I would agree with all y'all!!! Everytime I think I see a young innocent girl these days. They have tattoos everywhere. Tramp stamp above their ass! I can remember back in the 70's we called them SKANKS! As if tattoos were not bad enough, they get piercings everywhere!
I was born in 61 and I was so lucky. Not old enough for Vietnam, a no fluff education, spent the 70's in my teens, rocked out to some of the best rock music ever, dipped my toes into disco hated it at the time but I love it now, saw the rise of punk rock, watched the moon landing live. The gals were dressed better than any other generation and WOW! so hot. Can't forget the mobile love machines. I served in the Navy under Reagan which was the best time for our military. Oh and no F'N political correctness or woke culture!!!
Thank you for you're service! Regan was the First vote I ever cast! My only regret in life was that I didn't serve!!! It haunts me still. However it looks like now just might be my time to step up!!! I won't let this opportunity pass me by!
Sweet memories of great times. I'm 66 now, but I will take my age and my memories over anything today. Someone once asked me if I would like to be 18 again. I said yes, but only if I can be 18 when I was 18.
Just listened to Chevy Van for the millionth time & this time I cried. I'm 81...it was one of my husband's favorite songs ( me too). Today is anniversary of his death and also anniversary of Sammy Johns death. How I'd like to have them both back...
I'm so sorry you are grieving Judy. I hope by now, some months later, you can listen and enjoy the memories and love you and your husband shared. Blessings and peace to you.
Judy, I'm sorry for your loss, even though I don't know you. Maybe your husband and Sammy are rocking out in Heaven waiting for you. Let them wait. Enjoy your time on earth. Bless you.
WRITE back I'LL visited you , I need to have a destination Don't have one off hand to go anywhere. Sorry for your loss or lost my only chi'll and wife now I just live with my dog and me everything paid for
I read a lot of comments and many posters are pointing out that those were not all Chevy vans, well nowadays, the women aren’t all women. So just enjoy the music and if you’re old enough, like me, enjoy the memories of the 70s and early 80s and when the women were really women.
Natural beauty back then. today it's tattoos, fake nails fake hair color and fake personalities . They are all damaged goods being sold at ridiculous prices. So glad I'm way to old and married to be shopping through the merchandise on the marriage market today.
I was telling a workmate how cool vans were back then. He proceeded to tell me if you had a van like that now people would suspect you of being a child abducter! Far more innocent times then.
@@sarahcobetto5613 Yes and that's what I meant back then things like someone being evil like that just didn't even enter our minds. We just lived our lives and enjoyed one another.
A Chevy time machine is what this vid is to me. Notice the girls, like who doesn't, natural body parts, no irregular piercings, and NO tattoos! Tanned, barefoot, and just lovely. These are the girls of my generation. And I married one of them 39 years ago.👍✌
Graduated in 76. Married now forty one years to the girl I was with my senior year. It was an incredible time to be alive. Best music decade. Best car decade. Best van years. My first van was a 64 Econoline from the phone company auction. No side windows. An eclectic interior of shag carpet velvet and vinyl. A bunch of speakers and a bed. The girls were so fine then no tattoos, or piercings. Sun bleached hair no make up, just a tan. I so want to go back.
Amen, brother. How I long for the days of no tattoos or silicone. Check out the Skynard Freebird video, Oakland 1977. A rich, long and absolutely beautiful video of beautiful 70's girls.
I can relate to this stuff..I had a VW bus all tricked out (well, no heat and no a/c ha ha) with a large bed and fine sound system. I owned it from 1980-1985 and had many times on beaches in FLA and out in AZ. I actually lived it in for over 2 years. I'd love to go back, but don't know of any time machines. Very fine tune this is.
.@Mr marksark. Lucky you. A plain Jane girl. No tatoos, piercings, boob jobs.etc. Just a bikini, tanned body. I wish I had that from way back. Gas was cheap. Cooked on a Hibachi at supper. Met friendly neighbors and made good friends. Not much like that anymore.
