For a better signal and for the radio to play louder, I would go on the front porch and held the radio up in front of the meter box for as long as I wanted to listen to the radio. Those were the good ole days.
Released by The Orlons in May 1962. Got to #2 on the U.S. charts...and #5 on the R&B charts. Sold over 1,000,000 copies and started the "Watusi" dance craze....
I enjoyed this so much! I was a guest on one of these "Low Budget Late Shows"! I also entered & won quite a few "dance-offs" & "marathon dances" that were held at local "matinees" or indoor movie theaters that had stages back "in the day" (60's). There were also "rec [recreation center]" dances every weekend during the Summer, along w/ Drive-In movies. I can remember going to my first Beatles movie (A Hard Days Night) in the mid-60s. The girls in the audience were screaming so loud during the whole movie & we weren't able to hear anything! I first got a whiff of marijuana at a Beach Boys Concert in I think it was Santa Monica, CA, but I was pretty young when I went w/ a friend & her family, so I mainly remember the atmosphere, the crowd singing & dancing w/ the band, & all the refreshments we got! That's when I bought my first album. Boy did we have some clean fun back then! I don't know if teenagers today know what that's like.....actually interacting w/ others & engaging them in practical jokes, dances, or in playing street games like 4-square, kick ball, baseball, touch football, hide-n-seek, etc. until late into the night. The whole neighborhood would be involved, including parents cooking on the "Bar-B" (barbecue pits). In those days, many of us kept our doors unlocked or kept them opened, w/ only the screen door (yes, we had those) locked, during the Spring & Summer months. We never had to worry about burglars. We barely had 2 cents to rub together, but I wouldn't trade those memories for anything (except maybe Heaven).
I was born in 1962, had one of the first cell phones in the SF Bay Area, & now I see 👶🏼 newborns addicted to screens & parents happy to distract & morphine-drip screen time into every area. I got rid of tv in 1984- felt brainwashed! So, yeah. Real human interactions, play, good & bad, sometimes wonderful or horrible- but it was REAL! Tastes, smells, touches, sights, sounds of real people, in real places, doing human interactions. Video “Seeing” and “hearing” through an artificial screen & speaker are a new type of human “real” that we don’t yet know how it’ll impact us. But, the skyrocketing rates of social anxiety and autism kinda make one wonder… More violent crimes than in thirty years, likely due in part to desensitization from mass exposure and violent video games. Meanwhile, the trophies for “Best” killer of zombies cannot even run, jump, fight in real space and time, nor carry ANY of the “equipment” they get in the games… Fantasy No wonder this generation wants to grow up and be a unicorn… Ain’t no damned unicorns in the real world… Which it seems by merely saying so, one is “cancelled” by invisible people who probably bubble-wrap their 2.5 kids.
I frankly had not seen this sort of dance since I was a teenager over fifty years ago. It is nice to watch and to remember so many things and to realize without thinking I dance a mix of rock, watusi twist and frugg whenever I go to parties.
OMG you kids are awesome it looks like an early broadcast from American bandstand complete with skinny ties retro dresses and ponytails. Love the camera in the way and the commentators talkin and suddenly realizing there on the air great take off on early television awesome dancing keep it up guys what a pleasure to watch 😁😁😁👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
was 10 years old when i first listen to this popular song and now 67 ...and I am so glad see these kids whose parents were not even born when this song was a hit .......good on them . fantastic !!
Okay, you guys had me fooled! I thought I was watching a program from the early to mid-'60s! I was looking at the girls thinking my gosh they are grannies now... only to find out it was filmed in 2014! Ya gots to love them! We need more of this kinda stuff 🤗
Most of them now don't have any decent voices for singing, just yelling or as in rap speaking the words to a beat which anyone can do. They didn't need to use obscenities either in lyrics to sell their music back then.
OMG, I was in 10th grade when this song came out. I remember two girls teaching me how to do this dance. I also think I dressed like the guys in this clip (back in the days before males torture themselves getting in and out of "skinny jeans" just for fashion). Love this group...such memories.
