This is an all-time classic and has been in a ton of movies including Dirty Dancing (1987) and Teen Wolf (1985) This song came out in 1962. My mom was one of those crazy girls you see in videos with the big hair and makeup doing all the crazy dances and screaming at the Beatles and other bands, she did all these dances. BJ - so the mash potato dance is done pivoting on the balls of your feet and kicking out to the side on an 8 count (Kathryn Rebholz has a tutorial on it on her channel) You guys should totally do a vlog of trying out all the old dances from the 60s with the Swim, the Twist, the Locomotion, and the Mashed Potato being prolly the most noteworthy. The "fad dances" seem kinda weird until you realize we do the same thing all the time now even: the dougie, watch me whip, the stanky leg, - we do the same thing now, I guess silly dances is just a human thing for whatever reason. Cheers.
This was a "Monster Hit" back in 1962. It stayed in the Top 10 for months. Every time you turn on the radio this was being played. The Contours were "Awesome".
No one can sit still to this song! Love it. Haven't heard it since the last time I saw Dirty Dancing. I want to see B.J. doing the Mashed Potato! It brings back memories from my childhood and my 45 records. Thanks! BTW those shoes were called "saddle oxfords".
Wow. If you were black or white, red or yellow, or falcon green--if you were a teen living close enough to Detroit (that was me), you were glued to the radio and the tunes coming from the great music they played on Detroit radio. You reached back into my childhood for this. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
This song was played on every turntable back in the day, actually way more popular than the top ten ratings, ask anybody back then, and great for dancing, watch me now, work, work, hehe!
Motown Records started off as a dance-oriented label, and one of their biggest smash hits was a 1962 song, “Do You Love 💗 Me,” 🎼👌💯that talks about a man who tries to regain the affections of a loved one by showing off his skills by performing several dances, including the mashed potato and the twist. The song was written by Berry Gordy, who offered it to The Contours 🚬🔥 with the intention of giving it to The Temptations had the former group turned it down. It is worth noting that “Do You Love Me” clearly showcases Gordy’s songwriting talents, standing as a crossover of many genres, from rock and roll to soul to R&B, with this eclectic blend making it palatable across many culturally different audiences. GREAT song back in the day & today too!!
Always reminds me of the scene in Dirty Dancing, where Baby just keeps dancing for a bit after the song "Love Man" (Otis Redding) ends. edit- fyi "Do You Love Me" is from1962. Billy Gordon on lead vocals. The Funk Brothers were the session musicians including James Jamerson on bass.
My father Sylvester Potts sang on this recording and with the Contours for years. Dennis Edwards of the Temptatations started out with the Contours as well. Yes people rushed to dance whenever they heard the song...no dance floor needed.😊😊😊
For the excitement around this song, watch the scene in Dirty Dancing, I'd say that's a pretty genuine representation of the reaction to this song when it first came out.
Recorded in 1962, so there was a dance step of the Mashed Potatoes and the Twist. You can search You Tube for the original dances. BTW I was in my 2nd year of high school!!! 😂
As others have mentioned, this came out in '62 and you are definitely right when you commented that everyone ran to the dance floor when this came on. There was another song around the same time that also caused a mad rush by everyone to the floor: "Wipe Out" by The Safaris. See what you think.
You want to know what it felt like when this song was played back in the 60s??? It felt lonely for the 2 or 3 people who were sitting down because EVERYONE else was on the dance floor. You could not sit still when this song came on. It was a big crowd pleaser. And BTW the Mashed Potato was done with your feet not hands. Thank you both for this great reaction. Takes me back to our high school dances. Love it. 😊👏🇨🇦
Hey Asia & BJ, I have always loved this song!!! This is a classic "JAM!!!" It puts a "glide-in-your-stride" and a "dip-in-your-hip!!!" Shout out to you guys for this reaction!!!
Wow now we’re really going back, it was because I had teenage sisters that I knew this music! I mean, music really imitates life and most of it is very good! Love this song
You do the mashed potato with your feet! LOL Y'all are the best, I always look for your reactions, music or films. How did it feel the first time. You can't be still when this song is playing. Be safe y'all.
