American Bandstand 1950s Dance Partners Bob Clayton & Justine Carrelli

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  • As a teenager in the late 1970s I always enjoyed watching American Bandstand on Saturday afternoons. This is a video I created of one of my favorite dance partners on the show from the 1950s Bob Clayton and Justine Carrelli. Famously known as Bob and Justine. Sadly Justine passed away in May 2023.

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  • @gailjones9461
    @gailjones9461 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I remember getting home from school to watch American Bandstand when the camera would show Justine I was like there's Justine!!!! Those were great days.

  • @glittermama
    @glittermama 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    OMG . . . Bob OMG . . . Justine. I watched every day, and I've never forgotten them. Some simple things made us so happy then.

  • @irismcooper
    @irismcooper 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Bob and Justine were the Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue of American Bandstand in my opinion. They were such a stunning couple. RIP Bob Clayton. Iris of Manassas VA.

    • @ABdancers
      @ABdancers  6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Iris Cooper Great comparison of Bob and Justine to Sandra and Troy. They were definitely wonderful dance partners together. Thank you for the comment and for watching the ABdancers channel.

    • @irismcooper
      @irismcooper 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you ABdancers for your nice comment. RIP, dear Bob Clayton. Iris M. Cooper originally from Washington, D.C.

    • @javanwinner6958
      @javanwinner6958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ESIS GRANDIOSOS AÑOS JUVENILES, SANOS, ALEGRES, RESPETUOSOS QUE COMPARTIAMOS LUDICAMENTE NUESTRO BAILE CON NUESTROS PARES Y CONTAGIABAMOS A NUESTROS MAYORES. BONITA EPOCA, MEMORABLE E IMBORRABLE. BIEEEEEN 😄👍 !!!

  • @bonniesavidge496
    @bonniesavidge496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Geeeez! This takes me right back to grade school: Kenny & Arlene, Bob & Justine, Pat Molitarri (sp?). Looking back it's just amazing "How Time Slips Away." Wink*

    • @mgtysonsullivan6681
      @mgtysonsullivan6681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello

    • @trudymaenza9672
      @trudymaenza9672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too! If my cous Deb was at our house American Bandstand would come on air and I would say; "Come on Deb let's Rock n Roll!". I was 5yrs. old to 8yrs. and she was 3yrs older! She moved to Alaska, then Oregon I would see her in Oregon a couple years later when my folks moved to Oregon. grade-2nd

    • @sharonstockli4301
      @sharonstockli4301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I totally agree with you..takes me right back too. Rushing home from school to watch!

  • @johndunkle740
    @johndunkle740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I wasn't a regular regular but I was there as often as I could make it from 1961 thru January 1964. It was a big part of my life even though I had to travel on the bus and el from New Jersey until I got my drivers license. I also had the honor of meeting and talking to Charlie O' Donnald while at the Wheel Of Fortune in California just a few months before he died. We had a great time talking about the show and Dick Clark and what actually gave them the idea to move the show to the West Coast. It started with something Jan and Dean mentioned to Dick, and the rest was history. But the show was never the same after the move. It was always the Phila Sound that made it great. Boy, if we could only go back in time.

  • @ABdancers
    @ABdancers  ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I’m sad to announce that dancer Justine Carrelli-Miller has passed away. According to Sue Cassidy Wilson she was undergoing surgery on May 24, 2023 and did not survive. The ABdancers channel sends it condolences to her family and friends.

    • @ruthannkizakavich3325
      @ruthannkizakavich3325 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      R.I.P. Justine.❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

    • @yolandaspencer7141
      @yolandaspencer7141 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very saddened to read of Justin's passing at this late date. She was one of my American Babdstand favorites. Rest in Peace Justine. Yolanda Spencer, Southern California.

    • @ceceliaheyes5077
      @ceceliaheyes5077 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rest in peace. I watched BS every day with my Grandmother after school.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So sorry to hear this. I was seven when bandstand first came on and watched it every day after school. Justine and Bob were awesome but my favorite Pat Moliterri and Frani Giordano were who I mainly looked for!

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh, how sad. She was so attractive, and a great dancer.

