I remember back when I was in my late twenties, I was a photographer. I was lucky to be there for the opening of grease. Little did I know that grease would one day be one of the most popular musicals of all time. I acutely got to meet Elton John and Frankie Valli in one night. That was truly the best night of my life.
very cool. a piece of disco Hollywood history. Access inside is quite freakin' awesome. thanks for sharing. I may have been 7 at the time, but I still wish for a time machine.
I wanna go back to 1960s Woodstock in NYC The Opening of Tower Records, and Studio 54! WHAT A BLAST FROM THE PAST! This is amazing I remember Grease I loved it when I was a kid! This is their cast party!
I am so glad you put this up ! I can get a glimpse at me slightly ! What a night ! Infact every night at s54 was amazing ! I can recall when some nights the club used to be deserted ! He let no one in hardly ! Oh the memories I still have my VIP drinks pass ! In a frame !
You could get a slight impression of how fun it was with this clip. It shows how different elements came together and for a moment made some great memories for themselves, letting go of differences arguably to do it.
Yes, this happened June 1978, at the absolute peak of disco and NYC nightlife. Most of the most prominent musics heard today such as hip hop, rap and house all originated in NYC during that crucial time late 70s early 80s when it was the center of the world.
GRACE was there often. One night we were arriving and she was leaving and she talked to us outside and i was like OK GRACE but I want to go in and dance so she came back in and danced!
Run time of 6:47 - 7:11 of this clip.. probably one of the coolest people on the planet... before she even knew it. I worked at Studio 54 from 1978-81.. She was one of my favorites
she destroyed her face with plastic surgery. WHY do these women do this . And it's not like she was once a "glamour gal" like Farrah. She was very cute back then. @@shinmalpure2397
Remarkable watching this, as I was there that June night at the absolute zenith of disco and NY nightlife. I'd completely forgotten about the car that was there inside, the one shown at 316 being pulled in. NYC, the center of the world without a doubt.
My older sisters were into the disco scene back then. I still like listening to funk n r&b.Started playing then later teaching guitar. I grew up in the 80s Metal scene. still taught all styles of music which I attributed to them!Thanks to my Sisters.Studio 54!!
I’ve watched this so many times on K and snow to teleport myself to these times and it’s amazing this and the Deca-Dance (1979) film are great I’ve been clean for months but this is such a beautiful snapshot of a hedonistic era
One night ( OK 4 am in the morning) LAUREN HUTTON asked me for a cigarette. I didnt smoke but told my friend she wanted one and he gave it to her and lit it. The music ended early that night but we went downtown to another club and stayed out til 10 am! Then off to the PLAZA HOTEL FOR the best EGGS BENEDICT!
Sydney Austin I went to 54 one time for a private party. I’m aware of the stories about Steve trying to have a mix of different people in the place. They catered to celebrities all the time and that’s who they wanted in there. 54 didn’t want the “bridge and tunnel people “ in this place. Rarely did an average Joe get in. We often went to Enchanted Garden in Queens where my husband comes from. We also had dinner at Steak Loft another Steve/Ian creation. I hope to be as sophisticated and worldly as you are one day.
Ever since I read the Andy Warhol diaries 25 years ago I've been intrigued about the whole 54 thing. But this took how I imagined it and lessened it slightly, but not too much. I have built up the mystique in my mind. I was only 10 when this came out (though 11 year old Anderson Cooper and Latoya Jackson went around this age) and I sometimes wish I was in the right age, place and the right time to have gone. But in reality, it was not all that. Though we're not seeing the balcony and back rooms.
@@Rhythm973 It was a normal club like 80 81ish onward. But if you got in up until their arrest (and for about a year after) the main dance floor and the special events were designed so that everyone who got in was involved in anything but a normal dance club and dance floor, it was for everybody to experience. Save for a few elite back rooms in the basement, even the balcony and barhrooms had stuff going down, sex was ignored by the owners and not exactly promoted by them. Anything went. It wasn't one big orgy. The partly hidden sex that may have happened once in a blue moon in a out of the way booth had nothing to do with the planned and choreographed spectacle out on the dance floor. You didn't have to be a celebrity to catch the themed party atmosphere if you arrived on the right night that week and got let in. You did rub elbows with celebrities. The dance floor was for everyone. And weirdness was encouraged, the weirder the better. The sights at any given night was a heightened fantasy night club experiece, so in that way it was anything but a normal nightclub experience.
I still have my BLACK membership card! One night GRACE JONES was leaving as we were going in and my friend turned to me and said " I Saw those shoes at SUSAN BENNIS! " lol i was like so what lets go in! grace chatted to us as we left / we would see her there quite often... i loved her shows esp the one a BONDS! that was a fun night too! OH i need to find me a publisher to help me with my STUDIO book!
