Used to watch this as a young teen in the 70's with my Grandparents. And I told them I was born too late. They laughed so much. Miss you Gran and Perry
@@LisaKoffler Where? We haven't had an oldies station in years.. Wolfman Jack is gone. Casey Kasem is too. And Dick Clark was still doing until he got older..
Something about the imperfect choreography actually makes it absolutely enjoyable. These guys were having so much fun. I followed them since about 1974 and I appreciate them more today than I did back then.
The fact that a male group did dancing and choreography, and it was still viewed as 'manly' is awesome. Other than 'boy bands', what male groups do that? Sha Na Na had it all, the vocals, talented instrumentalists, and a fun stage show. I was just a kid watching this on TV, loved the skits and the music.
Yeah, the jumping jacks were kind of trite, but I still appreciate them a lot more after not seeing them for decades. Also, you gotta love the one-man bass line (Bowser).
I am almost 63 years old and the NaNa of a precious 4 year old granddaughter, our only grandchild. Since her Papa and I are oldies, these are the songs that we sing to her now just as we did to her Mom. I hope that when she gets to be your age, she has such sweet memories of us as you do of your grandparents. We even took our daughter to see Sha Na Na when she was a little girl. Bless your heart.
I used to listen to this program when I was in high school and during the time. I was in the military I would think about them from time to time because it was a lot better than crawling around in the sand in the mud or swamps. Music what a wonderful way to be free. God bless all America and veterans.
I saw Sha Na Na 36 years ago when I was 17 at Newcastle City Hall in North East England and it was a brilliant night. The show was perfection and all the covers of the original had both great instrumentals and vocals. My favourite band members were Elliot Cahn(Gino), Donny and Johnny. Johnny in particular has an amazing vocal range.
Sorry, my mom said I was born in the wrong year. This kind of music has been my favorite for over 50 years. I get cold chills just listening to the 50's and 60's music.
Such a talented and gifted bunch of top musicians. So entertaining no matter how many times I watch these videos. I saw these when they originally aired....every show, every week!
it would be nice to know if anyone filmed their rehearsals and dance moves when they practisd these weekly shows. I am sure they had great bonding as friends as well as workmates...and i am sure they had fun too.
I'm only 23, but I had the best times of my life in the car with my grandmother singing to these songs from back then... I am proud to say I know these guys and many more oldies too like Chubby Checker...
His office is in Burbank, CA and he is team physician to the LA Galaxy Soccer Team (I think that's the name of the team), and is an expert on knee and shoulder surgical repair.
Joe Witkin (the original keyboard player before Scott Simon replaced him) became a physician as he'd always expected to. Most of his career was heading the emergency room at a San Diego area hospital. Bowzer's predecessor Alan Cooper became a department head at the Columbia University Jewish Theological Seminary. Bruce Clarke became a bigtime academician based at Texas Tech University. Elliot Cahn (left before the TV series as did Bruce Clarke and Rich Joffe) became a bigtime entertainment lawyer who managed the group "Green Day" for a few years. David Garrett graduated the rigorous Columbia University School of Engineering and became an electronics industry businessman. Rich Joffe practiced law in NYC for years. Denny Greene graduated Yale Law School after the TV years and ended up a law professor. "Many talents" were the norm for Columbia undergraduates, due to the college having extremely tough admissions standards. I'd been on track to become a lawyer myself, but the life of a journeyman rock star hooked me and allowed all the time that I ended up needing for marital trainwrecks. 😎
Same for me! I ended up loving doo wop so much I sang with a couple of Philly groups! And, now that I'm familiar with the orig's of all these songs, I gotta say Sha na Na really did 'em all justice! Wonderful talent there. Don't let the skin tight gold lame and the jumping jack choreo fool ya! These guys are terrific!
Bowser hadn't joined at Woodstock. Johnny either. The leads were mostly short time additions. Donny and Chico did the lead most of the time. The high notes were done by 2 different guys until Johnny came aboard. One was Henry Gross..
Wow.. I love Shanana since I was small.. I loved them since the 70s - all my cousins loved them. You wont find another Shanana. They are the best. NK Chew, Malaysia.
When I was a child, I thought he was the background bass singer on ALL doo-wop songs, and when I saw his face for the first time on TV, I thought: "Wow!" I thought his looks matched his voice!
