American Bandstand 1968 - Surf City, Jan & Dean
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- It's the summer of '68, as we go back to the 11th anniversary show and the kids dance to Jan & Dean’s #1 hit. Brian Wilson, of The Beach Boys, wrote the opening verse and chorus of the song in ’63 and believing he would never finish it due to being busy working on “Surfin’ USA”, gave the song to his friends Jan & Dean who then completed it. “Surf City” was the first surf song to become a #1 hit.
Dancers: As we approach the end of season 11, there are a lot of new faces here. Bandstand staples Frank Vanderpuil, Famous Hooks and Don Sanuskar can all be seen between 2:02-2:07 and Eddie Sanchez (‘68 Dance Contest) at 2:34. Mid 1968 is an interesting year for fashion. The girls’ skirts are getting shorter and the boys clothes are somewhere between the buttoned-down look of ’67 and the groovier, “mod” look of ’69.
The final picture at the end of the song is, as Dick mentions, John Zacherle. Dick nicknamed him “the cool ghoul” when they worked together in Philadelphia. John recorded a top 10 novelty record, “Dinner with Drac” (#7) in 1958. He was also well known in New York and Philadelphia as a TV horror host, broadcasting horror movies as his ghoulish character “Roland”. He went on to host a teen dance show, also in character as Roland, in Newark, called “Disc-O-Teen” from ‘64-’67.
The jingle in the “Summer Blonde” commercial is based on the Van Dyke Parks song “Come To The Sunshine” made (kinda) famous by Harper’s Bizarre in 1967. (#37)
…..And while the “Surf City” mentioned in the song is a mythical place with “2 girls for every boy”, there are 2 California cities that claimed to be the real “Surf City”, Santa Cruz and Huntington Beach. In 1991 Dean Torrence moved to Huntington Beach and said that was the city he and Jan were thinking about when they wrote the song. After a long legal dispute, settled finally in 2008, Huntington Beach retained the rights to legally be called “Surf City, USA”.
Airdate: August 17, 1968
How is it possible 50 years have passed? We were just kids.
You Could Leave A Job In The Morning & Have A New One By The Afternoon!
And then we had to pick up a rifle and kill the enemy in a faraway jungle!
One.eyed.Jax: 😬😪😲 Yep.
The reason is simple dear friend: the 60s were the most beautiful musical decade of the century. Greetings. ua-cam.com/video/eavkz78hWL8/v-deo.html *SHAZAM 1960* Twangy Guitar cover by *Duane Eddy*
There's something happening here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?
- Buffalo Springfield, For What It’s Worth, 1966
Loved growing up in the First Surfer generation, early 60's long boards Southern Calif Surfing, Miss those days but love the memories and then watched my son surf Cool just Cool.
I was a little younger 13 yrs in 1968. I started listening to America Bandstand around 1965. I loved surf music so much....I always wanted to surf. No surf in the Hills of Charleston West Virginia.
Boomers had the best music AND coolest cars.
From 1963,thru 1969,I lived at Grandmas house in Huntington Beach,Ca.[Surf City] 4 blocks from the pier,and old time home town roots. My parents grew up there. I got to help unloadstation wagons,string guitars,and connect amps for bands at the Golden Bear. That was where I learned my trade.
7 years old, Beach Boys and Jan and Dean were a big part of my life, lived in Redondo Beach and my cousin was a surfin dude.... different times
Omg I was 8 yrs old in Redondo lol! Wow its a little world ✌
PMWhoKnows yeah from Redondo Beach as well class of 74 love The Beach Boys Was in junior lifeguards learned to surf on our free time, went for the first time to one of their concerts it was their 50 anniversary tour great memories
Wow a real America as it should be again. Fun Fun Fun ...💋🚗⛱🌊🏄🏻
I was 14 years-young and a freshman in high school back in '63. Man, talk about great times when every song on the radio WAS your favorite!
Same here only was a sophomore. Did not appreciate the time like I do now. The music the girls the cars. Never be another time like that ever. Plus no hate.
While you were out Surfin USA and Rockin Around the Clock, My brother and I had to work in that stinkin yard and dig up another tomorrow.
