What a time to be a high school Junior as I recall around April of 1970. Attention children under 20, these are your grandparents on that dance floor in their youth without an iota of a thought of being 65 or above someday.
I graduated high school in 1970! Except for Vietnam War, it was a great time to be alive! Went to Woodstock, married and had three kids, while working my way through nursing school. Worked for decades as an RN! Lost my darling husband in 2001. He was an ironworker. Sadly I lost my youngest son suddenly in November 2023! Oh life!❤️☮️✌️😔
mrob75 Same here! I remember the hippies who lived in my neighborhood. I was a kid obsessed with them. From my 2nd floor apartment fireescape I would see them in the apartment below with all their records on the floor listening to their groovy music. When we would camping hippies would help my parents put up the tent. Everything was better then.
My Generation....i was a Senior in High School in 1970. A great time to live. I loved it. Great music, great muscle cars, a wonderful time to be a TEEN AGER!!!!
This song was one of the many 45s I remember buying as a 9-year-old kid. Well-written and I loved the way the verses and chorus melted with one another in a solid flow. Great song! One of my favorites of 1970!
No, there's all that these days, just not for you or for me. It's their time to one day what we're doing now and look fondly back. We had our time. This was it.
I was just weeks from high school graduation when this clip aired in May 1970. The Beatles were about to break up and a young kid named Michael Jackson was stepping into the spotlight with his family group The Jackson 5. The world of the 60s was winding down. It was a changing of the guard.
Harry Elston from the Friends Of Distinction is a longtime friend. He's seen this clip and greatly appreciates you for posting it. Said that Dick Clark booked the group on the show many times and will never forget his support.
NEW GROOVES RADIO WOW!! Thank you for showing Harry the clip. I’m a huge TFOD fan. Grazing In The Grass is one of my absolute all time favorite songs....can never play that one loud enough! Thank you for this!
Can you dig it? What a great song . The rhythm section on this song propels it so well.Those bass lines under pin the song so well. First heard this on the Cousin Brucie afternoon show on WABC 770 New York and then in FM glory and stereo on WPLJ 95.7 New York. One of the best "soul" songs from the late 60's and early 70's. What a sound!!
I remember watching Bandstand back in the day. Wasn't a big fan, and I watched it with only passing interest. That's a pity because watching these clips now, I see now that I never really noticed then just how heartbreakingly lovely most of these young ladies were. Makes a guy kind of wistful for the lost beauty of youth. If you know what I mean.
YEEEEEESSS, FINALLY!!! That’s what I said as a kid the very FIRST TIME that I heard it! The sound of the drummer’s snare drum fits BEAUTIFULLY it’s the tone of the bass guitar. It sounds a LOT like the tone that Alex Van Halen made for his very own a decade later!
It's amazing to see if the music and dress style change from 50s to 70s. I was 10 at the time of this video. You can see the late 60s style, slowly turning into the disco era style of shags, afros, platform shoes, etc
Remember like yesterday. New decade then. Now 53 years later and classics like this bring the onions out. No dry eyes around here as this brings the happy onions to the eyes.
Sad news to report - the co-writer/lyricist of this classic, ANITA POREE, had passed away on Sunday, July 8th after battling cancer. She was 78. Anita also co-wrote the FOD'S hit, "Going In Circles".
Kevin Goins I’m really sorry to hear this. I love The Friends of Distinction and both this song and “Going In Circles” are amazing classics. RIP Anita.
www.allmusic.com/artist/the-friends-of-distinction-mn0000060476/biography Look up the song I mentioned in my post as well as Grazing In The Grass.. It's on You Tube. Fans who've followed the Friends Of Distinction know who she is, especially since Anita co-wrote two of their biggest hits - "Love Or Let Me Be Lonely" and "Going In Circles" - both million sellers.
IM SORRY TO HEAR THAT LINDA ! I HOPE THINGS GOT A LITTLE BETTER FOR YOU BACK THEN !MY DAD LEFT MY MOTHER IN 1972 WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL HE WOULD THEN CREATE THE BIGGEST MESS MY FAMILY EVER SAW !BUT WE GOT THROUGH IT THANK GOD ! ALL 6 OF US ! TAKE CARE !
