For a better signal and for the radio to play louder, I would go on the front porch and held the radio up in front of the meter box for as long as I wanted to listen to the radio. Those were the good ole days.
Released by The Orlons in May 1962. Got to #2 on the U.S. charts...and #5 on the R&B charts. Sold over 1,000,000 copies and started the "Watusi" dance craze....
I enjoyed this so much! I was a guest on one of these "Low Budget Late Shows"! I also entered & won quite a few "dance-offs" & "marathon dances" that were held at local "matinees" or indoor movie theaters that had stages back "in the day" (60's). There were also "rec [recreation center]" dances every weekend during the Summer, along w/ Drive-In movies. I can remember going to my first Beatles movie (A Hard Days Night) in the mid-60s. The girls in the audience were screaming so loud during the whole movie & we weren't able to hear anything! I first got a whiff of marijuana at a Beach Boys Concert in I think it was Santa Monica, CA, but I was pretty young when I went w/ a friend & her family, so I mainly remember the atmosphere, the crowd singing & dancing w/ the band, & all the refreshments we got! That's when I bought my first album. Boy did we have some clean fun back then! I don't know if teenagers today know what that's like.....actually interacting w/ others & engaging them in practical jokes, dances, or in playing street games like 4-square, kick ball, baseball, touch football, hide-n-seek, etc. until late into the night. The whole neighborhood would be involved, including parents cooking on the "Bar-B" (barbecue pits). In those days, many of us kept our doors unlocked or kept them opened, w/ only the screen door (yes, we had those) locked, during the Spring & Summer months. We never had to worry about burglars. We barely had 2 cents to rub together, but I wouldn't trade those memories for anything (except maybe Heaven).
I was born in 1962, had one of the first cell phones in the SF Bay Area, & now I see 👶🏼 newborns addicted to screens & parents happy to distract & morphine-drip screen time into every area. I got rid of tv in 1984- felt brainwashed! So, yeah. Real human interactions, play, good & bad, sometimes wonderful or horrible- but it was REAL! Tastes, smells, touches, sights, sounds of real people, in real places, doing human interactions. Video “Seeing” and “hearing” through an artificial screen & speaker are a new type of human “real” that we don’t yet know how it’ll impact us. But, the skyrocketing rates of social anxiety and autism kinda make one wonder… More violent crimes than in thirty years, likely due in part to desensitization from mass exposure and violent video games. Meanwhile, the trophies for “Best” killer of zombies cannot even run, jump, fight in real space and time, nor carry ANY of the “equipment” they get in the games… Fantasy No wonder this generation wants to grow up and be a unicorn… Ain’t no damned unicorns in the real world… Which it seems by merely saying so, one is “cancelled” by invisible people who probably bubble-wrap their 2.5 kids.
Okay, you guys had me fooled! I thought I was watching a program from the early to mid-'60s! I was looking at the girls thinking my gosh they are grannies now... only to find out it was filmed in 2014! Ya gots to love them! We need more of this kinda stuff 🤗
@@dickiegreenleaf750Esa chica de verde es el alma del baile. Y sí, por ella el video se parecía a los 60. No había mucha gente de color bailando en la TV de aquellos años ¿acaso vives en una burbuja o quieres cambiar la historia?
Most of them now don't have any decent voices for singing, just yelling or as in rap speaking the words to a beat which anyone can do. They didn't need to use obscenities either in lyrics to sell their music back then.
OMG you kids are awesome it looks like an early broadcast from American bandstand complete with skinny ties retro dresses and ponytails. Love the camera in the way and the commentators talkin and suddenly realizing there on the air great take off on early television awesome dancing keep it up guys what a pleasure to watch 😁😁😁👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
was 10 years old when i first listen to this popular song and now 67 ...and I am so glad see these kids whose parents were not even born when this song was a hit .......good on them . fantastic !!
I frankly had not seen this sort of dance since I was a teenager over fifty years ago. It is nice to watch and to remember so many things and to realize without thinking I dance a mix of rock, watusi twist and frugg whenever I go to parties.