I'm a fan of theirs since I was 4 in 1977 and watching them EVERY time they were on TV. NOTHING got in my way haha and listened to their records all the time in my basement. And saw them multiple times live. And I eventually became close friends with Lennie Baker.
@@jimcox3380 they're damn good and all mega talented. I wasn't even trying to be critical. I just think their antics are funny and how they got such a reaction over the singing itself.
@@mooncricket2311 Laugh track. An announcer would say everything was "previously recorded." I never saw any audience -- just the group and maybe four actors making lame jokes about the guys. A live audience without skits would have been great.
@@jimcox3380 Several 50s groups did flips, splits and routines on stage .Frankie Lymon, the Coasters, the Cadillacs ,Chuck Berry, Dion and the Belmonts, Jackie Wilson ,just to name a few. Check out some of their performances on U. Tube.
hi there, time travelling caveman here. just wanna say this newfangled "disco" is bullshit and a sad excuse for real music. we used to hit hollow tree trunks for hours round a slow-roasting mammoth thigh. that was real music. not this glitterbomb hippy nonsense
I love Donny's voise! I love how he just doesn't care! I don't mean to make it sound mean, because I don't, I love it! But the way he sings, it's like he isn't even trying and I think that's awesome!!!! I love SHA NA NA!!! Bring them BACK!!!!!!!
It's not that Donny doesn't care - he just likes having fun, and that's what I like MOST about him! I saw him in "The Stroll" video with Guerin "Tito Mambo" Barry as the lead singer. Donny was wearing a white jacket with his signature outfit and strolled with two girls instead of one!
Ya I was younger but my older siblings listen to this music and I remember them being on television to. Wow that's was a long time ago but it doesn't seem like a life time ago how time really does go by fast. Now I sound like my parents. lol✌✌
Is sad that these guys aren't more acknowledged for their talent to this day. They really hit a nerve, and the sting stuck for quite some time. That's gotta account for something still? Great stuff yet again! :)
I remember as a young child, my parents bringing me to see the filming of the tv show. It ended up being a special, so they didn't end the show in the street scene and that was what I liked the most. Still enjoyed it. Good times.
A magical time and a magical group!! Pure talent and entertainment. What fun Long live Sha Na Na . We 60's rockers and now in our 60's, but still rockin'.
I love Sha Na Na. I was born in the wrong time era. They must have heard me because they brought that era to the 70’s and 80’s. I listen to their music a lot even now. I wish I was a teen back in the late 50’s. My kingdom for a time machine.
Bowser was a guest celebrity on Password Plus in the ‘70’s. I have a friend who compares this type of music to rap. That’s like comparing the Muscle Cars of the 60’s and 70’s to the old Model T.
Your friend's comparison is probably based on the fact that early rock and roll was really (African American) rhythm and blues, and was maligned by the mainstream during the actual 1950's (unlike this cutesy parody presentation from the 1970's "Fifties Nostalgia Fad"), much as rap was maligned by the mainstream during the late '80's and early '90's, when "gangster rap" came out and pop oriented rap became mainstream. Rock and roll was also associated with juvenile delinquency in the mid-1950's (before it was tamed by Dick Clark in the later '50's), much in the way rap was associated with gang violence in the late '80's and early '90's. And before anyone following this thread laughs at the idea of "cute" and "quaint" 1950's juvenile delinquency, they DID have drive-by shootings in 1955 (Chicago, committed by 14-year-old Clement Macis), 1957 (Los Angeles, resulting in the death of 18-year-old Emily Guzman) and 1959 (Manhattan's Lower East Side, resulting in the death of 15-year-old Theresa Gee), being just a few examples. Rock and roll didn't cause juvenile delinquency of course, but there was a perceived association with it, which is understandable when we acknowledge that often organized crime was working behind the scenes in the rock and roll industry (such as Roulette Records' Morris Levy, and his association with the Joseph Columbo crime family.) Even some early rock and rollers, such as Larry Williams, ran afoul of the law. Williams, who is remembered for songs such as "Bonie Maroney" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzie" was a career criminal, dealing in drugs and prostitution. The January 29th, 1959 issue of Jet Magazine reported his arrest for possession of drugs (heroin.) The late Larry Williams would be a 1950's rock n' roll equivalent to the now-incarcerated '90's hip hop mogul Suge Knight. And some doo-wop singers like Dion "The Wanderer" DiMucci of The Belmonts, David Campanella of The Delchords, and "Little" Anthony Gourdine of The Imperials were former or even then current gang members (Dion was a member of