American Bandstand 1969 - Friendship Train, Gladys Knight & the Pips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2019
- Airdate: Nov. 8, 1969
“Friendship Train” has only been out for about 2 weeks now. Next week it will make its way into the top 40 at #37 and it will peak at #17 in late December. It will be Gladys Knight and the Pips biggest hit of 1969.
The “regulars” on board the “Friendship Train” today are: Frank Vanderpuil (0:22), Carl Ratcher (0:54), Cathy Kilborn & Marty Mane (1:14), also Nancy Demelo & Bill Cox (1:00), Rebecca Ladolo & Peter Hewett (1:05), and Lee Allen (3:16).
…..And in 2 days (Nov 10th) the NET network (now PBS) will premiere a new television show that will teach preschool age children their numbers and letters (among many other things) with the help of Jim Henson’s Muppets. The first episode of “Sesame Street” introduced Bert & Ernie, Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, and (an orange) Oscar the Grouch and was brought to you by the letters W, S and E and by the numbers 2 and 3.
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Very iconic song. Gladys Knight in the pips would also perform this song on the very first nationally syndicated episode of Soul Train on October 5th 1971. Thank the Lord for both of these shows.
I definitely would've liked to have been there.. The music was jumping and some were dancing for their airplane tickets! High energy and the spin move was definite alive!
A little early disco . Dancing was getting really cool.
I don’t think I’d heard this song before seeing it here on AB, but man this rocks! Every time I watched this I found myself getting up and dancing along. So righteous! (is it lame to comment on one’s own post?....oh well)
If you step back from the video a bit, it's amazing to think everyone on the dance floor is now pushing 70 years old. I wonder how many of their children and grandchildren watch these clips?
Great song performed so well by Gladys Knight and the Pips. Aaron I'm happy you heard it. Wonderful melody and lyrics with plenty of room to dance it as you feel it. You can tell the dancers were enjoying it. Thank you Aaron!
@@shave-a-thon3415 you are right I'm pushing 65 years old mother of 3 , grandmother of 3 and great grand mother of 2 & in 2019 I am still listening cant dance like I did at 15 but I am still popping my fingers. ☺LOL.😁🎶 🎶
@@sheiladavis6523 I'm not far from you in age and sometimes I find it easier to get up and do a few steps wen watching these kids dance than it is to sit when my sciatica kicks in! 😊
On another channel that has a dance show uploaded, one of the daughters of the dancers wrote a comment about seeing her mom as a teen on a video that's 50 years old.
@@shave-a-thon3415 I figure if we're up and moving that's what counts! I luv to put YT on the television and dance away!
An awesome Gladys Knight & Pips song that remains relevant today! These '69 kids were happily grooving along with the beat.
I loved the Sesame Street reference because it was one of my favorite shows as a preschooler. 😍
I grew up on Sesame Street too and I agree, the lyrics are very relevant today. Great comment Adrian DeVote
@@YCDTI Thank you! However, the correct spelling of my last name is DeVore.
Love this better than today's dance show. But feeling old thinking how old these kids are... YIKES
Was just watching this clip again, because I love it! Props to the camera guys for getting some great shots of the dancers. Makes it really easy to see how much fun they were having dancing to this great tune.
You can see the disco tunes moving in ; hippy / disco. Was 12 wen I saw this flick of A/B.
Listen to the lyrics. Could be released today and it would be contemporary.
I'm a child of the sixties... and I've never heard this song in my life...!
Great 😃👍 Memories from the Fall of 1969.
Loved this song! Dancing to it at the 4th Grade Halloween party seems just like yesterday! LOL!
One of Motown's finest hits produced by the late Norman Whitfield. BTW I remember very well watching the debut of Sesame Street!
Sesame Street was my whole world as a little kid, lol. Do you know who the male voice is in this song? I assumed it was “a pip” but wasn’t sure which one....or maybe it was someone else.
@@YCDTI The male solo voice on "Friendship Train" was of the late William Guest from the Pips.
Thank you NEW GROOVES RADIO. I figured that you’d know who it was.
Fabulous!
This song was also played and performed by Gladys Knight and the Pips on the first episode of “Soul Train” 2 years later.
Dick Clark always had an issue with saying Gladys Knight and the Pips. 😂
Yes indeed, have to be careful NOT to say the Pi(m)ps, lol !
Gladys Pip and the Knights! Lol
Here's another funny fact. In The UK Pips are Cotton Medals featured on The Prison Drama Bad Girls. Their Website described Larkhall Women's Prison from A to Z and when they got to "Pips" they said "No they are not Gladys Knight's Backing Singers".
I remember once hearing Ed Sullivan introducing them as "Gladys Knight and Her Pips"!
@@johnlargan6045 😄
WHEW, so much to unpack here!
Ok, Friendship Train is one of the best "message" songs to come from Motown, plus Gladys & The Pips ROCKS this song!!! You can tell the kids love it cuz the energy level in the room is really high & strong. Everyone is quite engaged, which lets you know this song was gonna be huge for Gladys & family.
