I was a Roller Skating & Dance Champion!!!! I could Skate Or Dance to any Kind of Music!!! I learned from my Mother & Sisters when I lived in Maine!!!!
HOLA. .MAMA MIA ❤ QUE ELENCO EXQUISITO MUCHO PROFESIONALISMO 😂❤ IMPECABLE. ESTA RA ZA. DIVINA❤ DEL SEÑOR. JESUSCRISTO. SIN PALABRAS BENDICIONES DESDE. ARGENTINA. ALGO. NUNCA. VISTO. DESD3 YA. LOS ADMIRAMOS. ❤ BENDICIONES 🎉
Yup. Its the izzle talk, jive talk. Started in the east coast like NYC, Harlem, Philly and in the west coast bay area Oakland, SF, California. '80s. All the rappers like Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott , etc grew up listening to this kind of stuff and lot of older hip hop sampled funk music.
I grew up in Philly, roller skating and listening to Double Dutch bus. When I had kids, in an effort to share my love of old school music with my kids, I made them CDs and included this song. One day while walking into the grocery store, my then 4 year old son grabbed ny hand and said, "Mom, do you have any funky bus fare? Ho"!!!!
I met Frankie Smith at smedley elementary School in Frankfort. I was like 10 years old. Our music teacher was good friends with him. This video looks like Philly.
I still dig this song, I even tried to do his dance,with my grandkids, all they said oh it's cool, but when they thought I wasn't looking, they broke it down in their own style.
It's sad how the music industry works. He was living in a trailer home. The music company stole his rights to this song and paid him some stupid amount for this song. If I remember correctly he was litigation for years trying to get his rights back or more money. I believe he had diabetes really bad.
People just dont realize how much Philly had an impact on popular culture in the 70s.. Philly soul... some of the best disco... big labels... all gone.
This song is TIMELESS! And to think back in 1980 he was rapping to the track when rap wasn't that popular. Some people are just way ahead of their time. Thank you Frankie Smith for a classic that I still jam to this day. Rest In Peace (1940-2019).
@@bobbymoore8Yeah I remember they highlighted his story on City Confidential. It was this White dude who was a dentist and they claim they he was the biggest coke dealer on the east coast, at the time. Apparently he had some role with this Classic song!!!
I heard it at work today and spent a good half hour trying to find it bc all i could find was missy eliot's gossip folks and i thought i had lost my mind hearing that chorus in a different song
Great classic song from the year 1981. Frankie Smith, what a fantastic singer & a wonderful dancer who recently died unfortunately in 2019. But something about this unique song first off make you feel so good & super happy because of the wonderful beats of this very special song with those splendid instruments by the great musician artist playing them. Just a marvelous JOB all around by the fabulous Frankie Smith. RIP Sir & God bless you in heaven.
What happenes? What happened to the simplicity of life? The purity and pride of black culture? The love and mindfulness for community? The innocence and natural beauty of young ladies? The strong character, strength, and gentleness of young men? The good'ol days.
This song brings back so many great memories of a great and carefree childhood and teenage Era. I'm so shocked I still sing every word when I haven't heard this song in like 4 decades. Wowza
That's is spoken like a real legend at another chance to revive and relive a life while standing in the gap for our species by younger generation. We are real ET last call before we blast my 4 planets and change Galaxy temperature as we shrift to chillier Temp as we push through freezers in hell lol
You said care free era & i can agree with you. My curfew time was 9 pm, thats all my mom care about. Can't be reached bc there was no cell phones back then. Party was so nice.
@@JeremiahSpeaks Yes rryryrrry try trying to get a tree ryryyrtrrrrr to try it to try tr tree try try rest of the day your yeeyryyryryyrrsrrsre, tree rrtrtyytrrr 5rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr44rrrrr4
My aunt taught school for 56 yrs, mostly kindergarten thru 2nd grade and she actually learned to double dutch with her students during recess. Kept her so young at heart, she was my second mother. She was so popular with students and their parents that I couldn't ever get in her classes. R.I.P. Martha, whenever I hear this song or see people doing Double Dutch or jump rope I think of you. Love you to the moon and back.
Good Lord this is great. I've never seen this before. The people in this just seem more real and down to earth than people do now. Those days are gone forever - that is too bad.
It's impossible to hear this song and not start moving...One of the best songs of the 20th century, rhythmically and lyrically...This song is one of the most powerful "draw people to the dance floor magnets"!
I'm much older than 60, and I have loved this song since it came out - it is one of my favorites. Didn't see a lot of double dutch going on in this video (my first time seeing it), but I loved it. I liked seeing Frankie Smith getting kids to join him on the double dutch bus. All those smiling kid faces, regular neighborhood kids, were a pleasure to see. Makes me wonder what their grown up versions must be like. Richard S is right, it is timeless. Love the video
Thanks for doing that. In Philly, were Frankie is from, girls jumped double dutch all day. Kept them our Black girls in shape. Nowadays if they could jump double dutch on a video game on their phones would be considered a good thing.
And no tattoos and piercings all over people's bodies. And no wokeness. People actually loved their country. There was a lot of love and peace in the world.