  • @AlamarOne
    @AlamarOne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    My favorite dance partners were Kenny & Arlene & Bob & Justine... those were magical years for me. I Actually, taught myself how to swing dance & do the Slow dance around the floor ... in my kitchen. One of my jr high school friends,
    Used to come to my house and we would practice... I would lead, she would follow
    In those days at our Jr High School, the boys wouldn't dance, so girls danced with girls... the swing dance... not the slow dance. But when I met my first partner, she had also been watching bandstand & learned how to follow... so when got together, swing dancing was our favorite past time... and when we got into a gay bar out in the country, we became the best dance partners out there... funny,
    How young love ends.
    Best years of my life, swing dancing! ❤🎶🤩

  • @dickbuelow8968
    @dickbuelow8968 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I loved this old show,,never missed it

  • @kathryn2692
    @kathryn2692 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What about Joanie and Jimmy. It seems they won the dance contest one year. I still have my 1964 American Bandstand yearbook and I’m now an old lady. 77 years old. Lost my sweet husband a year and a half ago. He was a great dancer back in the day!

  • @SpeegBJ
    @SpeegBJ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Wooo, I love Justine and Bob! I watched every day after school, beginning age 12, 1959...running to get to my girlfriend's house with her older teen sister and friends watching and drinking cokes. Massive memory.

    • @ellenamundsen6164
      @ellenamundsen6164 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I looked at this every day after school and wished I lived in Philly so I could be on the show. This is how I learned to dance. When I look now they look so young. Guess I'm looking through much older eyes now. Wish I could go back --- much simpler time and the world was a better place. RIP American Bandstand.

    • @glittermama
      @glittermama 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ellenamundsen6164 Yes! Didn't we know so many dances? I still remember them all. Those were the days.

  • @TralfazConstruction
    @TralfazConstruction 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I'd watch Bandstand with my mother waiting for my father to come home from work in the late-'50s and very early-'60s. There was also Maverick, Lawman, Cheyenne and James A. Michener's Adventures in Paradise with Gardner McKay to help while-away the day until dinnertime. This era lasted until June of '62 when we moved to our new home and the afternoon schedule changed a bit. Arguably the best years of my life being doted-on by my parents and so many loving relatives who loved spoiling my younger brothers and me. Ah, the grand, good old days.

    • @ABdancers
      @ABdancers  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TralfazConstruction Wonderful story about growing up with American Bandstand. Thank you for sharing it and for watching the ABdancers channel.

  • @debbiegibson3604
    @debbiegibson3604 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I lived in Wilmington, DE when I was in high school and shopped with my mother at the Pappagallo store when Bob Clayton worked there. One night he was at a restaurant where my mother was and kissed her on the cheek. She thought that was great! I'm 74 now and married to a man who is a Bandstand quality dancer. That was one of the qualities that attracted me to him!

  • @joanb8489
    @joanb8489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I also remember Kenny and Arlene but must admit I forgot their names. I still love Dick Clark.

  • @markwhitman72
    @markwhitman72 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Loved them as a kid but Pat Molieterri was the BEST DANCER and I always looked for her!!

    • @irenewoodruff9562
      @irenewoodruff9562 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh yes!!!!! My favorite!!!

    • @irenewoodruff9562
      @irenewoodruff9562 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I even wore a clip in the back of my head like she did!!

    • @jeanettea12345
      @jeanettea12345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely! I always thought the same.

    • @annek1226
      @annek1226 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She was my mother’s favorite! Pat was everything my mother wanted in a daughter.

    • @Bream243
      @Bream243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember her. I wonder what happened to her?

  • @LoveFlatfootin1
    @LoveFlatfootin1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I loved this! Used to watch them dance every day after school.

  • @joanb8489
    @joanb8489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My friends and I were just talking about Bob and Justine yesterday . I could never forget them.

  • @funguy4utube
    @funguy4utube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I love this story ... you you both are well ... I am 68 years old now and you all are part of my happy memories !

    • @kata4794
      @kata4794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      fUNNY....you had to be 4 years old back then!!

  • @carlaharris9645
    @carlaharris9645 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    When I was 12, I thought Justine was so beautiful....i took her name as my Confirmation name!

    • @ABdancers
      @ABdancers  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Carla Harris Thank you for sharing that interesting and nice comment about American Bandstand’s Justine.

  • @madelinetramantano8302
    @madelinetramantano8302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    WISH I CAN GO BACK TO THE DAYS OF INNOCENT'S. . .

  • @barbarasulzen8690
    @barbarasulzen8690 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow! We may be older guys but we have the memories to hold onto the & The music that will never die

  • @bambigleason9804
    @bambigleason9804 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Came home from school and turned on bandstand..i was in Berwyn...loved the show.

