No kidding Samuel....this came out 1 year before I was born but I remember hearing it for many years on top 40 local radio stations here in Moose Jaw,Saskatchewan.✌️🇨🇦
@@sylviacarlson3561 The Kinescope technique for recording from a studio video monitor did not produce high quality images. If it had been filmed, the quality would have been better.
Were any of you teenagers back when it was out?? I bet it was a great time. I can feel it when I hear the song. The Chantels need a biopic. It might be decades ago that they were famous but they are pioneers of the girl group sound. They need some recognition. As far as I know all of them are still alive except one.
One of the best girl groups ever. Arlene Smiths voice is undeniably one of the best voices ever! Your dad had excellent taste! I love this group. I love the song I Love You So and The Plea, Look in my eyes, He’s gone, Every Night. No one like that in 2024
Awesome 👍 it was a different world back then.To think that anyone on these shows couldn't just go home & rewind their VHS or Betamax tapes to watch themselves.So sad many of these shows were erased and re-used by TV stations.Many Johnny Carson's early episodes are gone as is 'Hollywood a Go-go' colour episodes (3 survived).We did that w many of our shows we produced,broadcast them,then erased & re-recorded over them after 1 airplay.Who knew the possibilities back then.I was a TV news & studio cameraman for 40 years.Retired 4 years ago.😊🇨🇦
@@KellysClassics The Kinescope technique for recording from a studio video monitor did not produce high quality images. If it had been filmed, the quality would have been better.
Many shows that originally aired in the 50s & early 60s met the same fate hence never seeing a great quality from any of these shows unless they were shot on film direct from studio sets.🇨🇦
She's actually saying this song was so phenomenally good, all kinds of people of ethnicity enjoyed this, it didnt matter the color of your skin. @@sprsmoke
Thanks to Samuel Harang for uploading the episode and thank you for highlighting this clip. One of the most important recordings in rock history, and this is really the only video that I have ever seen of the original group performing.
Lots of people “cared.” If these ladies went on tour to perform, they wouldn’t be allowed to used the front door of hotels or not allowed to stay in them.
It's amazing to see Dick Clark hosting shows in the 50"s 60's 70's 80's and into the 90's with the New Years Shows! What an icon in the music industry that helped launch so many people's music careers! Praise for him is unending! Thank you for your love of music blessing people's lives!
Incredible the lead singer Arlene Smith is just 15! Watched every show, Saturday nights.....loved it and looked forward to being a full tilt teen just around my corner. Endless cultural value with this one.
The ultimate slow dance song from a great year, 1958, and sung by one of the early pioneers of the American "girl groups". With the immensely talented Arlene Smith at lead.
Wow I’m watching this in 2024 December and it still gives me chills to see how different the world was back than, also they look like elementary school girl’s especially the background singers🎤👼🏽👼🏽👼🏽
This song lights my fire, and puts me right to the edge me and my friends would look at them how pretty, how they were dressed and could move like no tomorow so loved them, so. Me and my friends would get up. And try to singi like them,, every moment meant some thing to. Me,, special special special, what good times back in the day
If there is a video I posted that surprised me (other than the Gary Puckett 2 song set from 1968 w over 550,000 views now,5,000 a day) is this one.It came out 2 years before I was born 'the Day Music Died'...& always remembered hearing it on radio for many years growing up.I always liked it too.👍🇨🇦
Dick Clark lived to a very old age cause the lord gave him a very good soul he liked everybody he didn't care about your color of your skin he wasn't like other people who had shows that were trying to disrespect women singers or offend male singers this man was a icon we will never have another man like dick clark ever
Wow...you nailed it....unfortunately we didn't have AB in Moose Jaw til cable TV arrived in 1977.I was 18.Watched every Saturday from then til the show sign off.
The Lord gives everyone an equal soul and gives us all an equal choice to choose what we do with it! He didn't create robots to make one different than another or better than another but gave us choice to follow him or Satan.
**Dick Clark** Was A “Very Special” Human Being. He Saw Talent, **True Talent** And Put It Into Work!! He Was Sincere And Very Genuine At Heart. **Dick Clark** Is A **Musical Legend**
There is one singer missing. Weren't there five? Arlene Smith and four background singers. Perhaps, that singer was ill at the time. I wish there was a video of the next song they did in the show: "Every Night (I Pray)"
Back then on many of these shows,especially this one,all performances were lip synced so if someone was missing in a group,they'd go on anyways.Even the Bay City Rollers have a performance on yt where they had a replacement drummer.Check out Everybody loves a clown by Gary Lewis & the Playboys.A famous drummer was in for replacement that night.
