American Bandstand 1970 - Make Me Smile, Chicago
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2019
- Airdate: May 23, 1970
Chicago’s very first top 40 hit, “Make Me Smile”, is at #17 today and will peak at #9 in 2 weeks. The song is just the first part of the group’s 13- minute, 7-part musical suite “Ballet For A Girl In Buchanon” that was cut out for radio airplay. Founding member and songwriter James Pankow had no idea their record company was going to release this as a single and was shocked when he first heard it in his car in Los Angeles on Boss Radio, 93 KHJ.
Smiling on the dancefloor today: Famous Hooks (0:48), Frank Vanderpuil (1:02), Andy Soto & Buggy (Teresa) Escoto (1:19), Steven Rice (2:30) and Theodosia Dayton (2:44).
For 60’s & 70’s TV nerds (like me), if you saw the movie “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”, this commercial, with Susan Dey, was shown while the hippy girls at Spahn ranch were watching an episode of “Happening”. (Paul Revere and the Raiders sang “Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon”. That episode of “Happening” first aired on March 29, 1969) I don’t know if the commercial was actually playing back in ‘69, but it was definitely shown during this episode of Bandstand in 1970.
“The Partridge Family” will premiere in 4 months on Sept. 25 on ABC.
I graduated from high school in 1970. We had the best music ever in the 70's!!!
No shit
That is your generation buddy
80s was better
@@annbet3684
Um, no way
Ain't nothing like being young and healthy. This is the real wealth of life.
Ain’t that the truth!! 😁
Yup. I'm 58 and full of aches and pains.😢
So true my friend. Best wishes to you.
Amen to that.
The lovely Susan Dey in the first seconds before the dancing starts. Cute girls on the dance floor.
I still have the September, 1970 Seventeen magazine (which, back then, was 3 times the size of today's magazine), which features Susan (in her maxi coat) on its cover, along with a Fall fashion "spread" inside. She was a "Supermodel" ( before the term was coined) to us young teens back then. Many of us wished we could look like her, if only for a day.
+@@birdsfan57 Even though I was in Kindergarten I wanted her as my babysitter. I am an only child. She was so beautiful in the 1975 Hawaii 5-0 episode. A Bullet for a Lady.
I recognized her right off the bat and was going to comment until I seen your comment.
"Because the next boy you meet"...Ah! What lovely memories this commercial evokes...the innocence of it all...the anticipation of seeing "THAT BOY" in the school hallway...I miss those days...and sad that today's youth will NEVER know what THEY'VE missed...
+@D W Haa! Haa! That,s cute.
One great hit after another. Such fun times!
Love Chicago!
There's got to be a morning after !
Terry Kath on vocals - excellent. A terrible loss when he left us.
To me Chicago died when Terry Kath died.
@@williamboylejr.9098 After a couple more hits after Terry died the band changed directions and weren't the same again. They had a dry spell for a few years.
Sad this America is gone forever! I love their smiles and happiness! just dancing.
TIME IT WAS AND WHAT A TIME IT WAS,IT WAS
LONG AGO IT MUST BE
I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH
PRESERVE YOUR MEMORIES THEY'RE ALL THATS LEFT YOU
That and Terry Kath's familiar baritone voice opposite Peter Cetera's falsetto.
Very unfortunate it became a woke, socialist cesspool.
I was in 8th grade when this song hit the charts, and we always watched American Bandstand. Wow...this video takes me to another world. Thanks so much for posting this!!
I was in 7th, and listened to the radio at least an hour every day. I remember this song especially well.
This video made me smile.
Big time.
i was 15 and i remember seeing this and went out and bought this album and still have it.
One of the best Chicago tunes of all time. Harmonic and quick to express the era.
The first time I saw Chicago was at an outdoor festival in Nuremberg Germany in 1976. There were over 100,000 people there. They were so good that the people brought them back for five encores. On the last encore they said that they didn't have anymore Chicago songs so they did "Got To Get You Into My Life" by the Beatles. I almost died, it was so good. Fast forward to a couple of years ago. I had a backstage VIP Meet and Greet with them. I showed them pictures that I took at the Nuremberg concert. It made them smile.
