So sad we don't have that type of music today. Even the people were very different in those times. When I say different l mean in a better way. When I compare music and people of those days with the way things are today l become depressed. 😢 so sad. In those days EVERYTHING was better.
What were you doing in the 90s sitting at home watching reruns of American BandStand or hitting the night clubs picking up and dancing too the best tunes.....
I was born in the middle of the music in 1957, my parents played all different kinds of music, but I love the time from 1957 to about 1963, after that music started going for the worst!!!
Love the Ponytails, born too Late & Watching Nero do the Jerk at 4:29 & all the kids in there Groove digging Last night ! Didn't need tattoos to be Hip, how I miss those glorious magical years. Thanks for sharing this posting.
I miss those days! It was all so much fun. EVERYONE loved music and to dance together. So HAPPY! I had my favorite couples like everyone else. I never get tired of watching these historical reruns.
Please--------someone create a time machine to take us back to this time. I was 18 y/o, & all of life, was ahead . ---------------------this is just a timeless classic 50's ballad.
Ohhhh please take me back ! We were so lucky to grow up in the America of the 50's & 60's ! I was 11 y/o, 6th grade, when this all-time classic came out. ----------------MJL, 75 y/o
Enjoy watching these old videos.I would rather hear this music than some of the crap they call music today.I grew up in the mid 60's 70's,80's preferthat music.Even music from the 50's.Thats when it was fun
Here you go.... A slice of Americana at its best. Dick Clark and American Band Stand 55 years ago. When I was 14, I had a younger girlfriend who had a crush on the 17 year old boy who lived across the street from her. He pretty much paid no attention to her because of the age difference. One time my little girl friend confided in me how much the song, "Born Too Late" meant to her in relation to the boy across the street... The older 17 year old. Hope you enjoy this moment in history
I am not american but I love watching these old Americans bandstand , I am amazed how much the dance patterned had changed and the dress sense in a matter of a few years to 1967 the year i was born,I love the later 1960s dance and dress sense then early 60s
What a wonderful time to grow up,living right here in Philadelphia, where we watched this show every afternoon before doing our homework. We would look at the Bandstand map in the studio with all the call letters and cities of stations around the country and just imagine that millions of us teens were watching the same show, live from our town!! Our teachers told us Rock and Roll was immoral, sinful, gross and other words. They were wrong. These old songs are about love, caring, beauty, feelings and emotions. Thank you for preserving these memories for us to enjoy. Thankfully the original American Bandstand studio is intact within a repurposed building called "The Enterprise Center" originally built in 1952 as a television station.
WOW This video is GOLD! Thank you for the upload, where ever you found this gem. Its important we don't forget our own history. Look at how innocent these teens and young people are. so great and great music.
Hi Aaron..Take a look at those unsure faces on the opening notes of "Born To Late"...Some of the dancers were just not sure how they were going to move to this... The Philadelphia kids would have been like fish to water on this number. I like the rebel couple toward the beginning (the girl in the plaid dress and the guy with the high white collar) who decide they are going to fast dance through this slow dance... ha! The Poni-Tails had a few other hits that didn't quite reach the Top 40 and they were really quite good...One of my faves was "Seven Minutes In Heaven" with a good "Chalypso" beat. It was penned by Jack "Here Comes Summer" Keller. You must check it out. And Aaron, AWESOME enhanced sound to this clip...Makes you feel that you are right beside the dancers on the floor. :--)
mrob75 very true. It almost sounds like a song that could’ve been popular in ‘64 (like the Angels or Shangri-Las) but these kids were in grade school when this was popular. I thought the “rebellious couple” was funny too. Good luck fast dancing to this! Lol I have not delved deep into the Poni-Tails catalogue but I will definitely give “Seven Minutes in Heaven” a listen. I love discovering “new” songs that weren’t big hits from the 50’s & 60’s. Thank you!
Okay Mario and Aaron you've got me ROFL'ing talking about the dancers. During the early months of AB in L.A. production would distribute tickets to selected high schools to ensure people would be at the tapings. That explains it all!
