American Bandstand 1969 - TOP 10 - Sugar, Sugar, The Archies (Colorized)
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2021
- Airdate: October 11, 1969
I’ve posted this clip several times in various forms and here it is one more time, one of my all-time favorite AB clips, now colorized. (thanks to Andrew Haberman)
"Sugar, Sugar” is #1 for the 4th week in a row today on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the #1 song of 1969.
Dancing to the top 10 today are: Cathy Kilborn at 2:25, Frank Vanderpuil at 3:27, Carl Ratcher at 3:32, Marty Mane at 3:35, Don Sanuskar & Roni Menacker (in silhouette) at 3:40, and Art (on our right) and Rudy (on our left) Mikaelian with Robin Miller at 3:47 all doing a dance called, appropriately enough, “the Spinner.”
Please (please) get vaccinated if you haven’t already and thank you for watching! - Hudba
Who is here watching 2024🤩🎉
Me me me 😊
❤❤❤ me born 1965
Same here but only for 2 more days until 2024! 🎉
At the end of 2013!!!!! Dec 30!😮
@@kat35lulu88 12/30/2023.
I'm 68 years old and this song still makes want to get up and dance ❤😂
I'm 66 and I'm with you !!
@@ILoveBANFF1974 😀👍
I remember watching the Archie's cartoon show on Saturday morning when this song first played. I was 10.
@@talon1706 me too ! I never missed it ❤️
The best of times
These are the grandparents of today and look how cool they are.
We could dance, had long hair, and we loved to slow dance.
@@usmc-veteran73-77 Boomers!
@@thefirstMrsLankton Yes, we are the Baby Boomers It was a great time. I loved it.
Thank you Ricky Tatum and i am even cooler with my grand kids, so i think.I help two lift weights and they know a lot of oldies lol..
@@usmc-veteran73-77 Yes, we are a very fortunate generation. Boomers!👍🏻😀
My husband came home from Vietnam in 68 and we got married April of 1969. Some may frown I was 16 on January 1969. He told me a lot of things that happened over and it was bad. God rest his soul he left this world May 30th of this year 2023. I’ll see him again one day.💔💔💔💔
My Condolences. I knew alot of men at that time that came back as well.
Susan I was 15 Jan of 69. My heart goes out to you. I think you have him deeply in your heart so you see him every day. May GOD BLESS YOU.
I was married to my Nam Vet for 20 years and still miss him everyday 25 yrs later
you are a beautiful person and lady.
thank you for your husband's service to our society and nation.
@@cuttercogburn3226he passed last year on May 30th
I would rather be living in that world than the one we have now
Exactly. I wish I was dead but I haven't kicked the bucket yet for some reason.
I go bak in a heartbeat ❤ world now disgusting
Would suck if you were a woman or African American. Racism and discrimination yep great world
Absolutely agree
That's why we're all here🥲
Our generation learned the new dances by watching American Bandstand! The best times EVER!!
Are you crazy? I lost rhythm watching this clip.
And the best decade ever for music, the 70's, was just ahead !!
@@34stzoo How about that kick lol
Wait...does that mean that Tiktok is the new American Bandstand?😢
@@brtscafsma77 God I hope not.
When I was just a youngster this was 1 of my favorite tunes.
Watching this puts my 65 yr old body in a time tunnel and I was dancing with these kids again. 😁😇
Guud guud, very good. Be hapy. Nao & ever. from México. claps to you.
one of mine as well and im only 51
Me hubiera gustado vivir esa época tan linda pero yo nací para esa época en 1964 te felicito x haberla vivido
Yes!
Hopefully you’re still able to get out of your chair
I love how clean, decent and fresh everyone looks.
That is what we looked like back then. A candy bar was 5 cents, not 1.75 like now. We just went to the moon and everything you see in that video was made and built by Americans in America.
I want to go back to the 70s and experience it so badly!!!!!!