Who from the original line up was still in the band? Robert Lamm, James Pankow, and Lee Loughnane?
@@57highland Robert Lamm, James Pankow and Lee Loughnane.
@@airspeedaltitudeandideas877 That's what I thought. I recently saw a YT video of a performance by Chicago (probably close to ten years ago) including those three original members. One commenter said that Walter had to retire due to health issues. And of course Peter has been on the outs with the others for years and Danny also for some reason dropped out of the picture.
Wow! The girl in the ad at the beginning it’s Susan Dey just before she set young hearts racing in The Partridge Family. It’s great to see these obscure TV snips when least expected.
Yeah but l thought partridge family started in 1969. Oh well, it's a free country. You would think she have been hounded. Great song!!
@@juliestrom412 September, 1970....
The voice & soul of Chicago. Terry Kath❤️
So glad you included that old commercial with Susan Dey in it!!!! Always wanted to look like her.
1970. I was 3 years old then, had no knowledge yet of how great music was back then. That's why I collect every cd from the 1970's.
Been a fan of Chicago since junior high and that was 1971-74. Now there is a Russian cover band playing these songs again and I am falling in love all over again. The reason the cover band is so good is their respect for the Original music and the musicians by practicing long hours. Good things come to people who work hard!!
LEONID & Friends thanks you for that complement. They’re DAMN good !
Why anyone would want to listen to a russian cover band when they can listen to the real chicago makes no sense to me.
@@fieldysgrl98 For the live. When a band is dead or just a 80 years old shadow of what it was, it can be cool to see a young band playing perfectly like the real band when they was 20 years old. That's the purpose.
The late great Chicago guitarist Terry Kath with his soulful lead vocals on this classic. Called by his band mates the group's true leader. This AB telecast was filled with great hits, from "Make Me Smile" to the "distinctive sounds from The Friends of Distinction" (Love Or Let Me Be Lonely). No wonder my older brothers had those very records shortly after this aired! :)
A great time to be alive in America!
Chicago’s early line up and sound is my latest knockout discovery. I’m still having trouble getting my head around their superb early soulful music.Nothing like their classic 70’s soft/prog rock sound.
1970....start of the BEST decade of music
I hear ya Allan. I was 15 yrs old in 1970. Great music and very cute girls.
2nd best...
Can't believe this was a half of century ago!
Great dancing from the boys and girls ,,One Of the Best groups Chicago,, R,I,P, Terry Kath,, Thank you Aaron, great video!! ☘️☘️
my dad took me to see Chicago at the Spectrum 69, TK was AWSOME and I was hooked on music at 13
Great song by Chicago! Love the clothing styles, especially the guy with the leather strips hanging from his vest. At 2:47 he was showing off his moves that the cameraman had a hard time keeping up with! So fun to watch! Thanks, Aaron
Thanks Peggy! I’ll bet it was pretty exciting when Bandstand and the rest of the world relaxed the rigid dress of the day. What was the most “out there” thing you ever wore to the show?
@@YCDTI Well, let me think.....I had a fluorescent green dress and fishnet stockings that didn't really have the shock effect on black and white tv as it did under the black lights at the Fillmore West!
@Peggy Names Nice! Love it
Im 70 years old and trying to build a time machine to take me back.Anyone want to come along?
Susan Dey. Love her
Susan Dey mad crush to this day
what a soulful voice Terry had
like a white Ray Charles
Well said, it's true. Love this song, always have. Would've never thought it'd play on AB though.
That first girl shown dancing here was sooooo cute.
Yes sir
Andrew Lawson Indeed
He was the soul and drive in Chicago
@@johnd4567 Terry was a star ...
An awesome song from Chicago for these '70 kids who had no problems rocking it out!
Back from overseas. There was a street of beer bars, red shag carpet, black vinyl. Slammed upteen quarters in the juke box and played this over and over and over. Until all the d-i-v-o-r-c-e crowd left or kicked my a$$. Made some good acuintances.
My very first concert with friends.Chicago Transit Authority.Shaped my love of music forever! What a concert.
