Back in the days (I'm 73) you ALWAYS dressed up WHENEVER you left the house no matter where you were going. Just to go to the store, the guys would change into something nice (casual) and females would put on a decent dress, fix their hair, and put on some make-up. Even as kid, we always heard Mom or Dad say, "We're going to the store! Take off your 'play clothes' and put on something nice, wash your face and comb your hair." Back then we cared about our appearance.
@@grandpafischer8317 Yes! Us boys had 4 pairs of shoes. 1) Dress shoes: For Weddings, Funerals, Church, etc. 2) Good shoes/Schools shoes (Don't EVER get caught going out to play with your school shoes on!) 3) Play shoes: Usually P.F. Flyers or Keds Tennis Shoes (usually just called "Tennies") 4) Gym Shoes: Same as above but kept at school in our gym locker. At the end of the school year they would become our "new" play shoes and we would get a new pair of "gym shoes" at the beginning of the new school year. Yes! They were called Tennis Shoes! NOT Sports Wear, Active Wear, Cross Country Trainers, etc...
@@bella-xp7qd It's amazing what women will wear out in public ... ratty old pajama pants and an equally ratty t-shirt or sweat shirt... and please don't get me started on all the tattoos and piercings. LOL I long for the days when women looked, dressed, and acted like "Ladies".
I saw a UA-cam video of Nyc 1912 and San Francisco 1904, Paris 1920... a few others. Just a camera set up on "Mainstreet." Everyone dressed well, Whites and blacks, Europe and America alike. Suits. Class. Style. Respect. Errbody!! Sad. No longer. No class, no style. No shame.
I'm 70 and couldn't wear pants to school until 6th grade. Girls had to wear dresses or skirts no matter the weather. . Paul Anka started performing professionally at 11, and began composing songs in high school. Anka's hitmaking started early: at 16, the kid from Ottawa had his first number 1 hit in the United States with Diana, a song about a slightly older object of affection. Hot on Diana's heels were Lonely Boy and Put Your Head on My Shoulder. He wrote My Way for Frank Sinatra.
I'm 70. Girls couldn't wear slacks to school till my junior yr in High-school. For away basketball games, the team wore sports jackets and cheer leaders in dresses until we got there, then changed into uniforms. 😅 Paul Anka was a heart-throb❤
Hello, Andrei and Dominika: Nice reaction to one of our great Canadian singers. My favourite two by him are Do I Love You and The Times Of Your Life. Our local am radio oldies station plays lots of his songs. One day I was singing along to this one in my newly developed deep, manly voice just as Rhonda walked by the aisle I worked in. When she heard, "Put your head on my over the shoulder boulder holder", she just about landed on the floor she was laughing so hard. Good memories. Paul is from Ottawa.
I'm surprised that it hasn't happened yet, but it won't be too much longer when someone Googles "What is True Love" and the ONLY thing that comes up is a picture of Andrei & Dominika with links to their MerchantOfAlba Reaction Videos
Paul Anka was 17 years old ( two years older than me ) when he appeared on American Bandstand.. He recorded his first song ( I Confess ) at age 14 in 1956.. I ran right out to the Soda ice Cream Shop to buy both records on 45 RPM when they were released. Puppy Love and 16 Candles are two of my favorites..
Every Saturday our TV was on "Dick Clark's American Band Stand" in the morning and "Soui Train" in the afternoon! Magical times loved Paul Anka❤ Peace✌️ and Love❤️ Gary😊
Great Paul Anka, always and forever. Please please, one day, I wait your reaction of Carly Simon with Moonlight Serenade Live on Queen Mary II. It's amazing too!
LOVED the AMERICAN BANDSTAND!!! SO many great artists on there!! Such a romantic song: THIS!!! LOVE PAUL ANKA!!! Thanks, Ya'll, for MAKING MY DAY!!! Watching this one, late - but, I'm GLAD I CAUGHT IT!! HUGS!!
Nice to see you're enjoying Paul Anka. Here is another of his later songs, Time Of Your Lives. Give it a listen. You're both my favorite reaction You Tubers. Thank You.
Yes, Andre, I believe you are correct that that young lady was not single. The guy on her right looked angrier by the millisecond. When Paul pinched her nose, I thought he was gonna jump out of his chair. The girl didn't look too comfortable either. Whoa! Slow down Paul!!! Who do you think you are, Elvis? Hahaha Prob a close second though.
