DANCE CRAZES OF THE '60S (Compiled by Toni Basil)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2018
- FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY! I do not own any rights to the music or footage in this video.
The Twist
0:16 Chubby Checker
0:26 Teri Garr and Dorothy Lamour Pajama Party
0:40 Joey Dee.
The Watusi
1:02 Lucy Bains Johnson and Steve McQueen
1:20 Natalie Wood
The Watusi/Dog
1:31 Ann Margret with Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas
1:44 Toni Basil
The Swim
1:59 Toni Basil and Dorothy Lamour Pajama Party
Bobby Freeman Shindig
2:11 Maria Gahva, Gina Trikonis, Anita Mann, Pam Freeman, Marianna Pecora, Lorene Yarnell, Melanie Alexander, Toni Basil, Teri Garr
Marvin Gaye The Tami Show
3:27 - The Watusi Debbie & Essie
3:52 The Pony Joy & Stevie Ciro
The Jerk
4:17- Sam Riddle Hollywood A GoGo & The Larks
5:15 Roberta Tennis Deutsch
The Skate 5:49
James Brown
6:13- The Boogaloo ,the Funky Chicken, the James Brown the Mashed Potatoes , the Camel Walk.
Billy Preston performance style mix up
6:52- The Skate, the James Brown, the Pony.
These are just a few of the dance styles that permeated the 60s. There were songs recorded in celebration of the dances and slippery wood floors and leather soled shoes that contributed to the movement of the styles.
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Grew up in this era. Love dancing even at my age 74. So many memories!!! ❤️❤️
Me, too...the best era for music!
Keep dancing.
I am also 74 spent my mis-spent youth as a Mod I'm London back in the 60s, so like you have so many memories especially dancing to Marvin Gaye, and all the great soul singers at the time.
As a kid in the 70s I was amazed at Candy Johnson doing the twist in those Beach Party movies from the 60s. It was so fun to watch her!
Yes ma'am ❤❤❤❤
I was born 1964. My parents were very young. We didn't have any furniture in our living room but an old easy chair from my mom's mother and an old rocking chair from my Dad's mother. There was also a record player and a tiny black and white TV. One of my earliest memories is dancing the Twist with my parents to an appearance on some rock show.
I was born in the 50's but still we grew up in some great times even if we didn't have a lot and the same with us we definitely had a record player and a small black and white TV ✌🏼😎😉💯🤗
Me too, Chubby Checker on American Bandstand 1964. I was three and blown away!!!
what a great memory!
@@leslielandberg5620 My mom said the twist was stupid because you only moved your hips standing in one place.
Billy Preston's performance ...simply A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !!
60´s and 70´s !!!! nothing compares !!
The guy doing the Watusi is none other than Steve McQueen and he is doing a very good job doing the dance. Very cool!
Was the lady Tricia Nixon?
he's the best for ever❤️
merci Mr Steve McQueen depuis la France
Well thanks for confirming that, I thought that my eyes were deceiving me!
@@michaelwalton7776 Whoever it was she could dance
@@michaelwalton7776 A daughter of then - President Lyndon Johnson.. doing well at the dance too !....getting funky..w/ Legend Steve McQueen .. awesome actor..AND dancer .. Just my humble opinion.. another reason he was known as the Best..the original.. 'King Of Cool' ❤️😃🤴🌟👍👍💎💪🤳🗿❤️
Never in my long life have I seen Steve McQueen dance. I believe Natalie Wood is next to him.
Even at 78 I still can manage some of of those moves.Love our music from back then. Wonderful memories with friends and boyfriends.😀💃💃❤
Never stop dancing ❤
71 here. I still dance!
It blew my mind seeing Billy Preston singing and dancing. I'd always known him as a keyboardist, especially for playing keyboards for the Beatles. What talent!
Insane!
And with RAY CHARLES on piano!!!!
the 60's had great music and fashion, can't be duplicated
Not the mens tight pants.
A time in memorial. 😊😊😊
Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood doing the Watusi. Must be "Love with the Proper Stranger." Nice to see them.
That was President Johnsons daughter Lucy with him not Natalie
Steve McQueen was a pimp prior to being a movie star. I tell that to people who are aghast, when they hear I was a pimp in Burma from 2006 thru 2018. Side note: Trump's grandfather was a pimp in Alaska.
@@erichogan9024 But the woman next to him (paired with someone else) looks a lot like Natalie Woods.
