They look like us and yet they don't. Still innocent, they don't know where we're going. Now they're old, if they're still alive. They'd be disappointed if they knew what we've become.
@@richardlawson4317 Keep in mind, it was primarily the GI and Silent generations which outsourced the American manufacturing base and jobs, with it. This rather directly caused families to disintegrate, as both parents now had to work to survive. I grew up as a 'latchkey kid' (Generation X) in the 80s and 90s. These days, young people are working 3 or 4 gig jobs to barely make it and it shows... If only the post-war golden age had been allowed to continue, who knows what the US could've become? Eh, still, your music was good!
"Creeque Alley" is the story of how the New York Folkies migrated to Los Angeles and started the Folk Rock Sound. So fantastic to realize some of the Folk Rock stars played in each other's bands in Greenwich Village, and exploded when they hit Hollywood: Barry "Eve Of Destruction" McGuire, Jim "Roger" McGuinn, The Mugwumps featured Mama Cass Elliot and Zal "soon to be a Lovin' Spoonful' Yanovsky . . . John Sebastian's "Lovin' Spoonful" managed to capture America's heart while still based in NYC. The Folk Rock movement was the first American sound that took what The Beatles were doing - and Americanized it.
Footnote - part of the reason why the stereo mix kept popping up on best of collections was because in the mid 1970s ABC Records dumped all their mono reels (singles and albums mono masters) that had stereo counterparts into a land fill. Done so due to their acquiring the Dot label's catalog (needing space). Fortunately, Dunhill co-owner/producer Lou Adler had mono reference tapes in his archive and loaned them to Universal Music Group (current ABC masters owners) for the remastered mono single mix you used here.
It seems so many of the great tapes from back in the day were saved by pure luck, like the AB videotapes were found by some ABC employee in a dumpster and nearly tossed before they happened to call Dick Clark to see if he wanted to save them. People had no idea these things would be so valuable someday. Thank you, as always, for the great info. NEW GROOVES RADIO!
For Easter break that year our parents took us to Disneyland for our first visit. I was 8 and we drove from San Francisco. I swear that every 20 minutes I would hear this song as we traveled through different parts of CA on that route.
Hi AARON, Love all the side note research here on the Mamas & the Papas as well as your "dancer roll call"! As great as a song as "Creeque Alley" was, I think it was one of those songs that the dancers found to be a little bit of a challenge to dance to. And "Ed Sullivan's youngsters"....ha! Almost busted a gut remembering how frustrated and irritated Ed would become with the excited kids in "the balcony" who wouldn't hush up...Often Ed had to scold them and threatened not to go on with the next act!
I wonder if they know they can go to UA-cam and watch themselves gettin down on the dance floor. I would appreciate it but very depressed that I was 71 years old now.
YouCanDanceToit! and NEW GROOVES RADIO A+ on your discography homework. Aaron you really scanned the dance floor and outdid your expert spotting of the regulars and shout-outs by name in this post! ~~ Don
Speaking of Buddy Schwimmer I think I saw him in the audience of "Think you can dance" when his son Benji (previous winner) of show dancing with his partner
Adrian DeVore They were great. Especially with the beautiful voice of Cass Eliot. They had personal drama and that's what really broke them up. It's sad. Should've been around longer though.
Baba Looey Rocks The World Um, from late 65-68 they were the coolest, most popular pop group around, with a new sound no one had heard since The Beatles. Their sound defined the ethos/social climate of the (late) 60s and are genuine icons of the era. They're still widely loved today so they're music still holds up in a big way, and not just for the hits. Had they stayed together longer their initial popularity would have lasted longer. 9/25/18
A tiny flash of Peggy's extraordinary smile at 2:34 was worth working through absolute hours & hours of YCDTI. That smile could start a party in a cemetery... Thank you, YCDTI!!!
