Not only that, the Woodstock producers wanted to cut Sha na na as the last day was running very late (Hendrix was supposed to close the show about 6 hours prior), and Hendrix said no, he wanted them to play before him regardless.
@@rickacton7540 what, Hendrix opening for the Monkees? You know, computers have search engines... but I'll help you out a bit. In 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience was booked for almost 30 shows as the Monkees opening act, but quit after 7 gigs - apparently, the little Monkee-etes didn't quite get the proper Experience from Jimi.
@@MikeBarnett1776 shlomo-nana was not "invited by jimi hendrix", idc what internet misinformation you choose to invoke. every participant was a high-level freemason, specifically programmed by the FM funders Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts.
About the whole Woodstock event, you see this footage and it becomes apparent that these people are TRULY having fun. You don’t see that nowadays anymore. We, as humans beings, seriously need to lighten up
It was 50 years ago today - Monday, August 18, 1969. Sha Na Na were originally scheduled to play on Sunday, August 17th, and nearly didn't get to play at all, until Jimi Hendrix intervened. He closed the festival, and said he wouldn't set foot on the stage until they finished their set.
@@DavidRice111 Its true, I've read on several sources. There are some books and stories about Woodstock. Sha na na used to do college tours and Hendrix loved their energy and sound. He wanted them booked.
One of the best lines I heard was from one of the members from ShaNaNa, When told that he ShaNaNa was the opening act for Hendrix (i.e., they were the last act before Hendrix), he replied "All 30 bands were the opening act for Hendrix at Woodstock"
My folks got the double live "Golden Age of RocknRoll" from Columbia Record club, along with Cash at Folsom and Tom Jones Live in Vegas. It was 1974, I was in 4th grade, and these are STILL my favourite records. Especially The Na. So ahead of their time, Jocko Marcellino especially. Thrash drummer extraordinaire!! I think it was She a Na Na That ruined studio albums for me. Almost all my favorite recordings are live shows. From KISS to AC/DC to Motorhead, my loyalty has been unbending. GREASE FOR PEACE,,
No doubt a mosh pit would've opened up had this been several years later. '50s rock-n-roll is my favorite but the 1% at the very top is the same stuff only harder faster louder. Like this.
not true-received a standing ovation and brought back for encores on that Monday (8am) morning.People had left because of the bad weather on the sunday.Hendrix loved them.
You should read the Bio on some of these original members. One guy is the leading forensic linguist in the world.He literally wrote the book on it and trains the FBI and other world governments in the technique. A couple other guys became highly successful surgeons. One guy went to yale law school and became the vice president of production and features at at Columbia pictures. Another guy is a English professor at TTU and another guy is a lawyer for a firm in NYC. This has to be the smartest group of guys ever assembled for a music group.
Cuppa Tea I think they probably enjoyed it. It was the music they heard as kids, the original anti establishment genre. You can here good applause after they play
From what I heard, a lot of people hated em ...quite a few people left during their performance and weren't around to see the followup act: Jimi Hendrix.
Sha na na and sly stone were the true stars of woodstock. Any hippy band could have turned up and have the crowd on their side, but to be playing music that was left of the general centre and win the crowd over was a absolutely special!!!
I don't man. 50's music was part of the national consciousness. It wasn't radical or anything. Everyone there had grown up on that kind of music. Sha na na was super popular well into the 70's.
If an artist in 2021 came onstage and played “2011 music” it wouldn’t even seem that different. Just goes to show how much culture changed during the 60s
Yep, if Ed Sheeran or Justin Bieber played their 2014 hits it could still be enjoyable even nostalgic. Not sure with this though. Overall, Jolly 50s first, stoned 60s second!
Well in 1969 the biggest song of the year was Sugar, Sugar and Elvis made two number one hits. Most people were not into hippie stuff and 60's Motown was still going strong.
you could also say that wearing the same clothes from back then wouldn't look out of place. it is like american culture and fashion hasn't changed a whole lot. except for the politics. that has changed a lot.
Just goes to show how fast things developed in music back then. The difference between 1957 and 1969 was enormous and might as well have been a hundred years. The difference between 2001 and 2013, not so much except original creativity has fallen off even more.