The 1960s were bifurcated. We lived in the Bay Area of California from1967-68 -- I was in the 2nd and 3rd grades. The hippies in San Francisco wore long hair, smoked dope, many viewed bathing as optional, "free love" being practiced in the park .. I saw all tht first hand. Riots near our home scared me as a kid... I remember my dad turning down one street in Berkley only to see hundreds of hippies and college students coming down the street with signs against the Vietnam War, while fires burned in the background. Pretty traumatic stuff... While all that was happening, other teenagers and college students were clean cut and the girls were wearing miniskirts...
Yup girls aren't twerking and being gross. Times were so much better back then.
@@faulsname8869 I was a kid in the 1970's and it was magical.
These kids are all in their 70s now. As one of them, I can say the mirror always surprises.
I miss my paisley shirts and bell bottom jeans.
And don't forget about those platform shoes!
What a great year for music. Feels like sunshine and lollipops. 🌞 🍭 🎶 🎶
yes, I was 10yrs and loved candy.
I was 14 and with my first love. Best years, best memories
And men couldn't have babies or periods! Good times indeed..
Not just #1 for that week, Sugar Sugar was the number one hit for all of 1969! So catchy and fun..... great vocal by Ron Dante.
To this day this is still my favorite song. I’m 66. My daughter danced to this song at her wedding in 2018. Happy, happy times! Thanks Archie’s.
Very suggestive song no doubt.😅
The Archies are of course a fictional band. From Wilipedia:
"A set of studio musicians was assembled by Don Kirshner in 1968 to perform various songs. The most famous is "Sugar, Sugar", written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim,[1] which went to number one on the pop chart in 1969, sold over six million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[8] In the Billboard Hot 100, it was ranked as the No. 1 song of that year, the only time a fictional band has ever claimed Billboard's annual Hot 100 top spot. Other Top 40 songs recorded by the Archies include "Who's Your Baby" (U.S. No. 40), "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" (U.S. No. 22), and "Jingle Jangle" (U.S. No. 10).[1] "Jingle Jangle" also sold over one million copies, garnering a second gold disc award."
@@JohnH0130 Fantastic info!
@@snowman9977 I was 18 at the time, and I thought it was HYSTERICAL that someone could toss together a group of musicians to create songs for a cartoon show with a shoestring budget [check out the low-grade animation] and produce a simple tune that was #1 WITH A BULLET FOR 6 WEEKS that summer.
John, sometimes “shoestring” budgets work out better than having all the money in the world. Yeah, that cartoon video still cracks me up to this day
Takes me back to 1969 ,I was 10 , and my only sibling was my older sister, 5 years my senior , so I listened to all the cool 😎 music then
Cool! I was 11 years old in 69 and my older sister’s name is Susan! I used to watch AB every Saturday with her!! 🤓👍
My name is Susan and my 5 year older sisters name is Linda lol
@@susananderson9619 Oh wow! Susan and Linda must have been popular names back in the 50s!! This is so cool! Thanks so much for sharing!!! We were born in western Pennsylvania. I have lived in Texas though since 1981…due to my degree and career. I miss PA,,,sooo much.
Take good care! Thanks for sharing!!
I was born in South Eastern PA lol
I was 7 in 69 my older sister was 9. I've hated her for 7 years now and shall never communicate with her in any form ever again. Love this song :)
This song was #1 the year I was born. 53 years later it's one of my favorite songs to listen to.
Me too born in 1957
@@donnasanchez395 me too born in 1956
I love this gal's ASL interpretation...czcams.com/video/8AJx-Koq5yQ/video.html
I remember watching the Archies when this song first played on Saturday morning cartoons. After that it was on the radio all the time.
@@colleenmcnamaradusti4861 Me too. Born in 1946.
My energy song in the am, still bopping to it, this 73 year old guy
I am also 73.
These songs are a lot nicer than today's songs.
2022..still love the Archie's..
Rock on ! Not quite in my 70s but damn close! Hell yeah
I'M 74 and Still Boppin also!!! Luv it that I still can!! 😁🥰
Luv that girls are dancing w/ girls and boys w/boys!!👍👍
Im still a DJ from 1978..and this song is one of the most requested songs at weddings...it never gets old
This NEVER gets old 🎵🎵🎵. Fun times.