I lived on St Thomas and a club called "Walter's Living Room" was located in Creeques Alley. Also a bar named Jerry's. 70's. Lots of fun back in the Days 🌴🎶💃 Wonder if they ate at Crazy Cow and hung out at Fat City on Crystal Gade. 🤔🤗
I came back here to remember what I was doing on Saturday, 10 June 1967, 53 years ago today. If only I knew then what I know now! My mother bought her first brand new car, and I have the receipt she kept. Later I learned to drive on a standard shift and what were those belts on the seat?
I guess it depends on the personality...I loved to dance and always had a smile on my face when I was on the dance floor. I never did go with the flow, LOL.
I wonder if they were "forced" to dance to it? No one made them go to the show...they went with intentions of being seen on TV. I would have thought that just reaching their goal would have put smiles on their faces. I like this song and that's one of the things that make the world go round...we all have different likes and dislikes.
some of them were probably tired. If Dancer Don see this...you filmed more than one show right? So it could be a very long day, no matter how much you loved to dance.
Early spring of 67 , when I heard this on Philly's WFIL Famous 56. Vietnam War , drugs, flower power , anti- war protests , knew a dudes sent to The Nam ,And came nearly 2 years later had PSTD, and in mid-3/1968 I had an uncle kia in NAM 10 days B-4 my 11th bday.
Eliza Duzalot She sure must've been smart because Swarthmore is probably the hardest small liberal arts college to get into (along with Amherst, Williams and Pomona ).
Remember this tune early4/67. Heard on Philly's Famous 56 WFIL @ 10 yr old . Great 60s sound. MPS WOULD be @ Monterey POP Festival mid 6/67 .. de de de .
David Messer I really have to agree with you and I believe it is because they didn't have cosmetic surgery and fake puffy lips and do all that weird enhancement to their faces and bodies they were just more natural-looking also they were more wholesome looking and not trying look like sex symbols.. they were more clean-cut and didn't have attitude and they obviously were not narcissistic like a lot of people nowadays in front of a camera
@@rickb4806 You got that right , I agree with you.. and I can tell when I meet someone if they're into selfies just by their behavior ...how they look and act . You can tell who's so used to posing all the time and looking at themselves a lot . We live in such weird times ; it would be lovely to turn back the clock to before all these selfies and texting took over , back when people were last narcissistic and actually had conversations and even talked on the phone .
The song and lyrics had nothing to do with Cass Elliot's weight....it was about raking in the money...just like she didn't die from choking...it was a heart attack.
LOL...@2:59...check out the tall guy in the upper right hand corner...for about 5 seconds, all he’s doing is staring at Olivia...that’s because he was Olivia’s dance partner during the dance contest a couple of months earlier....NO chemistry whatsoever...now look at how happy and confident Olivia is with this new guy....me thinks the former partner is a wee bit jealous, ya think?...😅😅😅
Keep in mind that it was only days that after this episode aired that the Supreme Court decided on _Loving_ _v_ _Virginia._ Louisiana was two years away from desegregating its schools. Gays could be thrown into psychiatric hospitals indefinitely, with no legal recourse. Women had no access to credit... a single woman couldn't buy a new car unless her father or brother co-signed the loan. Many employers would not hire married women without written permission from their husbands. And I'm not even gonna delve into Vietnam and the unholy industrial pollution of our national landscape. If you think tattoos, smart phones, and same-sex marriage are worse than racism, sexism, homophobia and political assassinations, then you might want to check your own moral compass...
NEED SOME HELP. WISH TO RE-ESTABLISH CONNECTION WITH A DANCER IN THIS EPISODE, MELINDA ? LAR...... A SHORT BLOND, IN A CHECKERED SUIT,WHO IS DEPICTED AT TIMES: 0:15, 0:27, 0:58, 3:13 AND 3:30. ANY ASSISTANCE WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED
Que lindo 😍 que saudades 😢 Hoje só 💩💩💩 Lista das 💩💩💩💩 Sertanejos universitários 💩 💩 Lucas Lucco 💩 Gustavo Lima 💩 Anita 💩 funks 💩 Pablo vitar 🤮 Anita 💩 Ludmilla 💩
wow, Dick Clark's receding hairline was getting bad on his left forehead. His forehead just kept growing and growing, lol. Had to be just killing him being on ABC television and all. Seemed to have a bad temper sometimes if you've ever heard some behind the scenes audio. Receding hairlines really piss people off.