I was in elementary school when this song was first played on the radio. I loved to dance when I was a boy, and this number quickly became my favorite song to dance to. And, truthfully, it's one of those hits that never gets old. It sounds as good to me today as it did those many years ago! P.S. And you're right, BJ. I bought the record, and wore it out, playing it over and over and over again, all the while dancing my little legs off!
According to Wiki: "Do You Love Me" became a successful dance record, built around Gordon's screaming vocals. Selling over a million copies, "Do You Love Me" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks starting on October 20, 1962, and reached the top position on the Billboard R&B Singles chart.
Every local band played this at the clubs. And, yes, this song definitely brought everyone to the dance floor. The only good thing about being old is the wonderful music we had. I'm talking real singers - no auto tune. Just listen to the quality of singing on these old songs. Real, real talent.
This is a great example of what the 60's felt like-happy , fun , lot's of laughter, the music was our life-blood. It pulled us all together. A wonderful time! With Love , from Seattle
We used to have little dance parties in our garages. They were very popular. Sometimes when the party was slow to start you'd put on a song guaranteed to get people up and moving. This song was one of those, to be sure! 😁
The first time I heard it was on the radio, a.m. of course, WLS in Chicago... Couldn't wait to hit the dance floor...The shoes you're talking about are saddle oxfords...They were a big item for the girls, the guys wanted white bucks...Oh what a time to be alive...Songs like this stirred up the parents ...They didn't want their pasty white kids dancing to this evil music, so of course that's exactly what we did...We couldn't wait to be juvenile deliquents...Love this reaction and love you guys...
Early 60s "just dance" era. Definitely before the mid to later 60s. Never gets old! Oh yes I was 12 yrs in 1961 doing the Twist and the Mashed Potatoes..lol!!!!!!!!
The Contours were great. This song is from 1962 and they had a future Temptation Dennis Edwards and Joe Stubbs brother of Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops. Just to name a couple of members. Check out Just A Little Misunderstanding by them. Motown is in the house.
What are you two waiting for, you need to see the film with this song in it. There are other great tracks in Dirty Dancing, song It’s one hell of a amazing song if you raised with this track of this era 👏👏🙌🙌🙌❤️❤️
I was probably 7 or 8 years old and my older sister had this on a 45 RPM and even as a young boy I could appreciate the sound of the snare drum and the bass guitar as well as the groove
This was fun. Love this song and I think you guys needs to be on the dance floor with this one. Alot of great songs from the movie "Dirty Dancing". Y'all need to check it out on your movie night.
You two are cute together. I really enjoy watching your reactions. Yes, we didn't get tired of this song! I think it was a song of the sixties. Best wishes!
Love this song so much, such a classic and it's as old as me! You HAVE to watch Dirty Dancing...this was the song they did the 'dirty dancing" to in the movie, so good...Patrick Swayze was amazing and wrote and sang the song from it called 'She's like the wind'
Yes! BJ...awesome chair dancer! You two would look great out on the dance floor! And I absolutely love your version of the mashed potato! 😄 Just do the same thing with your feet on the floor. Too bad you couldn't pull up the original video of the Contours doing this song back when it first came out. So much fun to watch. ❤
This is what we were fed when rock was killed off in '58. Dance craze songs, leftover doo-wop, novelty songs, folk music, country crossovers, spoken word records, crooners, surf music, car songs, itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny-yellow-polka-dot-bikini, early motown, Allen Toussaint's Nola music & Phil Spector's wall of sound. But no rock till the British Invasion flooded it back across the pond because the Beatles were unstoppable (Cliff Richard and the Shadows had been easily stopped a year or so earlier) and they brought Blues (the Rolling Stones) and R&B (the Animals) along with them. US Pop radio had to play rock again and eventually FM came in when the kids got serious about their music. Most white kids had never heard of Amos Milburn, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon et alia until white British & Irish kids started playing music of the 40s and 50s back at them in the 60s.