Aw, man....I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, "DDB" was (and is) one of my faves, too. I remember listening to it as a young teenager back in the early '80s. Well, thanks for the update.
I am a '70s and '80s kid, and I remember all of us kids singing this on the school bus on the way to school. I was about 7 years old. The world was so beautiful and peaceful back then. People actually had respect for each other and their country. People were proud of being a girl or a boy. If I am not mistaken, I went to my first Jacksons concert at Market Square Arena. 🥰If only I could build a time machine.
@@michaelharrison1969 and the music video is so wholesome. I Love How He Involves The Entire Neighborhood. I wish there were more pieces of Music like this
In 1980 my then step-brother, about 10 years old, walked up to me and said "I got bad feet, my corns hurt, to top it off I'm late for work." I thought "what is this, some line from a new movie?" When I heard this song's lyrics I finally understood where he got that line!
When i was 16 in 2001, Frankie visited my school and performed this song in our auditorium. He later gave us an encore, performing a song called "Put the Guns on the Table".
I feel the same way brother I'm 61 and what I used to walk to the clubs in my 20s and 30s I'd hear it and you can't help it move and I found out that when I hear it in the house I still got some of the same old moves I'll be at just a little slower
Reading your comments makes me wish so badly that those of us who are 55 and older could go to a stomp in a big, sweaty, high school gymnasium that smells like tube socks where only hits like these from the 80s were being cranked out and we could re-live our teen years dancing for just a few hours.
@@larkatmic Drugs, gangs, welfare, section 8, prison are all factors to why we're so lost. Can't forget religion, that is a shackle that we still can't break free from
I first heard this song in the army when stationed in Germany 1981..my roommate had a kick ass stereo system. He used to play it over and over..loved it..
My sister recorded this song off the radio for me when we were kids in the early 80s cause every time the song would finish on the radio i would cry cause i loved the song so much i was like 4 or 5 years old. She passed away in 2012 and everytime i want to go back to those beautiful days being a kid and having my whole fam around me i put this on and now i cry as soon as it comes on, i miss u ofelita mora 1970-2012 rest in paradise. We will see eachother soon.... but not yet.
I just turn 59 years old and I grew up listening all this Firme Music Double Dutch bus was back then one of the very good good ones we are in 2021 and I still listening and always will
1981... I almost die in a car accident on August 10 of that year, and while recovering this was the song I listened to like a hundred times a day! My teenage neighbor, who later became my girlfriend, played it real loud all day long.
I was about one of this lil kids when this came out. Some family and friends have since past on. I thank God for that precious moment in time. He knows exactly what He's doing in my life.
Yes! Besides being just a really cool, fun, & happy song, this likely *is* a very early video, plus one of the first "rap" songs I remember hearing. Hopefully it has a spot in the Library Of Congress. 🇺🇸♥️
Music is miraculous that way. When I hear music that brings me back to loved ones from the past, it's easy to have memories and even conversations with them. Gone but not forgotten.
@@Michelle_Schu-blacka It's actually a Foundational Black American language called arutisuse (Don't know if that's the correct spelling, though). They used it to speak in front of the slave masters and overseers, without them knowing what they were saying. Not all of us forgot our FBA roots.
Mr. Frankie Smith will surely be missed as well. My belated husband and I love this song as well. We use to listen to this song and we both loved the video as well. Yep that was our song together.
Ho Philly's in the House! This was my jawn when growing up in Philadelphia. Still got the 45 and yes, ALL of us, white, black, brown & all colors in between played Double Dutch! I might be 50 years old but I still know how to turn the ropes & know how to jump!
Soooo I’m standing here on a Sunday morning making my coffee to start my day. Out of nowhere I started singing this song. Which then lead me here. Thank you.
I remember seeing him at Philly in the early 80s and it just so happens he was at Penn hospital for treatment and my daughter was the receptionist and she told him I was at his concert in the 80s and gave her a personal autograph I have it framed what a small world thank you so much......
I was in 6th grade when this song came out. I bought it as a 45 and it was the very first record I ever bought with my own money. Needless to say I played that record to death!
Rest peacefully Buddy I’ll never forget you ! Especially showing me the whole dance while singing the song in the store in Center City ! You were always a polite classy man ! Hopefully you’re singing & dancing the Double Dutch in Heaven 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I worked with Frankie. The first night I met him he opened up some offices for me in the parking garage under blue cross in the parking garage. 4 floors underground. I introduced myself to him and he said “ you already know who I am” I thought really..? They he processed to sing double Dutch bus to me.... I about fell out on the floor.... here I am four floors underground getting a free concert from Frankie Smith.... God rest his soul!
@@ademaya4773 YEAH THE RECORD COMPANY,WMOT RECORDS REALLY SCREWED FRANKIE ON THIS SONG.IT'S A SAD PART OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS,ESPECIALLY FOR SOME OF OUR BLACK ARTISTS OVER THE YEARS.
I was a kid growing up in the 70s in NYC area, wore bell-bottom pants, listened to all these old school songs. Fast-forward to the present when kids in their 20s hear old songs from the 80s, 90s that are remixed, they try arguing it's a new song and how do I know some of the lyrics? I have to let them know to look up the originals on UA-cam, cause the songs came out before they were born. 😆
Essas músicas nós fazem lembrar de uma época boa, onde a juventude sabia curtir . Hoje vemos tanta violência e a juventude não sabe aproveitar. Sinto falta dessa época.