Linda I was also 7th grade turned 13 later in year. And yes my parents split just a couple of months after this aired. It is a strange thing that the time was so turbulent as you say and yet I miss it so much.
I think the guy who posts these videos said that 1970 is where his supply ends (his AB video library). Or else he would most likely post 1971 and beyond. He picks up again in the late 70s, so there's just some kind of big gap.
In this clip, I see a glimpse of a very young dancer named Larry, who, a couple years later would be paired with a girl named Kimmy, and both would become my favorite early 70's AB dance couple. Thought he was so cute back then...we were the same age...
2-25-21: WORDS JUST ARE NOT ENOUGH TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MUSICOLOGY OF THEIR VOCAL BLENDING SYNCOPATION ORCHESTRATED LEVEL OF SUPERBNESS. INDESCRIBABLE DELICIOUS IN EVERY WAY ON EVERY CONTINENT ALL THE WAY TO MARS AND BACK. ❤️⭐️HARRY ELSTON MS CLEAVES HARRY BUTLER MS LOVE
I was eight yrs old at this time, AB was always on Sat afternoons , my mom loved the show, I do remember watching the big kids dancing back in these times, would luv to go back...BTW great song by "The Friends Of Distinction"...
When i think of those days i remember my cousin sandy and my cousin and brother with the pompadour hair syle and using a ton of Aqua Net to hold it in place
My aunt has this lp of this group called friends of distinction and this song was played on American bandstand in 1970 and I love their hair styles and their music and also their clothes
Those were days didnt girls were natural and beautiful long hair was still in, and no tatoos on women, or people trying to jump in front of the cameras,😊
Hi Don! Can you point out (by the video timer) who they are? I’m ALWAYS happy to learn more about the AB dancers! Also, what years were they on the show?
Upon closer look it appears that Andy's partner in this clip is their friend Charlotte. Andy is wearing monochrome shirt and trousers and wide tie. Charlotte is wearing a dark dress with white piping. They are dancing the "two step". Video timer at 1:21; 1:47 and 2:14 are the best shots. They danced on Bandstand from late 1969 through the early '70s. Contact Jeff at ABdancers. I've shared vintage photos with him or you can get my email from him if you wish.
Ah, got it! I almost guessed that was the couple you were talking about. Whether it’s Charlotte or Buggy with Andy, they look like they know what they were doing. And I’d love to see vintage photos....I’ll check in with Jeff. Thanks for the reply and all your insights. It’s so cool hearing from someone who was actually there!
GIRLIE YOU WERE THE QUEEN OF JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL, 1970, AND I WALKED YOU TO CLASS AND NOT ONLY YOU INVITED ME TO YOUR HOUSE FOR DINNER I WAS SOO YOUNG , GIRLIE WERE EVER YOU ARE
And what, pray tell, would today's "millenial youngsters" actually DANCE to?! Certainly not the vulgarity-laced, spoken-word diatribes, spouted by our endless supply of rappers and hip hoppers! Nope! American Bandstand and the magical realm it created for generations of teens and young adults, whose total enjoyment in life was being a part of its magic...those days, and sadly, those teens and young adults, are gone forever.
Is this the last time that we know of we'll see Frank Vanderpuil on Bandstand? White shirt, dark tie dancing with taller girl in printed dress at roughly 0:36 to 0:38 ?
If this song doesn't make you smile or a little bit happier....well you know.
What a time to be a high school Junior as I recall around April of 1970. Attention children under 20, these are your grandparents on that dance floor in their youth without an iota of a thought of being 65 or above someday.
I graduated high school in 1970! Except for Vietnam War, it was a great time to be alive! Went to Woodstock, married and had three kids, while working my way through nursing school. Worked for decades as an RN! Lost my darling husband in 2001. He was an ironworker. Sadly I lost my youngest son suddenly in November 2023! Oh life!❤️☮️✌️😔
Grandparents. EXCELLENT POINT.
