American Bandstand 1968 - Surf City, Jan & Dean

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2018
  • It's the summer of '68, as we go back to the 11th anniversary show and the kids dance to Jan & Dean’s #1 hit. Brian Wilson, of The Beach Boys, wrote the opening verse and chorus of the song in ’63 and believing he would never finish it due to being busy working on “Surfin’ USA”, gave the song to his friends Jan & Dean who then completed it. “Surf City” was the first surf song to become a #1 hit.
    Dancers: As we approach the end of season 11, there are a lot of new faces here. Bandstand staples Frank Vanderpuil, Famous Hooks and Don Sanuskar can all be seen between 2:02-2:07 and Eddie Sanchez (‘68 Dance Contest) at 2:34. Mid 1968 is an interesting year for fashion. The girls’ skirts are getting shorter and the boys clothes are somewhere between the buttoned-down look of ’67 and the groovier, “mod” look of ’69.
    The final picture at the end of the song is, as Dick mentions, John Zacherle. Dick nicknamed him “the cool ghoul” when they worked together in Philadelphia. John recorded a top 10 novelty record, “Dinner with Drac” (#7) in 1958. He was also well known in New York and Philadelphia as a TV horror host, broadcasting horror movies as his ghoulish character “Roland”. He went on to host a teen dance show, also in character as Roland, in Newark, called “Disc-O-Teen” from ‘64-’67.
    The jingle in the “Summer Blonde” commercial is based on the Van Dyke Parks song “Come To The Sunshine” made (kinda) famous by Harper’s Bizarre in 1967. (#37)
    …..And while the “Surf City” mentioned in the song is a mythical place with “2 girls for every boy”, there are 2 California cities that claimed to be the real “Surf City”, Santa Cruz and Huntington Beach. In 1991 Dean Torrence moved to Huntington Beach and said that was the city he and Jan were thinking about when they wrote the song. After a long legal dispute, settled finally in 2008, Huntington Beach retained the rights to legally be called “Surf City, USA”.
    Airdate: August 17, 1968
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  • @user-px8fr6ru2x
    @user-px8fr6ru2x หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I grew up in nyc but man did i dig jan and dean and now im 71 and stil dig them !

  • @cynthiaharrell2144
    @cynthiaharrell2144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    SLEEVELESS DRESSES, LONG STRAIGHT HAIR, KITTEN 👠 HEELS. SUN IN FOR HAIR. NO TATTOOS. WONDERFUL TIMES. SO GLAD I REMEMBER.

  • @felixmadison5736
    @felixmadison5736 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    I was 14 years-young and a freshman in high school back in '63. Man, talk about great times when every song on the radio WAS your favorite!

    • @mrrb7708
      @mrrb7708 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same here only was a sophomore. Did not appreciate the time like I do now. The music the girls the cars. Never be another time like that ever. Plus no hate.

    • @johnacord5664
      @johnacord5664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      While you were out Surfin USA and Rockin Around the Clock, My brother and I had to work in that stinkin yard and dig up another tomorrow.
      I am going to enjoy free speech while it still lasts.

    • @michaelcummingsherrera1232
      @michaelcummingsherrera1232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was fifteen in the Summer of 1963 and had some awesome beach trips while with the Boy Scouts.

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oscar Robinson I was just 13 yrs old in 1963, too. I can remember my best friend & I taking our transistor radios & walking to a nearby picnic table @ the empty Italian club, to listen to our favorite songs! Such Innocent, fun times!

    • @TheBrooklynbodine
      @TheBrooklynbodine 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I was born June 10, 1963, and of course I wouldn't remember it firsthand, but this music is FAR preferable to anything today. This may have even been on the charts the week i was born. I know that "Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto was #1 on the day I was born.

  • @stephenk54
    @stephenk54 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I was 14 in 1968 and never missed Bandstand...so glad I grew up in this era. The music was insanely great.

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Steve Im a year younger than you. I started watching American Bandstand when I was 10 years old back in 1965. I'd watch the replays today if it was on TV.

    • @edrogers7570
      @edrogers7570 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      this was my main source for music when i was a kid

    • @dalehood1846
      @dalehood1846 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "It had a beat and you could dance to it."

  • @buckappel6835
    @buckappel6835 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I still listen to The Beach Boys!

    • @Divine.777
      @Divine.777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s not The Beach Boys, but it was written by Brian

    • @imgone54321
      @imgone54321 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @prankster671
      @prankster671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Divine.777 co written by Jan Berry

  • @GeorgeVreelandHill
    @GeorgeVreelandHill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Jan & Dean belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their hits, the fact that they were one of the very first ones to create that "California Surf Sound", their fans that are around today, that movie and more are just a few of the reasons why. Come on Hall, get it right.

  • @06retd22
    @06retd22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Boomers had the best music AND coolest cars.

  • @dianegonzales7345
    @dianegonzales7345 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Jan and Dean put Huntington Beach on the map, with their song Surf City.

  • @ilostmymind47
    @ilostmymind47 6 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Man those were the days I miss wish I was still a kid back then

    • @SladesVWBeetle
      @SladesVWBeetle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ilostmymind47 It was a great time! It honestly was

    • @PaulSmith-pz9eq
      @PaulSmith-pz9eq 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes … I want to go back!!

