American Bandstand 1967 - Dance Contest 2 - Windy, The Association
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- The kids compete for a pair of new cars!
I don’t have the clip of them winning (yet), but couple 4, Jenny Nichols and Famous Hooks, won the contest (thanks to dancer don for this info.)
Airdate: Dec. 30, 1967
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Those kids are dancing on clouds. The boys were gentleman and girls were ladies. Respect for each other😍😍😍😍
OMG, can't believe I ran acrossed this TH-cam! Contestants #3, Joe and Claudia. Joe was my brother in law. He was always going on American bandstand. I was in 10th grade at the time in Garden Grove, Ca.
Oh my god, send my love to Joe and Claudia please thank you
My brother Fermin Gonzales was his good friend along with David and Phill in La Mirada!
@@Honey_Moon_Delight Did you know Joe Gonzales from LA Mirada ?
All of them were great but #4 couple stood out for me. They were natural dancers and didn't feel the need to over exaggerate any moves. Loved them!
Famous Hooks!!!
@@beachbum433Remember hearing this on Phillies WFIL "FAMOUS 56;" back late 7/67 when I was 10!
Sadly, mid3/68 my uncle was Kia in NAMs Central Highlands , tail end of a messy , bloody ass TET , 2wks b-4 my 11th bday !
Incredible memory,@@HappyPoppyFlowers-nr4jh ! Sorry to hear about your Uncle... A good mate of mine, in the Australia Army, was caught up in TET in '68. Poor guy still has nightmares. I'm from a Land Down Under, so have no clue about "FAMOUS 56". I'm a latecomer to YCDTI, and VERY gradually working my way through the clips '66 to '69. Loving some of the characters I'm discovering: John Pollard (my 17 YO granddaughter calls him Mr. Smoothex, or "The Dapper Doctor John Pollard")🤩 Frank Vanderpuil (RIP)🤩 Dancer Don, 🤩Famous,🤩 the Wagonner sisters Peggy & Donna🤩😍, Rob Molinelli, 🤩Dave Cortez, 🤩Kathy McInerny😍. How ridiculous, a teenage crush at my age...!!!🤔🤣
I went on the show in 1968 and 1969. I will never forget the great time I had. They taped four shows on Sunday. The dance floor was kind of small but it was easy to dance on their set. My friend Mark and I lived in Fullerton, CA. and took the train into LA and then a bus to the studio. The ABC studio was on Prospect Ave back then. They had the Iron Butterfly on one show and Tim Buckley, and Mary Lee Rush to name a few acts.
Hi William Armijo! It’s always cool talking with people who were actually there. I have the “Iron Butterfly” episode and I found you on it answering the “question of the day”. I think your friend Mark (Kominsky or something like that) went right before you and then you answered. I wonder if you remember the question, as it was one of the most interesting questions I’ve seen, and very relevant today? Maybe I can post that if you’re interested. Anyways, thanks for stopping by!
That’s such a cool story. You may have thought you were just going on an adventure at the time...but with dance shows becoming a slice in time since then, you had the chance to create a memorable experience that many people will never get to have!
!Wow!
That sounds cool... thanks for sharing!
YouCanDanceToit! : What was the question?
This is an amazing song. It's one of the best of the summer of '67, and it sure made that time of year a lot of fun.
All the couples had good moves loved watching them
They were all great dancers! 😁💖
I love this era...I was 10 years old in 1967! Love couple #4 :)
Thanks. Glad u liked us. Yes this is Jenny
Thank u so much. This is Jenny. People still remember
Love your support...much love. Stay in touch. 🎉
Couple number 4 was really the winner .
@@TheRankin42 Jenny you win for being so pretty!
Me too ‼️💞
Couple #4 so smooth!
My vote too!
Sarita W oh heck no. What are they even doing there.
@@flamingooneleg77 because they are the BEST DANCERS AND THEY WERE AMERICAN BANDSTAND REGULARS. AWESOME DANCERS. BY THE WAY THEY WON THE DANCE CONTEST. THAT'S WHY THEY ARE THERE !!!