Back when music was fun! 😊🎸💘😉👌 My sisters used to get me to do the "twist" for their friends to laugh at when they had slumber parties back in mid 1960s!
Awww I love that my Asia❤️❤️ "the SPIRIT to DANCE!!!" Yessss...💃🕺and if ya don't... then ya really need to MOVE!!! right on outta here🤭 Absolutely LOVE this, and your reactions❤️❤️
You guys gotta watch American Graffiti on your movie review channel. That whole movie is full of this music. And was George Lucas's first big movie. A top five for sure.
If you want to see how to do the mashed potatoes, find a video of Dee Dee Sharp singing the song "Mashed Potato Time" with dancers doing the dance in the background. The video most likely will be in black and white. If you can find Black people doing the dance, it would look more like what I did. (BJ: It's about the feet, not the hands.) This song mentions another song -- "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" -- which is also a song worth a reaction. Get the version by The Tokens who introduced the song to American audience. It's taken from the African song "Mbube" by Solomon Linda & the Evening.
I remember this.you just can't sit still when it comes on.great song.would you react to phillis Nelson."move closer".it's a classic song.just beautiful.its a proper love song.love watching you guys.
This is an all-time classic and has been in a ton of movies including Dirty Dancing (1987) and Teen Wolf (1985)
This song came out in 1962. My mom was one of those crazy girls you see in videos with the big hair and makeup doing all the crazy dances and screaming at the Beatles and other bands, she did all these dances.
BJ - so the mash potato dance is done pivoting on the balls of your feet and kicking out to the side on an 8 count (Kathryn Rebholz has a tutorial on it on her channel)
You guys should totally do a vlog of trying out all the old dances from the 60s with the Swim, the Twist, the Locomotion, and the Mashed Potato being prolly the most noteworthy.
The "fad dances" seem kinda weird until you realize we do the same thing all the time now even: the dougie, watch me whip, the stanky leg, - we do the same thing now, I guess silly dances is just a human thing for whatever reason.
Cheers.
This was a "Monster Hit" back in 1962. It stayed in the Top 10 for months. Every time you turn on the radio this was being played. The Contours were "Awesome".
Yes, this is an ALL time hit!
No one can sit still to this song! Love it. Haven't heard it since the last time I saw Dirty Dancing. I want to see B.J. doing the Mashed Potato! It brings back memories from my childhood and my 45 records. Thanks! BTW those shoes were called "saddle oxfords".
Wow! You guys reached waaaaaayy back for this one! I was a young child when this came out. And yes, I could do both The Mash Potato, AND The Twist!😂
Wow. If you were black or white, red or yellow, or falcon green--if you were a teen living close enough to Detroit (that was me), you were glued to the radio and the tunes coming from the great music they played on Detroit radio. You reached back into my childhood for this. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
This song was played on every turntable back in the day, actually way more popular than the top ten ratings, ask anybody back then, and great for dancing, watch me now, work, work, hehe!
Motown Records started off as a dance-oriented label, and one of their biggest smash hits was a 1962 song, “Do You Love 💗 Me,” 🎼👌💯that talks about a man who tries to regain the affections of a loved one by showing off his skills by performing several dances, including the mashed potato and the twist. The song was written by Berry Gordy, who offered it to The Contours 🚬🔥 with the intention of giving it to The Temptations had the former group turned it down. It is worth noting that “Do You Love Me” clearly showcases Gordy’s songwriting talents, standing as a crossover of many genres, from rock and roll to soul to R&B, with this eclectic blend making it palatable across many culturally different audiences. GREAT song back in the day & today too!!
Boy! If my old legs worked I would be up dancing, ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITES OF ALL TIME!! Thankyou both so much!
Great timeless fun song. Woohoo 1960s😊. Glad I grew up in that decade sooooo many great singers and songs!!!
Always reminds me of the scene in Dirty Dancing, where Baby just keeps dancing for a bit after the song "Love Man" (Otis Redding) ends.
edit- fyi "Do You Love Me" is from1962. Billy Gordon on lead vocals. The Funk Brothers were the session musicians including James Jamerson on bass.