@@mylifesjuly anyone whose interest in pop music began between 2001 and 2013 would like find it to be a dumb point. But, people who have a longer perspective on pop music have a better basis for drawing conclusions. As for current music, much of it is not even human, it is computer generated and computer enhanced [because no song royalties need to be paid to a computer]. Just my opinion, but the largely non-human "music" heard now in stores and on radio and online is just noise, devoid of all humanity and creativity...almost bad enough to make Thomas Edison sorry that he invented the machinery to record voices and music and then invented the electric sound amplifier...he invented everything that makes modern music possible...and alos motion pictures, the electric ligt, etc etc
What’s even more amazing, half these guys left the music business behind and went on to become not only doctors and lawyers, but leaders in their respective fields. Alan Cooper (singing lead on At the Hop) had 2 PHDs in Religious Studies and served on university faculties. Robert Leonard, young guy dressed in gold is an internationally renowned linguistics expert (even been on Forensic Files)
Lead singer Robert Leonard is considered by many to be the smartest man in rock history. He has a doctorate in linguistics. The FBI calls him to solve cases.
Remember being a punk rock kid in the 90s. I caught this on VH1 during Woodstock 98 and it absolutely blew my mind and gave me a greater appreciate of how chains of influence create sounds.
Totally inspiring to my generation of 15 year old, early ‘70’s. Education, Awareness of life & the struggles shown through THE FIRST WAR televised of its time cannot be forgotten throughout life. Let’s be cautious be cautious. Love each other waste stupid ‘hippy’ mantra, it’s real. Pay attention & look after each other & everything that begets our planet, JaneR .
I always thought this was a very important performance in Woodstock because it proved that there was something for everybody in that concert and that was what Woodstock was all about!
Well if Hendrix didn't get them on the bill they wouldn't be there. Hendrix liked Sha Na Na and got them in. He was there for him. Not sure if those young hippies at the show really liked and appreciated them.
These guys along with 'Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids' were an important part of a 50's revival that was taking place then. All of these movies were 50's themed: 'American Graffiti': 1973, 'The Lord's of Flatbush': 1974, and the 'Happy Days' TV sitcom that started in 1974. And don't forget 'Grease'. 50's themed costume parties were popular. Then came a resurgence of Rockabilly (as Bonehead1170 mentioned below, one of the top groups was The Blasters). Then these groups that put a New Wave spin on Rockabilly ('X' and 'The Stray Cats' to mention two) You will see a 50's influence in New Wave fashion.
@@wmbrown6 Just watched both bands videos. Both are very good but Darts was over the top fun. Watched the song combo Cool Daddy/The Girl Can't Help It. Very talented group. The lead singer cracked me up. Glad you told us about them.
It had only been a few years since "greaser" music had disappeared from the musical landscape, yet I'll bet many of the kids in the audience were stunned to hear real rock and roll music.
All those in the audience would have lived with and grown up with this era of music. Just as the band did. Though I’m sure none of them were expecting to hear anything like this at the festival
There was a lot of great contemporary rock in 1969. Woodstock is proof of that. But we lost so much when the Beatles brought along a bunch of less than rock and rollers. The 1955-63 sound seemed to be lost forever. But a lot of rock in 1969 and before was (I think) just droning, boring, noise and that gave rise for a look back (to not so very long ago) to some giants of rock and roll who had pretty much been discarded by the American music scene. Guys like Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard remained giants in Europe and elsewhere overseas. But in America they were neglected to the point of disappearance. I remember seeing so many "oldies" acts on tv as the 70's got underway and wondering "where have these guys been all my life"
I revcently came across the entire performance and liked it a lot...They had lots of energy and did many songs I have heard over the years. I was glad to be able to hear the rest of their setlist. I also didnt know years back that they were the second to last act and actually performed Monday morning! I thought seeing how a bright sunny moning it was that they played on Satuday morning because I read thst Saturday morning was sunny as well not knowing at the time the concert went into Monday.
As the movie shows the audience was left amazed with the Sha Na Na's music . Rob Leonard and David Garrett claimed that they were asked to play the Woodstock Festival based upon Jimi Hendrix's recommendation to the Woodstock producers after Hendrix saw Sha Na Na at Steve paul's night club during the summer of 1969
Old cassette I had was early in the songlist. Had no idea they were 2nd to last. Laughed so hard watching this the first time, absolutely hilarious. "And a splendid time is guaranteed for all..."
Willie Gordon very true but even in those days a song from the 50s was considered from a different planet and was hardly appreciated. Those hippies just didn’t get it.
