Got to see him in person about 14 years ago at Barrow Civic Theater in Franklin PA and he was kinda crazy cool yet, did sea cruise of course & man he had the whole theater rockin', had him autograph my sea cruise 45, it was great time!
Blessed to have grown up in the 1950s in San Diegp where my dad worked, my mom stayed at home & took care of me and my three brothers. I thank Jesus everyday for what He gave me & my family. Mom was a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts & was in the PTA. Played Little League, Pony League etc. Lived in a canyon which was a great big back yard behind our fence. Played in the street with neighbor kids. And music was still clean, fun and or romantic. No foul disgusting language music until later. Didnt worry about stranger danger. Blessed times!!!
@@williamdwyer5439 Ditto? After a performance like that the best you can come up with is ditto? However I guess it's better than anything I came up with so I second your ditto.
I love this song!! I have since I was little. It's a lot of fun to sing along with. My dad and I would sing with it in the truck going down road while everyone else was listening to the hits of the 80s, we were rocking this one!
Just bought a 50’s Ampex 601. All Tube, nothing digital about that thing. Far cry from my 16 track machines, but definitely going to have this sound… So… let’s see if we can bring rock with the “roll” part back lol
Right up there with the best of the era. Love the tune, the beat, the arrangement and Frankie Ford's great singing. Have always loved it and always will!
R.I.P. Frankie, you were one of my favorites when i first listen to this song on AM radio back in 1960 as a 3yo boy and remember singing with my mom n dad when they were driving one of those early 1950's chevy cars.
So I've just come back home from a drunken night out and at one point we started playing rock and roll. I told my friends, "I will now play you the greatest rock and roll song you have never heard" and afterwards the cool ones agreed with me. This song is probably the most underappreciated rock and roll song of its time.
Sure it's s bit kitschy, but I like watching this. I watched American Bandstand faithfully every Saturday for many years, it was a 'must see' for me and my friends!! I love these old songs and I love watching these old Bandstand clips.
What a joke...I used to watch it every afternoon. Forget after school activities or religious instruction...hey, Ameriican Bandstand WAS a religious obligation back then. And Saturday early eve it was the beechnut show from the little theater on Broadway. Anyone remember the appearance by Jerry Lee?
OMG I was born in 1959 and grew up in a country with no t.v....but I know this song :)...the power of music and radio eh. Thanks to my Mum and Dad for loving music and dancing and passing that love on . The music 1950s to 1980s were the best!!
I met Frankie Ford in New Orleans 2005.we chatted and drank all night.I was drinking Hand Grenade's.Think the bar was called the Tropical.I bought Sea Cruise in my local record store, Newcastle England.RIP,it was great to have met you..Victor Clarence Parker.UK.
This was a smash hit that I liked so much, I bought the 45 the same week I heard it. In addition, I had the thrill of sitting right beside Frankie as he played the piano and sang this in a New Orleans night club! I shudder to think how long ago that was, I am 78 now. Maybe 50 years ago after my 4 years in the Service.
Just got thos earworm in my head today, and I'm not sure why it popped in my head, but such a great song. Well before my time, but still one of my favorites when I was a younger man.
What a fantastic energy !!! This song still sounds amazing many years later after it's release. People still love it !! What an explosive Era. IT's amazing that Frankie was right there with his fantastic contributions to the era !! Frankie had a feel like no other artist. This song still sounds great at my live gigs. (pre Covid) .. and it works well on the Cruise Ship gigs as well. My Students love to learn and play this song. If you need it transposed into a different key to make it easier to sing, i can help you with that as well. Gotta Love the Classics. ;-)
This is favorite of mine. He appeared, if memory serves, on Midnight Special when Jerry Lee Lewis hosted about 1972. He could still nail the song and still could dance.
I was just 13 years old when this song came out. I just love it. Here we are in 2021 and I still love it. Yea for the 50's my era for music. R I P FRANKIE FORD you will always be in my heart ❤. Such a powerful singer.
I was 10 when this came out and I loved it so much!! What brought me here was a Peter Noone concert yesterday, where he did all his hits with Herman's Hermits and also did many covers, this being one of them! Wow, I was that little 10 year old girl again!
My dad (born in 1940) worked his first job as an usher at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. I get emotional whenever I go there to see a concert nowadays...which isn't often enough since I live out of state. Thanks for your comment, brings up some good memories for me.
