Danny and The Juniors - At The Hop
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- Danny & the Juniors shot straight to the top of the charts in early 1958 with their biggest hit ever, the gold-selling "At the Hop" (penned by the songwriting team of Dave White and John Madara), though they reached the charts again with eight more singles through 1963, notably the Top 40 charters "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay," "Dottie," and "Twistin' U.S.A."
Danny Rapp (lead tenor), Frank Maffei (second tenor), Joe Terranova (baritone/bass), and Dave White Tricker (tenor) (aka Dave White) were four Philadelphia high school friends -- all were born in 1940 or 1941 -- who formed an atypical late-'50s rock & roll dance combo, originally calling themselves the Juvenairs. Rapp -- the group's leader -- choreographed their dance steps and invented the routines that they performed during their sets. After playing after-school gigs and local shows as a foursome for a while, they later added saxophonist Lennie Baker to the lineup.
While still in high school in late 1957, they were working a record hop as the intermission entertainment, when a local businessman named John Madara spotted the band. Madara had an interest in rock & roll promotion and introduced them to a local songwriter and vocal coach named Artie Singer, who also ran his own label, Singular Records.
Singer auditioned the band and liked an original song White had written that captured the energetic spirit of rock & roll. It was called "Do the Bop." However, since the term "bop" was by then already out of fashion, he suggested that the song's title needed to be changed and helped them shape it into the hit we know today: "At the Hop." Singer also shortened the name of the group from the Juvenairs to the Juniors and had them cut a demo of "At the Hop" that he took around to play for local DJs. Working with producer Leon Huff, it took 13 takes in Reco-Art Studios in Philadelphia before Singer felt he had the goods from the group.
Singer played the song for Dick Clark, whose popular music show American Bandstand was broadcast live from their hometown of Philadelphia. Clark didn't have any immediate openings on the show, but as luck would have it, Little Anthony and the Imperials canceled an appearance soon thereafter and Clark asked Danny & the Juniors to fill in as replacements. "At the Hop" proved to be an immediate success. Singular quickly issued the song as the group's first single and it became a regional hit, selling 7,000 copies in onw week in Philadelphia alone. Financially strapped, Singular Records later leased the record for 5,000 dollars to ABC Paramount. "At the Hop" proceeded to climb up the charts in December of 1957, reaching number one, where it remained for seven weeks.
Danny & the Juniors soon followed up with "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay," another White-penned rocker, which also made the Top 20. The group toured with several of Alan Freed's traveling rock & roll shows and put two more songs into the Top 40. In the early '60s the group switched over to the Swan label and after their last song charted in 1963, Danny & the Juniors eventually parted ways.
Madara ended up running his own record store, located at 60th and Market Streets in Philly. He and White also went on to join the Spokesmen, whose minor hit "The Dawn of Correction" was an answer song to Barry McGuire's number one charter, "Eve of Destruction." White also made a solo album for Bell Records, which was released in 1971 under the name David White Tricker. Lead vocalist Danny Rapp committed suicide in 1983. Saxophonist Lennie Baker went on to be a founding member of nostalgia act Sha-Na-Na). ~ Bryan Thomas, All Music Guide
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We're not even humans anymore, compared to this
AMEN, ... I am 76, in perfect health and feel blessed to lived in this era ... when normal was normal.
I didn't even need to be alive then to know that compared to this, we are nothing anymore. Everyone's glued to their devices. I mean at school I'll be talking to my friends and their faces are covered in a blue light. Things were so much better then.
The 50 s ,when things were basic and simple,no internet,no unnecessary electronic junk,like now.
Older folks in the 1950's referred to the 1920's in the same way; people in the 1920's thought of life at the turn of the century as "...basic & simple, no unnecessary electronic junk, like now."
Back then we where chasing good times.....not money
Someone said this before, but, this is proof that your parents(or grandparents) were WAY cooler than you ever dreamed!
I’ve always loved my parents generation.
Wrong! Way cooler than the kids today 😂🎉
One of the best comments I've ever read. 👍
For sure I remember my mama and daddy dancing and they were so good
amen
The good old days!, and look at things now!. I sure would like to see the 50's, 60's and the 70's back again!.
mais c'est fini tout ça hélas 😥🇨🇵🖐️
amen
I was 18 and this was our music. I'm not 18 anymore, and the music....
Truly a great rock'n'roll classic, teenagers dressed nicely and enjoying the dancing. I'm 79 and love this music. Bring back 50s and 60s music.
Both my parents graduated highschool in '58, this was their music.
People knew how to have fun back then. Dancing was fun.
miss those wonderful days
I wasn’t born in the 50’s , but I love this music. Who wants to dance??