I'm 38 now but as long back as I can remember (I'm thinking Back to the Future days maybe lol) I always said "if I had 24 hours to go back to any time with zero consequence, it would he the most happenin night Studio 54 ever had!!To be submerged in the crowd catered by Steve and just dandy and party my ass off!! Bravo for you actually living out my "if I had a time machine " dream 😂
I envy you. You got to experience that, to be in the right time, right place, the epicentre of what was going on (at least in New York) in our culture at the time.
Déjà je voulais remercier la personne qui a mi ce post car c'est des vraies archives du moments J'en reviens pas la foule de gens J'ai une amie qui est aller dans les années 80 elle ma dit que c'est une boite qu'elle n'oubliera jamais Et dire que certains attendent leur tour et ne rentreront pas dans la soirée Jsuis fan de son histoire je suis fan de cette légende Qu'est ce que j'aimerai avoir un truc qui vient de là-bas J'ai vu que des flyers atteignent les 3300$ C'est tous les excès que tu trouves dans cette boite qui ont fait son succès Comment sa devait être top de vivre des soirée comme sa Carrément crasy le délire du studio 54 C'est vrai que maintenant ou pas longtemps que c'est le David lettermàn show? Encore merci Jsuis a fond
i grew up at studio 54; i was a teen ager when i first got in. Nothing can ever compare to those times. I live in south beach and all these people think they are fabulous but only STUDIO 54 was CHIC!!!! so lucky that i got to witness it!
Studio 54 got all the publicity but there were better dance clubs in NYC back then. I feel so privileged to have lived here all my life. Many will disagree but its the center of everything.
Yes thats so true. If anyone is able to buy even the smallest apartment it will be the best purchase you will ever make. I have friends that bought a starter apartment and rent it to make money. The place pays for itself with profit every month. Most first time renters share a place just to be able to live here.
I was searching in the commands for someone writing about Stockard Channing, and finally found it. You did. Cool ha? I think the whole Grease cast was there. So there must be much more footage of this night.
Man that hot tall beautiful blond lady is soaring on coke (in the days before exctasy reigned), you don't get that kind of energy off just champagne lol
Either a Dame Edna Wanna be... or Dame Edna.. Google it.. she was a trip. Grace Jones was a a defiant over the top woman, socially awkward but then again she is with Nancy Walkers son, Allan Carr ( The Producer of Grease)here, so she looks cooler than she really was
At certain points you can hear Steve Rubell’s voice in the back ground, he is close to the cameras, because somebody asked “Where’s Steve?” Looked around (you could Steve’s voice) and the person looking for Steve said “Oh!”
Hi (sorry if my english is so so) ! she's not Nikki Haskell ( Nikki was short, this girl is tall, and Nikki never was blonde ), she´s not Nona Hendryx, Julie B., Amanda Lear... is a mistery who is this beautiful & hot blonde beauty !! :-( ... anybody knows ?
I remember back when I was in my late twenties, I was a photographer. I was lucky to be there for the opening of grease. Little did I know that grease would one day be one of the most popular musicals of all time. I acutely got to meet Elton John and Frankie Valli in one night. That was truly the best night of my life.
I am the guy at 11:48 with the camera and brown sideburns! Dam time flus.
Omg, u have to tell me more about it. 🤩
@@johnperkens600 you made disco history!
They say everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame
That was yours lol
But where was John Travolta?!
I can understand why the young of today are so fascinated with the 1970s. We had and enjoyed something they are not allowed to-FREEDOM!
Absolutely totally amazing footage... You feel like you are there with Grace Jones!!!
very cool. a piece of disco Hollywood history. Access inside is quite freakin' awesome. thanks for sharing. I may have been 7 at the time, but I still wish for a time machine.
I wanna go back to 1960s Woodstock in NYC The Opening of Tower Records, and Studio 54! WHAT A BLAST FROM THE PAST! This is amazing I remember Grease I loved it when I was a kid! This is their cast party!
Ok, partying with Grace Jones at Studio 54 has just been added to my time machine list.
I am so glad you put this up ! I can get a glimpse at me slightly ! What a night ! Infact every night at s54 was amazing ! I can recall when some nights the club used to be deserted ! He let no one in hardly ! Oh the memories I still have my VIP drinks pass ! In a frame !
Can we see it please!!!!
You could get a slight impression of how fun it was with this clip. It shows how different elements came together and for a moment made some great memories for themselves, letting go of differences arguably to do it.