This is the 1st song I ever heard! My mom would play this when we were kids on a White Mickey Mouse phonograph while cleaning the house. Before my dad came home from work.
Great oldie, and Mr. Clark was one helluva good host whatever the occasion. As a former dj for several stations, I might be biased, but I think his background in radio is responsible for his glib and quick wit.
Hats off to Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns for providing the backing track and Vincent Francis Guzzo, Jr for overdubbing the unique vocal! OOO-weee!!!
Old Man Rhythm is-a in my shoes It's no use sittin' here singin' the blues So Gbe my guest, you've got nothin' to lose Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise? Chorus: Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise? Bridge: I Ffeel like jumpin'; baby, won't you join me, Cplease? I Fdon't like beggin', but now I'm on my bended Gknees Verse 2: I gotta keep movin', honey, I ain't lyin' My heart is beatin' rhythm and it's right on time So be my guest, you've got nothin' to lose Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise? [Chorus:] [Bridge:] Verse 3: I gotta keep a-rockin', get my hat off the rack I gotta boogie-woogie like a knife's in my back So be my guest, you've got nothin' to lose Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise? (chorus, then repeat its last line and fade)
They were hi-tech for the time. Some custom built knobs and vacuum tubes. The kind of thing hi-tech equipment tries to replicate. I’m pretty sure this is almost 30 years after one microphone in a room days.
Scott Beck U got that right. Todays music most of it u csn't understa d what they r sing m when u can it is about killing or something bad. I brought all my children up on the music of our time not the crap of today.
Even though I'm not from 1959 I was 4 years old at the time this song came out. But I remember there's times they'd play this song on the radio over the years. About 15 minutes ago I got through watching 1 of Dave Sundstrom's videos on 1 of his channels here on Y-Tube. He did a story on 1 of the actresses that appeared on the Love Boat. The actress was Jill Whelan who played the captain's daughter on the ship. This was a great performance on Bandstand. The show Love Boat reminds of this song after all the song "Sea Cruise " also talks about love.
Demais barbaridade, um classico, que embora tenha sido gravados por muitos, poucos conhecem; Uma performance de tirar de chacoalhar as ideias. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
Originally sung by Huey "Piano" Smith,who'd have been 90 today,Jan.26 (he died Feb.13,2023),"Sea Cruise" is an underrated 50's hit. Ford capitalized on the era's racism to score the much bigger hit than Smith.RIP,Frankie,you were good !!!!!!!!
Smith had a couple of hits with "Don't You Just Know It" and "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu." I remember reading somewhere that they got Frankie in to sing the lyrics because no one could understand them when Huey sang.
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LOVE this toe-tapper, Frankie's voice and those saxophones!
I just realized remember him being back in time travel into my house my brother's house Oro valley place in Tucson Arizona AZ feel it in side effects
When you listen to this treasure, it gets stuck in your head for 6 months!
Got to see him in person about 14 years ago at Barrow Civic Theater in Franklin PA and he was kinda crazy cool yet, did sea cruise of course & man he had the whole theater rockin', had him autograph my sea cruise 45, it was great time!
It must have been such a good time to grow up with music like this in the 50s. One of the greatest Rock and Roll songs ever! ❤
You got that right!!
Indeed it was and can still get your body moving, no mattter how old it might be! Personally. I doubt the music back then will never die.
Hehehe, rock n roll
Certainly somewhere in the top three million.
It was
Blessed to have grown up in the 1950s in San Diegp where my dad worked, my mom stayed at home & took care of me and my three brothers. I thank Jesus everyday for what He gave me & my family. Mom was a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts & was in the PTA. Played Little League, Pony League etc. Lived in a canyon which was a great big back yard behind our fence. Played in the street with neighbor kids. And music was still clean, fun and or romantic. No foul disgusting language music until later. Didnt worry about stranger danger.
Blessed times!!!
Stranger danger is just bullshit,. It is something the gov;t uses to keep us apart and scared of everything, so they can keep robbing us.
Sea cruise one I played over and over on jukebox just loved the beat
One of the BEST RocknRoll songs ever! RIP Frankie & thank you!
Ditto!
@@williamdwyer5439 Ditto? After a performance like that the best you can come up with is ditto? However I guess it's better than anything I came up with so I second your ditto.