They don’t have any American Bandstand clips there, which is kind of my focus, but yeah, they have some great clips of The Godfather of Soul! Thanks for the tip!
I live in a retirement home for those 62+. It's incredible to imagine most of us looking that way, but we must have. Where did the time go???
Yes - I was born in 69 now nearly 52 amazing how years fly by
if only we could go bak to them days huh....
They look like us and yet they don't. Still innocent, they don't know where we're going. Now they're old, if they're still alive. They'd be disappointed if they knew what we've become.
@@richardlawson4317 Keep in mind, it was primarily the GI and Silent generations which outsourced the American manufacturing base and jobs, with it. This rather directly caused families to disintegrate, as both parents now had to work to survive. I grew up as a 'latchkey kid' (Generation X) in the 80s and 90s. These days, young people are working 3 or 4 gig jobs to barely make it and it shows... If only the post-war golden age had been allowed to continue, who knows what the US could've become?
Eh, still, your music was good!
@@TheyRiseBand the USA is in decline. Sad.
"Mama's and Papa's" one the best harmonizing bands ever back then.
There will never be another group like them......pure magic.
I was dancing to this in 1967 with my gf. We were both 15.
Wow - I was born 69 but I love the 60's - Keep Safe
@@sixtiesmods stay safe
"Creeque Alley" is the story of how the New York Folkies migrated to Los Angeles and started the Folk Rock Sound. So fantastic to realize some of the Folk Rock stars played in each other's bands in Greenwich Village, and exploded when they hit Hollywood: Barry "Eve Of Destruction" McGuire, Jim "Roger" McGuinn, The Mugwumps featured Mama Cass Elliot and Zal "soon to be a Lovin' Spoonful' Yanovsky . . . John Sebastian's "Lovin' Spoonful" managed to capture America's heart while still based in NYC. The Folk Rock movement was the first American sound that took what The Beatles were doing - and Americanized it.
The complete musical story of the fabulous M & P's, nicely done in a 3 minute pop song.
Remember hearing this on Phillies WFIL. " FAMOUS56" mid 4/67 when I was 10 .
Few mos later M&Ps would be @ Monterey !
NAM raging on !
It's a classic that I never tire off.
Cass Elliot has a fantastic voice
I like the harmony and nice easy rhythm, it's easy to dance to. I'll give it a 98. I'll buy it!
Airdate June 10 1967. my dad's 17th birthday.
So cool to see the kids dancing to such a “groovy” song. I was 14 years old at this time. Such a fun time in life!
Lol…what happened?!!
This is great! Love this version with all the horns.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Footnote - part of the reason why the stereo mix kept popping up on best of collections was because in the mid 1970s ABC Records dumped all their mono reels (singles and albums mono masters) that had stereo counterparts into a land fill. Done so due to their acquiring the Dot label's catalog (needing space). Fortunately, Dunhill co-owner/producer Lou Adler had mono reference tapes in his archive and loaned them to Universal Music Group (current ABC masters owners) for the remastered mono single mix you used here.
It seems so many of the great tapes from back in the day were saved by pure luck, like the AB videotapes were found by some ABC employee in a dumpster and nearly tossed before they happened to call Dick Clark to see if he wanted to save them. People had no idea these things would be so valuable someday. Thank you, as always, for the great info. NEW GROOVES RADIO!
For Easter break that year our parents took us to Disneyland for our first visit. I was 8 and we drove from San Francisco. I swear that every 20 minutes I would hear this song as we traveled through different parts of CA on that route.
Hi AARON, Love all the side note research here on the Mamas & the Papas as well as your "dancer roll call"! As great as a song as "Creeque Alley" was, I think it was one of those songs that the dancers found to be a little bit of a challenge to dance to. And "Ed Sullivan's youngsters"....ha! Almost busted a gut remembering how frustrated and irritated Ed would become with the excited kids in "the balcony" who wouldn't hush up...Often Ed had to scold them and threatened not to go on with the next act!