DON your response has me so totally ROFL.... absolutely hilarious...P.S.) one of the boys at the beginning attempted to do the Jerk to the Poni-Tails until his girlfriend stopped him :---)
The Poni-Tails had a marvelous cover of the classic standard, "I'll Be Seeing You" in 1959. It peaked at #87 nationally, but was a top 20 hit in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. IINM, The Poni-Tails performed the song on AB October 1, 1959 when the show was still in Philadelphia. Give this one a listen, it's a real beauty! A lost chestnut that deserved better!
Also Mar-Keys members Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love went on to form the Memphis Horns. Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn joined Booker T and the MGs.
Fourteen years later Steve Cropper and the late great Donald "Duck" Dunn appeared as part of the backing band for "The Blues Brothers" (Dan Aykroyd and the late great John Belushi) in a Classic 1978 "Saturday Night Live" episode.🤔😉😎🎼🎸🎷🎹🥁📺B.W.
Hey Dan,sorry I Didn't read the introduction !! The song was one of My favorites,when i was in high school!!!Thanks for the Correction though!!!!!!March 8, 2023.@@dang2443
Dont talk stupid unchained melody..cara mia.. hold me thrill me.. boy from new york city. 63 was only 1 year or so from the beginning of 65 i know i was there.
I graduated high school in 1964 and the songs on this video are very familiar to me. I also remember the death of Sam Cooke in December. Sam was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong woman. An all white coroner's jury ruled that the hotel manager had shot Sam with a .357 caliber revolver in self-defense even though Sam was unarmed at the time of his death. Wrong place, wrong time and wrong color.
Jason Colflesh when the show moved to Hollywood in Feb. ‘64 the set was kept the exact same as in Philadelphia as Dick Clark didn’t want to draw attention to the move (not sure why) The set in this clip, from Dec. ‘64 (almost a year after the move) had slowly changed a bit from the Philly set and by sometime in ‘65 it would be the completed set more familiar throughout the 60’s.
'64------girls were prettier----------more feminine-------our nation is in deep trouble, & I look back at hose days, with a wistful sadness. it all went so fast. -------------------------Wolfsky9, 74 y/o
OMG! Those West Coast kids had no rhythm whatsoever! One thing that DC left behind in Philly was good dancers. I mean, these kids here were trying to dance fast to 'Born Too Late?" Really? And then you have a rocker like "Last Night," that was only popular three years before this show was recorded, and those kids stood there like, what the hell?
Shameful! I stopped watching AB when they moved to Ca. Those kids could NOT dance at all. Dick Clark must have been embarrassed by their lack of ability to be able to find the beat in the song to dance to it. No sense of rhythm.
Your so right. The Philly kids could dance to the all the old rock and roll. It seemed that when the British Invasion started in 1964 the kids lost their rhythm.
Catherine Erwin you're right, Soul Train didn't arrive until August 17, 1970 on Chicago's UHF station, WCIU Channel 26, which was still broadcasting in black and white until 1974. Soul Train aired in color starting in 1971 when it moved to Los Angeles.
So sad we don't have that type of music today. Even the people were very different in those times. When I say different l mean in a better way. When I compare music and people of those days with the way things are today l become depressed. 😢 so sad. In those days EVERYTHING was better.
I’m 52 and I tell my parents they had the best music and the best times. I was born too late.
I’m 50 and I’m with you on that @Luvlylila
Im 37. X2 😭
What were you doing in the 90s sitting at home watching reruns of American BandStand or hitting the night clubs picking up and dancing too the best tunes.....
@@chadgilmore5046, the 90s had some crap music.
I was born in the middle of the music in 1957, my parents played all different kinds of music, but I love the time from 1957 to about 1963, after that music started going for the worst!!!
I'm 74 this takes me back to high school days
Could not get home soon enough to watch BandStand.
if this was today the kids would all be stopping to take selfies
So many memories watching this, both happy and sad.
Love the Ponytails, born too Late & Watching Nero do the Jerk at 4:29 & all the kids in there Groove digging Last night ! Didn't need tattoos to be Hip, how I miss those glorious magical years. Thanks for sharing this posting.
Was great watching back in 58 to the 60's. Halcyon days for me then. Got a social promotion to graduate, and drafted in 65 to the Army.