Thanks for sharing those fabulous and dazzling moments, I had great times at Studio 54 and will hold on to those memories.
I envy you! What a splendid thing you have lived! I miss a time wich i never belonged to. I wish i could talk to you
Yes, this happened June 1978, at the absolute peak of disco and NYC nightlife. Most of the most prominent musics heard today such as hip hop, rap and house all originated in NYC during that crucial time late 70s early 80s when it was the center of the world.
GRACE was there often. One night we were arriving and she was leaving and she talked to us outside and i was like OK GRACE but I want to go in and dance so she came back in and danced!
Who ARE you man? Why couldn't I have your life?
After a few lines of China white Grace got her second wind.
The music is amazing!!
omg stunning footage from grace ..rare
Need more footage of Studio 54!
Grace Jones seems like a lot of fun to hang out with.
Run time of 6:47 - 7:11 of this clip.. probably one of the coolest people on the planet... before she even knew it.
I worked at Studio 54 from 1978-81.. She was one of my favorites
Who's she?
@@churpina Who is she?! She's Stockard Channing, she played Betty Rizzo in Grease
she destroyed her face with plastic surgery. WHY do these women do this . And it's not like she was once a "glamour gal" like Farrah. She was very cute back then. @@shinmalpure2397
Remarkable watching this, as I was there that June night at the absolute zenith of disco and NY nightlife. I'd completely forgotten about the car that was there inside, the one shown at 316 being pulled in. NYC, the center of the world without a doubt.
History right there of the most iconic nightclub Studio 54 ....great footage
I am watching and waiting for John Travolta show up at this party.
My older sisters were into the disco scene back then. I still like listening to funk n r&b.Started playing then later teaching guitar. I grew up in the 80s Metal scene. still taught all styles of music which I attributed to them!Thanks to my Sisters.Studio 54!!
Love it! I'm 50 , I wish I was there! I love ❤️ disco Music !
Isn't this WONDERFUL?
I’ve watched this so many times on K and snow to teleport myself to these times and it’s amazing this and the Deca-Dance (1979) film are great I’ve been clean for months but this is such a beautiful snapshot of a hedonistic era
Yeah Johna Hill might be playing this guy in a Studio 54 prequel.
Allan was so buzzed. Im jealous!
Absolutely Fantastic
Studio 54
Oh the 70's lol. What an awesome way to party after a premiere though, wow!
drowned out background music and hearing people talk would be a you tubers dream today.
One night ( OK 4 am in the morning) LAUREN HUTTON asked me for a cigarette. I didnt smoke but told my friend she wanted one and he gave it to her and lit it. The music ended early that night but we went downtown to another club and stayed out til 10 am! Then off to the PLAZA HOTEL FOR the best EGGS BENEDICT!
What was Lauren like? : )
Yeah OK@Sydney Austin
Sydney Austin I went to 54 one time for a private party. I’m aware of the stories about Steve trying to have a mix of different people in the place. They catered to celebrities all the time and that’s who they wanted in there. 54 didn’t want the “bridge and tunnel people “ in this place. Rarely did an average Joe get in. We often went to Enchanted Garden in Queens where my husband comes from. We also had dinner at Steak Loft another Steve/Ian creation. I hope to be as sophisticated and worldly as you are one day.
so this is what you do Sydney!!! pick fights on you tube. I prefer to exchange experiences & ideas. No more time for you dude.@Sydney Austin
@@NYCgirl927 you started. Don't complain.
I was there that night remember it well
And I was ten dancing with my sister in the living room pretending I was a 'superstar'.
The disco era was spectacular.
When I see Grace Jones I can't help but think Boomerang. . she scared the ish outta me as a kid in the 80's. . . but what a bad ass women in Conan
Who is that girl that's just dancing having a ball 9 minutes in. I love her energy
Wish I could experience this
Sheeet, you and I both! This is absolute BLISS!
Wow!!! Club land History right here! I was six then! Wish for time travel...and get in!
Grace Jones and the original Grease crew ? The music track was on fire 🔥 💃🏻🪩🕺🏾
This is the "Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste Of Honey (1978) ;)
9:47 - somebody got the sniffles, lol
Coke galore
If there was as many politicians entering the rubber room and above then Steve would have been untouchable.
Ever since I read the Andy Warhol diaries 25 years ago I've been intrigued about the whole 54 thing. But this took how I imagined it and lessened it slightly, but not too much. I have built up the mystique in my mind. I was only 10 when this came out (though 11 year old Anderson Cooper and Latoya Jackson went around this age) and I sometimes wish I was in the right age, place and the right time to have gone. But in reality, it was not all that. Though we're not seeing the balcony and back rooms.