I am going to enjoy free speech while it still lasts.
I was fifteen in the Summer of 1963 and had some awesome beach trips while with the Boy Scouts.
Oscar Robinson I was just 13 yrs old in 1963, too. I can remember my best friend & I taking our transistor radios & walking to a nearby picnic table @ the empty Italian club, to listen to our favorite songs! Such Innocent, fun times!
I was born June 10, 1963, and of course I wouldn't remember it firsthand, but this music is FAR preferable to anything today. This may have even been on the charts the week i was born. I know that "Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto was #1 on the day I was born.
My last summer as a kid, before I started my senior year and then the military. Great memories and greater music.
Totally Awesome!!!!
Have just discovered your channel and I like it a lot. I focus mostly on girls fashion. Great memories.
is the chick in the back with long brown hair bored? nice pic of john zacherele
Seeing that this is a video of Jan and Dean, it would be nice to see pictures of them. Thank you.
Jan & Dean's greatest hit
Hard to believe watching this a month earlier RFK was assassinated and 3 months earlier MLK Jr. while the war in Vietnam rages on...
I miss these days, when we took pride in our appearance and manners , but we spent hours on our hair (I used the Summer Blonde in the ad), lol. Respect was a big thing - for others and ourselves.
Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??
Aww the 60s
YouCanDanceToit. Ciao Amico Mio. This kind of helps track my where abouts lon ago. Well I remember this episode pretty well. I was 22 years old and in The Police Academy. I watched this episode at the Apartment my Cousin and I shared. Well in mid October The Class graduated and I became a full fledge full time Police Officer. And spent 36 years on The Force. Have a great Morning.
Surf City in NJ , a great beach town!!!
Part of why I live in Surf City now.
I just went to Surf City.
This American Bandstand moment is brought to you by the creators of the exciting natural look in beauty---Clairol, makers of Summer Blonde Hair Brightener---"Say The Sun Did It"!
I thought you’d like that Angelique Collins 😉
lol..i was thinking about it all evening😀
Angelique Collins you're the official aficionado of broadcast television commercials! ~~ Don
lol..well, thank you Don!..there are two gentlemen who are aficionados of sponsor tags/television shows and one of them has started the interest in sponsor tags/tv shows in me a few years ago..One can say that they are the professors and i'm a willing student and I take plenty of notes, as you can see :)
Hi i remember seeing you on Nancy and Lee video hope you doing well lol ☺
Greatest thing about American Bandstand was its diversity.
Oh they didn't give a damm about race
good times '''
most of these people now own most of the world lol
All grannies and grandads now.😂 I'm one.
Saw them at the Rose Bowl in he 80s.
regards from cornerstone.
The dancers are in there late 60s early 70s.
Yes we are will be 71 in a few months. But still think like I did back in the day. Age is only a number.
You got that right, Ron ! Surf's up !!
Joe Fagan Those dancers sure are low energy.
yeah, proves we were all young once. in a way it seems like yesterday, and in another it seems like another lifetime. those girls were wearing emeraude perfume. stuff drove me crazy!
I was 9 years old in 1968.
Now we know how the city of Huntington Beach, California got its trademark nickname.
Now what man wouldn’t want to be in a city where there are “two swinging honeys for every guy” when all you have to do is “just wink your eye”?
now we wish the sun didnt do it with all these tanning spots and wrinkles haha
Anyone know the blond girl dancing on the platform at 1:15?
plain ppl..no tatoos..purple hair..black makeup n nails..spiked hair..just kids havin fun
The one with the long hair they did the close up on looks high.....
October 17th'2020
Yall were the absolute coolest! I would've fu&ked the suit off of Jan or Dean. Let's see that woodie break down near me..
SLEEVELESS DRESSES, LONG STRAIGHT HAIR, KITTEN 👠 HEELS. SUN IN FOR HAIR. NO TATTOOS. WONDERFUL TIMES. SO GLAD I REMEMBER.
Back when a woody was a '34 wagon.
Well, Jan & Dean are singing a '30 Ford wagon,
What the hell is a woody now?