@@Straydogger I never said, married. Of course, they all looked like high school kids - just like Paul. That's even more reason to think he would jump out of his chair. I haven't had a fight since high school. 😂
The conversation about dressing up reminded me that back in the 1960's when commercial air travel became more common, everybody dressed up like that to take a flight. Not anymore! Paul Anka's first big hit was 'Diana' when he was just 17 years old. Written by him, it was famously about a crush he had on his childhood babysitter! It went on to sell 20 million copies! At the time it was very unusual for pop stars to write their own songs, and he was particularly rare for being so young. Put Your Head On My Shoulder was a followup (like a year later) when everyone knew & loved Diana. Other reactions you should consider are of course 'Diana' and his hit years later with 'Having My Baby'. He also wrote 'My Way' which is arguably Frank Sinatra's most famous song.
That was the thing about parenting back in the day. If your parents said to do something then they meant business. If dad got involved then it was time to run for shelter because we kids were not doing as we were told and there was about to be consequences imposed! LOL! Not everything parents did and said was sensible, as we now realise, but they had our best interests at heart (usually) and now looking back we appreciate much of it. I remember my mom imposing a half hour period after we ate where we could not go swimming. We would get cramps and drown was the reason. We now know that is nonsense and not backed up by any medical authorities, but back then it was the law in our house and it was "like it or lump it." Ha, ha! 🤣😂🤷💖
@@MerchantOfAlba There is, as far as I know, no scientific studies to back up the half hour rule. But if it makes you comfortable to still impose it, you are the boss in your house, LOL! 👌☺
Ray Price is also a great singer. Make the World Go Away, For The Good Times....really good stuff. As a matter of fact Willie Nelson is from the 50's originally, before his long hair. He had short hair and wore a suit. Really great stuff.
I agree with you that I like the fact people dressed up to go to town and events. That’s how it was when I grew up in Illinois in the early 70’s-80’s. ❤
When my mum, born in the 30's went off to boarding school, she had to have a knee length white dress for formal wear, once a week, with a gathered skirt. For a school dance, she and a friend, made a long skirt to wear over it, with crepe paper and coloured frills on it. They stood back to back and held up the extra skirt to make a rainbow. She said later they were fortunate nobody spilled anything on them. The dye would have been awful to get out of white cotton. People used to dress formally very often back then apparently. English farmers seem to have worn jackets over trousers too.
This was the time of sweet, innocent & romantic songs. Not like a lot of the garbage played today. It was a completely different era. Paul Anka is a Canadian singer, songwriter & actor. He was considered a teenage heart throb. He had hits in the 50's-60's such as "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Puppy Love" etc. He wrote songs for some of the biggest singers such as Tom Jones & Frank Sinatra & co-wrote 3 songs with Michael Jackson.
This is a great performance. This song is eternal. If you like elegance, try some Mel Torme'. He is the a great jazz singer and possibly the king of scat.
It's probably oversimplified to say the music from back in those days was more pure and wholesome but there's an element of truth to it and I think that's a main reason I like so many songs from back then. Yes, the music itself is pretty but the lyrics are reminiscent of a more innocent time - much nicer than the lyrics of too many modern songs. Course ... I'm a 70 year old geezer, so ... 🙂
The artists in the 50s had respect for their audiences. It all changed in the 60s when folk music became popular with people like Bob Dylan who would dress the part.
Great Reaction as always ♥Love it. What about Reacting to Floor Jansen & Metropole Orchestra - Sound of the Wind (Final Fantasy Chronicles) ? you will Love it 🤘Kind Regards from Germany
@MerchantOfAlba as always, a very nice reaction. hello from germany, i have been following your channel for some time now, i really like the way you present it. in the meantime i have noticed that you also like music from the spanish speaking area. i would love to hear your opinion on one of the best spanish voices. it's camilo sesto, he sadly passed away four years ago. he was the one who first introduced the musical genre in spain. he did it with the rock opera jesus christ superstar, in which he also cast himself in the role of jesus of nazareth and sang in spanish. the video i am sending you is about getsemane, the place where jesus expresses his fear of death on the cross shortly before his arrest. according to tim rice, the spanish version was one of the best interpreted. i hope you like it if you listen to it. the video is from 1975 ua-cam.com/video/OTQqgnbQ1_4/v-deo.html
Back in the days (I'm 73) you ALWAYS dressed up WHENEVER you left the house no matter where you were going. Just to go to the store, the guys would change into something nice (casual) and females would put on a decent dress, fix their hair, and put on some make-up. Even as kid, we always heard Mom or Dad say, "We're going to the store! Take off your 'play clothes' and put on something nice, wash your face and comb your hair." Back then we cared about our appearance.