@Dancer Don I went back to the 3:40 mark, and watched it three or four times, but I still can't spot you....How could they rob a longtime regular of camera time like that?! It appears most of the regulars from the '67 shows, had moved on by this time unfortunately... I miss seeing them.
@@oldiesgeek454 Hey oldies geek! No worries. Roni and I can be seen dancing the swing in the shadows up front @3:11 and about @3:36. By up front I mean close to the bleachers. Thanks for looking out for us.
Hi don. I seem to recall there is another clip of this Archives song played from a different AB taping. Can you answer about how many times a hit song such as this one would be played for the dancers? Also did Dick ever ask the dancers about songs they were hearing outside of the show that he might incorporate or did he pretty much have all the music selections locked down? Thanks
Your dead on Dancer don,Would have like to see you and the rest but like you said, it never gets old. Great music and any kind of dance makes for a lot of fun....
@@dancerdon9175 literally...you are a shadow!! Don, if we have to find a Frank Vanderpuil favorite AB clip, is it this one? Gone is the "every hair in place" haircut and sportcoat. He's got hip hugger slacks and a loose fitting shirt, circling around like a whirling dervish. Then he looks like he's steering a tractor thru the lower 40! I never have figured out if he was dancing with anyone in particular! 😃
The dance floor is noticeably not as crowded. I remember you saying that happened for awhile. Great video giving us a special look at our dancers and a lovely tip of the hat to Frank.
Myself 67 yrs old i was on American bandstand in 1970 had so much fun with my class mates
The summer of 1969; I was 16, got my driver's license, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon and the of course there was Woodstock. How cool was that. This makes my 69 year old body feel 16 again.
You still had six years to enlist? What happened! Four tours Vietnam.
Sugar Sugar, greatest cereal box record, all time 😆
sure do wish putting records in cereal boxes was still a thing. never got to experience that joy
Got mine off the back of a Sugar Crisp box.
@@bengaljam4550 Same here, the cereal is now called Honey Crisp, lol! XD
@@qualqui Yep and sugar smacks are now called honey smacks and sugar pops are called corn pops.
I got those too!!! Mne from Sugar Crisp box too.Forgot all about those prizes n cereal boxes!!🙂🙂
The Archies come on and just like that, all of a sudden they can dance!
😂😂😂😂👍
Yeah , they can. 🇺🇲
LOL so true
Seemed like they were waiting on the sugar sugar. Then they got lit lol…
You call that dancing? I call it moving in confusion. What do I do? What do I do? Apparently, they needed a lot more sugar!
This top 10 was bookmarked by two of my favorites - Elvis with Suspicious Minds and The Archies with Sugar Sugar. Sweeeeet.....
Fun times, dances and music. Perfect Saturday morning starter. Still waiting for the time machine.
Let me know when you get it…..I’m heading for LA (1946)
Still waiting….where’s that machine? (August 2021)
I am still asking for my time machine also. I need to call H.G. Wells . 1980s is my first stop and then 60's.
Hey!.....You have a very long wait, B.....
@@willomina1990 Ikr, we're all waiting for it 😆 😄❤
I wish I could go back in time, and dance like this with one of these ladies. These ladies were classy at the time and better looking back then.
same man
This brings me back to a time of pure innocence and happiness the good old days never get old 💃🤩💖
The 1960's was not that innocent.
@@thefirstMrsLankton compared to today it is. These young people in this video look nice and took pride in their appearance. Unlike today with pajama pants and looking like one got out of bed and stopped caring about themselves. And the dancing is way more innocent than now. At least you don't see the gjrls dancing like cats in heat and guys tossing gang signs in the air with their fingers, wearing pants 10 sizes too big. Kids today don't know how to dance and this rap music is talentless. I would say yes, the 1960's were innocent compared to today. They'd have to put an X rating on bandstand today if it were still going.
@@DXPunx74 As you like.
@@thefirstMrsLankton seriously. Compared to today's standards, the 60's was more innocent. I guess you can't argue with stupid people.