As a kid in the eighties the late sixties and even most of the seventies seemed like a lifetime ago to me at the time. Ten years is a very long time when you're young, and given the drastic cultural shifts at the time the fifties probably seemed very far away to the hippies of the mid to late sixties.
As someone who grew up in the 50's and 60's and remembered the 50's era music, sha na na was a joke, not to be taken seriously. A comedy routine. Initially they were NY college students that organized a group that mocked and made a parody of that era. Their dress style, hair seen in the video were actually contemporary for the times. From a purist standpoint nobody looked like that (except motorcycle jackets). The choregraphy as some writer put it was "Busby Berkeley style". Sha na na was in part formed because 50's era music was hardly played on Midwest and East Coast radio stations since the British invasion of "64. For the most part they trivialized an artform that was sophisticated and required talent to perform well particularly doo wop. As far as Hippie reaction, very few early baby boomers were into Elvis or other artists from the time especially Woodstock people. Most had outgrown it and identified with the post Beatles era. Some history, the greaser (represented by Sha na na) subculture was alive and well in Chicago (as well as NY) throughout the 1960's. The blue collar 60's greasers, throw backs (hair and look) to the 50's hated the hippies, and a lot of their music. Many did not get along with college bound kids either. Picked on them in high school (John Bauman "Bowzer" was one of their targets). On the positive side Sha na na brought this music to new generations and influenced punk rock as some have mentioned. The group did produce talented people like Johnny Contardo and Henry Gross.
Hardcore punk before it was even a thing. They played probably faster than most hardcore punk bands. It goes without saying that Sha Na Na invented punk.
I love the part where they all sway front and back at different times during the middle of the song. I absolutely love their performance that morning. I dont care what anyone says.....all their videos are entertaining for sure.
This and Ten Years After have to be the most underrated musical performances ever. This must have been too much for some people. Get messed up and next thing you know you've time traveled back to the 50s. What a mindfuck.
There is only so much a producer can do with a recording like this... but it's fast and tight. 2 lead vocals hitting it on point. Excitement, harmonies. Tight rope tempo. Great performance.
I think maybe the best thing to do is mix it to mono, or at least narrow the spread down quite a lot, - especially on the last eight bars, where the stereo jumping is particularly 'orrible. None the less - this performance puts a great big smile on my face !
These guys were retro even in 69. I wondered what the stones audience thought of them. Don’t matter because all the current artists were inspired by early rock and roll.
I was at a summer camp around '70 where a counselor was a Sha-Na-Na fanatic and took the 50's look to heart. He would go to the kitchen before breakfast and get bacon grease and do-up his hair.
Rich Joffee and Gino Cohn were my camp counselors at Rowe Unitarian Universalist Camp in 74-75. The wretched TV show has nothing to do with the high-spirited original group. The 1st. 2 LPs are very good.
Just learned that Robert Leonard, bassist and one of the founders, is now Dr Robert Leonard, a college professor, expert on forensic linguistics ! ! . . saw him on an old Forensic Files helping to solve a murder
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Sha Na Na! Harold, turn up the mike!" I'll always remember that outro. My uncle gave me a bootleg 4 track (yes 4 track) tape of the first Woodstock disk. This was one of the standout performers.
this version of Sha Na Na is so superior to the version that the TV executive created for television, I wish they would have performed longer and we had more footage to view
The lineup on TV was not created by an executive. It was their current lineup at the time, all the members were in the group for years before they got the show gig, about half of them were original.
The entire audience grew up and loved this music..This is the music they heard when they were young kids.. No matter how the world changed in the late 60's , the "Hippie" generation had this music in their DNA. The music loved as a kid never goes from your heart.. 2:24
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Imagine being on acid at Woodstock and during the peak of your trip you get to listen to this.
*Brown Acid…
best drug America ever built. Period
Not at Woodstock, but did acid and saw them on the bill with Humble Pue and Lighthouse, Maple Leafs Gardens, New Years Eve, 1972, great show!!!!
Who is “Humble Pue”?! LoL😝 … I know you meant “Humble Pie”, or at least i hope 🤞you did lol 😝
You are absolutely right, Pie it is!
And who says I don't need No Doctor, lol!
Agreed. But the years from 1955 to 1970 were like taking 100 years of great music and compressing them into fifteen. What a time to grow up.
