RUFUS THOMAS - DO THE FUNKY CHICKEN. LIVE FILMED PERFORMANCE 1972

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  • @Kafarskenvadeder
    @Kafarskenvadeder 9 років тому +429

    Must be hard to see your grandparents was cooler than you

    • @dbd1353
      @dbd1353 8 років тому +26

      +Kafarskenvadeder Being a grandparent i would highly agree...lol..I just don't see kids today funkin' out like this..

    • @mikem.8706
      @mikem.8706 7 років тому +5

      Ladies in hot pants. One guy in a tank top so short, it looks like a sports bra.

    • @cindyharper2072
      @cindyharper2072 6 років тому

      Kafarskenvadeder

    • @RMT192
      @RMT192 6 років тому +3

      greatest comment ever, lol.

    • @lakehousefor2
      @lakehousefor2 6 років тому +1

      Oh, yeah!

  • @bobschlitz5291
    @bobschlitz5291 10 років тому +225

    I was at this and am in the video dancing.

    • @danbent1054
      @danbent1054 10 років тому +7

      oh wow!! i bet this was history to you in fact you were in history what did u had on ?

    • @georgeofcourse5606
      @georgeofcourse5606 9 років тому +10

      dan bent He was the only white guy. Hippie at the beginning lol. This looked like a fun show to be at though, I'm envious.

    • @Manilow-si2bv
      @Manilow-si2bv 7 років тому +8

      Bob Schlitz Damn you are lucky woodstock ,wattstax and liveaid 3 historical concerts to be remembered forever . anyone who attended these shows are lucky.

    • @catdaddy3302
      @catdaddy3302 7 років тому +6

      AL Dunbar I saw Rufus all the time in Memphis. He was usually backed by Booker T., the Memphis horns and them.

    • @dbd1353
      @dbd1353 7 років тому +2

      thought so Bob..Picked you up in a heartbeat..lol..no dis, just messing..

  • @roosevelt365
    @roosevelt365 9 років тому +254

    Good to see this, nothing but beautiful black people having fun.

  • @EHIGG100
    @EHIGG100 5 років тому +150

    This is beautiful....those kids rushed that field just to dance. They couldn't hold it in any more...the soul and funk coming from that stage was so overpowering. No fighting, no hatred...nothing, just togetherness and music!!!👊✊✌

    • @lordbountifulitsme7919
      @lordbountifulitsme7919 5 років тому +3

      Absolutely Top comment 🏆Cheers from Perth Australia 🐨and stay Lucky 🍀🙏

    • @OhHamburgers0258
      @OhHamburgers0258 2 роки тому +11

      If it happened today guaranteed it would have been so packed people would have died. This was back when people had sense

    • @roxannemyles72
      @roxannemyles72 Рік тому +3

      Real talk. I was blessed to born in 1972. That's when people enjoyed being together. I wish I had a time machine to go back to the 70s. That was real music back then

    • @aaronlewis7182
      @aaronlewis7182 2 місяці тому +1

      Of course, that was before we sold our “Soul” for pennies on the dollar, and moved from the Motor City to L.A….

    • @Gorio-h3u
      @Gorio-h3u Місяць тому +2

      Nowadays, people get shot over a piece of chicken at a fast food restaurant. Who knows what mayhem rushing the stage to dance the funky chicken would bring!

  • @Orionwayz
    @Orionwayz 4 роки тому +23

    That lil girl in purple tho...💃🙌👏

  • @selease
    @selease 8 років тому +81

    That young girl in the white and purple put that groove right in her pocket!

    • @paisleyprincess7996
      @paisleyprincess7996 7 років тому

      Selease Rodriguez she sho did

    • @MacroX1231
      @MacroX1231 7 років тому +4

      1:28 She gettin it

    • @selease
      @selease 7 років тому +2

      MacroX1231 she popped it "right quick" and put that funk back in her pocket. LOL

    • @delmondstrong5671
      @delmondstrong5671 7 років тому +2

      yeah she totally ripped it.

    • @tiedupsmurf
      @tiedupsmurf 7 років тому +2

      Yeah yeah ....I went back on this video several times just to watch her in the groove......