I played drums in a good band at that time. Spontaneously the kids used to become like one big family on the dance floor. Made me feel beautifully happy inside when they would form into one gigantic chain and dance around the floor with laughter and joy.....
I love the young woman in the middle with the light green floral dress!! She is my favorite one of the group!! Great work on putting this video together!!
The girl in the middle in the front row is hands down the best dancer of the group. She has something--you can see it. The boys in the back row dance like I danced back in high school, and the way I guess I still dance at weddings. It's no good if you're not having fun. This was very kitschy and fun. Yes, we need more Low Budget Late Show dancing like this now.
The first time that I heard this song, I was listening with a 9 transistor AM radio that was powered by a little 9 Volt battery. Reception was better if I stood near a fence, which I did for hours on end.
I was just looking up which one mine was. It was red and perhaps merely Panasonic but the Eveready with the cat running through the 9.... that burns bright.
I lived in Salem, OR from 1964 until graduating HS in 1969. Part of our PE curriculum from at least the 6th grade on required us to have 9 weeks of dancing. I can't remember what year/grade I was in but I do remember learning this dance. Great memories and music.
That is beautiful and real classy - brings back a lot of memories, a time of peace (before being drafted), freedom and innocence. Thank you for the memories, great choreography, cute dancers, and genuine fun, Ciao, L
I grew up in 50's and 60's. I loved to dance. Electro swing incorporates bits and pieces of dances from the Charleston to 70's. Forgot the names,recognize the steps.thanks for the memories,keep them coming.
@@CFITOMAHAWK2 Nope! It's 2014. That's when that show aired. I particularly researched this, because I was a teenager in the '60's, and the styles in this video didn't seem quite right. Ponytails were worn in the '50's, and those above-the-knees skirts would have been mini-skirts of about 1968. Anyway, check this out, and you'll see: th-cam.com/video/Nb-aL7nqAjs/w-d-xo.html. Also, please don't call people "dummies," OK? That just makes YOU look dumb.
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I can watch this again and again and still want to watch it....again.
ME TOO!
We need more low budget late show now in2020
OMG!! im out of Ipana!!! son?? Up.. There!?!?! You'll find a place called a "Liquor Store!!!"
Agreed. This is so fun. And I love the songs they choose. Ellington! The Orlons! The Marvelettes!
2024
2024
For a better signal and for the radio to play louder, I would go on the front porch and held the radio up in front of the meter box for as long as I wanted to listen to the radio. Those were the good ole days.
I love the 60s dances, and I love these kids for doing them.
Pedophile!
The simplicity and sheer joy they are having is so uplifting.
They are great and very happy
Oh Puke....
Mad crushing on the red head in the middle
@@julienneangelocarpo2229 lol not like they're all underage or anything... 🙄
I love it.
I love their young smiling faces. Made me smile too.
they looked like they had fun...i love it
These young people are amazing!
I can't imagine how much fun those kids had putting this show together. I like the debonair announcer and dancers are all so special!
ADORABLE ❤🎉❤😂😂 Go Babies GO so Awesome !! Love this Song 🎉🎉😂
the young man in the right back corner cracks me up he is just having such FUN
It's so naturally uplifting it wipes all the negativity away. More stuff like this is needed in this age.
it's called tiktok
Nice clean cut kids enjoying themselves ,makes me wish I was young again.
We are FOREVER YOUNG😉
Hard to see Clean Cut kids nowadays.
@@vinsnan6259Depends on the cutlery one uses.
just love these kids..precious!!! May God Bless and keep all of them!
I love the way this generation is enjoying themselves dancing to the wah watusi! Good Job guys!!
This just blows me away, love the group and song, grew up listening to this, kids look clean and are having a good time!!!
Released by The Orlons in May 1962. Got to #2 on the U.S. charts...and #5 on the R&B charts. Sold over 1,000,000 copies and started the "Watusi" dance craze....
white people i swear..