I still have that 4 LP boxed set of Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall with a huge poster and booklet inside.
@@shave-a-thon3415 : I still have that one and the original 1st Chicago album.
Yes I got to see them when they were still CTA
@@tixximmi1 My first concert too.
Seeing and just listening to this video makes me feel good.
I grew up watching AMERICAN BANDSTAND & SOULTRAIN. Oh yeah.
What a beautiful time it was to be young
Watching American Bandstand on Saturday.mornings was a "ritual" for me all the way through college! Great memories!
That's a 17 year old Susan Dey in the Cover Girl commercial.
Love this song. These kids are in their 70s now....😳😳
66 to 68, please don't rush us, we'll get to 70! Lol
Do math much?
@@basilmarasco1975 you don’t I guess
I was born in 1969/ 70s 80s 90s were absolutely fabulous and if I can send a Clock back. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👨🏽🦱😁😁😁 & to day I am 50
Beware. From 50 to 60 goes pretty fast.
What a voice
This was and still is one of my absolute favorite bands. Saw them 3 times at Pine Knob, Michigan. Had Robert Lamb pics in my locker 😊❤. My dad loved them because he recognized the excellent musicians they were
My favorite band.Class of 70!
Wish i would be a teenager then....life was so good like living in a happy neverending dream....when everything was true ,natural, happy....im sure i would find my perfect girl on this dance floor......sad im living today ....
Chicago when Chicago was Chicago...
Now you have to listen to Leonid And Friends to hear genuine Chicago music.
@@williamjordan5554 Was just thinking how much this sounds like Leonid and Friends.
Beautiful Girls😍😍😍
Great song. I remember singing this song all the time. As always, dancers are cool to watch. ♥️
This is so awesome!!!! Brings me back to when I was growing up. A great song and American Bandstand and beautiful girls. What could be better then that?
Hi Aaron & Thanks for this awesome clip! Like early 1960s Bandstand clips, early 70s clips are just as rare. I grew up in an Hispanic community where the flip side of this record was even bigger than "Make Me Smile"....The "B" side was "Colour My World". It truly was the slow dance national anthem at house parties! When the kids danced to it, they would bury their faces into each other shoulders. All you saw was just a lot of hair ...ha! :---)
Oh yeah. I can remember dancing to "Color my world".
Colour My World was the theme of our Senior Ball in 1971.
this was about the same time as my first 'boy/girl' dance in jr high. and everyone was dancing just like the kids on AB. thanks for the memory.
The song that got me into being a big Chicago fan!
Thanks for another great video...
Love the guy going the funky chicken at 0:57.
Me too. :)
Funky chicken with a glide 😀
He's really got those chicken wings (elbows) working!
That's Rick Cain! One of my best friends in high school!
Awesome dancing in the 70s and the show as well
I was born in 74 but these songs bring me back to childhood and the radio
Really enjoyed this upload. I had forgotten how much I loved this song at 16. Thanks for reminding me. :)
I was 12 in 70 I remember seeing this on TV oh the memories
Me too ... 12 in the spring of 1970.
@@basilmarasco1975 I was 12 in September
@@debbieblaylock9997 I started watching "Bandstand" right around this time; definitely remember the dance contest that year. I loved listening to the radio too. The big hit-makers (besides Chicago) were Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Guess Who, and Three Dog Night (who I saw in concert that summer, my first concert). I was 13 in September.
One of my favorite groups for sure.
The great Terry Kath - Jimi Hendrix heaped tons of praise on his guitar playing back in the day.
Hendrix also wanted to add horns to his band- he was discussing this with Miles Davis and he was going to cut an album with Gil Evans just before he died. Imagine a Hendrix album with horns!
@@debussy10 I've heard elsewhere on the comment boards that Jimi said, "Your horn section has one lung and your guitarist is better than me." I think he was speaking to Walter, Chicago's sax player.
Hey Aaron, so glad you put up another clip from this particular episode, it's a great one.
This song by Chicago is one of those forgotten hits that never gets a real mention when discussing their music. I happen to like it, as well as the whole medley it comes from. When recording actual albums was a thing!