I miss those days! It was all so much fun. EVERYONE loved music and to dance together. So HAPPY! I had my favorite couples like everyone else. I never get tired of watching these historical reruns.
Where did the good music go
??
@@sandranorman5469 I know! Breaks my heart not to hear them.
Please--------someone create a time machine to take us back to this time. I was 18 y/o, & all of life, was ahead . ---------------------this is just a timeless classic 50's ballad.
You thousands of people want a Time Machine
I loved this song, mad crush on the boy next door who was 2 yrs older than me, He went off to university while I pined for him in high school 😢
What a magnificent, beautiful, Song if I only can go back for 1 day in time.
Spring of '58--------------I was 11 y/o, in 6th grade & the tidal wave of " adolescence " had hit me full on.
I'll always enjoy my parents classic 50's more than what's out today...JUNK MUSIC!!!
At 55, I feel I was "BORN TOO LATE" myself sometimes! Hm!
Apart from being a great 50's song it sounds truly magical in stereo
Ohhhh please take me back ! We were so lucky to grow up in the America of the 50's & 60's ! I was 11 y/o, 6th grade, when this all-time classic came out. ----------------MJL, 75 y/o
Enjoy watching these old videos.I would rather hear this music than some of the crap they call music today.I grew up in the mid 60's 70's,80's preferthat music.Even music from the 50's.Thats when it was fun
Back in the day everyone had their favorite couple! Wonder what happened to those couples after Bandstand!
They have had a few Bandstand Reunions with the favorite couples. Unfortunately, some of the video didn't have audio.
to see such love and devotion between girls and boys is the best thing
Here you go.... A slice of Americana at its best. Dick Clark and American Band Stand 55 years ago. When I was 14, I had a younger girlfriend who had a crush on the 17 year old boy who lived across the street from her. He pretty much paid no attention to her because of the age difference. One time my little girl friend confided in me how much the song, "Born Too Late" meant to her in relation to the boy across the street... The older 17 year old. Hope you enjoy this moment in history
Great song when songs actually were melodic and wonderful.
I am not american but I love watching these old Americans bandstand , I am amazed how much the dance patterned had changed and the dress sense in a matter of a few years to 1967 the year i was born,I love the later 1960s dance and dress sense then early 60s
Remember dancing just like this! Good memories.
I was 18 y/o, & all of life was ahead. ------------I so remember this show, & this all-time 50's classic. ------------------WolfSky9, 71 y/o
I remember this well .It was the year I married my teenage queen.
How Sweet..❤
What a wonderful time to grow up,living right here in Philadelphia, where we watched this show every afternoon before doing our homework. We would look at the Bandstand map in the studio with all the call letters and cities of stations around the country and just imagine that millions of us teens were watching the same show, live from our town!! Our teachers told us Rock and Roll was immoral, sinful, gross and other words. They were wrong. These old songs are about love, caring, beauty, feelings and emotions. Thank you for preserving these memories for us to enjoy. Thankfully the original American Bandstand studio is intact within a repurposed building called "The Enterprise Center" originally built in 1952 as a television station.
Used to watch AB in the late 50's. Then I joined the Air Force and kind of lost touch with it. Thanks You Tube for bringing back the memories.
Loved this trip down memory lane. Thanks ! 👏❤️🙏
Makes ya feel old then . I remember watching it in the early 60's . It came from Philly then .Only black and white tv way back then .
Thank you for this
I was definitely born at the right time.
This Is One of My Favorite Song 🎵❤
I'd kill to get on bandstand! That was my dream for years.
WOW This video is GOLD! Thank you for the upload, where ever you found this gem. Its important we don't forget our own history. Look at how innocent these teens and young people are. so great and great music.
Thanks for this video! Loved and still love the music and dancing.
Amazing footage
This is great! Been making cookies and fudge and have enjoyed. every minute of the music you provided. Thank you!! Merry Christmas.
Favorite after school show back when. Love this clip.
OMG!!! Take me back to Philadelphia where they knew how to dance.
Always on my playlist
Very special memories....
Yes,but you know many of these kids have passed on. Sad but that is life.
