@@grapefruit3581 I was taliking about the dancing, and just to let you know my 90 year old mother is a social and political, activist that has NEVER uttered a racial slur in her life. Her surpise 18th birthday party in Chicago in 49' had more black people than white and none of them were serving. You thinking everyone's a bigot is just as bad as all racist people thinking all nonwhites should be subserviant. You're a reverse fucking RACIST!
@@grapefruit3581 Again I was talking about the dancing, and my mother danced like that alone side and with black people in the 50's, southside was not segregated, my grandparents were live in servants yeah the help came in white too. I have never pretended to KNOW what it's like to look thrpugh a black persons eyes, but you don't own suffering. My mom was beaten by her biological father because she and my grandma weren't racist pieces of shit like he was. My grandma took my mom and left when she was 3, my grandma just turned 19. I'm in my 60's and I've been fighting all my life for basic human rights and equality. Hell I was tear gassed in Seattle over 40 nights in a row in the protests last summer. Thinking the worst of someone before you even know who they are is prejudice...and that ain't right.
Cheri Noelke, ich bin 58 Jahre, mein Mann 64 Jahre und unsere Tochter ist 29 Jahre. Sie sagt das gleiche wie du! 😂👍‼️ Rock and Roll ist toll und wir tanzen jeden Tag. Ich arbeite im Krankenhaus und das Tanzen und Motorrad fahren sind mein Ausgleich. Bleib gesund ‼️
How can you not end up in the hospital while dancing like this? it's from a movie, they're probably top notch professional Hollywood dancers, very few people in the world can do some of those dance moves!
When I was 12 I didnt even know my parents could dance.. Then one night in 1987 or so, at a birthday party, in the middle of the living room, they did EXACTLY THIS right in front of me!! My eyes POPPED out of my head!
@@penelope8969 no, those kind of questions were useless. They werent the kind of parents whod "waste time" teaching their kids anyrhing. Alcohol was more important.. :(
squishy meatloaf did they outlaw this kind of dancing??? Go out and dance like they are in this video. No one is stopping you. Stop your complaining!!!!
squishy meatloaf you can still dance like this at certain clubs. Do research in your area that teach the Jive, Jitter Bug and other dances of that sort.
Mary Webb not hateful, just that people get to me about complaining about how things are now compared to how things were. Granted there are some things we can’t get back but certainly dancing and music are not one of those things!!!!!
@@AS-og6sj I agree, but no matter how you compare it, most music you hear these days have disgusting lyrics! I can't talk much about modern music in English as I only listen to old music in English but at least in Spanish I always have to hear my neighbours playing music with terrible lyrics. Not all songs are like that but the popular ones are surely awful to listen to.
I was a teenager in the 50s and for us it was the Friday night dance at the VFW...cokes in 6 ounce bottles for a nickel and beer was only .69 cents a six pack a dime for a pack of Camels non filter. I'm old now but can still dance the shoes off ladies half my age. Rock til you die.
@@johnnyenglish8376 I am a proud 75 years old. I've been to war in Vietnam married and went on to college. I was married 32 years when my wife died. Life is interesting if you get involved. Glad I could give you some perspective on age. It's all a state of mind. And yes I use Viagra.
The point is, for that kind of dance, there’s no messing up as long as you keep moving. Flow is everything, if you have the flow, you can do all kinds of awkward movements, but inertia carries you onward and makes it work.
@@clovers10 I agree. I didn't see a single true mistake in the whole thing, considering the couples that were on the front and received a special focus by the camera. I'm amazed of how precise the movements are and the coordination of them all to avoid colliding with other dancers.
@@Zack-bl2gg To further this point, the early rock was blues based. Because of the minor seventh (the "blue" note) a musician could play the wrong note, and as long as they followed it with a correct note from the scale in the key, it sounded right.
wmlbrown Yeah, I swing dance, and have been to a couple of swing dance places...Really, what I meant is that, back then, SO many people knew how to actually dance...There are some people who are still into swing dancing and those kinds of dances, but not as many as back then
YES..back then, no killings, no knife assaults, maybe the odd fist fights at the end of the night but nothing to talk about. More atmosphere in the bars, BANDS played live back then also. I'm in my 70's now but remember the BEST times of my life in the 60's and 70's. Good luck to the future generations with MORE fights and deaths and more deadly DRUGS out there.........what a wonderful world eh? (not for me anymore).. BUT LOVE YOU TUBE and all the OLDIES>...THANK YOU AND THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!
