Royal Teens / Jerry Lee Lewis February 14, 1958
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- Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show. The Royal Teens. A cool group from Joizey singing their big hit (as they say it) "Shawt Shawts", followed by The Killer - Jerry Lee Lewis and "Great Balls of Fire".
I'm the girl singing with the Royal Teens. This tape is when we appeared on the first Dick Clark Show in February 1958.....Bob Gaudio went on to form The Four Seasons and we all know how well he did. I went on to sing and dance at the NY World's Fair and on TV and in clubs. Thanks for showing something that changed my life. Diane
You were very good.
Must have been great times. Interesting hearing from someone who was actually part of it.
Must have been a blast. Glad to hear from the artists, thank you, Diane.
Even today if you sing out, "Who wears short shorts?" everybody, teenagers included, will answer, "We wear short shorts."
It's just a fun song and I'm glad you and the other Royal Teens made it.
Diane, you were a total babe !!! ----------and I saw this on Channel 9 in Denver .---------------I was 11 y/o, in 6th grade, & about 2 months from the tidal wave of adolescence. -----------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
Great to see the ORIGINAL VIDEO of Jerry Lee singing this Live.
A a lot of clps on TH-cam have been dubbed or have very poor picture quality.
Thanks for these extended clips.
Have Fun indeed
I like the rhythm of the musics, stimulate my mood to dance along.
Beautiful musics stimulate to dance in 1957
A young Bob Gaudio, & yes---------a VERY cute Diane Lauren ! ---------I so remember this. -------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
The Ferriday Fireball is the real deal here.
He is sure is quick with the keys
Of Course He Is, He's The Killer!
Wasn't this from the first broadcast of Dick Clark's 1958-60 prime-time music series?
Very first Dick Clark Saturday night program. I don't think it was entitled the "Dick Clark Beech-Nut Show" at the beginning; it went unsponsored the first few weeks before Beech-Nut Gum got on board to sponsor it. And didn't Jerry Lee Lewis do "Great Balls of Fire" live because he chose not to lip-sync, which he called "charades"?
Jerry Lee was the real deal--no lip stuff.The guy had so much talent on that piano.
@@byrd56 It Was Known As The Dick Clark Show Before It Became The Dick Clark Beechnut Show. A Lot Of Times They Just Called It Saturday Night For Short.
That's the worst lip synching I've ever seen
Jerry :Lee Lewis insisted on performing LIVE.
sun johnson Live
Coulda found those guys some better clothes...they look old by 1958 standards.
My cousin called when this was on TV, shouting "did you see it!!!!!" This was during one of the high tension incidents with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Given his frantic tone I thought at first the missiles were on the way! Then he said that Jerry Lee was on and there's gonna be a riot. I ran to my TV and endured the LONG 25 seconds tube warm up and then I saw what was making him crazy. No One today I think can appreciate just how outrageous and RADICAL Jerry Lee was for that time. Like a double AA fuel dragster among Volkswagens. I'll never forget that day and the now hilarious call from my cousin and the supercharged performance which was bot great then but also years ahead it its time
There were tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in 1958 (the Cold War), but the Cuban missile crisis occurred in the fall of 1962.
It sounded like crap, then again I guess there was nothing else to gauge it by. Oh wait! Other performers had performed on Clark's shows and didn't sound like crap!!!
Don't understand what all the Jerry Lee hype was about anyway. Going to England exposed him, it wasn't his marriage they didn't like, they didn't like his music, just like in England they didn't like Bill Haley and the Comets either.
Jerry Lee at the top of his game in less than 4 months the bottom would drop out. The sound of the SUN studio can never be duplicated.
The staging of "Short Shorts" on the stairs and in the lobby is pretty kooky, including the short shorts gal tossing the receiver down in the phone booth and not even hanging up. I'm amused that the Royal Teens themselves were dressed in Bermuda shorts, a new fashion trend for men at the time.
Did you see the short guy try to dance? Man, he gave off-beat a whole new meaning.
Always liked watching Diane perform. She had great legs too!
Glad someone agrees about those legs...perfect for that song...well, everything about her was...
thecountofbasie The Bermudas on the guys are kinda scary though...
She did have nice legs. Good dancer too.
Bob Gaudio before THE FOUR SEASONS!