  • @shyphyre
    @shyphyre 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It is very Surreal seeing the kids from 1968 American Bandstand dancing to a big surfing tune from 1963. The teenagers are a snapshot of late 60s pop culture with the mini skirts, Nehru jacket and down steps, dancing to a tune from half a decade earlier during the Camelot era, Bouffant hair styles and dance craze is like the twist and mashed potatoe.

    • @Eidann63
      @Eidann63 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      shyphyre People who weren't there mix it all up. I know what you mean. Nothing could be further from 1968 than bouffant hair and Jan & Dean( even though I lived through tose times... By "65 my hair was long and straight (ala' Cher's limited influence.) The Doors, Dylan, The Band, Jimi Hensrix, etc, ruled. Groups like Led Zeppelin were just waiting in the wings.. No bouffant hair.
      o
      like The hippies had established themselves for a good 3 years prior.. at least on the coastlines of America.

  • @arlenes.4590
    @arlenes.4590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow a real America as it should be again. Fun Fun Fun ...💋🚗⛱🌊🏄🏻

  • @olebrucester
    @olebrucester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So cool,despite being a 57 boomer I loved that was coast surf sound. Loved the beach the big lake michigan, water skis sun in, golden tan and golden hair. Cute tan girls. Fast cars. God I was lucky to of grown up in the 60s

  • @giacomopeters9988
    @giacomopeters9988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Back in the day, boys took mandatory shop class. With the table saw running fast, it was a perfect lead in to “two girls for every boy.” Each time we belted it out, we got swats and didn’t run home to tell mommy and daddy! And then repeated it tomorrow!

  • @roberthobbs8618
    @roberthobbs8618 5 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    We "boomers" had the greatest songs that have survived the tests of time !

    • @SladesVWBeetle
      @SladesVWBeetle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Robert Hobbs I had this on 8 track back in the day! Really miss when times seemed more normal to me

    • @NiceChest1
      @NiceChest1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Those were awesome times. Americans were normal and families were strong. American made was number 1.

    • @rockmusicexclusivez2975
      @rockmusicexclusivez2975 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      INDEED !!

    • @anythingbootneck
      @anythingbootneck 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Robert Hobbs We were truly the “Beautiful Generation “

    • @judythompson5253
      @judythompson5253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i was heartbroken when I realized that all those songs on Bandstand were lipsynched. It was never the same after that...

  • @billd6257
    @billd6257 6 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    Someone invent a time machine. I want to go back !!

    • @billd6257
      @billd6257 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      KaptKan1 I'm talking in general Kapt . Are you former military?

    • @richardc2803
      @richardc2803 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Korea, Vietnam, Social Justice violence and then worst of all.. DISCO in the 70s !

    • @andreepeterpasche1895
      @andreepeterpasche1895 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Can you take me with you in that Time Machine ?

    • @billd6257
      @billd6257 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andreepeterpasche1895 Sure, just hop on this train. I would love just to be able to dart in and out of certain situations. Like seeing the Beatles in person, turn left when you should have turned right, etc. We can only dream about it !

    • @geec5636
      @geec5636 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes count me in too!!

  • @dennismitchell1934
    @dennismitchell1934 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well- that 51 years zipped on by ! !
    Priceless precious memories galore ! !

  • @karenmurphy6749
    @karenmurphy6749 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mom & I would watch American Bandstand every Saturday morning while cleaning the house & we would be dancing through out the house!! I sure so miss those days!! Great music & us dancing!!!!

    • @adamfriend1040
      @adamfriend1040 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??

    • @TheBrooklynbodine
      @TheBrooklynbodine 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd say you were quite fortunate!

  • @Tel1954
    @Tel1954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I was also a 14 yo Aussie boomer and we also had our own Bandstand wth Brian Henderson. There was hardly a bad song in 68. Our local radoo station had a request 2 hours every night. Great times and love watching these episodes with Dick Clarke.

  • @indy5624
    @indy5624 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    How times have changed, not much for the better, give me these times anyday.

    • @indy5624
      @indy5624 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was referring to the music scene and fashions that many throw up, however the States never had the same as the uk did, could list you many different ones and the music that each followed however i will let you check it for yourself.

    • @t4texastomjohnnycat978
      @t4texastomjohnnycat978 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      indy 56
      I agree. Before DRUGS became prevalent, AND "cool" to some.

    • @2Sugarbears
      @2Sugarbears 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please feel free to go.

    • @carpesixties258
      @carpesixties258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We always think those times are better because we were kids. I’m sure our parents thought the same thing about the 40’s and thought the 60’s sucked

  • @michaelclark4043
    @michaelclark4043 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I too was 14 in 1968. I'm 68 now. This brings back a flood of memories from tha

  • @one-eyed-jaxbehind-the-duc9720
    @one-eyed-jaxbehind-the-duc9720 6 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    How is it possible 50 years have passed? We were just kids.

    • @skysurfer5333
      @skysurfer5333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You Could Leave A Job In The Morning & Have A New One By The Afternoon!