I don't speak Portugese but I understand Spanish and understand your sentiments perfectly. I agree, such a simpler, more innocent time. I was about 9 or 10 when this came out and I remember being transfixed by the groove, the rap, the indecipherable lyrics (which I finally just googled, and now I understand them). Nostalgia cuts both ways, I am happy and yet sad.
I worked along side with Frank at the union league of Philadelphia, very very nice person, shame how he was treated, but Frank you still did it well. Go on wit your bad self, no one can take it from you.💖
My friend Ed was one of the chefs there at the union league at that time... After that Frankie became a security agent at independence blue cross at 1900 market street.
@@patfeo1927 Ed is now cheffing at Mcgillans ole ale house on Drury between Chestnut & Sansom. Not sure if you remember the story written up in city paper about Frankie, wmot records and how the one owner of the label was using Frankie’s bank account that wmot designated to pay Frankie for records sales was used for money laundering..... Frankie got ripped off on that song. Im sure the article is online if you look for it... Excellent read for sure!
@@loadedfun4764 frank was a coworker of mine in security dept. We spoke about it. I felt so bad for him, well the main thing is he made that song, and only he added that special touch. It will always be his song. As far as your friend Ed, I don't think we're talking about the same person, my supervisor in security at the time was Ed kettel. He passed away at the time.
This was such a nice post by Mr Doge, why people coming under here with intense comments? Lets just dance. LOL Get it Frankie! and the cute Little kids :)
Gracias dios por haber vivido esta época en mi adolecencia ,feliz me alimenta el alma escucharlo , y pensar que lo bailavamos con tantas ganas , ya soy bis abuelo pero lo escucho y mis piernas vuelven a esa epoca la música rejuvenece te trae recuerdos y te activa, la vida es hermosa no importa ña edad❤
Essa música marcou história!! Cadê nossa turma???🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
ME I WAS IN A DOUBLE DUTCH TEAM THIS WAS OUR SONG I WON 1ST PLACE FOR OUR TEAM IN 1982 THE BEST YEARS
I’m thinking your mom was Catholic. I can’t quite express how I know this..😅
I was a Roller Skating & Dance Champion!!!! I could Skate Or Dance to any Kind of Music!!!
I learned from my Mother & Sisters when I lived in Maine!!!!
HOLA. .MAMA MIA ❤ QUE ELENCO EXQUISITO MUCHO PROFESIONALISMO 😂❤ IMPECABLE. ESTA RA ZA. DIVINA❤ DEL SEÑOR. JESUSCRISTO. SIN PALABRAS BENDICIONES DESDE. ARGENTINA. ALGO. NUNCA. VISTO. DESD3 YA. LOS ADMIRAMOS. ❤ BENDICIONES 🎉
This was the vibe right before crack crept in and ruined our childhood and communities. CLASSIC!!!!!
Concordo
Love it still I'm 60
❤🔥🔥
Love it still also, IM 62❤❤❤😊😊😊
We can thank this man for the "izzle" and "eezy" phenomenon in Hip-Hop lingo! I'm sure Snoop Dogg and E-40 loved this song growing up.
EXACTLY 💯
@@therealdeal26 "Dzzubble Dzzutch."."Buh zarbra"....loved those parts, never forgot that wacky pig latin-esque line....loved this song in my youth !
most importantly missy Elliot, she sampled this
And missy Elliott
Yup. Its the izzle talk, jive talk. Started in the east coast like NYC, Harlem, Philly and in the west coast bay area Oakland, SF, California. '80s. All the rappers like Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott , etc grew up listening to this kind of stuff and lot of older hip hop sampled funk music.
I grew up in Philly, roller skating and listening to Double Dutch bus. When I had kids, in an effort to share my love of old school music with my kids, I made them CDs and included this song. One day while walking into the grocery store, my then 4 year old son grabbed ny hand and said, "Mom, do you have any funky bus fare? Ho"!!!!
Philly in the 80s used to bounce ... So many great concerts ...The FRESH FEST at THE SPECTRUM
I met Frankie Smith at smedley elementary School in Frankfort. I was like 10 years old. Our music teacher was good friends with him. This video looks like Philly.
🎉@@gilwood7530
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I grew up in the Mountains of NC, but i had my roller skates on listening to this❤❤❤😊
Hands down, the most undisputed roller rink jam of all time. Classic.
No doubt ! Remember roller skating being the craze in the late 70s and early 80s. This was big at the roller rinks.
Desde Panamá baile estos tema de niño mucho recuerdo con Franklin Smith
with bell bottoms and all
This sure was the Skating Rink Song.🤟🤟
Vaughan Mason & Crew
"Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll"
was a lil betta...😉
This song got the party started at my wedding and I gotta say we made our parents proud with this one.
My mother in this video 🔥 she was 13teen at the time R.I.P Mommy We Miss You So Much😇🕊️🕊️
Thank you for sharing
Which one was her?