Does anybody know if the Johnnie Ray clip exists on TH-cam? It would be cool to see him preforming on this show considering his career was basically over and the song he performed, ‘Strollin’ Girl’ didn’t sell well.
Bob Gaudio, pre-Four Seasons days.
As a kid, it was so cool to see where Nair got it's theme from! The Royal Teens to me personified what the late 50's were about. Diane was just beautiful and I am so happy to have been able to follow this group. I remember too, the movie they starred in along with Danny and the Juniors. Thanks so very much NRRA! This is the MOST! lol
Great Group! I like them. And the fact that a guy like Al Kooper (who later formed Blood, Sweet and Tears) got his start in Royal Teens speaks for it self. The Royal Teens was a great Group, and I´m glad there finally is a CD with their complete recordings.
The Simpsons brought me here with the space coyote for soulmate.
I remember when this song was out and several girls tried to wear short shorts to school. What a riot! The school council met in emergency session called by our hair trigger principal. They rushed to BAN all short shorts and in some cases Bermuda shorts from the school and warned all girls not to be seen anywhere in the area of the school! Of course, this caused a wave of girls who were not students wearing the shorts as near to several schools. The press got involved and several Churches. What a scene, all caused by the dastardly Royal Teens....
Al Kooper was a member of the Royal Teens then, not sure which one he is though.
And Jerry Lee has always been a just amazing performer.
Only Lewis and Fats Domino ever performed live on this series. Everybody else did the lip synch thing.
RE: What is the actual date of this premiere episode? The Dick Clark Media Archives has it at 2/14/58.
As for Clark's TV schedule back then, FIVE days a week of two and a half hour episodes of American Bandstand aired from Philadelphia plus this show, broadcast from NYC on Saturday nights.
All LIVE- NO TAPE. At least in the first years.
The "Saturday Night Shows" that broadcast from outside locations were then taped after the disastrous Atlantic City remote ,portions of which are posted elsewhere on YT.
Clark later taped AB episodes in advance during the show's Philadelphia years particularly to allow for live appearances of his "Rock n Roll Caravan" package shows across the country.
By the time AB moved to LA in late 1963, shows were taped probably 4 weeks ahead of broadcast.
From c. mid 1963, AB went from 5 days a week to Saturday only. Many weeks of shows could be taped in one day sessions.
To his credit, Clark was still ahead in timing artist appearances, so that in most cases episodes aired at the point when interest was peaking in an artist or record.
After the mid sixties AB was less of a breaking ground for new faces and material.
While many artists were first seen on AB, there were now other outlets by which TV exposure was available in the later sixties going forward.
By the seventies and into the eighties, AB was no longer the musical cutting edge vehicle it had once been.
Once MTV arrived in August 1985, AB's days were numbered.
PJ Riverdale August _1981_ was when MTV arrived on the scene; a decade earlier, it was Soul Train.
It was Saturday, February 15, 1958. I was born that evening.
Finally, closure!
@@johnnyballenatl YOU write this crap, then, stickler............
The Only Video Of Atlantic City I Know Of Is Danny And The Juniors At The Hop. How Many Times Did They Lose The Picture?
I used to watch The Dick Clark Beech Nut Show during my childhood.
I remember Mr. Clark's tagline: "Wrapped in Dark Green and made for a Teen".
Those of you who remember 'Flavor-Ific', raise your hand.
I still have my 'IFIC' button somewhere. 😊👍
This tape is the original member of the Royal Teens, Diane Costello, Bob Gaudio, Tom Austin, Bill Dalton and Larry Qualiano. We made another record called "Big Name Button" which wasn't the hit "Short Shorts" was.
After I left the group a guy from the Four Friends named Joey Villia joined the four guys in the group, and I believe Al Cooper joined after he left.
After 50 years I was in touch with Billy Dalton who passed away recently, and I'm still in touch with Tom Austin the drummer.
I'm sorry.
Thanks for the information. Seen two videos of you and the group..enjoyed much. There was another girl on the record short shorts right; who is she? never seen any video of her contribution to group.
Hi Diane are you still around?
@@maxsavage3998
As of an article I found from January 2023, yes! She is 82 now.
Fools will never dig GOLD! Great stuff thanks for posting.