I enjoyed this so much! I was a guest on one of these "Low Budget Late Shows"! I also entered & won quite a few "dance-offs" & "marathon dances" that were held at local "matinees" or indoor movie theaters that had stages back "in the day" (60's). There were also "rec [recreation center]" dances every weekend during the Summer, along w/ Drive-In movies. I can remember going to my first Beatles movie (A Hard Days Night) in the mid-60s. The girls in the audience were screaming so loud during the whole movie & we weren't able to hear anything! I first got a whiff of marijuana at a Beach Boys Concert in I think it was Santa Monica, CA, but I was pretty young when I went w/ a friend & her family, so I mainly remember the atmosphere, the crowd singing & dancing w/ the band, & all the refreshments we got! That's when I bought my first album.
Boy did we have some clean fun back then! I don't know if teenagers today know what that's like.....actually interacting w/ others & engaging them in practical jokes, dances, or in playing street games like 4-square, kick ball, baseball, touch football, hide-n-seek, etc. until late into the night. The whole neighborhood would be involved, including parents cooking on the "Bar-B" (barbecue pits).
In those days, many of us kept our doors unlocked or kept them opened, w/ only the screen door (yes, we had those) locked, during the Spring & Summer months. We never had to worry about burglars. We barely had 2 cents to rub together, but I wouldn't trade those memories for anything (except maybe Heaven).
Yep, those were the days. 40 years from now the oldsters will reminiscing about Spongebob and X-boxes I suppose.
I was born in 1962, had one of the first cell phones in the SF Bay Area, & now I see 👶🏼 newborns addicted to screens & parents happy to distract & morphine-drip screen time into every area. I got rid of tv in 1984- felt brainwashed! So, yeah. Real human interactions, play, good & bad, sometimes wonderful or horrible- but it was REAL!
Tastes, smells, touches, sights, sounds of real people, in real places, doing human interactions. Video “Seeing” and “hearing” through an artificial screen & speaker are a new type of human “real” that we don’t yet know how it’ll impact us.
But, the skyrocketing rates of social anxiety and autism kinda make one wonder…
More violent crimes than in thirty years, likely due in part to desensitization from mass exposure and violent video games.
Meanwhile, the trophies for “Best” killer of zombies cannot even run, jump, fight in real space and time, nor carry ANY of the “equipment” they get in the games…
Fantasy
No wonder this generation wants to grow up and be a unicorn…
Ain’t no damned unicorns in the real world…
Which it seems by merely saying so, one is “cancelled” by invisible people who probably bubble-wrap their 2.5 kids.
I frankly had not seen this sort of dance since I was a teenager over fifty years ago. It is nice to watch and to remember so many things and to realize without thinking I dance a mix of rock, watusi twist and frugg whenever I go to parties.
Rock on 🤙
I don't know why, but everytime I see this video I have to smile 😊
I love it 👍
I suspect you are in good company.
OMG you kids are awesome it looks like an early broadcast from American bandstand complete with skinny ties retro dresses and ponytails. Love the camera in the way and the commentators talkin and suddenly realizing there on the air great take off on early television awesome dancing keep it up guys what a pleasure to watch 😁😁😁👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
was 10 years old when i first listen to this popular song and now 67 ...and I am so glad see these kids whose parents were not even born when this song was a hit .......good on them . fantastic !!
They are so cute. Having so much pure fun dancing all together. Love this so much. ❤
Me too!!!
So enjoyable. Such happy dancing. Life is to be enjoyed.
I thought it was.not be broke and warring 247 and threaten and criticized. And messed with mentally
It`s just nice to see people dancing and enjoying themselves.
What a strange comment
@@seronymus And what is 'strange' about seeing people enjoying themselves?
@@makaha5750 😂.. Exactly , thar was big fun 👍
Enjoying their youth...
OMG , these young people are amazing , nice to watch .
I loved dancing to this back in the day... So nice seeing these kids enjoying like I once did.
Hello Lorraine, How are you doing?
Love this! I keep watching it over and over. So fun.
Okay, you guys had me fooled! I thought I was watching a program from the early to mid-'60s! I was looking at the girls thinking my gosh they are grannies now... only to find out it was filmed in 2014!