Well, when I was born, his wife gave me a little birth thing because my dad worked for him
Thank Huey "Piano" Smith
I wholeheartedly agree!
I knew Frankie from New Orleans and he was a great guy to know....RIP Frankie.
Aww. 🙏😔🌌Hey Soo sorry for your loss. So happy you knew this talented fellow!.... I used to sing this song with a A RnB band..
Its a really FUN tune!!
@@alexandraseelye3735 hellow you still sing. I want group music group..
Rip Frankie...
What a soulful performance...
This song is a classic and you know I'm not lying not even being born yet when it came out!
I love this song!! I have since I was little. It's a lot of fun to sing along with. My dad and I would sing with it in the truck going down road while everyone else was listening to the hits of the 80s, we were rocking this one!
One of the best feel-good songs of all times
So lucky to be born in the 50s, best generation for music.
Dead right Jimmy, perfect raw talent. Bring this type back please before I die.
Just bought a 50’s Ampex 601. All Tube, nothing digital about that thing. Far cry from my 16 track machines, but definitely going to have this sound… So… let’s see if we can bring rock with the “roll” part back lol
Right up there with the best of the era. Love the tune, the beat, the arrangement and Frankie Ford's great singing. Have always loved it and always will!
R.I.P. Frankie, you were one of my favorites when i first listen to this song on AM radio back in 1960 as a 3yo boy and remember singing with my mom n dad when they were driving one of those early 1950's chevy cars.
I hope, that this music will never die!!
Don't worry, legendary music like this will never die.
Unlike all of us, rock n roll will never die!
if us oldies have brought our chidren up correctly they will bring theres up correctly and listen to real music
It won't
It will last longer than the city it is from.
dam, just like being in high school again. brings back so many memories. one of my favorites. great job and song
So I've just come back home from a drunken night out and at one point we started playing rock and roll. I told my friends, "I will now play you the greatest rock and roll song you have never heard" and afterwards the cool ones agreed with me.
This song is probably the most underappreciated rock and roll song of its time.
Sure it's s bit kitschy, but I like watching this. I watched American Bandstand faithfully every Saturday for many years, it was a 'must see' for me and my friends!! I love these old songs and I love watching these old Bandstand clips.
@ haha
Wasn't this Dick Clark's Saturday night show?
What a joke...I used to watch it every afternoon. Forget after school activities or religious instruction...hey, Ameriican Bandstand WAS a religious obligation back then. And Saturday early eve it was the beechnut show from the little theater on Broadway. Anyone remember the appearance by Jerry Lee?
@@nadyarossi5102 Yes.
It was all the way to at least 1980...everyone went home to watch it.
Take me back to the 50's just once.
Been there! It was Cool.
Only for the music. The rest of it sucked.
would love to go...
D'Ascoyne I GUESS YOU NEVER DROVE A 1958 PONTIAC STARCHIEF WITH THE WINDOWS DOWN.
Dork city the real shit went down in the late 60s
I'm ready to go on a week-long sea cruise! after listening to this classic!
This was the era when Music was Music.? R.I.P. Alan Freed you were right " ROCK N ROLL,? WILL NEVER DIE.?"
Hey hey, my my
Go Frankie! Great song.! Sung that song to a lot teen age girls still sing it to my wife of 42 years!
congrats robert gl
My father knew him u-u
Just an all-time Classic hit single from Frankie Ford With his big of 1959 with Sea Cruise as it came out around 1959
OMG I was born in 1959 and grew up in a country with no t.v....but I know this song :)...the power of music and radio eh. Thanks to my Mum and Dad for loving music and dancing and passing that love on . The music 1950s to 1980s were the best!!
Hell of a singing voice. Thanks for the memories, Frankie!
jackattack20000 tand thank you mozart lookin man
@@feelinqfren9521 Hahaha 😍
I met Frankie Ford in New Orleans 2005.we chatted and drank all night.I was drinking Hand Grenade's.Think the bar was called the Tropical.I bought Sea Cruise in my local record store, Newcastle England.RIP,it was great to have met you..Victor Clarence Parker.UK.
This was before computers altered voices and he actually sang good
This song takes me back to a better more innocent time that I didn't even exist in yet!
RIP Frankie Ford, thanks for the great songs and entertainment. This, and the Twelve Drinks of Christmas are my two favorites that he did.
