about 10 years absolutely love this stuff it's a gem.
Something strange about listening to Jefferson Airplane, and then seeing guys and girls all dressed up dancing to it.....!
Alan Spagnolia: So true.. LoL. Yes, "straight" culture and "counter-culture," colliding on the dance floor.
Check those kids out two years later by the time of Woodstock...I imagine that the wardrobe changed some...
I just thought that AB is a history lesson
Like the ending to the Lord's of Flatbush
@@Eidann63 Like wow heavy! Music most certainly went in a direction that seemed to conflict with dancing. Yet the brave souls managed to find a way to dance to it any way. I remember witnessing that incongruity real time.
Such a quintessential 60's song! Always nice to spot the joyful dancer Frank Vanderpuil in the clips...
May of 67 was when I was nearing the end of spring semester in 10th grade. We were listening to a lot of great music on the radio(AM) back then in the mid to late 60s.
This was a badass generation. This was my moms generation.
Ninja k
A lot of them were bad ass but some of them WEREN'T.
Regretfully some of them had no manners and taught that to their kids.
Some of them later went on to become the greediest corporate people who ended up being all about money... and a number of them are still involved in the business world
My generation I am. 17 in 1967 ....glad that I was growing up then , an important era. ♥️🎶🎵☀️🌐🇺🇸
So were the 70s and 80s were bad ass too...
Ninja k Check out my comment about this.....😉😉😉🦅🦅🦅
Meh it was a destructive generation. The source of many of today’s ills.
Such a beautiful time growing up!!! Music was sooooo beautiful; not noise without meaning about life.
STILL a DAMN GOOD TUNE....
Oh, to talk to some of these folks now! Makes me smile!
Lisa-Lin B I wish they would make a contribution to this site as well.I am enjoying watching these clips from England.We never had a show like this.
When music was music!
Simple times were the best
And off to Vietnam was the future for many.
That dude in the glasses is my new idol... I fuckin love that guy
Lol mine too. He comments on here ..Dr. John Pollard is his name
Glasses, you're too much! Love it.
I'm going to call this #5, and now I have to get over myself.
1967 enlisted in USCG what a ride
Charles Goodspeed thank you for your service.
The jiving couple up on the block are COOL !
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LOL! So hip to groove to the Airplane in a striped tie and suit coat! Too cute. A lot of people assume that in the Summer of Love everyone was wearing "groovy threads" but that didn't really reach suburbia until a few years later.
I believe the gentlemen had to dress like this because it was the rules. From 1952 through 1969, men were required to wear a coat and tie. After 1969, all that changed. Seeing how I wouldn't be born 35 years later after this clip, casual wear was probably jeans, flannel, polo, plaid, or t-shirts. This is my knowledge from old photos from that era.
Five years on all those clean cut kids probably looked like the Jefferson Airplane in 1967.
For much of America, the sixties didn’t really begin until 1968 with the assassinations and Chicago riots.
@@jeffschroeder357 On the coast of Cali and in NYC, the "Summer of Love" ('67) was the peak of the hippies. We had Monterey Pop Festival that summer and two years later Woodstock. Right after Woodstock '69 Charles Manson and his insane rotten gang of oddball killers threw it all to hell. Long haired guys working in the post office were starting to get persecuted, etc., being called: "Manson." A "lull"... and disco came forward. By mid 70's the (true) hippie culture was long dead. There were many that tried to carry it on, but as Vietnam ended that counter culture disappeared. What you had left was confusion, Haight and Ashbury was a sty, and hard core druggies were left. The dream was Over.
California was definitely ahead of the rest. BTW, my father worked for RCA Records and he sold Jefferson Airplane albums, so our family (and my older brother who was in high school at the time) followed them album by album. I can still remember as an eight year old my brother explaining why they used the word "Fred" on After Bathing at Baxters.
Grace Slick The Queen Of Rock!
I Love this Song
I watched this episode. I was 8 years old. I'm 60 now n damn I feel old ha ha.
James McCutchan Me too,I am 59.Where has it all gone?