They need to put these guys in the rock and roll hall of Fame!
Someone has been listening to Comedy Bang Bang
Danny & the Juniors 1969!
That Hall is a corporate contrivance that isn't important... They can't define Rock n Roll.
Best to get over it asap.
Definitely the birth of punk
I think that Elwood Blues was a fan.
At the hop by Danny and the Juniors from Philadelphia , recorded 1957 , reached number one in 1958 for 7 weeks
I love that Sha Na Na performed at Woodstock. And were invited to do so by Jimi Hendrix, of all people.
Not only that, the Woodstock producers wanted to cut Sha na na as the last day was running very late (Hendrix was supposed to close the show about 6 hours prior), and Hendrix said no, he wanted them to play before him regardless.
a Hendrix must know, he was booked and opened for the monkeys.....
yeeeaaaahhhh ummmmmm im about 99% sure that never happened
@@rickacton7540 what, Hendrix opening for the Monkees? You know, computers have search engines... but I'll help you out a bit. In 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience was booked for almost 30 shows as the Monkees opening act, but quit after 7 gigs - apparently, the little Monkee-etes didn't quite get the proper Experience from Jimi.
@@MikeBarnett1776 shlomo-nana was not "invited by jimi hendrix", idc what internet misinformation you choose to invoke. every participant was a high-level freemason, specifically programmed by the FM funders Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts.
About the whole Woodstock event, you see this footage and it becomes apparent that these people are TRULY having fun. You don’t see that nowadays anymore. We, as humans beings, seriously need to lighten up
And remember, they got a standing ovation from the audience. No one booed.
It was 50 years ago today - Monday, August 18, 1969. Sha Na Na were originally scheduled to play on Sunday, August 17th, and nearly didn't get to play at all, until Jimi Hendrix intervened. He closed the festival, and said he wouldn't set foot on the stage until they finished their set.
What's your source for that tale?
@@DavidRice111 Its true, I've read on several sources. There are some books and stories about Woodstock. Sha na na used to do college tours and Hendrix loved their energy and sound. He wanted them booked.
I Believe MADNESS were highly influenced by these Guys 🤔
One of the best acts at Woodstock 👍
The birth of punk !
How tf is this punk lol what punk band has A fuck ton of guys dancing this is not punk you people think everything is punk
@@naeemakhtar928 Good lord calm down bro.. lol. THIS triggers you ?
Not quite
One of the best lines I heard was from one of the members from ShaNaNa, When told that he ShaNaNa was the opening act for Hendrix (i.e., they were the last act before Hendrix), he replied "All 30 bands were the opening act for Hendrix at Woodstock"
I would say that every band was the opener for Ten Years After.
These guys were NOT a decade behind the times, they were a decade AHEAD of the times! :)
Yep very punk before punk was even thought of
Absotively.
About 5 - - 10 years ahead.
My folks got the double live "Golden Age of RocknRoll" from Columbia Record club, along with Cash at Folsom and Tom Jones Live in Vegas. It was 1974, I was in 4th
grade, and these are STILL my favourite records. Especially The Na. So ahead of their time, Jocko Marcellino especially. Thrash drummer extraordinaire!! I think it was She a Na Na
That ruined studio albums for me. Almost all my favorite recordings are live shows. From KISS to AC/DC to Motorhead, my loyalty has been unbending.
GREASE FOR PEACE,,
@potatoegirl31 The first tribute band !
This version just kicks some serious ass
Two minutes of pure perfection. A 1950's classic with all the energy of punk rock. Revolutionary.
No doubt a mosh pit would've opened up had this been several years later. '50s rock-n-roll is my favorite but the 1% at the very top is the same stuff only harder faster louder. Like this.
Everybody hated it and left, probably not realizing they were being followed by a REAL revolutionary act: Jimi Hendrix.
not true-received a standing ovation and brought back for encores on that Monday (8am) morning.People had left because of the bad weather on the sunday.Hendrix loved them.
Totally not true. @@truthbydesign5146
Yeah i got a real punk vibe for some weird reason hahaha
You should read the Bio on some of these original members. One guy is the leading forensic linguist in the world.He literally wrote the book on it and trains the FBI and other world governments in the technique. A couple other guys became highly successful surgeons. One guy went to yale law school and became the vice president of production and features at at Columbia pictures. Another guy is a English professor at TTU and another guy is a lawyer for a firm in NYC. This has to be the smartest group of guys ever assembled for a music group.