No cell phones, laptops, four-letter words or any disrespect. Just kids enjoying the music and the times that at the time, they didn't realize how good they had it.
Those days were special!
@@rhondaboncutter5812 YES, Such a great tme to grow up in. When there was no crime where I lived in Kansas City, we didn't need cell phones to report it..SAD.
65 and still loving it. This is what music is suppose to be.
+Ronnie Vinson 67 here ! that was a good time to be alive ! remember riding with the top down and the radio blaring the oldies !
Me too! I was 12 in 1957, 13 when this video came out. All my cars were white convertibles from the time i was 16 until I graduated from high school. I was known as the "tall blonde in the white convertible"! lol it was the greatest time ever, especially if you lived near NYC like I did.. 20 minutes out by train.
Ronnie Vinson I'm 17 and I agree
I'm "only" 52, but my dad had quite the collection of music from the 50's, I figure I must have been born in the wrong decade cause I love this music!
75 here, and love this kind of music! cruized my city in a 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS with a 425 HP, 409, Fire Engine Red, just like my Wife's hair!! those were the days!!
Good old times so much fun, just fun fun fun
I'm in my 60s now but this takes me back to watching my mum and dad dancing in the living room. I'm still listening to their 78s. In 2021.
I'm 76 years old. Still love my Rock and roll
Now, I know why my mom smiles when she talks about her teenage years.
I cant love this more. That's my dad on the studio recorded piano. Thank you!
those of you old enough(like me) to remember Danny and the Juniors, know they had the most incredible harmony ever.
Indeed
I can literally waste hours upon and hours a day listening to this music, lets be honest here, i do
Labmaba 76 .
It is not a waste. 👍
Okay I relate to this though and I'm only sixteen 😂
IF YOU WERE ENJOYING IT, THEN IT WAS NOT A WASTE!
My Gma and gpa loves it when I get on TH-cam on while on the phone with em cause she’ll start singing the old songs and dancing and their in their early 80s.🤣best grandparents ever!!!!!!
It is time well spent.
Brings back lots of great memories and music rock and roll will never die it will continue on to danny and the juniors great job people you should be proud after all these years later appreciate you guys thanks let's rock and roll will never die way to go very impressed my grandparents would be proud and smiling 😅😅😊😊 !!!! Joe
Your music still continues on to danny and the juniors great job people you should be proud after all these years later appreciate the memories and music brings back lots of great memories keep on singing music to my ears much love and respect and appreciation job well done you should be proud my grandparents would be proud and smiling way to go rock and roll will never die it will live on !!!! Joe
Those were really good days, and the music was out of this world.
+spideraxis yep your right !
+Lloyd Dailey Thanks, my friend.
spideraxis you never can tell
and the music still is. i was born in 1957.. and this stuff kicks!
Good old days indeed
I,am 75 years old,and yet I can still dance when hearing this one!
Back when men wore suits and ladies wore dresses...this song reminds of my older brother and his grey suit, with black shoes and dancing all over our big wooden floor at our house on Saturday nights. What a wonderful memory. Seems like yesterday.
What a wonderful memory!
So much better than the stuff that is out now.
Ellen Schloss ...and self respect!
True
I think I see my parents
At least you can understand them
I know i see my parents...
Some songs never get old.
I'm 73 and this is why I do not care for music after the 80's.
Agree I only listen to 50 thru mid 80's everything else is a waste of time im 72 years young from New York
@@artfrank649 the 50's & 60's era was greatest music ever. I had a front row seat to the best era of all times. The music, the girls, and the cars. I try to explain it to the young folks today but you just had to be there
@@georgeblackwell9806 I am a 73 years old white guy and yes We will never see great music like that again I love R&R and Motown especially the Girl Groups of the Sixties anyone born after WW II was blessed by God
The ROOTS of ROCK
I’m 73 too. This is my music forever ♥️✨
Not from this era. Graduated in 1985. But if I had a time machine, this is where I would go back to.
In the top 10 Rock n Roll songs of all time
So cool for the old days and forever
To danny and the juniors rock and roll will never die great music brings back lots of great memories and memories my grandparents would be proud and smiling way to go very impressed keep on playing the music appreciate you guys thanks !!!! Joe
Can't beat that rock & roll music. Brings back such great memories of my high school years. Danced to this song many times. The 50s had the best music.
Great great memories
I was 1 year old in 1958.....:-)
Truly one of the iconic records of the 50's!!
50's & the 60's.. NO OTHER DECADES COME CLOSE
My grandmother born in 1925 said she thought the 60's were the best. She'll be 96 in November 2021
@@chriswells1440 the 60s were the best.
What do u like about this?
@@theotherview1716 its a happy beat song👍
@@mrtoptenatten ok cool
Just everyday people could dance back then. Quite amazing!