@@gerryvanderzeypen1214 As much as I love the 50s and 60s life would be rather hard for a minority. I'm not a huge fan of this current day and age. But the 50s weren't easy for everyone.
Anyway their dancing abilities are extraordinary nowadays there are not many talents being able to dance like them I suppose. May be I am mistaken but we don't see anything like these on TV except for performances half naked but it is not dancing show
@@dang2443 Back then, a lot of the dances were in the high school gym. Yes, we danced like that and had a ball. It was all about muscle cars, cruising, going to the drive-in and to the dance on Friday night. It was a wonderful time to be young.
Oh man…to think my grandparents were dancing like this in their 20’s and I’m sitting here in my 20’s watching this. Let’s bring it back please! This looks so fun.
solreaver83 Exactly i dont consider myself a Parties person, Actually i dont party at all, i think if i were alive in that decade I would have Party like a Rock Star.
You do realize there swing dance and lindy hop venues right? Stop making the excuse "of if it were like this I would do X" they exist now go out there and have fun
Missed that era, shame, born in 59, but enjoyed another great dancing time, funky and later disco (without the cocaine), what happened, having fun waiting for saturday night all week, to me, just the dance floor and the back of my VW Bettle :).
I get tears in my eyes while watching this. This people had far more fun compared to my generation. I’m 30 years old, been to a lot of different kind off dancing clubs, never had that grade of fun as the people on the video. Most of the people at my age are staring at their phones in the club. I wish i was born during that era.
I grew up during this period. What is different from today. Among other things, we all went to church every sunday, we all respected our teachers, our parents and especially the police. Most of us kids never expected mom and dad to give us money for things, we tried to figure out how we could earn money to buy things. Was such as caddying, ,baby sitting, hauling groceries from the supermarket, shoveling snow for neighborgs or working part time somewhere. Most of the homes had a mother and a father, we ate dinner every night with the family, we did our homework, and spent our spare time at the playground playing basketball, or other games with our friends. Our fondest opposite sex dream was to kiss a certain girl, or maybe hold her hand. We respected our lady friends and were nervous when a special one smiled at us. We did not have any drugs, although some smoked cigarettes, these were the "bad" kids. Yes there was segregation to some extent, but whites and blacks did not hate each, many were friends, especially through sports. I grew up in Pennsylvania. Loved my mom and dad and my aunts and uncles and cousins and they loved me.
grampy thirteen I wish I could grow up back then. I'm still a teen and when I look around my high school, it makes me sad and think what went wrong. I grew up listening to my parents music and I was raised a lot like the 1980s, so I can't complain to much. But I totally prefer the way things were back then. Now everyone lacks respect and kindness for each other I find.
Been there, done that. I am 64 and comparing today verses many years ago, I will pick many years ago. I understood what my father fought for during WWII. So did our neighbors. We were poor and did not have much but we did have a hot meal every night and 2 channels on TV to watch.....God Bless
It's Staurday night and I'm spending my evening alone on the internet watching how people used to spend their Saturday nights back when their was no internet. The future isn't what it used to be.
Thats a pretty profound comment to make my friend - unfortunately its also a very true one. Technology doesnt always mean that things get better. I think we've all lost something somewhere.....
***** It's all about the reality you create. I learned how to swing dance three years ago, and got good at it. Now, I'm going to Friday and Saturday night dances almost every week, and having a good time dancing my butt off. So the way I see it...you have a choice. You can sit around rolling your eyes, grumbling about how technology has ruined things...our you can get out there, learn something new, and live life.
Gerry Thrash AMEN! You speak the truth! Bill Haley and The Comets was one of my favorites growing up in the '50s & '60s. There were so many of them and, oddly enough, ballroom dancing and swing were, often, taught in school. It's better to get out there and live the life you want rather than bark at cars as they pass you by.
Such energetic dancing like this isnt easy. Bill Haley and the Comets delivering one hell of a beat that also focused strongly on rhythm, he unlocked that formula to get people to move and you just can't sit still when Bill Haley plays.