Noticeably older people have not been old for very long. It is a fairly new, and sometimes perplexing experience.
Great song! Wonderful growing up in the 1970s Miss this kind of music!
The best time of my life was 69-71, I had so much fun. The ladies are simply beautiful and classy.
In the Army, love and remember this great song❤️❤️⚔️⚔️
My mind is stuck to those years too like yesterday
Beautiful kids, beautiful music and beautiful times...What I'd do to go back at least for a day!
mrob75 Same here! I remember the hippies who lived in my neighborhood. I was a kid obsessed with them. From my 2nd floor apartment fireescape I would see them in the apartment below with all their records on the floor listening to their groovy music. When we would camping hippies would help my parents put up the tent. Everything was better then.
I know it's wrong to look back in the past, but my god I would sell my soul to be back in this time period...
I lived through this magical period and wouldn't hesitate, for a moment, to go back...they were the BEST times!
You can learn from the past - enjoy it. You are not a bad person.
Big Bill O'Reilly TROLL alert! Bill is up voting his own idiotic comments again. Notice this troll weights in on most AB videos spewing garbage
Senior in high school! Best year of my life!❤
This song is really before it’s time. It has this upbeat yet haunting quality to it I just love it. Even more fun to watch everyone dancing to it.
Yes, I agree. The Friends of Distinction were a great group. Do you like Paul Davis' cover version?
Yeah I true... Sometimes I wish I was around.
What does it take by Junior Walker and the All-Stars has the same haunting quality to it. I love them both.
What a terrific lead vocal by Charlene Gibson!
Wow what a great song
Saw Friends of Distinction live in college in 1972. They were overshadowed a bit by The Fifth Dimension, but were a great group too
what a treat watching people having such a good time. Loved the tune and the style of the dancers
This was my moms era. I lost her almost 2 years ago. I love and miss you Toot. 😢
sorry for your lost, I can be touched...mine's era too...lost her in 2015
My condolences
🌹 🙏
Love to you, my friend.
Aww so sorry to hear! You didn’t lose her sweetheart, she’s still with you! The love it never dies!🙏🏻❤️🩹🕊️🪽
My Generation....i was a Senior in High School in 1970. A great time to live. I loved it. Great music, great muscle cars, a wonderful time to be a TEEN AGER!!!!
My Dad graduated HS in 1970 and has said many times that those were great days. I wish I could have experienced it!
Life was better without the internet and iPhones . People stayed connected and did things .
This song was one of the many 45s I remember buying as a 9-year-old kid. Well-written and I loved the way the verses and chorus melted with one another in a solid flow. Great song! One of my favorites of 1970!
Great style !!! Great Music!!! Great talent ; non existent today . What a time to live !!! Thank you for this video !!!
L
No, there's all that these days, just not for you or for me. It's their time to one day what we're doing now and look fondly back. We had our time. This was it.
1970, love to be 15 yrs old again. Never missed American Bandstand.
You could almost here the disco era coming over the horizon with songs like this.
I always liked this one more than “Grazing in the grass”. 😊
We had so much fun because we connected with others so much. That, together with the great music equalled happiness!❤
Such wonderful music and times. I was born in 1967, but remember these times. The world and music are a piece of shit compared to then.
I was just weeks from high school graduation when this clip aired in May 1970. The Beatles were about to break up and a young kid named Michael Jackson was stepping into the spotlight with his family group The Jackson 5. The world of the 60s was winding down. It was a changing of the guard.
I was born in '67' too.
I was 16 and I remember watching this
Harry Elston from the Friends Of Distinction is a longtime friend. He's seen this clip and greatly appreciates you for posting it. Said that Dick Clark booked the group on the show many times and will never forget his support.
NEW GROOVES RADIO WOW!! Thank you for showing Harry the clip. I’m a huge TFOD fan. Grazing In The Grass is one of my absolute all time favorite songs....can never play that one loud enough! Thank you for this!