    • @sBabysKid-nk8eh
      @sBabysKid-nk8eh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One-eyed-jax Behind-the-duce I hope i live 50 years

    • @paulyakaitis3352
      @paulyakaitis3352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And then we had to pick up a rifle and kill the enemy in a faraway jungle!

    • @Eidann63
      @Eidann63 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      One.eyed.Jax: 😬😪😲 Yep.

    • @FrancescoAlcozer
      @FrancescoAlcozer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The reason is simple dear friend: the 60s were the most beautiful musical decade of the century. Greetings. th-cam.com/video/eavkz78hWL8/w-d-xo.html *SHAZAM 1960* Twangy Guitar cover by *Duane Eddy*

  • @GeneRogers-xl9um
    @GeneRogers-xl9um ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Loved the sixties! I was already in the army in you know where, but I always the freedom and creativity of the sixties!This is Jan and Dean as I remember.

    • @terryjames6700
      @terryjames6700 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same here

    • @dalehood1846
      @dalehood1846 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @GeneRogers,. Welcome Home Brother. My brother and I were in during Vietnam. We were both in the Navy. I was not over there. My brother however, went twice at his request! He was north of the DMZ in North Vietnam shelling shore batteries. He made it back, unfortunately, we lost him to cancer due to Agent Orange. I miss him greatly. ShipFitter 2nd Class David Hood, RIP. You'll always be First Class with me.

    • @dalehood1846
      @dalehood1846 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My brother was on the USS WADDELL DDG24 In Vietnam, and on the USS STEINAKER DD863 before that. I was on the USS BLANDY DD 943 & the USS VULCAN AR5 . Homeport Norfolk. The WADDELL DDG24 was out of Long Beach CA.

  • @nuwavedave
    @nuwavedave 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    YouCanDanceToit - You never case to amaze me! OMG - Jan & Dean are the ultimate in Southern California Cool. You rule, baby. And all those 1960s girls are the "maximum utmost" in feminine scrumpiousness! Thank you for bring it all back home!!

  • @RandyR
    @RandyR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Got to see Jan and Dean at San Pedro Beach along with many other acts during summer 86. It was a fantastic weekend an I felt that I was living out a fantasy

  • @philiptucci2458
    @philiptucci2458 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Magnificent Masterpiece, great music & great memories of life forever, the girls sure were beautiful

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oldies in 1968...really cool!

  • @nunyerbeeznaz2906
    @nunyerbeeznaz2906 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    From 1963,thru 1969,I lived at Grandmas house in Huntington Beach,Ca.[Surf City] 4 blocks from the pier,and old time home town roots. My parents grew up there. I got to help unloadstation wagons,string guitars,and connect amps for bands at the Golden Bear. That was where I learned my trade.

  • @ardalla535
    @ardalla535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Back when a woody was a '34 wagon.

    • @rogerdean5757
      @rogerdean5757 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well, Jan & Dean are singing a '30 Ford wagon,

    • @gerripetress8168
      @gerripetress8168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What the hell is a woody now?

    • @Djarvis2
      @Djarvis2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gerri Petress really 🤔😂

    • @hmackie6823
      @hmackie6823 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol I get it

    • @dixiemay1996
      @dixiemay1996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gerripetress8168 Pecker wood

  • @pattihawks8514
    @pattihawks8514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    ABS never gets old! 1968, and I’m 68! Love it!♥️♥️♥️♥️

    • @adamfriend1040
      @adamfriend1040 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??

  • @ronniebishop2496
    @ronniebishop2496 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Dick Clark was so darn smooth just great to hear.

  • @Minalover100
    @Minalover100 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Surf City, Here We Come...Take me back, please...Thanks for posting ...

  • @alanrandall49
    @alanrandall49 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This song takes me back to a summer night in 1963 and the travelling fairground at a Beeston park (no doubt built on now) in Leeds with Surf City blaring out of the loud-speakers, I was a 14 years old schoolboy and it was like a moth to a flame, a magical moment in time!

  • @PMWhoKnows
    @PMWhoKnows 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    7 years old, Beach Boys and Jan and Dean were a big part of my life, lived in Redondo Beach and my cousin was a surfin dude.... different times

    • @reason5591
      @reason5591 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Omg I was 8 yrs old in Redondo lol! Wow its a little world ✌

    • @martinstevens565
      @martinstevens565 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      PMWhoKnows yeah from Redondo Beach as well class of 74 love The Beach Boys Was in junior lifeguards learned to surf on our free time, went for the first time to one of their concerts it was their 50 anniversary tour great memories

  • @jimsmall6779
    @jimsmall6779 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    `63 was the best year of the 60's. The innocence was still there. I was Sophmore at Long Beach State, in So. Cal. We surfed Huntington Beach, Newport, Doughney, and Tressels south of Capistrano. Few of us knew where Viet Nam was. Coor's was the drug of choice. If you copped a feel on a date you were a stud. The music had happy lyrics with nice melodies and a simple beat. "She's real fine, my 409." No Brit's, yet. We thought it odd, the pale, Philly kids dancing to surf tunes. Kenndy was shot that November and it all started to change. It took 20 years for America to feel good again.

