I'm right there with you, born in '53 myself. I'd give anything to relive the 60s and 70s. Growing up in San Diego County, I took it all for granted. 😢
I lived in Salem, OR from 1964 until graduating HS in 1969. Part of our PE curriculum from at least the 6th grade on required us to have 9 weeks of dancing. I can't remember what year/grade I was in but I do remember learning this dance. Great memories and music.
For a better signal and for the radio to play louder, I would go on the front porch and held the radio up in front of the meter box for as long as I wanted to listen to the radio. Those were the good ole days.
was 10 years old when i first listen to this popular song and now 67 ...and I am so glad see these kids whose parents were not even born when this song was a hit .......good on them . fantastic !!
I enjoyed this so much! I was a guest on one of these "Low Budget Late Shows"! I also entered & won quite a few "dance-offs" & "marathon dances" that were held at local "matinees" or indoor movie theaters that had stages back "in the day" (60's). There were also "rec [recreation center]" dances every weekend during the Summer, along w/ Drive-In movies. I can remember going to my first Beatles movie (A Hard Days Night) in the mid-60s. The girls in the audience were screaming so loud during the whole movie & we weren't able to hear anything! I first got a whiff of marijuana at a Beach Boys Concert in I think it was Santa Monica, CA, but I was pretty young when I went w/ a friend & her family, so I mainly remember the atmosphere, the crowd singing & dancing w/ the band, & all the refreshments we got! That's when I bought my first album. Boy did we have some clean fun back then! I don't know if teenagers today know what that's like.....actually interacting w/ others & engaging them in practical jokes, dances, or in playing street games like 4-square, kick ball, baseball, touch football, hide-n-seek, etc. until late into the night. The whole neighborhood would be involved, including parents cooking on the "Bar-B" (barbecue pits). In those days, many of us kept our doors unlocked or kept them opened, w/ only the screen door (yes, we had those) locked, during the Spring & Summer months. We never had to worry about burglars. We barely had 2 cents to rub together, but I wouldn't trade those memories for anything (except maybe Heaven).
I was born in 1962, had one of the first cell phones in the SF Bay Area, & now I see 👶🏼 newborns addicted to screens & parents happy to distract & morphine-drip screen time into every area. I got rid of tv in 1984- felt brainwashed! So, yeah. Real human interactions, play, good & bad, sometimes wonderful or horrible- but it was REAL! Tastes, smells, touches, sights, sounds of real people, in real places, doing human interactions. Video “Seeing” and “hearing” through an artificial screen & speaker are a new type of human “real” that we don’t yet know how it’ll impact us. But, the skyrocketing rates of social anxiety and autism kinda make one wonder… More violent crimes than in thirty years, likely due in part to desensitization from mass exposure and violent video games. Meanwhile, the trophies for “Best” killer of zombies cannot even run, jump, fight in real space and time, nor carry ANY of the “equipment” they get in the games… Fantasy No wonder this generation wants to grow up and be a unicorn… Ain’t no damned unicorns in the real world… Which it seems by merely saying so, one is “cancelled” by invisible people who probably bubble-wrap their 2.5 kids.
Released by The Orlons in May 1962. Got to #2 on the U.S. charts...and #5 on the R&B charts. Sold over 1,000,000 copies and started the "Watusi" dance craze....
Most of them now don't have any decent voices for singing, just yelling or as in rap speaking the words to a beat which anyone can do. They didn't need to use obscenities either in lyrics to sell their music back then.
I frankly had not seen this sort of dance since I was a teenager over fifty years ago. It is nice to watch and to remember so many things and to realize without thinking I dance a mix of rock, watusi twist and frugg whenever I go to parties.
I grew up in 50's and 60's. I loved to dance. Electro swing incorporates bits and pieces of dances from the Charleston to 70's. Forgot the names,recognize the steps.thanks for the memories,keep them coming.