This was a smash hit that I liked so much, I bought the 45 the same week I heard it. In addition, I had the thrill of sitting right beside Frankie as he played the piano and sang this in a New Orleans night club! I shudder to think how long ago that was, I am 78 now. Maybe 50 years ago after my 4 years in the Service.
Love,this one very much ! Listen,to it quite often !! RIP Frankie !
R.I.P Frankie. Take this sea cruise and finally rest in peace
A rock and roll classic you want to listen to on a regular basis
One of the GREATEST RocknRoll songs ever! RIP Frankie & thank you! #TheDodger
still gets me dancing!
Auch nach dem lange Jahren immer wieder super !!!
Lovely song and wonderful musical performance
60 years later, as good as ever!
Just got thos earworm in my head today, and I'm not sure why it popped in my head, but such a great song. Well before my time, but still one of my favorites when I was a younger man.
I saw this on mom's B&W TV when it premiered on AB
What a fantastic energy !!! This song still sounds amazing many years later after it's release. People still love it !! What an explosive Era. IT's amazing that Frankie was right there with his fantastic contributions to the era !! Frankie had a feel like no other artist. This song still sounds great at my live gigs. (pre Covid) .. and it works well on the Cruise Ship gigs as well. My Students love to learn and play this song. If you need it transposed into a different key to make it easier to sing, i can help you with that as well. Gotta Love the Classics. ;-)
Our vintage video pick of the week for 11/25/2014 here at Rock-it Radio ! Thank you again for all the great videos you post here on UA-cam!
Proper music. Thank you to the person who introduced me to it
I DID NOT KNOW AT ALL THIS! I LOVE IT, INCLUDING THE SCENOGRAPHY.
RIP FRANKIE... I GREW UP WITH THIS SONG
i remember this from 59 great song frankie brings back great memories
Ahhh...vocal talent! What pipes at such a young age!
RIP Frankie! You were one of the true pioneers of Rock 'n' Roll!
Good music is always good, never disappointing you in any way...!
I Had to perform a song from this era for my great grandparents 50th anniversary, when I was like 10 years old. I picked this song
"I GOTA' GET TA ROCKIN' GET MY HAT OFF THE RACK". 50's classic at it's best. You had to be there!
This is favorite of mine. He appeared, if memory serves, on Midnight Special when Jerry Lee Lewis hosted about 1972. He could still nail the song and still could dance.
I was just 13 years old when this song came out. I just love it. Here we are in 2021 and I still love it. Yea for the 50's my era for music. R I P FRANKIE FORD you will always be in my heart ❤. Such a powerful singer.
aaahhh..the best music..i grew up on it!!
Love this song when I was a teenager in the late 50 and early 60s
sharon i'm with you, nothing better than this music
I was 10 when this came out and I loved it so much!! What brought me here was a Peter Noone concert yesterday, where he did all his hits with Herman's Hermits and also did many covers, this being one of them! Wow, I was that little 10 year old girl again!
Seen Frankie Ford live at the FOX THEATER, the FOX in ATLANTA. VERY enjoyable show. FATS DOMINO was there ALSO.
My dad (born in 1940) worked his first job as an usher at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. I get emotional whenever I go there to see a concert nowadays...which isn't often enough since I live out of state.
Thanks for your comment, brings up some good memories for me.
There were only a few rock songs of that era that still stand up to this day great foot tapper
This is the 1st song I ever heard! My mom would play this when we were kids on a White Mickey Mouse phonograph while cleaning the house. Before my dad came home from work.
This song reminds me of the days with spent with you with the evening spent with you we 0
Great oldie, and Mr. Clark was one helluva good host whatever the occasion. As a former dj for several stations, I might be biased, but I think his background in radio is responsible for his glib and quick wit.
Your songs are so rare but I have it on my playlist I love ❤️ uncle Frankie
Frankie Ford hasn't changed.. Still Fantastic ... 1959... What a feel good song here...
Oooo Eeee
Early New Orleans Rock n Roll. :-)
Hats off to Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns for providing the backing track and Vincent Francis Guzzo, Jr for overdubbing the unique vocal! OOO-weee!!!
RIP...Thank you Frankie for the song. I fee like I am back in seventies, young and happy, when i listen to it.
Old Man Rhythm is-a in my shoes
It's no use sittin' here singin' the blues
So Gbe my guest, you've got nothin' to lose
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
Chorus:
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
Bridge:
I Ffeel like jumpin'; baby, won't you join me,
Cplease?