+NewGroovesRadio This song came out when I was 9, and I thought it was sung by the 5th Dimension... Lol
I wish someone could post a clip of the Hi-Fi's on Shindig performing the original version of "Lonesome Mood"
@@rufus317 Yeah that was posted years ago but since been pulled.
@@newgroovesradio8704 Godd vid too!
Can you dig it? What a great song . The rhythm section on this song propels it so well.Those bass lines under pin the song so well. First heard this on the Cousin Brucie afternoon show on WABC 770 New York and then in FM glory and stereo on WPLJ 95.7 New York. One of the best "soul" songs from the late 60's and early 70's. What a sound!!
I remember watching Bandstand back in the day. Wasn't a big fan, and I watched it with only passing interest. That's a pity because watching these clips now, I see now that I never really noticed then just how heartbreakingly lovely most of these young ladies were.
Makes a guy kind of wistful for the lost beauty of youth. If you know what I mean.
John Edwards Yes we see and notice things later on.
John Edwards Youth is wasted on the young...
Loved the bass line in this song from the day it came out.
YEEEEEESSS, FINALLY!!! That’s what I said as a kid the very FIRST TIME that I heard it! The sound of the drummer’s snare drum fits BEAUTIFULLY it’s the tone of the bass guitar. It sounds a LOT like the tone that Alex Van Halen made for his very own a decade later!
What a great time it was
Beautiful song
Great song!
The girl at 0:06 is so Beautiful...some lucky guy married her...great song.
Great song, my best year too!
It's amazing to see if the music and dress style change from 50s to 70s. I was 10 at the time of this video. You can see the late 60s style, slowly turning into the disco era style of shags, afros, platform shoes, etc
By 1970 styles were changing and most fabrics were ma.n-made.. Didn't have to worry about wrinkles. Rr
Wow, would I love to just travel back to 1970 for a while after seeing this. No trouble telling the girls from the boys! Great video!!!
Remember like yesterday. New decade then. Now 53 years later and classics like this bring the onions out. No dry eyes around here as this brings the happy onions to the eyes.
Love or let me be lonely. ❤
Great music from 1970. I was just 16 back then and remember this well!!
real good songs at that time!!! i was 15 years old then!!!
I was five. I remember that year.
One of my favorite groups of the decade.....LOVE the song...thank you for your great posts!
Sad news to report - the co-writer/lyricist of this classic, ANITA POREE, had passed away on Sunday, July 8th after battling cancer. She was 78. Anita also co-wrote the FOD'S hit, "Going In Circles".
Kevin Goins I’m really sorry to hear this. I love The Friends of Distinction and both this song and “Going In Circles” are amazing classics. RIP Anita.
www.allmusic.com/artist/the-friends-of-distinction-mn0000060476/biography
Look up the song I mentioned in my post as well as Grazing In The Grass.. It's on You Tube. Fans who've followed the Friends Of Distinction know who she is, especially since Anita co-wrote two of their biggest hits - "Love Or Let Me Be Lonely" and "Going In Circles" - both million sellers.
This song made me go to tears. I was 10 then. Now this world and time makes me so sad
13 years old and in the 7th grade when this song came out. My mother and stepfather had just split up. Very turbulent time around January 1970.
IM SORRY TO HEAR THAT LINDA ! I HOPE THINGS GOT A LITTLE BETTER FOR YOU BACK THEN !MY DAD LEFT MY MOTHER IN 1972 WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL HE WOULD THEN CREATE THE BIGGEST MESS MY FAMILY EVER SAW !BUT WE GOT THROUGH IT THANK GOD ! ALL 6 OF US ! TAKE CARE !
We 64 now.still young at heart
Linda I was also 7th grade turned 13 later in year. And yes my parents split just a couple of months after this aired. It is a strange thing that the time was so turbulent as you say and yet I miss it so much.
Me too, 7th grade, but still just 12.
Priceless the song 🎵 of 1970. Will always hold this song in my ❤️ heart.
I was very young when it came out. But what a time to live in! Happy and carefree❤
I wish there was a little bit more of 70 and 71. I graduated in 71 so would love to see some of that year.