The girl in the middle in the front row is hands down the best dancer of the group. She has something--you can see it. The boys in the back row dance like I danced back in high school, and the way I guess I still dance at weddings. It's no good if you're not having fun. This was very kitschy and fun. Yes, we need more Low Budget Late Show dancing like this now.
I played drums in a good band at that time. Spontaneously the kids used to become like one big family on the dance floor. Made me feel beautifully happy inside when they would form into one gigantic chain and dance around the floor with laughter and joy.....
OMG, I was in 10th grade when this song came out. I remember two girls teaching me how to do this dance. I also think I dressed like the guys in this clip (back in the days before males torture themselves getting in and out of "skinny jeans" just for fashion). Love this group...such memories.
I love the young woman in the middle with the light green floral dress!! She is my favorite one of the group!! Great work on putting this video together!!
The first time that I heard this song, I was listening with a 9 transistor AM radio that was powered by a little 9 Volt battery. Reception was better if I stood near a fence, which I did for hours on end.
I was just looking up which one mine was. It was red and perhaps merely Panasonic but the Eveready with the cat running through the 9.... that burns bright.
I lived in Salem, OR from 1964 until graduating HS in 1969. Part of our PE curriculum from at least the 6th grade on required us to have 9 weeks of dancing. I can't remember what year/grade I was in but I do remember learning this dance. Great memories and music.
Wow! That was great! That girl in the front row with the above-the-knee floral dress really had the moves! I was 5 years old when this song came out. All the songs from this era were so fantastic & so many dances too. Seems like from a young age I always had a radio nearby & I remember all the songs from the early 60s (best music era ever IMO). Dances I can remember are: The Wah Watusi The Twist The Frug The Hully Gully The Pony The Jerk The Mashed Potato The Swim The Hitch Hike The Shake The Limbo The Freddie The Locomotion (from the song by Little Eva). So much fun & it's great to see all these young smiling faces having fun and doing this as a line dance. Great memories.
It's easy to imagine the producer and director discussing their casting choices from this group, "Ok boys and girls you were all excellent, thank you very much. Could the brunette in the green & black dress wait just a minute please. Thank you again everyone."
We need more low budget late show now in2020
OMG!! im out of Ipana!!! son?? Up.. There!?!?! You'll find a place called a "Liquor Store!!!"
Agreed. This is so fun. And I love the songs they choose. Ellington! The Orlons! The Marvelettes!
2024
2024
I can watch this again and again and still want to watch it....again.
ME TOO!
For a better signal and for the radio to play louder, I would go on the front porch and held the radio up in front of the meter box for as long as I wanted to listen to the radio. Those were the good ole days.
The simplicity and sheer joy they are having is so uplifting.
They are great and very happy
Oh Puke....
Mad crushing on the red head in the middle
@@julienneangelocarpo2229 lol not like they're all underage or anything... 🙄
I love it.
I love the 60s dances, and I love these kids for doing them.
Pedophile!
Nice clean cut kids enjoying themselves ,makes me wish I was young again.
We are FOREVER YOUNG😉
Hard to see Clean Cut kids nowadays.
@@vinsnan6259Depends on the cutlery one uses.
the young man in the right back corner cracks me up he is just having such FUN
they looked like they had fun...i love it
I love their young smiling faces. Made me smile too.
These kids are the cutest.
I can't imagine how much fun those kids had putting this show together. I like the debonair announcer and dancers are all so special!
These young people are amazing!
It's so naturally uplifting it wipes all the negativity away. More stuff like this is needed in this age.
it's called tiktok
It`s just nice to see people dancing and enjoying themselves.
What a strange comment
@@seronymus And what is 'strange' about seeing people enjoying themselves?
@@makaha5750 😂.. Exactly , thar was big fun 👍
Enjoying their youth...
Released by The Orlons in May 1962. Got to #2 on the U.S. charts...and #5 on the R&B charts. Sold over 1,000,000 copies and started the "Watusi" dance craze....
white people i swear..