I have always loved this song and although it is lip synched their faces show their young age and the fact that they were overwhelmed to be on TV. What a great career they would go on to have. What a wonderful video.
this original video I had to work from was pretty bad.I did get it cleaned up the best I could through my editing system but still wish it was better yet.
@@KellysClassics Considering all of the years that have gone by, I think you did a good job. Thanks for your efforts & determination, you did a nice job Kelly.
Funny thing is that this song came out a year before I was born,& grew up thru the 60s hearing it on the radio, but I never realized after re-doing the audio & cleaning up the video best I could from when I found it,that it would ever get this many views and comments.This canadian thinks that's so cool & awesome..🇨🇦
This early girl group deserves much more recognition, they have beautiful voices and the harmony is great. Let it be noted that this from the 50's when sound technology was far from what it is today.
This was my parents "Era of music" and when I hear thid genre of music..I just imagine them perhaps dancing at a "Sock Hop" (a dance held in the school gymnasium after school where everyone took their shoes off and danced in socks only)...Beautiful music!😊
So cool.I love comments like this.My Mom used to go dancing every weekend w her girlfriends in the late 60s & 50s in Moose Jaw & I could picture her w a song like this.
I personally liked the Shirelles as my favorite female group - really of all time. But the vocal on this song is the best. Not onlyy in Doo - Wop. I recently saw a PBS special, I'm not sure how long ago it was recorded, But Arlene was a fully grown woman. 50 ish possibly. And she still nailed it.
@ If you are looking at their full body of work over the course of a career, the Shirelles were definitely a bigger and better group than the Chantels and their lead singer, Shirley Alston Reeves, had a bigger career than Arlene Smith. Yes, the Shirelles were one of the greatest Girl Groups of the 1960’s. But for ONE song, the only one I can think of that rivals Arlene Smith’s powerful lead in “Maybe” was Whitney Houston in “I Will Always Love You”. About 20 years ago at a street fair I remember getting Arlene Smith’s autograph and thinking I was in the presence of greatness.
Of course he didn’t mind black singers on the show entertaining the whites and white kids dancing to black music. He cared about race on his dance show. You didn’t start to see black dancers until he moved the show to California in 64. Alan Freed had a teen dance show that was integrated in the late 50s and it got canceled because it was integrated. Dick Clark wasn’t racist but he knew most of the people of the time watching was racist so he was slow bringing in black dancers.
We didn’t have a TV in 1958. But, later watching American Bandstand, I was glad to see integrated audiences…. (From my small, hometown in Minnesnowta which was 99.99% white!)
This is what you call music
No kidding Samuel....this came out 1 year before I was born but I remember hearing it for many years on top 40 local radio stations here in Moose Jaw,Saskatchewan.✌️🇨🇦
Wow he wouldnt even talk to them. As years went on DICK would intriview them on stage. This first time o ever saw them on tv
Oh yes
I like Janis Joplin’s version too.
Arlene Smith was only 15 years old. What a voice!
Arlene later became a music teacher in the NYC DOE.
I had the privilege of working with her for a few years.
WOW! What Excellence
14 when she recorded it, I believe.
She sure didn't look 15 in this video. Are you sure?
@@sylviacarlson3561
The Kinescope technique for recording from a studio video monitor did not produce high quality images. If it had been filmed, the quality would have been better.
i got goose bumps. That girl was singing that damn song
Yeah right I was just saying😀👍
Same thing happened to me
I always enjoy hearing it over and over and over!😮
Were any of you teenagers back when it was out?? I bet it was a great time. I can feel it when I hear the song. The Chantels need a biopic. It might be decades ago that they were famous but they are pioneers of the girl group sound. They need some recognition. As far as I know all of them are still alive except one.
I want to go back. 1958 was my favorite year !
Arlene Smith and the Chantels from the Bronx. Just great.
My Dad LOOOOOOOVED the Chantels, especially Arlene Smith!! Daddy, I miss you so much.😥😥😥
One of the best girl groups ever. Arlene Smiths voice is undeniably one of the best voices ever! Your dad had excellent taste! I love this group. I love the song I Love You So and The Plea, Look in my eyes, He’s gone, Every Night. No one like that in 2024
I got detention and couldn't make it home in time to watch this... here it is 66 years later and I finally got to watch it. It's like Sci-fi !!!!