    • @susancorvalan6765
      @susancorvalan6765 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol!! I was in the 8th grade at St Joseph School on Willow/Palo Verde. I recall the JFK death as our Irish nuns allowed the live TV broadcast in class that day. Later, 1969-71, I befriended Dean Torrance who sang with the BB.

    • @ronaldt491
      @ronaldt491 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No Coors east of the Mississippi at the time!

    • @denniskwahl
      @denniskwahl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      1968 was fantastic! I was 16 and enjoying all it had to offer. The good days far outweighed the bad and things were so much simpler then. If you didn't live it ,you really missed something special. Even the girls seemed prettier then. What I would give to go back and live it again.

    • @coleparker
      @coleparker 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1 was 12 years old in 65 growing up in Huntington Beach and going to the Pier to body surf. Remember getting tar all over your feet back then. BTW Jim I also went to Cal State University Long Beach for both my BA and MA. The 49ners

    • @guest491
      @guest491 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      HB and the Golden Bear 68

  • @artarmendariz9555
    @artarmendariz9555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Loved growing up in the First Surfer generation, early 60's long boards Southern Calif Surfing, Miss those days but love the memories and then watched my son surf Cool just Cool.

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was a little younger 13 yrs in 1968. I started listening to America Bandstand around 1965. I loved surf music so much....I always wanted to surf. No surf in the Hills of Charleston West Virginia.

  • @NS9213
    @NS9213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Another Brian Wilson masterpiece!

  • @JamesJStCyr
    @JamesJStCyr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    With my chick,I am on my way to to the beach in San Diego with my board
    on the top of the car and this song comes on the radio-SO COOL.Never forget it.

  • @MrDjh66
    @MrDjh66 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    All gorgeous and classy people and no nasty tattoos

    • @susannewilson2258
      @susannewilson2258 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Andrea dromm , model in ad, beach

    • @ronleon62
      @ronleon62 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@onazram1 Tattoos are disgusting.

    • @generalyellor8188
      @generalyellor8188 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The same old cliche comment from the same Sour Old Goats in the comments. Go to any TH-cam comment section under any vintage dance or singing video, and you'll find the old fogies repeating this same old chestnut. My theory is these bitter old timers (and I'm of that era, too) stopped enjoying the talent of pop culture once their own youth faded away forever. In thirty years, sour old goats like you will be saying the same thing about the current crop of talent. Might even be pining for the days of Justin Beiber. Somethings just never change.

  • @sexymama1966
    @sexymama1966 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Excellent..I love how the dancers danced to a song that was a hit a few years ago, especially 5 years earlier, to see what they would bring to the table or the dance floor.

    • @shyphyre
      @shyphyre 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’ve wondered if the kids would dance to the song with a current dance step or one that was in style when the song was new.

    • @mrob75
      @mrob75 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      the kids were definitely dancing 1968 style here...'63 dancing was quite different with more line dances and still more fast partner dancing going on...

    • @sexymama1966
      @sexymama1966 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      mrob75 totally different.. They were definitely not doing the wah-tusi.😁 or the swim.

  • @Mrmemories64
    @Mrmemories64 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Still a good dance beat for the kids to dance to in '68.

    • @Texaslawhorn
      @Texaslawhorn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @sleepypie This was filmed in 1968. Dick was playing "Surf City" as a "flashback" to 1963.

  • @TahoeJones
    @TahoeJones 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Imagine you're in your 70's watching this.
    Spotting yourself in the crowd.
    What that must feel like...

  • @scissors656
    @scissors656 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    it aint got a back seat; or a rear window; but it still gets me where i wanna go !!

  • @tsenglomboy9015
    @tsenglomboy9015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Yeah most of them especially the men who serv ed in the Nam, answered the call, what a time to come of age & the music was incredible, can't forget those short skirts.

  • @johnallen2771
    @johnallen2771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    2 Girls for every boy and the Beach Boys all talking about sun, surf and girls is what got me to move to California. I'm still here and my kids were all born in Cali.

    • @superdill6665
      @superdill6665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But it was Jan & Dean who did Surf City...

    • @johnallen2771
      @johnallen2771 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@superdill6665 I meant that song and the Beach Boys. Thx for the corex.

    • @superdill6665
      @superdill6665 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnallen2771 I kinda feel stupid for even mentioning it. I don't know why we, as humans, feel the need to correct others. I should have closed my big fat yapper in the first place lol. Please don't think I'm a **tch. There's too much negative energy out there and I shouldn't have added to it.
      Blessings to you.

  • @Slinkygal
    @Slinkygal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Amazing! Still love this after all these years!

  • @jackjohnson7396
    @jackjohnson7396 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    68 rocked.

    • @jerrygil1965
      @jerrygil1965 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      From what I heard, 1968 was horrible like 2020

  • @coleparker
    @coleparker 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was 12 years old in 1965, growing up in Huntington Beach Ca. (aka the Real Surf City). Jan and Dean use to skate board up and down main street. Those were fun days.

  • @debs441
    @debs441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please note that American Bandstand was integrated! Forward thinking for back then. Great show - grew up in Philly and watched this every day.

    • @adamfriend1040
      @adamfriend1040 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??