A lot of it was debauchery and drugs. If you weren’t a celeb it was like any other club in NY lol
@@Rhythm973 It was a normal club like 80 81ish onward. But if you got in up until their arrest (and for about a year after) the main dance floor and the special events were designed so that everyone who got in was involved in anything but a normal dance club and dance floor, it was for everybody to experience. Save for a few elite back rooms in the basement, even the balcony and barhrooms had stuff going down, sex was ignored by the owners and not exactly promoted by them. Anything went. It wasn't one big orgy. The partly hidden sex that may have happened once in a blue moon in a out of the way booth had nothing to do with the planned and choreographed spectacle out on the dance floor. You didn't have to be a celebrity to catch the themed party atmosphere if you arrived on the right night that week and got let in. You did rub elbows with celebrities. The dance floor was for everyone. And weirdness was encouraged, the weirder the better. The sights at any given night was a heightened fantasy night club experiece, so in that way it was anything but a normal nightclub experience.
I still have my BLACK membership card! One night GRACE JONES was leaving as we were going in and my friend turned to me and said " I Saw those shoes at SUSAN BENNIS! " lol i was like so what lets go in! grace chatted to us as we left / we would see her there quite often... i loved her shows esp the one a BONDS! that was a fun night too! OH i need to find me a publisher to help me with my STUDIO book!
I'm 38 now but as long back as I can remember (I'm thinking Back to the Future days maybe lol) I always said "if I had 24 hours to go back to any time with zero consequence, it would he the most happenin night Studio 54 ever had!!To be submerged in the crowd catered by Steve and just dandy and party my ass off!! Bravo for you actually living out my "if I had a time machine " dream 😂
Song starting at 4:53 is Don Ray - Got To Have Loving
I envy you. You got to experience that, to be in the right time, right place, the epicentre of what was going on (at least in New York) in our culture at the time.
I'd would dance with grace jones any day
Fantastic
Déjà je voulais remercier la personne qui a mi ce post car c'est des vraies archives du moments
J'en reviens pas la foule de gens
J'ai une amie qui est aller dans les années 80 elle ma dit que c'est une boite qu'elle n'oubliera jamais
Et dire que certains attendent leur tour et ne rentreront pas dans la soirée
Jsuis fan de son histoire je suis fan de cette légende
Qu'est ce que j'aimerai avoir un truc qui vient de là-bas
J'ai vu que des flyers atteignent les 3300$
C'est tous les excès que tu trouves dans cette boite qui ont fait son succès
Comment sa devait être top de vivre des soirée comme sa
Carrément crasy le délire du studio 54
C'est vrai que maintenant ou pas longtemps que c'est le David lettermàn show?
Encore merci Jsuis a fond
Man 100s of people must of eagerly waited to get inside the famous night club!
The song between 11:17- 12:23 is Rough Diamond by Madleen Kahn. However, I believe its a segment from either a promo copy or extended version.
If you do enough K & C and “Sunshine” you can teleport back here
i grew up at studio 54; i was a teen ager when i first got in. Nothing can ever compare to those times. I live in south beach and all these people think they are fabulous but only STUDIO 54 was CHIC!!!! so lucky that i got to witness it!
This place was a constant '70s rave before Raves even existed and came then went, house music was just modern Disco
I didn't understand the appeal then, and I do not understand the appeal now BUT this is America so go for it.
Anyone know the song at 9:19 after Taste of Honey's Boogie Oogie?
Studio 54 got all the publicity but there were better dance clubs in NYC back then. I feel so privileged to have lived here all my life. Many will disagree but its the center of everything.
if only the rent werent so high
Yes thats so true. If anyone is able to buy even the smallest apartment it will be the best purchase you will ever make. I have friends that bought a starter apartment and rent it to make money. The place pays for itself with profit every month. Most first time renters share a place just to be able to live here.
How come NOBODY talks about Xenon ?????
I was there.....not really but a guy can always dream!
i was there & got pix on my cell phone to prove it.
I wish i had experienced it. :(
Anyone know the song in the backround
Who are the 2 men at 4:02 with the grey cloth suits and donut hair? IRS Agents?
wheres Elton?
who was the woman dancing with grace and allan???
So people, there must be more real footage of Studio 54 though?
Please put it on youtube... Please...
7:06 Stockard Channig: "Hello!, was he recording our conversation" lol .. its okay stockard we couldnt understand a thing lol :) shes soo cute hehehe
I was searching in the commands for someone writing about Stockard Channing, and finally found it. You did. Cool ha? I think the whole Grease cast was there. So there must be much more footage of this night.