@@DXPunx74 I know I certainly cannot. Never have been able to suffer fools lightly. Its a character flaw of mine. I am working on it.
One of my favorite songs of all times. Makes me feel old and young at the same time.
Well said
Truth😂😢
This take me back. Miss my parents & all of us being kids in the neighborhood doing kid stuff.
I remember watching the show with my older sister who was 16 in 1969. She'd watch to get the latest dance steps so when she went to the next school dance she would be able to show the boys what to do.
Before my time BUT...what a GREAT song...this is the epitome of BUBBLEGUM music...No matter what your age I dare you not to move to this song ...it just gets you going...53 years and it still has the FIRE!!!
American Bandstand, I used to watch this every week. Dick Clark is greatly missed
God 1969, what an amazing year for humanity. We had this song on the radio, Neil Armstrong on the moon, and other achievements for mankind. Truly an AMAZING decade. Long Live the 60s.
and a little skirmish still ongoing called Tet....not so amazing
@@hennagaijin100 Well besides Vietnam, it was a great decade indeed.
Yeah love those Jim Crow days and that pesky little fight for civil rights going on. Great decade indeed for every type of American citizen yup
@@jaysax7381 Um the civil rights movement was a major achievement for this country that I'm glad we had because every American deserves the same democracy and freedom this great country was founded on. Now have MULTIPLE SEATS!!!
@@hennagaijin100 Tet is Viet Nam holiday.
Man, these 60s chicks are beautiful!
Yeah, they actually cared about how they looked
Why do you think we watched every Saturday? 🥰
I was thinking the same thing. I'm alive in the wrong time period lol 😂 women in the 60s are very attractive
A lot better than the white trash of 2024. That's for sure.
I had the 45 and played it over and over on my suitcase record player. So good.
1969 the Vietnam war was raging, the country was tearing itself apart but still a bubble gum tune could make it to #1. The power of rock n roll.
I was just a little kid, but thank you for serving in that godforsaken war!! ❤
Seven Children (now adults) in my family in less than nine years (poor mom) and when we get together, we always play this song! 🤡
@@Jammy75 Sorry if you misunderstood my post. I was born in 1962 so I was in first grade. I am retired military (USAF Pararescue) and many of my training instructors were Vietnam vets. I was saying how even bubble gum rock n roll tunes like this one can give people a break from crappy times.
@@jimjohnston526 Thank you for clarifying that, and also for serving as you did. I have West Point, Harvard, MIT educated officers in my immediate family as well, and they also served and have the Purple Hearts & many many medals which they put in a box to shove away forever. War sucks… Period. Now they are corporate Indian chiefs and living a good life in spite of it all. I’m very very thankful of that. You should be very proud of your military challenges. I sure am. ❤️
@@Jammy75 Thank you. did 21 years in USAF Pararescue teams 1988-2009 some active some reserve and can’t tell you how many Pararescuemen (PJs) I knew or knew of that were killed and injured for life. I was very fortunate for those years. Thanks again and peace be with you.
@@jimjohnston526 ❤️ thank you kindly… I am very touched! 🤗
Oh the memories. I was an avid watcher of ABS. I was 17 in 1969. My best summer of my life. A year before my senior year. 🥰
This memories is unforgettable you know this are my favorite songs 🎶 so tell me are you a good dancer..?
You were like the dancing queen 😊
Thank you for posting this! What a wild, crazy, horrifying, enjoyable summer that was; the Moon Landing, Woodstock, Vietnam, the Tate/LaBianca murders, the New York Mets winning the World Series, rumors of the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel calling it quits. And a cartoon band was at the top of the charts. 🍻
And hurricane Camille which I was born in
You got that right!
I" M IN TEARS...YOU GIVE ME MEMORY SO MANY MEMORY...THE MONKEES...RAQUEL WELCH...LINDON JHONSON...VERUSHKA...JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS...BATMAN AND ROBIN..SEAN CONERY...😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Tate/La Bianca 😭
Another going on for sure. I started college, age 17. My Dad was hospitalixed for mental illness. We wanted to go to Woodsto k, our folks said, "no way".