Now the set: fully immersed into the "groovy" set, I love how there's this slight darkness in the room to give this segment more of a club/house party feel to it! Very affective! Also, I noticed that there are 3 huge circles in the background as to the 2 circles used later on that same season. I LOVED when they used them to show those trippy psychedelic effects during this number, really heightens the atmosphere in there! Man, I wish this was in color! Lol
Kudos for using the "correct" version of this song for this clip. This is the single mono mix, which I know is on the actual audio of the clip. The stereo album version has The Pips doing a "choo choo whoo whoo" during the intro, which proves they mainly used 45s on these shows.
There's no ABs visible, but I know they're there. I'm also realizing that the slit in the A, as we all know, was always there on Dick's podium, but not on the actual signs & Rate-A-Record desk until the '74-'78 set, interesting.
LOVE this clip Aaron, glad you now know this song. It's a slightly forgotten classic, but so hot!
Wow Kevin -- always the keen observer. It was just about this time that production began experimenting with chroma key. In Bandstand's case, it was "blue" sensitive. Hence, the ability to embellish the circles with whatever desired effects might be. When first anticipated, we dancers' invitations alerted us to blue-screen chromakey and the invitations specifically told us NOT TO WEAR ANYTHING BLUE. Of the many saved invitations, that is one I wish I still had.
@@dancerdon9175 Man Don, I would have loved to see that! So, can you remember why you weren't at this particular taping?
Great breakdown as always Kevin. I never noticed that about the logo at the podium. Great catch! I dig that chroma key effect too!
@@thruthealcove Hey Kevin I can't remember why I was m.i.a. -- could have been taking an "extended lunch break" (lol), left the taping early that day, or who knows what? Also noticeably missing are Pat Dickinson, Robin Miller, Art and Rudy Mikaelian. Karen, Roni and the rest of the long-time regulars. But I'm digging the keen attention to detail that you and Aaron comment on -- from set design to the playlists on each episode. In this episode the chroma key effects are in your face, so to speak. Dancers could only see the effects if we looked at the monitors so this episode was a real treat revisiting the novel technology and numerous revisions to the '69-'74 set.
@@dancerdon9175 Holy Cow!!! @Thruthealcove KC talks more than I do. Chroma color me happy! There so much information here my brain is a'spinin'!!! Loving the comment about the dancers. They were groovin' weren't they? This is as good as The Spencer Davis Group in the first song of 2019. I see Frank at the bottom of the screen with his new hair style. I don't recognize his partner. Aaron, I'm excited to see what you pull out of the hat Wednesday. 😀
3:13-3:34 After AB was reboot in 1969, they used full use of special effects whenever possible as with the case with this song and another one used previously in a earlier episode while "I Can't Get Next To You" by the Temptations was played. This would continue in later ways through the reminder of the run.
This gladys and pips classic is so relevant for the world we live in today!😡
This was music, plus others from 1969. We had some great music.
Gladys, the princess of soul.
it's a great song I love it as well most of your videos. ❤
“Groovy” = THIS. 😍
53 Years Ago Today October 1969
Love it!!!❤😄👍🎵
This Show is "THE NEW AMERICAN BANDSTAND 1970" BROADCAST ON ABC-TV USA IN COLOR VIDEOTAPE AND IT'S A KINESCOPE B&W BROADCAST.
just saw her at the Super Bowl!
These dancers are all in their late 60s early 70s now!
I was 15 years old in 1969. 64 yrs old now, and feeling great! Time flew by, indeed! xo
@@suzanpeters1093 I was 15 in 1969 & in 2019 I am 64 also ☺ pushing 65 Lord's will thanks for sharing that gosh !!! now I dont feel so outa place 😁 Take Care 🎼🎶🎵🎶🎤
@@sheiladavis6523 All right!! That's just beautiful, Sheila! I wish you nothing but the best in life. xo 😁☮
@@suzanpeters1093 Susan my best wishes also to you ☺Take 🎈Care🎵🎶🎼
@@sheiladavis6523 Thank you, sweetie!
This is strait up church! Oh Yeah! Get On Board Now!
GROWN FOLKS MUSIC 🎵🎶 from 1969
I swear that sounded like a song Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions recorded, but I guess not.
I love looking at the White Kids.. They like ohhhh ok 😂😂😂
Dr. MLK and Mr Megar Evers would be proud.
The Norman Whitfield treatment?
Yep, the song was produced by the one and only Norman Whitfield.
What The Hell Is This !
I Never Heard This Tune 🤔
Am tracki !
I thought AB was in color by 1969.
They were. But the kinescopes from several shows are in black & white
@@jamesporter1144 That's the thing I don't understand. Why aren't the Kinescopes in color?
@@oldiesgeek454 They probably filmed a b&w monitor with b&w film. Cheapest way to go.
That makes sense. However, I still don't know why they felt the need to make a Kinescope recording in the first place since it wasn't going to be broadcast. Did they film the Kinescopes with the intention of sticking them in a vault for future viewings, since they knew ahead they weren't going to save the actual broadcast video tape?
@@oldiesgeek454 For legal reasons and personal reasons, just for Dick Clark to have a record of the show, is what I've always thought.