On this day in 1958 {March 31st} Chuck Willis was a guest on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'... At the time his "Betty and Dupree" was at #86 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, that was also it's eleventh and last week on the chart, five weeks earlier it had peaked at #33 {for 3 weeks} on Billboard's Best-Sellers in Stores chart... It reached #15 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart... Between 1952 and 1958 the Georgia native had fourteen records on the Hot R&B Singles chart, ten made the Top 10 with two* reaching #1, "C.C. Rider" for two weeks in 1957 and "What Am I Living For?" for one week in 1958... Sadly, just ten days after his appearance on 'Bandstand', on April 10th, 1958, Harold 'Chuck' Willis passed away at the young age of 32 {peritonitis}... May he R.I.P. * He just missed having a third #1 record when his "My Story" peaked at #2 {for 1 week} in late 1952, and the week is was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Five Long Years" by Eddie Boyd...
I insisted on playing a stroll at my Senior Prom in 1974. My girlfriend and I had been practicing,so we thought we were height of cool. The Stroll hadn't been heard since the 60's.and everyone else was Pogoing.
The boys look like they're into it much more than the girls are, their facial expressions says it all. I'm a young 41 yr old that loves classical music, movies, TV shows, dancing etc..etc...way more than what's out there today. Thanks for the upload, I really enjoyed it.
In case y'all didn't know, that was "Daddy G" (Gene Barge) on sax. He backed Chuck Willis on a few of his songs, as well as other great singers on the Atlantic label in the '50s, before really finding his groove in the early '60s with Gary U.S. Bonds. "Quarter to Three," one of the top-selling records of 1961, was originally called "A Night with Daddy G." That same year The Dovells mentioned him in their biggest hit, "The Bristol Stomp." He will be 90 years old next year and he definitely deserves entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a sideman. It's a shame and a crime they haven't inducted him yet. He was as much a part of the early R&R scene as anyone else who is in there.
Did not know that, DL101, thanks. I don't think any knowledgeable R&R fan takes the HoF seriously. Baseball fan forums vote on their own Hall of Fame; maybe rock fans could do the same. I bet in a battle of the bands the outsiders would rank pretty high. Start with Daddy G on sax, then who else?
And at 70 they probably dance the same as they did way back when. Chuck Willis is tops in my book. Heard his "What Am I Living For " daily in Laurel, MS after he died. Now I get to listen to it daily on youtube.
Love the bobby socks on the girls and the oxfords on boys and girls. A few shoe years later, the rage for girls was no socks at all, not even stockings! Cool kids.
I'm 70 and now with this being isolated I took all my pictures out from back in the day got in touch with a couple of the girls I went to school with it was just an awesome awesome time
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@@alicehernandez452 Good job making the most of what many can only think of as a bad situation. Hard times can be good times to reflect on the things that are the most meaningful to us. We all have too many distractions in this complicated life we've made for ourselves. I have people I need to reconnect with too, and you've just inspired me to do so.
Those days were awesome and great dance but those souls back then are well dressed. They always dress up very sharp and wonderful. Today I will give it a rate 2 and say phooey on today.
There was no racism when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's in Schenectady, N.Y. I was Caucasian, Italian and We all went together on Friday Night to the Boys Club and danced with our dear friends who were Black. We all respected one another and they taught us to dance. Wonderful memories.
Bless em, so nervous, barely a smile until the ordeal is over. The lads focussing so much on getting the steps right, they hardly pay attention to their company. Its a lovely window into the time, the delightful innocence of the age, despite it being affected by knowing they were being filmed. Did you see the girl start to laugh and the boy shush her? They were obviously told not to make a sound in front of the camera. Even though its a bit arteficial, it still shows the vast difference between a school dance then and 20 years later, when I went, in the UK, and the dance round your handbags era and prog rock that killed romance forever...'Hi Ho Silver Lining' ended every school 'disco', no longer 'I Only Have Eyes For you' 😢
So sad that Chuck Willis hung up his Rock and Roll shoes so early 😢😢😢 Loved his songs: One Kiss, Keep a Drivin, C.C. Rider and of course What am I Living For? ❤❤
Que bonita época, donde la mayoría de adolescentes eran unos caballeros y unas damas. Bonitos sus atuendos. Esos chicos si viven deben de tener actualmente como 80 años
Donkey9900 He was nominated in the 1st class didn't get in...nominated in the 2nd class didn't get voted in. That's when it became obvious how that shitshow would eventually go. Now rap stars go in ahead of Rock & Rollers. I'm a Rocker, everything from Tiny Bradshaw to Devo. Rap stars don't belong there.