The Fordham Daggers and Little Anthony was a member of The Chaplains street gangs before they got into music. David Campanella on the other hand, who was the son of Dodger's catcher Roy Campanella, was arrested for participating in a gang conflict with The Chaplains, while he was already performing regularly with The Delchords.) Hip hop, at least "old school" hip hop, is based on jazz, and early rock and roll is based on rhythm and blues, which is blues...and jazz. And then of course, there was 1950's rock and roll DJ Jocko Henderson, who rhymed his intros to the acts that he introduced on his "Jocko's Rocket Ship" show, and is considered by both rock and roll and hip hop historians as a pioneer in both fields. Even if you're statement is based on the differences between the music structure between early rock and roll and hip hop, as opposed to what went on behind the scenes, with respect to you (and yes, I know that when someone disagrees with someone on social media platforms it's easy to take it as disrespect which honestly, that is not my intent because I am a '50's rock and roll fan and collector), I believe your friend makes a valid analogy, because of the culture they both come from, as well as mainstream society's reaction to both genres. Your observations seems, for lack of a better term, "nostalgic" in the way that the majority of the current mainstream "looks back" at 1950's rock and roll. And since "rock and roll" was an African-American slang term that originally meant "sex," when we make "rock and roll" out to be "old, cute, and quaint," (which the 1970's "Fifties Nostalgia Fad" did and the current mainstream view of '50s "oldies" does) we, unintentionally, remove the very things that make rock n' roll appealing, in the long term.
@@richardlandis793 so your friend's comparison wasn't a historical. scholarly comparison, but meant as an insult (because she dislikes rap, and pretty much all American music?)
I was a little girl, and I watched this on TV,and It was my favorite show. I loved it. I was the only one in my house that watched thise. I was born in 1974. So I must have been at least 7 or 8 when watching this.
These guys had talent, played real music, not auto tune, or computers to mimic a song, they played on pure talent.
Used to watch this as a young teen in the 70's with my Grandparents. And I told them I was born too late. They laughed so much. Miss you Gran and Perry
Do Wop will never die... Sha Na Na was the best show on TV... Bowser rules!!!
For SHORE!!!
His bass voice rules!
@@LisaKoffler Wish they could have had him at Woodstock but he came on board later !
Dag Nabbit, so did Johnny Contardo!
DO WOP will live FOREVER . It's just that good .😊👍🏻
Bowser is always great with his baritone voice
Sha na na was and still is my favorite band . I always fantasized being bouzer . I'm 65 years old and I will always love the oldies music .
back when tv shows were worth watching
They must have been the absolute best cover bands ever borned. This is magical. Such songs you cant hear any longer. Love to Sha Na Na
They were, and we STILL have "oldies" radio stations!
@@LisaKoffler Where? We haven't had an oldies station in years.. Wolfman Jack is gone. Casey Kasem is too. And Dick Clark was still doing until he got older..
ALL 50 States have "oldies" radio stations, so you can just look it up!
Go look up Showaddywaddy's cover of this song and other songs.
Something about the imperfect choreography actually makes it absolutely enjoyable. These guys were having so much fun. I followed them since about 1974 and I appreciate them more today than I did back then.
The fact that a male group did dancing and choreography, and it was still viewed as 'manly' is awesome. Other than 'boy bands', what male groups do that? Sha Na Na had it all, the vocals, talented instrumentalists, and a fun stage show. I was just a kid watching this on TV, loved the skits and the music.
Yeah, the jumping jacks were kind of trite, but I still appreciate them a lot more after not seeing them for decades.
Also, you gotta love the one-man bass line (Bowser).
Great lead by Donnie. Great back up. Bowser and Johnny just add to it. Lenny on sax completes the magic, Great choreography. This is talent.
I still remember the audience screaming!
@@LisaKoffler They always got a great ovation but this one is outstanding, agreed.
I am almost 63 years old and the NaNa of a precious 4 year old granddaughter, our only grandchild. Since her Papa and I are oldies, these are the songs that we sing to her now just as we did to her Mom. I hope that when she gets to be your age, she has such sweet memories of us as you do of your grandparents. We even took our daughter to see Sha Na Na when she was a little girl. Bless your heart.
I used to listen to this program when I was in high school and during the time. I was in the military I would think about them from time to time because it was a lot better than crawling around in the sand in the mud or swamps. Music what a wonderful way to be free. God bless all America and veterans.