  • @deehall2695
    @deehall2695 5 років тому +28

    Omg! I was back in 1974 I was a Sophomore in HS. This was Hot fun in Summer time Musuc concerts like this was so much fun! This one it took me back to the days of my youth I was always dancing, and enjoying myself!
    I'm orginally from LA Ca. Myself I came up in Dance & theater i knew all the crew on soul train dance was my major HS student as Dorsey HS. It was so much fun to share some history with the fans.. One day I had the pleasure of meeting Rufus! He and Don were going around to Local HS in LA to seek dancers for the new show Soul Train Don was so fine He rocked as a man in my eye I was just a kid all the girls liked him!! And the brothers thought he was cool too! Don & Rufus loved us kids and wanted to help us succeed in our Education We Loved us some Rufus Thomas knew how to reach people he was close friend to Don Cornelius founder of Soul Train. Rufus had a plan with Don to do workshop concerts all over and this would pull out the true kids that had The best talent they were looking for. They did group auditions for dancers skills to put on the Soul Train Show. Slick!! It worked we were just kids and didnt care about the money at the time most of us still at home with our parents lol. We just wanted to dance!! But its all good, if you made it yo Soul Train like many of us did you got exposure to grow and party with the hippest trip on TV the soul Train there never be another! Im thankful I had some of the best times in my life along with experience to succeed to your highest dream! 💰💰💲💲🥁😍👍🏼🎶🎶🎤Those were the true day of fun!

    • @sandrawilson8792
      @sandrawilson8792 Рік тому

      For real. That was a fun time. That Breakdown line on Soul Train. Still marvelous after all this time. ❤

  • @Danny-nm9sn
    @Danny-nm9sn Рік тому +20

    This came on the jukebox at work today and I heard it for the first time. What a joy! Then I found this video. This has to be the feel-good video of the century

  • @Mysteriouso100
    @Mysteriouso100 3 роки тому +12

    I'm always amazed at how thin people were back then.

  • @kennethBonney
    @kennethBonney 10 місяців тому +7

    Did you see the brother in the white shirt run and automatically go into a double split 🔥🔥🔥 dancing and having fun, this was the black power era, powerful music powerful people.

  • @markupton1831
    @markupton1831 8 років тому +150

    Young black brothers and sistas, if you're reading this post this is for you- notice everybody pants are up? Notice "no violence of any kind"? Notice the black women are adorned and not disrespected? Do you see and feel that Black Power? And know that Rufus Thomas was a "Goddam Genius"! With real showmanship, a real man in the art and hearts of many , waaaay better than lil Wayne who by the way couldn't hold a candle to Rufus Thomas.

    • @catdaddy3302
      @catdaddy3302 7 років тому +12

      Mark Upton Rufus never called any women bitches and hoes. I saw him all the time in Memphis. He was always a gentleman and always entertaining.

    • @hellochannel6344
      @hellochannel6344 7 років тому +3

      + Andy Behave like a gentleman and you'll be considered and treated as such in return. As simple as that.

    • @mechcavandy986
      @mechcavandy986 7 років тому +4

      Hello Channel I know this. If you want respect. You gotta give respect. RESPECT.

    • @hellochannel6344
      @hellochannel6344 7 років тому +3

      Indian Andy Respect Man 👍👌

    • @mytuber81
      @mytuber81 7 років тому +3

      Great comment.

  • @marcycolleti551
    @marcycolleti551 2 роки тому +12

    I am not black, i am not beautiful but i love this music. When i starting collecting music, soul was a big part of my collection lables like Stax, Atlantic, Gordy, Mowtown, Okeh. And i just wanna thank to Soul cause you gave a lot when i had nothing! Thx from germany

  • @desperateastro
    @desperateastro 4 роки тому +39

    One of the very very greatest funk artists, and with a tremendous danceable backup by utterly brilliant musicians. Rufus Thomas and James Brown were the funkiest men ever!!

    • @solerso68
      @solerso68 Рік тому

      he was a soul and RB artist.

    • @tinolopez6134
      @tinolopez6134 10 місяців тому

      Let's add funk in there.