Gerri Petress really 🤔😂
lol I get it
@@gerripetress8168 Pecker wood
I was 14 in 1968 and never missed Bandstand...so glad I grew up in this era. The music was insanely great.
Steve Im a year younger than you. I started watching American Bandstand when I was 10 years old back in 1965. I'd watch the replays today if it was on TV.
this was my main source for music when i was a kid
"It had a beat and you could dance to it."
Someone invent a time machine. I want to go back !!
KaptKan1 I'm talking in general Kapt . Are you former military?
Korea, Vietnam, Social Justice violence and then worst of all.. DISCO in the 70s !
Can you take me with you in that Time Machine ?
@@andreepeterpasche1895 Sure, just hop on this train. I would love just to be able to dart in and out of certain situations. Like seeing the Beatles in person, turn left when you should have turned right, etc. We can only dream about it !
Yes count me in too!!
I still listen to The Beach Boys!
It’s not The Beach Boys, but it was written by Brian
Lol
@@Divine.777 co written by Jan Berry
this song is
connie why you dont come back home
brian wilson of the beach boys
Jan & Dean belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their hits, the fact that they were one of the very first ones to create that "California Surf Sound", their fans that are around today, that movie and more are just a few of the reasons why. Come on Hall, get it right.
It is very Surreal seeing the kids from 1968 American Bandstand dancing to a big surfing tune from 1963. The teenagers are a snapshot of late 60s pop culture with the mini skirts, Nehru jacket and down steps, dancing to a tune from half a decade earlier during the Camelot era, Bouffant hair styles and dance craze is like the twist and mashed potatoe.
shyphyre People who weren't there mix it all up. I know what you mean. Nothing could be further from 1968 than bouffant hair and Jan & Dean( even though I lived through tose times... By "65 my hair was long and straight (ala' Cher's limited influence.) The Doors, Dylan, The Band, Jimi Hensrix, etc, ruled. Groups like Led Zeppelin were just waiting in the wings.. No bouffant hair.
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like The hippies had established themselves for a good 3 years prior.. at least on the coastlines of America.
We "boomers" had the greatest songs that have survived the tests of time !
Robert Hobbs I had this on 8 track back in the day! Really miss when times seemed more normal to me
Those were awesome times. Americans were normal and families were strong. American made was number 1.
INDEED !!
Robert Hobbs We were truly the “Beautiful Generation “
i was heartbroken when I realized that all those songs on Bandstand were lipsynched. It was never the same after that...
Man those were the days I miss wish I was still a kid back then
ilostmymind47 It was a great time! It honestly was
Yes … I want to go back!!
OMG !!! ... back when ALL the girls were skinny !!!
Much different than the lard asses we have today. If you mention that they look like shit you are automatically labeled a hater.
Robert Walters so we’re the boys ties.
YouCanDanceToit - You never case to amaze me! OMG - Jan & Dean are the ultimate in Southern California Cool. You rule, baby. And all those 1960s girls are the "maximum utmost" in feminine scrumpiousness! Thank you for bring it all back home!!
All gorgeous and classy people and no nasty tattoos
Andrea dromm , model in ad, beach
@@onazram1 Tattoos are disgusting.
The same old cliche comment from the same Sour Old Goats in the comments. Go to any UA-cam comment section under any vintage dance or singing video, and you'll find the old fogies repeating this same old chestnut. My theory is these bitter old timers (and I'm of that era, too) stopped enjoying the talent of pop culture once their own youth faded away forever. In thirty years, sour old goats like you will be saying the same thing about the current crop of talent. Might even be pining for the days of Justin Beiber. Somethings just never change.
Wow! The USA was a different nation then! Look at all those slim, pretty or handsome, un-tattooed people........
The girls were really pretty then too.
bboucharde lol
GMO has nothing to do with weight issues. Neither do Tattoos.
EricJohn what's GMO
Bikesale, You mean GTO. I think you were being funny. I think you actually know what GMOs are. ;-)
People danced better. The music was better and there was only a hand full of things to do. Eat, bowl, read, drive, drive in movies, TV, school. That's it, folks
Damn Hot Chick I think better dancing is a stretch but everything else is correct 😂
That kept everything special
No fat people
People used to hang with friends for hours, sometimes all night long. Maybe that's happening less now, who knows. But the distractions weren't much. I remember smoking dope in the car with people and simply cruising around.