There are some people I wish could stay young and vibrant forever!
So do I! "Staying young" is difficult!
Ahhh the 70s!
The Disco Era! I was part of it, despite the fact that I was only a child back then!
I saw Sha Na Na 36 years ago when I was 17 at Newcastle City Hall in North East England and it was a brilliant night. The show was perfection and all the covers of the original had both great instrumentals and vocals. My favourite band members were Elliot Cahn(Gino), Donny and Johnny. Johnny in particular has an amazing vocal range.
ALL of them have wonderful singing voices, and Johnny stood right out!
I was at the same show. My first gig. They were absolutely brilliant. Never bettered.
You are one lucky son of a gun. I’d give my left nut to see them when you did. Cheers mate!
All the way. This is my FAVORITE kind of music. My monm
Sorry, my mom said I was born in the wrong year. This kind of music has been my favorite for over 50 years. I get cold chills just listening to the 50's and 60's music.
I remember their TV show and it was great, because of the music!!!
Such a talented and gifted bunch of top musicians. So entertaining no matter how many times I watch these videos. I saw these when they originally aired....every show, every week!
+HandwhistlerBen me too. and when it ended my sisters and i would go .............ahhhhhhhhhhh so fast. i think it was just 25 mins.?
+HandwhistlerBen TRUE!
I used to watch the new episodes when they came out as well. Sha Na Na was a lot of fun to watch when I was a kid!
REALLY takes me back.💓
it would be nice to know if anyone filmed their rehearsals and dance moves when they practisd these weekly shows. I am sure they had great bonding as friends as well as workmates...and i am sure they had fun too.
We use to watch this program in the 80's it was popular even though it wasn't in the doo wop day's ! They were really a lot of fun to watch!!
I'm with you!!!
These guys were GREAT entertainers ! And talented . We remember watching the show , they always made the day a little better !
SHA-NA-NA.....LOVE THEM!!! Put them on DVD!
I wish that was possible!
This was a great CLEAN show.
Just good, CLEAN fun!
I'm only 23, but I had the best times of my life in the car with my grandmother singing to these songs from back then... I am proud to say I know these guys and many more oldies too like Chubby Checker...
My grandmother loved the "oldies," too, and we used to listen to them on her car radio, too!
Donny is my fave lovely looking and great voice..they all good singers
Scott Powell is a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon. A man of many talents.
Tony Santini? The Italian kid from Brooklyn?
Tony Santini is his nickname.
His office is in Burbank, CA and he is team physician to the LA Galaxy Soccer Team (I think that's the name of the team), and is an expert on knee and shoulder surgical repair.
Denny was a law professor. Bowser was a classically trained pianist. Lenny played with Joey Dee and the Starlighters.
Joe Witkin (the original keyboard player before Scott Simon replaced him) became a physician as he'd always expected to. Most of his career was heading the emergency room at a San Diego area hospital. Bowzer's predecessor Alan Cooper became a department head at the Columbia University Jewish Theological Seminary. Bruce Clarke became a bigtime academician based at Texas Tech University. Elliot Cahn (left before the TV series as did Bruce Clarke and Rich Joffe) became a bigtime entertainment lawyer who managed the group "Green Day" for a few years. David Garrett graduated the rigorous Columbia University School of Engineering and became an electronics industry businessman. Rich Joffe practiced law in NYC for years. Denny Greene graduated Yale Law School after the TV years and ended up a law professor. "Many talents" were the norm for Columbia undergraduates, due to the college having extremely tough admissions standards. I'd been on track to become a lawyer myself, but the life of a journeyman rock star hooked me and allowed all the time that I ended up needing for marital trainwrecks. 😎
I have seen them numerous times, and they were always great!!!!
You can tell they enjoy the music
That's why they're singing it!
@@LisaKofflerSaturday nights on WNBC 4.
George Master, yes! I do remember that!
@@LisaKoffler Right before The Guinness Game,I think.
Didn't always like the comedy skits on the show but looooooooved the music. Such a talented bunch of guys and Johnny Contardo's voice still rocks.
Yes it does! I didn't like all the skits, either, but they made me laugh my head off!
All of them can sing very good.
That's what sets Sha Na Na apart - you have to be an outstanding singer to join the group!
