DANCE AWAY, TASHA!! This is a clip from a movie, and this is an ALL ADULT audience, NOT teenagers. Adults didn't like rock and roll, my parents didn't either. They were teenagers in the late '30s and early '40s, so this was NOT their music. They weren't necessarily bored, just not loving the music. Lol! "Runaround Sue" came out in 1961 and went to #1 on the charts. I was 14 then and every time I hear this song, I think of my lunch hour when I was in 8th grade. Our high school (which was grades 7-12) had just built a new cafeteria addition on to the school. Outside the cafeteria they had a very wide hall way, and they would play music out there during lunchtime. We used to do this dance in a big circle when "Runaround Sue" came on. SO, that is the memory that sticks in my head to this day, for this song! You should listen to Dion's follow up song "THE WANDERER" where HE is now a male version of "Runaround Sue." ! It's another great rocker.
This was a clip from a Rock 'n' Roll movie. I think it was "Twist Around The Clock (1961)". The nightclub audience are all actors, as are the guys playing the instruments behind him. And yes, it was a reserved time. Audiences were there to pay attention to the performer, not to indulge themselves.
Either that or the audience was just a short clip they filmed at another time and spliced it in a few times to make it look like he was singing to them.
@ Patti Crichton, just for your information, back then and even later, there were nice clubs where people went to have drinks and experience some awesome entertainment. These clubs were NOT bars. And since alcohol was served, teenagers were not allowed. The most famous group I saw were the Commodores. But even back then they hadn’t hit it big yet. Glad I got to see them when I did.
@@TexasRose50 My grandparents said it was common a LONG time ago to go to dance and dinner clubs or halls with their parents. My grandpa was in the army and stationed here in Louisville, KY. My grandma was in the nunnery (convent) about to become a nun, but went to a dance hall one night with her parents and siblings. She saw my grandpa there in his army uniform and they met and fell in love. ❤️ She obviously left the nunnery after that, married my grandpa and had 8 kids, 24 grandkids, and 4p great grandchildren!!! She passed when she was 92, but she sure created a wonderful family and legacy. So grateful for dance halls and clubs that were family friendly back in the day, otherwise my “soon to be nun” grandmother never would have attended and met my grandpa!!! ❤️
Oh this takes me back my momma loved Dion … she always had 50’s and 60’s rock going on in the house . My daddy would put 40’s 50’s 60’s country . Go to my aunts houses Motown and R&B and as 60’s the flower children rock . Thank you for taking me back to a good memory with my mom we just lost her thanksgiving week
I’m 61. It’s great to see you both enjoying music from the 60’s and 70’s. I still listen to it everyday and I enjoy it as much as I did the first time I ever heard it
Absolutely LOVE y’all’s reaction to this awesome song!!! It was the times, especially if on TV. Especially girls had to remain prim and proper. What y’all are witnessing is how it really was. Everyone’s generation is different. Back then, things were just starting to heat up so to speak. Back then, this kind of music was not acceptable across-the-board. Back in the day, when Elvis Presley was on TV and shaking his hips, parents didn’t want their daughters flaunting all over Elvis. Y’all still have lots to learn but y’all are learning it! Love ya
This was actually a clip taken from a movie called "Twist Around the Clock" from 1961 when this song came out. The "audience" was actually extras who were told to keep quiet so the movie audiences could hear Dion singing..
Also, rock was new then. Dion was from the Bronx where I grew up and him, Frankie Vali and other stars were neighborhood Italian kids who used to harmonize in the hallways and corners and then went on to cut records.
Another great song by Dion is ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN. The song is about Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and also Robert (“Bobby”) Kennedy.
44 Yr old British guy. Heard this in my youth and thought nothing of it, but now at the age I am now I appreciate what's going on, musically, lyrically, and with the theme of the song, 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
This song was from a movie. I think was called "Rock Around The Twist" The did a lot of Rock N' Roll films in the early 60s. That's why the audience was the way they were. Not a real live performance.