+james garrity I love the girl in couple #2; she laughs as she strolls down the aisle. I would like it better if the couples would look at each other once in a while!
terry, I didn't go to my senior prom for a good reason $ 200.00 ( the tickets $100 . $ 50 for the tux $50 for the formal ( for the girl) plus it was held at a Country club
@@lookupyourredemptiondrawsn7285 Hey 50s fashion was pretty darn sexy. Just wear a dress or a long skirt with a cinch at waistline. Good hygiene, hair not purple, etc. Simple & clean. Sexy yet dignified. Left LOTS to the imagination (which, in my case, is limitless 😉).
This bunch really know how to enjoy themselves.Who said white people cant dance?To be fair ,some of these couples had argued before the dance and it shows.
Talk about your two left feet! Someone should have taught these rich white kids how to dance. They're not even with the beat. Glad Momma sent this white kid to tap and modern jazz dance classes for 7 years. Helped me a lot when I became an adult.
This video took place at the local ABC affiliate in Des Moines Iowa. That channel 5 and the state of iowa in the background .. interesting it’s all white kids but than again this was a local teen show in Des Moines , Iowa .
THIS IS JUST TOO WIERD!!!! The first couple look enough like my daughter and her husband I thought it was them. They were born in 1994 and married in 2013! FREAKY!!!
Original stroll Great Lets dances the night away with Blues best jazz ever, Jennifer what do you say,? lets dances the night and learn Nitty gritty, Orgainal Stroll and what about Chuck Wills with again the Stroll, How about the Peppermint Twist, jhonny B
My mom loved to do the stroll! She’s 81 but she can still stroll with the best of them!
Bless her heart
On this day in 1958 {March 31st} Chuck Willis was a guest on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
At the time his "Betty and Dupree" was at #86 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, that was also it's eleventh and last week on the chart, five weeks earlier it had peaked at #33 {for 3 weeks} on Billboard's Best-Sellers in Stores chart...
It reached #15 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
Between 1952 and 1958 the Georgia native had fourteen records on the Hot R&B Singles chart, ten made the Top 10 with two* reaching #1, "C.C. Rider" for two weeks in 1957 and "What Am I Living For?" for one week in 1958...
Sadly, just ten days after his appearance on 'Bandstand', on April 10th, 1958, Harold 'Chuck' Willis passed away at the young age of 32 {peritonitis}...
May he R.I.P.
* He just missed having a third #1 record when his "My Story" peaked at #2 {for 1 week} in late 1952, and the week is was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Five Long Years" by Eddie Boyd...
Chuck Willis must be put into the rock & roll hall of fame, the king of the stroll..
Preach it, bro.
"It's been a long time since I did The Stroll".
This brings back a lot of great memories.
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Back in the 70s when I was a kid my mom taught me how to do this, she was a teen in the 50's so she loved this dance.
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I insisted on playing a stroll at my Senior Prom in 1974.
My girlfriend and I had been practicing,so we thought we were height of cool.
The Stroll hadn't been heard since the 60's.and everyone else was Pogoing.
What am I living for 😮to do the Stroll 🚶♂️ 😅
Can listen to this song over and over!
Hello Ruth, How are you doing?
I was 11yrsold when I learned the stroll in 1957!I can say I had a lot more rhythm then these kids
Probably, you still have more rhythm.
American Bandstand was such fun...remembering going to South Philadelphia and dancing my cares away.
The boys look like they're into it much more than the girls are, their facial expressions says it all. I'm a young 41 yr old that loves classical music, movies, TV shows, dancing etc..etc...way more than what's out there today. Thanks for the upload, I really enjoyed it.
Civilized, well mannered, no slobs green hair or tattoos. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Ils sont adorables.💞💞💞 I love these teenagers of the 50's, they look so cute.