Same for me! I ended up loving doo wop so much I sang with a couple of Philly groups! And, now that I'm familiar with the orig's of all these songs, I gotta say Sha na Na really did 'em all justice! Wonderful talent there. Don't let the skin tight gold lame and the jumping jack choreo fool ya! These guys are terrific!
They're more than terrific - they're outstanding!
I was privileged to see this group in concert live in Columbia, MD during the run of this great TV series!
I live in Providence, Rhode Island, and they played at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in 1982. I was 14 when my father took me, and I loved it!
Loved these guys. Great rendition of this classic 50's song
I wish these shows were still around !
They were a major hit at Woodstock! Very talented group! 📕
Bowser hadn't joined at Woodstock. Johnny either. The leads were mostly short time additions. Donny and Chico did the lead most of the time. The high notes were done by 2 different guys until Johnny came aboard. One was Henry Gross..
Gotta love Bowser' deep bass voice! You go boy!
Don't forget Johnny's high notes! He's older now, but he STILL has it!
i saw them twice. The first time, they warmed up for The Guess Who! That was my very first concert, August, 1975.
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Wow.. I love Shanana since I was small.. I loved them since the 70s - all my cousins loved them. You wont find another Shanana. They are the best. NK Chew, Malaysia.
MORE SHA NA NA!!! LOVE THEM TO PIECES.
Way back in 1978 when I was 11 this was my very first Concert
Scott Powell is now a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon. What a world.
How can you watch these guys and just be HAPPY?
How can you watch these guys and be a GROUCH?
I love the routine and the song
I can't believe this vid. clip it's been so long since I have seen Sha Na Na.. thanks for throwin it up
We never missed their weekly show! Great entertainment!
Bowser was boss of the bass, wow, he does it perfect.
When I was a child, I thought he was the background bass singer on ALL doo-wop songs, and when I saw his face for the first time on TV, I thought: "Wow!" I thought his looks matched his voice!
OMG, how I wish I was born in the 60's! I looooove Sha Na Na!
I was born in 1967, and I was a '70s child and an '80s teenager, but I also listened to the oldies, and I still do today!
Thanks for the memories!
What a great show text you back to when you were a kid😮 Sha Na Na was great 👍
I'm a fan of theirs since I was 4 in 1977 and watching them EVERY time they were on TV. NOTHING got in my way haha and listened to their records all the time in my basement. And saw them multiple times live. And I eventually became close friends with Lennie Baker.
I love love love Sha na na. Best cover band there ever was.
Absolutely!
Aww, how neat is this! Why do I never see these guys on any of the PBS doo wop specials..they were such a blast. Great song!
0:58 backup singers/dancers start doing jumping jacks on stage, and the crowd goes wild. Lmao who woulda thought ?
yeah, that's pretty cringy, no real 50's group did these parody moves. But they can sing, I'll give them that.
@@jimcox3380 they're damn good and all mega talented. I wasn't even trying to be critical. I just think their antics are funny and how they got such a reaction over the singing itself.
@@mooncricket2311 Laugh track. An announcer would say everything was "previously recorded." I never saw any audience -- just the group and maybe four actors making lame jokes about the guys. A live audience without skits would have been great.
@@jimcox3380 Several 50s groups did flips, splits and routines on stage .Frankie Lymon, the Coasters, the Cadillacs ,Chuck Berry, Dion and the Belmonts, Jackie Wilson ,just to name a few. Check out some of their performances on U. Tube.
DaveConleyPortfolio there was a live audience here. Look right after the song ends, you'll see them on the far left.
Wow, haven't seen this in years! Now it's all on youtube ,,,, great!
Thanks, this from the days when music was music, and from this great group, always caught their show on the tube back then.
I'm 21 and I'm here! making sure this amazing music doesn't go unheard of in my generation
mac26x98 Yeah, music was music. Cars were cars. Girls were well, you know. What a great time.
Hey fyi there's still music it's just not a grainy video of some weird faux rockabilly dancers
hi there, time travelling caveman here. just wanna say this newfangled "disco" is bullshit and a sad excuse for real music. we used to hit hollow tree trunks for hours round a slow-roasting mammoth thigh. that was real music. not this glitterbomb hippy nonsense
No seriously do none of you realize that old music is still available
I love Donny's voise! I love how he just doesn't care! I don't mean to make it sound mean, because I don't, I love it! But the way he sings, it's like he isn't even trying and I think that's awesome!!!! I love SHA NA NA!!! Bring them BACK!!!!!!!