  • @teddanyluk4602
    @teddanyluk4602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Uh Still after 50 yrs..still listen to this far Out music..My Generation Man!! On my I-pod
    Has over 600 songs devoted to "Oldies" country. Classic rock, tunes from Woodstock..
    I have it all Man!!✌️✌️🤣🤣🤣🆒

  • @johnnygross4415
    @johnnygross4415 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    clean and neat kids

  • @iowa61
    @iowa61 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    At this date, Jan was still in the early stages of his recovery from a terrible automobile crash that left him with brain damage--aphasia. He was intellectually intact but his communication channels were scrambled. He had to learn to talk again and ironically could sing better than he could talk. Jan was a driven, type A--a much harder charger than the easy going but still extremely talented Dean. They clashed but always worked it out. Dean was by his side in the hospital in the many months after the accident.
    Jan was single-minded and with his talent literally willed his way to recovery and painstakingly make new records--splicing good stretches of a song together to make it whole.
    Jan and Dean would not perform again until nearly 10 years after this broadcast. Brian was in recovery from drug abuse and schizophrenia at the same time and later remarked "We got better together..." The Beach Boys invited Jan and Dean on an extended national tour in 1978. It was something very special.

    • @RBTJR1
      @RBTJR1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Artemis Gordon Recently listened to “Carnival of Sound” produced by Jan in 1968-69, while he was still regaining his footing after that awful 1966 car accident, and released in 2010. While he nor Dean did do vocals on it, the first 4 songs or so show his production skills were still intact.

    • @iowa61
      @iowa61 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      th-cam.com/video/kHuyCcTMo6U/w-d-xo.html
      Probably the last song Jan and Dean sang together on. Good song!

    • @johncantrell3565
      @johncantrell3565 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      1970 I met Jsn while in Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey, California

    • @rapunzelrose68
      @rapunzelrose68 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thanks for the cool history I knew some of it but not all

    • @suziemills2201
      @suziemills2201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Artemis Gordon. I knew his parents . Soon after his accident his parents house burned down 😟

  • @fleurdursanter9452
    @fleurdursanter9452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think I was born way too late. I was born in 1980. I would have loved to live through the 50’s, 60’s era. My mom, however, exposed us to this music growing up in the 80’s and 90’s and we loved it.

  • @SpeegBJ
    @SpeegBJ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice show! I had pretty much every dress worn on this show. It was the style...a-line, big bell sleeves. It's '68, half the girls are wearing their hair straight. By 1970 no more puffy hair!

    • @adamfriend1040
      @adamfriend1040 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??

  • @MrRETEROROB
    @MrRETEROROB 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    great footage. thank you !

    • @oldiesgeek454
      @oldiesgeek454 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like that Skins helmet.

  • @MrHolzheim
    @MrHolzheim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    This must be when young people took pride in their appearance!

    • @starshine9147
      @starshine9147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not all, remember there was the hippy movement and rebellion from the square parents this was for t.v. prim and proper propaganda

    • @sBabysKid-nk8eh
      @sBabysKid-nk8eh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bear women don’t even bother with their hair anymore

    • @MrHolzheim
      @MrHolzheim 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@starshine9147 I'm guessing your in the USA, I'm thinking more of the U.K.

    • @starshine9147
      @starshine9147 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrHolzheim Born in Canada

    • @MrHolzheim
      @MrHolzheim 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@starshine9147 I wish I was!!! and not this weird country the UK has become.,

  • @smallpicture
    @smallpicture 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember they used to say that if you put lemon juice in your hair the sun would make it look blonde. I tried it but it didn’t work. Lol!

  • @doloresdemar2347
    @doloresdemar2347 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Totally Awesome!!!!

  • @axiomist1076
    @axiomist1076 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I always loved the Beach Boys back then, but I thought Jan and Dean (cool name) were even cooler when they did their top hits, like this and most cool, I thought, was Drag City. It had such a high voice in the chorus. I found out more recently that it was Brian. He could go really high. Great tune anyway. Good times, dreaming about going west to surf.

  • @maureenmcgovern6119
    @maureenmcgovern6119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I started watching Bandstand, when I was 5. We were lucky in Philly, we had it every afternoon. What a treat!

    • @yossarian6799
      @yossarian6799 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm from Easton, so we're kinda home-slices! My Dad and Uncle Tommy were on their way down to Phila to dance on AB in late 57/early 58 (Dad can't remember the date).... but they got rear-ended by a truck in heavy snow in Doylestown and never made it to the studio.

    • @RAYFORDHENDERSON-dc2op
      @RAYFORDHENDERSON-dc2op 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was ten watching AB from Philly in 1957 when I lived in Rhode island.

  • @billirvin9057
    @billirvin9057 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My last summer as a kid, before I started my senior year and then the military. Great memories and greater music.

  • @kitkatbar2246
    @kitkatbar2246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was only 1 year old in 68 but I sure would have loved to have been a young teenager during this eta.

  • @koatlga
    @koatlga 6 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Surf City written by Brian Wilson. He gave it to Jan and Dean to record. His Manager Dad was not happy about it.

    • @YCDTI
      @YCDTI  6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      KevieO yep! Good ol’ Murry Wilson was none too pleased Brian gave away a #1 hit. He likely made his feelings known with his fists.