Didn't you know that 60 is the new 50? 😊
@@suzannelawson9215 I'm glad because I just turned 60 last week.🙂
I was born in 69 & its just crazy to think this is how they danced . A long way from my Philly dancing !
NOT that long....you say you were born in 1969???? high school in the mid 80s probably graduated in 1987???? it was ONLY 20 something years.
Firstly, that blond girl (dark top and light skirt) was quite the looker.. secondly, it's really cool to see people actually dance to music...
She was a beautiful doll baby.
Yes, she is good looking. A friend of mine used to know her and said this girl was quite full of herself (and very conceited.) Actually she does kind of have that look about her (for being full of herself).
I didn't know her myself though.
@Suzanne Lawson now that you mention it she does kinda look a little like an attention seeker 😁
@@suzannelawson9215 She certainly was beautiful.
I love their dancing!
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Awesome!
Pop music was going through a transitional period--with the Summer of Love upon us.
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To have clean-cut well dressed kids dancing to the wild bunch that was The Jefferson Airplane was surreal...
This was shot in early '67. Right before Summer of Love.
"Surrealistic Pillow" by the airplane, with its two mega hits -the other being "White Rabbit" with its cryptic message "feed your head",(an allusion to psychedelic drug use) was THE soundtrack for the "summer of love", and its pulsating hit "Somebody to Love" most emblematic of that summer. It was steadily rising pn the Billboard charts to #1. That is, until the Beatle's "Sargeant Pepper" , released June/67 sky rocketed to the top and remained there for two years, pushing "White Rabbit" away from the #1 position. As I recall, Grace Slick donned a dark look, wearing all black and a black hood to match. Perhaps she felt it better to adorn a monochromatic image on b/w television.
This just shows how cool the 60’s are
That's Buddy Schwimmer on the riser with Olivia Favela. No wonder Buddy went on to be a world-class dance instructor/choreographer. Ah, yes, YouCanDanceToIt!, the "summer of love" - 1967 - was just on the horizon. Don Pollard was for sure diggin' and groovin' to the beat of Grace Slick and The Jefferson Airplane. Aaron, another great post!
I love your rare “mug” for the camera here Don. You and Peggy were a great pair. Thanks for the info on Buddy Schwimmer. They were both rockin’ it up there on the risers. Thanks Don! -Aaron
I remember Buddy instructing Chaz Bono on dancing with the stars. Did not know he was one and the same person. Fabulous dancer
YouCanDanceToit! Which one is Don?
Don is dancing with Peggy Waggoner at 1:02
thanks:)
I as three years old! Lol I remember my teenage cousins would watch American Bandstand and dance together in the living room! I watched American Bandstand in the 80s! lol 💃🏻🕺🏻
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This is cool to watch and I personally don't even like to dance, but this is an exception.
What music revolution looks like!
Groovy. I wish this was in colour!
MPO67 I thought this.It looks like AB was one of the last programmes to go into colour(color).I am British,and our main TV channels did not go into colour until Nov 1969.I know the American networks were mostly in colour well before this date.
Just noticed you have spelled colour the British way,so it looks like I am talking to a fellow Brit here.
They are all now 70ish, those that are still with us.
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I wonder how many of these young men went on to Vietnam?
Probaby zero. It seems to me that the workingclass guys beared the brunt of that. If these kids came from middleclass families, chances are they went on to college and were spared the draft.
lemuran . Probably zero is correct. Anyone with an ounce of sense enrolled in a college or school of some type. Working class kids could go to college. I was one. I practically starved to death and worked my arse off to earn the college exemption. In some respects it was easier to just accept being drafted. You got three hots and a cot. A lot like being in prison. Only if you didn't do what they said, you'd go to prison.
@Scott: How come you had to pay so much money to go to school? In those days tuition was very inexpensive and I'm sure most parents didn't want their sons shipped off to 'Nam.
Tuition was not free in Ohio. You have been misinformed. Ohio had open enrollment for state universities. But it was not free by any means. I think California had open enrollment and free tuition. But not most states.
@Scott: I am sorry. I wrote the wrong thing. I meant CHEAP.
