American Bandstand 1968 -’68 Dance Contest- Tighten Up, Archie Bell & The Drells

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  • @goyeabuddy
    @goyeabuddy 5 років тому +389

    1968, i was in Vietnam then, came back in 1969.. at least i came back, a lot of my bros didn't make it...god rest their souls!

    • @YCDTI
      @YCDTI  5 років тому +42

      Thank you for your service terry wheatley. I’m glad you made it home.

    • @susanpeters3234
      @susanpeters3234 5 років тому +30

      Thank you for your service. We owe you a huge debt of gratitude. God Bless you .🙏❤️

    • @TheKissyfer
      @TheKissyfer 4 роки тому +9

      As a daughter of an enlisted Navy officer and Vietnam veteran, thank you (1M times) for your service. F*** those people who didn't welcome y'all back.

    • @TheKissyfer
      @TheKissyfer 4 роки тому +7

      @C Hoc Oh you're very welcome - anytime! I'm all about it :-)

    • @mermaidgirl9232
      @mermaidgirl9232 4 роки тому +16

      terry wheatley ...thank you for your service. My brothers made it back home also. So thankful for each and every one of you.

  • @altfactor
    @altfactor 5 років тому +265

    "Tighten Up!" was probably the best dance record of the late 1960's. It still gets me up and moving 52 years later!

    • @jamesm.3967
      @jamesm.3967 4 роки тому +3

      altfactor It was used in an insurance commercial too.

    • @darrellwolf5638
      @darrellwolf5638 4 роки тому +5

      absolutely impossible to dance to in its day..compare this to some of the others,,,,big difference.

    • @mermaidgirl9232
      @mermaidgirl9232 4 роки тому +5

      altfactor ....love this song 🎶

    • @philipcollins408
      @philipcollins408 4 роки тому +5

      Can't argue with you about the Archie Bell tune but the one I remember that was most popular in my neighborhood in Chicago was "Nobody But Me" by the Human Beinz. Hot tune 🔥

    • @bellbottomblues131
      @bellbottomblues131 3 роки тому +4

      @@philipcollins408 I love Nobody But Me!!

  • @forego49
    @forego49 5 років тому +117

    Give Dick Clark credit with all those young people around him he never as involved in any scandals or bad press his entire life. He was one of a kind for sure can't be duplicated.

    • @bbb8997
      @bbb8997 2 роки тому

      Payola , & Freed was railroaded.Dick Clark threw Jerry Lee Lewis under the bus, total scumbag Clark was

    • @forego49
      @forego49 2 роки тому +6

      @@bbb8997 No Clark was smart enough to hide his payola (all the big DJs took money to play records at the timewake up) but Freed too the money didn't he? Seems to me one guy was smart the other a dummy who got caught and ruined his career.

    • @forego49
      @forego49 2 роки тому

      @@bbb8997 A little more info for you about your hero Alan Freed who stole writing credits from performers and also stole their recording royalties. Dick Clark never did that to anyone connected to him. Next time do some research before you open your big mouth.

    • @imbees2
      @imbees2 Рік тому +3

      yes

    • @CharlieGracieJunior
      @CharlieGracieJunior 7 місяців тому +3

      PAYOLA!

  • @jessebarrera1955
    @jessebarrera1955 5 років тому +177

    Archie Bell, from Houston, Texas was wounded in Vietnam....thanks for your service mr Bell 😊🇱🇷🇱🇷

    • @BHall-tw4ye
      @BHall-tw4ye 5 років тому +6

      Jesse, Had no idea. He had a great sound.

    • @KindaLikeWater
      @KindaLikeWater 4 роки тому +5

      Thanks for some truth on this post. Respect to Mr. Bell. And he's still with us. :)

    • @tundrawomansays5067
      @tundrawomansays5067 4 роки тому +9

      He didn’t know he had a hit record until he heard it on the radio!

    • @jamest4767
      @jamest4767 4 роки тому +4

      Would he be the only Vietnam vet with a hit song?

    • @armagedon0264
      @armagedon0264 4 роки тому +1

      I didnt know this

  • @gilbertsanchez3277
    @gilbertsanchez3277 5 років тому +177

    I was 17 living in Watts....missed those days. Now I am 68. Hard to believe how time goes by so quick. All these young people, If they are still alive, are around my age.