@@dickiegreenleaf750Esa chica de verde es el alma del baile. Y sí, por ella el video se parecía a los 60. No había mucha gente de color bailando en la TV de aquellos años ¿acaso vives en una burbuja o quieres cambiar la historia?
The girl in the middle in the front row is hands down the best dancer of the group. She has something--you can see it. The boys in the back row dance like I danced back in high school, and the way I guess I still dance at weddings. It's no good if you're not having fun. This was very kitschy and fun. Yes, we need more Low Budget Late Show dancing like this now.
OMG you kids are awesome it looks like an early broadcast from American bandstand complete with skinny ties retro dresses and ponytails. Love the camera in the way and the commentators talkin and suddenly realizing there on the air great take off on early television awesome dancing keep it up guys what a pleasure to watch 😁😁😁👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
Okay, you guys had me fooled! I thought I was watching a program from the early to mid-'60s! I was looking at the girls thinking my gosh they are grannies now... only to find out it was filmed in 2014! Ya gots to love them! We need more of this kinda stuff 🤗
I played drums in a good band at that time. Spontaneously the kids used to become like one big family on the dance floor. Made me feel beautifully happy inside when they would form into one gigantic chain and dance around the floor with laughter and joy.....
OMG, I was in 10th grade when this song came out. I remember two girls teaching me how to do this dance. I also think I dressed like the guys in this clip (back in the days before males torture themselves getting in and out of "skinny jeans" just for fashion). Love this group...such memories.
It is refreshing to see young kid dancing to songs and dances I remember from when I was a kid, and clean cut. Boys wearing dress slacks, shirts and ties and not pants down to their knees, and girls wearing dresses.
The first time that I heard this song, I was listening with a 9 transistor AM radio that was powered by a little 9 Volt battery. Reception was better if I stood near a fence, which I did for hours on end.
I was just looking up which one mine was. It was red and perhaps merely Panasonic but the Eveready with the cat running through the 9.... that burns bright.
It's easy to imagine the producer and director discussing their casting choices from this group, "Ok boys and girls you were all excellent, thank you very much. Could the brunette in the green & black dress wait just a minute please. Thank you again everyone."
This is what young people used to do before they started staring at their cell-phones all day. They actually moved their bodies in time with music. I know it's hard to believe but it's true.
Oh such joy....to see such sweet innocent, non commercial youngsters enjoying their time. Oh, my sweet, sweet times so long gone from these days. Just thankful, that I was lucky enough to be a teenager in the sixties, and now at least have the memories of that time. So sad to be an adult in the times of today. My years are now shortened,but glad that I lived thru those wonderful days. I have been truly blessed. Oh children of today....I wish that you could have known and experienced the talent and music of that time!
@@CFITOMAHAWK2 Nope! It's 2014. That's when that show aired. I particularly researched this, because I was a teenager in the '60's, and the styles in this video didn't seem quite right. Ponytails were worn in the '50's, and those above-the-knees skirts would have been mini-skirts of about 1968. Anyway, check this out, and you'll see: ua-cam.com/video/Nb-aL7nqAjs/v-deo.html. Also, please don't call people "dummies," OK? That just makes YOU look dumb.
The little girl, front row, between the guy and the girl in the black dress reminds me of my wife of 47 years who I met through the mail upon my return from Vietnam-just at cute!
I can watch this again and again and still want to watch it....again.
ME TOO!
Me three. Where are all these people today? Very old, for sure... like me.
Born in ‘53 the 60’s and 70’s were a blast. I would relive them again. Less BS back then.
I'm right there with you, born in '53 myself. I'd give anything to relive the 60s and 70s. Growing up in San Diego County, I took it all for granted. 😢
We need more low budget late show now in2020
OMG!! im out of Ipana!!! son?? Up.. There!?!?! You'll find a place called a "Liquor Store!!!"
Agreed. This is so fun. And I love the songs they choose. Ellington! The Orlons! The Marvelettes!