@@ryanmarek123my mom is the very last girl at the end with a white t shirt on😊
@@ryanmarek123the one that's rocking and clapping by the open bus door with the white t shirt on 😊
@@Yahoo744no problem you welcome 😊
I sang with Frankie in a church choir in West Philly after his Double Dutch bus fame. Seriously and honestly, one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
I still dig this song, I even tried to do his dance,with my grandkids, all they said oh it's cool, but when they thought I wasn't looking, they broke it down in their own style.
Was this filmed in West Philly? Looks like Philadelphia. I like how the video focuses on the kids, awesome!
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How cool is that!! I wish I was You SALUTTOS CORNUTTOS 🤘😎🤘
@@jamesbarber8630 ha ha ha . E sono tanti I cornutti. E neppure lo sano ……!!!! 😂😅
RIP Frankie on March 8 2019
He was 79
Didn't say the cause.
Song peaked at #30 on the billboard hot 100 in 1981 in USA
#1 on the R & B charts for four weeks
@@muffs55mercury61 FACTS!!!!!! U have 'em.
May he Rest In Peace 🙏🏽❤️
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It's sad how the music industry works. He was living in a trailer home. The music company stole his rights to this song and paid him some stupid amount for this song. If I remember correctly he was litigation for years trying to get his rights back or more money. I believe he had diabetes really bad.
People just dont realize how much Philly had an impact on popular culture in the 70s.. Philly soul... some of the best disco... big labels... all gone.
RIP TP
I never realized it until now wow that's crazy
Oklahoma is very overlooked as well
@@Floweryspeech1 Oklahoma!? Lmao
*black culture
This song is TIMELESS! And to think back in 1980 he was rapping to the track when rap wasn't that popular. Some people are just way ahead of their time. Thank you Frankie Smith for a classic that I still jam to this day. Rest In Peace (1940-2019).
Back then it was called, "the rap".
Ya murio franf smit
Sad thing is he didn't receive a dime this song. He was cheated out of it by his promoters.
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@@bobbymoore8Yeah I remember they highlighted his story on City Confidential. It was this White dude who was a dentist and they claim they he was the biggest coke dealer on the east coast, at the time. Apparently he had some role with this Classic song!!!
This song was in my head for years and I finally found it 😅 what a relief
Me too! I just found it today! That's crazy right? I was 11 when it came out. This video is even better than I could have imagined 💗
I heard it at work today and spent a good half hour trying to find it bc all i could find was missy eliot's gossip folks and i thought i had lost my mind hearing that chorus in a different song
This made me laugh lol
I can relate. Fun music.
Same here, every time I could listen to it I tryed to find it and finally some years ago🤙
Great classic song from the year 1981.
Frankie Smith, what a fantastic singer & a wonderful dancer who recently died unfortunately in 2019.
But something about this unique song first off make you feel so good & super happy because of the wonderful beats of this very special song with those splendid instruments by the great musician artist playing them.
Just a marvelous JOB all around by the fabulous Frankie Smith.
RIP Sir & God bless you in heaven.
What happenes? What happened to the simplicity of life? The purity and pride of black culture? The love and mindfulness for community? The innocence and natural beauty of young ladies? The strong character, strength, and gentleness of young men? The good'ol days.
Invasión satánica....
This song brings back so many great memories of a great and carefree childhood and teenage Era. I'm so shocked I still sing every word when I haven't heard this song in like 4 decades. Wowza
That's is spoken like a real legend at another chance to revive and relive a life while standing in the gap for our species by younger generation. We are real ET last call before we blast my 4 planets and change Galaxy temperature as we shrift to chillier Temp as we push through freezers in hell lol
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You said care free era & i can agree with you. My curfew time was 9 pm, thats all my mom care about. Can't be reached bc there was no cell phones back then. Party was so nice.
My father played this record when we were growing up….I will always have those fond memories. I miss you Daddy!🙏🏽
May God rest his soul Y Kristina😊😊
Miss Dancing with my Dad to any and all songs 🎵 with my Sister's. Seems like yesterday. 🤙💯🙏♥️🕊
Amazing Song!
@@JeremiahSpeaks Yes rryryrrry try trying to get a tree ryryyrtrrrrr to try it to try tr tree try try rest of the day your yeeyryyryryyrrsrrsre, tree rrtrtyytrrr 5rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr44rrrrr4
Me too! (I was 5 years old, in 1999) Greeting from Buenos Aires Argentina
My aunt taught school for 56 yrs, mostly kindergarten thru 2nd grade and she actually learned to double dutch with her students during recess. Kept her so young at heart, she was my second mother. She was so popular with students and their parents that I couldn't ever get in her classes. R.I.P. Martha, whenever I hear this song or see people doing Double Dutch or jump rope I think of you. Love you to the moon and back.
No one can imitate FRANKIE SMITH, a real stepper and his creativity.
Good Lord this is great. I've never seen this before. The people in this just seem more real and down to earth than people do now. Those days are gone forever - that is too bad.
Right
It's real sad
Yes and it's really sad.
No still dance no judgement here
Absolutely! Everything and everyone was Organic back then. What a shame.