I was born in the 60s and loved this song in the late 70s when I was a young girl . We had the best music cars and clothes and no cell phones . Life was simple I miss it these kids today don’t have a clue .
i had a friend who had a dodge van. it was beautiful in 1977, the girls loved it. damn we were either drunk or high every nite. im 63 i never thought id live this long.. lol
This was my parents love story,I would often hear my dad humming this and if my mum was near she would go and hug him around d waist from behind,they r both gone now but their song lives on! I miss u mum and dad!😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️,I am 62 now and those days were good days!
I'm getting there...and it fascinates me to hear from older types which I use to look down on, but which I to will soon become...now, nothing but respect.
1975. What a wonderful and hard time in my life. Lots of love and heartbreak that year. Graduated high school and joined the military that year. Went from a kid to man that year.
I think every guy traveling somewhere in a Chevy Van was always looking for that tender young girl without shoes...in every dusty little town they drove thorough....a real song of the 1970's...when all of us were young buck teens...
At 58, I really loved returning to the 70's 'in my mind' watching this video. I can't stop thinking about how simple things were, when you were able to actually think and enjoy those around you. And the world didn't know every single thing about you or what you were thinking, and you didn't know about them either...AND IT WAS WONDERFUL! Damn the Internet, social media and cell phones. Yes, productive tools, but we have proven how destructive misused tools can be. Lord how I miss simpler times...
Yeah well we're from the same generation and I sure don't feel that way people always waxing nostalgic about the pass, give me the future and the world within reach allows me to dream like I've never dreamt before💥💥⭐
I feel blessed to have grown up in that era! I was 16 in 1976, what a great time! Later in the 70's I did have a 1975 Chevy Beauville van, drove it for several years. Man if that van could talk!
I'm 73, and have lived the vanning life off and on since 1974. I still have the same 1969 Chevy Van that I bought in '73. I have found myself in almost every kind of "entertainment situation" you could imagine over the years, but nothing beats vanning!
@@timothyhuber6035 OMG! It didnt end well man!Her mom came out and ran ran me off in front of the nieghbors!I never did get to ...well you know umm ...play with her anymore? But what time to be alive with a van!Take care.
Born in 54 and came of age in the late 60s. Lots of people on thew road, hippies thumbing rides, etc. this song was probably every guys fantasy in the 70s.
64 Econoline abig bed in the back bean bags in the middle. More speakers than sense scattered around. Side doors open down by the lake at night. Smokey nights and hazy dreams. High school sweetheart still around. This song was an anthem to those days in the 70's. At 64 I wake up everyday longing for those simple underappreciated times. I look at the tv , listen to the radio and I can't find a second of any day that even feels remotely like those. So glad I was alive then and maybe heaven has a place where the vans still hangout. Won't be too long now....
A long time ago, in a lifetime long gone, I owned a Chevy van... a '71 or'72, if I recall correctly. Never got so lucky with it as the song describes, but I certainly miss it just the same. Oh, and I was 18 or 19 then... damn near 60 now, and already thinkin' I've lived far too long. ...and yeah, I'm one of those lost children of the '60s and '70s. Life wasn't ideal back then, but it was a helluva lot better than it is these days. ...at least the way I remember it anyway. 😉
In 1974 I was 15 years old. The custom van craze was in full swing and I was lucky enough to work in a car/van customizing shop. We built so many cool vans out of that shop and at age 16 I got a 74 Dodge Tradesman, metalflake orange, custom interior, Cragers and Thrush sidepipes and was allowed to travel with the van group to my first weekend "Van In" in Louisville, KY. and I listened to this song so many times on the drive, over the 3 days of naked craziness and all the way home. Sammy wrote a great song with this one. Love it to this day.
Early 70s, I had a Chevy van, went to a drive inn theater (Thunderbird Drive Inn). Didn't watch much of the movie. Made love in my Chevy Van. Wonderful memories, miss her very much, TOOTS, if you read this you know who I am. Love you and always will remember you.