@@annahshoffner1871 WOW!! That is so cool Famous Hooks and Jennifer Nichols!!
Love this era for the music, styles and dancing. I was born in Dec '67. I enjoyed growing up in the 70's/80's, but then I watch clips like this and realize I missed the boat. :(
I was born in the 50s the 60s era was the best for everything
@@franmellor9843
I too was born in the 50s, I can agree that the music was the best in the 60s but as for everything else, Martin Luther King, JFK, Bobby assassinated, Vietnam, the fight for civil rights, there was nothing about any of that that I would want to relive...
@@petediamond2721 I agree ..the pioneers of the era just cannot replace
I know, right? '69 here and same exact thoughts!...lol 😏
Jenny and Famous for the win! So grateful to see these groovy clips. Thank you!
No one was as cool as Famous Hooks!
Yep Famous was really cool, I was his partner, and we won two brand new Volkswagen. I will never forget that. Going to a car dealership and told pick the one you want and color, mind blowing.
@@TheRankin42 How long did you and Famous dance together on AB?
@@TheRankin42 So nice to see you commenting here. Watching you and Famous dancing together is always a treat. I hope you will post comments more often. Peace.
Couple #4 easily the best, they had an elegant rhythm!
I can’t keep my eyes off them. They are so good.
@@cupcakequeen0617Cuter girls back then , from a soon to be a 67 yr young man!
Windy is such wonderful classic song from The Association. Thanks Aaron for posting another excellent dancer clip from American Bandstand.
Although I was born in 1990, the 60s are my favorite past time decade. The music, the culture, the fashion…the 60s were perfect.
My era, this was one of the shows that I was on! :)
I remember this particular AB with Windy. My brothers and I watched it. We went out and bought the 45 of Windy. We liked to karaokie to songs back in those days and we did it with Windy. We were pretty good, but not as good as The Association. LOL! By the way, I still have that 45 record and I still play it on occasions.
ntexas100 thank you for sharing your memory, I love it!
I love the clean lines of the music. My god such young people. How young we used to be. Thanks dear Aaron for this video.
When I was 17 years old, 40 years ago, I saw the Association for the first time on Dutch television with this song "Windy". I was completely blown away by it..what a beautiful song!! The harmonies were outstanding! I never heard of them, but since then, I regularly listen to this song....I think it reflects very well the happiness of the sixties! One of the best songs ever written and sung!
Loved “the Association “! I was 18 and out of high school in 1967! It was the “Summer of Love “! Soon it would end and I was gone in the Draft! But, great memories!!!!!😅
I love it and it's nice to read the comments of those who were there to provide a little insight about AB!
A-men!
Love the clean lines of the dresses and flats. Guy in ties, dress pants and jackets. Unheard of today!
young people of this generation are much more clean cut......... natural looking.......☺
Definitely!!!!:-)
konnichiwa 50 But the older generation then thought they were all a bunch of freaks lol boy would they be beyond shocked these days.
And more manners
Clean, fun, happy, dancing.
YES.....Windy !! One of my all time favorites 💖
They all have class
Funny at 0:18 Dick says "Its a gas" a phrase that was used a lot in those days.
That phrase was very popular from April 1915 to November 1918.
your kidding me! I thought he just often had flatulence and was warning people that he had squeezed one out
its a gaS IS N0T HIPPIE TALK...ITS BEATNIK TALK...THE LATTER BEING PREVALENT IN THE LATE 50S EARLY SIXTIES...YOU SEE THEM IN THE BEACH MOVIES.
Ah, the good old days!
Couple # 1 are the best, couple # 2 also very good. I love the way so many couples keep in time by bouncing their hands.
Variations of Lindy Hop and east coast swing - very nice!
I got to see the Association live in the late 60's. Great experience.
Great song! I was only 3 years old when this episode was on. BUT I did watch it in the late 70s and early 80s. It was still cool then!
This was the only local broadcast that included people from all ethnicities. Thanks for the memories!