    • @koatlga
      @koatlga 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes he probably did. Sad.

    • @iowa61
      @iowa61 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Brian had just started the song and handed it off to Jan to finish. Brian doubled the falsetto parts with Dean; the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean frequently sang uncredited on each others' songs. They didn't give a damn about the legalities.

    • @gregmiller9710
      @gregmiller9710 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      uh, i always thought i heard Brian in there!.. Brian was/is superkool!

    • @gregmiller9710
      @gregmiller9710 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      not a kind man and sold Brian and the boys rights for peanuts. he was only self interested.

  • @rdbjrseattle
    @rdbjrseattle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I didn’t see “long hair” until visiting NYC in 1967. I was impressed by all the TV antennas on roofs being from the mountains of Western NC.

  • @mikeprice3162
    @mikeprice3162 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was my music growing up as a teenager these songs brings back awesome mermories

  • @teeembeee
    @teeembeee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Maybe it is because I was 18 years old at the time, but does anyone else wonder how many of these guys went to Vietnam maybe not to return?

    • @cmroszczyk1
      @cmroszczyk1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Just go to Washington DC and look at the Vietnam memorial wall

    • @ernestbowen4054
      @ernestbowen4054 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Everytime I watch the videos, Vietnam floods into my brain.

    • @SladesVWBeetle
      @SladesVWBeetle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      cmroszczyk1 I visited the wall, about 30 years ago. it was extremely silent! I was speechless at how long it was, and how many names. It’s just sad, plain sad

    • @pinkrose5796
      @pinkrose5796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rpm12091 Glad you made it home:) My dad did 2 tours over there.

    • @molonlabe8792
      @molonlabe8792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SladesVWBeetle Johnson cashed in big time with Bell Helicopter stock.

  • @Modeltnick
    @Modeltnick 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yes remember Zacherley! He was really funny on NYC television showing horror movies on Saturday afternoons. Early 60s.

  • @daveliedholm2296
    @daveliedholm2296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What an era!!

  • @scottharvey3867
    @scottharvey3867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A good year to be born!

  • @ms.sonshine8878
    @ms.sonshine8878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The sound of CA. ♥️ Huntington Beach was my old haunt.

    • @sBabysKid-nk8eh
      @sBabysKid-nk8eh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ms. Sonshine Santa Cruz 🏄🏻‍♂️

    • @calady11
      @calady11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For me it was Huntington and Bolsa Chica! Good times in the 70's!

    • @ms.sonshine8878
      @ms.sonshine8878 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@calady11 Bolsa Chica, too !

    • @ms.sonshine8878
      @ms.sonshine8878 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@calady11 And I just remembered, Redondo Beach!

    • @davidfrehlini968
      @davidfrehlini968 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@calady11. USMC 64 -- 68. It's funny you mention Huntington Beach. There is a song that came out around 1962 or 64 called Surfer Joe I think it is by the Safari's. Well in the song it mentions Huntington Beach. Well toward the end it mentions, Surfer Joe joined Uncle Sam's Marines today, they stationed him at Pendleton not far away. Well in Vietnam we would sing it this way. Surfer Joe joined Uncle Sam's Marines today, they sent him off to Vietnam so far away, they cut off his big long locks of gold, when he went out to fight, Joe was bold. I just thought I would share it with you. God Bless.

  • @Epressroom
    @Epressroom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Great Jan and Dean.

  • @richardlandis793
    @richardlandis793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The girls were hot. The boys were well dressed. Music was great, and from the 50’s to the early 70’s cars were cars.

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes the early 70s were great, until I joined the United States Marine Corps.

    • @richardlandis793
      @richardlandis793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My Gentle Pit Bull I joined the Air Force in ‘69.

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@richardlandis793 I served Okinawa Aug74-Sep75 at Camp Foster. Numerous times I would eat chow at Kadena AFB. Boy you Air Force guys had great chow compared to Marine Corps slop, called chow. Stay safe my friend during this crazy COVID19 virus, and greetings from Charleston, West Virginia.

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@richardlandis793 yes cars were cars. I had a 1967 Mustang 4 speed with a 289 Cubic Inch.

    • @richardlandis793
      @richardlandis793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My Gentle Pit Bull My first new car was a ‘69 Camaro right off the showroom floor in a dealership where I was working in Ohio. After I got it, I stayed late that night with my manager who helped me install an 8 track tape player. My first tapes were CCR.

  • @dagr382
    @dagr382 6 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    These groovers are now grandparents!

    •  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's a big assumption! Not if they didn't get married or had no children.

    • @ratherbfishing455
      @ratherbfishing455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, most of these people are middle class or upper middle class.

    • @ratherbfishing455
      @ratherbfishing455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      KaptKan1 Not great grandparents. People usually plan their family

    • @ratherbfishing455
      @ratherbfishing455 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @wavygr You must be from Texas!

    • @ratherbfishing455
      @ratherbfishing455 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @wavygrThey're Not very many people who say fixing to ;)

  • @AdrianDeVore
    @AdrianDeVore 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These '68 kids are putting together their own spins to this Jan and Dean classic.
    Also, Disc-O-Teen was based in Newark, NJ.