Swing dancing is really big and older people love it - It is a form of jitterbug and lindy hop - There are lots of groups that dance every Saturday night -This kind of dancing is alive and well for a while but I am not sure the younger generations will want to continue but I could be wrong -
@@7spiritualcompass706 That was before the drug culture. Didn't need much money to have fun either and if you didn't have money that was okay too. By the early 70s the natural glow started to leave peoples faces and "spacing out" became popular.
The godparents of my eldest sister danced like this, they were in their late 40's back then when my mom asked them to show the kids their "hidden" moves one afternoon, they looked at each other and winked. Mom moved the furniture and plants, dad put the music and once the tune played... wow, they were no longer a middle age couple but a pair of happy teenagers rocking our house. I cheered them all the way, then asked them to dance two more songs and try to dance too with our uncle, but I was too small and not acrobatic, my sister did it, then for the next months I had to be her dance partner 😅, then I had to be her Lambada partner, then her Cumbia partner 😅, and so on until she got her first boyfriend, I was off duty 😂.
Guy in the glasses was named Ken Criswell. He was a great dancer and was many movies dancing and teaching other extras how to dance. He was from Kentucky.
I wear skirts/dresses and people always ask me “how do you do that with a skirt/dress”. From now on, I will refer them to this video!! I just walk in my dress/skirt in all seasons. It’s nothing compared to THIS!
Same here!!! My family get that all the time. Once when I was younger some kids told me I couldn't climb up the tree with them because I had a dress on (the kids meant it to be mean, the where a bit of a bully) and I promptly climbed up that tree and faster then they did! Now I will admit to wear shorts underneath because I have always been the type to hang upside down from something when I was young so Mom had us wear them to stay a little ladylike (she was just like us when she was young), I have alwayhung out with the young children and they always seem to catch a skirt with there foot. My motto is better safe then embarrassed!
This makes me smile. It's fun to see people dance like this. They look like they are so happy and that they don't need to drink just to have fun. I wish it were the same in these times too, but it's too rare.
Wow I found it the guy with the glasses was my great grandpa he passed away last year at the age of 89 all I know was that he could still dance great at an old age except not like when he was younger lol
Ooooh man. When I heard this music coming from the living room and the house started to shake I couldn't find a hole big enough to hide in. Cuz I knew my big sisters were coming to find me and bring me out to the living room floor and make me dance with them! 55 years later I'd give anything to go back to those days....
I would like to thank the young audience, aged between 15 and 20, who somehow enjoys music and dances from the 50's and 60's. Congratulations, you have good taste!
Try to find a dance school where they teach Latin and ballroom dancing. I've don it for 4 years and it never fades. The basic steps of the Jive are easy to learn and fun to do.
It sure does and it also takes alot of stamina... I took dance class in college and my instructors were oldschool and tried teaching the class how to dance like this. And booooyyy was this difficult and tiring
This is what my parents living room looked like every weekend. I had an older brother and sister whose friends all were welcome at our house. I was only in my preteens but I loved watching them.
I believe people were much happier in that era. At least they look like they have so much real fun together. Women and men were really enjoying each other, and look at the people now....
You aren't kidding! I use to take dance back in my teens and early 20's, did mostly ballroom but I had a friend who was very into swing dancing and got me into it too. This has a lot of swing dance in it; it's as fun as it looks but when you get hurt, it hurts! 😅
+Lesley May With Bill Haley and the Comets playing this wasn't just some random sock hop. These dancers, while not pros, were selected to be part of the show because they could dance.
I remember dancing the jitterbug and we were moving, had a ball of fun, none of us were on drugs or booze, we just danced & loved the music .Like Elvis said, you just have to move with the music.
They move that quickly and that precise without breaking their smiles or pauses. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn! i wish i could do that! plus all those flips and stuff! yes please!
Our parents and grandparents had style when it came to dancing. My dad was born in 1946 and my mom in 1950. Those times were phenomenal when it came to dancing. Nowadays what you see is twerking.