    • @Eidann63
      @Eidann63 5 років тому +6

      Gilbert Sanchez I lived on Imperial Hwy, below Western Ave. I was 15 when they burned Watts. Were you there then? I remember the tanks coming down the street and the curfew.

    • @jazziehuell816
      @jazziehuell816 5 років тому +3

      i was born in 80 at kaiser in bellflower, while parents were living in compton. unfortunately I got to see the murders from the gang wars of the 80's 😢😢😢

    • @Eidann63
      @Eidann63 5 років тому +6

      @@jazziehuell816 One of the reasons we left S. Cali.

    • @mimilong3817
      @mimilong3817 5 років тому +5

      Gilbert Sanchez:
      I was 12 years old in the late 60s while walking with a friend through a Watts neighborhood when a couple black teens looked at us and said: "Ooo, Ooo, you in da wrong neighborhooood". But I made it out alive obviously.

    • @KindaLikeWater
      @KindaLikeWater 4 роки тому +3

      @@mimilong3817 - Unlike MLK and RFK, in 1968. And so many thousands of others.

  • @ThomasFinnerty-nn8ne
    @ThomasFinnerty-nn8ne 4 місяці тому +12

    Im 81 now and it was every day after school that I watched American Bandstand. All the kids were stars!!!!!

    • @forego49
      @forego49 4 місяці тому

      I am with you buddy I watch American Bandstand almost everyday after school too. It was all clean fun. Dick Clark was a decent man compared to those around him.

    • @moemcgovern7345
      @moemcgovern7345 4 місяці тому

      I have to disagree. Most couldn't dance.

    • @sylvialawrence4431
      @sylvialawrence4431 20 днів тому

      Same here, and I'm 72. Also watched Soul Train.

  • @carrienixon6663
    @carrienixon6663 5 місяців тому +24

    Boy oh boy, they doing that tighten up. 2024 and still top notch. August 2nd, 2024. ❤

    • @joycemartin7516
      @joycemartin7516 4 місяці тому +2

      It’s 8/30/24 in Austin, Tx! Great tune then and I was living in the Houston area when they came out with this song! Seniors were great in ‘68📣…I’m 75 and still rockin to the oldies today🥳🎶

  • @MissPerriwinkle
    @MissPerriwinkle Рік тому +8

    oh to go bak to those years.......

  • @garrettkessler1895
    @garrettkessler1895 Рік тому +38

    Thank you Archie for your service and thank you to all who served. I was born in '69 and I grew up a free American and I love and thank you all for that. Thank you for the excellent music too. Hugs G.

    • @lolitadiaz0113
      @lolitadiaz0113 Рік тому +2

      Awww what a nice comment yes we are thankful to our vets❤

    • @MrCtsSteve
      @MrCtsSteve 11 місяців тому

      ​@laverdadescatolica5well they still went . They could've went to Canada or claim objector status .

  • @tillietrue9397
    @tillietrue9397 5 років тому +118

    "Tighten Up".....this song always makes me happy and takes me back to wonderful, innocent times💖
    We dressed so cool😎

    • @gypsymoon3519
      @gypsymoon3519 4 роки тому +5

      Loved this time in my life I won best dancer in High School I loved this music better then today’s Music!!

    • @donnawoodford6641
      @donnawoodford6641 3 роки тому +1

      Before bell-bottom jeans. 👖

    • @christopherluciano8665
      @christopherluciano8665 2 роки тому +2

      When dance was normal

  • @patriciacasey3037
    @patriciacasey3037 2 роки тому +8

    Vietnam War an everlasting Legacy of Sorrow for our Boys! I have lived with this Grief all of my Life. 70 years old now, PTSD consists. I Thank God every day and Night and at the foot of my bed is a Tapestry of PSALM 23, it has carried me through Life for 30+years!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Welcome home Soldiers! Jesus is Always With Us! AMEN and AMEN!❤

  • @community1949
    @community1949 6 років тому +101

    Notice how tight and skinny the men's slacks are? See nothing is new kiddies. I was 19 in 1968 and I had just bought a brand new Chevy Camaro in butternut yellow with a black vinyl top, black bucket seats, and black strips down the sides - we had fun back then.