Spent four weeks at #1 on the R & B (Soul) charts in 1981. Big hit.
It's impossible to hear this song and not start moving...One of the best songs of the 20th century, rhythmically and lyrically...This song is one of the most powerful "draw people to the dance floor magnets"!
Patrick Gallimore l like the kids
i didnt even realize i was moving my foot to the beat until i read your comment
Patrick Gallimore so true
Only one way to listen to it - L-O-U-D!
Who else listened to this song in 1981 and is still listening to it in 2024?
For sure….!!!!!!!
Raising my hand !!!! Still the jam
Me👋🏾😊
I'm am
ME!! i was a kid when this song came out. glad that I witnessed the birth of hip hop
This was the jam in 1981. It makes me want to get up and dance.
@@lilsosaa20 where's your Grandpa song?
You ain't NEVER lied! This and Square Biz! Somebody pleeease hurry up and invent that time machine and take me back to 1980 and leave me there!
100th like m8
Makes me choke up 'Class of 1980
@@larryjenkins8526 Indeed and Agreed 👍
The no-vocals part from 2:31 to 3:01 makes me happy because to me it is the pure sound of a warm summer afternoon.
Your comment took me there. It is just that.
Something missing for alot of songs now in days
Same here. 😀
I'm much older than 60, and I have loved this song since it came out - it is one of my favorites. Didn't see a lot of double dutch going on in this video (my first time seeing it), but I loved it. I liked seeing Frankie Smith getting kids to join him on the double dutch bus. All those smiling kid faces, regular neighborhood kids, were a pleasure to see. Makes me wonder what their grown up versions must be like. Richard S is right, it is timeless. Love the video
You wanna talk about a budget, brotha had 1 camera and 1 block to record this and made a legend.
Goes to show you how simple things can really be ❤️
You absolutely HAD to hit the dance floor when this song was played. What great memories!
You are so right, Marcellus. Even tonight as I listened to it alone in my room, I couldn’t stop myself from turning it up and dancing!
What an odd, fun, and funky ass song. I love it. There is truly no other song like this
Except for Word Up by Cameo... Not exactly the same, but they were definitely suspiciously influenced.
This is just a fun fun song, like "I Got A Man'!:)
I play this for my Daycare kids! We love to dance to this song!
Funk Fusion Band - Can You Feel It
@@kelqueen9998I'd say it's more "Rapper's Delight" adjacent than anything.
Thank you Frankie Smith for putting the fun in funk with this song... RIP
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSugar!
As someone who couldn't STAND disco AT ALL, I have to say that I did always love THIS song!!! Way to go, Frankie!!! 😃
Is it r& b or disco music ??
The Best Disco was underground.
@@Loydstardeli2017Post Disco/Funk
So happy to have lived and remember that Era... The beginnings of "Rap", etc.
Just taught my students how to double-dutch and it was the time of their lives today.
Thanks for doing that. In Philly, were Frankie is from, girls jumped double dutch all day. Kept them our Black girls in shape. Nowadays if they could jump double dutch on a video game on their phones would be considered a good thing.
Yes yes yes!! Little girls don’t jump rope anymore 😩
This is easily the most creative song ever , from the lyrics to the rhythm and beat
No wigs, no weaves ❤
And no tattoos and piercings all over people's bodies. And no wokeness. People actually loved their country. There was a lot of love and peace in the world.
@@DarkandTwisted . Your memories as a kid was different than the reality going on around you or did you just whitewash the history of that era.
@@DarkandTwistedthat's a weird train of thought. KAMALA2024 ho
@@DarkandTwisted”no wokeness”?! Are you dumb or are you stupid?
No contour.
Just found out he passed March 8, 2019. Bummer. One of my favorite sing-alongs of all time! Thank you Mr. Smith.
Aw, man....I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, "DDB" was (and is) one of my faves, too. I remember listening to it as a young teenager back in the early '80s.
Well, thanks for the update.
Heard this on the Bad Bob Lee show over KBBK Magic 92 in the Golden Daze of Radio in Boise Idaho!
Of course, I was like 14 or 15 so they were a daze...
Oh wow sad to hear of Frank s passing, I worked along side with Frank at the union league of Philadelphia. Very nice man 💝✝️ rest in peace
Thanks for posting the information 🙏✨RIP😔💐
I come here and watch this every so often just to feel happy again. This is magic ❤
Will definitely make you smile. Old school will never die. Gotta have me some Atomic Dog too.
A great classic video with the kids in it having the time of their life!!!! Nothing but smiling faces and happiness!
I am a '70s and '80s kid, and I remember all of us kids singing this on the school bus on the way to school. I was about 7 years old. The world was so beautiful and peaceful back then. People actually had respect for each other and their country. People were proud of being a girl or a boy. If I am not mistaken, I went to my first Jacksons concert at Market Square Arena. 🥰If only I could build a time machine.
Such an innocent, sweethearted song.
It is so wholesome. Love it.
"Gimme A Ho"
@@thelivingdead1728 🙄
@@thelivingdead1728 your the reason why nothing is as good as it could be
@@fewsaid bruh it's a joke get over it
This song never gets old. It's RAP, It's Soul it's R&B it's Pop. I can picture Let It Happen creating an amazing dance routine to this.