@@toochaotic7752that's Natalie, I believe she's dancing with Vic Damone.
@@erichogan9024 they were both there
Toni Basil should be in the Hall of Fame Dance version just like the Rock& Roll Hall of Fame award.
Can't believe I'm 66 and My 2 Big Sisters taught Me these dances.❤😂🎉
I went away for the summer and when I got back, my older sister and my Mom were doing the Twist. I just couldn't get the hang of it and one day, I let my mind take me away. After that day I was Twisting the night away.
Ok You're Almost There.. So now You gotta learn the mashed potatoes shing a ling then the
the Tighten Up 😂 Luv Our Childhood🤣
@@princessgrace66 thank you
Keep shining
Such a unique and stylish time. Who isn’t enamoured by the 1960s… so interesting and beautiful! And what I particularly like is that everyone of all age groups dances the same way.
A period that is easy to romanticize if you didn't live through it. Actually, the 60's sort of sucked.
@@fearlessfosdick160 And the 50s were even worse than the 40s. Take my word for it!
I grew up with this and I was a dancing machine ever since I was 2... I still dance with the style of the 60s when I hear rok and roll
I qbautlwy love it it's in my soul
I like the ironic opening phrase from the old American film (1943) "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (I quote from memory, not verbatim) ~ Someone who considers the 90s turbulent, just dont lived in the 80s"
I smiled a wide when I read this movie start.
@@maniheysgnosis865 People now almost do not understand how much life is made easier every ~20 years, thanks to big science and all technology.
i love these dances. they look like they are having A LOT of fun. and it seems like everyone is just letting their hands and legs go to the rhythm. they need to come back
Those were the days...miss them and wish I could be transported back.
Where did they go? I do them.
This is Really Funny I Really Love Your Comment...They look as if they're having A Lot of Fun...Trust Me They're out Listening to Their Favorite Band or Music Doing the Latest or Their Favorite Dance...Alright They Look like they're movie their arms and legs to The Rhythm.Thats exactly what Dancing Is..A Band From San Francisco Made A Song About It which was a Huge Hit and A Classic Dance Song...To sum up Your Comment Sir SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE Encouraged Everyone To Get Up And DANCE TO THE MUSIC in The 60s' And in the 80s' The NEVILLE BROTHERS BAND Featuring IVAN NEVILLE Would encourage All to Free Your Mind of All Your Troubles and Leave Your Negative Thoughts Behind and just DANCE YOUR BLUES AWAY...Love&Peace luv ya byo eJ ❤
These were fun dances to do. Definitely a workout. Dancing kept me in shape growing up. BTW, the twist will quickly reduce your waistline just like the hula hoop did. ;)
I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s I remember these dance’s so well, great memories, not sure how many I can do at 64 years old though 😂😂😂😂
My late wife could do all these dances. She was a natural dancer. I guess she learned to dance in the disco era. Then she marries a stiff like me!😂😝
Just the fact you say she was a good dancer is sweet to me. ❤😊
Sounds like she had a man who loved many things about his wife, what every woman wants - you're not a stiff, you're a sweetie.
Thanks Toni for the memories! While I was a kid in the 60‘s (12 in 69) I had 2 older sisters who were in high school when these dances were popular. So they would always be trying them out at home with me watching. Result- I was one of the only guys in high school who knew how to dance…at least a little. I was very popular on the dance floor. Even more so when disco hit the scene in the late 70‘s! What fun we had! Cheers and thanks again! I‘ve always enjoyed your movies and congrats on finally getting your recognition for „Mickie“.
OMG ! I've never seen Steve McQueen dance before. He's pretty good. So cool to see this.
@Brett Stanton ahhh I thought that was him! Awesome dancer
+eugene endres
Old Hollywood actors were trained in performance arts which included dancing. Many also would have been dancers from a young age and would have learned to sing and dance in local communities and churches.
Wow - never saw this footage before. Two great stars. Thank you.
I was thinking the same.
that was at a Lyndon Johnson fundraiser in Beverly Hills California. He was dancing with Luci Johnson. In fact, if you look close you can see Natalie Wood is dancing too.
OMG! Billy Preston is phenomenal.