Aint no happy men can sing the blues
Robert A Leonard, great man and even better forensic linguist
When I watched this on tv for the first time as a 15 year old with no knowledge of woodstock they seemed like they were stuck back in 1961
IT'S EASY TO SPOT THAT THEY ARE SMART BY THE WAY THEY DANCE!!!
I DANCE LIKE THIS TOO AND I FEEL THE SMARTNESS GRWOING!!!
Alot of them met at Columbia U.
I think it's fair to say that these guys blew a few minds at Woodstock.
Cuppa Tea I think they probably enjoyed it. It was the music they heard as kids, the original anti establishment genre. You can here good applause after they play
Cuppa Tea no it wasn't like that at all
There were maybe 30,000 people left at the site on Monday morning.
@@lonecrapshooter67 did they get booed off the stage like Kris Kristofferson at the Isle of Wight Festival? Doesn't seem that way.
Hear sorry
Most important band to play at Woodstock. Seminal performance.
That is my Uncle on Stage and yes Jimmy Hendrix played after them and they became friends
Pretty cool! ;
Piano, drums, guitar, singing... and a stage show. Always makes great music.
Most underrated Woodstock performance, hands down IMO.
+Bob Papadopoulos No, it was the best performance at Woodstock.
Why did you just disagree with me only to turn around and reinforce my own point?
I was only emphasizing your point, not disagreeing.
Bob Papadopoulos some bad ass up tempo keyboard playing
From what I heard, a lot of people hated em ...quite a few people left during their performance and weren't around to see the followup act: Jimi Hendrix.
Still better than anything on the radio during the covid lockdown 2020
Sha na na and sly stone were the true stars of woodstock. Any hippy band could have turned up and have the crowd on their side, but to be playing music that was left of the general centre and win the crowd over was a absolutely special!!!
Don’t count out Hendrix or The Who. They were great as well.
Sly and family stone were the best it was such a high energy show it was amazing
I don't man. 50's music was part of the national consciousness. It wasn't radical or anything. Everyone there had grown up on that kind of music. Sha na na was super popular well into the 70's.
If an artist in 2021 came onstage and played “2011 music” it wouldn’t even seem that different. Just goes to show how much culture changed during the 60s
Great observation.
Yep, if Ed Sheeran or Justin Bieber played their 2014 hits it could still be enjoyable even nostalgic. Not sure with this though. Overall, Jolly 50s first, stoned 60s second!
Well in 1969 the biggest song of the year was Sugar, Sugar and Elvis made two number one hits. Most people were not into hippie stuff and 60's Motown was still going strong.
you could also say that wearing the same clothes from back then wouldn't look out of place. it is like american culture and fashion hasn't changed a whole lot. except for the politics. that has changed a lot.
Just goes to show how fast things developed in music back then. The difference between 1957 and 1969 was enormous and might as well have been a hundred years. The difference between 2001 and 2013, not so much except original creativity has fallen off even more.
excellent point
@@essessessesq Really stupid point
@@mylifesjuly anyone whose interest in pop music began between 2001 and 2013 would like find it to be a dumb point. But, people who have a longer perspective on pop music have a better basis for drawing conclusions. As for current music, much of it is not even human, it is computer generated and computer enhanced [because no song royalties need to be paid to a computer]. Just my opinion, but the largely non-human "music" heard now in stores and on radio and online is just noise, devoid of all humanity and creativity...almost bad enough to make Thomas Edison sorry that he invented the machinery to record voices and music and then invented the electric sound amplifier...he invented everything that makes modern music possible...and alos motion pictures, the electric ligt, etc etc
What’s even more amazing, half these guys left the music business behind and went on to become not only doctors and lawyers, but leaders in their respective fields. Alan Cooper (singing lead on At the Hop) had 2 PHDs in Religious Studies and served on university faculties. Robert Leonard, young guy dressed in gold is an internationally renowned linguistics expert (even been on Forensic Files)
They were all attending Columbia Univ. at the time. A very accomplished group of men!
Wow!
The black singer in gold, went on to be a professor at University of Dayton
One went on to be Scott in Caddyshack
They were all Columbia grads. The ivy league education gave them a big boost.