Omg the replies! Everyone is back there again..dancing their hearts out, how wonderful😂🤣😀😄
l love american bandstand l miss it l always look for ward to watching it on sat
I was 13 years old in 1967, where in hell did all the years go?????? 😂💞
la mejor pareja, la 4, elegancia pura
All those cute couples 💑😍💕 Dancing 💃
Aw I got the album in my possession. Dad's original copy. My fave music is clearly 1966-1980's. I was 2 in 1967 in living in NY. Wish I had been a teen then.
Love it, no HOG rings in the nose.
"Windy" is a pop/rock classic!
I can remember watching American bandstand when they had the disco acts that was when I was a preteen and into the disco scene!
THE NEW AMERICAN BANDSTAND 1968 on Saturday December 30, 1967 on ABC-TV USA in B&W Kinescope and/or Color Videotape.
Couple 4’s moves are my favorite, but all were great.
I remember Famous!
A wonderful clip. And yes, couple number 4 had the best style. They were into each other on the dance floor and were having fun.
They also had the most unique and spontaneous moves...not rehearsed.
Very well done
Lori Boufford ... Uh, No Way, Couple # 1 was Way better w Style. # 4 , the guy was just showing off. The girl didn't do nothing but Wiggle . Number one was polished, fast, very Accomplished. There.
@@andreamurphy1126 don't matter what you say or think Couple#4 WON !!! 🤣🤣🤣
I always Loved Famous.....;)
Go Famous Hooks
Meterologist approved, the song that adds life to the weather in Texas even though it doesn't mean a hill of beans.
Dick Clark and American Bandstand brought races together.
While not the lighting speed he could have done more (i.e interracial dance couples etc.)Dick Clark said in 1 of his final TV interviews to the Larry King show on CNN(I think 2007-'08 someone can confirm the date)that he *gradually* brought on Black dancers/studio member in the later years of it's Philly based tapings and later by the early '70's Hispanic teen dancers. This was done to the show without a dramatic change and causing an outrage among mainly the Southern Viewers. Mr. Clark said that by the time AB had relocated it's tapings/studios to LA the change of adding more dancers of color had been complete.
Man some of the posters really need their meds lol.
Amen! We need a Bandstand!
In the book about the history of AB. Dick said that the 1st time he had an African-American on the Rate-A-Record segment, he worried the ABC stations in the South wouldn't air the episode due to this. But, no one complained about this. Thank goodness.
A-men!!! sure did"
I pick couple 4!
When I was 10 in 67 I always thought that they were singing about someone named Wendy!!!
me too lol, i was 9
Great video!
Damn I sure do miss the AMERICA I GREW UP IN ‼️🙄💔
My vote is # 4.
Love that song and yes dick Clark & and American band stand brought races together
A-men!!! Yes he did"
I was born in the wrong decade I love this
This alot better dancing with the stars can we bring back American Band with oldies.
This is and always be better then any of "please notice me because I m a "unicorn" dancer and I m gonna b star!!!! Gimme a break this was just average kids back in the day having innocent harmless fun!!! That's it!!
Famous and June was pre-“Dancing With the Stars!”
@@bernardobizarro9050 Famous Hooks danced with June Strode on Bandstand too.
@@bernardobizarro9050 Lord I remember that saying a many Saturday on "American Top 40".
@@bernardobizarro9050 well I'm not a West Coast Girl but Casey Kasem was nationwide. I was on the East Coast some where but we're ever I was I was listening. Now they play him like a timeline for what ever was popular during the week they're airing the show. Sirius XM radio stations have it.
@@bernardobizarro9050 sounds about right. I heard or read that Famous Hooks has retired as a School Teacher. I worked in TV for 15 years and it is what I do. Watch old Movies. Not only was the late Woody Strode in Liberty but also the first 10 minutes of " Once Upon A Time in the West" with Henry Fonda as well as other films. Wouldn't be surprised if June
went back to Hawaii since that was her home land.
@@bernardobizarro9050 that and I watch TV all the time for 61 years🤣🤣🤣 But all joking aside Woody passed away on 12/31/ 1994. He's been gone almost 26 years. Check out Wikipedia.