That's everything I liked doing and had a blast doing...
Surf City written by Brian Wilson. He gave it to Jan and Dean to record. His Manager Dad was not happy about it.
KevieO yep! Good ol’ Murry Wilson was none too pleased Brian gave away a #1 hit. He likely made his feelings known with his fists.
Yes he probably did. Sad.
Brian had just started the song and handed it off to Jan to finish. Brian doubled the falsetto parts with Dean; the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean frequently sang uncredited on each others' songs. They didn't give a damn about the legalities.
uh, i always thought i heard Brian in there!.. Brian was/is superkool!
not a kind man and sold Brian and the boys rights for peanuts. he was only self interested.
Maybe it is because I was 18 years old at the time, but does anyone else wonder how many of these guys went to Vietnam maybe not to return?
Just go to Washington DC and look at the Vietnam memorial wall
Everytime I watch the videos, Vietnam floods into my brain.
cmroszczyk1 I visited the wall, about 30 years ago. it was extremely silent! I was speechless at how long it was, and how many names. It’s just sad, plain sad
@@rpm12091 Glad you made it home:) My dad did 2 tours over there.
@@SladesVWBeetle Johnson cashed in big time with Bell Helicopter stock.
At this date, Jan was still in the early stages of his recovery from a terrible automobile crash that left him with brain damage--aphasia. He was intellectually intact but his communication channels were scrambled. He had to learn to talk again and ironically could sing better than he could talk. Jan was a driven, type A--a much harder charger than the easy going but still extremely talented Dean. They clashed but always worked it out. Dean was by his side in the hospital in the many months after the accident.
Jan was single-minded and with his talent literally willed his way to recovery and painstakingly make new records--splicing good stretches of a song together to make it whole.
Jan and Dean would not perform again until nearly 10 years after this broadcast. Brian was in recovery from drug abuse and schizophrenia at the same time and later remarked "We got better together..." The Beach Boys invited Jan and Dean on an extended national tour in 1978. It was something very special.
Artemis Gordon Recently listened to “Carnival of Sound” produced by Jan in 1968-69, while he was still regaining his footing after that awful 1966 car accident, and released in 2010. While he nor Dean did do vocals on it, the first 4 songs or so show his production skills were still intact.
ua-cam.com/video/kHuyCcTMo6U/v-deo.html
Probably the last song Jan and Dean sang together on. Good song!
1970 I met Jsn while in Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey, California
Thanks for the cool history I knew some of it but not all
Artemis Gordon. I knew his parents . Soon after his accident his parents house burned down 😟
Still a good dance beat for the kids to dance to in '68.
@sleepypie This was filmed in 1968. Dick was playing "Surf City" as a "flashback" to 1963.
I so loved Jan & Dean(still do). Do you remember the “Tammi” show they hosted? I so loved that “movie”... saw it at the Paramount Theatre in Spfld., Massachusetts. Loved their music... “fun times!”
The Tami show was hot.
I was jumping up and down when I found the DVD for the show
rochelle Crump-mcnulty “OH GOSH!” “ HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE ACTUALLY “FOUND” THAT 📀 DVD, ROCHELLE! I would be jumping up & down for joy, too, to have found it! Loved it so much!❤️
@@karenstrycharz1499 Just in case, The Tami Show is available on Amazon for $9.99.
Good luck 😎😎😎
Jan and Dean put Huntington Beach on the map, with their song Surf City.
Magnificent Masterpiece, great music & great memories of life forever, the girls sure were beautiful
How times have changed, not much for the better, give me these times anyday.
I was referring to the music scene and fashions that many throw up, however the States never had the same as the uk did, could list you many different ones and the music that each followed however i will let you check it for yourself.
indy 56
I agree. Before DRUGS became prevalent, AND "cool" to some.
Please feel free to go.