Hi Aaron..Take a look at those unsure faces on the opening notes of "Born To Late"...Some of the dancers were just not sure how they were going to move to this... The Philadelphia kids would have been like fish to water on this number. I like the rebel couple toward the beginning (the girl in the plaid dress and the guy with the high white collar) who decide they are going to fast dance through this slow dance... ha! The Poni-Tails had a few other hits that didn't quite reach the Top 40 and they were really quite good...One of my faves was "Seven Minutes In Heaven" with a good "Chalypso" beat. It was penned by Jack "Here Comes Summer" Keller. You must check it out. And Aaron, AWESOME enhanced sound to this clip...Makes you feel that you are right beside the dancers on the floor. :--)
mrob75 very true. It almost sounds like a song that could’ve been popular in ‘64 (like the Angels or Shangri-Las) but these kids were in grade school when this was popular. I thought the “rebellious couple” was funny too. Good luck fast dancing to this! Lol
I have not delved deep into the Poni-Tails catalogue but I will definitely give “Seven Minutes in Heaven” a listen. I love discovering “new” songs that weren’t big hits from the 50’s & 60’s. Thank you!
Okay Mario and Aaron you've got me ROFL'ing talking about the dancers. During the early months of AB in L.A. production would distribute tickets to selected high schools to ensure people would be at the tapings. That explains it all!
DON your response has me so totally ROFL.... absolutely hilarious...P.S.) one of the boys at the beginning attempted to do the Jerk to the Poni-Tails until his girlfriend stopped him :---)
IKR!!! Mario! ROFLMAO
The Poni-Tails had a marvelous cover of the classic standard, "I'll Be Seeing You" in 1959. It peaked at #87 nationally, but was a top 20 hit in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. IINM, The Poni-Tails performed the song on AB October 1, 1959 when the show was still in Philadelphia. Give this one a listen, it's a real beauty! A lost chestnut that deserved better!
Beautiful slow dancing, and then a couple busts in doing the Stroll! 1:10
Again @ 2:10 - they like the Stroll!
Just discovered your channel. Subscribed!
No computer ...the kids went all crazy.
That's how I feel..I'm 42 and 30 yrs to late
Also Mar-Keys members Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love went on to form the Memphis Horns. Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn joined Booker T and the MGs.
Fourteen years later Steve Cropper and the late great Donald "Duck" Dunn appeared as part of the backing band for "The Blues Brothers" (Dan Aykroyd and the late great John Belushi) in a Classic 1978 "Saturday Night Live" episode.🤔😉😎🎼🎸🎷🎹🥁📺B.W.
My sister Arlene was on aAbs before I was born 1956
Ah yes -- the "New ab'65" set design!
Most women were Real Ladies in those days, and a lot easier to meet. Today, many of us guys have to be very careful of sexual harassment.
i agree
Sorry. Dating is supposed to be exciting and fun.
Oooohhh last night! The Markays.
Pura nostalgia pura !!!
The All American Bandstand. USA 🇺🇸
This song came out in 1958-59....not 1964!!!! I was there.
The video description explains they were playing "oldies"
Hey Dan,sorry I Didn't read the introduction !! The song was one of My favorites,when i was in high school!!!Thanks for the Correction though!!!!!!March 8, 2023.@@dang2443
Please read " New American Bandstand "65!!"
Is that Frank Vanderpuil dancing in the dark sweater vest and light pants?
Y pensar que muchas de estos chavos quizá en la actualidad no vivan y si viven ya deben estar muy viejitos .
In 65 nobody wanted music from 63 or earlier.
True, there was a wall that went up between the past and present. It would be the 70s before people began to appreciate it.
Dont talk stupid unchained melody..cara mia.. hold me thrill me.. boy from new york city. 63 was only 1 year or so from the beginning of 65 i know i was there.
oh! oh! oh!…… “Last Night!!!!!!
I'm important. I made in too a band has anyone else. Ahaha AJealous
The Jerk has arrived. Hair has gone from the flip to curled under.
Ah....the 60s
Just wondering do they do any slow dancing anymore. 🤔
Slow dance all across Florida as a 75-year-old.