Just imagine, some of these kids look 17. If so, they were born in 1950 making them 69 years old this year - 2019.
And they sure knew how to dress!!
Yikes, 19 then, now 72, geez! Peace!
@@michaeljunod8610 time flies. Like a roll of TP. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
I wonder if they know they can go to UA-cam and watch themselves gettin down on the dance floor. I would appreciate it but very depressed that I was 71 years old now.
@@denisemarie6029 you should be happy and appreciate that you made it to 71. Many are not so lucky.
Being only 3 years old, I don't remember this song, but it really is a fun tune!
I was only 3 but I remember my mom and dad playing this album loud throughout the house.
growing up at that time but he was one of my idols in danceing we went out and partied couple times to meet his momat their dance studio fun times
Perfect song forever.
Every song a classic hit.
I am 61 I love them songs
1967 was a good year here in the States 🇺🇸 🎶🎶🎵
I was 17, turned 18 in December...... 😎
Michael Serby tell us how was it...
This version is the one I've been wanting to hear for the longest time. Now if I can buy it somewhere, that would be, neato, skeeno, bosso, keeno.
I bought it today on the "All The Leaves Are Brown" 2 CD compilation.
YouCanDanceToit! and NEW GROOVES RADIO A+ on your discography homework. Aaron you really scanned the dance floor and outdid your expert spotting of the regulars and shout-outs by name in this post! ~~ Don
dancer don Thanks!
Thank you Don! There were lot of great regulars on in ‘67.
dancer don Did you kids get paid? Or was it just exciting enough dancing on the show?!
April Garcia we were not paid. It was just crazy fun dancing on the show! :_) ~~ Don
dancer don I'm sure it must have been an honor just to be chosen. You had to audition probably?
Speaking of Buddy Schwimmer I think I saw him in the audience of "Think you can dance" when his son Benji (previous winner) of show dancing with his partner
The M & the P were the biggest thing around...:-) :-)
It must have been a pretty good 20 minutes. They still have fans.
I've been listening to the M & the P since I was a kid because one of my late Aunts had their first LP!
Adrian DeVore They were great. Especially with the beautiful voice of Cass Eliot. They had personal drama and that's what really broke them up. It's sad. Should've been around longer though.
Baba Looey Rocks The World Um, from late 65-68 they were the coolest, most popular pop group around, with a new sound no one had heard since The Beatles. Their sound defined the ethos/social climate of the (late) 60s and are genuine icons of the era. They're still widely loved today so they're music still holds up in a big way, and not just for the hits. Had they stayed together longer their initial popularity would have lasted longer. 9/25/18
Try 20 years.
I love this Song....M and P are Great....I have the Verison that is spit in Half...The Sound is Fantastic!!!
A tiny flash of Peggy's extraordinary smile at 2:34 was worth working through absolute hours & hours of YCDTI.
That smile could start a party in a cemetery... Thank you, YCDTI!!!
I lived on St Thomas and a club called "Walter's Living Room" was located in Creeques Alley. Also a bar named Jerry's. 70's. Lots of fun back in the Days 🌴🎶💃 Wonder if they ate at Crazy Cow and hung out at Fat City on Crystal Gade. 🤔🤗
I came back here to remember what I was doing on Saturday, 10 June 1967, 53 years ago today. If only I knew then what I know now! My mother bought her first brand new car, and I have the receipt she kept. Later I learned to drive on a standard shift and what were those belts on the seat?
Most of these kids don't look like they are having a very good time. I see more frowns than smiles...how sad; dance is all about joy. Great song!
back then being non-chalant...was cool
I guess it depends on the personality...I loved to dance and always had a smile on my face when I was on the dance floor. I never did go with the flow, LOL.
I would have felt the same way being forced to dance to this dreary song.