Very good year!
Sugar Sugar as a kid the archies was on every saturday I sure do miss those fun days
Yep, older people were here then, where they enjoyed seeing kids have fun. Now those kids are seniors and probably like watching other kids have fun.
I wish they do a cast call of all the dance contestants from every show from 1960-69 to see how they are all doing today. A reunion from every dance contest of every season of that decade.
Wheelchair get down then get back up dancing.
They all have bad backs from slipping their discos in the 70s.
Most would be dead, Sorry .
These are some of the freshest moves I've ever seen.
I was a kid, and the 60s were the happiest time in my life.
Wasn’t it though . I thank my parents for a wonderful childhood.
The very first 45 I ever bought. It still plays today, no scratches.
Take foto and post it. We love it to see it
I didn’t have to buy it - it came free on the back of a box of Honeycomb cereal
Remember these good ole days I’m 68 now
Awesome 👏 , you know this is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a good dancer..?
I could listen to this gem all day and never grow tired of it.
These are the great-grandparents of today such fun times watching American Bandstand Saturday mornings
A few are dead.😂
This is my parent’s era, and all the ones I know from this time are just grandparents if that…they’re not quite that old! Sure maybe a few may be though.
Add 52 years to all these young couples dancing and they’re all grandparents today.
I wish I was on that dance floor, back in time.❤
Awesome 👍 to see this video in color. Love this song. I have it on my Playlist 😁
Watch how Everybody starts Dancing Better ,as soon as Sugar Sugar starts playing ! Great Record !
This song drilled right into my brain when I was 6 years old and I still feel it is one of the defining songs of the late 60's. It was everywhere.
Bring all of this back. Love it so much.
Bring all the memories back, you know this is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a good dancer..?
I was 20 in 1969. Still love the memories of this era.
I wasn't born since a song Sugar Sugar was released and once a top 1 billboard hit song but I really love it. I could dance . I will play this song and dance together with my grandmother ♥️♥️♥️
My Sister was 12 years old. My brother Rick was 10 years old. My neighbor Cindy Cunningham was 11 years old. And yours truly Ronald Hansen was 3 years old when Andy Kim sang the Archie song Sugar Sugar. What great memories of your childhood days in the summer of 1969. Tumi songs are really good in that era. Like zager and Evans in the year 2525.
"It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."
I really wish they would bring the American Bandstand back!
You’re absolutely right, you know this is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a good dancer..?
There is no real music today.
One of my favorite AB clips. Thanks Aaron.
What sticks in my mind from 1969 is hearing Blood, Sweat and Tears "Spinning Wheel" over and over again the week that I left home after high school graduation. The heightened emotions during such a time of transition is probably a what cemented it in my memory. Oh yes, and "In the Year 2525" was also played ad nauseam.
It’s now 12 weeks that we took in a rescue cat from my hubby’s work. The cat cried a lot, so my husband named him “Crybaby.” But after a couple of weeks he stopped crying. Sweetest cat, so we renamed him “Sugar,” and I sing this song to him often. This was also the first song I danced to in the summer of ‘69 at a friend’s house. I had the coolest bell bottoms. LOL! 🐈
They really lit up when ‘Sugar’ came on 😂
it was the number one hit in 69
I was 8 when this song was number 1....i loved it back then and still do!!💃
I m 82 and still is one of my favorite song and favorite shows
I was only 9 years old, but they were good times growing up back then.
Luved this Music in the 60 snd still luv it in the 2022!!
You’re absolutely right, you know this is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a good dancer..?
The best bubble gum pop tune ever.
Most of these dancers, if still alive, are in their 70's! Damn.
Makes me feel alive
You’re absolutely right, you know this is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a good dancer..?
@@thomasserigo7483 yes , Actually I am and love to dance !
@@joycegullett80 that’s nice, I love dancing as well…. I would like to get to know you better if you don’t mind? Where are you originally from? And where do you currently live..?