Ya gots to love them! We need more of this kinda stuff 🤗
They're very good dancers.
What a great time I had growing up with all of this music. Wouldn’t trade it for the music of today for anything.
Most of them now don't have any decent voices for singing, just yelling or as in rap speaking the words to a beat which anyone can do. They didn't need to use obscenities either in lyrics to sell their music back then.
@@Tlyna1952 so many songs from the 60s are about doing heroine its not even funny
Same here Lola!
@@MrJizzinmypantz Legit? Can you tell me some good ones?
WICHITA, KANSAS
Yep, these cute kids are Kansans!
YES! LET. US. ALL. DANCE. AND. BE. JOYFUL. AGAIN!
AMEN!
I couldn't even imagine myself dancing on live T.V. ever ! Thumbs up to all.
@josef mengele LOL! Be nice!
So cool to see these young kids dance to this music and having fun doing it.
I keep coming back to this and just smile and grin...
FANTASTIC Choreography!
its like an addiction i have to watch this video every so often great song great kids great choreography thanks!!!
I can't stop smiling watching them dance!.
You’re all wonderful for keeping these dances alive😌 keep it up and thank you 😊
OMG, I was in 10th grade when this song came out. I remember two girls teaching me how to do this dance. I also think I dressed like the guys in this clip (back in the days before males torture themselves getting in and out of "skinny jeans" just for fashion). Love this group...such memories.
My God, this is so awesome. ❤
I'm with you Ben. I absolutely LOVE this!!!
Makes you feel so good.......
These kids are the cutest.
I played drums in a good band at that time. Spontaneously the kids used to become like one big family on the dance floor. Made me feel beautifully happy inside when they would form into one gigantic chain and dance around the floor with laughter and joy.....
Yes! Keep on dancing all you lovely people having so much fun
Love the innocence ❤❤❤❤
The girl in the green in the front row was the best. I was fooled thinking it was 60's because of her. Great job!!!!!
My vote for best dancer is the young lady next to her in the black dress with yellow belt.
@@TheBullyMomma Why so? Is this a race thing? She made several mistakes.
@@dickiegreenleaf750 , Since I’m white I really doubt it. I like fluidity in a dancer and she was very smooth in her movements.
the cute gal in the green dress with bangs in the center front is so into it-love her spirit!
I love the young woman in the middle with the light green floral dress!! She is my favorite one of the group!!
Great work on putting this video together!!
woud be nice to see how she looks today 😉
Now she is in our age
I like the ratio of young ladies to gents.Perfect!
Some great smiles from that group, good stuff! Blond cutie has a winning smile for sure.
The big guy may not be the best of the dancers, but he is definitely having the most fun :)
Thank you for noticing him
He's a dancing fool!!!😄😄😄😄
That's for sure!!!!!
I love that guy!!!
They do a great justice to the spirit of this song..... Good job
The wholesomeness of this is almost too much to bear! Lol Seriously though, good for them. They look great and are having fun.
These young kids know how to dance! They look so cool!
The girl in the middle in the front row is hands down the best dancer of the group. She has something--you can see it. The boys in the back row dance like I danced back in high school, and the way I guess I still dance at weddings. It's no good if you're not having fun. This was very kitschy and fun. Yes, we need more Low Budget Late Show dancing like this now.
That's why they placed her in the front, her smiles are real joy ..
I don't know, the boy with the glasses in the front left is pretty nifty and keen.
I lived through this era, They all look good to me!
They look like they are having so much fun!
these kids were Awesome!!
I really enjoyed watching the Kansas City dancers perform. Brings back a lot of memories. Many thanks.
Hello Juanita, How are you doing?
Love this short video of kids having good, clean fun just dancing like this! Wonderful!
Hello Sheila, How are you doing?
Pretty good line in the front. "We're on camera right now." He says with so much swag. Love it.
This is An Excellent Video"With the great 60s dance presentation"The way the video quality was filmed"It's Absolute Dynamite"Don't Change a thing!!!