It's not that Donny doesn't care - he just likes having fun, and that's what I like MOST about him! I saw him in "The Stroll" video with Guerin "Tito Mambo" Barry as the lead singer. Donny was wearing a white jacket with his signature outfit and strolled with two girls instead of one!
This is entertainment at its best when there no was no reality tv
YEAH! The BETTER days... Too much (NON REALITY) REALITY T.V. now🤮
Ohhhh take me back to the 70's ! ----------------------WolfSky9
Just come right here to TH-cam!
FANTASTIC THEN,
AND STILL
FANTASTIC NOW!!!
they really put a lot of work into their act. aspiring entertainers, take a good look at sha na na.
I still love em reminded me when I was younger
They brought back the great music I grew up with in 1950s/early 1960s! ☺
This is Why, one would imagine, that TH-cam exists?
Ya I was younger but my older siblings listen to this music and I remember them being on television to. Wow that's was a long time ago but it doesn't seem like a life time ago how time really does go by fast. Now I sound like my parents. lol✌✌
This show was, and still is AWESOME! My mom and my brother and I couldn't wait to watch a new episode each week. 😃👍
Bowser rocks. First concert I ever attended back in the early 1970s
Same for me Saratoga NY maybe 73 I think
Bowzers bass voice STILL rocks today!
got to see them sing up in toronto back in 2003 they were sooooo great and even got bowzers autograph...FUN TIMES
I was fortunate enough to see them numerous times and they were always great shows!!!!
Is sad that these guys aren't more acknowledged for their talent to this day. They really hit a nerve, and the sting stuck for quite some time. That's gotta account for something still? Great stuff yet again! :)
Just visit their website!
These guys are awesome grew up with this stuff
Thanks for posting, Grease for peace!
I remember as a young child, my parents bringing me to see the filming of the tv show. It ended up being a special, so they didn't end the show in the street scene and that was what I liked the most. Still enjoyed it. Good times.
Wow, I miss this show! I think Bowser was always my favorite but I loved them all.
I loved them all, too, and Johnny was my favorite!
A magical time and a magical group!! Pure talent and entertainment. What fun Long live Sha Na Na . We 60's rockers and now in our 60's, but still rockin'.
GREAT GROUP. LIKED THESE GUYS ALOT.
boy do i miss these guys
They're still around, even if there are only 3 of the originals left in the group - "Screamin'" Scott, Donny, and Jocko!
These guys are GREAT!
Me too! I love Donnyt in his greaser look, jeans & shirt!
He's STILL with the group!
Those little jumping-back movements they do are really cute. 1950's rock and roll was pure fun! It's not like that any more!
It's sad, isn't it?
EXACTLY!! Big need to bring back their old show.
i was a kid when this aired my whole family sat in front of tv,,,it was great
This is fun to watch, great singing, love it
one word, GREAT!!!!!
Perfectly done. Thank you. I needed this today.
Love it! Those boys can entertain!
I had never seen this before, Great Job Donny!
It doesn't matter whether he wears his sunglasses or not - he's ALWAYS fun to watch and listen to!
Good stuff...the jumpin jacks really cracked me up.
I was laughing, too!
bring back sha na na re-runs on cable TV!!
Those where the when I used to love watching TV I used to love this show
Adoro os Sha Na Na!
Brasil 🇧🇷
as expected..................outstanding!!!
That's what you have to be in order to be a member of the group!
I still love ShaNaNa.
Me, too!
I love Sha Na Na. I was born in the wrong time era. They must have heard me because they brought that era to the 70’s and 80’s.
I listen to their music a lot even now. I wish I was a teen back in the late 50’s.
My kingdom for a time machine.
I'm 21 and i wish i was born during this time 😭
CBS FM in NYC played Doo Wop music all the time in the 80’s...all the old timers played it and I loved it 🙌🙌🙌
You don't need a time machine to enjoy the oldies, since we now have TH-cam.
2020. I still loving them. 🇲🇽
I listen to it all the time! I wish they were making more good music these days, though.
They're still together with 3 of the original singers, "Screamin'" Scott, Donny, and Jocko!
Great music. Even without the video, the audio steals the show on Sha Na Na
They would come on saturday love them.
Donna McDonald Yes, that’s what I remember too
The "covered" alot of songs and were really good at it!!!!!!
That guy with the deep voice adds a nice touch.