Get this band in the rock and roll hall of fame ffs
Lead singer Robert Leonard is considered by many to be the smartest man in rock history. He has a doctorate in linguistics. The FBI calls him to solve cases.
Remember being a punk rock kid in the 90s. I caught this on VH1 during Woodstock 98 and it absolutely blew my mind and gave me a greater appreciate of how chains of influence create sounds.
"a punk rock kid in the 90s" youre a 19 yr old homeless person with a free smartphone posting comments for $0.50 a piece
@@rickacton7540 you're a miserable douchebag posting whiny comments on youtube videos
And you're a bitter old man.
Totally inspiring to my generation of 15 year old, early ‘70’s. Education, Awareness of life & the struggles shown through THE FIRST WAR televised of its time cannot be forgotten throughout life.
Let’s be cautious be cautious. Love each other waste stupid ‘hippy’ mantra, it’s real. Pay attention & look after each other & everything that begets our planet,
JaneR .
A 50s tribute band, from the 60s.
I was too much of a hippie to appreciate them in 69. Now I'm a fan.
One of the best bands at Woodstock :)
Lesson...don't ever underestimate anyone....
I always thought this was a very important performance in Woodstock because it proved that there was something for everybody in that concert and that was what Woodstock was all about!
William Dezynski I agree
Well if Hendrix didn't get them on the bill they wouldn't be there. Hendrix liked Sha Na Na and got them in. He was there for him. Not sure if those young hippies at the show really liked and appreciated them.
id agree... but i mean at least hire a good band geez lol
Dat "balanced diet" energy
Agree Totally.
Birth of punk rock.
No it’s just rock and roll STFU
These guys along with 'Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids' were an important part of a 50's revival that was taking place then. All of these movies were 50's themed: 'American Graffiti': 1973, 'The Lord's of Flatbush': 1974, and the 'Happy Days' TV sitcom that started in 1974. And don't forget 'Grease'. 50's themed costume parties were popular. Then came a resurgence of Rockabilly (as Bonehead1170 mentioned below, one of the top groups was The Blasters). Then these groups that put a New Wave spin on Rockabilly ('X' and 'The Stray Cats' to mention two) You will see a 50's influence in New Wave fashion.
There were two British acts who came in Sha Na Na's wake: Showaddywaddy and Darts.
@@wmbrown6 Just watched both bands videos. Both are very good but Darts was over the top fun. Watched the song combo Cool Daddy/The Girl Can't Help It. Very talented group. The lead singer cracked me up. Glad you told us about them.
And Phantom of Paradise
Don’t forget The Outsiders, a great movie that introduced Patrick Swayze based on a book that still speaks to today’s kids.
@@cheril8891 You got to watch Rocky Sharpe And The Replays and Shakin Stevens too. The latter was huge in Europe at the time.
It had only been a few years since "greaser" music had disappeared from the musical landscape, yet I'll bet many of the kids in the audience were stunned to hear real rock and roll music.
All those in the audience would have lived with and grown up with this era of music.
Just as the band did.
Though I’m sure none of them were expecting to hear anything like this at the festival
I am blown away by 😱 the use of two and three screens showing the performance... it fits so well and easy to watch. Applause 👏 ✌️ 👏
Hey..... I was there. .....I thought I Hallucinated this!
Dion1957 If you can remember being at Woodstock, you probably weren't.
haha
Oh shit man. Thats insane!
You were at Woodstock at 12 years old?
@@benjaminrneal Think he’s talking about Dion And The Belmonts first single in 1957.
Those drums are so punk rock
Excellent vocal harmony ! Great choreography too ! The singer has energy !
This is so boss! The hippies didn't know what to think.
Arguably the spark that lit the fire of 50s nostalgia that would be a big part the culture for the next decade-plus.
You can imagine a big WTF? from all the stoned kids in the audience that day. There's a lot of DEVO in this performance, also a bit of Blues Bros.
Saw them in Manchester Free Trade Hall very early 70’s Great band
One of my favorite and most surprising Woodstock moments.😉 Those guys are pure energy and joy!
You silly clown
That is so punk rock.
Tightest, most professional act at Woodstock, along with Sly and the Family Stone, imo.
Sha Na Na. Styling and owning it like bosses. Lead singer had such a vibe. Awesome.
This reminds me of the Blues brothers for some reason. Wonder if some inspiration was taken.