72 here, as soon as we got home we put back on our "play clothes". Even different shoes.
My mother never left the house in shorts or pants. Always a dress or skirt.
@@grandpafischer8317 Yes! Us boys had 4 pairs of shoes.
1) Dress shoes: For Weddings, Funerals, Church, etc.
2) Good shoes/Schools shoes (Don't EVER get caught going out to play with your school shoes on!)
3) Play shoes: Usually P.F. Flyers or Keds Tennis Shoes (usually just called "Tennies")
4) Gym Shoes: Same as above but kept at school in our gym locker. At the end of the school year they would become our "new" play shoes and we would get a new pair of "gym shoes" at the beginning of the new school year.
Yes! They were called Tennis Shoes! NOT Sports Wear, Active Wear, Cross Country Trainers, etc...
@@bella-xp7qd It's amazing what women will wear out in public ... ratty old pajama pants and an equally ratty t-shirt or sweat shirt... and please don't get me started on all the tattoos and piercings. LOL
I long for the days when women looked, dressed, and acted like "Ladies".
I saw a UA-cam video of Nyc 1912 and San Francisco 1904, Paris 1920... a few others. Just a camera set up on "Mainstreet." Everyone dressed well, Whites and blacks, Europe and America alike. Suits.
Class. Style. Respect.
Errbody!!
Sad.
No longer.
No class, no style.
No shame.
This was the music that young people listen to before the Beatles changed everything.
There also Elvis, Buddy, Eddie, etc, in thé USA before thé English groups arose.
You 2 appear to be a great couple, I love your reactions , enjoy!!!❤😂❤😂
Paul Anka wrote many, MANY wonderful songs over many, many years! Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
I'm 70 and couldn't wear pants to school until 6th grade. Girls had to wear dresses or skirts no matter the weather. . Paul Anka started performing professionally at 11, and began composing songs in high school. Anka's hitmaking started early: at 16, the kid from Ottawa had his first number 1 hit in the United States with Diana, a song about a slightly older object of affection. Hot on Diana's heels were Lonely Boy and Put Your Head on My Shoulder. He wrote My Way for Frank Sinatra.
I'm 70. Girls couldn't wear slacks to school till my junior yr in High-school. For away basketball games, the team wore sports jackets and cheer leaders in dresses until we got there, then changed into uniforms. 😅 Paul Anka was a heart-throb❤
One of many hits singer songwriter Paul Anka had!❤
Hello, Andrei and Dominika: Nice reaction to one of our great Canadian singers. My favourite two by him are Do I Love You and The Times Of Your Life. Our local am radio oldies station plays lots of his songs. One day I was singing along to this one in my newly developed deep, manly voice just as Rhonda walked by the aisle I worked in. When she heard, "Put your head on my over the shoulder boulder holder", she just about landed on the floor she was laughing so hard. Good memories. Paul is from Ottawa.
Beautiful!
Yalls facial expressions and the smiles and just pure happiness.... Makes your reaction so true so pure.... I truly appreciate both of you. Tytyty
I agree with you Dominika about the dress for a concert or any show: I am 72 and I still wear elegant dress for theater or opera.
Oh the memories you two bring back!!! Thank you for taking me back in the day❤❤👍👍🤗✌️
I love your reactions. But most of all I enjoy the look of happiness on your faces and total love and respect for eachother!
I'm surprised that it hasn't happened yet, but it won't be too much longer when someone Googles "What is True Love" and the ONLY thing that comes up is a picture of Andrei & Dominika with links to their MerchantOfAlba Reaction Videos
😊 thank you kindly 💚
Paul Anka was 17 years old ( two years older than me ) when he appeared on American Bandstand.. He recorded his first song ( I Confess ) at age 14 in 1956.. I ran right out to the Soda ice Cream Shop to buy both records on 45 RPM when they were released. Puppy Love and 16 Candles are two of my favorites..
🇬🇧 I love all kinds of music, mostly from the 60s, 70s, 80s & some of the 90s.
Paul Anka had tons of hits, "Lonely Boy" is one the greats. ❤🎶🎼
Every Saturday our TV was on "Dick Clark's American Band Stand" in the morning and "Soui Train" in the afternoon! Magical times loved Paul Anka❤ Peace✌️ and Love❤️ Gary😊
Thanks! Also: "His father came to Canada from Bab Tuma, Damascus, Syria, and his mother was an immigrant from Lebanon."