I enjoyed this so much! I was a guest on one of these "Low Budget Late Shows"! I also entered & won quite a few "dance-offs" & "marathon dances" that were held at local "matinees" or indoor movie theaters that had stages back "in the day" (60's). There were also "rec [recreation center]" dances every weekend during the Summer, along w/ Drive-In movies. I can remember going to my first Beatles movie (A Hard Days Night) in the mid-60s. The girls in the audience were screaming so loud during the whole movie & we weren't able to hear anything! I first got a whiff of marijuana at a Beach Boys Concert in I think it was Santa Monica, CA, but I was pretty young when I went w/ a friend & her family, so I mainly remember the atmosphere, the crowd singing & dancing w/ the band, & all the refreshments we got! That's when I bought my first album.
Boy did we have some clean fun back then! I don't know if teenagers today know what that's like.....actually interacting w/ others & engaging them in practical jokes, dances, or in playing street games like 4-square, kick ball, baseball, touch football, hide-n-seek, etc. until late into the night. The whole neighborhood would be involved, including parents cooking on the "Bar-B" (barbecue pits).
In those days, many of us kept our doors unlocked or kept them opened, w/ only the screen door (yes, we had those) locked, during the Spring & Summer months. We never had to worry about burglars. We barely had 2 cents to rub together, but I wouldn't trade those memories for anything (except maybe Heaven).
Yep, those were the days. 40 years from now the oldsters will reminiscing about Spongebob and X-boxes I suppose.
I was born in 1962, had one of the first cell phones in the SF Bay Area, & now I see 👶🏼 newborns addicted to screens & parents happy to distract & morphine-drip screen time into every area. I got rid of tv in 1984- felt brainwashed! So, yeah. Real human interactions, play, good & bad, sometimes wonderful or horrible- but it was REAL!
Tastes, smells, touches, sights, sounds of real people, in real places, doing human interactions. Video “Seeing” and “hearing” through an artificial screen & speaker are a new type of human “real” that we don’t yet know how it’ll impact us.
But, the skyrocketing rates of social anxiety and autism kinda make one wonder…
More violent crimes than in thirty years, likely due in part to desensitization from mass exposure and violent video games.
Meanwhile, the trophies for “Best” killer of zombies cannot even run, jump, fight in real space and time, nor carry ANY of the “equipment” they get in the games…
Fantasy
No wonder this generation wants to grow up and be a unicorn…
Ain’t no damned unicorns in the real world…
Which it seems by merely saying so, one is “cancelled” by invisible people who probably bubble-wrap their 2.5 kids.
well written!!!❤
I love the way this generation is enjoying themselves dancing to the wah watusi! Good Job guys!!
Okay, you guys had me fooled! I thought I was watching a program from the early to mid-'60s! I was looking at the girls thinking my gosh they are grannies now... only to find out it was filmed in 2014!
Ya gots to love them! We need more of this kinda stuff 🤗
They're very good dancers.
just love these kids..precious!!! May God Bless and keep all of them!
🙏
amen
Maybe God sent them out to slaughter in the jungles of Vietnam
I loved dancing to this back in the day... So nice seeing these kids enjoying like I once did.
Hello Lorraine, How are you doing?
The girl in the green in the front row was the best. I was fooled thinking it was 60's because of her. Great job!!!!!
My vote for best dancer is the young lady next to her in the black dress with yellow belt.
@@TheBullyMomma Why so? Is this a race thing? She made several mistakes.
@@dickiegreenleaf750 , Since I’m white I really doubt it. I like fluidity in a dancer and she was very smooth in her movements.
@@dickiegreenleaf750Esa chica de verde es el alma del baile. Y sí, por ella el video se parecía a los 60. No había mucha gente de color bailando en la TV de aquellos años ¿acaso vives en una burbuja o quieres cambiar la historia?
@@congocuatro118 Thank God. The colored peopled had their own dance.
I don't know why, but everytime I see this video I have to smile 😊
I love it 👍
I suspect you are in good company.
So enjoyable. Such happy dancing. Life is to be enjoyed.
I thought it was.not be broke and warring 247 and threaten and criticized. And messed with mentally
I couldn't even imagine myself dancing on live T.V. ever ! Thumbs up to all.
@josef mengele LOL! Be nice!
WOW! You lads and lasses ROCK! Luv U!!!!
What a great time I had growing up with all of this music. Wouldn’t trade it for the music of today for anything.