It's Real Rap! Today's Rap No Thank You! For The Most Part
It's called FUNK
@@michaelharrison1969 and the music video is so wholesome. I Love How He Involves The Entire Neighborhood. I wish there were more pieces of Music like this
Amen😅!
In 1980 my then step-brother, about 10 years old, walked up to me and said "I got bad feet, my corns hurt, to top it off I'm late for work." I thought "what is this, some line from a new movie?" When I heard this song's lyrics I finally understood where he got that line!
Lmao
This made me smile...and laugh!:)
Beep beep! Everybody on board!:)
I’m still listening haha 2024😂🤣💪🏽
Me too.
me too lmaoo
Is it me or is he basically reworking #WordUp by #Cameo? Or did they copy him?
AMOOOOO
Yo también 8 de Nov 2024, en Medellin Antioquia La ciudad de la Eterna Primavera
This was a huge hit summer of 1981. This song still Pumps today!!!
I just listened to this 3 times in a row on my way home from work. It's a timeless classic and I think a top 5 favorite song.
Mr Smith, respect to you sir! You made a classic tune.
YESSSS!!!! I still love this song as I did back in 1981
When i was 16 in 2001, Frankie visited my school and performed this song in our auditorium. He later gave us an encore, performing a song called "Put the Guns on the Table".
Why am I smiling and feeling good while listening and watching genuine happiness on the faces of the children.
I here ya sis..I. smiled too children being children that never gets old..
Happy music! Must come back!
I'm sixty now, and I still love this song as much as I did when I was twenty-one. For me it's timeless!
I feel the same way brother I'm 61 and what I used to walk to the clubs in my 20s and 30s I'd hear it and you can't help it move and I found out that when I hear it in the house I still got some of the same old moves I'll be at just a little slower
Double dutch bus coming down the street
Dancing to the rhythm that you just can't beat
Reading your comments makes me wish so badly that those of us who are 55 and older could go to a stomp in a big, sweaty, high school gymnasium that smells like tube socks where only hits like these from the 80s were being cranked out and we could re-live our teen years dancing for just a few hours.
@@csheets40 I'm 62 and I remember that smell vividly thank you for reminding me and I agree with u
Muuuuuuuito obrigado , meu jovem !!! Faziaa décadas que procurava esta versão mix de " Banana Boat Songs " .
Valeu , mesmo !
Now this is what you call music..
Glad my parent's knows good music
Look at my people having fun, no disrespect, no mean mugs, all smiles!
H_ G.B. What happened?
@@larkatmic Drugs, gangs, welfare, section 8, prison are all factors to why we're so lost. Can't forget religion, that is a shackle that we still can't break free from
Dru Down
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@@h_g.b.5792 "You Said A Mouthful !!❗😯
I first heard this song in the army when stationed in Germany 1981..my roommate had a kick ass stereo system. He used to play it over and over..loved it..
My Uncle was stationed in Germany then. Warren Orr
Is netherlands
Stationed in Germany back then as well- This song was about the clubs / 3rd AD "The Rock"
🇩🇪 I can relate
Who's still listening to this in 2024?...I SURE AM!
me too
Oh yeah! Sounds even better!
me
Moi🎶🎶🎶🎧
🐓🐓💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺🚌🚌🚌
This song should have a lot of views on UA-cam. I can't stop dancing and moving my head. Thanks Dad for showing me what's really good to hear.
1981 most requested song 🎵 at Fm radio 📻 in philippines I still remembered the dance 🕺 step of this song 🎵
He's the king! I heard this on the radio in NYC when it first came out. Nobody sounded like this. Nobody!
king butthole maybe
My mom used to play this song whenever there's no school or even Saturday morning 🌄 ... Who's listening to this like I am..
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I wasn't that lucky, my mom played the spinners..all day
I got Diana Ross with my mom😊
My dad used to play this song all the time when I was little , I love it now and I always think about him when I hear it now ❤️❤️❤️❤️
My sister recorded this song off the radio for me when we were kids in the early 80s cause every time the song would finish on the radio i would cry cause i loved the song so much i was like 4 or 5 years old. She passed away in 2012 and everytime i want to go back to those beautiful days being a kid and having my whole fam around me i put this on and now i cry as soon as it comes on, i miss u ofelita mora 1970-2012 rest in paradise. We will see eachother soon.... but not yet.
❤️🩹
I felt that.😢
It's amazing how music can shift our mood instantly. Hang in there. You will see her eventually.
Sorry for your loss. Cherish the memories.
I was 18 when this song came out in 1981, and I still love it. RIP Frankie Smith.
I was 26 in 81, now 67 ,reminds me of where I lived in 1981. Chicago different place at that time.
Thanks for putting a date on this. I was wondering when this came out
@@sylvialupehernandez9154 Less crime, nicer people.
@@nowitsabadtime 1981 is a different better place than 2022
I was 20.