They just don't they just don't have good music like this anymore sounds like it's always takes my mind back to when I was younger I never outgrow listening to songs like this these songs feel my heart with joy thank you very much for the old members
Loved this song the instant I heard it. Went into high school the next day and drew a Chevy van on the chalkboard with the caption "Sammy John's Chevy van." The girl I had a crush on and actually drew it for, Kim B, walked in and saw it. I was too shy to tell her it was for her. Good memories, those 70's!
I’ve lived part of 8 decades we had the best music in the 60s and 70s plus the best cars and some of the hottest women….we had Woodstock and started the van craze. I still listen to the great music of the 60and 70s and still drive a van.
I am right there with you oh, I love this song when I listen to it I am young again if only for a moment. Back when girls wore bell-bottoms and halter tops and guys had long hair and vans. Good memories and good music. Keep the 70s alive. 😎✌
I was a sophomore in high school when this came out and we had all just gotten our drivers licenses. The older brother of one of my best friends had a tricked out Chevy Van with a table that folded into a bed and the obligatory "If this van's a rockin don't come knockin" bumper sticker. That van was notorious. This song was every young man's fantasy when it came out. Were we all hoping the song was going to be about us.
Met Sammy back in 76 or 77. He was living in the Atlanta burbs. Walked into the foyer of his house and saw his gold record on the wall. Only thing I could say was, oh, that Sammy Johns. Seemed like a great guy.
Thanks for a great video. I was a teenager in the seventies and remember those vans being popular. Sadly, the women don't look like that anymore, or have that free spirit either. I had a girlfriend or two like these back then. I wish I would have appreciated it more at the time.
I’m 70 years old I was at Woodstock in August of 69 an this kind of music is all I listen too just trying to capture some of my glory days I guess I still take a trips an never leave the farm if you know what I mean, it seems like only yesterday I was in my mid twenties an was going with this 19 year old girl she had some of the best stuff between her legs I can think of her know an I just want to cry oh hell I’m going to roll a big one drink a beer an have some sweet dreams good night y’all ☮️💊🍺
Great song! I miss those days! This song brings back many great memories! Just something about this song that makes me replay it over and over, never gets old!
My daughter came home one day and said. That a boy was singing this song to her. I thought to myself after I song it to myself and thought how 😍 then I said you better keep an eye on that one just hold hands 😂
Good times. Did not have a Chevy van just a 69 Camaro with a small backseat...LOL. Girls back in the 70s were fantastic and down to earth. Miss those simple day's.
70's never will go away. Here forever to stay. Never ever gona go away the 70's still here for the future too I'm telling you the beloved 70's is here to stay. If only we could travel back we'd go today and stay. The love and memories of the 70's are here to stay.
I was born in the last month of 58, drivers ed 75, man I wanted a Chevy van, instead an uncle gave me a 70 El Camino, no engine, put a 350 in it, thought that was the coolest thing on 4 wheels.
Amen I was born in 1960 and now own just about every song from 1960 to 1985 on CD me and my wife love listening in the patio and dancing ,neighbors are jealous .
In the 70's women looked good with out makeup and tattoos. They were great!
How I miss the 70's and girls without tattoos all over their bodies.
I need to read before I comment. Obviously I agree!
I couldn't agree more. They were the best years of my life before everyone sucked all the enjoyment out of everything.
I can’t Stand all of these ugly tattoos all over the chicks these days.
YES! Why the women today think it’s attractive to have tattoos up and down their arms and legs?
I would agree with all y'all!!! Everytime I think I see a young innocent girl these days. They have tattoos everywhere. Tramp stamp above their ass! I can remember back in the 70's we called them SKANKS!
As if tattoos were not bad enough, they get piercings everywhere!
I'm 54 and want to go back to 1976. Best years
U
Can!