I wonder if they were "forced" to dance to it? No one made them go to the show...they went with intentions of being seen on TV. I would have thought that just reaching their goal would have put smiles on their faces. I like this song and that's one of the things that make the world go round...we all have different likes and dislikes.
some of them were probably tired. If Dancer Don see this...you filmed more than one show right? So it could be a very long day, no matter how much you loved to dance.
Awesome!
The Bandstand logo looks suspiciously like that ABC circle one-only no”C”.
We need a place here in Madison TN to go danceing koolade ,milk tea,white cokes
M & P were so boss. 💚🎶🎵🎶♥️🇺🇸 😎
It's neat to see these ordinarily dressed young dancers in that flower power year of 1967.
Möchte diese Zeit nicht missen , ich war gerade 16 ,als ich dieses Lied hörte .
Early spring of 67 , when I heard this on Philly's WFIL Famous 56. Vietnam War , drugs, flower power , anti- war protests , knew a dudes sent to The Nam ,And came nearly 2 years later had PSTD, and in mid-3/1968 I had an uncle kia in NAM 10 days B-4 my 11th bday.
Oh man - Love the early hippie gals... Looks like so much fun. Great vibe!
Gawd they were....
beautiful people ❤ and beautiful memories
The coolest of times.....I was 9 living in the UK.
Notable versión con bronces. La estaba buscando hace mucho rato.
Wonderful just before we turn into hippy!..😎🎼🎶🎵
What a great vibe! Mmmm😆
Their best song by far.
Classic 60's song 💜 🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🌙🌙🌙😎
"You planned to go to Swarthmore" love it im from Media PA
Eliza Duzalot She sure must've been smart because Swarthmore is probably the hardest small liberal arts college to get into (along with Amherst, Williams and Pomona ).
My best friend graduated from Swarthmore.
@@MsTexas73 what year did she graduate
Eliza Duzalot 2001
I remember this song I was 18 years old am 77 years old I’ll be 78 in January 15 2025
Body by Phillips.background by Michelle.Shiver me timbers ,dream mix!
Remember this tune early4/67. Heard on Philly's Famous 56 WFIL @ 10 yr old . Great 60s sound. MPS WOULD be @ Monterey POP Festival mid 6/67 .. de de de .
THE FAMOUS 56! Dan Ingram on WABC 77. And in the Lehigh Valley we had rivals WAEB and "The Big X" WEEX 1230 AM.
Great song!
Girls sure were pretty back in the 60s. Now days, they just look like kids. :)
David Messer
I really have to agree with you and I believe it is because they didn't have cosmetic surgery and fake puffy lips and do all that weird enhancement to their faces and bodies they were just more natural-looking also they were more wholesome looking and not trying look like sex symbols.. they were more clean-cut and didn't have attitude and they obviously were not narcissistic like a lot of people nowadays in front of a camera
....with major cleavage and camel toes....
@@gardensofthegods Girls now practice poses for selfies and group shots. Nothing is spontaneous, all carefully staged.
@@rickb4806 You got that right , I agree with you.. and I can tell when I meet someone if they're into selfies just by their behavior ...how they look and act . You can tell who's so used to posing all the time and looking at themselves a lot . We live in such weird times ; it would be lovely to turn back the clock to before all these selfies and texting took over ,
back when people were last narcissistic and actually had conversations and even talked on the phone .
These 60s girls wore granny panties and never had a landing strip, trim or full Brazilian...shame.
It’s the AM radio 45 rpm version. The LP is longer I’m sure
9:42 p.m. Monday night 9-19-2022
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The song and lyrics had nothing to do with Cass Elliot's weight....it was about raking in the money...just like she didn't die from choking...it was a heart attack.
Fat was $$$... Higher didn't mean drugs either...it meant getting big
No
@@sunshinedaydream70 No
The Best.
Note:It was still the United States back then.
My b day is next octhis yrt
The back story about Cass and this song is sad really
cute boys !!!!!
I'm kinda ticked off the version with Cass's full beginning monologue before they go into the song seems to have disappeared. Not cool.
Mamas papa's best song
Do you think any of those kids are, "high"
Was Famous Hooks in this ep??