Do you love me is what is playing when Billy and Baby enter the club carrying the watermelons. Then love man comes on after it.
@@Nicole_Jewell yup, all the same scene
When she walked in with the watermelon 🤣 LOVE that movie!!!!!!’
I carried a watermelon????
My father Sylvester Potts sang on this recording and with the Contours for years. Dennis Edwards of the Temptatations started out with the Contours as well. Yes people rushed to dance whenever they heard the song...no dance floor needed.😊😊😊
Dear Asia - I hope you love that man as much as he loves you !
For the excitement around this song, watch the scene in Dirty Dancing, I'd say that's a pretty genuine representation of the reaction to this song when it first came out.
Recorded in 1962, so there was a dance step of the Mashed Potatoes and the Twist. You can search You Tube for the original dances. BTW I was in my 2nd year of high school!!! 😂
As others have mentioned, this came out in '62 and you are definitely right when you commented that everyone ran to the dance floor when this came on. There was another song around the same time that also caused a mad rush by everyone to the floor: "Wipe Out" by The Safaris. See what you think.
Awww! Y'all the cutest couple ever!!! I love it when y'all smile and laugh, and look at each other with that pure love! Gives me hope for the 🌍🌍🌍!!💞
I'm over here dancing in my chair!!! I should have been a teenager in the 50's. That's fun music 🎶 I love the whole 50'music.
Literally impossible not to chair dance to this song!
This is 60's. 1962, after the Twist and the Mash Potato came out.
You want to know what it felt like when this song was played back in the 60s??? It felt lonely for the 2 or 3 people who were sitting down because EVERYONE else was on the dance floor. You could not sit still when this song came on. It was a big crowd pleaser. And BTW the Mashed Potato was done with your feet not hands. Thank you both for this great reaction. Takes me back to our high school dances. Love it. 😊👏🇨🇦
They were called "wall flowers" weren't they?
Hey Asia & BJ, I have always loved this song!!! This is a classic "JAM!!!" It puts a "glide-in-your-stride" and a "dip-in-your-hip!!!" Shout out to you guys for this reaction!!!
Parliament!
@@erykvonritzmann4741 Come on over to "The Mothership!!!" Yes Sir!!!😆😂🤣
I remember hearing this on the radio when I was about five years old and I would try to dance to it. It makes you move no matter what your age.
Wow now we’re really going back, it was because I had teenage sisters that I knew this music! I mean, music really imitates life and most of it is very good! Love this song
You do the mashed potato with your feet! LOL
Y'all are the best, I always look for your reactions, music or films.
How did it feel the first time. You can't be still when this song is playing.
Be safe y'all.
So sad that I remember how to do all those dances! Lol
I was in elementary school when this song was first played on the radio. I loved to dance when I was a boy, and this number quickly became my favorite song to dance to. And, truthfully, it's one of those hits that never gets old. It sounds as good to me today as it did those many years ago! P.S. And you're right, BJ. I bought the record, and wore it out, playing it over and over and over again, all the while dancing my little legs off!
Love this song!!! You can never sit still with this song!!!
According to Wiki: "Do You Love Me" became a successful dance record, built around Gordon's screaming vocals. Selling over a million copies, "Do You Love Me" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks starting on October 20, 1962, and reached the top position on the Billboard R&B Singles chart.
Every local band played this at the clubs. And, yes, this song definitely brought everyone to the dance floor. The only good thing about being old is the wonderful music we had. I'm talking real singers - no auto tune. Just listen to the quality of singing on these old songs. Real, real talent.
This song has been cover by many but the Contours version has always been my favorite
I was worried for a minute BJ was gonna stop the music before the surprise "comeback" at the end!
This is a great example of what the 60's felt like-happy , fun , lot's of laughter, the music was our life-blood. It pulled us all together. A wonderful time! With Love , from Seattle
We used to have little dance parties in our garages. They were very popular. Sometimes when the party was slow to start you'd put on a song guaranteed to get people up and moving. This song was one of those, to be sure! 😁
Now I can't wait to see you two react to Dirty Dancing!! 😃 And just so you know, I'll be chair dancing right along with you!