Back to 1970.
I’m 54 also and want to go back.Best times and best music.
Yep 👍
Also 54, best music every made!
Back when the world was a better place and the women were natural❤👍
Before mepoo and effineesduhs took over everything.
Amen!
Now You Talkin " young Man...... Played this as Growing up... Now Old Green Beret"""" Bring s Memories.
❤❤YES
I was born in 61 and I was so lucky. Not old enough for Vietnam, a no fluff education, spent the 70's in my teens, rocked out to some of the best rock music ever, dipped my toes into disco hated it at the time but I love it now, saw the rise of punk rock, watched the moon landing live. The gals were dressed better than any other generation and WOW! so hot. Can't forget the mobile love machines. I served in the Navy under Reagan which was the best time for our military. Oh and no F'N political correctness or woke culture!!!
Sounds like my experience. Same with the 61 birth year, went in the Navy in late 79. Graduated boot camp in Cracker Jacks, Jan. of 80. 😎
Amen Brother. 1962, USMC Air Wing, CH-46 Crew Chief. Gotta say though, thongs, yoga pants, and shaved peaches top the 70's :-)
Hear ya brother Me too, born in May of '61 - and led the same life in a small town in western Maine .
59 for me. enjoyed the great lady's.. best rock... Great times
Thank you for you're service! Regan was the First vote I ever cast! My only regret in life was that I didn't serve!!! It haunts me still. However it looks like now just might be my time to step up!!! I won't let this opportunity pass me by!
Sweet memories of great times. I'm 66 now, but I will take my age and my memories over anything today. Someone once asked me if I would like to be 18 again. I said yes, but only if I can be 18 when I was 18.
The best music came out of 60's, 70's and the 80's. I'm 61, and still listen to the classics.
Absofukinglutly!! Hands Down no Questions.
I do too,early 50's!!
No shit. I'm 55, I grew up on this.
Everyday...!
65 and still listening to this music grew up on this brings back great memories
God I miss those days. Sucks we have to grow old and live better times thrue our memories
Boy that's the truth
Those are great memories. I wish I had a time machine. Those were great songs.
One should know as a child from having grandparents that father time will get a hold of every one of us.
Amen Brother
Just listened to Chevy Van for the millionth time & this time I cried. I'm 81...it was one of my husband's favorite songs ( me too). Today is anniversary of his death and also anniversary of Sammy Johns death. How I'd like to have them both back...
I'm so sorry you are grieving Judy. I hope by now, some months later, you can listen and enjoy the memories and love you and your husband shared. Blessings and peace to you.
Judy, I'm sorry for your loss, even though I don't know you. Maybe your husband and Sammy are rocking out in Heaven waiting for you. Let them wait. Enjoy your time on earth. Bless you.
WRITE back I'LL visited you , I need to have a destination Don't have one off hand to go anywhere. Sorry for your loss or lost my only chi'll and wife now I just live with my dog and me everything paid for
I understand that ❤
same here, I am 64
I read a lot of comments and many posters are pointing out that those were not all Chevy vans, well nowadays, the women aren’t all women. So just enjoy the music and if you’re old enough, like me, enjoy the memories of the 70s and early 80s and when the women were really women.
100% right!
4sure 😎
Good times. It's all good. Memories
Haha! Right on
Natural beauty back then. today it's tattoos, fake nails fake hair color and fake personalities . They are all damaged goods being sold at ridiculous prices. So glad I'm way to old and married to be shopping through the merchandise on the marriage market today.
Takes you back to a time that now seems otherworldly. Today's life just cannot begin to compare to the 1970s. The best decade ever.
CB Radio was the social media at that time.
The best of times♥️🇬🇧♥️
I was telling a workmate how cool vans were back then. He proceeded to tell me if you had a van like that now people would suspect you of being a child abducter! Far more innocent times then.
@@sarahcobetto5613 Yes and that's what I meant back then things like someone being evil like that just didn't even enter our minds. We just lived our lives and enjoyed one another.