@@gofrogsron-67 that's real good but I mean also does this new generation slow dance. 🤔
@@garysicemore3907 Kinda ☹. But come to think of it, I don't see that many at all. It's a lost art, especially to move and not just stand in one spot.
im planning to slow dance with my gf when i see her. im 17 😔💞
Loved this song. The dancers were never as good after they left Philly. I stopped watching when they moved to California.
2/25/2021, I'm getting ready to get my 1st COVID vaccination. What an innocent time this was. ---------------------------wolfsky9, 74 y/o
Back when hearing the word the jerk, didn't make you think of Steve Martin.
Dig those crazy chicks!
The music started dying when American Bandstand moved in 64 to California. After 65 the music was dead.
I agree!
The difference back then is that the dancers weren't groping their private parts trying to figure out what sex they were.
😂👍🏻
What good is this? There isn't any Paul Revere and the Raiders!
I always liked those tight skirts.
I graduated high school in 1964 and the songs on this video are very familiar to me. I also remember the death of Sam Cooke in December. Sam was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong woman. An all white coroner's jury ruled that the hotel manager had shot Sam with a .357 caliber revolver in self-defense even though Sam was unarmed at the time of his death. Wrong place, wrong time and wrong color.
The motel manager,Bertha Franklin,was black. She claimed that Sam attacked her. His blood alcohol level was about twice the limit.
2:22 p.m. Wednesday 9-21-22
You can dance to it. Unless you're the tall guy yanking the girl in the plaid suit around the floor, lol**
Wikipedia says this song was released in 1958???? NOT 1965.
No, what he means was that these songs were played in an episode broadcast in 1964. Check the description, the correct dates are listed.
Those boys were having fun, but three years later half of them will be
in Vietnam.
Those are the boys of the Vietnam war you are watching.
I wasn't there
None of the girls had long hair back then.
Was this a new set when the show moved to Hollywood?
Jason Colflesh when the show moved to Hollywood in Feb. ‘64 the set was kept the exact same as in Philadelphia as Dick Clark didn’t want to draw attention to the move (not sure why) The set in this clip, from Dec. ‘64 (almost a year after the move) had slowly changed a bit from the Philly set and by sometime in ‘65 it would be the completed set more familiar throughout the 60’s.
Tammy. Can you say thay
That
Backoff
They went to a dance academy.
'64------girls were prettier----------more feminine-------our nation is in deep trouble, & I look back at hose days, with a wistful sadness. it all went so fast. -------------------------Wolfsky9, 74 y/o
I wonder how many of these dance couples ended up getting married ? 2:03 2:10 3:02 3:
My research says almost none of them.
ummm ... American Bandstand from 1964 playing a song from 1958 ? Most of time they only played "current" hits
What a meme, the song starts and miss Degrasse doesnt know what to do!
The.mar.keys.were.the.wrecking.crew
Plas.johnson.on.sax.carol.kaye.on.bass
Hal.blaine.on.drums
OMG! Those West Coast kids had no rhythm whatsoever! One thing that DC left behind in Philly was good dancers. I mean, these kids here were trying to dance fast to 'Born Too Late?" Really? And then you have a rocker like "Last Night," that was only popular three years before this show was recorded, and those kids stood there like, what the hell?
Shameful! I stopped watching AB when they moved to Ca. Those kids could NOT dance at all. Dick Clark must have been embarrassed by their lack of ability to be able to find the beat in the song to dance to it. No sense of rhythm.
Your so right. The Philly kids could dance to the all the old rock and roll. It seemed that when the British Invasion started in 1964 the kids lost their rhythm.
Dont worry we got dua lipa now 😂
She's one of the few modern artists that I like. 👍🏿
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Where's the Black teenagers? Oh I forgot, this was the early '60s..
Captain 1985 probably on soul train.
@@lindar.4882 Please, I don't even think Soul Train from Chicago was on then.
The should have been there
enough with the token "diversity"
Catherine Erwin you're right, Soul Train didn't arrive until August 17, 1970 on Chicago's UHF station, WCIU Channel 26, which was still broadcasting in black and white until 1974. Soul Train aired in color starting in 1971 when it moved to Los Angeles.