2024
2024
I lived in Salem, OR from 1964 until graduating HS in 1969. Part of our PE curriculum from at least the 6th grade on required us to have 9 weeks of dancing. I can't remember what year/grade I was in but I do remember learning this dance. Great memories and music.
The simplicity and sheer joy they are having is so uplifting.
They are great and very happy
Oh Puke....
Mad crushing on the red head in the middle
@@julienneangelocarpo2229 lol not like they're all underage or anything... 🙄
I love it.
These kids are the cutest.
For a better signal and for the radio to play louder, I would go on the front porch and held the radio up in front of the meter box for as long as I wanted to listen to the radio. Those were the good ole days.
It's so naturally uplifting it wipes all the negativity away. More stuff like this is needed in this age.
it's called tiktok
I love the 60s dances, and I love these kids for doing them.
Pedophile!
These young people are amazing!
was 10 years old when i first listen to this popular song and now 67 ...and I am so glad see these kids whose parents were not even born when this song was a hit .......good on them . fantastic !!
Me encanta la música de los 60's
Treasure! Treasure, treasure, treasure, James Copeland. You've set it to history, maybe history will bring back this great spirit.
I enjoyed this so much! I was a guest on one of these "Low Budget Late Shows"! I also entered & won quite a few "dance-offs" & "marathon dances" that were held at local "matinees" or indoor movie theaters that had stages back "in the day" (60's). There were also "rec [recreation center]" dances every weekend during the Summer, along w/ Drive-In movies. I can remember going to my first Beatles movie (A Hard Days Night) in the mid-60s. The girls in the audience were screaming so loud during the whole movie & we weren't able to hear anything! I first got a whiff of marijuana at a Beach Boys Concert in I think it was Santa Monica, CA, but I was pretty young when I went w/ a friend & her family, so I mainly remember the atmosphere, the crowd singing & dancing w/ the band, & all the refreshments we got! That's when I bought my first album.
Boy did we have some clean fun back then! I don't know if teenagers today know what that's like.....actually interacting w/ others & engaging them in practical jokes, dances, or in playing street games like 4-square, kick ball, baseball, touch football, hide-n-seek, etc. until late into the night. The whole neighborhood would be involved, including parents cooking on the "Bar-B" (barbecue pits).
In those days, many of us kept our doors unlocked or kept them opened, w/ only the screen door (yes, we had those) locked, during the Spring & Summer months. We never had to worry about burglars. We barely had 2 cents to rub together, but I wouldn't trade those memories for anything (except maybe Heaven).
Yep, those were the days. 40 years from now the oldsters will reminiscing about Spongebob and X-boxes I suppose.
I was born in 1962, had one of the first cell phones in the SF Bay Area, & now I see 👶🏼 newborns addicted to screens & parents happy to distract & morphine-drip screen time into every area. I got rid of tv in 1984- felt brainwashed! So, yeah. Real human interactions, play, good & bad, sometimes wonderful or horrible- but it was REAL!
Tastes, smells, touches, sights, sounds of real people, in real places, doing human interactions. Video “Seeing” and “hearing” through an artificial screen & speaker are a new type of human “real” that we don’t yet know how it’ll impact us.
But, the skyrocketing rates of social anxiety and autism kinda make one wonder…
More violent crimes than in thirty years, likely due in part to desensitization from mass exposure and violent video games.
Meanwhile, the trophies for “Best” killer of zombies cannot even run, jump, fight in real space and time, nor carry ANY of the “equipment” they get in the games…
Fantasy
No wonder this generation wants to grow up and be a unicorn…
Ain’t no damned unicorns in the real world…
Which it seems by merely saying so, one is “cancelled” by invisible people who probably bubble-wrap their 2.5 kids.
well written!!!❤
sooo, this was filmed in 2015, if you google KCTU Dancers more vids come up.