Frankie Smith is the best!!! He wrote this masterpiece & sang it too. Love you man❤
I'm 49 yrs old and I still love this song
I just turn 59 years old and I grew up listening all this Firme Music Double Dutch bus was back then one of the very good good ones we are in 2021 and I still listening and always will
やでじぇんでじゅがryぶsかそlしおnーrぉkはせs
Im. 69. Still listening to this. Awesome music 🎶❤❤❤
Those were the good old days, I can still hear this song the way it was played throughout my neighborhood back in the 80's
typo back in the 80's
i would dance with you.:)
I still have this album
1981... I almost die in a car accident on August 10 of that year, and while recovering this was the song I listened to like a hundred times a day! My teenage neighbor, who later became my girlfriend, played it real loud all day long.
Ikr good old days😌😌
This is AS OF NOW one of the best things I've ever discovered.. period!
I was about one of this lil kids when this came out. Some family and friends have since past on. I thank God for that precious moment in time. He knows exactly what He's doing in my life.
This must be among the very first music videos! An archival treasure.
Yes! Besides being just a really cool, fun, & happy song, this likely *is* a very early video, plus one of the first "rap" songs I remember hearing.
Hopefully it has a spot in the Library Of Congress. 🇺🇸♥️
Music is miraculous that way. When I hear music that brings me back to loved ones from the past, it's easy to have memories and even conversations with them. Gone but not forgotten.
This is pure joy. I can't deny the gibberish is the best part. The kids are jamming and Frankie Smith
has such a presence R.I.P
If wasn't gibberish, it was a form of Pig Latin.
It's was the start of 'fo' shizzle ma nizzle'.
FRANKIE: “Millze gillzot sillzomebillzody plillzays dillzouble dillzzutch”
(I got somebody plays double dutch)
GIRL: Hilzzoo?
(Who?)
FRANKIE: My gizzirl!
(My girl!)
GIRL: Brillzing her izzin!
(Bring her in!)
FRANKIE: Izzo kizzay!
(OK!)
GIRL: Izzall rizzight…
(All right…)
FRANKIE: Izzo kizzay!
(OK!)
GIRL: Izzall rizzight! Nizzow wizzee wilzzo-izzo-zee!
(All right! Now we will see!)
@@awitcheskid
Genius Lyrics is my best friend too!
@@Michelle_Schu-blacka It's actually a Foundational Black American language called arutisuse (Don't know if that's the correct spelling, though). They used it to speak in front of the slave masters and overseers, without them knowing what they were saying. Not all of us forgot our FBA roots.
@@youtubeillegallydeletesacc1525 I'm not american.
A wonderful song from past and Now
2024
Mr. Frankie Smith will surely be missed as well. My belated husband and I love this song as well. We use to listen to this song and we both loved the video as well. Yep that was our song together.
💙💙💙that's sweet💙💙💙
This song sounds as good as it did back in 1981.
DOWN BITCH!
Amen!!!!!
Makes me feel old...I graduated HS in 1981. Love it.
Why would it sound different all of the sudden?
@@nyccollin Erm, 40-years. Songs are remastered...Lol.
No obscenity or violence. Just fun for everyone, of all ages.👏👏👏🎵🎶🎵🎶
I do love how wholesome it is.
Aww shhhh... sugar!
Your so right😊
You got it. That and cocaine.
Here We Go Now
Ho Philly's in the House! This was my jawn when growing up in Philadelphia. Still got the 45 and yes, ALL of us, white, black, brown & all colors in between played Double Dutch! I might be 50 years old but I still know how to turn the ropes & know how to jump!
Soooo I’m standing here on a Sunday morning making my coffee to start my day. Out of nowhere I started singing this song. Which then lead me here. Thank you.
I remember seeing him at Philly in the early 80s and it just so happens he was at Penn hospital for treatment and my daughter was the receptionist and she told him I was at his concert in the 80s and gave her a personal autograph I have it framed what a small world thank you so much......
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Right on
Very cool. Do you know what was he in there for????
I love that!
👍🏾
I was in 6th grade when this song came out. I bought it as a 45 and it was the very first record I ever bought with my own money. Needless to say I played that record to death!
Rest peacefully Buddy I’ll never forget you ! Especially showing me the whole dance while singing the song in the store in Center City ! You were always a polite classy man ! Hopefully you’re singing & dancing the Double Dutch in Heaven 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
With Willem van Oranje himself!
I worked with Frankie. The first night I met him he opened up some offices for me in the parking garage under blue cross in the parking garage. 4 floors underground. I introduced myself to him and he said “ you already know who I am” I thought really..? They he processed to sing double Dutch bus to me.... I about fell out on the floor.... here I am four floors underground getting a free concert from Frankie Smith....
God rest his soul!
@@loadedfun4764 He got me the same way
AS MOST YOU PROBABLY KNOW BY NOW,FRANKLYN LEON SMITH,AKA FRANKIE SMITH PASSED AWAY BACK IN MARCH OF 2019.RIP BUDDY,REST IN PEACE.
Didn't know that. May he Rest In Peace. But I just hope he actually got paid for this song. I heard he was ripped off over it back in the day.
Yes, please listen to the tribute on my page?
@@ademaya4773 YEAH THE RECORD COMPANY,WMOT RECORDS REALLY SCREWED FRANKIE ON THIS SONG.IT'S A SAD PART OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS,ESPECIALLY FOR SOME OF OUR BLACK ARTISTS OVER THE YEARS.