Most of them now don't have any decent voices for singing, just yelling or as in rap speaking the words to a beat which anyone can do. They didn't need to use obscenities either in lyrics to sell their music back then.
@@Tlyna1952 so many songs from the 60s are about doing heroine its not even funny
Same here Lola!
@@MrJizzinmypantz Legit? Can you tell me some good ones?
This is a great song and a funlooking dance!
Me encanta la música de los 60's
This just blows me away, love the group and song, grew up listening to this, kids look clean and are having a good time!!!
OMG you kids are awesome it looks like an early broadcast from American bandstand complete with skinny ties retro dresses and ponytails. Love the camera in the way and the commentators talkin and suddenly realizing there on the air great take off on early television awesome dancing keep it up guys what a pleasure to watch 😁😁😁👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️
I keep coming back to this and just smile and grin...
was 10 years old when i first listen to this popular song and now 67 ...and I am so glad see these kids whose parents were not even born when this song was a hit .......good on them . fantastic !!
I frankly had not seen this sort of dance since I was a teenager over fifty years ago. It is nice to watch and to remember so many things and to realize without thinking I dance a mix of rock, watusi twist and frugg whenever I go to parties.
Rock on 🤙
FANTASTIC Choreography!
Treasure! Treasure, treasure, treasure, James Copeland. You've set it to history, maybe history will bring back this great spirit.
OMG , these young people are amazing , nice to watch .
YES! LET. US. ALL. DANCE. AND. BE. JOYFUL. AGAIN!
AMEN!
The girl in the middle in the front row is hands down the best dancer of the group. She has something--you can see it. The boys in the back row dance like I danced back in high school, and the way I guess I still dance at weddings. It's no good if you're not having fun. This was very kitschy and fun. Yes, we need more Low Budget Late Show dancing like this now.
That's why they placed her in the front, her smiles are real joy ..
I don't know, the boy with the glasses in the front left is pretty nifty and keen.
So cool to see these young kids dance to this music and having fun doing it.
They are so cute. Having so much pure fun dancing all together. Love this so much. ❤
Me too!!!
My God, this is so awesome. ❤
I'm with you Ben. I absolutely LOVE this!!!
The young lady in the front, was a Great dancer; and did the choreography for this particular dance. I think she’s quite talented.
Excellent
I played drums in a good band at that time. Spontaneously the kids used to become like one big family on the dance floor. Made me feel beautifully happy inside when they would form into one gigantic chain and dance around the floor with laughter and joy.....
OMG, I was in 10th grade when this song came out. I remember two girls teaching me how to do this dance. I also think I dressed like the guys in this clip (back in the days before males torture themselves getting in and out of "skinny jeans" just for fashion). Love this group...such memories.
I can't stop smiling watching them dance!.
The big guy may not be the best of the dancers, but he is definitely having the most fun :)
Thank you for noticing him
He's a dancing fool!!!😄😄😄😄
That's for sure!!!!!
I love that guy!!!
its like an addiction i have to watch this video every so often great song great kids great choreography thanks!!!
I love the young woman in the middle with the light green floral dress!! She is my favorite one of the group!!
Great work on putting this video together!!
woud be nice to see how she looks today 😉
Now she is in our age
I like the ratio of young ladies to gents.Perfect!
Makes you feel so good.......
Love the innocence ❤❤❤❤
Love this! I keep watching it over and over. So fun.
These young kids know how to dance! They look so cool!
ADORABLE ❤🎉❤😂😂 Go Babies GO so Awesome !! Love this Song 🎉🎉😂
I really enjoyed watching the Kansas City dancers perform. Brings back a lot of memories. Many thanks.
Hello Juanita, How are you doing?
The wholesomeness of this is almost too much to bear! Lol Seriously though, good for them. They look great and are having fun.
Yes! Keep on dancing all you lovely people having so much fun
This was a number one record for The Orlons out of Philadelphia.
Yes, it definitely came out of Philadelphia. I saw the Orlons in person. One of the greatest groups, I ever saw. Very entertaining.
the cute gal in the green dress with bangs in the center front is so into it-love her spirit!