Love these dances from the old days. Different dance styles. Everything doesn't look like hip-hop.
I loved dancing to this back in the day... So nice seeing these kids enjoying like I once did.
Hello Lorraine, How are you doing?
YES! LET. US. ALL. DANCE. AND. BE. JOYFUL. AGAIN!
AMEN!
I can't imagine how much fun those kids had putting this show together. I like the debonair announcer and dancers are all so special!
I keep coming back to this and just smile and grin...
Nice clean cut kids enjoying themselves ,makes me wish I was young again.
We are FOREVER YOUNG😉
Hard to see Clean Cut kids nowadays.
@@vinsnan6259Depends on the cutlery one uses.
just love these kids..precious!!! May God Bless and keep all of them!
🙏
amen
Maybe God sent them out to slaughter in the jungles of Vietnam
I love the way this generation is enjoying themselves dancing to the wah watusi! Good Job guys!!
I love their young smiling faces. Made me smile too.
Released by The Orlons in May 1962. Got to #2 on the U.S. charts...and #5 on the R&B charts. Sold over 1,000,000 copies and started the "Watusi" dance craze....
white people i swear..
What a great time I had growing up with all of this music. Wouldn’t trade it for the music of today for anything.
Most of them now don't have any decent voices for singing, just yelling or as in rap speaking the words to a beat which anyone can do. They didn't need to use obscenities either in lyrics to sell their music back then.
@@Tlyna1952 so many songs from the 60s are about doing heroine its not even funny
Same here Lola!
@@MrJizzinmypantz Legit? Can you tell me some good ones?
Check out the girl in the floral green dress at the front. Cutest smile you'll ever want to see.
I frankly had not seen this sort of dance since I was a teenager over fifty years ago. It is nice to watch and to remember so many things and to realize without thinking I dance a mix of rock, watusi twist and frugg whenever I go to parties.
Rock on 🤙
I grew up in 50's and 60's. I loved to dance. Electro swing incorporates bits and pieces of dances from the Charleston to 70's. Forgot the names,recognize the steps.thanks for the memories,keep them coming.
the young man in the right back corner cracks me up he is just having such FUN
Pure unadulterated innocence. So refreshing.
they looked like they had fun...i love it
❤️ LOVE, LOVE ,LOVE THIS WONDERFUL SONG and DANCE BINGS BACK GREAT MEMORIES OF MY TEENAGE YEARS 🎼🎵🎶😊
It`s just nice to see people dancing and enjoying themselves.
What a strange comment
@@seronymus And what is 'strange' about seeing people enjoying themselves?
@@makaha5750 😂.. Exactly , thar was big fun 👍
Enjoying their youth...
I love this sooo much!❤ they should make a new video in 2024!
I wish. ❤❤❤
Love the innocence ❤❤❤❤
Imagine! They look like they’re actually having fun. 💃🕺
The girl in the green in the front row was the best. I was fooled thinking it was 60's because of her. Great job!!!!!
My vote for best dancer is the young lady next to her in the black dress with yellow belt.
@@TheBullyMomma Why so? Is this a race thing? She made several mistakes.
@@dickiegreenleaf750 , Since I’m white I really doubt it. I like fluidity in a dancer and she was very smooth in her movements.
@@dickiegreenleaf750Esa chica de verde es el alma del baile. Y sí, por ella el video se parecía a los 60. No había mucha gente de color bailando en la TV de aquellos años ¿acaso vives en una burbuja o quieres cambiar la historia?
@@congocuatro118 Thank God. The colored peopled had their own dance.
The girl in the middle in the front row is hands down the best dancer of the group. She has something--you can see it. The boys in the back row dance like I danced back in high school, and the way I guess I still dance at weddings. It's no good if you're not having fun. This was very kitschy and fun. Yes, we need more Low Budget Late Show dancing like this now.
That's why they placed her in the front, her smiles are real joy ..
I don't know, the boy with the glasses in the front left is pretty nifty and keen.