Damn right brother.👍👍
Amen to that the tattoos were put on the vans
A Chevy time machine is what this vid is to me. Notice the girls, like who doesn't, natural body parts, no irregular piercings, and NO tattoos! Tanned, barefoot, and just lovely. These are the girls of my generation. And I married one of them 39 years ago.👍✌
Graduated in 76. Married now forty one years to the girl I was with my senior year. It was an incredible time to be alive. Best music decade. Best car decade. Best van years. My first van was a 64 Econoline from the phone company auction. No side windows. An eclectic interior of shag carpet velvet and vinyl. A bunch of speakers and a bed. The girls were so fine then no tattoos, or piercings. Sun bleached hair no make up, just a tan. I so want to go back.
Amen, brother. How I long for the days of no tattoos or silicone. Check out the Skynard Freebird video, Oakland 1977. A rich, long and absolutely beautiful video of beautiful 70's girls.
I can relate to this stuff..I had a VW bus all tricked out (well, no heat and no a/c ha ha) with a large bed and fine sound system. I owned it from 1980-1985 and had many times on beaches in FLA and out in AZ. I actually lived it in for over 2 years. I'd love to go back, but don't know of any time machines. Very fine tune this is.
.@Mr marksark. Lucky you. A plain Jane girl. No tatoos, piercings, boob jobs.etc. Just a bikini, tanned body. I wish I had that from way back. Gas was cheap. Cooked on a Hibachi at supper. Met friendly neighbors and made good friends. Not much like that anymore.
I was born in the 60s and loved this song in the late 70s when I was a young girl . We had the best music cars and clothes and no cell phones . Life was simple I miss it these kids today don’t have a clue .
So True
@@joeyank2451 indeed
i had a friend who had a dodge van. it was beautiful in 1977, the girls loved it. damn we were either drunk or high every nite. im 63 i never thought id live this long.. lol
I enlisted in the Navy in 68. I sure miss all those beautiful bare foot girls and the great music. It just isn't the same and getting worse every day.
Loved going barefoot in the 60's. Would love to go back to the 60's and 70's. The most beautiful years of my life.
This was my parents love story,I would often hear my dad humming this and if my mum was near she would go and hug him around d waist from behind,they r both gone now but their song lives on! I miss u mum and dad!😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️,I am 62 now and those days were good days!
I was 17 and got a Voltswagon Bus and named it Dream Weaver. I sure wish I still had it. It was the ultimate party bus!!
The 70's definitely had the most beautiful women as a whole. 90% were thin,fit,long haired,feminine, care free, natural women.
😊
What a bunch of garbage
omg im 61 and this took me back to awesome times i truly miss
I sure miss how everything was back, thank God for when I grew up!!!! (Sweet)
The 70's. Wow. My best years to be alive.
I am in my 60's and this brought back fond memories of my youth. Way Cool! High praise from an old hippie.
I'm getting there...and it fascinates me to hear from older types which I use to look down on, but which I to will soon become...now, nothing but respect.
Man I miss the 70's! I was 16 in 1976 and was having the time of my life.
The 1970s were the best times of my life. I love this song. It brings back so many memories . So glad those were my teenage years.
Our Son was conceived in that Chevy Van ! Married 36 years and still love that Chevy Van
1975. What a wonderful and hard time in my life. Lots of love and heartbreak that year. Graduated high school and joined the military that year. Went from a kid to man that year.
I think every guy traveling somewhere in a Chevy Van was always looking for that tender young girl without shoes...in every dusty little town they drove thorough....a real song of the 1970's...when all of us were young buck teens...
At 58, I really loved returning to the 70's 'in my mind' watching this video. I can't stop thinking about how simple things were, when you were able to actually think and enjoy those around you. And the world didn't know every single thing about you or what you were thinking, and you didn't know about them either...AND IT WAS WONDERFUL! Damn the Internet, social media and cell phones. Yes, productive tools, but we have proven how destructive misused tools can be. Lord how I miss simpler times...