  • @dubymc3045
    @dubymc3045 3 роки тому +11

    That's when kids was in good shape. Look how they climbed that fence

  • @likesmusic11
    @likesmusic11 5 років тому +156

    I am willing to bet that not one gun was fired, no one died, and no fight broke out... a better era.

    • @SlickRick4EVER
      @SlickRick4EVER 4 роки тому +8

      ...and you only wonder who brought that shit up.... that's right: Thugs. Should I take it a step farther and mention what race started it? Nah, I think you can figure it out on your own....

    • @10Vernonplace
      @10Vernonplace 4 роки тому +10

      and no mass shooters

    • @sebathadah1559
      @sebathadah1559 4 роки тому +10

      Keep dreaming...while your at it... do the funky chicken.

    • @marybethechols1449
      @marybethechols1449 3 роки тому +7

      @@SlickRick4EVER doesn't matter who started it, it's still here, and btw it's not only black people doing it, it's THIS generation

    • @gregoryanderson2023
      @gregoryanderson2023 3 роки тому +5

      Beautiful!!! To see all my people enjoying themselves without violence!!!

  • @jameswimberly3655
    @jameswimberly3655 Рік тому +5

    Wow i just love being black!!!!!
    This was before guns and drugs and violence took over our neighborhood's I still love my race of people!!!!

    • @joetierney2
      @joetierney2 4 місяці тому +1

      No drugs? Lollll. You Rick James played that show right? 😂😊

    • @stevenford1828
      @stevenford1828 3 місяці тому +1

      I was 13 back then and we had so much fun dancin and whatnot. Now young black people can't have fun like this because we let the devil take over your Culture!

  • @hajjibarbara2900
    @hajjibarbara2900 8 років тому +77

    And here I was thinking that I would never get to see a middle aged man dance around in pink polyester shorts and white gogo boots.

    • @Pateg7
      @Pateg7 7 років тому +2

      I think it was actually RED polyester... LOL

    • @weatheranddarkness
      @weatheranddarkness 4 роки тому +1

      We're all the better for this

    • @porkypine2
      @porkypine2 3 роки тому

      aw.. You youngins just missed a great era is all.

    • @captlarry-3525
      @captlarry-3525 3 роки тому

      funeeee ! oooh baybeeee

    • @OhHamburgers0258
      @OhHamburgers0258 2 роки тому

      I was wondering what was up with those boots lol

  • @jackoalltrades5510
    @jackoalltrades5510 5 років тому +77

    I love the African American culture with all my heart. You folks gots the groove!

  • @JohnDoe-wo1jd
    @JohnDoe-wo1jd 6 років тому +24

    the funky chicken will save your soul !

  • @gcymous9160
    @gcymous9160 6 років тому +17

    We need a worldwide movement to fight for the right to do the funky chicken anytime and anywhere ! All must work for our various national constitutions to include this right !

  • @ceasarandrepont1243
    @ceasarandrepont1243 3 роки тому +11

    My mother was young and wearing an Afro and then I was born in 1973!!

    • @NancyDenise
      @NancyDenise 6 місяців тому

      Me too!!!!!!!

    • @ceasarandrepont1243
      @ceasarandrepont1243 6 місяців тому

      @@NancyDenise My mother taught me to do the "Funky Chicken" and I was born in '73 but in November. 👍

  • @REDD_BLITZ
    @REDD_BLITZ 6 років тому +28

    My mom's generation had be the best era, music, and moments.

  • @michaelarenee6853
    @michaelarenee6853 Рік тому +3

    My God parents frank and Annie, used to have adult beverages and have me doing the funky chicken around 8 or 9 years and be bofl at me. Childhood memories are coming back to me now.😂😂😂😂😂

  • @zerowhite7456
    @zerowhite7456 11 років тому +16

    1971 I was a quiet girl at library college, The lecturer walked up and down, hands thrust in his tweed jacket, elbows out. Then ,to emphasise his point he flapped his elbows and I called out "Do the Funky Chicken"..... I knew it was very wrong, but I couldn't help it.

  • @spicyhot2552
    @spicyhot2552 5 років тому +6

    Bobby Brown was on BET'S episode of American Soul playing Rufus Brown and singing Do the Funky Chicken..😂😂😂

  • @SlickRick4EVER
    @SlickRick4EVER 4 роки тому +5

    So THIS is where locking came from!!