I've never noticed that about them but you're right!!
These guys sure were great at this festival!
There was a lot of great contemporary rock in 1969. Woodstock is proof of that.
But we lost so much when the Beatles brought along a bunch of less than rock and rollers.
The 1955-63 sound seemed to be lost forever. But a lot of rock in 1969 and before was (I think) just droning, boring, noise and that gave rise for a look back (to not so very long ago) to some giants of rock and roll who had pretty much been discarded by the American music scene.
Guys like Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard remained giants in Europe and elsewhere overseas.
But in America they were neglected to the point of disappearance.
I remember seeing so many "oldies" acts on tv as the 70's got underway and wondering "where have these guys been all my life"
When you swap your weed for crank. Loved this performance. Apparently they got a standing ovation and an encore at Woodstock.
I revcently came across the entire performance and liked it a lot...They had lots of energy and did many songs I have heard over the years. I was glad to be able to hear the rest of their setlist. I also didnt know years back that they were the second to last act and actually performed Monday morning! I thought seeing how a bright sunny moning it was that they played on Satuday morning because I read thst Saturday morning was sunny as well not knowing at the time the concert went into Monday.
Dudes are SkaSkankin mosh moves in 69...punkrock has always been around. Listen to that bottom end crushing it! Great sound.
Sha Na Na Woodstock how damn Cool is that.
This must have been the most rockin’ performance of the whole festival
I'd say Ten Years After was
As the movie shows the audience was left amazed with the Sha Na Na's music . Rob Leonard and David Garrett claimed that they were asked to play the Woodstock Festival based upon Jimi Hendrix's recommendation to the Woodstock producers after Hendrix saw Sha Na Na at Steve paul's night club during the summer of 1969
Old cassette I had was early in the songlist. Had no idea they were 2nd to last. Laughed so hard watching this the first time, absolutely hilarious. "And a splendid time is guaranteed for all..."
Still waiting for a TH-cam singing group in college to revive these guys. That’s what we needed during Covid
i didn't know punk was invented at Woodstock!
This song was only 10 years old when they did this.
fat sweaty men in gold lame, a real crowd-pleaser.
I was only 2 years old when they did this. You beat me!
Willie Gordon very true but even in those days a song from the 50s was considered from a different planet and was hardly appreciated. Those hippies just didn’t get it.
Ya know considering that fact that most of the crowd were either teens or kids when this song came out, it would of been a nostalgic trip
As a kid in the eighties the late sixties and even most of the seventies seemed like a lifetime ago to me at the time. Ten years is a very long time when you're young, and given the drastic cultural shifts at the time the fifties probably seemed very far away to the hippies of the mid to late sixties.
My mama raised me on Woodstock 69 shit. I am thankful for that.
We had a tape in the van of this and loved the ending notice, "Harold, turn off the mike!" It always made us love this even more...
As someone who grew up in the 50's and 60's and remembered the 50's era music, sha na na was a joke, not to be taken seriously. A comedy routine. Initially they were NY college students that organized a group that mocked and made a parody of that era. Their dress style, hair seen in the video were actually contemporary for the times. From a purist standpoint nobody looked like that (except motorcycle jackets). The choregraphy as some writer put it was "Busby Berkeley style". Sha na na was in part formed because 50's era music was hardly played on Midwest and East Coast radio stations since the British invasion of "64. For the most part they trivialized an artform that was sophisticated and required talent to perform well particularly doo wop. As far as Hippie reaction, very few early baby boomers were into Elvis or other artists from the time especially Woodstock people. Most had outgrown it and identified with the post Beatles era. Some history, the greaser (represented by Sha na na) subculture was alive and well in Chicago (as well as NY) throughout the 1960's. The blue collar 60's greasers, throw backs (hair and look) to the 50's hated the hippies, and a lot of their music. Many did not get along with college bound kids either. Picked on them in high school (John Bauman "Bowzer" was one of their targets). On the positive side Sha na na brought this music to new generations and influenced punk rock as some have mentioned. The group did produce talented people like Johnny Contardo and Henry Gross.
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Pretty much..
The video speaks for itself. These guys were fun.
Did he say "Harold turn up the mike?"
I had never seen thes before, and it is one of the most entertaining 2 1/2 minutes I have ever seen. These guys were awesome!
RL R You must be under 60 ????
Best band at Woodstock, by far.