@@sevinatenine4444 this is true
Rip my Friend
This was just plain, good, old-fashioned fun!
So many thanks to all involved with the creation and production of this cut.❤
I was a kid growing up in the 70s in NYC area, wore bell-bottom pants, listened to all these old school songs. Fast-forward to the present when kids in their 20s hear old songs from the 80s, 90s that are remixed, they try arguing it's a new song and how do I know some of the lyrics? I have to let them know to look up the originals on UA-cam, cause the songs came out before they were born. 😆
This song will never get old
Motherof Anactress heck no
Hello
Uno de mis mejores recuerdos ... Una novia q nunca olvidaré... Con esta canción q no sabía como se llamaba... Gracias you tube
@@joevelasco6250 go hi Bo
Yeah but the old dancing pimp daddy fool will....
Essas músicas nós fazem lembrar de uma época boa, onde a juventude sabia curtir . Hoje vemos tanta violência e a juventude não sabe aproveitar. Sinto falta dessa época.
Triste futur 😢
You Are S😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢, Right,A L😅t Better And Much S 👍🏾mpler T👍🏾me, Sadly 😢😢😢😢😢😢 Unlike T😢day 😢😢😢😢😢
I don't speak Portugese but I understand Spanish and understand your sentiments perfectly. I agree, such a simpler, more innocent time. I was about 9 or 10 when this came out and I remember being transfixed by the groove, the rap, the indecipherable lyrics (which I finally just googled, and now I understand them). Nostalgia cuts both ways, I am happy and yet sad.
Elis
Não
Sabem
Curtir.kelfkidaka 4:49
A certain type of early Innocence in this, brilliant.
Yeap 👍💯
Exactly! A whole different time entirely.
YES VERY BRILLIANT
Absolutely sir..
Wholesome ☺️
WOW,IT FEELS LIKE I JUST WENT BACK IN TIME.
Tengo 51 años... JAMÁS había escuchado esta canción, pero UA-cam hizo su magia y ya la bajé para disfrutarla eternanente ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Esa canción salió al mismo tiempo que salió la película de Popeye de Robin Williams y le decíamos en Puerto Rico la canción de Popeye
I grew up w/ this music. The coolest days I’ll ever remember
I worked along side with Frank at the union league of Philadelphia, very very nice person, shame how he was treated, but Frank you still did it well. Go on wit your bad self, no one can take it from you.💖
My friend Ed was one of the chefs there at the union league at that time... After that Frankie became a security agent at independence blue cross at 1900 market street.
@@loadedfun4764 I remember Ed, he was my boss at that time. Wow , small world.
@@patfeo1927 Ed is now cheffing at Mcgillans ole ale house on Drury between Chestnut & Sansom. Not sure if you remember the story written up in city paper about Frankie, wmot records and how the one owner of the label was using Frankie’s bank account that wmot designated to pay Frankie for records sales was used for money laundering..... Frankie got ripped off on that song. Im sure the article is online if you look for it... Excellent read for sure!
Google “Larry Lavan “ flaunt. That’s Larry’s side of the story. Frankie’s was totally different.
@@loadedfun4764 frank was a coworker of mine in security dept. We spoke about it. I felt so bad for him, well the main thing is he made that song, and only he added that special touch. It will always be his song. As far as your friend Ed, I don't think we're talking about the same person, my supervisor in security at the time was Ed kettel. He passed away at the time.
I just found this gem i am 27, i know what real music is when i hear the flow of that nasty beat. Man o man this is beautiful
God ! I'm old enough to remember this one and I love it! Please play this one at my funeral dear family!
70sfred1
Same !!!
I'm 34 and I know every word of this song. RIP Frankie Smith
Aaahhhh.....the good old days!! This song is still THE JAM!! & will always be 🙌🏽🔥🔥🔥🙌🏽
……..Those Good Old Day………
We didn't know that those days helped in sooo many ways. I'm so blessed to have been a part of those days.😅😊
This song has really held its time from 1981 to now!!!
In the projects in the early 80s...this song reminds me of all my freinds i made...no color or race...just good music and kids having fun....
Exactly, that was when community was family and life was safer :)
You rite, music breaks through ANY RACE WALL'S. GOD BLESS.
@Darrel WP thats my point ...no need to inform me nothing....
This was such a nice post by Mr Doge, why people coming under here with intense comments? Lets just dance. LOL Get it Frankie! and the cute Little kids :)
Thank you for this comment....I remember being poor and yet I lacked nothing...just have fun and help the needy. Community at its best
Turning 50 next yr & NEVER knew what this Brother looked like, thanks to growing up in the South. 🤷🏾♂ (RIP)
Gracias dios por haber vivido esta época en mi adolecencia ,feliz me alimenta el alma escucharlo , y pensar que lo bailavamos con tantas ganas , ya soy bis abuelo pero lo escucho y mis piernas vuelven a esa epoca la música rejuvenece te trae recuerdos y te activa, la vida es hermosa no importa ña edad❤
I grew up with this song. I still love listening to it as a middle aged man today😊