I Fdon't like beggin', but now I'm on my bended
Gknees
Verse 2:
I gotta keep movin', honey, I ain't lyin'
My heart is beatin' rhythm and it's right on time
So be my guest, you've got nothin' to lose
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
[Chorus:]
[Bridge:]
Verse 3:
I gotta keep a-rockin', get my hat off the rack
I gotta boogie-woogie like a knife's in my back
So be my guest, you've got nothin' to lose
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
(chorus, then repeat its last line and fade)
Thanks buddy
A classic one and a good, happy song...!
RIP Frankie, loved your work
Born in the 80s, i don't know where I heard this but it was in my head suddenly after adopting my old dog Hughie, oohhee baby!
Another one of New Orleans' finest!
This is from my time! Love it always
love it posting on my goldie oldies pages
Feet tapping 6th June 2019 still listening.
6/18/2020
So good to listen to great music.
George Vreeland Hill
Yeah I'm 13-17 and i hate the new music i like the old music
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan.
a rare youngster here that likes old music
same
+Edrick Vince Velicaria Same! From all over the world! We need to show our generations how to rock like it has to be
Edrick Vince Velicaria yeet
You ain't rare man but more of us have gotta listen to sonething other than trap music
looooove this... never knew the singer...just loooved this song!
NO high tech sound mixers......only raw talent.
They were hi-tech for the time. Some custom built knobs and vacuum tubes. The kind of thing hi-tech equipment tries to replicate. I’m pretty sure this is almost 30 years after one microphone in a room days.
Hot 100
Billboard US Charts. #89 for 1959
New Orleans proud...Frankie Ford. ⚜️🛳
R.I.P Great voices are so uncommon nowadays
Scott Beck U got that right. Todays music most of it u csn't understa d what they r sing m when u can it is about killing or something bad. I brought all my children up on the music of our time not the crap of today.
@@feelinqfren9521 no ass holes like you
I remember seeing this Show,
Real "Be-Bop".💯
RIP Frankie Ford, Mr. sea cruiser....
R.I.P. Love your music
Great find from the archive!
Back when I was a little kid & first listened to this song, I thought the bell & horn sounds at the beginning was a train.
You aren't alone!
I love all your video's thanks for posting them and keep em' coming they take me back and you gotta love Dick Clark..
1959 BEST YEAR FOR MUSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even though I'm not from 1959 I was 4 years old at the time this song came out. But I remember there's times they'd play this song on the radio over the years. About 15 minutes ago I got through watching 1 of Dave Sundstrom's videos on 1 of his channels here on Y-Tube. He did a story on 1 of the actresses that appeared on the Love Boat. The actress was Jill Whelan who played the captain's daughter on the ship. This was a great performance on Bandstand. The show Love Boat reminds of this song after all the song "Sea Cruise " also talks about love.
this music was great then but it is better now and just gets better with time
Love that hairstyle Dick Clark has here. Wishing it was back in fashion today.
Pretty sure it is
I grew up on this song this is a good song and this video is wild
Still listening great old school music ⛵ 🚢
Demais barbaridade, um classico, que embora tenha sido gravados por muitos, poucos conhecem; Uma performance de tirar de chacoalhar as ideias. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
Frankie Ford was BAD ASS
one of the best dancing songs of all time, bounce and rythmn,,,frankie borrowed rythmn and blues wonderfully
Originally sung by Huey "Piano" Smith,who'd have been 90 today,Jan.26 (he died Feb.13,2023),"Sea Cruise" is an underrated 50's hit. Ford capitalized on the era's racism to score the much bigger hit than Smith.RIP,Frankie,you were good !!!!!!!!
Smith had a couple of hits with "Don't You Just Know It" and "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu." I remember reading somewhere that they got Frankie in to sing the lyrics because no one could understand them when Huey sang.
WOW...never saw this before...thanks for preserving all these amazing clips
This guy's nuts! I love it. You should see him in "American Hot Wax."
You grandparents (including mine) would remember this song.
Immer noch KLASSE!
He did pretty well out of just this one top 20 hits, the few others he made were not very good or successful but it kept him going for over 50 years
A true original. RIP Frankie. Great person, talent from God..
this is a cool old song ...I love the oldies