In case y'all didn't know, that was "Daddy G" (Gene Barge) on sax. He backed Chuck Willis on a few of his songs, as well as other great singers on the Atlantic label in the '50s, before really finding his groove in the early '60s with Gary U.S. Bonds. "Quarter to Three," one of the top-selling records of 1961, was originally called "A Night with Daddy G." That same year The Dovells mentioned him in their biggest hit, "The Bristol Stomp." He will be 90 years old next year and he definitely deserves entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a sideman. It's a shame and a crime they haven't inducted him yet. He was as much a part of the early R&R scene as anyone else who is in there.
Did not know that, DL101, thanks. I don't think any knowledgeable R&R fan takes the HoF seriously. Baseball fan forums vote on their own Hall of Fame; maybe rock fans could do the same. I bet in a battle of the bands the outsiders would rank pretty high. Start with Daddy G on sax, then who else?
Daddy g
and the Dovells
@@williamlee9208 - You are right; the rock 'n roll fans should be able to nominate & vote for the musicians!
Most of those kids would be over 70 years old today....
great dance, you got to dance with a different partner every go around.....
And at 70 they probably dance the same as they did way back when.
Chuck Willis is tops in my book. Heard his "What Am I Living For " daily in Laurel, MS after he died. Now I get to listen to it daily on youtube.
Yes, we are and remember this with great memories.
Love the bobby socks on the girls and the oxfords on boys and girls. A few shoe years later, the rage for girls was no socks at all, not even stockings! Cool kids.
Memories are great to have to remember what we were .
I like strollin'. A dance that is simple but meaningful
This is a American classic...I wish it was like this again
😕 Really....?
Blacks & Mexicans were doing this dance before everyone in the 50s😅
Thanks so much .............
thats when life was beautiful and normal unlike today Its a living hell
Good gosh, I remember strolling to this at junior high scock hop with eugene in his white shoes
What fun!!
Rushed home from bus stop to watch American bandstand and practice
The joints are a little old and rusty but I can still do the Stroll.
I'm 71 now I was 13 at the time, so many good memories
I was doing The Twist back then. Do dances even have names anymore? Are they even dancing?
I'm 70 and now with this being isolated I took all my pictures out from back in the day got in touch with a couple of the girls I went to school with it was just an awesome awesome time
@@alicehernandez452 Good job making the most of what many can only think of as a bad situation. Hard times can be good times to reflect on the things that are the most meaningful to us. We all have too many distractions in this complicated life we've made for ourselves. I have people I need to reconnect with too, and you've just inspired me to do so.
@ thank U I'm glad wish you the best also I'd like to say I have never gotten a reply like I got from you it mint a lot
@Sanuk Jang Lery You got that right... when will it end! Even Disco died eventually.
just the best, the best of the best. i could not dance but a beautiful gal i'd never see again would stroll with me.....bliss i still feel at 76
One of my.favorite dances when I was a teenager.
This is the saddest looking group of strollers. We used imagination & turned around without always holding hands AND we smiled!! We had fun!!
I'm not from that Era but GOD knows I WISH I WAS THIS WAS HISTORY I. ONLY 60
They do look sorry.
@@duanemiller4083 No they don't.
Totally agree! They look like they're on their way to a funeral.
@@davepolo1079 It's the stroll. What do you expect them to do, Jump up and down bump hips and roll around on the floor and act crazy?
If nothing else, the kids of the 50s were the coolest.
ABSOLUTELY!!
Yes we were!
Those days were awesome and great dance but those souls back then are well dressed. They always dress up very sharp and wonderful. Today I will give it a rate 2 and say phooey on today.
Liberalism ruins everything.
Those were the Days
Pride, self Esteem, and morals and modesty, back yhen, what in world happen too those wonderful days?
Would you consider racism and segregation modest and nice?
Que comparacion con los bailes de ahora.
There was no racism when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's in Schenectady, N.Y. I was Caucasian, Italian and We all went together on Friday Night to the Boys Club and danced with our dear friends who were Black. We all respected one another and they taught us to dance. Wonderful memories.