Great scene with some fantastic dancing. I have this movie on video somewhere in my collection. It's called "Don't Knock the Rock" from 1956. The people dancing here are professionals because it takes a lot of skill, good timing and stamina to dance like that. I used to be able to dance like that without the flips and the fancy maneuvers when I was younger but now nearing 50, forget it. The brain says go, go but the arthritis in the knees says sit down sucker you ain't going nowhere. Getting old sucks! Lol. Thank you for uploading this clip.
Tx for the heads up on this movie. I saw a movie called simply "Dance" on my old movie channel. Have been looking for it for years. So far, you've come close. So thanks again, I hope you're arthritis isn't too bad, I feel your pain, but let's keep dancing, just maybe slower.
A little before my time (73), but great dancing with Bill Haley and His Comets. "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets is considered to be the first truly rock 'n roll song. Thanks for the video!
they did crash sometimes but dancing in those days was done at arms length if you know what i mean and it created space if you couldnt dance like the bill haley clip you needed to get some help it was dangerous believe me if you observe the aerials it was risky this kind of jiving meant dancing with your partner knowing were she was at all times not like on tv nowadays dancing 5 metres apart doing there own thing thats not jiving and im damm sure of that and if a couple were good we would stand back and empty the centre of the dance hall and give them floor space great entertainment when the beatles came on the sceen jiving almost dissappeard the 60s seem to slow down the music but im glad i didnt miss any of those magical years im 71 now and stil turn the clock back now and again --------------
Today people/couples dancing do not care to look ( the guy is suppose to keep watch ) to make sure he and his partner do not hit or run into anyone around then. Self centered today. And today people would rather get angry and fight instead of saying their sorry in case they did class accidentally
Michael Gaynor am I right? What gets me is that people complain about today’s dancing when in reality they enact a law that prevents people from dancing like this. So what’s stopping you?
Corinne Woolley transsexuality existed back then too, transvestites. Very underground and hidden though because it was dangerous . We should be happy that their lives aren’t in danger today, though in a lot of countries they still are beaten and killed.
Now that's what I'm talking bout !!! Man , if this don't make you wanna shake a leg ( like my grandma used to say ) you may be a stick in the mud. People having a blast and I can still feel the heat all these years later.
I imagine it would have been a great way to celebrate with good music and dancing like this after the Allies defeated the army of the villain with the short mustache. This music is great.
This is a dance craze that lasted from 1930s to late 1950s and early 1960s and then came the Twist which was such a huge craze. It sold records by the millions so everyone tried to start the next dance craze. Then came 'dirty dancing' and it kind of went down hill to what we have now which is no one dancing but some woman on the stage doing movements that would have got her arrested 40 years ago. It is rather sad because now young people can't even do a straight dance like a waltz for wedding dancing. This was when you went out to have FUN not get so drunk you were vomiting in the street or so stoned you couldn't remember what you did or 'hook up' with someone to ''scratch an itch' that left you soulless, lonely and with VD. I feel so sorry for young people today. They have so much stuff dumped on them. Parents who want them to make millions or parents who want them to be politicians or parents who want them to save the earth. No wonder they get drunk, stoned or whatever to escape from it all.
Swing dancing was dead before the 60's hit; by then the dance crazes like the Madison had begun and then the Twist dominated everything. The Mashed Potato, the Swim, the Monkey - gradually dancing got more and more individual and a lot more crazed in a good way. Then the disco scene brought people back together and after a couple of decades that involved into grinding and such lmao
Now *this* is dancing. I want to learn how to dance like this so badly. And I am not going to allow myself to mope around, complaining how badly I want to dance like this, I am actually going to learn how to! I don't think there is any form of dance more fun and exciting than the sock hop.
João Ribeiro Really? I have not taken the time to look around for local dance studios to see which forms of dance they teach (mainly because my parents won't let me take any extracurricular activities and instead force me to work in the family business). Glad to know it is easy to find, now when I finally am able to take the time to learn, I can actually find a proper instructor! Thanks for telling me that!
Melanie Gardiner I really gotta get out more, I know. XD Other than school and work, I am only allowed to go out of the house every couple of months. Or, when you include going out to the store to get groceries or something, I go out 2 times per month or less (and again, that is only at the store, nowhere else).
I thought grandma needed the hip replacement because of old age but it was really because she was living life hard back in the day.