Awesome 👍 it was a different world back then.To think that anyone on these shows couldn't just go home & rewind their VHS or Betamax tapes to watch themselves.So sad many of these shows were erased and re-used by TV stations.Many Johnny Carson's early episodes are gone as is 'Hollywood a Go-go' colour episodes (3 survived).We did that w many of our shows we produced,broadcast them,then erased & re-recorded over them after 1 airplay.Who knew the possibilities back then.I was a TV news & studio cameraman for 40 years.Retired 4 years ago.😊🇨🇦
@@KellysClassics
The Kinescope technique for recording from a studio video monitor did not produce high quality images. If it had been filmed, the quality would have been better.
Many shows that originally aired in the 50s & early 60s met the same fate hence never seeing a great quality from any of these shows unless they were shot on film direct from studio sets.🇨🇦
thank you for sharing
Detention on Saturday night at 7:30? Was that Catholic School???
Such a beautiful song ❤.
Remembering how Beautiful being a teenager was back then, Oh the memories..
OH YES!! I MOST CERTAINLY DO!
Share a memory ……
Oh yes, segregation was all the rage back then..black people having to minstrel up for the all white audience. Oh good times..
I don't know anyone who didn't love this Song no matter what race you were!
What!?
What the hell does race have to do with it?
@@buckets212 Actually, she's pointing out that race was nowhere as divisive as today, albeit in a roundabout way.
She's actually saying this song was so phenomenally good, all kinds of people of ethnicity enjoyed this, it didnt matter the color of your skin. @@sprsmoke
@@sprsmoke Jim Crow laws were still in effect at this time. I'd say that's pretty "Divisive".
It doesn’t get any better than this!
I was born 1 year after this song came out but I sure remember hearing it on Moose Jaw radio stations growing up in the 60s 🇨🇦
That pounding piano is Richard Barrett
Who later discovered the 3 Degrees
@@SuperBeachbum74 Who also (to me) did a good version of this.
Fantastic, and how pretty and modestly they are dressed, like young ladies. Love the song and video. Thanks! 👏
Real ladies you are so right!
They got class, they got style. They ain't no hoes!
One of the BEST female singing groups of ALL time!
Thanks to Samuel Harang for uploading the episode and thank you for highlighting this clip. One of the most important recordings in rock history, and this is really the only video that I have ever seen of the original group performing.
Very cool.I never even realized that it was the only 1 out there with the original people.👍😊
Arlene's singing brings me to tears. Always. Or Maybe.
What a song and sang so beautifully
Grind like coffee to this great song.
Beautiful voices, still ringing in my ears
BACK THEN NOBODY CARED...WE JUST HAD FUN..AND DANCED OUR A$#% OFF
What alternative universe were you living in?
We did care. We also had lots of energy, both to have fun and care..
@@sharonazar1
What did we care???
Lots of people “cared.” If these ladies went on tour to perform, they wouldn’t be allowed to used the front door of hotels or not allowed to stay in them.
@@beigenegress2979
What is the point? We are know how things were. But due to music, they were breaking barriers.
They were great!❤
This was 2 years before I was born. What wonderful music ❤❤❤❤ God bless you girls.
MAYBE one of the best songs of the 50's.........................
Maybe the best haunting melody ever recorded, Maybe, maybe, maybe?
This is the cleanest visual I've yet seen. Thank you so very much
Did my best to fix up the old video...wish I could do more👍🇨🇦
I loved this song when it first came out and I still love it👏🎶♥️
This is so precious! Thank you for posting
What a great tune, and a great voice to deliver it.
It's amazing to see Dick Clark hosting shows in the 50"s 60's 70's 80's and into the 90's with the New Years Shows! What an icon in the music industry that helped launch so many people's music careers! Praise for him is unending! Thank you for your love of music blessing people's lives!
Cool Anthony...now that I'm retired TV News cameraman/audio of 40 years I get to enjoy my 47 years of collecting performances
Graduate of Syracuse university, worked @ Wolf.
Incredible the lead singer Arlene Smith is just 15! Watched every show, Saturday nights.....loved it and looked forward to being a full tilt teen just around my corner. Endless cultural value with this one.
My mom, who graduated hs in 1958, loved this song. It's perfect!
The ultimate slow dance song from a great year, 1958, and sung by one of the early pioneers of the American "girl groups". With the immensely talented Arlene Smith at lead.