@@davidwalter57 they didn’t expect that the trolls.
No offense pastor but that comment embodies a most un-rock and roll attitude. The most ever maybe. If the music is too loud than you are too old.
Boy you can tell a lot about someone by the way they dance! the #3 guy was pretty smooth!
ask her to dance....hold her dance...say thank you...walk her back to the table and pull out the chair for her. ah yeah! act like a man.
Yes!! Got that right!!
That my friend would be manners, I do not think they are taught today. What a shame!!
FACTS!!!😀😀💯💯💯👏🏽👏🏽
@@GM8101PHX LOL! you mean taught to be simps to the princesses?
LOOK HOW WELL DRESSED THESES KIDS ARE
+EARTH ONE Hipsters outta learn from this!
Ward Cleaver used to barbecue in a suit.
Uncle Bob 😂😂😂
LOVE LOVE IT AND WANNA WANNA PLENTY PLENTY MORE OF IT. PLEASE 🙏 PLEASE, LET ME HAVE SOME MORE OF 🙏 THIS SINGING. WOWWW, YESSSS INDEED...
what a cute cute dance !
The first dude with the light colored sports jacket and black tie was pretty smooth on his feet! Lol
Have always loved this. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hello Mary, How are you doing?
O m g I cant help myself!!!!😅😅😅 ❤❤❤❤ love it tho!! Better this than most of the stuff they do today..
Bless em, so nervous, barely a smile until the ordeal is over. The lads focussing so much on getting the steps right, they hardly pay attention to their company. Its a lovely window into the time, the delightful innocence of the age, despite it being affected by knowing they were being filmed. Did you see the girl start to laugh and the boy shush her? They were obviously told not to make a sound in front of the camera. Even though its a bit arteficial, it still shows the vast difference between a school dance then and 20 years later, when I went, in the UK, and the dance round your handbags era and prog rock that killed romance forever...'Hi Ho Silver Lining' ended every school 'disco', no longer 'I Only Have Eyes For you' 😢
These guys look really pumped about the whole thing.
So sad that Chuck Willis hung up his Rock and Roll shoes so early 😢😢😢
Loved his songs: One Kiss, Keep a Drivin, C.C. Rider and of course What am I Living For? ❤❤
I had forgotten about the girl's "fruit boots"; the little pointed suede shoes.
Pistol Pete is that what they were called? Were they comfortable?
Lol, at 1:48. He's like, "well are you coming out to dance or not?!"
They look so cool back then.
Que bonita época, donde la mayoría de adolescentes eran unos caballeros y unas damas. Bonitos sus atuendos. Esos chicos si viven deben de tener actualmente como 80 años
Yeah they’re strolling around the nursing home right now.
Oh Snap! GREAT old vid, Why isn't Chuck Willis in the R&R HOF? I've been asking that for 20 years.
Donkey9900
He was nominated in the 1st class didn't get in...nominated in the 2nd class didn't get voted in. That's when it became obvious how that shitshow would eventually go. Now rap stars go in ahead of Rock & Rollers. I'm a Rocker, everything from Tiny Bradshaw to Devo. Rap stars don't belong there.
@@kirkmoore4515 - You got that right! The Rappers can have their own Hall Of Fame!
Dig those crazy saddle shoes doing those intricate steps (2:20).
Mountain of Love❤❤---brings back old Robinson ❤Feelings!! Yah,
Ya got to love the guy wearing saddle shoes.
is only ROCK AND ROLL.
too cool for school!!
Good stuff. Makes me want to find a dance to go to, fat chance.
At least here the kids actually look like they're having fun...
Man I love this stuff
LOL. This was so popular.
How many of these went to nam and died ?
Bring it BACK 👯🕺🏽💃🏿👯🕴️
The stroll? I think not, the kids “Superman dat ho” these days I’m afraid this is rather antiquated.
couple#2, dude, teach your girl to stroll, couple#3, yea you got it.
+james garrity I love the girl in couple #2; she laughs as she strolls down the aisle. I would like it better if the couples would look at each other once in a while!
In they years 50'. Is fantastic is
My life
The late, great Chuck.
The way the kids are Dressed brings back so many Memoirs..