In my 80th year and still remember and love the sixties. Listening to the music transports me back to a time when I believe it was more fun to be young, even though we did not have all the mobile phones and gadgets that the kids have today.I grew up in a small city and there were dances on most nights of the week, the "pubs" were always full with people enjoying themselves and everyone seemed happier then.
xcept for the nuclear bomb drills....Hide under your school desks!
Yes, it was much more fun!👏👍🥰
@@sherrillsturm7240 That hardly ever happened so stop exaggerating DUH, they were called DRILLS and yes it was WAY more fun back then. School was so much more fun. Now you can't even walk down the damn streets with out worrying about getting shot. WE had crime but not like now . And atleast we weren't being indoctrination or being brainwashed to mutilate our bodies or that we are more then one gender. They actually taught academics not ideology. Those days cannot compare to these horrendous days . If I could I'd trade those days with these anytime
Do you know who ruined some of the clubs were those that came with drugs which the cops would tell them to leave. In fact, they closed one place called, "The World" for that exact reason which irritated me since I loved to dance.
@@sherrillsturm7240 You must be the life of the party, Sarc. I am shocked you did not pull the race card.
The 1970s had some great dance styles too (Disco and Northern Soul). Dancing was ruined when rap and hip-hop became popular.
I grew up with these dances. And my parents HATED them. 😂 Made it that much more fun!
Agreed!
Nobody twisted like my mother, she was great at it.
They really weren't dances. Just one or two moves.
Hahah! We must be the same age :)
and yet they did some ridiculous dances too......LMAO and some of the dances they do NOW.......UGH!!
Im 40 but I’ve been obsessed with the 60’s music, fashion and lifestyle since I was in pre-teens. I always felt connected to this decade, like I should’ve been a teen during this peri. This is such an awesome collection of clips from this beautiful time period. Thank you for sharing 🎉🤩
Oh, My Goodness!! Thank you, Toni Basil for posting this video of dances of the 60s! You made me smile from ear to ear!
Me too! All of a sudden I was smiling!! I guess it was the memories.
Mick I just watched Tina turner I smile like the same as this cool hay good for ya face muscle’s 2💕
😂😂.. Love that fellow in the Yellow Suite.. Got Great Moves 🎇
It was the absolute best time in music...exploding talent like Billy Preston, JB and the British invasion.
Ppl were respectful of one another, women revered in songs and the lyrics were about love and longing, no cursing, and much more meaningful with social justice themes and great dances!
Motown, jazz and soul greats were the creators of all the music!
Every time I hear Marvelous Marvin two memories come back. My late Auntie M who would have been 78 this year - she introduced me to his music in about 1967. Second one of those moments where you are when something tragic happens like, Kennedy, Princess Diana, and 9/11. For me sitting in Oklahoma City airport on my way to Dallas - I immediately bought his greatest hits cassette for my journey - I would drive back to Denver from Dallas with it playing continuously... Thanks Marvin for all the memories...too smooth by half.
Whoooooa!!! Ray Charles and Billy at the end... How more soulful of a show can ya get! I miss the days when this was the standard quality of shows you'd see... Whew! SUPER SOUL FLAVA used to be the norm! Thank God for all the documented videos that PROVE IT! 💕
I did these all, at full volume! At my fifth birthday party my parents brought the Hi-Fi outside and we had dance contests. I loved Chubby Checker and the Twist.
The Twist was a sexual act way before it became a dance crazy - some of the first to do it was HANK BALLARD AND THE MIDNIGHTERS. 1959. Demo version late 1958. Chubby Checker 1960!!
The 60's, 70's & 80's were 3 great decades back to back. They were especially great decades for music. Incredible dances, Bands and music came out of these 3 decades that are still played today!
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I'm 70 and I can still do some of these dances.
I just sent this to my 75 (she’d kill me for tellin!) year old mother who grew up in Detroit and has the best stories about Motown and all the shows she saw.
Toni, thank you for your service and indelible contributions to dance and music over the last decades.
Oh, and I love your often overlooked New Wave era (Not Mickey, all the rest!).
Love, Danny in Los Feliz
Keep on dancin!!
Never will there be an amazing look and music as this generation.
The clip of "Double O Soul" with Billy Preston uncharacteristically clad in a canary yellow suit and dancing his guts out while Ray Charles plays piano with the orchestra in the background is a rare treat!😀🤩
I know, right? I had to do a triple take at that one! How young was he when that was filmed?