Wow I’m watching this in 2024 December and it still gives me chills to see how different the world was back than, also they look like elementary school girl’s especially the background singers🎤👼🏽👼🏽👼🏽
This song lights my fire, and puts me right to the edge me and my friends would look at them how pretty, how they were dressed and could move like no tomorow so loved them, so. Me and my friends would get up. And try to singi like them,, every moment meant some thing to. Me,, special special special, what good times back in the day
I love stories like this.Thank you Angie.Im so glad this video I cleaned up is getting lots of views and great comments.✌️🇨🇦
Just as amazing today as it was back then. Timeless.
BEAUTIFUL!
If there is a video I posted that surprised me (other than the Gary Puckett 2 song set from 1968 w over 550,000 views now,5,000 a day) is this one.It came out 2 years before I was born 'the Day Music Died'...& always remembered hearing it on radio for many years growing up.I always liked it too.👍🇨🇦
60 years ago we had great music & shitty cameras
new we got great cameras & corporate noise
🎶😩 Sad, but true ...
Better technology. Worse talent.
If a time machine was available, I can almost bet folks would choose a different one.
It is a shame there aren't any true quality live recordings of this classic
So beautiful and the era was sweet . We were really so naïve and innocent, not knowing what was coming up ahead
I get chills everytime I hear this song ......luv it .....ty
Best version I've seen - thank you.
Same here...I remember when I was looking for this one how bad the quality was overall and with muddy audio.Glad you like what I did with it.👍😊🇨🇦
The Days of real music,Great Group!
I missed Beech-Nut chewing gum and Chicklets. I think The Chantels are one the earliest Girl group singers of that time period.
The Bobbettes came about two years before them with “Mr. Lee”.
Outstanding Performance!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Dick Clark lived to a very old age cause the lord gave him a very good soul he liked everybody he didn't care about your color of your skin he wasn't like other people who had shows that were trying to disrespect women singers or offend male singers this man was a icon we will never have another man like dick clark ever
Wow...you nailed it....unfortunately we didn't have AB in Moose Jaw til cable TV arrived in 1977.I was 18.Watched every Saturday from then til the show sign off.
The Lord gives everyone an equal soul and gives us all an equal choice to choose what we do with it! He didn't create robots to make one different than another or better than another but gave us choice to follow him or Satan.
**Dick Clark** Was A “Very Special” Human Being. He Saw Talent, **True Talent** And Put It Into Work!! He Was Sincere And Very Genuine At Heart.
**Dick Clark** Is A **Musical Legend**
Que hermosa cancion estas eran cantantes porque lo de hoy nose como seles puede desir👍👍👍👏👏👏
There is one singer missing. Weren't there five? Arlene Smith and four background singers. Perhaps, that singer was ill at the time. I wish there was a video of the next song they did in the show: "Every Night (I Pray)"
Back then on many of these shows,especially this one,all performances were lip synced so if someone was missing in a group,they'd go on anyways.Even the Bay City Rollers have a performance on yt where they had a replacement drummer.Check out Everybody loves a clown by Gary Lewis & the Playboys.A famous drummer was in for replacement that night.
The most classic ladies so enriched with talent .
Amazing - and also amazing that such footage exists! Thank you!
So many memories. Love this song.❤❤❤
It’s summer in a Chicago suburb and this song is playing on my little AM radio. Even for a little kid, it was magical.
BLESS YOU for staying with us, Arlene!
I have always loved this song and although it is lip synched their faces show their young age and the fact that they were overwhelmed to be on TV. What a great career they would go on to have. What a wonderful video.
Such a sweet song and era, tears....
What a beautiful song! Dick Clark had a ear for iconic music and singers! The Chantels sung it! 🎶❣️🎶
I was almost 10 and loved the music. Thought it would last forever, but thankfully we can still listen to it.
I got detention and couldn't make it home in time to watch this... here it is 66 years later and I finally got to watch it. It's like Sci-fi !!!!
This gave me goosebumps.
Goosebumps🎉🎉 Fabulous vocals ❤
All I can do is SMILE hearing this great old song sung by The Chantels
this original video I had to work from was pretty bad.I did get it cleaned up the best I could through my editing system but still wish it was better yet.
@@KellysClassics Considering all of the years that have gone by, I think you did a good job. Thanks for your efforts & determination, you did a nice job Kelly.
Awwww! Memories memories❤❤❤❤
I loved the Chantels...nothing better
Even the angels bent down to hear this.
Such good clear voices ❤❤❤
Arlene's voice is so big and the girls stand as tall
Funny thing is that this song came out a year before I was born,& grew up thru the 60s hearing it on the radio, but I never realized after re-doing the audio & cleaning up the video best I could from when I found it,that it would ever get this many views and comments.This canadian thinks that's so cool & awesome..🇨🇦
@@KellysClassics
Thanks for share sir 🙏
Greetings from Peru
☀️🇵🇪☀️
And perfectly on pitch. That’s a tough song.