I think it's safe to say that starting with the '69 season, this became the normal format of the kids already on the dancefloor ready to dance, instead of coming from the bleachers & gathering themselves to dance & the song has like 1 minute left. Lol Also, the energy was great here. There were more serious dancers coming on the show by this point, which was needed. But still great that my boys Famous & Frank were still in the mix.
As always, I enjoy when you upload on a Saturday. Thanks for this Aaron!
Their first 3 albums are the only ones that I still listen to today. They are timeless.
@thruthealcove KC, hi Kevin, I never really thought about that but that’s a good point about the dancers no longer walking out of the bleachers. I liked the excitement of the dancers flooding onto the floor as the song starts and watching them jockey for their spots, but it would seem out of place and old fashioned by ‘69 when they stopped doing that. Great comments as always, thanks Kevin!
Compose James Pankow said that he was initially upset when he first heard "Make Me Smile" on the radio, because the number was part of a 10-minute long suite which also contained "Colour My World." He was annoyed that the record company had chopped his production up into pieces. But Pankow warmed up when those royalties started coming in.
@@randyjordan5521 The radio stations may not have consented to play a ten-minute piece anyway. The longest song to get major airplay was "Hey Jude", of course, at something over seven minutes. The first long-version song to get on the air was "Light My Fire" by the Doors, about a year before "Hey Jude."
I was 4y when this was on tv.
Good gosh I am getting older.
The last year of the ‘60’s didn’t disappoint.
American Bandstand I like watching bands perform. Soul Train I loved watching the dancers!
I loved the look the girls had in the late 60s to mid 70s. So feminine and sexy! This is my g-g-g-g-generation baby!
The 'Natural' Look!! Always The Best!
James Short
Mine, too! Miss it all!
add my name to the list of geezers. Notice how clean cut our generation was.
😂
@@bonanzatime Lol. Natural? At that time they began to use wegs and false lashes...
The tall dude attempting the Funky Chicken is priceless.
The girl in that commercial Susan Dey I'm sure of it I had a crush on her
A true natural beauty she is. What passes for beauty today is shocking.
@@Biden_Cult_Morons I had a crush on her so badly in the early 70s it wasn't even funny I was about 13
Only reason to watch the Partridge Family.
@@tixximmi1 well I sure as hell didn't watch it for Danny Bonaduce LOL. Susan Dey was hot back then
@@robertlongwill8856 Susan's eyes were special.
1970, love to be 15 yrs old, never missed American Bandstand.
Terry Kath singing...giving a gut punch to the uber-sweetness that CHICAGO would later turn into.
Chicago still playing. Saw them 3 years ago.
So, I've happily found a groove of soaring pedal steel, fiddles, and highly accomplished guitar playing, on my fancy new streaming service on my fancy new phone, and now I have to decide whether I'll let other instruments into my world just as I did back in 1970 when I went to see Chicago, and they were so good. Thanks a lot guys.
I remember dancing exactly like that! What fun and carefree days those were. ‘69 HS graduate here.
Tell me you will stay, make me smile. Really makes me miss Terry Kath.
Remember this tune on Philly's WFIL Famous 56 tune came out ,late 4/70 70 a radical yr. NAM.
So called "horn rock" was never really my thing but I make an exception for this song!
Chicago originally started out with a sound called "jazz rock".
Horn arrangements were a huge part of the mid to late sixties and early 1970's. The Beatles had some horns on the White Album and of course on "Got to Get You Into My Life from Revolver in 1966. Blood, Sweat & Tours, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Dave Clark Five, Grass Roots, Rascals and The Doors ("Touch Me") to name a few.
This "horn band" had the 3 best singers in it..... and the best guitar player (Terry Kath) AND hands down the best drummer anywhere.........
The Buckinghams were one of the architects of horn rock as well.. and ironically, they were from Chicago!
SIDE NOTE: Jim Guercio produced many hits 4 the Buckinghams, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, and ultimately, Chicago.
Edgar Winter "Frankenstein" and Bruce Springsteen "Spirit in the Night" featured some of the Best Horns in early 70's Songs. STOP CALLING IT HORN ROCK THOUGH! LOL!!