Born in ‘54. Was around for all this. I would never contradict the BRILLIANT AND ETERNAL Toni Basil. BUT, doesn’t the skate look a heck of a lot like The Funky Broadway? 😊😊😊😊.
(Was waiting for the cool jerk.)
The 60s were a time to itself, people started getting along and into the 70s and on. I truly wish people could get along like these kids did. It was all about fun and highjinks and change. food for thought. I loved the 60s what a great time to be young.
good music chubby and then we could try to hear it in him 2023
I'm really lucky that my son and his friends appreciate all the older generations of music. One day I thought they were listening to my CDs. but one of them had their online playlist playing on their phone.
The 60s and the 70s were awesome!
@RedHot no people didn't get along...in Brooklyn NY a bunch of Italian kids shot and killed a 17 year old Black Kid that went to see about buying a car in Bensonhurst.
@@dwightpowell6673 was a lot of racism. There was segregation! Notice the audience and dancers.
Billy Preston killed it at the end! 👍🏾
I'm 61 and I was a little kid when these dances were popular, but that didn't stop me from doing them. And I still do them today. That's when my kids do the face in palm with the head shake. I love it!!!
I'm 73 and I was out with some girls who are in their 50s. Never heard of the locomotion, the mashed potato, the Watusi, the Frug the cha-cha, the jitterbug, the jerk, the swim, the pony, the twist, the monkey and I was stunned! I told them about watching American bandstand in Philly and learning how to do the line dances dances and more and Jerry Blavat in Philadelphia. They had no idea what I was talking about!
Wow, The Larks, Billy Preston, James Brown, Bobby Freeman, Ray Charles... thanks for finding this stuff.
FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. DO NOT ATTEMPT THESE GROOVY DANCES AT HOME WITHOUT PROPER SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.
My music teacher told us to watch this lol
If you want to get into dance, train with this video, and enjoy it!😀
@@bangtanspaghetti2587 You have a good music teacher.
steeve mac queen waouououououo the best what a classsssssssssssssss ever and ever ,i want the same suit
Me now in me Sixty dizzy this makes me a dizzy 🥝🥝🥝🤡🤗😋😋
Love it. Having a 60s themed birthday party for my mum's 70th next year. Will be busting these moves for sure. Better start practicing.
Start taking your "Vitamin's!" They're a "Workout" but so much fun!
✅💚👍
How was the 60's party???
@@rickyparrilla2426
It was fantastic, the 60s were amazing for music art and fashion, mum had a very memorable time.
@@mylife2022 That's great to hear.
Los muchachos de los años 60s sí sabían cómo divertirse... Mi Mamá sabe bailar Twist y al bailar resalta su belleza.
Steve McQueen doing the Watusi...wild man, wild
I was born in November 1960 so I guess I was only little but I enjoy watching all these dances. I did like doing the twist when I was about 9 years old... Thank you Toni for showing these dances XX
I did these dances, too, as a little girl. Seeing them like this makes me very nostalgic.🥲 Great video!
❤ LOVE SEEING THESE DANCES AND HEARING THE SONGS. IM A FEMALE TEXAS BORN IN 1961.WE MOVED TO EAST CHICAGO HEIGHTS ILLINOIS IN MID 60'S. THAT'S WHERE I HEARD THE SONGS AND DANCES IN THIS VIDEO. SUPER COOL MEMORIES.WE MOVED BACK TO TEXAS IN 1969.
Such a great time to grow up and go to high school. Loved every one of those dances! Wonderful memories of doing them with my besties and trying to teach them to my awesome Mom💜💜
Hello Doris
How are you doing today?
I can't think of any other Artist that is still alive that could possibly be a better curator of American
Popular Dance than Ms. Basil.. Still Here and Still Movin' Like she's 21 years old..
❤️💃🏻
Billy Preston?! REALLY?! I knew him as the amazing, brilliant keyboardist, singer and songwriter he was, but I had no clue he could dance just as amazingly!!!
Growing up in Louisiana and having been a teenager in the 60s..i can attest to the authenticity of these moves...notably when the dancers, doing the TWIST, did that slight leg lift during the finish of a twist cycle..And i admired the smooth galloping on the dancers doing the PONY..I once won.a dance contest using the PONY as my central move..I won a Gentrys album, KEEP ON DANCING..There were lots of teeage garage bands then that did covers of R &B that gave us plenty of chances to hit dance floor...This is so fun to see these clips. Thank you...