Paul was definitely a teenage heart throb. 💕🎶🎶🎶💔💔great pick guys 😘. Love the 50,s & 60,s I was born 1950 💞
My parents took all six of us kids downtown in 1965 to see The Sound of Music in the best theater in town and we all dressed in our Sunday best!
Ah, another American Bandstand Show! How nostalgic for me. Watched this show religiously when I was 12-15
Great Paul Anka, always and forever.
Please please, one day, I wait your reaction of Carly Simon with Moonlight Serenade Live on Queen Mary II. It's amazing too!
Paul Anka wrote "Put Your Head On My Shoulder", so maybe that helped him sing it so well.
Paul Ankas song Puppy Love is also awesome! He had such a sweet voice a great voice and he was cute to boot! Love Paul Anka!❤
LOVED the AMERICAN BANDSTAND!!! SO many great artists on there!! Such a romantic song: THIS!!! LOVE PAUL ANKA!!! Thanks, Ya'll, for MAKING MY DAY!!! Watching this one, late - but, I'm GLAD I CAUGHT IT!! HUGS!!
Such a sweet reaction ❤❤👍
He was a prolific songwriter for many others.
The show was Dick Clark"s American Bandstand televised from 1952 to 1987.
First dance with my husband....54 years ago 🎉🎉🎉😊
Nice to see you're enjoying Paul Anka. Here is another of his later songs, Time Of Your Lives. Give it a listen. You're both my favorite reaction You Tubers. Thank You.
Thank you 💚😊
Yes, Andre, I believe you are correct that that young lady was not single. The guy on her right looked angrier by the millisecond. When Paul pinched her nose, I thought he was gonna jump out of his chair. The girl didn't look too comfortable either. Whoa! Slow down Paul!!! Who do you think you are, Elvis? Hahaha Prob a close second though.
I'm pretty sure there weren't many married "kids" on American Bandstand. They were all kids but dressed up they looked older.
@@Straydogger I never said, married. Of course, they all looked like high school kids - just like Paul. That's even more reason to think he would jump out of his chair. I haven't had a fight since high school. 😂
Also, Puppy Love by him.
Love this song
The conversation about dressing up reminded me that back in the 1960's when commercial air travel became more common, everybody dressed up like that to take a flight. Not anymore!
Paul Anka's first big hit was 'Diana' when he was just 17 years old. Written by him, it was famously about a crush he had on his childhood babysitter! It went on to sell 20 million copies! At the time it was very unusual for pop stars to write their own songs, and he was particularly rare for being so young. Put Your Head On My Shoulder was a followup (like a year later) when everyone knew & loved Diana. Other reactions you should consider are of course 'Diana' and his hit years later with 'Having My Baby'. He also wrote 'My Way' which is arguably Frank Sinatra's most famous song.
He was 17 when this song was recorded.
The days of sock hops and dances at the rec center.
That was the thing about parenting back in the day. If your parents said to do something then they meant business. If dad got involved then it was time to run for shelter because we kids were not doing as we were told and there was about to be consequences imposed! LOL! Not everything parents did and said was sensible, as we now realise, but they had our best interests at heart (usually) and now looking back we appreciate much of it. I remember my mom imposing a half hour period after we ate where we could not go swimming. We would get cramps and drown was the reason. We now know that is nonsense and not backed up by any medical authorities, but back then it was the law in our house and it was "like it or lump it." Ha, ha! 🤣😂🤷💖
Oh my, i still go by the half an hour rule 😂 Greetings from Romania 💚
@@MerchantOfAlba There is, as far as I know, no scientific studies to back up the half hour rule. But if it makes you comfortable to still impose it, you are the boss in your house, LOL! 👌☺
Ray Price is also a great singer. Make the World Go Away, For The Good Times....really good stuff. As a matter of fact Willie Nelson is from the 50's originally, before his long hair. He had short hair and wore a suit. Really great stuff.
I agree with you that I like the fact people dressed up to go to town and events. That’s how it was when I grew up in Illinois in the early 70’s-80’s. ❤
When my mum, born in the 30's went off to boarding school, she had to have a knee length white dress for formal wear, once a week, with a gathered skirt. For a school dance, she and a friend, made a long skirt to wear over it, with crepe paper and coloured frills on it. They stood back to back and held up the extra skirt to make a rainbow. She said later they were fortunate nobody spilled anything on them. The dye would have been awful to get out of white cotton. People used to dress formally very often back then apparently. English farmers seem to have worn jackets over trousers too.