I saw the 1970 finalists . A few of these couples are in a different league . I remember the song to & I was very young . Couples 2 , 7 , 1 were all fabulous dancers
Great one!
Who was the guy Dick Clark was talking to, Charlie in Dallas? A KLIF DJ, maybe? Windy was my fave song back then! These AB videos are great fun to see!
It was Charlie Van Dyke from KLIF in Dallas picking his favorite song from 1967, Windy (also one of my favorites too). Great catch there Carolyn Short! Thanks for watching!
YouCanDanceToit! Windy is also a favorite of mine, too.
The girls let the boys take the lead. That comes from good home training. ♥️💜💛💙.
That one couple there near the Bandstand sign don't even look like they're with each other.
#8? I thought the same
Damn, I’d like to take the WayBack Machine back to ‘67!!!
Great 👍 dancing 💃!!! Great 👍 song!!!
I can remember this contest...didn't the black couple win, because I remember them doing one of their dance routines to "The Tighten Up" by Archie Bell and the Drells?...LOL..I'm told I have a memory like an elephant!
Big Bill O'Reilly ...Really?
Tighten Up was done in May of 1968, not sure who won. Was born in October of '02
So you're 17 years old? Really?!
YES couple#4 Famous Hooks and Jennifer Nichols WON. They were the BEST ❤️❤️
Annah Shoffner
Famous & Jennifer won in '67 or '68? Famous is the only name I recall from this show.
A lot of songs using weather terms back then."Stormy","It's Cold Outside",along with many lyrics about weather--and "Windy".
I vote for couple #1...and couple #8 are like they don't even know each other
All those couples dancing like professionals, and then there is the one couple just dancing haha. Good on em.
I miss my long straight hair.
I miss my hair.
I miss having Hair period.
I would like to hear from anyone who is in this video...Please state at what point of the video you are seen and what your wearing etc. That would be cool to hear from people that were in this video. :)
This I call music I love it
That's Jenny Nichols in ( Couple 4) right now.
A-men!! where was she from at that time there?
Well thank you, I am Jenny Nichols-Cohen. I love watching these old shows.
@@TheRankin42 You're Welcome, Jenny! By the way. My Name is Aisisha Kennedy I'm from Springfield, Tennessee and I'm 36 years old younger.
@@TheRankin42 Jenny Nichols,A while back someone was wondering what happen to you on one of these bandstand clips.The person said sorry they didn't know and i'm pretty sure they were connected with bandstand.It would be a pleasure for all if you would talk to some of the regular dancers on some popular videos you were on.
@@TheRankin42 I like watching them too since I couldn.t watch the shows in 1967 because I was an AirForce medic. I saw VIETNAM WAR 1970. Platoon comes under fire as CBS camera rolls on youtube. Some of the soldiers were young enough to have been Bandstand dancers.
I loved #2, and #1....💞💞
it was the best decade to be young
I might get some flack for this, but I grew to prefer this show to Soul Train as a kid; for many black kids of this period (the 1970's in my case) AB was the only show that showcased Top 40 music (this was the height of the "crossover" period, after all). Besides, due to ST's need to showcase the barely broad gamut of R&B, by the early 1980's the show began to appeal to parents than to kids--anyone else ever notice the sheer number of borderline middle-age dancers still appearing on that show?
Cynthia Pickett both were great shows, but you certainly won’t get any flack from me :)
Cynthia Pickett I watched both ST and AB when I was a kid in the 70s. I liked ST for dancing and AB for music.
Same here.
My older sister who was born as the last of the so called baby boomer era in 1961 and as a teen in the '70's and early 80's she loved both shows. She said the same thing that Ms. Devore said ST for dancing and AB for the variety of music i.e Rock/Pop, Soul and even sometimes Country.
Off topic as i was not born until 1972 lol. I thought almost all TV shows in America by 1967 was in color. Why is this still in Black & White?
Born in Chicago in 1970 here. SoulTrain was the only place to be on Saturday morning. 👍🏼
First year I noticed a black couple (or person) in the dance contest. Love these old Bandstand clips.....
And they won too!