LOL...@2:59...check out the tall guy in the upper right hand corner...for about 5 seconds, all he’s doing is staring at Olivia...that’s because he was Olivia’s dance partner during the dance contest a couple of months earlier....NO chemistry whatsoever...now look at how happy and confident Olivia is with this new guy....me thinks the former partner is a wee bit jealous, ya think?...😅😅😅
Will Drucker I think he was looking for the camera.
In my new apt July 1st 2022 now 9-19-2022
I spot Olivia Favela several times throughout this video....looks like she finally found a partner she enjoys dancing with....cute couple..
OH, YEAH, I HOPE SHE'S STILL DANCIN' !!!! SEE BELOW......
0:43 looks like a young Ron Howard.
The ears are too close to his head to be RH
Época de ouro 🥇💛
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This is was our world 🌎 before everything went to Hell 😊....we need to go back to this way of life😊....this is needed now in 2024
Keep in mind that it was only days that after this episode aired that the Supreme Court decided on _Loving_ _v_ _Virginia._ Louisiana was two years away from desegregating its schools. Gays could be thrown into psychiatric hospitals indefinitely, with no legal recourse. Women had no access to credit... a single woman couldn't buy a new car unless her father or brother co-signed the loan. Many employers would not hire married women without written permission from their husbands. And I'm not even gonna delve into Vietnam and the unholy industrial pollution of our national landscape.
If you think tattoos, smart phones, and same-sex marriage are worse than racism, sexism, homophobia and political assassinations, then you might want to check your own moral compass...
Funny how high school boys looked 40 back then
Be young 66
"And after every number they pass gas"💨....."And no one's getting fat except mama Cass". That's how the lirycs sound to me.
juan alt It's "and after every number they'd pass the hat......"
juan alt where I'm concerned there's might as well be the lyrics because I never liked this song
Maybe it's because I've had five pints, but dancing's fuckin' odd.
A bunch of zombies at a dance group
NEED SOME HELP. WISH TO RE-ESTABLISH CONNECTION WITH A DANCER IN THIS EPISODE, MELINDA ? LAR...... A SHORT BLOND, IN A CHECKERED SUIT,WHO IS DEPICTED AT TIMES: 0:15, 0:27, 0:58, 3:13 AND 3:30. ANY ASSISTANCE WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED
I'm here to tell you, she doesn't look like that, anymore.
@@OttoByOgraffey THANX 4 UR NOTE. I FULLY REALIZE THAT. NONE OF US ARE BUT I HOPE SHE IS STILL DANCING. DO YOU KNOW HER ?
B yuh s 76
Even with the drugs,protests and hippies of the 1960s it was a safer and better time then we have now. Thanks Joe Biden and the Democrats!
F the Republicans!
Before fast food the girls were slim
Bus
Twirling your partner is so lame, even when I was that age in 1966....
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I could have taught that blonde in the checkered hounds tooth jacket a thing or three....
This really isn’t a song you can to....
Que lindo 😍 que saudades 😢
Hoje só 💩💩💩
Lista das 💩💩💩💩
Sertanejos universitários 💩 💩 Lucas Lucco 💩 Gustavo Lima 💩 Anita 💩 funks 💩 Pablo vitar 🤮 Anita 💩 Ludmilla 💩
please tell me people could dance better than that
However, I think that dance was called either the Skate or Shingaling.🤔
wow, Dick Clark's receding hairline was getting bad on his left forehead. His forehead just kept growing and growing, lol. Had to be just killing him being on ABC television and all. Seemed to have a bad temper sometimes if you've ever heard some behind the scenes audio. Receding hairlines really piss people off.
Dude get james brown people are dieing for him including my self
I love James Brown, but unfortunately I don’t have any clips with him yet. If I find some, you can be sure I’ll post them! Thanks for the comment.
Whats the website where u find thease?
Ok
Wait a minete u could go to historic films.com and search james brown and download clips frome there
They don’t have any American Bandstand clips there, which is kind of my focus, but yeah, they have some great clips of The Godfather of Soul! Thanks for the tip!