These kid's could dance to everything, cool.
True. In fact, they were probably dancing in a silent studio with the music edited in later. Think 'Shrimp Shack Shooters.'
music so good everyone liked it
Great song! Added bonus was seeing pre-Partridge Family's Susan Dey in that commercial at beginning.
Doesn't get more cool than this❤❤
The days when freestyle dancing ruled the dancefloor.
Wow. Look at them back then. Looked so happy.
Hey millennials we had organic women before your fruits and vegetables.
@@lastnamefirst4035 you dont get out much do you? Most teenagers today are overweight.
@@markwillis9240 Most millenials are overweight.
Ruben Delgadillo I like ur comment good one
"OMG!! Stop FAT SHAMING us!!"
(Lol! Born in '62! 😉)
Sport I hate to tell you but gay men were around and on American Bandstand in 1970
20 year long crush on Susan. 😍
Super clip, Aaron! Thanks!
It's actually the first part and the very last part of the "Ballet" skillfully edited together. I had no idea, back in 1970, that the longer work existed, and that the flip side of the single, "Colour My World", was part of it. I've heard Chicago perform the full suite twice in live concerts. The first time, I was confused when they didn't play the song's end as expected.
The late great Terry Kath. What a talent. RIP Terry.
0:26 Susan Dey ❤️
I miss this innocence!
Terry Kath,blue eyes soul,guitar genius.
Eli Foust
Terry Kath a great guitarist and singer who died way to soon. Chicago never the same band after his passing
Genius? Really? Do you know how he died? Genius in his field but geniuses don't put guns to their heads, even if it was an accident.
@@roberthuot7887 Dumb comment,refrain
Your comment is OXYMORONIC
What? Was it something I said? Don't let the truth haunt you!
What unforgetable time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I'm going to dance like this guy 1:06 with my back towards my boss when I quit my job
Edward Bliss Post video
Thank you for my first coffee-out-of-the-nose moment of the day, LOL!
Oh man, I'll be laughing to myself about that one for awhile!
Only thing I can say is get out the way of the girl.
WOW.....do I miss those days.
Her smile 1:30 made me immune to Coronavirus
Great bit of nostalgia, all those pretty people having a great time, youth is so fleeting and we don't realise at the time , seems we just turn around and its gone.
Fast and few 😎
As much as I love the 1960s, I love the 1970s just as much. Especially 1970-75. My favorite groups from that period are the Fifth Dimension, Jackson 5, Partridge Family, the Fortunes, Chicago, and Grand Funk Railroad. Don't forget the Carpenters! Oh that Susan Dey is real out of sight!
Say Aaron, I remember you once said you grew up during the 80s. Did people think you were werid for liking things from the 1960s-70s. Well my peers say its werid, and my mom constantly says I was born in the wrong time period.
Me too
Some people believe that the Iconic "60's" young people's style, music, and culture was actually a period from 1967 to 1972. The Album Deja Vu by CSNY was released in 1970.
@@radar0412 yea I believe that too. The real 1960s started when JFK died and ended when Jim Morrison died.
Remember The Honeycomb “Want Ads”?
chicago still going strong ,and tourning.i love the ending of this song.FAR OUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Do any of the non-regular dancers ever get in touch with you, when they come across themselves? On any of your clips? That must be so cool to be browsing, and come upon their younger selves! Always love when Susan Dey just pops up, out of the blue
The Noxell Corporation, makers of Cover Girl Cosmetics, Therma Blend and Noxeema face cream have brought you this portion of... American Bandstand!
I loved Chicago II, the album, which was in the top 10 for about 8 months, from which the song was released.
It's one of my favorites, too.
I always think of you when I leave in the ads @Angelique Collins. :)
@@YCDTI thank you!! That just made me🙂🙂🙂
I was 5years old when this song came out.
Thank you!
Love the square in a suit and tie actually touch dancing.
The music was so great I just want to turn time back you with me
I never thought of Chicago as dance music.
That song by chicago
Brought back memories
Of Fort Erie day camp for me
Make me smile