WOW!! What a channel I love you guys. Some of us that were lucky enough to dance to this music in the 60s 70s 80s an 90s are still dancing now at our grandchildren's weddings
I love the gruffness of Dion's voice. But Tasha is right on it just being the video. This wasn't an actual live performance. It's like the Animals' Eric Burdon singing "House of the Rising Sun." You can't tell me he was that stoic when performing that song.
@SoloGuitar1000 Thanks for this. He was still more animated, and you can definitely tell he was really singing instead of just pantomiming. You could see more of the emotion and energy from him.
Dion wrote this song about his wife named Susan. At the time they weren't married. They met the day before Dion wrote this song. At 14 (I'm not really sure how old she was) her family moved to the Bronx from outside of New York City. Dion noticed the new girl in the neighborhood and began to talk with her. As Dion tells this, back then on the streets in the Bronx if you talked to a girl, she became your girl. Not being from the Bronx, she didn't know about this unwritten rule of the streets. The next day Dion See's her talking to another gie out on the sidewalk at the bus stop. She broke his heart. He went home and wrote this song. As Sue tells it, she was getting directions from a passerby to the Bronx Zoo. She didn't know who he was and never saw him again. Two years later they were married. I heard all this on the Oprah Show. She did a show about women who had number one hit songs written about them.
I was born with an old soul so I appreciate/enjoy the music and things that came before like the beat and hope those who listen to the song including music video show it to kids and watch them dance to it, parents or grandparents to make them feel nostalgic and tell stories of what they did when first hearing the song. Example "I remember the first time I saw your grandma when that song came on, I was nervous to ask her to dance but she said I do, years later at our wedding we both said I do."
I have six sisters. One of my sisters is very promiscuous and loose. Her name is Sharon but about 40 years ago we had nicknamed her Lucy (Loosey) and still call her that now today. This is what this song reminds me of.
My wife and me love your reaction videos! We grew up singing and dancing to the music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and when we see you dancing in your chairs I wonder why you don’t get up and bust a move to these great classics! Keep up the great fun….we love you guys.
I first heard this song when I was 9-years-old. That was in 1961. My friend had 200 45rpm plastic records (before vynil came out) in his collection and he let me play them. RUNAROUND SUE was one of the first songs I played and I was crazy about it---I still am!. I played the other side of it (RUNAWAY GIRL) and love it too just as much. Not long after that, Dion released LOVERS WHO WANDER which sounds so much like Runaround Sue. Then he released LITTLE DIANE. That's an even livelier song. BORN TO CRY was on the other side. Then he came out with THE MAJESTIC, LONELY TEENAGER and numerous other big hits.
This is a clip from a movie. There were many acts on it. He's playing at that club, IN THE MOVIE; it's not a live performance . Notice that the audience are all adults, there are no teenagers in it, who were his real fans. When this came out, I was in high school . Listen to him do "The Wanderer". It's the other side of the coin !
As someone else pointed out, this is a scene from a movie. So you would have to watch it to get the full context of the audience reaction. I haven't seen it, but knowing what life was like back then, it probably is showing how the "squares" reacted to rock and roll. Squares was sixties parlance for the prim and proper people that followed all the rules--similar to how being called a boy scout is a put down. If you were a wild and crazy rock and roller, you were cool--if you were a square you weren't. And, yeah, squares would be shocked at even the mention of a runaround Sue. But the cool people in the sixties would be up dancing the night away. This goes back even further--some people danced; Charleston in the twenties, jitterbug in the forties, etc., and some didn't and would rather listen to opera and classical music.
First off, watching you two discover, enjoy and laugh to the music I grew up with is a positivly delightful!...BUT...the students beome the master when you taught me how funny those women's reactions were. When I was a kid, that's the kind of ladies I grew up with! I never gave the "proper ladies" a senond thought, but your reactions opened my eyes to this unnoticed (to me) hilarity. I simply cannot relay how luckey we were to live in that sweet time and space (mostly 60s, 70s and 80s). Thanks, love your vibes! Glad to see ROCK'nROLL being rediscoverd - or carried on...or whatever you're doing with it, lol. PS. RECOMMENDED NEXT "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" Bad Company Do you have a tip type page?