This is a great song and a funlooking dance!
WOW! You lads and lasses ROCK! Luv U!!!!
This was a number one record for The Orlons out of Philadelphia.
Yes, it definitely came out of Philadelphia. I saw the Orlons in person. One of the greatest groups, I ever saw. Very entertaining.
I really enjoyed watching these kids enjoy themselves showing off their routine. Keep on dancing!
Jay Igaboo Simple and sweet. Like life once was. Bless them.....they made me smile ...and remember!
like the girl in black dress
Take that
Jay Igaboo I still love the way it was there
Jay Igaboo .
wow I fell in love repeatedly
I love this I was13yrs old when this song came out, for a while I thought this was video from that era these young people in Kansas City nailed it!
The young lady in the front, was a Great dancer; and did the choreography for this particular dance. I think she’s quite talented.
With this delightful little dance I shall sleep right through tonight
I come here for the smiles.
good to see the kids enjoying themselves....plus it keeps them off the street......
The first time that I heard this song, I was listening with a 9 transistor AM radio that was powered by a little 9 Volt battery. Reception was better if I stood near a fence, which I did for hours on end.
April Ross
Seems like yesterday, sister.....
@Joan In Florida And you had to pull up the antenna. Mine had a brown leatherette case.
@@michelleg2112 lol mine did too, listened to Honey radio am 56 in Detroit area.
I was just looking up which one mine was. It was red and perhaps merely Panasonic but the Eveready with the cat running through the 9.... that burns bright.
Lucky You April, Mine was only six transistors.
I loved all the dance songs of the early to mid sixties.
Excellent
I lived in Salem, OR from 1964 until graduating HS in 1969. Part of our PE curriculum from at least the 6th grade on required us to have 9 weeks of dancing. I can't remember what year/grade I was in but I do remember learning this dance. Great memories and music.
I just love these kids they're great
Exceptionally charming.
What a really great bunch of kids, making our own music look and sound so great!
Too much fun! I'm still smiling watching them!
That is beautiful and real classy - brings back a lot of memories, a time of peace (before being drafted), freedom and innocence. Thank you for the memories, great choreography, cute dancers, and genuine fun, Ciao, L
These guys are so cute! You guys dance your little hearts out!
I grew up in 50's and 60's. I loved to dance. Electro swing incorporates bits and pieces of dances from the Charleston to 70's. Forgot the names,recognize the steps.thanks for the memories,keep them coming.
Imagine! They look like they’re actually having fun. 💃🕺
I forgot all about the low budget late show.
The young man on the front row with the glasses has the moves
he sure does
That was sooooo good. Adorable, ALL of you. Thank you!
This was a time we need back again. NOW! 😁
Another A+!
They are so adorable and cute!!!
Great Song! a Great Dance! cool kids having fun..🕺💃
I love this dance
the queen on the back row right is feeling her groove.
Love watching them dance so I really had the moves brings back a lot of memories rock and roll is here to stay
Hello Mary, How are you doing?
I would love to learn these classic dances when music was fun and good.
So great to see youngsters of today having good-clean fun, and enjoying classic 1960's music and dancing !!! Great job y'all !!
@@CFITOMAHAWK2 Nope! It's 2014. That's when that show aired. I particularly researched this, because I was a teenager in the '60's, and the styles in this video didn't seem quite right. Ponytails were worn in the '50's, and those above-the-knees skirts would have been mini-skirts of about 1968. Anyway, check this out, and you'll see: th-cam.com/video/Nb-aL7nqAjs/w-d-xo.html. Also, please don't call people "dummies," OK? That just makes YOU look dumb.
Looks like the offending woman I was addressing blew the scene! :)
This is OUT-standing!
This dance was popular during a time when about the only thing teens had to worry about was learning the latest dance step. Oh the good old days!
love it all! wish it could continue one after another go on and on, love those songs,groups,and always live on always! That's music!!
The girl in the black dress/yellow belt and the tall guy in the back/right corner were my favorite 💛
Thanks to all of you, what a breath of fresh air.