Not a patch on british teds
Not a bunch of twerking whores.
Love the men’s hair
I think it is true "Rock and Roll Will Never Die"
I'm 62 ,i'm in a band and we play mostly song of 50's to 70's r&r cha-cha, rumba , slow dance ...all songs that gets everyone off there chairs and revives the days!
AMEN BROTHER!
I hope so
@Your Momma not it hasn’t
I got to say I was not from that era but I wish I was I love that music I love doo-wop oldies nothing like them I wish I could say I used to peel out when I heard those songs
Glad I grew up in this era of great music.
I danced to this on American Bandstand in 1960.... Man that was fun..Just got back from 3 years in Germany, What a great experience.....
RIP Dick Clark......... Thanks for this great post.
I wasn't born til 65 but grew up listening to this kind of music.. I STILL love it.. Rock n Roll will never die
Myself as well Pauline. My Dad made sure I learned all the "good" music! Rock & Roll ain't noise pollution!!
Now, this is what I call REAL music. The men were handsome and clean-cut. The ladies were beautiful in a classic way.
I was born in '84 and grew up listening to all generas or types of music but, this music by far is my #1 most favorite of all the generas. Top-notch..thanks for posting it on TH-cam. :)
so cute the girls danced with the girls ....
Wow here it is 2021 I sure miss those days sure do miss you girl from 1955 that's when music really mattered
My birthday
Music still matters. Old goats like you (and me) just don't get the music of today's youth, just as the old fogies of your youth didn't get the music (this) that you loved.
oh please@@generalyellor8188
Awesome. Let's go to the hop....
Hello Alice, How are you doing?
I remember this song as a kid
Still love it😊
classic love it 💖
24 years old and wish my generation had this.
Back then this was only one great song, more followed! Awesome dancing, lots of energy and great fun. I call it my “thin years”. 😂😂😂
the 50's and 60's were the best time's of my life love the music
Correct
Me too best times of my life
... and 80s
Wish i was in that time period
This is Still a happy peppy song & I Love it!! You can't sit still hearing this 60yrs later !ROCK ON!!!!
A time when kids loved to dance,and knew how.
this the good old days
I’m 17 and actually like these more then some of the stuff that’s out today
If you like old music, try Boom radio. Providing you are from the UK of course
ritzy...I had an aunt who was part of that gen. My mom was too young for this music (she was born during the war). My own son is 27, and because I would play my CDs of 80s music, he likes some of my music.
Classic
I am 70years old, we knew how to dance in the late60s & 70s 😊❤
I'm 80. Grew up in those wonderful times! Graduated in '61. Nothing can begin to compare those times !!
@@WandaHaag-b1b the happy years!
December, 1957 and a number 1 hit. I was 12 and have loved the excitement of this great record from the start. Hot piano and feverish pace is addicting.
restored my Grand parents 1955 rock Ola juke box all original records play this all the time.
Ah, the good old days!
This music never gets old It just gets better and better
Great video
These oldies' still got it!
yes sir
I will be 70 tomorrow !...I remember this song very well in 1958 !...because the " Hoola Hoop " came out at the same time and I received one during that summer ! How many of you remember the Hoola Hoop ? db
+Dana Brinkmeier then you were in the graduating class of 1965, same as myself, I'll be 70 in a few months
You Bet !...class of 65....Where did the time go ? hihi
Hula Hoops...everyone HAD to have one! I too, a 1965 graduate from Rush-Henrietta H/S in Upstate NY (near Rochester) Tempus fugit. :P
Flew by didn't it?
Purple People Eater.
26 Miles Across the Sea...Santa Catalina is the island for me
Roller skating to organ music
Cramming people in the trunk going into the Drive In for a dollar.
Marineland. Pacific Ocean Park.
Dip-N-Sip strawberry and chocolate flavored straws.
Frosty Freeze, ice cream pushups, banana splits.
Black and White with a Cherry on top.....cop car
Waiting a week to have your pictures developed at the pharmacy
S&H Green Stamps, Blue Chip Stamps
Gas Station attendants that swarmed your car, check oil, tires, windshield
Mike Nelson, Sea Hunt
Yes, Hula Hoop, Whammo Toys
Rebel Without a Cause
Had to have a Hy Fi not even a stereo yet.
45 records and snap in adapters, 33 LP vinyl, mysterious 16 rpm speed
Couldn't play the car radio too long or the battery would die
Inner tubes. Flat tire on every long trip.
Radio and heater were options on a new car.
Maynerd G Krebbs, Beatnik.
Vacuum windshield wipers didn't work going uphill.
Wolf Whistle.
Winston Tastes Good Like a (smack smack) Cigarette Should!