  • @swytchblayd
    @swytchblayd 8 років тому +14

    The cops in the background are all like "Shit, we give up." XD

  • @MommyKia83
    @MommyKia83 12 років тому +25

    wow, wish my generation can get together and party like this w/o violence ;{, everyone looks like they are getting down and having a blast omg I so have a old soul:}

    • @CoryJAdventures
      @CoryJAdventures 4 роки тому +2

      Squad Master same! When the camera pans out I don’t see a single person NOT dancing! Mann That had to be a blast

    • @paulsherman51
      @paulsherman51 3 роки тому

      There was still violence at that time but we just didn't see it instantaneously. Beginning with deregulation of public utilities in the Reagan 80s, and the immense rise of productivity and profit at the expense of workers' wages, problems have only gotten worse. Technology like these internet companies and social media have enabled a level of transparency -- we see what is going on more quickly -- but the quality and truths put forth with this technology have suffered. Like anything, when you work too fast you get sloppy work. Working more slowly doesn't necessarily mean better truth and accuracy, though, it only means more effort and energy -- hence importance of free public collegiate education for all -- to think analytically, critically, and dispel any falsehoods (cases in point are Ellsberg and Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Iran-Contra, WMD's, and the Secret War in Laos).
      Still, the problems of today are not due to changes in technology, nor are they due to changes in operating regulations, government and politics. The problems of today -- which are same as the problems at the time in this video -- are the very economic system of capitalism that we all live in. Why should we work at places where we do not have any say in what will be done with the profits of a company where we work? Until capitalism is eliminated, and until we have a fair and just system of collectives and worker-owned enterprises where workers are owners themselves and there are no outside investors or Boards of Directors, then these problems of tensions and conflicts over gender, racial, ability, veteran service, and all other discriminating and profit-enhancing mechanisms will keep coming back, over and over again.

    • @jackbauer4186
      @jackbauer4186 3 роки тому

      @@paulsherman51 Take your commie gobbledygook and go live in your paradise of Burma. The rest of us don't really care for 1984.

  • @emotionalinvalid
    @emotionalinvalid 11 років тому +11

    "...makes you feel like doin somethin nasty, like pouring chicken gravy on your shirt, right down front..." Rufus Thomas, lines from studio recording "do the funky chicken". Rufus was sho nuff funny, lol yet profound in the cosmic philosophical sense .... deliberately pouring chicken gravy down the front of your short is the pillar for dissent and freedom

  • @cwissiee
    @cwissiee 9 років тому +72

    I was born in the wrong time period.

  • @oldeenglishd45
    @oldeenglishd45 2 роки тому +6

    I got the biggest smile from everyone running down. ☺️

  • @terrylaissy3313
    @terrylaissy3313 3 роки тому +3

    Super soul funk 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😀😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

  • @edwinacriear2630
    @edwinacriear2630 Рік тому +7

    Beautifully filmed! Makes me wanna have fun and relive my childhood!❤

  • @zabitzubo5092
    @zabitzubo5092 4 роки тому +6

    I love when the people ran down said fuck this i'm gonna my groove on and started dancing.

  • @jamesricker3997
    @jamesricker3997 2 роки тому +2

    Those people dancing are in their seventies now and have grandchildren

  • @kujichaguliaself-determina7388
    @kujichaguliaself-determina7388 3 роки тому +5

    I rather have this than mumble rap!

  • @ghazzwaq9248
    @ghazzwaq9248 6 років тому +5

    origin of locking

  • @jkjelec
    @jkjelec 7 років тому +20

    OMG this is awesome. I am so glad I found this video! Rufus you rock!

  • @VonBluesman
    @VonBluesman 9 років тому +16

    Get on down with your bad self. That's real music in your face.

  • @roxannemyles72
    @roxannemyles72 Рік тому +5

    I could have sworn that I saw Demita Joe from Soul Train dancing in the field

  • @1honeychild
    @1honeychild 4 роки тому +4

    I was 1 in 1972, but I'm sure I was doing the funky chicken 😄

  • @charlesthomas2152
    @charlesthomas2152 3 роки тому +4

    It is soo good too see us happy at one point..Were happy in one place having a good time..