A remark that you made reminded me of a funny story. We adults were helping a group of teenagers prepare a church dinner. We adults started to talk about what we did as teenagers back in the 1960s. Their reaction, "You did THAT?" Yes, we did THAT.
I always figured what older generations mean when they say “we didn’t do that stuff”, they really just meant “we had no social media and didn’t advertise it” lol
This was absolutely a new type of music, and the lyrics pushed boundaries. Infidelity was taboo, even in dating, which was also not too far removed from parental "arrangements". So many new customs and technology that was breaking tradition, that it messed with stability of families, schools, churches, etc. Hard for many of the proper to be flexible and break with being "respectable". To do so meant a bad reputation that could also get one fired as well as ostracized. Hence some parents felt they had to "disown" their "wayward" children. It birthed rebellion among many kids. My own father would say that Rock and Roll would ruin society, and indeed, it opened the door to many negatives.
Listening to just one type of music is like just eating food from one country, there are many that offer great delicious food that are completely different, experience them all or your missing out
Looks like a movie cut. His audience would be younger at the time. If you ever watch "Peggy Sue Got Married", the teenager "Charlie" (played by Nicholas Cage) idolizes Dion and aspires to be a singer.
Dion DiMucci is still going. Buddy Holly invited him onto the rented airplane that crashed on February 3, 1959, The Day The Music Died, but the ticket was $36, which was exactly what the family’s rent was on their apartment when he was growing up, his dad had told him “Never spend your rent money!”, and so he turned down Buddy Holly’s offer. So did Waylon Jennings. This song is a classic example of the Brooklyn doo-wop style from the 1950s.
2 years late, but it was the times. People would listen politely and then clap at the end. It was just about to change though, rock and roll was still a baby and was about to come a rowdy teenager. This was from a movie though, so not quite real life. Peace.
That was the most hilarious reaction to that song I've heard! And yes, the audience is reserved and quiet so the track can go straight to vinyl record back then.
Yeah, we had some down and dirty folks back then. The difference is, today they would make a song telling Sue how proud and empowering her running around is.
The people at the table watching Dion we're just there to be entertained by a performer. They weren't sitting there being offended by what he was singing about.
My parents used to dance to this when they were first dating and even decades later in their 70's, in the kitchen, when the song came on! Awesome sound!
Just read that Dion and his wife Susan 'Sue' - married on March 25, 1963 and still married 58 years later (2021)! He is now 82 years old and both alive still.
The '60's was a strange time in history - a mixture of assassinations, Vietnam war, Woodstock, free love, mini-skirts, the Twist, & some amazing bouncy music alongside the love songs. I was a dancer at a famous nightclub in NY (the Peppermint Lounge) & Dion & The Belmonts appeared at the club a couple of times. But you have to realize that older folks, our parents, came from the '40's & '50's which was a more sedate, staid & serious time, & when Elvis appeared in '54 they wanted to ban his records & filmed him from the waist up on TV - so as the 60's came w-all the changes, parents were shocked at our "behavior." It was not bad behavior in the least, certainly not anything like what goes on now, but to older people then we were a bit outrageous. Thank you.
I remember when Elvis went on the popular Ed Sullivan show and broke the TV! All that hip shaken rock-a-billy blues stuff was over the top! They even edited the film so they only showed the top of his body; but we all knew there was a party going on down below! You guys are great. You need your own TV show!
This man is a true icon and he is still putting out music that is better than anything that the young artist are doing. Dion is the not only the king of 50's Bebop music but he has covered rock and roll and blues music to this day. You should listen to the song If I should fall behind. They sing this acapella and the ranges just take you back to this time period where they could actually make their voice the instruments by having a bass voice to the high range and while one does his thing the others might do something else. So cool.
Indeed times were different. Suggestives werent used much as were any "curse" words. FCC would pull licenses from Stations etc People "felt inside" like people feel today but laws did not allow that expression. Perhaps evolution has taken us to far the other way?