    • @lonrgrrl59
      @lonrgrrl59 5 років тому +1

      I'm with you all the way, even though I was a child back then and did remember the songs that were playing on the radio back then and barely remember seeing this episode of AB

    • @sarrahremy8512
      @sarrahremy8512 5 років тому +3

      I had a 67 Camaro - white with orange racing stripes. I miss those days. Boy, am I old!

    • @JeanetteFaith
      @JeanetteFaith 5 років тому +1

      cool cars.... and I drive a Honda. lol

    • @vinniebozzuto3534
      @vinniebozzuto3534 5 років тому +4

      I was 17 years old and my first car was a1964 Pontiac GTO..you don't know what you have until it's gone!😉

    • @bobrand3895
      @bobrand3895 4 роки тому +1

      When I came back from nam I bought my sister's car 1969 came to coupe, best car I ever had. Now dive a civic hehe

  • @iandon1300
    @iandon1300 11 місяців тому +8

    Oh boy. This is top notch.....

  • @chicmim
    @chicmim 5 років тому +76

    I was in the army stationed in Germany and Archie Bell was stationed in K-town at the same time. We had a band called the Profiles and he performed with us often. Along with Peaches and Herb and Lou Rawls and others.

    • @gardenia81
      @gardenia81 5 років тому +6

      So cool! Thanks for sharing

    • @deniseparker2146
      @deniseparker2146 4 роки тому +6

      WOW that must have been something!

    • @matrox
      @matrox 2 роки тому +3

      Was Archie in the Military or just there performing?

    • @chicmim
      @chicmim 2 роки тому +5

      @@matrox He was in the army.

    • @matrox
      @matrox 2 роки тому +2

      @@chicmim ✊😁

  • @matrox
    @matrox 2 роки тому +41

    Hearing this song makes me feel like an 11 year old kid again when I was grooving to this song on my 9volt Transister radio. It was such a groovy time despite the Viet Nam war and the political asisinations.

  • @robbie-vh3ed
    @robbie-vh3ed 2 місяці тому +2

    I have good memories with this song

  • @goodmeasure777
    @goodmeasure777 2 роки тому +25

    I like the lady dancing like a go go dancer. She was the one really dancing by herself. She had soul for real @5:06

  • @MrRotcehzepol
    @MrRotcehzepol 5 років тому +44

    I was 16 and playing guitar in a local band. We probably played this song 2 or 3 times every dance night due to requests from the people. I’m 67 now and only play those memories in my mind.

    • @lucialbert831
      @lucialbert831 3 роки тому

      ❤️🌟

    • @matrox
      @matrox 2 роки тому +1

      Are you still playing guitar?🧐

    • @MrRotcehzepol
      @MrRotcehzepol 2 роки тому +2

      No, I don’t play the guitar anymore and I’m now 70. Playing the guitar by myself is not the same pleasure as playing with the whole band.

    • @matrox
      @matrox 2 роки тому +1

      @@MrRotcehzepol True...why not go to craigslist and hook up with some musicians? I play keyboard and am about to do that now.

  • @carrienixon6663
    @carrienixon6663 Рік тому +7

    We gone make it mellow fa you now, we gone make it mellow now-- sounds good because it’s the original sound, and the original sound is the best sound.

  • @oldskoolmusicforever0724
    @oldskoolmusicforever0724 6 місяців тому +11

    AS A SENIOR ADULT MYSELF,WATCHING THIS VIDEO WAS COOLER THAN A MICHIGAN DAY IN DECEMBER.

  • @jackpott8587
    @jackpott8587 4 роки тому +47

    Archie Bell and The Drells played our Senior Prom, Forest Park H. S., Class of ‘69. We knew how to Tighten It Up. You put your left hand on your left hip, and pointed you first finger on right hand, and pretended it was a screw driver, and you were tightening it up! Rock with the Beat. Archie and Drells had at least 3 more hits, check them out!

    • @gregrichard2719
      @gregrichard2719 3 роки тому +1

      Beaumont, TX?

    • @gigib.965
      @gigib.965 3 роки тому

      Forest park Springfield Massachusetts?????

    • @donnawoodford6641
      @donnawoodford6641 3 роки тому

      Chicago, IL area.