I'm young 65 scorpio
Does ANYONE know anything about Couple #4 ?? Every time I watch AB, I see the #4 guy, & I've developed a "thing" for him. He always seemed a little more sophisticated than the other young guys, & sometimes, he would be by himself & he would ask a young lady from the crowd to dance. I just wondered what EVER happened to him, as well as ALL these bright, lovely young ladies & men. "Those were the days, my friends, we thought they'ed NEVER end".
Girls have always danced with me like #8 does.
Now tell me which couples had a beat to their dance steps 😮
Saw the Association live in the 70s
All the couples except for #8 were great. #8 were really half-assed compared to the others.
Couple no 1 was the best. I guess back then, hardwork on the floor didn't matter
Windy😍
Love these videos! Though, some of these dancers are moving a bit too fast for the beat?!?! Looks like the guy for couple #1 is gonna whip her off the dance floor! Still enjoyable to watch...
I think your very lucky it must have been brilliant being young and being young in the sixties I wish I could have gone on something so cool🎵🎶🎵🎶❣️🌞🔥🌎
Famous and June were a terrific pair. Before they were a couple he used to dance with Lori Montgomery. Then in 1966 a Bandstand edict came down that everyone had to come with a partner and no mixed race couples were allowed. Everyone was pissed that Famous and Lori had to be broken up!
Interesting info Peggy about that show. I strongly disagree with the concept of that suspected edict of no interracial dance couple allowed. With that said, I understand why Dick Clark had that unwritten rule though to appease some viewers especially in the South. This edict being done to appease a few Viewers who were just then barely accepting Black Dance Couples/Audience Members in 1967 on National TV in America. Especially since the so called Jim Crow era had only ended about 4 years earlier. Plus I am sure the phones would have blown up if AB allowed Black/Latinos to have White Dance Partners then. Shows despite the problems we still have in 2018, how far we progressed on race in the USA.
And a question for those who know the answer? Pardon me if I am wrong guys but i only remember watching AB in the last few years of it's amazing run in the mid/late '80's but I swear I saw Mixed couple i.e White Lady and a Black Guy and a Latina Woman/Young White Man as Dancers. Maybe someone here on TH-cam can confirm if Dick Clark and the powers at ABC ended that edict by the time this show wrapped up by around I think 1988-'89?
That's Jenny Nichols in (Couple #4) right now.
Oh, I thought it was June!
No, that's Jenny Nichols her partner Famous Hooks.
You should let Aaron know so he can correct it. Are you related to Jenny?
@YouCanDanceToit Why do you have this titled Dance Contest 2 when Dick Clark says it's the last one, and there were 3?
I was a child 13 threw 17
I meant NOT looking for someone to discover them!
Aaron, another blast from the past. But also cool to see Eddie and Ruby (couple 2), Cathy and Tom (couple 1), and Mike with his partner "Snook" (couple 5).
I wish I had the clip of them winning. I think they won a pair of Volkswagens (?). As always, thanks for the information dancer don!
There dancing more like this at the dancehall when it's been around forever. Love all this dancers moves.
dancer don That's Jenny Nichols in ( Couple 4 ) right now.
I like how Ruby has her number on her derriere! I sure it is because of her long hair but it sure looks funny!
Aisisha Kennedy, you are so right. Thank you for setting the record straight! Is it Jenny or Judy Nichols? ~~ Don
If couple #4 doesn’t win, I’ll eat my hat
4!
I was in the Marines 1967-70, in 1967 I was in San Diego going to electronics school, still remember the song Windy... Who was the girl #2, very nice girl...
Carolyn in the 70s
I like number 2
Please, I beg all you groovy cats and kittens. Start writing an extensive diary now. I was 20 years old in 1967 and this video made me try to remember what I was up to back then. But guess what? I can't remember squat and I don't think I have dementia yet.
I agree. I have kept a dairy for years. In time they become historical documents.
Did you catch the girl kicking out her leg in the spin at 0:46? Good thing nobody was near her!
Especially if some dude caught it in the gonads.
Couple #1 are like bats outta hell