I think the guy who posts these videos said that 1970 is where his supply ends (his AB video library). Or else he would most likely post 1971 and beyond. He picks up again in the late 70s, so there's just some kind of big gap.
Great song
In this clip, I see a glimpse of a very young dancer named Larry, who, a couple years later would be paired with a girl named Kimmy, and both would become my favorite early 70's AB dance couple. Thought he was so cute back then...we were the same age...
I really love this song! By the way that girl in the very beginning was super cute!
Agree on that. The blond girl at the 1 minute mark, wow!!!
2-25-21: WORDS JUST ARE NOT ENOUGH TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MUSICOLOGY OF THEIR VOCAL BLENDING SYNCOPATION ORCHESTRATED LEVEL OF SUPERBNESS. INDESCRIBABLE DELICIOUS IN EVERY WAY ON EVERY CONTINENT ALL THE WAY TO MARS AND BACK. ❤️⭐️HARRY ELSTON MS CLEAVES HARRY BUTLER MS LOVE
People looked so much better and healthier back then.
I was eight yrs old at this time, AB was always on Sat afternoons , my mom loved the show, I do remember watching the big kids dancing back in these times, would luv to go back...BTW great song by "The Friends Of Distinction"...
:06 and 1:25...what a doll! She must have grown up to be a beautiful woman.
She was gorgeous. Loved her smile. No one remembers her name.
She is gorgeous!!! I wonder where she is? 🤔
Agreed, she was adorable back then, wonder where life took her and how she is today....
Here's more th-cam.com/video/UNsSy0TiZck/w-d-xo.html
She was already a woman, looks like.
Good one. Thanks for the post of this timeless gold. Lovin' 1970.
Wonderful music like this is always right on time, my ears thank you !!!!
Good song for a couples dance, and they were great !!
Great song! One of my all time favorites. That really tall guy looks like Kareem Abdul Jabaar getting down.
When i think of those days i remember my cousin sandy and my cousin and brother with the pompadour hair syle and using a ton of Aqua Net to hold it in place
First year of college very happy times. I would love to go back and be that girl 20 again.
This song was on the juke box at the enlisted men's club in Naha ,Okinawa. I listened to it frequently
My aunt has this lp of this group called friends of distinction and this song was played on American bandstand in 1970 and I love their hair styles and their music and also their clothes
Wow .. I was in the 5th grade in 1970 ❤ and I remember this episode of American Band Stand ❤️
The Clothes.Music and the Attitude make The Music 🎵🎶 of the Late 60s and The Early 7Os GOLDEN.
WOW ! THIS MUSIC IS FANTASTIC !! I REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS NEW ! BOUGHT THE SINGLE AT THE DRUG STORE 79 CENTS !! AND IN THE 6TH GRADE !!
Those were days didnt girls were natural and beautiful long hair was still in, and no tatoos on women, or people trying to jump in front of the cameras,😊
Amen to that! I concur absolutely!
Amen
Ughh tell it. I can't stand women with tatts 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾
You have something against short hair?
oh you mean when there was only white people?
All I can say is thank God for American Bandstand, for it helped close the racism Gap 🤗
I was 5 years old when this song was out and this was our clean up music!
Aaron you captured some great shots of favorite couple Andy and Buggy. RIP
Hi Don! Can you point out (by the video timer) who they are? I’m ALWAYS happy to learn more about the AB dancers! Also, what years were they on the show?
Upon closer look it appears that Andy's partner in this clip is their friend Charlotte. Andy is wearing monochrome shirt and trousers and wide tie. Charlotte is wearing a dark dress with white piping. They are dancing the "two step". Video timer at 1:21; 1:47 and 2:14 are the best shots. They danced on Bandstand from late 1969 through the early '70s. Contact Jeff at ABdancers. I've shared vintage photos with him or you can get my email from him if you wish.
Another Bandstand footnote: Buggy and Andy were in the AB dance contest -- probably 1971 or 1972. Hope this is helpful. Don
Ah, got it! I almost guessed that was the couple you were talking about. Whether it’s Charlotte or Buggy with Andy, they look like they know what they were doing. And I’d love to see vintage photos....I’ll check in with Jeff.