'There is always a little piece of Heaven in a disaster area'.....
And this was it....!
I’ve read that their invitation was a joke, but they took it seriously. They had the last laugh, because we loved Shanana!!!
Hardcore punk before it was even a thing. They played probably faster than most hardcore punk bands. It goes without saying that Sha Na Na invented punk.
I love the part where they all sway front and back at different times during the middle of the song. I absolutely love their performance that morning. I dont care what anyone says.....all their videos are entertaining for sure.
This and Ten Years After have to be the most underrated musical performances ever. This must have been too much for some people. Get messed up and next thing you know you've time traveled back to the 50s. What a mindfuck.
Great comment. I saw Ten Years After at age 15 in 68. Still vibrating from it
There is only so much a producer can do with a recording like this... but it's fast and tight. 2 lead vocals hitting it on point. Excitement, harmonies. Tight rope tempo. Great performance.
I think maybe the best thing to do is mix it to mono, or at least narrow the spread down quite a lot, - especially on the last eight bars, where the stereo jumping is particularly 'orrible.
None the less - this performance puts a great big smile on my face !
can you imagine how disturbing this was to a person on lsd at that show?
far out
They were probably staring like this 😮
@@Coleman_H Didn't bother me at all, I was a greaser back then.
Best comment ever
Idk why but this comment made me laugh really hard!
Respect for those who have the Wolf as their animal totem.
I would have gladly suffered through Pudstock just to see this one song!!
Some good old 50s nostalgia for the hippies at Woodstock 1969
These guys were retro even in 69. I wondered what the stones audience thought of them. Don’t matter because all the current artists were inspired by early rock and roll.
The Stones did not play Woodstock.
@@Jlipnicki I know.
This number, Do the Hop, was met with standing ovation. They liked it. They even came become for a single song encore due to applause.
AMERICA NEEDS A YOUNG SHA NA NA TO LAST THE NEXT 30 PLUS YEARS
Used to love their show on Saturday afternoons.
That's burnin er up!
A proper homage (if somewhat satirical) to the great artists of the 1950s. Telling them in no uncertain terms just who owed who for what.
I was at a summer camp around '70 where a counselor was a Sha-Na-Na fanatic and took the 50's look to heart. He would go to the kitchen before breakfast and get bacon grease and do-up his hair.
I love what is said at the end by the MC. "Ladies and Gentleman, Sha-Na-Na" "HAROLD, TURN UP THE MIC!!!"
Its safe to say Sha-Na-Na were "punks" before the Punk Era existed!! \m/
The original Sha Na Na was genius. By the time they got the TV show, the were are cartoon version of what they originally were.
When the anti-establishment was watching from the mud, Sha-na-na was the anti-anti- establishment. Possibly the forerunners of American Punk.
1959 rock n roll vs 1969 rock n roll! Amazing
Rich Joffee and Gino Cohn were my camp counselors at Rowe Unitarian Universalist Camp in 74-75. The wretched TV show has nothing to do with the high-spirited original group. The 1st. 2 LPs are very good.
Shanana Rules!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Best performers of Woodstock
Best show ever
Just learned that Robert Leonard, bassist and one of the founders, is now Dr Robert Leonard, a college professor, expert on forensic linguistics ! ! . . saw him on an old Forensic Files helping to solve a murder
And don't forget to Boogie children! 🤠🇺🇸🐎☕🌅✌️
The birth of punk rock.
Never realized John Belushi and Dan Akroyds on stage moves borrowed so much from these guys.
Estou conhecendo hoje...gostei 👍
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Sha Na Na! Harold, turn up the mike!" I'll always remember that outro. My uncle gave me a bootleg 4 track (yes 4 track) tape of the first Woodstock disk. This was one of the standout performers.
this version of Sha Na Na is so superior to the version that the TV executive created for television, I wish they would have performed longer and we had more footage to view
The lineup on TV was not created by an executive. It was their current lineup at the time, all the members were in the group for years before they got the show gig, about half of them were original.
God, Woodstock was beautiful.
50s music must have seemed like an anachronism at a hippie fest but it was only a decade removed if you think about it. So cool!
The entire audience grew up and loved this music..This is the music they heard when they were young kids.. No matter how the world changed in the late 60's , the "Hippie" generation had this music in their DNA. The music loved as a kid never goes from your heart.. 2:24