Dion DiLucci is still around! Nice Italian boy who got hoodwinked! He was from the Bronx like me, so he KNEW those runaround girls first hand - lol....haha...and those folks who sat still were before the late 60's - they were too quiet to have fun - then all hell busted loose when I was in high school and the hippie thing was king. Dion was from Belmont avenue hence "dion & the bellmonts"...
Heartthrob Leif Garret redid this song in the 70's!! His mug was one of the many posted ion my wall!!! On another note, I think back then it was frowned upon to be getting in the groove
Back then, they used subliminal messages. Catchy beat, but the lyrics told a story. As on "Here's my story, it's sad but true." Dion had a great raspy voice and was a true crooner. Thanks for bringing us back to the 1950s and '60's‼️😆👍🏽👍🏽
Love this song. Dion is 82 years old and still performing to this day!
Wow I didn't know that! I swear I thought he passed many years ago. I'll have to check older Dion out! ✌❤
I heard he recently released a new album. I’m about to google it to see if that’s true, but how cool if so?!?!
Yes indeed he is...here he is 61 years later...th-cam.com/video/otJSm24dT8k/w-d-xo.html
He's still rockin', his recent song about his time spent with Sam Cooke is stunning.
@@Annodsenrab he's still alive and kicking!
DANCE AWAY, TASHA!! This is a clip from a movie, and this is an ALL ADULT audience, NOT teenagers. Adults didn't like rock and roll, my parents didn't either. They were teenagers in the late '30s and early '40s, so this was NOT their music. They weren't necessarily bored, just not loving the music. Lol! "Runaround Sue" came out in 1961 and went to #1 on the charts. I was 14 then and every time I hear this song, I think of my lunch hour when I was in 8th grade. Our high school (which was grades 7-12) had just built a new cafeteria addition on to the school. Outside the cafeteria they had a very wide hall way, and they would play music out there during lunchtime. We used to do this dance in a big circle when "Runaround Sue" came on. SO, that is the memory that sticks in my head to this day, for this song! You should listen to Dion's follow up song "THE WANDERER" where HE is now a male version of "Runaround Sue." ! It's another great rocker.
Thank you for this. Comments like this gives us insight into the times.
This was edgy for the day, the Wanderer is also a great song by Dion. 🙂
ironically, that song is about the same thing he's criticizing sue for 😄
He sounds as good today at 82!!!
@@sentenced03 Yep, the Wanderer, aka Runaround Dion. 🙂
@@jackgilchrist true but he’s said that the point of that song was that he had a lonely, sad life because he was wanderer
and the best version of 'teenager in love'
This was a clip from a Rock 'n' Roll movie. I think it was "Twist Around The Clock (1961)".
The nightclub audience are all actors, as are the guys playing the instruments behind him.
And yes, it was a reserved time. Audiences were there to pay attention to the performer, not to indulge themselves.
Either that or the audience was just a short clip they filmed at another time and spliced it in a few times to make it look like he was singing to them.
I was going to say the same thing thanks for the info 👍🏼
PLUS this whole audience is ALL ADULTS, adults didn't care for rock and roll. This was NOT a teenage audience.
@ Patti Crichton, just for your information, back then and even later, there were nice clubs where people went to have drinks and experience some awesome entertainment. These clubs were NOT bars. And since alcohol was served, teenagers were not allowed. The most famous group I saw were the Commodores. But even back then they hadn’t hit it big yet. Glad I got to see them when I did.
@@TexasRose50 My grandparents said it was common a LONG time ago to go to dance and dinner clubs or halls with their parents. My grandpa was in the army and stationed here in Louisville, KY. My grandma was in the nunnery (convent) about to become a nun, but went to a dance hall one night with her parents and siblings. She saw my grandpa there in his army uniform and they met and fell in love. ❤️ She obviously left the nunnery after that, married my grandpa and had 8 kids, 24 grandkids, and 4p great grandchildren!!! She passed when she was 92, but she sure created a wonderful family and legacy. So grateful for dance halls and clubs that were family friendly back in the day, otherwise my “soon to be nun” grandmother never would have attended and met my grandpa!!! ❤️
Oh this takes me back my momma loved Dion … she always had 50’s and 60’s rock going on in the house . My daddy would put 40’s 50’s 60’s country . Go to my aunts houses Motown and R&B and as 60’s the flower children rock . Thank you for taking me back to a good memory with my mom we just lost her thanksgiving week
Dion was fantastic!!! What a voice! Always enjoyed this song!! 😃
I’m 61.