  • @merce10554
    @merce10554 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Have just discovered your channel and I like it a lot. I focus mostly on girls fashion. Great memories.

    • @valerieehrlich7166
      @valerieehrlich7166 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      is the chick in the back with long brown hair bored? nice pic of john zacherele

  • @mcmneverreadsreplys7318
    @mcmneverreadsreplys7318 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We just didn't know how good we had it. (60s teen)

  • @leeengelsman6356
    @leeengelsman6356 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love it just beautiful thanks heaps!

  • @bboucharde
    @bboucharde 6 ปีที่แล้ว +590

    Wow! The USA was a different nation then! Look at all those slim, pretty or handsome, un-tattooed people........

    • @Col92519
      @Col92519 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      The girls were really pretty then too.

    • @bonkeydollocks1879
      @bonkeydollocks1879 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bboucharde lol

    • @cowtippingrocks
      @cowtippingrocks 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      GMO has nothing to do with weight issues. Neither do Tattoos.

    • @bonkeydollocks1879
      @bonkeydollocks1879 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      EricJohn what's GMO

    • @bboucharde
      @bboucharde 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Bikesale, You mean GTO. I think you were being funny. I think you actually know what GMOs are. ;-)

  • @overspray6057
    @overspray6057 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd give the song a 9, it's got a good beat and easy to dance to.

  • @THE-HammerMan
    @THE-HammerMan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for all the info on the header and for posting!

    • @YCDTI
      @YCDTI  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank YOU for watching Matthew Hamersly!

  • @lejoe48
    @lejoe48 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They're great!

  • @rjwintl
    @rjwintl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    OMG !!! ... back when ALL the girls were skinny !!!

    • @TheStreetking52
      @TheStreetking52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Much different than the lard asses we have today. If you mention that they look like shit you are automatically labeled a hater.

    • @Vaderd2k926
      @Vaderd2k926 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Robert Walters so we’re the boys ties.

    • @sBabysKid-nk8eh
      @sBabysKid-nk8eh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robert Walters everything on tv is real🙄🤮👎🏻

  • @Dr.Pepper001
    @Dr.Pepper001 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was a Junior in high school in 1963. To this day I get the songs of Jan and Dean mixed up with the Beach Boys.

    • @Colt-tf6xf
      @Colt-tf6xf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dwight Turner Jan and Dean wouldn't have had any songs without the beach boys

    • @stephenindc9102
      @stephenindc9102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were all friends ... and sometimes they sang on each other's song. And Brian sure set the sounds.

    • @carloslavandersanchez5956
      @carloslavandersanchez5956 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I born in Perú, in this yesr

  • @lylewilliams1371
    @lylewilliams1371 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you!

  • @Wolfsky9
    @Wolfsky9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Brian Wilson's " other " summer of '63 classic. ---------I was 16 y/o, & it seems like yesterday-----------------------WolfSky9, 71 y/o

  • @KrustyKlown
    @KrustyKlown 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    " it's 2 for 1 .... 2 girls for every boy ... " ... when I went there, it was $5 at the gate, and hundreds of dudes inside, LOL

  • @neildelaney5199
    @neildelaney5199 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    wow all these people are 70 plus now

    • @dennisosborne4613
      @dennisosborne4613 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      neil delaney tell me about it!!

    • @neildelaney5199
      @neildelaney5199 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Very true mate, i'm 60 now and i really have no idea where the years from leaving school untill now have gone?

    • @lisabullock7461
      @lisabullock7461 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      NOT all but close I'll be 66 next month... I was in 10th grade smile xoxo

    • @michaelcummingsherrera1232
      @michaelcummingsherrera1232 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep! I sure am. I will be 72 this year and still going strong.

  • @okiebuzzj
    @okiebuzzj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I saw Jan & Dean live. Years ago.

    • @jeffreyt.steptoe5306
      @jeffreyt.steptoe5306 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Would have to be. Due to Jan being deceased now.

    • @DPMConnacht
      @DPMConnacht 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      David James
      I saw them on 3 different occasions. Great concerts with Pa Pa Doo Run Run as their backing band. The last of the 3 concerts I saw of their's(I was just 16) was soon after John Lennon's assassination and they dedicated it to his memory. About half the songs they played/sang were Beatles songs. It was my favorite of the 3 for this reason. Jan and Dean had fun on stage and made the audience part of their show....very personal concerts, all 3.
      I have fond memories of Jan. Dean proved to be a good and loyal friend and showed a very hard, tough, love for Jan when he refused to go on tour with Jan unless Jan cleaned himself up and got off all non-prescribed drugs. Dean probably saved Jan's life and gave him the one thing he needed most, the opportunity to perform again. Jan was also an incredible man who spent countless hours with fans and other handicapped individuals who he gave strength to.
      I feel they should be in the Rock-n-Roll HOF, but to me they'll always be Rock-n-Roll legends anyway. Great guys. RIP William Jan Berry.

  • @daisycassidy2448
    @daisycassidy2448 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I need to find a time portal and go back to the sixties. Nothing like them since!