Hip Hop was originally from New York for sure, but I'm pretty sure House was originated in Chicago....
Is it possible if you can fix the audio on this ? it's very low.
The person with the camera should have been in print only media
And yet if he was we wouldn’t have this chaotic document of this specific Eras specific madness
Studio 54 n y discoteque la plus mythique aux monde et.! Et resteras la plus grande classe aux monde good you tube
Who is the men that dance boogie ogie ?? He taked drug
One of the really protagonist in 54 studio was every time Dolph lundgren all the others too but the handsome was he
if you listen carefully you can hear "ROUGH DIAMOND" a STUDIO staple played often but not overplayed ... great disco hit then
DISCO NITE PARTY MONDAYS 5PM -9PM,AND AFTER PARTY ON UA-cam ,
awesome
great footage, too bad the audio quailty is so poor.
Does anyone know the track from 12:23 onwards?
At least the tape didn't get wiped..
what is the song in 9:00 ???
Jorge Sosa a taste of honey boogie oogie oogie
Man that hot tall beautiful blond lady is soaring on coke (in the days before exctasy reigned), you don't get that kind of energy off just champagne lol
It's refreshing to see her. If it was so hard to get in, at least one didn't need to be a good dancer.
I was born in the wrong time.
Facts. Me 2
@4:24 I'm pretty sure with the permed red hair is Arlene Dahl, mother of Lorenzo Lamas, Tom Chisum in the movie...
His name was Allan Carr
Alan Carr dancing with Grace Slick?
Also talking while sitting in the car?
@@dondressel452 yes, he was the producer of Grease
anybody know that song between 7:15 - 7:40 ???
The chubby guy? That was the film's producer, Allan Carr. (He also did "Can't Stop The Music", if anyone was curious who to blame. :-P)
Yes another Studio 54 clip with ZERO ELTON JOHN
Anybody know who the DJ was that night ?
I thought only Hot young people or Famous people were specially selected to get into the club....then who's that?😂5:46👀
Either a Dame Edna Wanna be... or Dame Edna.. Google it.. she was a trip. Grace Jones was a a defiant over the top woman, socially awkward but then again she is with Nancy Walkers son, Allan Carr ( The Producer of Grease)here, so she looks cooler than she really was
Who' s the ponytail girl in 10:00, anyone?
MrFotakia
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I think you're right! How did you spot that? :)
i know its a long shot... but would anyone happen to recognise the song that starts at aroun 9:19 would be much appreciated!
liamjames feltham its from a taste if honey and called boogie oogie oogie
Eddie Kendricks - Ain’t No Smoke Without Fire
Nikki Haskell @ 9:55 if possible. What a mover whoever she is! That dude in the shorts, who was he?
JOIN THE DISCO PARTY STUDIO 54 NYC GROUP ,REPLY WITH YOUR STORY AND LETS HAVE FUN
Where was Steve Rubell?
At certain points you can hear Steve Rubell’s voice in the back ground, he is close to the cameras, because somebody asked “Where’s Steve?” Looked around (you could Steve’s voice) and the person looking for Steve said “Oh!”
This is where the Hollywood elite went crazy..!!
SHIT! when New York City was FUN!!!
place was nothing more than a giant glamorous gay night club with some celebrities sprinkled in.
cjohannesmann that sounds like PERFECTION! yasssss mama
That sounds great and fun
Were you there?
is that raquel welch?
Aaaaaa the price of fame 14:06 . Is in it Ironic, don't you think? Died June 29th 1999.
I'm pretty sure it's Amanda Lear.
is that Nikki Haskel dancing with Allan Carr and Grace Jones?
Ya know, it might just be Nikki. It looks like her, Nona Hendryx or Julie Budd. I can't really tell absolutely.
Hi (sorry if my english is so so) ! she's not Nikki Haskell ( Nikki was short, this girl is tall, and Nikki never was blonde ), she´s not Nona Hendryx, Julie B., Amanda Lear... is a mistery who is this beautiful & hot blonde beauty !! :-( ... anybody knows ?
Jerry Hall maybe ? ... The mystery of the blonde beauty !
My guess is Myra Scheer, the 54 publicist. She is tall and she probably would have been there.
Sheri "Sunshine" Slonim
Who is that little guy?
ANYBODY KNOWS THE TRACK PLYING FROM 9:22 to 11:00 MINUTES?..
I can't believe I am not recognizing it!
Your Help is Highly Appreciated
MOAM
Eddie Kendricks - Ain’t No Smoke Without Fire
The song is Eddie Kendricks- AInt No smoke without fire----my question whats the song after that at 11:17 to 12:23 ? its killing me!!!