It’s great to see you both enjoying music from the 60’s and 70’s.
I still listen to it everyday and I enjoy it as much as I did the first time I ever heard it
Absolutely LOVE y’all’s reaction to this awesome song!!! It was the times, especially if on TV. Especially girls had to remain prim and proper. What y’all are witnessing is how it really was. Everyone’s generation is different. Back then, things were just starting to heat up so to speak. Back then, this kind of music was not acceptable across-the-board. Back in the day, when Elvis Presley was on TV and shaking his hips, parents didn’t want their daughters flaunting all over Elvis. Y’all still have lots to learn but y’all are learning it! Love ya
This was actually a clip taken from a movie called "Twist Around the Clock" from 1961 when this song came out. The "audience" was actually extras who were told to keep quiet so the movie audiences could hear Dion singing..
Also, rock was new then. Dion was from the Bronx where I grew up and him, Frankie Vali and other stars were neighborhood Italian kids who used to harmonize in the hallways and corners and then went on to cut records.
Dion Dimucci was more doo wop/r&b then straight up rock.
Dion has an amazing life story! He is still preforming, and producing albums.
Another great song by Dion is ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN. The song is about Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and also Robert (“Bobby”) Kennedy.
am surprised i didn't hear this this week... requesting this song please.
He (Dion) has so many greats.
@ KeyRat, yes! It’s been so long since I’ve heard that. A song that’s not easy to forget. At least for some. Thanks for mentioning it!
Thx! These are actors in the audience! Hollywood never gets it right! Guarantee they were tapping their feet!
44 Yr old British guy. Heard this in my youth and thought nothing of it, but now at the age I am now I appreciate what's going on, musically, lyrically, and with the theme of the song, 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
This song was from a movie. I think was called "Rock Around The Twist" The did a lot of Rock N' Roll films in the early 60s. That's why the audience was the way they were. Not a real live performance.
I love this freaking song! Makes me dance everytime!
This song has stood the test of time. Still love it to this very day ❤️👍 Great job reacting you guys 👌
Loving your 60s reactions.
Great stuff.
Definitely have to follow this up with The Wanderer!
Is voice is butter man. No auto-tune. Amazing
WOW!! What a channel I love you guys. Some of us that were lucky enough to dance to this music in the 60s 70s 80s an 90s are still dancing now at our grandchildren's weddings
I listened to this song when it was popular; but I have never enjoyed it as much, by watching your reaction. You have made this song so much fun.
I love the gruffness of Dion's voice. But Tasha is right on it just being the video. This wasn't an actual live performance. It's like the Animals' Eric Burdon singing "House of the Rising Sun." You can't tell me he was that stoic when performing that song.
He (Eric Burdon) was pretty much that way on Ed Sullivan, other than bending over to sing into the mic and looking up at the audience.
@SoloGuitar1000 Is there video of that performance? Everything I've seen, he's pretty animated. Maybe he was told to do it that way by the producers.
@@One_Proud_Papa Here: th-cam.com/video/yxrz00XSOAo/w-d-xo.html
@SoloGuitar1000 Thanks for this. He was still more animated, and you can definitely tell he was really singing instead of just pantomiming. You could see more of the emotion and energy from him.
The animals did that in protest of the producers and suits who made them lipsinc their songs.
How can the crowd stay so still?! This song is so fun to dance to.
I gtrew up with 60s music and it did make you want to get out your seat and DANCE! Great music. Much much better than current pop music.
I love when you guys laugh. It brings me joy.