Get to work you have to make money!!!!!!
OK BOOMER!
Yeah well we're from the same generation and I sure don't feel that way people always waxing nostalgic about the pass, give me the future and the world within reach allows me to dream like I've never dreamt before💥💥⭐
I feel blessed to have grown up in that era! I was 16 in 1976, what a great time! Later in the 70's I did have a 1975 Chevy Beauville van, drove it for several years. Man if that van could talk!
The music takes me back when times were good
Hindsight...
Hey Andy, I'm with you. Society is to complicated now.
Still good times. Just different. Hang onto the old but be willing 2 let in the new. All good!!
Indeed They Were The Best
I want my 8 track back!!!
I used to have a shaggin' wagon. Now all I have is a work van. Times sure change.
Now people live in vans and pretend that they're living "the good life" online.
Similiar story here. But we still have those memories and no one can take that away from us!
@Wayne Dawson 3500
I'm 73, and have lived the vanning life off and on since 1974. I still have the same 1969 Chevy Van that I bought in '73. I have found myself in almost every kind of "entertainment situation" you could imagine over the years, but nothing beats vanning!
I LOVE this song and the LONG ending that I never heard before. Maybe it is the version on the album?
I was 62 years young when this song first came out. I lived it baby. Still do to this day. MAGA!!
You're 112? :p
You must be the oldest person on earth.
Back in 74, when I was a senior in high school, every boy wanted a van, lol
and a girl like those here yeaah yeah i gaduared in 74 too and this all i was dreamin bout bro!LOL
@@personal5305 74!
Don’t ever pull up at your gf house in a van 😎😊👍👌
I too am a 74 grad
@@timothyhuber6035 OMG! It didnt end well man!Her mom came out and ran ran me off in front of the nieghbors!I never did get to ...well you know umm ...play with her anymore? But what time to be alive with a van!Take care.
Born in 54 and came of age in the late 60s. Lots of people on thew road, hippies thumbing rides, etc. this song was probably every guys fantasy in the 70s.
Man the Memories of How life was so Sweet 🙋🙋♂️
what a time to be young and alive, some of the very best years, the best memories
These were the days people. I never guessed this Country would be what it is now. I want to go back, please......
You will never hear music like this anymore, so glad I was old enough to enjoy it. Still here in 4/2024, you?
64 Econoline abig bed in the back bean bags in the middle. More speakers than sense scattered around. Side doors open down by the lake at night. Smokey nights and hazy dreams. High school sweetheart still around. This song was an anthem to those days in the 70's. At 64 I wake up everyday longing for those simple underappreciated times. I look at the tv , listen to the radio and I can't find a second of any day that even feels remotely like those. So glad I was alive then and maybe heaven has a place where the vans still hangout. Won't be too long now....
A long time ago, in a lifetime long gone, I owned a Chevy van... a '71 or'72, if I recall correctly.
Never got so lucky with it as the song describes, but I certainly miss it just the same.
Oh, and I was 18 or 19 then... damn near 60 now, and already thinkin' I've lived far too long.
...and yeah, I'm one of those lost children of the '60s and '70s.
Life wasn't ideal back then, but it was a helluva lot better than it is these days.
...at least the way I remember it anyway. 😉
I had a 69 Chevy impala. Perfect year. Lol.
You and I remember it well.
It was the Greatest Of Times
@@joeyank2451 I don't know if it was the greatest... but it was certainly the best I've experienced so far. * shrug *
In 1974 I was 15 years old. The custom van craze was in full swing and I was lucky enough to work in a car/van customizing shop. We built so many cool vans out of that shop and at age 16 I got a 74 Dodge Tradesman, metalflake orange, custom interior, Cragers and Thrush sidepipes and was allowed to travel with the van group to my first weekend "Van In" in Louisville, KY. and I listened to this song so many times on the drive, over the 3 days of naked craziness and all the way home. Sammy wrote a great song with this one. Love it to this day.