This early girl group deserves much more recognition, they have beautiful voices and the harmony is great. Let it be noted that this from the 50's when sound technology was far from what it is today.
Excellent performance always
Dick Clark didn't care who was on his show, as long as his sponsors approved, because without them, there was no show. 😢
Today Some of the FEMALE Singers are GOOD BUT THE CHANTELS ARE THE GREATEST.❤
Beautiful!❤
Unreal 🌊
Memorizing
Mesmerizing?
Lol correct ✅
Um esplendor! ❤❤❤
Brasil
São Paulo Capital
Memories Beautiful Woman Amazing Voice AMEN ❤️😘🌹🫶❤️
This was my parents "Era of music" and when I hear thid genre of music..I just imagine them perhaps dancing at a "Sock Hop" (a dance held in the school gymnasium after school where everyone took their shoes off and danced in socks only)...Beautiful music!😊
So cool.I love comments like this.My Mom used to go dancing every weekend w her girlfriends in the late 60s & 50s in Moose Jaw & I could picture her w a song like this.
Arlene Smith. One of the most underrated and generally unknown female singers of all time.
I personally liked the Shirelles as my favorite female group - really of all time. But the vocal on this song is the best. Not onlyy in Doo - Wop. I recently saw a PBS special, I'm not sure how long ago it was recorded, But Arlene was a fully grown woman. 50 ish possibly. And she still nailed it.
@ If you are looking at their full body of work over the course of a career, the Shirelles were definitely a bigger and better group than the Chantels and their lead singer, Shirley Alston Reeves, had a bigger career than Arlene Smith. Yes, the Shirelles were one of the greatest Girl Groups of the 1960’s. But for ONE song, the only one I can think of that rivals Arlene Smith’s powerful lead in “Maybe” was Whitney Houston in “I Will Always Love You”. About 20 years ago at a street fair I remember getting Arlene Smith’s autograph and thinking I was in the presence of greatness.
That was on my Birthday! March 1st, 1958! :)
The best music to slow dance to and as a teenager back then, slow dancing with my bf who would later become my husband---#bestmusicbesttimesever
It’s 9/28/24 in Austin, Tx! Great song and singers of this era! I’m 75 and still rockin to the oldies today🥳🎶
My school had a talent show and I played the piano part ….good old days…great song…still have the 45 record
My brother & I once had 1200 45s in the 70s.Sold the whole lot 25 years ago to someone who had just purchased a juke box for his rec room.🇨🇦
Stumbled upon this. This is incredible. Thank you for posting this. TH-cam is so valuable to those of us who want to go down memory lane.
Damn she’s all that and can’t be toped ! 😢 there will never be anyone like her
Class doowop
Let’s bring real Doo Wop back !!!!! Love these girls 🎉
So good ❤🎶
Straight from The Bronx!
I love it. Thank you for the upload ☺️
I love finding gems hidden in all thee old shows.You are welcome & thank you too 👍😊
HER VOICE !! The Whitney Houston on the 50's ! 🎉❤
Whitney Houston comes nowhere near in sound as this girl.
One of the most beautiful haunting voices ever.
Very rich vocals❤
I love it!
I always wondered who sang this great song! 17 then, 81 now
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was very classic music . These girls didn’t have to take off their clothes to perform they had nothing but real talent . 😊❤
Dick Clark didn't care about your race you was on his show
It was such a different world than today.
Dick Clark was the best - he treated every singer/group with the highest respect. One Hit wonders or a string of hits, it didn't matter.
Of course he didn’t mind black singers on the show entertaining the whites and white kids dancing to black music. He cared about race on his dance show. You didn’t start to see black dancers until he moved the show to California in 64. Alan Freed had a teen dance show that was integrated in the late 50s and it got canceled because it was integrated. Dick Clark wasn’t racist but he knew most of the people of the time watching was racist so he was slow bringing in black dancers.
Unlike Soul train
We didn’t have a TV in 1958. But, later watching American Bandstand, I was glad to see integrated audiences…. (From my small, hometown in Minnesnowta which was 99.99% white!)
This song is still a hit
They were great!
So beautiful.
Brilliant.
Great great song
✨️Chew that _BeechNut_ gum for some real fun ... ! 😉👌
This is the Woman I was dreaming of in my adolescence: someone who cared so much. (Singing so beautifully was an option.)
Great song its history
That voice!
A torch song! I love it!