Dion wrote this song about his wife named Susan. At the time they weren't married. They met the day before Dion wrote this song. At 14 (I'm not really sure how old she was) her family moved to the Bronx from outside of New York City. Dion noticed the new girl in the neighborhood and began to talk with her.
As Dion tells this, back then on the streets in the Bronx if you talked to a girl, she became your girl.
Not being from the Bronx, she didn't know about this unwritten rule of the streets.
The next day Dion See's her talking to another gie out on the sidewalk at the bus stop. She broke his heart. He went home and wrote this song.
As Sue tells it, she was getting directions from a passerby to the Bronx Zoo. She didn't know who he was and never saw him again.
Two years later they were married.
I heard all this on the Oprah Show. She did a show about women who had number one hit songs written about them.
you cannot watch/'listen to this without smiling, says more than words can about the power of music
I was born with an old soul so I appreciate/enjoy the music and things that came before like the beat and hope those who listen to the song including music video show it to kids and watch them dance to it, parents or grandparents to make them feel nostalgic and tell stories of what they did when first hearing the song. Example "I remember the first time I saw your grandma when that song came on, I was nervous to ask her to dance but she said I do, years later at our wedding we both said I do."
I have six sisters. One of my sisters is very promiscuous and loose. Her name is Sharon but about 40 years ago we had nicknamed her Lucy (Loosey) and still call her that now today. This is what this song reminds me of.
😐😐😐
This was a TV movie and people couldn't really react like they would normally...People DID dance really good back then...
My wife and me love your reaction videos! We grew up singing and dancing to the music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and when we see you dancing in your chairs I wonder why you don’t get up and bust a move to these great classics! Keep up the great fun….we love you guys.
I first heard this song when I was 9-years-old. That was in 1961. My friend had 200 45rpm plastic records (before vynil came out) in his collection and he let me play them. RUNAROUND SUE was one of the first songs I played and I was crazy about it---I still am!. I played the other side of it (RUNAWAY GIRL) and love it too just as much. Not long after that, Dion released LOVERS WHO WANDER which sounds so much like Runaround Sue. Then he released LITTLE DIANE. That's an even livelier song. BORN TO CRY was on the other side. Then he came out with THE MAJESTIC, LONELY TEENAGER and numerous other big hits.
My older sister loved Dion! This brings back memories! Thanks for playing 'Oldies'
This is a clip from a movie. There were many acts on it. He's playing at that club, IN THE MOVIE; it's not a live performance .
Notice that the audience are all adults, there are no teenagers in it, who were his real fans. When this came out, I was in high school .
Listen to him do "The Wanderer". It's the other side of the coin !
Fun fact Dion was Italian from the Bronx. My grandparents were his neighbor growing up
Love your dancing Tasha. Keep it up!!! 💃🏿
As someone else pointed out, this is a scene from a movie. So you would have to watch it to get the full context of the audience reaction. I haven't seen it, but knowing what life was like back then, it probably is showing how the "squares" reacted to rock and roll. Squares was sixties parlance for the prim and proper people that followed all the rules--similar to how being called a boy scout is a put down. If you were a wild and crazy rock and roller, you were cool--if you were a square you weren't. And, yeah, squares would be shocked at even the mention of a runaround Sue. But the cool people in the sixties would be up dancing the night away. This goes back even further--some people danced; Charleston in the twenties, jitterbug in the forties, etc., and some didn't and would rather listen to opera and classical music.
You go ahead and dance and clap your hands and do whatever you want ... I LOVE your reactions.
Dion's a legend. He still sounds the same now.
Legend yes. Sounds the same? No
Dion, he is great, good times back in the day. Them good ol' days are gone. Great job guys, love from Maine. God Bless.
This was the answer to Dion's "The Wanderer". You must hear it.
First off, watching you two discover, enjoy and laugh to the music I grew up with is a positivly delightful!...BUT...the students beome the master when you taught me how funny those women's
reactions were. When I was a kid, that's the kind of ladies I grew up with! I never gave the "proper ladies" a senond thought, but your reactions opened my eyes to this unnoticed (to me) hilarity. I simply cannot relay how luckey we were to live in that sweet time and space (mostly 60s, 70s and 80s). Thanks, love your vibes! Glad to see ROCK'nROLL being rediscoverd - or carried on...or whatever you're doing with it, lol. PS. RECOMMENDED NEXT "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" Bad Company Do you have a tip type page?