Another reason.. The looks@3315nostrand
OMG you kids are awesome it looks like an early broadcast from American bandstand complete with skinny ties retro dresses and ponytails. Love the camera in the way and the commentators talkin and suddenly realizing there on the air great take off on early television awesome dancing keep it up guys what a pleasure to watch 😁😁😁👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
Okay, you guys had me fooled! I thought I was watching a program from the early to mid-'60s! I was looking at the girls thinking my gosh they are grannies now... only to find out it was filmed in 2014!
Ya gots to love them! We need more of this kinda stuff 🤗
They're very good dancers.
So cool to see these young kids dance to this music and having fun doing it.
They are so cute. Having so much pure fun dancing all together. Love this so much. ❤
Me too!!!
wow I fell in love repeatedly
This just blows me away, love the group and song, grew up listening to this, kids look clean and are having a good time!!!
OMG , these young people are amazing , nice to watch .
Thanks to all of you, what a breath of fresh air.
WOW! You lads and lasses ROCK! Luv U!!!!
FANTASTIC Choreography!
The big guy may not be the best of the dancers, but he is definitely having the most fun :)
Thank you for noticing him
He's a dancing fool!!!😄😄😄😄
That's for sure!!!!!
I love that guy!!!
So enjoyable. Such happy dancing. Life is to be enjoyed.
I thought it was.not be broke and warring 247 and threaten and criticized. And messed with mentally
its like an addiction i have to watch this video every so often great song great kids great choreography thanks!!!
Wow those dancers are terrific and adorable thanks! Stylish choreography- and they know their moves!
I couldn't even imagine myself dancing on live T.V. ever ! Thumbs up to all.
@josef mengele LOL! Be nice!
Yes! Keep on dancing all you lovely people having so much fun
I played drums in a good band at that time. Spontaneously the kids used to become like one big family on the dance floor. Made me feel beautifully happy inside when they would form into one gigantic chain and dance around the floor with laughter and joy.....
This is a great song and a funlooking dance!
OMG, I was in 10th grade when this song came out. I remember two girls teaching me how to do this dance. I also think I dressed like the guys in this clip (back in the days before males torture themselves getting in and out of "skinny jeans" just for fashion). Love this group...such memories.
I don't know why, but everytime I see this video I have to smile 😊
I love it 👍
I suspect you are in good company.
The song was by The Orlons- featuring Shirley Brinkley.
I did say Shirley Brickley not Brinkley. Apparently spell check wouldn't accept Brickley.
Makes you feel so good.......
It is refreshing to see young kid dancing to songs and dances I remember from when I was a kid, and clean cut. Boys wearing dress slacks, shirts and ties and not pants down to their knees, and girls wearing dresses.
I really enjoyed watching the Kansas City dancers perform. Brings back a lot of memories. Many thanks.
Hello Juanita, How are you doing?
Pretty good line in the front. "We're on camera right now." He says with so much swag. Love it.
I love this I was13yrs old when this song came out, for a while I thought this was video from that era these young people in Kansas City nailed it!
These young kids know how to dance! They look so cool!
I really enjoyed watching these kids enjoy themselves showing off their routine. Keep on dancing!
Jay Igaboo Simple and sweet. Like life once was. Bless them.....they made me smile ...and remember!
like the girl in black dress
Take that
Jay Igaboo I still love the way it was there
Jay Igaboo .
I can't stop smiling watching them dance!.
Love this! I keep watching it over and over. So fun.
The first time that I heard this song, I was listening with a 9 transistor AM radio that was powered by a little 9 Volt battery. Reception was better if I stood near a fence, which I did for hours on end.
April Ross
Seems like yesterday, sister.....
@Joan In Florida And you had to pull up the antenna. Mine had a brown leatherette case.
@@michelleg2112 lol mine did too, listened to Honey radio am 56 in Detroit area.