    • @jackpott8587
      @jackpott8587 3 роки тому +2

      @@gregrichard2719 Yes, at a Hotel along Interstate 10 across the highway from Gateway Shopping Center.

  • @albertvejil363
    @albertvejil363 Рік тому +1

    I was drafted in the Army in 1968

  • @TheLoanshark08
    @TheLoanshark08 Рік тому +5

    Houston STAND UP !!!!!! Some of the sickest bass lines ever

  • @trudemoore5036
    @trudemoore5036 Рік тому +2

    Im 73 and I can still Tighten up. Lol! Loved those days in High School.

  • @kataisa3
    @kataisa3 Рік тому +12

    I love these old TV shows with the commercials built into them. Love the styles of the times!

  • @fatbowe
    @fatbowe 4 роки тому +3

    I and Archie bell were both in boot camp at Fort Polk, Louisiana...He went to Germany to be a truck driver
    and I went to Vietnam to be a dog handler...Via Okinawa, where the dog school was... 1967....
    ..this was all before Tighten Up came out...His people came to get him in a 57 Chevy Bel Aire...

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 4 роки тому

      Do you remember where you were on Okinawa? I spent 13 months there later on Aug74-Sep75, Camp Foster
      .

  • @kevinstewart8876
    @kevinstewart8876 3 роки тому +14

    You can't help but to start dancing when Tighten Up comes on.

  • @carolinerainey7972
    @carolinerainey7972 Рік тому +9

    Love these songs from the 60's

  • @hermanmunster714
    @hermanmunster714 Рік тому +1

    These young couples all look so cute, like theyre having some fun. Do young folks even dance anymore now a days?

  • @SantiagoTrevino-k3d
    @SantiagoTrevino-k3d Рік тому +5

    Yep I'm from Houston Texas and it's always a club Hit till this day!!!

  • @heatherduchene8779
    @heatherduchene8779 3 роки тому +7

    Thank you to all the brave people who went to Vietnam, sad some did not return home, when I look back on the music and dancing, everyone looked so nice, it was the best of times, the world is pretty sad now, just my opinion anyway.

  • @nuwavedave
    @nuwavedave 4 роки тому +23

    "Tighten Up" was such a garage recording - not typical for Gamble & Huff, who produced the Delfonics and so many other great Soul artists. But what a soulful groove! You couldn't help but dance to it. Archie and his boys had it goin' on!

    • @srmichel417
      @srmichel417 4 роки тому +3

      Gamble and Huff picked them up after this was recorded in Texas. Their next hits were produced in Philly, some written by Gamble and Huff. My memory may be fuzzy on this but close.

  • @nuwavedave
    @nuwavedave 5 років тому +42

    "Tighten Up" was brilliant, with its Garage Soul feel! We all wanted to dance just as good as we walked - and we DID whenever it came on the radio on 77 WABC in New York City. Thanks, Archie!

  • @mazie7952
    @mazie7952 4 місяці тому +2

    I was 7
    Love the 60s music❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗

  • @the9-2-5outlawdoestech9
    @the9-2-5outlawdoestech9 3 роки тому +5

    That somebody's grandfather or grandmother on American Bandstand. What a story to tell their grandkids they got on an American dance TV show.

  • @imbees2
    @imbees2 Рік тому +1

    It's time to do the tighten up!!!

  • @imbees2
    @imbees2 Рік тому +3

    The doing the boogaloo!

  • @dorothyaguilar5639
    @dorothyaguilar5639 5 років тому +41

    I use to watch this when I was a kid those were the days.😘

  • @ettajohnson8234
    @ettajohnson8234 2 роки тому +10

    Archie and the Drells, you send me way back! Makes me want to dance!👍🏾

  • @joycejean-baptiste4355
    @joycejean-baptiste4355 2 роки тому +2

    They should have done the tighten up' dance with the song. It was a fun dance. My older sisters taught me how. Lol!

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 Рік тому +4

    USA music was amazing then!!!! Time to bring it back.

  • @chacha59
    @chacha59 2 роки тому +8

    I remember watching American Bandstand! I was 9yrs old in 1968…also still listen to Archie Bell & the Drells Tighten Up! 👍🏼

  • @altfactor
    @altfactor 5 років тому +20

    This record was most appropriate for a late 1960's rock 'n roll dance contest.
    Maybe the best dance record of the late 1960's!