  • @nonesense5536
    @nonesense5536 8 років тому +54

    what an incredible live sound. The bass player right in the pocket. The drummer simmering-just incredible R&B

    • @hajjibarbara2900
      @hajjibarbara2900 8 років тому

      ....says the white dude.

    • @nonesense5536
      @nonesense5536 8 років тому +6

      하지 분쇄하는 야만인
      yeah so?

    • @hajjibarbara2900
      @hajjibarbara2900 8 років тому

      none sense
      Kinda funny how I spotted that one a million miles away. Your virtue signaling post glares like a spotlight.

    • @nonesense5536
      @nonesense5536 8 років тому +7

      하지 분쇄하는 야만인
      ok so white people can't like R&B? I played blues and R&B for years in bands. What an ignorant point of view. Music is a universal language-I also like African drumming and lots of other music that isn't part of my culture like Inuit throat singing. I suppose I should get upset if non Europeans like classical music !

    • @paisleyprincess7996
      @paisleyprincess7996 7 років тому +7

      none sense My mom was a white woman, and all she listened to was this msic

  • @paisleyprincess7996
    @paisleyprincess7996 7 років тому +28

    They were hit by the Holy Spirit of soul

  • @NigerianCalledSamMighty
    @NigerianCalledSamMighty 11 років тому +10

    afro's every where

  • @tdb3039
    @tdb3039 2 роки тому +6

    When life was peaceful..

  • @cletus2199
    @cletus2199 3 роки тому +4

    What a life. Looks like a damn good time

  • @LindaGamboa
    @LindaGamboa 3 роки тому +4

    If you have't danced the funky chicken what you waiting for? Been my go-to since '72.

  • @sandrawilson8792
    @sandrawilson8792 Рік тому +3

    The Funky Chicken. The Breakdown. The pink shorts and boots. The girl in purple. That was an awesome day. Well remembered. ❤

  • @honcho0168
    @honcho0168 3 роки тому +4

    1:28 thus how it done, chicken funky girl!!🙌

  • @IRON5
    @IRON5 6 років тому +11

    The lady in the red dress is speaking to the ancestors

  • @anonfrank546
    @anonfrank546 7 років тому +3

    TODAY , WE GOT TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT TO DO THE FUNKY CHICKEN , ANYTIME AND ANYPLACE !

  • @nonamehawg7068
    @nonamehawg7068 2 роки тому +4

    OMG!!! What happened to the good Ole days!!! ✌ & ❤

  • @ramiel6229
    @ramiel6229 6 років тому +19

    My beautiful people. The Children of Israel...God's chosen people. Often imitated never duplicated. I love my people...

    • @красавчикмужик-э9ж
      @красавчикмужик-э9ж 3 роки тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣 children of Israel 🤣🤣🤣

    • @keeenen
      @keeenen Рік тому

      Children of Turtle Island

    • @mikeurbanmu
      @mikeurbanmu Рік тому

      That's highly debatable but I appreciate your sentiments 😁

    • @ramiel6229
      @ramiel6229 Рік тому

      @@mikeurbanmu It's not debatable when it's the truth. Do your research if you desire. You chimed in on me, I did not initiate this conversation.

  • @WazigeLogica
    @WazigeLogica 6 років тому +13

    Now THAT's a party!

  • @fiwotriana3106
    @fiwotriana3106 4 роки тому +5

    Ojalá, hubiera podido estar en ese concierto,Perdón,No hablo inglés pero si escucho Música, esto no era mi estilo, pero cuando lo ví, me enamoré de esto,....muchas gracias por compartir esta música ,

    • @ANSWERTHECALLOFJESUSCHRIST
      @ANSWERTHECALLOFJESUSCHRIST 4 роки тому +1

      Usa Google Translate. Yo hablo español y tambien ingles, pero a veces me topo en UA-cam con gente que hablan frances o portugues. Sencillamente traduzco de ingles a su idioma y me entienden bien. Paz.

    • @Terrance-vu2jg
      @Terrance-vu2jg 6 місяців тому

  • @ItaintmeCCC
    @ItaintmeCCC 5 років тому +38

    I couldn’t imagine people in this era being so in the moment and free like that. They would be too busy holding their phones up taking pictures and singing into the camera and such a like.