Thanks David for sharing your own story. What an Era ❗ Pure fun. Miss those days. Dancehall packed. Everyone dressed up. No fights....good times 🎵😊
Nothing more heart warming than watching the young and feisty Teri Garr dancing up a storm with Tony and the gang!
The surprise was Billy Preston!! He was known as a Piano Player and Singer (Outa Space, Will It Go Round in Circles, etc.)! Yes, we did all those dances back then!! Thank you Toni!
He could have given James Brown a "run" for his money .
Billy Preston went on tour in Europe with Lil Richard when he was 16yrs old.
@@aarondigby5054 Wow. I didn't know that. That would be quite a story to be told !!
@@INJURYCOMPBilly Preston met Sis Rosetta Thorpe who had met Lil Richard earlier singing in local churches, in succession Sis RT took Lil Richard on tour with her to Britian when LR was in his late teens, LR had been washing dishes in a greasy spoon restaurant, where LR learned to play rockin guitar, the phrase rock &roll hadn't yet been coined. A few years later when LR charted some hits with his on band he met Billy Preston 15yrs old at the time snd went with LR touring in Britian. Google up Sister Rosetta Thorpe, she was the first female metal guitarist, literally electric made out of metal guitarist, mind you R&R hadn't been coined yet.
Saw Billy with the Rolling Stones in 1972 in Berlin Germany WOW takes me back
Had no idea Billy Preston was such a rockin' dancer!
Wonderful composition, Toni had the connection to gather this collection. Steve McQueen and Lyndon Johnson's daughter was almost unbelievable. They were impressive.Thanks Toni.
I noticed that right off !!! I’m 76 .
This was incredible to watch, it just looked like everyone from the musicians to the kids dancing were having so much fun. The music was really good back then, and the dancing wow. James Brown was such a natural dancer. Thank you for an awesome video!
6:13 The Master James Brown was the best on this video . 7:00 wow, that blows me away ! the late great Billy Preston as a dancer with the other late great Ray Charles ! Preston would go on to be one of the greatest as a keyboardist , songwriter, music composer and singer !
Wow
God do I love the 60's!
Me to
40s,50s,60s,70s and 80s all had cool dancing and music.
It do too. It was before the drug culture and socialism when when a dullness came over society and peoples brains.
@L I grew up in that era. Drug use like you see today did not start until the later 60s. In the 50s drug use was unheard of as a social dependency for interacting with people. We were better off for it to as individuals and a better society. In the less populated areas people didn't even think about locking lock their doors when they left home.
This is awesome! I lived and danced through these great mucosal and dance times! Thank for such a great video!
These dances were better than twerking any day!
Back when people were allowed to enjoy themselves. And thank you Miss Basil for entertaining us in our youth (and you're still doing it!).
Please never stop.
Thats what i was wondering .lol
Allowed to enjoy themselves if they were white, middle class or above, and straight you mean.
@@celticlass8573 So you're saying anybody who wasn't white , middle-class and straight wasn't allowed to listen to music back then? Can you explain what you mean?
@@mickram23 *"Back when people were allowed to enjoy themselves"* There were many places where you weren't allowed to attend, if you didn't meet the criteria. Many places you could be beaten, assaulted or strung up, if you attended. Clothing you could be questioned about your right to be wearing, if you didn't meet the criteria. Music others felt you didn't have a right to enjoy, if you didn't meet the criteria.
@@celticlass8573 That applies today, a girl was murdered near me by a group of teenagers just because she was a Goth. Do you really think young people are any better today?
The difference was that in the videos we are talking about everyone, Black or White, seem to be enjoying themselves.
In the video do you see any division?
When do you see young people enjoying themselves today? They're too busy character assassinating each other on social media.
I am SO glad I grew up then and did all those dances, many of them on roller skates.
I think that the world will never see again the joyful and special fun we had during the late fifties and sixties.
they had amazingly fun dances...today forget it
I dance this way. Also some disco moves. It's fun to see the youngsters looking at me and my friend in wonderment, trying to figure out how we dance 😆
(I'm 66)
@@escapematrixenterprisejacq7810To be brutally frank, kids today do not know how to dance, and don't seem to have any sense of rhythm, let alone sense of musical pitch. But there are a few exceptions, but they are not given enough exposure.
@@RayPointerChannel I think it has something to do with the fact that our music was FUN...the music today reflects the darkness that has descended on the world!