We always think those times are better because we were kids. I’m sure our parents thought the same thing about the 40’s and thought the 60’s sucked
`63 was the best year of the 60's. The innocence was still there. I was Sophmore at Long Beach State, in So. Cal. We surfed Huntington Beach, Newport, Doughney, and Tressels south of Capistrano. Few of us knew where Viet Nam was. Coor's was the drug of choice. If you copped a feel on a date you were a stud. The music had happy lyrics with nice melodies and a simple beat. "She's real fine, my 409." No Brit's, yet. We thought it odd, the pale, Philly kids dancing to surf tunes. Kenndy was shot that November and it all started to change. It took 20 years for America to feel good again.
Lol!! I was in the 8th grade at St Joseph School on Willow/Palo Verde. I recall the JFK death as our Irish nuns allowed the live TV broadcast in class that day. Later, 1969-71, I befriended Dean Torrance who sang with the BB.
No Coors east of the Mississippi at the time!
1968 was fantastic! I was 16 and enjoying all it had to offer. The good days far outweighed the bad and things were so much simpler then. If you didn't live it ,you really missed something special. Even the girls seemed prettier then. What I would give to go back and live it again.
1 was 12 years old in 65 growing up in Huntington Beach and going to the Pier to body surf. Remember getting tar all over your feet back then. BTW Jim I also went to Cal State University Long Beach for both my BA and MA. The 49ners
HB and the Golden Bear 68
I grew up in nyc but man did i dig jan and dean and now im 71 and stil dig them !
Dick Clark was so darn smooth just great to hear.
Back then people showed RESPECT for one another. You felt fairly safe walking down the street in a big city. Music sounded like music not endless repetitive obscene worded drivel coming from a computer. Boys and girls did well in school, played musical instruments, helped their parents, walked or rode a bike for exercise. Times have changed guess I am just too old at age 70.
Tom Sayen as a. late 90s baby I concur
I was also a 14 yo Aussie boomer and we also had our own Bandstand wth Brian Henderson. There was hardly a bad song in 68. Our local radoo station had a request 2 hours every night. Great times and love watching these episodes with Dick Clarke.
I always loved the Beach Boys back then, but I thought Jan and Dean (cool name) were even cooler when they did their top hits, like this and most cool, I thought, was Drag City. It had such a high voice in the chorus. I found out more recently that it was Brian. He could go really high. Great tune anyway. Good times, dreaming about going west to surf.
Well- that 51 years zipped on by ! !
Priceless precious memories galore ! !
I was 4, but I’d take that compared to 2018, the music since 2000 sucks
Back then was waaaay better in everything
Paul Walnuts Im a 70s person, Even if I liked the music Im not gonna pay $200.00
For the most part Paul, but if you want to see some new and original 60's style music, please Google the MonaLisa Twins and/or go to their UA-cam Channel and website. You will thank me; trust me on that buddy! :-)
@@jamesogrady6612 He said 2000 sucks, not 2000 bucks... Or were you making a joke?
50-80s were the CLASSIC days for music
wow all these people are 70 plus now
neil delaney tell me about it!!
Very true mate, i'm 60 now and i really have no idea where the years from leaving school untill now have gone?
NOT all but close I'll be 66 next month... I was in 10th grade smile xoxo
Yep! I sure am. I will be 72 this year and still going strong.
This must be when young people took pride in their appearance!
Not all, remember there was the hippy movement and rebellion from the square parents this was for t.v. prim and proper propaganda
@@starshine9147 I'm guessing your in the USA, I'm thinking more of the U.K.
@@MrHolzheim Born in Canada
@@starshine9147 I wish I was!!! and not this weird country the UK has become.,
@@starshine9147 Well, it's a bit far fetched to say that everyone has moved out of London, but I think it's fair to say that London has it's fair share of terrorist cells, that appear to be fairly active. It does seem that everyone when caught is of asian persuasion. But the whole country has gone to the dogs. Every town or city seems to be blighted by a drug problem and rough sleepers. We have a namby pamby government that bows to each and every pressure group. This country also has the most surveillance cameras in the world for such a small island. Frankly, that's no bad thing considering that the crime level is very high, and the chances of getting caught are only slight. We also have quite a few judges whose minds are in the Victorian era, and no matter what anybody is sentenced to, they will be released after only serving half. I could go on, but I'm losing the will to live LOL
Surf City, Here We Come...Take me back, please...Thanks for posting ...
it aint got a back seat; or a rear window; but it still gets me where i wanna go !!