  • @kathyoverton9365
    @kathyoverton9365 Рік тому +1

    I remember that song at the only dance I went to in junior high.

  • @carmengomez-munoz4723
    @carmengomez-munoz4723 4 роки тому +22

    Attention dancers on this video, if you are reading this let us know what an an amazing time you had !

  • @amedm1844
    @amedm1844 4 роки тому +3

    Man! They could dance back then.

    • @usmc-veteran73-77
      @usmc-veteran73-77 4 роки тому

      I was 13 yrs old and boy could my girlfriend dance.....she did teach me how to dance.

  • @MyMuzikVideos578
    @MyMuzikVideos578 5 років тому +21

    Great song! I was in 6th grade in '68. Those kids had soul! ❤👍

  • @tomchristensen3392
    @tomchristensen3392 Рік тому +1

    Late 60s, can’t describe it but loved almost all of it.

  • @bjaquez6
    @bjaquez6 Рік тому

    I was 10 years old. I'm 65 now. Love AB n Dick Clark. ❤️

  • @joycejean-baptiste4355
    @joycejean-baptiste4355 2 роки тому +1

    I'd rather have the bike than the radio that the girls got. Lol! Those companies got their advertisements in with the product give aways. Mr. Clark was an awesome announcer.

  • @su....
    @su.... 2 місяці тому

    tighten up there now, baby! hope all these beautiful souls are still dancin. let's dance, everyone!!

  • @markmccummins8049
    @markmccummins8049 5 років тому +13

    I don’t know what most of them were dancing, but this little boy soaked it in, song, dancing, and all. I remember this! Still love Archie Bell & The Drells!

  • @supesII
    @supesII 5 років тому +9

    I love that crazy ‘60s dancing. So cool.

  • @dukecraig2402
    @dukecraig2402 5 років тому +57

    How many people here know that Charles Robinson (Mack from Night Court) was in Archie Bell and the Drells before they hit it off? They were even on an episode that paralled his actual story with them.

    • @irishbob1953
      @irishbob1953 5 років тому +3

      Interesting. thanks for the information

    • @KindaLikeWater
      @KindaLikeWater 4 роки тому +2

      WOW! Amazing! Thanks!

    • @imbees2
      @imbees2 4 роки тому +2

      I didn’t know. Thank you for the informatiom

    • @scottyg5403
      @scottyg5403 4 роки тому +2

      Very cool!

    • @bobbyjones7922
      @bobbyjones7922 3 роки тому +3

      I liked that, knowledge, thanks for sharing.

  • @lindalove7193
    @lindalove7193 2 роки тому +2

    That had to be one of the best songs of 1968. I think I was 12 and my friend used to have crowed house parties on Sunday afternoon and we would get down!

  • @matrox
    @matrox 2 роки тому +1

    I used to watch ABS in the late 50s from my baby crib.☝😝

  • @LarryNeie-lj7zc
    @LarryNeie-lj7zc Рік тому +1

    I was a junior at Wilmer-Hutchins high school just south of Dallas when this song was all over AM radio KLIF and KBOX . Memories of girlfriends Kay, Melanie and Susan. Hope they are still around and rockin to the sixties!

  • @bobmalack481
    @bobmalack481 2 роки тому +1

    He said "This is Archie DELL once again"...LOL!! Robert at 67.

  • @estellepatella2520
    @estellepatella2520 4 роки тому +7

    I remember this one. Tighten-Up was one of my favorites. I really miss Dick Clark. '68 was a long hot summer. Chicago riots and the Summer of Love

  • @carrieburch7646
    @carrieburch7646 4 роки тому +8

    Tighten up was a dance that I can still do!! My son, an 80’s baby, loves this song!!

  • @johnjimenez4103
    @johnjimenez4103 2 місяці тому

    She is the best God bless her and her family

  • @sojotruth1116
    @sojotruth1116 4 роки тому +7

    Lovely to see those young folks get down to good music back in the day, I was just getting into my formative years, but it bring back good memories and lifts my spirits. Thank goodness for Dick Clark and his love for youth, dance, and music. RIP Mr. Clark.

  • @josemoreno3334
    @josemoreno3334 5 років тому +17

    My brother danced on that show back around 1969.