Dion Dimucci is still performing. He has concerts scheduled for 2022. You wouldn't believe what he looks like today 😂🤣✌️♥️
Love you guys! I've known this song my whole life but never smiled all the way through...and, laughed with you!
A remark that you made reminded me of a funny story. We adults were helping a group of teenagers prepare a church dinner. We adults started to talk about what we did as teenagers back in the 1960s. Their reaction, "You did THAT?" Yes, we did THAT.
I find you two to be the most enduring people that I watch on youtube. Thank you for your content. I apprecieate you both.
Most towns usually have a runsround sue or two😊
The 60s was a hell of a decade. You watch this and then move on to Abraham Martin and John only a few years later. Same Dion.
Your wife is a crack up...I've watched your reaction 5 times
I always figured what older generations mean when they say “we didn’t do that stuff”, they really just meant “we had no social media and didn’t advertise it” lol
This was absolutely a new type of music, and the lyrics pushed boundaries. Infidelity was taboo, even in dating, which was also not too far removed from parental "arrangements". So many new customs and technology that was breaking tradition, that it messed with stability of families, schools, churches, etc. Hard for many of the proper to be flexible and break with being "respectable". To do so meant a bad reputation that could also get one fired as well as ostracized. Hence some parents felt they had to "disown" their "wayward" children. It birthed rebellion among many kids. My own father would say that Rock and Roll would ruin society, and indeed, it opened the door to many negatives.
Listening to just one type of music is like just eating food from one country, there are many that offer great delicious food that are completely different, experience them all or your missing out
You guys are too funny ….. make my day!💕
That is in a movie , i have seen it before.
Excellent comments and reaction. The crown was older and it was obviously a dinner/show venue. They waited till the end of the sun to respond
Looks like a movie cut. His audience would be younger at the time.
If you ever watch "Peggy Sue Got Married", the teenager "Charlie" (played by Nicholas Cage) idolizes Dion and aspires to be a singer.
People showed respect for the performer instead of disturbing the presentation.
Sue sure did get around didn’t she? 🤪LOL! Great reaction you two!
Great voice. Great song. Thanks
Dion was Drake before Drake. Man just flamed this girl up.
Lol
One of the best rock and roll songs of all times and a great song to dance to.
They sit there like rocks while Dion just nails this song 😅
Loved Dion's music and voice!!! Grew up in the 60's and loved our baby boomer music!!! We had such good music and artist!
Dion DiMucci is still going. Buddy Holly invited him onto the rented airplane that crashed on February 3, 1959, The Day The Music Died, but the ticket was $36, which was exactly what the family’s rent was on their apartment when he was growing up, his dad had told him “Never spend your rent money!”, and so he turned down Buddy Holly’s offer. So did Waylon Jennings. This song is a classic example of the Brooklyn doo-wop style from the 1950s.
2 years late, but it was the times. People would listen politely and then clap at the end. It was just about to change though, rock and roll was still a baby and was about to come a rowdy teenager. This was from a movie though, so not quite real life. Peace.
BRILLIANT reaction 💜
That was the most hilarious reaction to that song I've heard!
And yes, the audience is reserved and quiet so the track can go straight to vinyl record back then.
Yeah, we had some down and dirty folks back then. The difference is, today they would make a song telling Sue how proud and empowering her running around is.
love your reaction to the ppl in the crowd - so happy i was born in 70'. i grew up with 40's- 50s & 60s. my fav decades for music was 70s 80s & 90s.
The people at the table watching Dion we're just there to be entertained by a performer. They weren't sitting there being offended by what he was singing about.
My parents used to dance to this when they were first dating and even decades later in their 70's, in the kitchen, when the song came on! Awesome sound!