And now they where them below their ass.
do high school kids today have fun like this???-----------I didn't think so!
I was 13 and remember all the banter among us during the stroll. It was a shared dance and feel good time. I doubt most kids would do this today.
True, I guess they will just have to stick to their glow sticks, face paint and edm drops! ;p
terry, I didn't go to my senior prom for a good reason $ 200.00
( the tickets $100 . $ 50 for the tux $50 for the formal ( for the girl) plus it was held at a Country club
Nobody looks like they’re having fun!.....
This took place in the late 50s, the kids were about 15 that would make most about 70 give or take either way.
74
75
wow cool times when I die I want to stay in the 50s
Not me!
You must like segregation
Stay: and you will be able to do that 👍👍💯
Some great dancers, especially the guys!!!
Simpler times
Thanks, deanslist. I was just about to ask who is the sax player. He MAKES this record!
I knew the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame would suck when Chuck Willis didn't get in in the first 2 classes.
I was a year and a half old when this was filmed. Kinda can't get over the one guy wearing saddle shoes!
Oh boy,! Fantastic
Yes...yes...I'm here...been there
I guess we know where they got the soul train line from now...... Strollin
60+ years from now, whatever version of TH-cam exists then. A video titled: "A trip down memory lane, WAP from 2020"
Something my aunt Liz would say honey,she was New Orleans way the way,from the Irish channel.
That looks so fun
Bring back the bullet-bra!
@@lookupyourredemptiondrawsn7285 Hey 50s fashion was pretty darn sexy. Just wear a dress or a long skirt with a cinch at waistline. Good hygiene, hair not purple, etc. Simple & clean. Sexy yet dignified. Left LOTS to the imagination (which, in my case, is limitless 😉).
They don't look like they are having much fun at all! Smile kids! This is as good as it gets :)
Hello Kandis, How are you doing?
ahh the fifties, even the tough guys could dance. if you wanted the girls to pay attention you had to dance.
before contact lens's and the pill
This video remembers me the last video of SIA "Cheap Thrills".
A bit stiff but okay. The guys barely held the girls hand properly. (Lol) Oh the awkwardness of that age. Good times though!
The guys are better dancers
yep. the girls are stiff!
Lu Cas And after they were through dancing the guys were too .
This bunch really know how to enjoy themselves.Who said white people cant dance?To be fair ,some of these couples had argued before the dance and it shows.
Sweet innocents.
This brings to mind the word "somnambulistic."
Talk about your two left feet! Someone should have taught these rich white kids how to dance. They're not even with the beat. Glad Momma sent this white kid to tap and modern jazz dance classes for 7 years. Helped me a lot when I became an adult.
This video took place at the local ABC affiliate in Des Moines Iowa. That channel 5 and the state of iowa in the background .. interesting it’s all white kids but than again this was a local teen show in Des Moines , Iowa .
The Best..
The invention of line dancing
THIS IS JUST TOO WIERD!!!!
The first couple look enough like my daughter and her husband I thought it was them. They were born in 1994 and married in 2013!
FREAKY!!!
Doppelgangers are odd enough, a doppelganger couple even more so, but time traveling doppelganger couples, that would be most strange indeed!
@ EARTH ONE - Hahahah, maybe!
Buzz Kyler Seems like it could be an episode of world-reknown time traveler Dr. Who :)
I just wish I could attach a pic of them so everyone could see how odd it truly is.
Poor dude sitting against the wall by himself. At least he's on camera.
The younger ones don't seem to enjoy this. "All my buddies are going to razz me for dancing....on TV!"
I wonder if I can use the video to produce a music video for a band. thank you!
Born 1960. Never heard this song. At 2:18 how did they twist their foot so far around like that? Looks painful.
This is Camel Walk but execute very tamed. They might call i The Stroll in the fifties but look up where it came from.
Coolest times i was robbed born in 67
Original stroll Great
Lets dances the night away with Blues best jazz ever, Jennifer what do you say,? lets dances the night and learn Nitty gritty, Orgainal Stroll and what about Chuck Wills with again the Stroll, How about the Peppermint Twist,
jhonny B
I was 25 days from being born. 😊.
Classic threads for lassies and lads.