Young people actually cared about the way they looked, Now they walk around in their P.Js tattoos everywhere.
Buffy smith,don't forget the piercing and ear lobes stretched to the size of a coffee cup.
@@michaelgaynor6866 how bout these kids with the long hair and piece signs on everything and don't get me started on vw minibuses and that loud Jimi Hendrix and Joplin woman. bell bottoms and mood rings gotta go ! hehe
@@Impailer67 But that was the start of it. Hippies were considered dirty at the time and were largely middle class kids desperate to be edgy
clean and neat kids
Another Brian Wilson masterpiece!
Loved the sixties! I was already in the army in you know where, but I always the freedom and creativity of the sixties!This is Jan and Dean as I remember.
Same here
@GeneRogers,. Welcome Home Brother. My brother and I were in during Vietnam. We were both in the Navy. I was not over there. My brother however, went twice at his request! He was north of the DMZ in North Vietnam shelling shore batteries. He made it back, unfortunately, we lost him to cancer due to Agent Orange. I miss him greatly. ShipFitter 2nd Class David Hood, RIP. You'll always be First Class with me.
My brother was on the USS WADDELL DDG24 In Vietnam, and on the USS STEINAKER DD863 before that. I was on the USS BLANDY DD 943 & the USS VULCAN AR5 . Homeport Norfolk. The WADDELL DDG24 was out of Long Beach CA.
Got to see Jan and Dean at San Pedro Beach along with many other acts during summer 86. It was a fantastic weekend an I felt that I was living out a fantasy
Back in the day, boys took mandatory shop class. With the table saw running fast, it was a perfect lead in to “two girls for every boy.” Each time we belted it out, we got swats and didn’t run home to tell mommy and daddy! And then repeated it tomorrow!
A number-one hit written by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Jan Berry of Jan & Dean. Brian's father was absolutely ferrous. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_City_(song)
Yeah most of them especially the men who serv ed in the Nam, answered the call, what a time to come of age & the music was incredible, can't forget those short skirts.
despite what people are writing here there were overweight people back then, they didn't make it onto tv. just like poor people and ugly people and lets not even mention the poor. and yeah I clearly remember 68 and 63.
We were not perfect. Hippies, yippies, protesting Vietnam. Counterculture. But we ate healthier food, smaller portions, got exercise etc. Generations always find fault with each other.
This song takes me back to a summer night in 1963 and the travelling fairground at a Beeston park (no doubt built on now) in Leeds with Surf City blaring out of the loud-speakers, I was a 14 years old schoolboy and it was like a moth to a flame, a magical moment in time!
Uh Still after 50 yrs..still listen to this far Out music..My Generation Man!! On my I-pod
Has over 600 songs devoted to "Oldies" country. Classic rock, tunes from Woodstock..
I have it all Man!!✌️✌️🤣🤣🤣🆒
Mom & I would watch American Bandstand every Saturday morning while cleaning the house & we would be dancing through out the house!! I sure so miss those days!! Great music & us dancing!!!!
Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??
I'd say you were quite fortunate!
I too was 14 in 1968. I'm 68 now. This brings back a flood of memories from tha
These groovers are now grandparents!
That's a big assumption! Not if they didn't get married or had no children.
No, most of these people are middle class or upper middle class.
KaptKan1 Not great grandparents. People usually plan their family
@wavygr You must be from Texas!
@wavygrThey're Not very many people who say fixing to ;)
Hmmmm rap crap, or great music..? I'll take great music..!
I'll take great music too
The girls were hot. The boys were well dressed. Music was great, and from the 50’s to the early 70’s cars were cars.
Yes the early 70s were great, until I joined the United States Marine Corps.
My Gentle Pit Bull I joined the Air Force in ‘69.
@@richardlandis793 I served Okinawa Aug74-Sep75 at Camp Foster. Numerous times I would eat chow at Kadena AFB. Boy you Air Force guys had great chow compared to Marine Corps slop, called chow. Stay safe my friend during this crazy COVID19 virus, and greetings from Charleston, West Virginia.