Hamms Beer, steel cans, church key opener
Hey Daddy-O, we're old.
72 and still going strong!1!!
+Helen Ivory I am 67 and still going strong !
I'm right behind you at 70--- long live Rock and Roll!
lol
Nothing can beat women our age.. we care about our men, take care of them, let them have their way, have dinner ready when they come home, and are real companions to them. We could teach these younger ones a lot about keeping their man, that's for sure! (I'm sure this will start a lively discussion! ha ha)
yay Helen! I'm only 2 years behind you
Why would you think you were wasteing hours a day listening to this music , this music is not a waste of time , 50s music is good music , lady fowler
A rock and roll classic.
I would have been at all these parties back then ughh 🤘💃💃🇺🇸
bring back those days!!!simple people were so much happier!
+John Broda We were kids. Our parents dealt with everything...and well, true, the drug of choice was just trying beer.
true, beer and drinks like whiskey sours and sloe gin fizzes.. ha ha Life was so carefree and simple in those days, and fun.. we were totally into music and dancing and American Bandstand and boys and Spin the Bottle games and who was going to dance with who at the next party... I'd love to go back there! Crinolines, teased hair, cardigan sweaters, convertible tops down, football games riding on the tops of the back seats of the convertibles honking the horns, writing your boyfriends name all over your notebooks, so much fun.
No kidding
Most care free time of our lives one teacher told me. We were lucky to have food on the table. Mr. history teacher, get a real job. No get a life.
....and all our loved ones were still alive. I wish I could go back. Just for an hour or a day. Oh, what the hell, how 'bout for good!
how can anyone turn down this music? right in this very moment I see 15000 like and 338 don't like..... how can they be like that????
Another juke box classic from my teen years.
mine too still love them
I actually won a dance contest to this song-@ the ST LOUIS HOP, 1961. I BET YOU DIDN'T THINK I COULD DANCE😂
In 1958 at a Jr.high School dance this song was what it was.Yeh I know
if you were not there it sounds out of date maybe a yuky but It
was what happening and If you could dance to this(which was not easy)
you were in solid.Hail,Hail Rock and Roll.
I listen every night . Best music in the world. 76 still Rocking
I love love love this time of life in the 50's!!!! There seemed to be an innocents to it. The dance floor was obviously very crowded yet they were still having a blast. It makes me feel so good watching these people dance the "Jive". I especially love it because the jive didn't have to be professionally choreographed like people who are in competitions. It was just the jive being danced by happy people. Such fun!!!!
I am 73 and loving this.
Oh, to go back in time! My cousin Patty watched us one summer, Mom was taking classes at UC! We wore out rug doing these dances! Music has been in my life forever!
ah, good stuff !!!
Wow! Takes me back to elementary school when we all first started listening to hip music that our parents hated. Danny & the Juniors were so good. Thanks so much for this memory load.
KFWB channel 98. (LA)
From late 1957., At The Hop.
R.I.P. Danny Rapp. Thanks for two great singles.
All the guys wore jackets. Classy back then.
Great music NEVER ever gets old!!!!
Classic song !!
There was style and class in those days. God Bless
A big influence on the Ramones... listen to the way they sing "oh baby" in the chorus,....& listen to the "oh baby " in Rock and roll high school....
I'm only 54 but love 50' and 60's music!
The best music
What a great high-energy performance from the band!
Its relaxing music best of all time
Man this was probably my favorite hit from the 50s I inherit ed from my mom an her sister.....what a great voice thanks man for that great film preserving it....
Wow
I am 67, I loved American Bandstand! Love these old song so much!
2020 still loving going back to my childhood with the music
So do I best times ever
Good Song.
Thanks.
IT JUST SO DIFFRENT WATCHING THINGS FROM THE back days & LOOK AT TODAYS YEAR WE REALLY DID CHANGE
i am 78 years old. ilove this .
Of all the 50s music i have heard Danny is one of the best.....i never forgot this song an what a voice.
I would add the
Everly Brothers ...
🎵🎶 🎸🙋🌹🎸🙋🌹
This was my first 45 rpm record!
Hello Karen, How are you doing?
Wouldn't have changed growing up during this time for anything! Thanks for the memories :-)!!!
Ive always said that - I wouldn't trade it either.. Being old just means that we were young at the best time ever.. the 50's and 60's... when life was awesome. If there is a reincarnation, my husband and I both agreed we wanted to come back at the same time in the 40's so we could be teens in the 50s and 60's.. I was 12 in 1957 and got married when I was 19 in '65... those years were the best, from 57 or even 55 to 65... then came the Beatle invasion and then shortly thereafter the hippies took over when the Viet Nam war took hold.
You said it double O Flo. That was the
Best era.