What a great song! So many great memories!! Teen age years!! How blessed we were in the ‘70’s!!!!
ok boomer
No We Are Gen X
Well im 69 and i think the best music was the 60s 50s and early 70s
Absolutely...
I’m 74 and still loving the 60’s. Music that is…now was.
I'm 51 and I agree with you
OK Boomer
The images in this are beautiful ❤this evokes a feeling of a time gone by😢.
Yes it does, but we can't go back to the great old day's, I wish everyday to be that young man again.
It was an amazing time! I am so glad to have experienced it!
Early 70s, I had a Chevy van, went to a drive inn theater (Thunderbird Drive Inn). Didn't watch much of the movie. Made love in my Chevy Van. Wonderful memories, miss her very much, TOOTS, if you read this you know who I am. Love you and always will remember you.
Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s was awesome, wish I had appreciated it more!
we just didnt have a clue 4 real
i even miss the 80s, but I miss the hash in the 70s most of all
Blonde Hash
i can still taste those hits man
i was soooo high, 1979
Man the memories, love this song, time just goes away.
Indeed
Well I’m 66 and this music takes me back instantly, to good times and sunny skies
Oh Memories
They just don't they just don't have good music like this anymore sounds like it's always takes my mind back to when I was younger I never outgrow listening to songs like this these songs feel my heart with joy thank you very much for the old members
Oh man got that 👍, I'm 58 and remember all the goodies from back then too especially my 3 foot geographics bong 💨👌✌️🤘🖖🎸😛
What an amazing time we lived in simple and true
Indeed
I'm 62.....if it wasn't for the grandkids...I'd go and a stay.....forever......✌✌✌
❤❤❤❤❤the great simpler days and much fun
Loved this song the instant I heard it. Went into high school the next day and drew a Chevy van on the chalkboard with the caption "Sammy John's Chevy van." The girl I had a crush on and actually drew it for, Kim B, walked in and saw it. I was too shy to tell her it was for her. Good memories, those 70's!
63 and can sing along and not miss a word
I'm 56 and remember this song like it was played yesterday. Those were the best of times and I didn't realize it. I long to go back to those times.
Unfortunately We Can’t
Great stuff, great times @ never beat it, nothing better - classic rock & roll
I’ve lived part of 8 decades we had the best music in the 60s and 70s plus the best cars and some of the hottest women….we had Woodstock and started the van craze. I still listen to the great music of the 60and 70s and still drive a van.
Graduated high school in ‘74. This song brings back great memories. The hormones were flying back then.
I was a 14 yr old girl listening to this song and others but this song brings back so many wonderful memories. I miss those yrs and songs
That is the coolest song man I heard long time I remember that song back in the 70s 55 now and I still love that song
Amazing song from an awesome decade .
I am right there with you oh, I love this song when I listen to it I am young again if only for a moment. Back when girls wore bell-bottoms and halter tops and guys had long hair and vans. Good memories and good music. Keep the 70s alive. 😎✌
Yes yes yes
That was the best times
Was he from Georgia?
Great song even better days, I wish I could go back too those day. Thank you god for all those very special days!❤️🎸😉
I was a teen in the 70's but I remember all the vans with the artwork. Seemed like a simpler more satisfying time before the woke crowd.
I'm 63 and the 70's was the greatest time. never had a van and don't know why. now I'm looking for one too fix up like they had back than.
ok boomer
I love the 70's girls... I had one... will never forget Vonda...
I was a sophomore in high school when this came out and we had all just gotten our drivers licenses. The older brother of one of my best friends had a tricked out Chevy Van with a table that folded into a bed and the obligatory "If this van's a rockin don't come knockin" bumper sticker. That van was notorious. This song was every young man's fantasy when it came out. Were we all hoping the song was going to be about us.