@bartmacdonald5780 that is so true!
Those singers were so charismatic that every dance move they came up with became a sensational dance!
Those dance moves are wild.
And I love it!!
I love the 60’s!
Gotta ask you - are you young ? ( I'm, for better or worse - a "boomer !")
Thank you Toni Basil (dance choreographer) for sharing this awesome video ❤️
I truly miss the days of social and regional dances. They always made parties super lit, especially when everyone did the dance with their own variations. I remember going to visit relatives in other cities, back in the day. The key things we had to find out were the best radio stations and the type of dances they were doing at the time. This was definitely the case in the mid-'80s as street dances became more technical and edgy. Great times!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Darlene Love just working it with Marvin! Great stuff very grateful I grew up with this music the soundtrack of my life…..And let’s don’t forget James Brown! ❤
I grew up doing all these dances. My mother showed me the "camel walk". I was expecting the dancers to hold their nose, act as if they were going under water doing the "Swim". That is what we use to do. The Boogaloo and the Jerk were my favorite. I don't remember seeing them do the "Pony". I went on Miami, FL Rick Shaw show dancing. I loved it, wanted to be a dancer, then got hit by a car... My parents didn't mind it too much. Good exercise for sure. The neighborhood kids would get together and dance everywhere we could. Great times.
Ohhh now I know why my grandma dances weird!!😂😂😂
Until I watched this video, I did not know that Billy Preston could dance so well the way did back then while in performance mode...I always saw him at the piano. Very impressive stuff here Toni.
When I grow up I want to live in the 60's.
Haha ❗ Well Put ❗
@@elisaabolafia9542 >>>>. Care to join me ??
I’m 27 and wish i grew up in this era, just wish it never left. Things today are just all messed up and crazy. People seem so happy and have class back then
We are all very old now and sit on our patios drinking coffee and babysitting grandkids. I used to like to mix The Pony with the Swim. Fun days. Listen to the Kinks. Great band.
You are right Zach...that ERA was a blast. Real musicians, packed dancehalls. Everyone dressing slick ( did you notice all the tight straight legged pants on the guys ❓ Back in style again ❗) Fun times. We were proud of our styling and love of good music. You would have LOVED that Era 🎵🔥
This whole time I thought the old ladies at my Church caught the holy ghost, they were just doing the watusi
Elle Jay lmaooo 😭
Hahahahaha
LOL!👍
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I wasn't allowed to go to record parties or the high school Friday dances, so I learned from watching Shindig, American Bandstand and Hullabaloo. Senior year of 1965 we were allowed to play records during lunch in our senior park. One of the guys asked me to dance to the Isley Brothers "Twist and Shout" and I busted every move! My friends were surprised that I even knew how to dance never mind making moves like I was throwing out there.
Great memories!
Absolutely appreciated! I can think of The Block (a London phenomenon), The Monkey, The Twine, The Hitch Hike, The Funky Broadway, The Shake...
I love this collection of dances all brought together and preserved for the future. It’s wonderful, and I just want to dance when I see it.
Thank you for posting this. We are researching world wide movements in art of dance and very humbled to see you have as always been way ahead in the art Toni Basil. Very wonderful to see this and you certainly are held in dance, art and music as revolutionary.
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Billy Preston dancing..???? he made big with the Beatles as a pianist.... wao how far he has come..
With or without the Beatles...he was a great talent. R.I.P. What an ERA❗
Loved this music 🎶 and did all of these dances at the high school sockhops after home sports games! 💃🏼🕺🥰
Best of times , back in the day , when everything was so much simpler ♥️
Cool, as a kid in the 60s all this brings back memories as I remember all these songs.
Omg Billy Preston was fab! I have only seen him on the piano and I loved his piano style, backing up so many famous acts like Joe Cocker and also the Beatles. But I never knew he could sing and dance. Oh my.
Wow! Billy Preston killed it baby! 🔥🔥🔥 Billy was real light on his feet…he was a baaaaad maaaan!! Amazing!
Actor Steve McQueen doing the Watusi💃 🕺
Wow, I enjoyed this so much it took me back to my youth , teens , etc. Some of my favorite memories are of all of us dancing at family get togethers . My family loved music and dancing it was always a lot of fun. My older siblings did all these dances and where great dancers. A lot of them are gone now so watching these cilps are both happy and sad. I miss them a lot . But I can't wait to join them in heaven when the good Lord takes me to be with them again. And the family gathering will continue. Thanks for posting the video.