My mother was such an Elvis fan from when she was teenager in the 1950s . She loved him even up until she passed away January 2021. I remember how upset she was when he passed away in 1977 too. I was about 6 years old.
Yes that upset an enormous number of people worldwide.
I'm gonna make you life so sweet, hey, hey, hey! Lovely vid. Thanks. 🎵🎶🎵💯🆒️🙋🏽♀️
The kid's dancing are their 70's now
You’re absolutely right, you know this is my favorite song 🎶 and tell me are you a good dancer..?
As a 12 year old boy in 1969 seeing the ladies on AB every Saturday…glad my dad worked Saturday’s….
We're still rockin!!
"sugar, sugar" was my very 1st 45 record I bought as a child.
It was my very first record I ever bought also. I played it over and over and over again. I still love this song to this day.
Just look at that Top 10, the music was so good back then.
My dad said that's not dancing when I would watch this. Watching it with old eyes cracks me up.
I remember getting the cereal box just for the record that was part of the package. Written by Andy Kim who had a hit in '74 with Rock Me Gently.
Dick Clark is a pretty remarkable figure, he was born in 1929, but always looked 20 years younger. I was reading his bio, his older (and only) brother was a P-38 Lighting pilot and was killed in the Battle of the Bulge. Built a music empire promoting Rock music - he was attacked in the '50s and '60s by religious groups and many prominent figures because it was "evil, devils, music.
Yet another awesome clip! Thank you Aaron!!
Man oh man! Thanks for the memories! This clip doesn't reflect it, but I remember when ABS and Soul Train had some of the best dancer's ever!
God Bless I remember this Thank you 🙏
Ah…..Dick Clark and American Bandstand! Love! Brings back wonderful memories! What a contradiction were the 60s - from teens dancing to a sweet-and-light pop tune like Sugar, Sugar to teens tripping on LSD to teens dying in some rice paddy in Vietnam. I was young and mostly sheltered from the last two and mostly recall the fun things about the 60s, like skating to this song, go-go dancers, hair and clothing styles, the race to the moon, beach movies with Frankie and Annette, and fun pop songs by Elvis, the Beatles, the Monkeys, and Bobby Sherman.❤
Thank you very much, YouCanDanceToit, for uploading this song that brings back plenty of fond memories to me.
Please have a nice day today. ™
October 18, 2023 @ 9:05 am ™
Love the dances back in the days!
Época que não volta mais, a era das discotecas a gente era feliz e não sabia.
❤ So love the Dancing
I’m 70 years old and this song and AB brings back a lot of memories.
I was one year old....but I grew up listening music from all decades. To me, music is music and a good rythm is everything, doesn't matter what year it came out in.
Sugar sugar was probably the first song I ever fell in love with..
Born in 66 these are the songs I grew up to. These “kids” were the generation younger than my parents. They were cool to me. Hard to tell who is cool anymore.
Used to listen to American Bandstand on Saturday mornings while dancing around the house doing my chores💖
63. Still feel like im in my 30's. This song takes me back.
I’m 66 and right there with you
@@kevind8752 Awesome!!
That music still sounds good 👌 to me😘👍!!
The clothes were so Mod and Groovy 😊😄❤
You’re absolutely right, you know this is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a good dancer..?
@@thomasserigo7483 when I hear a good song like this,,I love to just get up and 💃 dance 😄💕💕💕
Wow.....I enjoyed getting chuckles watching this. Times have changed.....lol!
I was 14 y.o. in 1969 when American Bandstand was going strong. I would sit and watch it everytime. I grew up loving to dance, and enjoying music.
Not just another time, another world. ❤
Wonderful memories ,good music ,innocent fun
1969 I was 14, danced my heart out back then. Watched bandstand every Saturday at noon. Kept up with the moves. Loved Sugar, Sugar by the Archees, great wonderful memories. Thank you guys 😘
I'm just loving watching the ladies dance and wishing I could meet a couple of them during this performance that was many years before I was even born.
Sugar Sugar was the very 1st song I remember hearing on the radio in 1969.