  • @Eidann63
    @Eidann63 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Justine was my favorite; I wanted to look just like her, I thought she was beautiful. My sister was the right age to watch, and I was lucky cause I could watch with her. She was about 13 and I would have been about 7 yrs old. So much fun. We'd dance, and with our neighbors, in our living room. :-)

  • @MsRaingirl
    @MsRaingirl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I watched it in the 50's and 60's!

  • @rosemariekury9186
    @rosemariekury9186 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Loved this show and this couple but know most if the mothers of me and my girlfriends wouldn't have encouraged us to use a fake birth certificate to get on this Show! She should've made her wait for a year at least. Most parents were much stricter than but they did make a cute couple. Watched this every day and learned to dance that way.

  • @terridalessandro3412
    @terridalessandro3412 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I went on the show 3 times and loved it - until Dick Clark yelled at me for having gum in my mouth - yikes

    • @ABdancers
      @ABdancers  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Terri d'alessandro That’s such a fantastic Dick Clark story! Thanks for sharing it with all us American Bandstand fans Terri.

    • @libertyann439
      @libertyann439 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      DICK Clark sounded well named

  • @cuppajoe1
    @cuppajoe1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I remember they were a cute couple.

  • @brendlewoodard8098
    @brendlewoodard8098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I wish that they would do rerun of the show like they do the other oldie shows that they run it was the best of times best of music

    • @janicesummers5547
      @janicesummers5547 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think thr young people now would enjoy it as much as we did

  • @paulaajohnson2597
    @paulaajohnson2597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Justine always looked depressed. She rarely smiled. Bob wasn't that crazy about her. He just enjoyed the publicity.

    • @phillycatlady
      @phillycatlady 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      She had what is now called “resting bitch face”, but from what I’ve heard, she was very sweet. Some people’s faces just don’t smile without a reason, myself included. The only thing i ever heard about Bob was he had a roving eye ( in one of justine’s interviews).

    • @victoriabelveduto3279
      @victoriabelveduto3279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Paula Johnson...he sounded like he enjoyed all the notoriety he got from the show although I rather doubt he was recognized in all the places he mentioned 😉

  • @reneetherese1963
    @reneetherese1963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I liked so many things about American Bandstand and watched it faithfully. But my main reason for watching was to sigh over Kenny Rossi!

  • @kathryn2692
    @kathryn2692 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I ran to my house from the bus stop; because of the time difference it was already on. I think from the 6th grade until I was in the 10th and had too much after school activities did I have the cut back on Am Bandstand! I still watched at least twice a week to keep up with Justine and Bob. My other favorite girl was Francine maybe with nickname Fannie. They were my faves!!! It’s two bad the next generation did get to experience such a clean teen show. Later things were on but they dressed down instead of up!!😢

  • @andreabeck7459
    @andreabeck7459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can anyone tell me how I can get a copy of the Season 5, Episode 219 (full episode with Little Eva)? I’ve chkd TH-cam & all I can find is the list of shows but not the actual video for it. It was July 5, 1962.
    My Mom & Uncle were on the show 2 days in Philadelphia while visiting their Aunt who had purchased them tickets as a surprise. I would LOVE to see them at 14 dancing!!

  • @sueadt8421
    @sueadt8421 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember Justine & Bob well in AB!!! They were a lovely couple!! RIP Justine🙏❤️

    • @Ina-Lori-tm2zh
      @Ina-Lori-tm2zh 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Watched AB after school when only 13

  • @lindadee2053
    @lindadee2053 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My best friend's oldest brother was a cameraman at Bandstand in 1950's, and he always promised that he would get us on the show, but it never happened, though I never gave up hoping. Oh well, watched it every day after school anyway.

  • @ingeritchie595
    @ingeritchie595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    OMG Justine used to be my idol

  • @carolyneverett762
    @carolyneverett762 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice story.

  • @simonelima8585
    @simonelima8585 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Por favor publiquem o vídeo de Ritchie Valens no programa American Bandstand december 27 de 1958 por favor 🙏🙏🙏⭐

  • @ofs4654
    @ofs4654 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Justine is cute, bless. 😊

  • @dalelandefeld5195
    @dalelandefeld5195 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    rushed home, watched Bandstand as I did my Algebra homework...:)

    • @Mr.56Goldtop
      @Mr.56Goldtop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Is that the same algebra that you never used in real life? Lol

  • @roadrunner3867
    @roadrunner3867 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She is prettier now than ever!