Muscle Cars and drive in movies with music blaring over the speakers that was the good old days.
Met Sammy back in 76 or 77. He was living in the Atlanta burbs. Walked into the foyer of his house and saw his gold record on the wall. Only thing I could say was, oh, that Sammy Johns. Seemed like a great guy.
Great story. So cool.
Thanks for a great video. I was a teenager in the seventies and remember those vans being popular. Sadly, the women don't look like that anymore, or have that free spirit either. I had a girlfriend or two like these back then. I wish I would have appreciated it more at the time.
I’m 70 years old I was at Woodstock in August of 69 an this kind of music is all I listen too just trying to capture some of my glory days I guess I still take a trips an never leave the farm if you know what I mean, it seems like only yesterday I was in my mid twenties an was going with this 19 year old girl she had some of the best stuff between her legs I can think of her know an I just want to cry oh hell I’m going to roll a big one drink a beer an have some sweet dreams good night y’all ☮️💊🍺
In 75-76 I worked at the beach, in SC, the best time of my life. All of the great music of the 70's.
The golden years they never come back but we were there/
Yes we were
Great song! I miss those days! This song brings back many great memories! Just something about this song that makes me replay it over and over, never gets old!
The best of times
My daughter came home one day and said. That a boy was singing this song to her. I thought to myself after I song it to myself and thought how 😍 then I said you better keep an eye on that one just hold hands 😂
Excellent. Well done! Summarizes the 1970's in one song! Days we will never see such innocence again!
I was 12 when this song came out
Good times. Did not have a Chevy van just a 69 Camaro with a small backseat...LOL. Girls back in the 70s were fantastic and down to earth. Miss those simple day's.
Great memories of a great era, music today doesn’t cut it
Ok boomer
Here is another one of my old favorites! I am and will always be am oldies girl!
Nothing Wrong With That
I was lucky enough to live the Custom van life in the late 70’s. Beautiful girl, beautiful van, beautiful times.
70's never will go away. Here forever to stay. Never ever gona go away the 70's still here for the future too I'm telling you the beloved 70's is here to stay. If only we could travel back we'd go today and stay. The love and memories of the 70's are here to stay.
I graduated in 1969. I own my parents 1964 Barracuda and my first new car a 1970 Duster 340. Ill.never give either up
I love this song and the van's in this video. And I love the girls with out tattoos to.😊
This just reminds me of easy the 60s and 70s were and the girls were so much more natural.....They were so much more Beautiful back in the day....
I had a 72 Dodge Tradesman.. Got carpet burns on various parts of my anatomy in those days
lol
I was born in the last month of 58, drivers ed 75, man I wanted a Chevy van, instead an uncle gave me a 70 El Camino, no engine, put a 350 in it, thought that was the coolest thing on 4 wheels.
Michael Blair, That was the coolest, put a mattress in the bed and do it under the stars.
I'm glad that I still have the memories of those wonderful days
This song brings back so many good vibes and goosebumps at the same time. Great lyrics!
(Love)
And that one girl that taught me there is someone besides my family that would love me 😊❤
Amen I was born in 1960 and now own just about every song from 1960 to 1985 on CD me and my wife love listening in the patio and dancing ,neighbors are jealous .
Very cool!! I’m 57 and remember all of this well.
I am 59 years old and STILL loving the music from the 70's . . .
Always can’t Help it
Sweet little riff. Makes my body all warm inside. Good songs live forever. Txs 🇨🇦
That's what she said...
@@hendo337 what?? She felt all warm inside. Perfect. Nice compliment. She said.
Yes They Do
I miss them ol 70s vans wish I could have another one 😂✌
Never heard this song before, but love it instantly
Hey David, it is from the movie, The Van, back when you did not need expensive housing like today, just an old school van to live in
Well Enjoy
R.I.P. Sammy. Your friends from Gaston county will never forget you.
Best van song and movie ever
There were several van movies back in the day