    • @odemata87
      @odemata87 4 роки тому +2

      Then you're not looking in the right place... Sucks

    • @Jangocat
      @Jangocat 4 роки тому +2

      You haven't been to many concerts recently if any have you? You don't think if they had cell phones in the 70's they wouldn't record a concert? lol. You sound like an old person.

    • @sandrawilson8792
      @sandrawilson8792 Рік тому

      No dancing in arenas like that, though. Stop being mean. A different era with different values for enjoyment in the moment. If you're lucky, you'll get old too.😘

  • @pathawkins5218
    @pathawkins5218 3 роки тому +2

    Salute To the late ,Singer (Rufus Thomas)" who had A groovy ("Band )back then

  • @karenshaffer7803
    @karenshaffer7803 5 років тому +7

    RIP Mr. Thomas just saw Bobby Brown playing you on American Soul. Looking at this video shows how good if an entertainer you were.

    • @RaiderRSupastar
      @RaiderRSupastar 5 років тому

      Look at the documentary. Rufus was a comedian and funny LOL

  • @matthewmckee9914
    @matthewmckee9914 Рік тому +2

    Great movie 1972 Wattsstax I love it.

  • @tackyman2011
    @tackyman2011 8 місяців тому +4

    People sure dressed better then, even when going casual.

  • @roosevelt365
    @roosevelt365 7 років тому +11

    My pretty black sistas!

  • @N2LADIES55
    @N2LADIES55 3 роки тому +4

    That 'little girl' at 1:28 is getting down!! She is about age 56 now!

  • @ttont257
    @ttont257 Рік тому +4

    This is lovely video, all black people having a dam good time

  • @kas3583
    @kas3583 4 роки тому +5

    Ain't nothing in the world better than being black ✊🏾

  • @EBL1SS
    @EBL1SS 3 роки тому +3

    Caint nnoobody pull off white boots and a carnation pink short set.
    Nobody.
    He got it.
    👍🏾💕🎶

  • @bigpeaches1744
    @bigpeaches1744 5 років тому +20

    This is from my era. We had fun, and there was no one fighting or shooting. It was the same when I would go to a rock concert. Although it was prominently white we all had a good time. Wish these times was here and now so that my children could see a concert without worrying about getting shot.

  • @v.b6028
    @v.b6028 6 років тому +21

    I can’t stop watching this. The music is contagious. Makes me so happy to hear this but sad I was born after this time. I hate today’s music

  • @DBrownmmv
    @DBrownmmv 3 роки тому +2

    This when you could do the splits on the dancefloor

  • @reclaimartistcollective6771
    @reclaimartistcollective6771 3 роки тому +4

    Now that's what I call Black History!

  • @mocharger06
    @mocharger06 Рік тому +3

    I learned the Funky Chicken back in 1968. Man, has it really been that long? Dayumm!

  • @AugustMedia
    @AugustMedia 6 років тому +3

    My white ass could never be this cool. God bless black people, otherwise the world would suck.

  • @LBrilliante
    @LBrilliante 12 років тому +10

    the time flies... it's 40 years!!!! wonder if she made it and is still going!!! she was definitely inside that beat... i hope she taught dancing at some point cuz she had skills!

  • @eddiesoul4890
    @eddiesoul4890 3 роки тому +3

    Stax records down home funk Unlike Motown....

  • @unc1589
    @unc1589 3 роки тому +2

    Has anybody noticed what happened to us? The Phone Killed Our Spirit. “Don’t blame the phone” you say? Ok tell me this... What else has this amount of access to your mind? It’s in your pocket and every time you need fulfillment, you reach for it. Here’s the most frightening thing that 40 and unders won’t know... EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THIS VIDEO CAN OUTTHINK YOU! YOUR MIND IS TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY SOMEONE ON THE INTERNET. THE PART THATS SILL YOURS DOES NOT MATTER BECAUSE THEY CONQUERED YOUR BELIEF SYSTEM. ONCE THATS DEFEATED YOU ARE OWNED!

  • @Fogaata
    @Fogaata 2 роки тому +2

    Clean times!! Awesome!!