Those. We're. The. Days.. An. Era. For. Us. N. To this. Day
best song ever !!!!! trippin out yea !!!
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@@tomfriend4348 tripped out in a moonage space dream oh yea
All sorts of really cute awkwardness in this clip.
I’m glad nobody was self conscious about it.
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These people haven't been poisoned by fast food yet
.......and the steriods they've been feeding cattle, that we end up eating.
and by tolerance
we'll call you k Yes your right!!
Or global warming
we'll call you k your right, today a girl in her 20s looks likes she’s always pregnant
They are badass
Box tops the letter... AB 1967 , same kids dancing.
I noticed that 2
Todos se pararon cuando sono la cancion ¡que tiempos!
I'm going to groove out to some acid-frazzled hippy mayhem but I'm still going to wear a suit and tie when I do it.
Im sure there was a dress code to be on AB
Was 16 yo 1967. Miss these days of high school in Chicago.
TIME IT WAS
AND WHAT A TIME IT WAS...IT WAS
A TIME OF INNOCENCE
A TIME OF CONFIDENCES
LONG AGO IT MUST BE
I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH
PRESERVE YOUR MEMORIES THEY'RE ALL THAT LEFT YOU!😢⚘
Some songs back then you just couldn't get rhythm enough to dance to. I should know this was part of my generation.
Gerri Petress I agree with you.Even though 60's songs were good,they were difficult to dance to.Late 70's/early 80's songs were much easier to dance to.
Dick Clark ..America's oldest teenager at the time .. A true icon.
The guy in the previous video who said he’s taking a trip this summer is here I think he’s taking another trip 😂
Great time to be 11 years old.
even more fun to have been 18
Awesome, Aaron R...the enhanced sound really adds to the clip...SUPER Psychedelic & "Dancer Don" & "Peggy" really getting down on this number and Don even singing along...Dick must have been pressured for a commercial as he cut the Jefferson Airplane off about 50 seconds short...Looks like "Don Pollard" is resurrecting 1962's dance craze, "The Fly" :--)
The young lady to the left at the start of this video, looks like the same young woman sitting next to Bobby Vee in his 1965 appearance on bandstand. a very charming young lady.
Sgt. Peppers was about to explode on the radio...and change everything.
I would like to hear from anyone who is in this video...Please state at what point of the video you are seen and what your wearing etc. That would be cool to hear from people that were in this video. :)
@==/A\== no, I dont think they would be dead....I was 7 at the time and they were in there late teens and early 20's They would be in there early 70's now...I am 59. :)
I've already been busted twice before i got to this comment. "Guy with the glasses" apparently.
I love all these AB videos thank you for sharing! since it was before my time I only wish someone should download the whole show, I looked for them in DVD but no luck sadly 😢
I would recommend visiting videobeat.com for classic AB episodes.
Such great memories! Everyone looked so awesome.😁
Kids were all dressed up and headed to the AB. Wish it could be that way again . It was a great time to grow up.
In the beginning of this video, the two girl's sitting next to each other, look like identical twins, they're beautiful, especially the one who was smiling and looking up at the monitor, wow, very beautiful!
the music seems so much more advanced than the times...
YES, THANX
Dancing on the riser - Olivia "Liver", later drummer and vocalist in Birtha.
A lot of Birtha-fans wants her for interview and such. Some said she died, but some says otherwise. Hope shes still alive, cause the all female band Birtha was fantastic band +/- 1970, that went under the radar for lots of people. Found them 1-2 yrs ago, and love their music.
I think I would have liked to have come of age in 1967!
Dig it man!
Starting second tour., Radio RVN played this, many times. US Marine Corp 12/20/1966 - 05/31/2005
Look how healthy and happy this generation looked back then. The 60s kids.
alotta of guys wearin Hai Karate ;-)
Including my brothers! 😂
Or English Leather, Aqua Velva or Jade East!
Lovin' your posts!
1967,"the summer of love"
Get down with the get down sound.
So lucky, wish I wasn't a year old then
Somebody to love...
A positive message here
Today’s message is hate...
I was 6 years old when this came out.