Just read that Dion and his wife Susan 'Sue' - married on March 25, 1963 and still married 58 years later (2021)! He is now 82 years old and both alive still.
Good music will live forever!
Subbing, your attitudes are beautiful. Infectious laughter. Can't wait to explore your channel more.
IMHO The late 50s into the early 70s is the best era of music ever!!!
The '60's was a strange time in history - a mixture of assassinations, Vietnam war, Woodstock, free love, mini-skirts, the Twist, & some amazing bouncy music alongside the love songs. I was a dancer at a famous nightclub in NY (the Peppermint Lounge) & Dion & The Belmonts appeared at the club a couple of times. But you have to realize that older folks, our parents, came from the '40's & '50's which was a more sedate, staid & serious time, & when Elvis appeared in '54 they wanted to ban his records & filmed him from the waist up on TV - so as the 60's came w-all the changes, parents were shocked at our "behavior." It was not bad behavior in the least, certainly not anything like what goes on now, but to older people then we were a bit outrageous. Thank you.
"if you don't dance you're dead"...lol Love it (and true)!
I love oldies❤ My Parents played it a lot all of my child hood❤
Another trip down memory lane 🎶😊
Love Dion and the Belmonts ❤ my favorite song
I remember when Elvis went on the popular Ed Sullivan show and broke the TV! All that hip shaken rock-a-billy blues stuff was over the top!
They even edited the film so they only showed the top of his body; but we all knew there was a party going on down below! You guys are great. You need your own TV show!
This man is a true icon and he is still putting out music that is better than anything that the young artist are doing. Dion is the not only the king of 50's Bebop music but he has covered rock and roll and blues music to this day. You should listen to the song If I should fall behind. They sing this acapella and the ranges just take you back to this time period where they could actually make their voice the instruments by having a bass voice to the high range and while one does his thing the others might do something else. So cool.
I knew you were gonna put your cup down with that line! Lol!
Like your dancing! Have fun! You get up and dance together!
He had a big hit called 'The Wanderer', where he was the philanderer.
I burst out laughing at the same point you both did, when you both saw the uptight white women. Such a different time.
Different from uptight black women eh?
Yup, people used to be able to be civil. Also this is from a movie lol
Indeed times were different. Suggestives werent used much as were any "curse" words. FCC would pull licenses from Stations etc People "felt inside" like people feel today but laws did not allow that expression. Perhaps evolution has taken us to far the other way?
@@freestaterider2657 perhaps? For sure a lot of society has gotten far far too loose.
Maybe one of them was named sue!
Dion DiLucci is still around! Nice Italian boy who got hoodwinked! He was from the Bronx like me, so he KNEW those runaround girls first hand - lol....haha...and those folks who sat still were before the late 60's - they were too quiet to have fun - then all hell busted loose when I was in high school and the hippie thing was king. Dion was from Belmont avenue hence "dion & the bellmonts"...
At the time probably done for TV and they want the focus on the performer so they would tell the crowd to just sit there..
This music would go better today than when it debuted!
The voice is freakin outstanding
Wow. Finally some intelligent comments. I'm impressed. Keep it up guys.
Dion and The Belmonts became the lead act on the Winter Dance Tour 1959 by default the day the music died.
Dion is now 82 and still putting out new music. It has a much different sound , still pretty good though.
The woman in front was downright pissed off. 🤣😂
Heartthrob Leif Garret redid this song in the 70's!! His mug was one of the many posted ion my wall!!! On another note, I think back then it was frowned upon to be getting in the groove
Back then, they used subliminal messages. Catchy beat, but the lyrics told a story. As on "Here's my story, it's sad but true." Dion had a great raspy voice and was a true crooner. Thanks for bringing us back to the 1950s and '60's‼️😆👍🏽👍🏽
Dion had tons of rocking hits, but his masterpiece is "Abraham (Lincoln), Martin (Luther King) and John (Kennedy)."
Born in the late 50's and grew up in the 70's. I still love this stuff. Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939)
Who's telling you not to dance? That's my favorite part of your reactions! Keep it up!