The first time I heard it was on the radio, a.m. of course, WLS in Chicago... Couldn't wait to hit the dance floor...The shoes you're talking about are saddle oxfords...They were a big item for the girls, the guys wanted white bucks...Oh what a time to be alive...Songs like this stirred up the parents ...They didn't want their pasty white kids dancing to this evil music, so of course that's exactly what we did...We couldn't wait to be juvenile deliquents...Love this reaction and love you guys...
...and a pack of "Luckys" rolled up in the sleeve of your tee shirt.
Love this song . You guys need to react to dirty dancing now. You'll love it. I've seen it so many times I know it word for word.
Same here 😂
I second this lol
My favorite song. When it comes on the 60’s channel on Sirius I hit replay at least ten times if not more. A great get you moving, feel good song!
Early 60s "just dance" era. Definitely before the mid to later 60s. Never gets old! Oh yes I was 12 yrs in 1961 doing the Twist and the Mashed Potatoes..lol!!!!!!!!
Back then, 1962, we did "The Ape". When this song came on you had to dance. I did a mean Ape and the girls loved my moves.
The Contours were great. This song is from 1962 and they had a future Temptation Dennis Edwards and Joe Stubbs brother of Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops. Just to name a couple of members. Check out Just A Little Misunderstanding by them. Motown is in the house.
Love that old school rock-n-roll and soul music!!
Watch the “Blues Brothers” movie with the scene of this song. People dancing in the streets. Good times.
Always loved this song. ❤❤❤❤❤
What are you two waiting for, you need to see the film with this song in it. There are other great tracks in Dirty Dancing, song It’s one hell of a amazing song if you raised with this track of this era 👏👏🙌🙌🙌❤️❤️
I was probably 7 or 8 years old and my older sister had this on a 45 RPM and even as a young boy I could appreciate the sound of the snare drum and the bass guitar as well as the groove
Did the Mashed Potato at Friday night dances when I was a teenager in the early 60s, especially to Dee Dee Sharp's "Mashed Potato Time."
OMG I love this song.
First time hearing this was in the movie dirty dancing. I agree, this is a awesome fun dance song. ❤️❤️❤️🥳💃💃
I was the singer in a cover band and we wanted to do this song, but I just couldn't handle the "watch me now" part. 🙂
The very first Motown album YES YES YES
This was fun. Love this song and I think you guys needs to be on the dance floor with this one. Alot of great songs from the movie "Dirty Dancing". Y'all need to check it out on your movie night.
You two are cute together. I really enjoy watching your reactions. Yes, we didn't get tired of this song! I think it was a song of the sixties. Best wishes!
Love this song so much, such a classic and it's as old as me! You HAVE to watch Dirty Dancing...this was the song they did the 'dirty dancing" to in the movie, so good...Patrick Swayze was amazing and wrote and sang the song from it called 'She's like the wind'
Yes! BJ...awesome chair dancer! You two would look great out on the dance floor! And I absolutely love your version of the mashed potato! 😄 Just do the same thing with your feet on the floor.
Too bad you couldn't pull up the original video of the Contours doing this song back when it first came out. So much fun to watch. ❤
Thank you so much!!
I loved this song as a kid. I saw Dirty Dancing live and they performed this you have to dance!!!!!!!!!!!
God I love this song. Love the way you guys reacted.
Awesome song in 1962 and again when the Dave Clark Five did it!❤😎
This is what we were fed when rock was killed off in '58. Dance craze songs, leftover doo-wop, novelty songs, folk music, country crossovers, spoken word records, crooners, surf music, car songs, itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny-yellow-polka-dot-bikini, early motown, Allen Toussaint's Nola music & Phil Spector's wall of sound. But no rock till the British Invasion flooded it back across the pond because the Beatles were unstoppable (Cliff Richard and the Shadows had been easily stopped a year or so earlier) and they brought Blues (the Rolling Stones) and R&B (the Animals) along with them. US Pop radio had to play rock again and eventually FM came in when the kids got serious about their music. Most white kids had never heard of Amos Milburn, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon et alia until white British & Irish kids started playing music of the 40s and 50s back at them in the 60s.