Is the date of the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show correct? If it is correct, then Dick was doing two shows a week, every week from 1958 to 1960. But I don't believe that he was, and I don't believe that the airdate is correct either. I've looked at the February 1958 calendar online, and it says the 1rst, 8th, 15th, and 22nd, are all Saturdays. So this tells me that this is the Premiere Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show from February 15th 1958. This person who uploaded these Dick Clark shows should have show logs, that tell you every person and every performance on every Beechnut show. Thus the logs tell you the info.
" A cool group from Joizey singing their big hit (as they say it) "Shawt Shawts", "; We say it like that in New Orleans, too....
毎度おなじみ流浪の番組タモリ倶楽部でございます。
Once I saw royal teens , I thought Bob Gaudio
Russ Smith's snare drum is louder than Jerry's Piano.
I hope someday that Sammy Turner's videos will show up on here. thanks
The fan club president seems very squared away for a kid. I like that.
That $75 she spent out of her own pocket? That's $654.08 today. I checked.
Have always liked that song. Who played the music? And thanks for a good 50's clip.
This was the first telecast of 'THE DICK CLARK SHOW", originally seen on February 15, 1958 (a Saturday). It wasn't until two weeks later, on March 1st, that Beech-Nut gum became his regular sponsor {as "THE DICK CLARK SATURDAY NIGHT BEECH-NUT SHOW"}. Dick showed this 16mm kinescope to Edward J. Noble, the chairman of Beech-Nut/Life Savers a week after its telecast. After ten minutes, Noble insisted the projector be turned off! He then said to Clark, "That was the worst show I've ever seen! But it'll sell a lot of my gum." He turned to his aide, and barked, "BUY THE SHOW!"
'll sell a lot of my gum." Noble turned to his associate, and barked, "BUY THE SHOW!"
Who Wears Short Shorts?
By the way, the female singer was Diane Lee, whose voice was dubbed over to sound like more than one girl. Her real name was Diane Costello. Nobody seems to give her credit. :-(
if you look at the top post from when this was first posted, she now called diane lauren commented about that day!
I'm still amazed that of all pioneers of Rock and Roll, Jerry Lee is about the last survivor!
No more.
He was a member much later and is not in this clip. Read his book
Three years on, I just realised that the date must be wrong - Feb 14th 1958 was a Friday...
No tons of lights, no auto tune, just pure, real artists.
Big hit but wasn't too concerned with lyrics.
dude ive seen him in so many live old music
That $75 she spent out of her own pocket? That's $654.08 today. I checked.
Both fun songs, if in different ways.
A "working girl"????
Yeah I noticed that too. I'm sure it didn't mean the same thing then it means now.
That was circa 1958 in its simplicity to the tune of Rock and Roll by the Royal Teens.
It’s 9/9/24 in Austin, Tx! Great song and singers! I’m 75 and still rockin to the oldies🥳🎶
Great songs
awesome stuff,thanks and happy holidays! looking forward to seeing some more connie francis if you have it?
At 5.15 - top middle of the screen - Matt Damon rockin' it out, aged minus twelve...
Is that young Bob Gaudio?
It sure is...think he was 15 when it was cut
thecountofbasie since then his interest on short shorts has waxed and wanned, but never fallen to zero
I was going to ask if you were still alive. Another group had a 70's style version called "Hot Pants" I think.
Tallest blonde guy is Tom Austin the drummer still lives in New Jersey
Ferriday Fireball, the Only Star to destroy its own universe
The Girls In the audience were all too old for Jerry Lee. thats his father in law on Guitar, but he didnt know it yet
Great group, enjoy their music
I thought that this was the performance where he sat the piano on fire :/
It’s valentines today 😁 in 2019
The sexiest song of its time
1958!, la chica de The Royal Teens parecía de los años 80' con el estilo que tiene.
What does that mean?
Ladna ta niunia.w KROTKICH MAJCIOCHACH.
What does that mean?
Why It is not Ritchie Valenz singing la Bamba in this show!!??
Because they thought Jerry Lee would be better.
@@kennydobbins9644 Don't know why, Lewis and his band sound like crap here. Perhaps it's the limitations of the recording equipment of the time.
Frannie Giordana at 5:16. Happy birthday April 18th and every April 18th Frannie. You will never be forgotten by those of us who wished we knew you.
Giordano, sorry about the misspelling.
One of the best rock & roll singers