  • @karenstrycharz1499
    @karenstrycharz1499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I so loved Jan & Dean(still do). Do you remember the “Tammi” show they hosted? I so loved that “movie”... saw it at the Paramount Theatre in Spfld., Massachusetts. Loved their music... “fun times!”

    • @rochellecrump-mcnulty9675
      @rochellecrump-mcnulty9675 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Tami show was hot.
      I was jumping up and down when I found the DVD for the show

    • @karenstrycharz1499
      @karenstrycharz1499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      rochelle Crump-mcnulty “OH GOSH!” “ HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE ACTUALLY “FOUND” THAT 📀 DVD, ROCHELLE! I would be jumping up & down for joy, too, to have found it! Loved it so much!❤️

    • @rochellecrump-mcnulty9675
      @rochellecrump-mcnulty9675 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@karenstrycharz1499 Just in case, The Tami Show is available on Amazon for $9.99.
      Good luck 😎😎😎

  • @mikekallas4170
    @mikekallas4170 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    68 was my first year of high school.

    • @jamesogrady6612
      @jamesogrady6612 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mike Kallas My elemtary school was all nun teachers, that's when teachers could smack you. Even though it was a Catholic School, there were some smoking cigarettes. Other than that most were friendly.

    • @JohnAOE
      @JohnAOE 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lucky didn't have to worry about being drafted 1972 they stop drafting for vietnam

    • @markbales5571
      @markbales5571 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      i was born in 67

  • @mikebrady2073
    @mikebrady2073 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A number-one hit written by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Jan Berry of Jan & Dean. Brian's father was absolutely ferrous. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_City_(song)

  • @johnacord5664
    @johnacord5664 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I lived 10 miles inland from the ocean. Never learned to surf and perhaps never will. It is now set sail with Captain Morgan or land my virtual reality plane in Margaritaville. Jimmy Buffet Alan Jackson, you are the greatest YOU ROCK

  • @tomsayen9295
    @tomsayen9295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Back then people showed RESPECT for one another. You felt fairly safe walking down the street in a big city. Music sounded like music not endless repetitive obscene worded drivel coming from a computer. Boys and girls did well in school, played musical instruments, helped their parents, walked or rode a bike for exercise. Times have changed guess I am just too old at age 70.

    • @Anna-yp3bb
      @Anna-yp3bb 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tom Sayen as a. late 90s baby I concur

  • @jefferydowler3530
    @jefferydowler3530 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Dick Clark is to kool. What style he had.

    • @jefferydowler3530
      @jefferydowler3530 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      KaptKan1- Yea but Dick new that an still was a staple in the sound of American music, because he new what people love to here an see and that was the most important thing. He was square, but looking at him now, he is kooler than any of the kids that are at his bandstand. Its hard to be as kool as the great bands that were on the show. Hell, I only wish I was that kool at that time. But I was only in middle grade and high school.

    • @jefferydowler3530
      @jefferydowler3530 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      KaptKan1- Didn't you know that concrete houses became a craze at one time. Steel and concrete an stucco and recycled store front glass, how easy an indestructible and any halfass carpenter an architect could be fooled into thinking this was a great idea. Concrete brakes an cracks when the earth moves from no rain to lots of rain. Same-thing going on today, megamansions built with concrete floors, hard on your legs, soft white pine from Canada that won't holed a nail or ruff up in 30yrs because the bugs love it and its soft if it gets wet they love more. Dream homes a bad marketing scheme because with that kind of money who in the hell wants to buy someone else dream, when they can built there own. It cost a fortune just to re-roof it, no middle or lower class family can afford it. The curse of being mega wealthy I guess, everyone trying to get a peace of you. Not bonkers just having fun while finding places to park your money to make more money.

  • @user-qz9ix9lq4j
    @user-qz9ix9lq4j 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Erinnerungen werden wach !

  • @gregmiller9710
    @gregmiller9710 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i'm subbin man!..i remember surf city from '63 and i remember '68...AB was the stuff on sat. morn!

  • @dancerdon9175
    @dancerdon9175 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Aaron, a California classic. Thanks for posting! You rock!

    • @YCDTI
      @YCDTI  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Don! I like your coat in this episode. Less formal than a sport coat but more formal than a jacket. Hadn’t seen you wear that before.

  • @aboxofbroken8tracks983
    @aboxofbroken8tracks983 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It's incredible to me how fast things were moving in the 60s. This song was _ancient_ to these kids, while a song from 10 or 15 years prior to 2018 would not seem out of style now.

    • @franks.389
      @franks.389 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ABoxOfBroken8Tracks , what made music great was it was always changing styles, in the 50's the music style changed and developed 4 times , in the 60's it changed 5 times, in the 70's it changed 4 times, since around the mid 90's till today its remains the same, it became stagnant

    • @katieducky23
      @katieducky23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm 25 and would take this music anytime rather than the shit today. 😍

  • @dalehood1846
    @dalehood1846 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seeing that this is a video of Jan and Dean, it would be nice to see pictures of them. Thank you.

  • @michaelcummingsherrera1232
    @michaelcummingsherrera1232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "and while the Surf City mentioned in the song is a mythical place . . ." Well, hell! No wonder I could never locate it on my father's Mobil map of Los Angeles! ;)