Thanks for the reply and all your insights. It’s so cool hearing from someone who was actually there!
Anytime, Aaron. Those were the best of times.
Don
I was 15 back then great song great show. Now after so many years gone by, those were the greatest with good memories.
We was all hippies back in those fun years
Yes we were. I'd go back to the late 60s and the 70s and stay.
My Art teacher that year (7th grade) was a hippie. She showed us how to make tie-dyed shirts.
Ahhhh one of the best songs ever!!!
April 1970 was when this came out and I had just turned 14.. Local station in Ogden, UT played it a lot.
What wouldn't I give to go back? A flood of memories flash before me. Don't know where to begin.
BLAST from the past!! Thanks so much✌ Great channel🎵🎹
I was in 7th grade -fall of 1970 - bell bottom pants -middle school
I love watching these vintage A.B.
Video's.... Those are your parent's
out there groovin' before you were born !!
Remember the day this great song came out! We had only AM radio back in the day.
Awesome!
I was just back in High School my Senior year.
GIRLIE YOU WERE THE QUEEN OF JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL, 1970, AND I WALKED YOU TO CLASS AND NOT ONLY YOU INVITED ME TO YOUR HOUSE FOR DINNER I WAS SOO YOUNG , GIRLIE WERE EVER YOU ARE
Where r all the new clips from 1970 and 1971.
The couple at 32 seconds I loved watching them dance. Joe Minor and his partner. What happened to them?.She was so beautiful!
see above.
Dancer Don with the 'burns and 'stache? Who's your partner?
Needs to be back on tv, today.
And what, pray tell, would today's "millenial youngsters" actually DANCE to?! Certainly not the vulgarity-laced, spoken-word diatribes, spouted by our endless supply of rappers and hip hoppers! Nope! American Bandstand and the magical realm it created for generations of teens and young adults, whose total enjoyment in life was being a part of its magic...those days, and sadly, those teens and young adults, are gone forever.
these kids need something to watch while oldsters steal hubcaps.
Good o'l days 😊❤❤
The Melody reminds me of To Love Somebody at the beginning by The Bee Gees.
Its Sad Time passes Quickly And Know one learns Anything
Great Song !!!
Great Day's !!!
I was eleven years old in 1970, best days every, wouldn't trade them to be 11 now.❤🙂
Beim Polterabend nach diesem Song getanzt (1970)
🙂...Is that a teen Josh Brolin ? ...love watching all these teens dancing , I was 12 years old in 1970, 7th grade ...I’m now 61 .
Me too ... 12 in the spring of 1970, 13 later in the year.
Woodstock influence in fashion on display here big-time!
My 2nd favorite song in the world.☺
The kids look cleaner, and healthier back then than they do today.
This song came out when I was 17.
Cool era
I REMEMBER THAT SONG. I WAS TWO YEARS OLD WHEN I HEARD IT.
Is this the last time that we know of we'll see Frank Vanderpuil on Bandstand? White shirt, dark tie dancing with taller girl in printed dress at roughly 0:36 to 0:38 ?
he just flashes by Jean I am glad you caught our guy.
Good eye!
I FOUND YOU GIRLIE, QUEEN OF JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL, AND YOU CHOOSE ME TO WALK YOU 2 CLASS , THAT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE.
John Marshall HS in what city?
JOHN MARSHALL IS IN LOS ANGELES, LOS FELIZ BY GRIFFITH PARK STACY STREET
@@juangiron8318 Oh OK. We have (had) John Marshall HS in Rochester NY too.
Pre famous celebrities as American bandstand dancers appearance in American bandstand series
As far as I know they only had 2 big hits Grazing in the Grass and Love or Let Me Be Lonely 1969 and 1970
I was 7 when this came out Great record sadly it dinn’t chart in Britain
Bom seria se a juventude de hoje se espelhasem nós anos 70 como eles aproveitaram da melhor maneira a vida
Love you all