@@richardlandis793 yes cars were cars. I had a 1967 Mustang 4 speed with a 289 Cubic Inch.
My Gentle Pit Bull My first new car was a ‘69 Camaro right off the showroom floor in a dealership where I was working in Ohio. After I got it, I stayed late that night with my manager who helped me install an 8 track tape player. My first tapes were CCR.
68 rocked.
From what I heard, 1968 was horrible like 2020
Brian Wilson's father Murray had a right to be pissed. Brian wrote a #1 song....for his buddies instead of the BBs.
@@yossarian6799 Murry Wilson was not the total "demon" people make him out to be. He was a very stern father of sons and they all wanted success. They needed him at the beginning...just like Joe Jackson was needed by The Jacksons in their early years. They were both the "bad cops" that were needed to get and stay on the right road to stardom. No teenager or young adult wants their dad to tell them what to do
As far as you being more handsome than Dennis Wilson...that can not be true. No one was more handsome than him...until he started using the serious drugs.
Nice show! I had pretty much every dress worn on this show. It was the style...a-line, big bell sleeves. It's '68, half the girls are wearing their hair straight. By 1970 no more puffy hair!
Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??
Imagine you're in your 70's watching this.
Spotting yourself in the crowd.
What that must feel like...
With my chick,I am on my way to to the beach in San Diego with my board
on the top of the car and this song comes on the radio-SO COOL.Never forget it.
Surf music wasn't in style in 1968 but was in 1963.
Brian Wilson's " other " summer of '63 classic. ---------I was 16 y/o, & it seems like yesterday-----------------------WolfSky9, 71 y/o
great footage. thank you !
I like that Skins helmet.
Yes remember Zacherley! He was really funny on NYC television showing horror movies on Saturday afternoons. Early 60s.
2 Girls for every boy and the Beach Boys all talking about sun, surf and girls is what got me to move to California. I'm still here and my kids were all born in Cali.
But it was Jan & Dean who did Surf City...
@@superdill6665 I meant that song and the Beach Boys. Thx for the corex.
@@johnallen2771 I kinda feel stupid for even mentioning it. I don't know why we, as humans, feel the need to correct others. I should have closed my big fat yapper in the first place lol. Please don't think I'm a **tch. There's too much negative energy out there and I shouldn't have added to it.
Blessings to you.
Huntington Beach’s official song!! Lol!!
Santa Cruz is trying to steal it.
Huntington Beach...surf capital of the country
I was a Junior in high school in 1963. To this day I get the songs of Jan and Dean mixed up with the Beach Boys.
Dwight Turner Jan and Dean wouldn't have had any songs without the beach boys
They were all friends ... and sometimes they sang on each other's song. And Brian sure set the sounds.
I born in Perú, in this yesr
Dick Clark is to kool. What style he had.
KaptKan1- Yea but Dick new that an still was a staple in the sound of American music, because he new what people love to here an see and that was the most important thing. He was square, but looking at him now, he is kooler than any of the kids that are at his bandstand. Its hard to be as kool as the great bands that were on the show. Hell, I only wish I was that kool at that time. But I was only in middle grade and high school.
KaptKan1- Didn't you know that concrete houses became a craze at one time. Steel and concrete an stucco and recycled store front glass, how easy an indestructible and any halfass carpenter an architect could be fooled into thinking this was a great idea. Concrete brakes an cracks when the earth moves from no rain to lots of rain. Same-thing going on today, megamansions built with concrete floors, hard on your legs, soft white pine from Canada that won't holed a nail or ruff up in 30yrs because the bugs love it and its soft if it gets wet they love more. Dream homes a bad marketing scheme because with that kind of money who in the hell wants to buy someone else dream, when they can built there own. It cost a fortune just to re-roof it, no middle or lower class family can afford it. The curse of being mega wealthy I guess, everyone trying to get a peace of you. Not bonkers just having fun while finding places to park your money to make more money.
I was only 1 year old in 68 but I sure would have loved to have been a young teenager during this eta.