I was just looking up which one mine was. It was red and perhaps merely Panasonic but the Eveready with the cat running through the 9.... that burns bright.
Lucky You April, Mine was only six transistors.
My God, this is so awesome. ❤
I'm with you Ben. I absolutely LOVE this!!!
It's easy to imagine the producer and director discussing their casting choices from this group, "Ok boys and girls you were all excellent, thank you very much. Could the brunette in the green & black dress wait just a minute please. Thank you again everyone."
From the other comments it sound like she was the choreographer for this routine.
I lived through this era, They all look good to me!
This is what young people used to do before they started staring at their cell-phones all day. They actually moved their bodies in time with music. I know it's hard to believe but it's true.
I love this dance
This was a number one record for The Orlons out of Philadelphia.
Yes, it definitely came out of Philadelphia. I saw the Orlons in person. One of the greatest groups, I ever saw. Very entertaining.
love the song and the dance
I loved all the dance songs of the early to mid sixties.
The girl in the black dress/yellow belt and the tall guy in the back/right corner were my favorite 💛
What a really great bunch of kids, making our own music look and sound so great!
They do a great justice to the spirit of this song..... Good job
I just love these kids they're great
You’re all wonderful for keeping these dances alive😌 keep it up and thank you 😊
They look like they are having so much fun!
Oh such joy....to see such sweet innocent, non commercial youngsters enjoying their time. Oh, my sweet, sweet times so long gone from these days. Just thankful, that I was lucky enough to be a teenager in the sixties, and now at least have the memories of that time. So sad to be an adult in the times of today. My years are now shortened,but glad that I lived thru those wonderful days. I have been truly blessed. Oh children of today....I wish that you could have known and experienced the talent and music of that time!
I Agree With You , It Was The Best Of Times !!! Your Comment Is So Perfectly SaId 🌹😊
ADORABLE ❤🎉❤😂😂 Go Babies GO so Awesome !! Love this Song 🎉🎉😂
So great to see youngsters of today having good-clean fun, and enjoying classic 1960's music and dancing !!! Great job y'all !!
@@CFITOMAHAWK2 Nope! It's 2014. That's when that show aired. I particularly researched this, because I was a teenager in the '60's, and the styles in this video didn't seem quite right. Ponytails were worn in the '50's, and those above-the-knees skirts would have been mini-skirts of about 1968. Anyway, check this out, and you'll see: ua-cam.com/video/Nb-aL7nqAjs/v-deo.html. Also, please don't call people "dummies," OK? That just makes YOU look dumb.
Looks like the offending woman I was addressing blew the scene! :)
Love this short video of kids having good, clean fun just dancing like this! Wonderful!
Hello Sheila, How are you doing?
The youthful Gen-Z embracing a slice of nostalgic music - dance Americana! Beautiful!
I would love to learn these classic dances when music was fun and good.
Beautiful Young Girls And Men Having A Good Time 😊
these kids were Awesome!!
Some great smiles from that group, good stuff! Blond cutie has a winning smile for sure.
This is An Excellent Video"With the great 60s dance presentation"The way the video quality was filmed"It's Absolute Dynamite"Don't Change a thing!!!
The young lady in the black dress and the young man with the black sweater have the best rythym!!
I forgot all about the low budget late show.
The young man on the front row with the glasses has the moves
he sure does
They look so clean-cut.
This dance was popular during a time when about the only thing teens had to worry about was learning the latest dance step. Oh the good old days!
Respectable music with respectable kids, unlike today.
James Turner ya mean the Today Show?
Looks like from many years ago.
my mistake if I'm wrong.
James Turner ah, thanks.
The little girl, front row, between the guy and the girl in the black dress reminds me of my wife of 47 years who I met through the mail upon my return from Vietnam-just at cute!
Man that is heart warming. All the best. You went through hell and landed on your feet.
the cute gal in the green dress with bangs in the center front is so into it-love her spirit!