  • @mylesken6122
    @mylesken6122 4 роки тому +13

    It is Aprl 23, 2020. I enjoy some of the past shows. This is one from 1968. Great to have actual instrumentals and songs with no profanity and degrading lyrics. I also would had loved to be a dancer on a television dance show. Not all desires are fulfulilled. I can see that they were enjoying the music and dancing to it.

  • @virginiarodriguez4565
    @virginiarodriguez4565 7 місяців тому +1

    I used to love to see American bandstand those were the good old days on 75 and I still like to dance to that kind of music

  • @rcc2917
    @rcc2917 3 роки тому +1

    I drank many a Henninger beer listening to this song while stationed at TAB, Spain. it was playing constatnly in the NCO club. Good memories

  • @bobmalack481
    @bobmalack481 11 місяців тому

    Wow..'Marsha' at 1:27 with those Irish eyes, ears and black hair bangs down over her forehead absolutely knocks me out! And I think that with a bit of her Irish or English back ancestory. I was only 13 at the time. I would ALMOST kill to be her dance partner in the day. Robert at 69.

  • @bellbottomblues131
    @bellbottomblues131 3 роки тому +3

    Just had to pop on here again and say I LUV, LUV THIS SONG!!! Thanks for posting this!!!

  • @aladdinsane5448
    @aladdinsane5448 5 років тому +25

    TIME IT WAS
    AND WHAT A TIME IT WAS....IT WAS
    A TIME OF INNOCENCE
    A TIME OF CONFIDENCES
    LONG AGO IT MUST BE
    I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH
    PRESERVE YOUR MEMORIES THEY'RE ALL THATS LEFT YOU!😢

  • @keeper116
    @keeper116 4 роки тому +6

    They're JAMMING!! Love this & American Bandstand wow the memories ♥

  • @rentslave
    @rentslave 5 років тому +2

    I saw Archie and his guys on the NJ Turnpike!
    It was a Sunday afternoon in 1976.I was driving from Philadelphia to North Jersey when I came alongside a silver Cadillac with this stenciling on the driver's side door:ARCHIE BELL AND THE DRELLS.
    The windows were blacked out,so I could not see inside.
    Things went along swimmingly for about 50 miles,with each of us passing each other depending on the traffic flow.Then,I lost them.
    I saw them again,stopped on a safety island in the middle of the road,with all of them outside of the car looking up at the road signs atop the highway,attempting to figure what fork in the road to take to get them to the right part of NYC.I assume that the State Troopers finally got them going in the right direction.

  • @brianmoore5498
    @brianmoore5498 5 років тому +23

    archie bell was in the army when this became a hit

  • @christinegruenberg3120
    @christinegruenberg3120 5 років тому +3

    I like the couple doing all the twirling and little dipping. I love to dance like that.

  • @edreynolds5769
    @edreynolds5769 6 років тому +4

    Great song! Even DC is feelin' the groove at 3:50

  • @Mia7189
    @Mia7189 5 років тому +3

    I was in 4th grade when this song came out. We did the tighten up at my 9th birthday.

  • @cynthiapickett5017
    @cynthiapickett5017 6 років тому +19

    Always fun to look into a time capsule; keep up the good work!

    • @Kelly-nm4kw
      @Kelly-nm4kw 3 роки тому

      Hello Cynthia, How are you doing?

  • @AdrianDeVore
    @AdrianDeVore 6 років тому +18

    I can see why Gretchen and Buddy won this contest because both of them fully connected with the song which was reflected in their dance moves.

  • @imbees2
    @imbees2 4 роки тому +3

    This song always makes me happy to.

  • @aladdinsane5448
    @aladdinsane5448 5 років тому +87

    BACK WHEN PEOPLE WERE BASICALLY GOOD!😢

    • @azaramoon4027
      @azaramoon4027 5 років тому +4

      What the hell happened to them ? Weve got to get humanity back.

    • @KindaLikeWater
      @KindaLikeWater 4 роки тому +12

      Yeah... The "Good People" days of church bombings... The My Lai Massacre... The Manson/Tate murders... The Kent State shootings... Sorry. That "good ole days goodness" is a myth.