  • @squirefld
    @squirefld 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember, over sixty years ago having a crush on a girl named Carmen.

  • @karensisk9633
    @karensisk9633 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Call it Rock an Roll remembers Dick Clark

  • @justersp4556
    @justersp4556 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My parents named me after Justine!

  • @karensisk9633
    @karensisk9633 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wish these shows would showstopper least on his anniversary

    • @karensisk9633
      @karensisk9633 ปีที่แล้ว

      B a tribute for Dick to b reme.bered

  • @fob1xxl
    @fob1xxl ปีที่แล้ว +4

    RIP to one of our TEENAGE ICONS FROM "AMERICAN BANDSTAND" WE LOVED YOU GUYS !💙🙏👍

  • @billpower4885
    @billpower4885 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool dancers and looked good. Redford and Scarlett Johanson

  • @ladyanne8139
    @ladyanne8139 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sorry about Justines passing. She had a fun time on BS. PRAYERS. ❤

  • @janiergonzalez5886
    @janiergonzalez5886 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Me encanta sta musica

  • @jackthomas4912
    @jackthomas4912 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had a big crush on Justine.

  • @justinthekitchen8299
    @justinthekitchen8299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mom.named me because of her

  • @patriciadimola-sl5wz
    @patriciadimola-sl5wz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What ever happened to Frankie Lobis

    • @dennismolfese5847
      @dennismolfese5847 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My idol! Combed my hair just like him

  • @jaclynsanders8562
    @jaclynsanders8562 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow, great memories

  • @lorrivaughn9066
    @lorrivaughn9066 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was totally obsessed with Justine and Bob!

  • @janicesummers5547
    @janicesummers5547 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can anyone remember the yr AB was in Arlington Kansas to celebrate our centennial?

  • @shadrach6299
    @shadrach6299 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was fascinated with Bob and Justine

  • @nextbarker2702
    @nextbarker2702 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I saw Bob Clayton, I thought it was future $20,000 Pyramid announcer, but it's not, right?.

    • @kevinfitzmaurice4072
      @kevinfitzmaurice4072 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Right. Before "Pyramid," Clayton was the announcer and later host of the NBC show "Concentration." And prior to that, he was a television personality in Miami. Clayton was still announcing "Pyramid" on ABC when he died in 1979.

  • @victoriabelveduto3279
    @victoriabelveduto3279 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why was she calling it a soap opera?

  • @julielabelle2907
    @julielabelle2907 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ABb lasted in the 70s and 80s

  • @patdeaver3084
    @patdeaver3084 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    )

  • @simonelima8585
    @simonelima8585 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Por favor publique o vídeo onde Ritchie Valens participou do programa

  • @jessebaldwin2661
    @jessebaldwin2661 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bob Clayton served in my Delaware National Guard unit in the late 1960s.

  • @Mr.56Goldtop
    @Mr.56Goldtop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So they ended up together in the end?

  • @laminage
    @laminage 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In Reality The "Regulars" were the "Original" Reality Stars who deluded themselves that they could have a successful Showbusiness Career. They recorded a Song called Drive In Movie, it flopped and they broke up afterwards. Alot of the Kids from the 1950's, worked Blue Collar Jobs. Deptartment Store Clerks, Blackjack Dealers, Real Estate, and Building Contractors. The Kids from the 1970's until it's cancellation were more Artistic in their Careers. Makeup & Fashion Consultants, Advertising, Moonlighting as a DJ, teaching Acting. Damita Jo Freeman is the only Dancer from American Bandstand who would later Dance on Soul Train, she was in The Movie & TV Version of Private Benjamin as well as She's In The Army Now with Melanie Griffith and Jamie Lee Curtis. She also was in Flashdance as Alex's Friend whom she worked out with. One even owns his own TV Station in Connecticut, while another one became a Music Executive no less.

    • @johnnynight2301
      @johnnynight2301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Goofball Comments...

    • @slimpickins1575
      @slimpickins1575 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice update

    • @phillycatlady
      @phillycatlady 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You forgot hairdressers. A number of the guys went Into that.

    • @rar6546
      @rar6546 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@phillycatlady I had viewed another video where a few of the guys stated they were hairdressers instead of being barbers, I thought that was strange that they chose that profession back in the 50's.

    • @phillycatlady
      @phillycatlady 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rar6546 why? They did women’s hair. Weren’t barbers strictly for men? Besides, I think those videos were from the 60s reunion shows, and the guys chose their direction after they left the show. Just my impression.