  • @ThePassionOfTheMarc
    @ThePassionOfTheMarc 5 років тому +3

    That looks like fun and I don't even know how to dance.

  • @sauquoit13456
    @sauquoit13456 12 років тому +6

    On this day in 1972 {October 14th} Rufus Thomas performed "Do The Funky Chicken" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand...
    Two years earlier in 1970 it peaked at #5 on Billboard's R&B chart and reached #28 on the Hot Top 100 chart...
    Rufus Thomas passed away on December 15th, 2001 at the age of 84...
    R.I.P. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Clark...

    • @SoleilSmile
      @SoleilSmile 6 років тому +2

      A good age. Thank you, Mr. Thomas.

  • @MissSLF2U
    @MissSLF2U 8 років тому +11

    WoW...look @ my Los Angeles!!! Just Good Fun!!!

  • @neosneos3680
    @neosneos3680 5 років тому +1

    so eine schöne zeit es mal war ,wen ich eine Zeitmaschiene hätte würde ich sofort zurück gehen

  • @hardipduggal4787
    @hardipduggal4787 11 років тому +10

    Rufus Thomas, THE showman of all showmen.

  • @consuellalewis2799
    @consuellalewis2799 10 років тому +10

    man I love watching those old videos

  • @Cluv22
    @Cluv22 4 роки тому +1

    This must've been the 70s version of "Back dat ass up" cuz EVERYBODY on the floor gettin down!!!

  • @bulaluigi
    @bulaluigi 2 роки тому +3

    1:27 the realization that you will never be as cool as that kid

  • @honeybeeinc
    @honeybeeinc 2 роки тому +4

    I needed this. Now that I’m Rufus’ age i only hope i can bring my peoples to the yard like this

  • @edzsjuelaj
    @edzsjuelaj 6 років тому +6

    Amazing Artist Amazing Video! Amazing Tune!! Big Respect for the great artist Rufus Thomas!!! Respect for this time too .... it was the big time and big music and big big festival!!!

  • @nethater
    @nethater 8 років тому +11

    Mr. Thomas turn the thing OUT!

  • @JohnDoe-wo1jd
    @JohnDoe-wo1jd 6 років тому +4

    WE GOT TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT TO DO THE FUNKY CHICKEN !

  • @YhwhKhaiMostHigh
    @YhwhKhaiMostHigh 11 років тому +4

    Oh gosh. Awesome. Carefree and fancy free. Just about having fun. Crowds of people and every one was just having fun.

  • @OhHamburgers0258
    @OhHamburgers0258 2 роки тому +2

    I'm just imaging the people who were actually there, showing this video to their grandkids and pointing saying, "There, that's me right there!" ^_^

  • @mytuber81
    @mytuber81 7 років тому +2

    Look at all these natural, healthy jive turkeys, LOVE IT!!! Girl at 3:15 is HOTT!! It's a little weird b/c she's old enough to be my mother.

  • @wbreakexperience1459
    @wbreakexperience1459 3 роки тому +3

    Respect from Campinas Brasil for love groove

  • @garylstrickland
    @garylstrickland 3 роки тому +2

    ...and a handfull o' white folks groovin right along with em. Yep....sure do miss the 70s.

  • @cecillebarone9252
    @cecillebarone9252 4 місяці тому +2

    The people in the sixties and seventies were so cool and chill

  • @cecillebarone9252
    @cecillebarone9252 4 місяці тому +2

    The music growing up in the sixties and seventies got me through a very square and brutal foster home

    • @pokerdreads4337
      @pokerdreads4337 22 дні тому +1

      Im glad it brought you through,and so did your own strenghth

  • @AaronDurr
    @AaronDurr 6 місяців тому +3

    😊

  • @THECLARENCES
    @THECLARENCES 12 років тому +3

    The Clarences love & support Rufus!

  • @ZLLi661
    @ZLLi661 6 років тому +7

    Way cool. If only today's concerts were this cool.. :-)

  • @fantamadi
    @fantamadi 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing the épico global dance without fins

  • @Tmuk2
    @Tmuk2 11 років тому +4

    I thought they were running onto the pitch to fight, but they were running on the pitch to funk! Better times.