    • @tundrawomansays5067
      @tundrawomansays5067 4 роки тому +12

      KindaLikeWater Thank you for the Reality Check. People are *still good:* What’s changed is the hype inherent in the 24 hr. “News” that hypes Fear and Divisiveness (as well as good ol’ sex) because they sell.

    • @tracythomas122
      @tracythomas122 4 роки тому +4

      @@KindaLikeWater Depended on where you lived in this country. Those were", good ole days" to some of us.

    • @lindaeasley4336
      @lindaeasley4336 4 роки тому +8

      Too many spoiled ,rude brats under the age of 30 today

  • @usmc-veteran73-77
    @usmc-veteran73-77 4 роки тому +3

    "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro was #1 for several weeks, until this song "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell & the Drells of Houston, Texas.

  • @LS-ti1rz
    @LS-ti1rz 3 роки тому

    the guy at 4:22 wearing the dark jacket white shirt slim dark tie danced like he was glued to that one spot and just started flailing his arms up and down, lol...

  • @JohnRouen-ym8oh
    @JohnRouen-ym8oh 5 років тому

    Oh what a nice time to be alive

  • @EastWest7
    @EastWest7 Рік тому

    Loved this tune back in spring 1968 when I was in 7th grade, Davey Junior High, Kent, Ohio.

  • @uselessjoe
    @uselessjoe 3 роки тому +5

    Ricky Bell, USC running back great, was Archie's brother... he played for Tampa Bay, and died very young...

  • @virginiarodriguez4565
    @virginiarodriguez4565 3 роки тому

    Yes tighten up was one of my favorite dancing favorite song

  • @christinaphillips5933
    @christinaphillips5933 4 роки тому +4

    The best American generation !!!

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 Рік тому +1

    I just love this!!!!!! ☮️💟

  • @birdsfan57
    @birdsfan57 5 років тому +3

    I remember this dance contest as if it were yesterday!

  • @lindaeasley4336
    @lindaeasley4336 4 роки тому +4

    May 1968 : I was 7 years old. The oldest in my family, a sister, was 16 . We just moved to California from the east coast There was 8 of us

  • @rrockhard1
    @rrockhard1 3 роки тому +1

    😥 man this song is it

  • @loiscarrillo4058
    @loiscarrillo4058 4 місяці тому

    Good Old Days for sure!!!!!

  • @Furry67
    @Furry67 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks. Perfect example of the record sounding better in original mono.

  • @1blessedbrotha
    @1blessedbrotha 5 років тому +3

    when I was little this was our song in my neighborhood back home in N.C., and yes, we were tightening it up bigtime outside cause we weren't, allowed into the "juke joints" , back then those places were for worldly adults only, we could hear the jukebox just fine outside where we would cluster around the door begging for spare change.

    • @edithnorton529
      @edithnorton529 5 років тому

      Then came "wolfman Jack" with the
      " juke joints" on AM radio til he had to go "out-law" then he was on any freed up number on the dial but it the signal had to be found.

  • @CHaas-bn3xi
    @CHaas-bn3xi 5 років тому +5

    Are you kidding me I had that exact little indian mini bike all chrome 2 speed, LOLOL the first thing I learned was how to take the govener off for more speed

  • @scottburton9701
    @scottburton9701 6 років тому +13

    Thanks for posting this great blast from the past!

    • @YCDTI
      @YCDTI  6 років тому

      You are most welcome, glad you enjoyed it!

  • @tempeycooper8112
    @tempeycooper8112 5 років тому +3

    love this song!!! and this show.. great times!!!

  • @MrTexasLIberal
    @MrTexasLIberal 2 роки тому +2

    Shortly after this hit, Archie Bell was drafted and went to Vietnam. He came back and recorded some more. Love Archie Bell and the Drells from H Town !

  • @matrox
    @matrox 2 роки тому

    ☝😪I always wanted a Lil Indian mini bike or any mini bike in 68'. I finally got one a few years later in the early 70s.✊😁

  • @bellbottomblues131
    @bellbottomblues131 3 роки тому +1

    I wish they would have shown more of the couple that won. I couldn’t really see how they danced.

  • @davidcooke3246
    @davidcooke3246 2 роки тому

    I was at the boys ranch in hahira ga. I was in the eight grade and went to hahira jr. Highschool
    I miss that time and all the kids i knew.