Used to dance wild and crazy to this song, still do all those dances.
Back when music was fun! 😊🎸💘😉👌
My sisters used to get me to do the "twist" for their friends to laugh at when they had slumber parties back in mid 1960s!
I was forteen - this song was my first great jump to the sky !
If you’ve seen ‘Standing in the shadow of Motown’ the musicians thought this song was a dud. It fooled them. We loved it!
Wasn't just in Dirty Dancing. It was also featured in Animal House
Awww I love that my Asia❤️❤️ "the SPIRIT to DANCE!!!" Yessss...💃🕺and if ya don't... then ya really need to MOVE!!! right on outta here🤭 Absolutely LOVE this, and your reactions❤️❤️
awww Thanks Donna!! 🤗
A main staple for wedding receptions to get the party going
You guys gotta watch American Graffiti on your movie review channel. That whole movie is full of this music. And was George Lucas's first big movie. A top five for sure.
EVERBODY DID DANCE BACK IN THE Day, parents and kids.
Always a fun song. Just dancing joy.
Great song!!! Very nice reaction. You definitely need to watch Dirty Dancing.
Another fun song from this era is "Double shot of my babies love"
For your next adventure in dance, take a look at Chubby Checker's "The Twist." It was also a monster hit!
Those shoes are called saddle oxfords!
There was so much good music back then it was a joy to get into your car and drive around just to listen to the radio.
The whole "Dirty Dancing" soundtrack ♥️♥️♥️
That song was a blast and so much fun it makes you want to dance
An all-time classic party song. :)
Y’all HAVE to put Dirty Dancing on ur Reels channel….this is one of the songs in it!!! Y’all really liked Footloose so I know ull love Dirty Dancing
You guys are pure entertainment!!
Doing this song with the mention of "mash potato" may make some viewers hungry 😂
Motown gold from the early 60's.
I was a gogo girl in the 60's..I did the smash potatoes ..such a fun dance
I remember when this song came out. Just a fun song
Great choice today, some 60's vibes. Try Music Explosion's "Little Bit of Soul" another great 60's one hit wonder.
Oh man! We danced to this one. Was in Dirty Dancing too.
If you want to see how to do the mashed potatoes, find a video of Dee Dee Sharp singing the song "Mashed Potato Time" with dancers doing the dance in the background. The video most likely will be in black and white. If you can find Black people doing the dance, it would look more like what I did. (BJ: It's about the feet, not the hands.)
This song mentions another song -- "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" -- which is also a song worth a reaction. Get the version by The Tokens who introduced the song to American audience. It's taken from the African song "Mbube" by Solomon Linda & the Evening.
Love this song!!! It was in Teen Wolf !!
Great song I remember singing it
I remember this.you just can't sit still when it comes on.great song.would you react to phillis Nelson."move closer".it's a classic song.just beautiful.its a proper love song.love watching you guys.
this is the tunes i grew up with
Damn Straight! If THAT isn't The Mashed Potato - it Should Be 👍
This one got us dancing for sure and Mashed Potato Time - Dee Dee Clark - We loved to do the mashed potatoes at jr high school dances
Now you have to watch Dirty Dancing on your movie reaction channel.
I raided my parents cassettes as a kid & they loved watching me dance around the house to their music😂
Just brilliant.
There is an actual dance for the mash potato done with the feet.
Both songs on the film wanderers 😉
A great classic dance song
I am 12 again at a sock hop at my junior high Valentines dance all over again. Thanks!!
We use to do the twist to this song
I forgot the false ending on this song... This might be the first song ever to use one.
you're so right, asia, i was movin'
Love this one! Dancing is an important skill to have!!!! 😁💃❤
LOL. You guys are a trip! Thanks for the laughs.
Our pleasure!
Still a big favourite in the Northern Soul clubs.
The Contours were a Motown group.