I lived through this era, They all look good to me!
good to see the kids enjoying themselves....plus it keeps them off the street......
They look like they are having so much fun!
I come here for the smiles.
They do a great justice to the spirit of this song..... Good job
Pretty good line in the front. "We're on camera right now." He says with so much swag. Love it.
these kids were Awesome!!
wow I fell in love repeatedly
The girl in the black dress/yellow belt and the tall guy in the back/right corner were my favorite 💛
You’re all wonderful for keeping these dances alive😌 keep it up and thank you 😊
The first time that I heard this song, I was listening with a 9 transistor AM radio that was powered by a little 9 Volt battery. Reception was better if I stood near a fence, which I did for hours on end.
April Ross
Seems like yesterday, sister.....
@Joan In Florida And you had to pull up the antenna. Mine had a brown leatherette case.
@@michelleg2112 lol mine did too, listened to Honey radio am 56 in Detroit area.
I was just looking up which one mine was. It was red and perhaps merely Panasonic but the Eveready with the cat running through the 9.... that burns bright.
Lucky You April, Mine was only six transistors.
I lived in Salem, OR from 1964 until graduating HS in 1969. Part of our PE curriculum from at least the 6th grade on required us to have 9 weeks of dancing. I can't remember what year/grade I was in but I do remember learning this dance. Great memories and music.
love the song and the dance
Some great smiles from that group, good stuff! Blond cutie has a winning smile for sure.
With this delightful little dance I shall sleep right through tonight
I love this dance
They look so clean-cut.
Wow! That was great! That girl in the front row with the above-the-knee floral dress really had the moves!
I was 5 years old when this song came out. All the songs from this era were so fantastic & so many dances too. Seems like from a young age I always had a radio nearby & I remember all the songs from the early 60s (best music era ever IMO).
Dances I can remember are:
The Wah Watusi
The Twist
The Frug
The Hully Gully
The Pony
The Jerk
The Mashed Potato
The Swim
The Hitch Hike
The Shake
The Limbo
The Freddie
The Locomotion (from the song by Little Eva).
So much fun & it's great to see all these young smiling faces having fun and doing this as a line dance.
Great memories.
She's the choreographer of the group which is why the cameras on her a lot
What about the Limbo? Wasn‘t that big back then? It had a revival when I was a kid in the 80s.
The frug?! I cannot wait to look this up
I really enjoyed watching these kids enjoy themselves showing off their routine. Keep on dancing!
Jay Igaboo Simple and sweet. Like life once was. Bless them.....they made me smile ...and remember!
like the girl in black dress
Take that
Jay Igaboo I still love the way it was there
Jay Igaboo .
Pure unadulterated innocence. So refreshing.
Imagine! They look like they’re actually having fun. 💃🕺
This is An Excellent Video"With the great 60s dance presentation"The way the video quality was filmed"It's Absolute Dynamite"Don't Change a thing!!!
The song was by The Orlons- featuring Shirley Brinkley.
I did say Shirley Brickley not Brinkley. Apparently spell check wouldn't accept Brickley.
I love this I was13yrs old when this song came out, for a while I thought this was video from that era these young people in Kansas City nailed it!
So cute.....
I loved all the dance songs of the early to mid sixties.
Love this short video of kids having good, clean fun just dancing like this! Wonderful!
Hello Sheila, How are you doing?
WICHITA, KANSAS
Yep, these cute kids are Kansans!
This is OUT-standing!
What a really great bunch of kids, making our own music look and sound so great!
I just love these kids they're great
Exceptionally charming.
This was a time we need back again. NOW! 😁
Too much fun! I'm still smiling watching them!
clap clap clap great uplifting ideo
Beautiful Young Girls And Men Having A Good Time 😊
Another A+!
I forgot all about the low budget late show.
The young man on the front row with the glasses has the moves
he sure does
It's easy to imagine the producer and director discussing their casting choices from this group, "Ok boys and girls you were all excellent, thank you very much. Could the brunette in the green & black dress wait just a minute please. Thank you again everyone."
From the other comments it sound like she was the choreographer for this routine.
The young lady in the black dress and the young man with the black sweater have the best rythym!!
the queen on the back row right is feeling her groove.