My favorite was doing the Pony! Did that so many times! Pretty good too! 😊. I turn 77 this year and still will dance!
The Ray Charles and Billy Preston bit was priceless. I don’t remember seeing that clip before.
Hang on. This is THE Toni Basil of "Oh Mickey" fame? So cool. I used to do the music in a Ballroom dance school in Australia and we used it all the time for progressive dances. Man, watching 200 couples burning a dance floor to this tune was awesome. So infectious. I'm playing it now and typing in rhythm. Thank Toni for some great memories.
She was also the choreographer for the Monkees' 1968 film “Head” and the David Byrne video “Once in a Lifetime” along with a million other projects.
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I use Toni Basil's "Oh Mickey" in our exercise class (under licence). It's so energizing!! Luv luv luv Toni Basil
Toni Basil was dancing back then in the 1960s. She was in that Elvis Presley movie Viva Las Vegas in this video. Love that movie more!
Toni Basil also appeared in Easy Rider.
...enjoyed watching these clips.....love 60's dancing....thanks ,Toni....
Billy Preston...Wow. I never saw him this young and not playing the keyboard or piano. Wow. what a singing talent. thank you for posting.
Billy preston moves, voice and piano stuff just another level.
Epic employees begin to furiously take notes
You cannot watch that Billy Preston clip without smiling. I wish there was more!
I was like yaasss get it Billy
My mind was 🤯
Did not know Billy Preston could dance
@@saggigirl1205 Nope, me either, but he could sure play some keyboards!
@@jamespenny9482 yes! The fifth Beatle!
@@saggigirl1205 Man, they should have added him to the group and stayed together. I would say that George Martin was the 5th Beatle, but BP had some huge contributions of his own.
*_Omigosh this was FUN !!! My favorite was the girl @_**_5:51_**_. I pretty much have her hair ... but I need that cool dress and and those fabulous moves to bring back THE SKATE !!!_*
I think I just lost a pound just watching this video! 😂 I was born 1965. Many of these dances were no longer being danced once I came into trying to dance myself but this is a great video. Thank you🥰💐
Billy Preston can dance!! as well as everything else he did...wow.
Tony Basil, a fab dancer herself. Worked with my idol David Bowie. Thank you.
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Absolutely outta control !!!!! I was born in 1961 and probably was doing the "Twist" in my mother's womb !!! By the age of three I was hanging around with my mother's friend Doris who loved to watch over me when mom needed a break ! Spinning and dancing to the hits of the day , such a joyous outlet and the music was positively awesome !!! Being a boy with dreams of being a "legit go-go dancer" wasn't easy to achieve back then , however. But my spirit was never broken , even though my mother later had regrets that she didn't encourage me to go with sis to dance class. I have such rich memories of dancing on our old porch with all the kids spinning cool 45's on the portable record player . "Cry like a Baby , The Horse , Pony Time , You Can't Sit Down" , and of course "Bobby Freeman's" phenomenal "the Swim" featured here !!! Greatest time to be young ! Thanks Toni , I remember you in every one of those videos !.......💜💟💜💟💜
I was born in 59 and I wanted to be a go-go dancer too. Wore little white boots until I moved up to taller ones. I hope you dance freely now too
@@cathybohan3446 Thanks Cathy. Yes, I can't "pack it in" I still love to move to the music ! .......... let's face it , we had the best music to dance to ! 👍👍👍♥️
My oldest brother was in high school and I was elementary school during the mid 60's. If the high school was holding a dance on a Saturday night, he'd take me because he knew I liked the music. After a few times, some of the high school girls would ask me if I wanted to dance. I was shy at first, but eventually one of the girls, Rhonda was her name, was able to persuade me. Even after all these years I still remember the names and faces of those girls. How I wish was old as my brother at that time. Ah the memories!
Love the dances of this period. I wish Tina Turner doing the pony with the Ikettes were included in that section.
Or Nancy Sinatra doing the Pony in her go go boots.
I danced on stage with Chubby Checker, to the Twist of course. I had attended one of his concerts in 1998.
High school dances every Friday night. Great fun,music. Greatest years.
Watusi Luci forever! As a kid and all these years later, I love the clips of her dancing. Of all the presidential kids, Luci Johnson will always lead the pack.