Paul Anka was like 18 when this song he wrote, was first released in 1959
Paul Anka was a contemporary of Frank Sinatra. He was a Crooner.
He has many hit songs. One of my favourites is Dianna.
Great slow dance song.
When dancing girls put their head on the boys shoulder.
Men were so much handsome back then!!! I miss the clean cut manly look..But I am from the early 60's era !!
A good song to turn the camera off and dance for a while. 🫂 (Not to techno!) Thanks for the video! ☮❤🎶
"Times 0f y0ur Iife" is a masterpiece by Mr Anka!
Maybe this just seemed like a simpler time because I was just a kid but sometimes I sure miss those simpler days!
Paul wrote MY Way that Sinatra made a massive hit ......................
This was the time of sweet, innocent & romantic songs. Not like a lot of the garbage played today. It was a completely different era. Paul Anka is a Canadian singer, songwriter & actor. He was considered a teenage heart throb. He had hits in the 50's-60's such as "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Puppy Love" etc. He wrote songs for some of the biggest singers such as Tom Jones & Frank Sinatra & co-wrote 3 songs with Michael Jackson.
This is a great performance. This song is eternal. If you like elegance, try some Mel Torme'. He is the a great jazz singer and possibly the king of scat.
It's probably oversimplified to say the music from back in those days was more pure and wholesome but there's an element of truth to it and I think that's a main reason I like so many songs from back then. Yes, the music itself is pretty but the lyrics are reminiscent of a more innocent time - much nicer than the lyrics of too many modern songs. Course ... I'm a 70 year old geezer, so ... 🙂
I am not into dudes, but he is the cutest thing I've ever seen! My generation, BTW.
Arrived at "Doo Wop", lots of good music
The artists in the 50s had respect for their audiences. It all changed in the 60s when folk music became popular with people like Bob Dylan who would dress the part.
Late 50's early 60's
life is like a box of chocolates;)
Më pëlqen shumë përmbajtja juaj dhe ju vlerësoj të dyve...nga Amerika!
I knew if I was living in Paul’s time, I would be scared that he would woo my wife away.
Having my Baby is such a beautiful song. A must listen to.
Before Justin Bieber there was Paul Anka, Canada's original teen idol.
💚🤍💛☘️🇺🇲
He was 17 I believe in this video.
This was back in the '60s, I think. Maybe late '50s. Pre- Beatles, of course. Definitely a different time.
Enrique Guzman do a AWESOME spanish cover here in México on the 60s...! "Tu cabeza en mi hombro" !!
In the United States there are places with the name "philharmonic" in the title but otherwise there are "opera houses" and "orchestral houses".
Thank you. Still have problems with some words. Best wishes from Romania 💚
Great Reaction as always ♥Love it. What about Reacting to Floor Jansen & Metropole Orchestra - Sound of the Wind (Final Fantasy Chronicles) ? you will Love it 🤘Kind Regards from Germany
React to Dominique by The Singing Nun
You should try listen Austin Brown version for this song👌🙏
React to Paul and Paula- Hey Paula.
sealed with a kiss by brian hyland early 1960s
@MerchantOfAlba as always, a very nice reaction.
hello from germany, i have been following your channel for some time now, i really like the way you present it. in the meantime i have noticed that you also like music from the spanish speaking area. i would love to hear your opinion on one of the best spanish voices. it's camilo sesto, he sadly passed away four years ago. he was the one who first introduced the musical genre in spain. he did it with the rock opera jesus christ superstar, in which he also cast himself in the role of jesus of nazareth and sang in spanish. the video i am sending you is about getsemane, the place where jesus expresses his fear of death on the cross shortly before his arrest. according to tim rice, the spanish version was one of the best interpreted. i hope you like it if you listen to it. the video is from 1975 ua-cam.com/video/OTQqgnbQ1_4/v-deo.html
Thank you for the suggestion. Glad you enjoy our videos ☺️
The 1950's rizz
Could you do a reaction of Sissel Kyrkjebø & Neil Sedaka performing "Solitaire"?
Could you please react to Connie Francis My Happiness.
Please. LUIS MIGUEL PENSAR EN TI REACTION
How about more Elvis? Try "It's Now or Never" by Elvis which is one of his biggest hits.
Back then this is h0w they dressed in pubIic, even basebaII games
It's not old age, it's crap you are hearing in the car next to you. There is no melody or good writing, it's all noise now.
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Doo Wop ?