And I agree. They all have great voices.
This show makes me Philly proud!🇺🇸👍
I love Donny's facial expressions throughout the song...like he's having a great time!
He is, and we can't blame him for that!
Bowser was a guest celebrity on Password Plus in the ‘70’s. I have a friend who compares this type of music to rap. That’s like comparing the Muscle Cars of the 60’s and 70’s to the old Model T.
Your friend's comparison is probably based on the fact that early rock and roll was really (African American) rhythm and blues, and was maligned by the mainstream during the actual 1950's (unlike this cutesy parody presentation from the 1970's "Fifties Nostalgia Fad"), much as rap was maligned by the mainstream during the late '80's and early '90's, when "gangster rap" came out and pop oriented rap became mainstream.
Rock and roll was also associated with juvenile delinquency in the mid-1950's (before it was tamed by Dick Clark in the later '50's), much in the way rap was associated with gang violence in the late '80's and early '90's.
And before anyone following this thread laughs at the idea of "cute" and "quaint" 1950's juvenile delinquency, they DID have drive-by shootings in 1955 (Chicago, committed by 14-year-old Clement Macis), 1957 (Los Angeles, resulting in the death of 18-year-old Emily Guzman) and 1959 (Manhattan's Lower East Side, resulting in the death of 15-year-old Theresa Gee), being just a few examples.
Rock and roll didn't cause juvenile delinquency of course, but there was a perceived association with it, which is understandable when we acknowledge that often organized crime was working behind the scenes in the rock and roll industry (such as Roulette Records' Morris Levy, and his association with the Joseph Columbo crime family.)
Even some early rock and rollers, such as Larry Williams, ran afoul of the law. Williams, who is remembered for songs such as "Bonie Maroney" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzie" was a career criminal, dealing in drugs and prostitution. The January 29th, 1959 issue of Jet Magazine reported his arrest for possession of drugs (heroin.)
The late Larry Williams would be a 1950's rock n' roll equivalent to the now-incarcerated '90's hip hop mogul Suge Knight.
And some doo-wop singers like Dion "The Wanderer" DiMucci of The Belmonts, David Campanella of The Delchords, and "Little" Anthony Gourdine of The Imperials were former or even then current gang members (Dion was a member of The Fordham Daggers and Little Anthony was a member of The Chaplains street gangs before they got into music. David Campanella on the other hand, who was the son of Dodger's catcher Roy Campanella, was arrested for participating in a gang conflict with The Chaplains, while he was already performing regularly with The Delchords.)
Hip hop, at least "old school" hip hop, is based on jazz, and early rock and roll is based on rhythm and blues, which is blues...and jazz.
And then of course, there was 1950's rock and roll DJ Jocko Henderson, who rhymed his intros to the acts that he introduced on his "Jocko's Rocket Ship" show, and is considered by both rock and roll and hip hop historians as a pioneer in both fields.
Even if you're statement is based on the differences between the music structure between early rock and roll and hip hop, as opposed to what went on behind the scenes, with respect to you (and yes, I know that when someone disagrees with someone on social media platforms it's easy to take it as disrespect which honestly, that is not my intent because I am a '50's rock and roll fan and collector), I believe your friend makes a valid analogy, because of the culture they both come from, as well as mainstream society's reaction to both genres.
Your observations seems, for lack of a better term, "nostalgic" in the way that the majority of the current mainstream "looks back" at 1950's rock and roll.
And since "rock and roll" was an African-American slang term that originally meant "sex," when we make "rock and roll" out to be "old, cute, and quaint," (which the 1970's "Fifties Nostalgia Fad" did and the current mainstream view of '50s "oldies" does) we, unintentionally, remove the very things that make rock n' roll appealing, in the long term.
@@Mike_The_1950s_Historian Sorry, not even close. She’s from Guatemala and does not like most American music.
@@richardlandis793 so your friend's comparison wasn't a historical. scholarly comparison, but meant as an insult (because she dislikes rap, and pretty much all American music?)
@@Mike_The_1950s_Historian You got it. Except for the 80’s and some modern jazz.
@@richardlandis793 ouch! :-)
I was a little girl, and I watched this on TV,and It was my favorite show. I loved it. I was the only one in my house that watched thise. I was born in 1974. So I must have been at least 7 or 8 when watching this.
Sha Na Na ran for 4 years: 1977-1981.
Tnx for bringing back wonderful memories.