Lol 😂
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Wayne Zahra lmao
HAHAHAHAHAHA😂😂😂
Lol 🤣 of course 😂😂😂😂
When you realize your parents were far cooler than you'll ever be!
@@grapefruit3581 I was taliking about the dancing, and just to let you know my 90 year old mother is a social and political, activist that has NEVER uttered a racial slur in her life. Her surpise 18th birthday party in Chicago in 49' had more black people than white and none of them were serving. You thinking everyone's a bigot is just as bad as all racist people thinking all nonwhites should be subserviant. You're a reverse fucking RACIST!
@@grapefruit3581 Again I was talking about the dancing, and my mother danced like that alone side and with black people in the 50's, southside was not segregated, my grandparents were live in servants yeah the help came in white too. I have never pretended to KNOW what it's like to look thrpugh a black persons eyes, but you don't own suffering. My mom was beaten by her biological father because she and my grandma weren't racist pieces of shit like he was. My grandma took my mom and left when she was 3, my grandma just turned 19. I'm in my 60's and I've been fighting all my life for basic human rights and equality. Hell I was tear gassed in Seattle over 40 nights in a row in the protests last summer. Thinking the worst of someone before you even know who they are is prejudice...and that ain't right.
Except those were obviously professional dancers
Cheri Noelke, ich bin 58 Jahre, mein Mann 64 Jahre und unsere Tochter ist 29 Jahre. Sie sagt das gleiche wie du! 😂👍‼️ Rock and Roll ist toll und wir tanzen jeden Tag. Ich arbeite im Krankenhaus und das Tanzen und Motorrad fahren sind mein Ausgleich. Bleib gesund ‼️
I would say grand parents... my dad was a typical flower power boomer degenerate ... this video shows silent and GI generations dancing to Jump Blues
How can you not fall in love with someone while dancing like this
They look so flippin cool as well
#soulmate🤭
How can you not end up in the hospital while dancing like this? it's from a movie, they're probably top notch professional Hollywood dancers, very few people in the world can do some of those dance moves!
Try and do this with ww2 boots
@@nightwi1dernessbrianjohnso803 man is not that hard to dance like this... maybe some of those movement are, but the normal dance is just fun
When I was 12 I didnt even know my parents could dance.. Then one night in 1987 or so, at a birthday party, in the middle of the living room, they did EXACTLY THIS right in front of me!! My eyes POPPED out of my head!
Did you ask them to teach you how to do the dance 💃🏽 🕺🏻?
@@penelope8969 no, those kind of questions were useless. They werent the kind of parents whod "waste time" teaching their kids anyrhing. Alcohol was more important.. :(
@@johnmullens2857 ....Aaah, mate. Thanks for sharing that. Robert, UK.
which head u talking about?
@@spacies8882 which head has eyes?
Try again, funny boy
My dad is 83 and can still dance like this, minus the jumping lol. Use to love watching mom and dad dance.
Lee Pratt aww that’s so cute
Lee Pratt I’d love to learn this ;-;
Lee Pratt does he give courses ? xD
I use to watch my folks dance like this until l got older & he taught me how, give me my knee brace & l will work it again (minus the jumping)
God bless him, Lee
I want this type of dancing back.
squishy meatloaf did they outlaw this kind of dancing??? Go out and dance like they are in this video. No one is stopping you. Stop your complaining!!!!
Go to an Arthur Murray’s dance class.
@@jogmas12 PMS or are you always this hateful!
squishy meatloaf you can still dance like this at certain clubs. Do research in your area that teach the Jive, Jitter Bug and other dances of that sort.
Mary Webb not hateful, just that people get to me about complaining about how things are now compared to how things were. Granted there are some things we can’t get back but certainly dancing and music are not one of those things!!!!!
Today this old footage simply expresses fun and youth - but back in the 50's it meant shock and horror to the prudish adults. Thanks for posting!
And back then people were complaining about the music and dances just like people nowadays do! It's all a circle
50s rock and roll made the youth crazy.
@@AS-og6sj I agree, but no matter how you compare it, most music you hear these days have disgusting lyrics! I can't talk much about modern music in English as I only listen to old music in English but at least in Spanish I always have to hear my neighbours playing music with terrible lyrics. Not all songs are like that but the popular ones are surely awful to listen to.
@@vio3366Agree,miss music like this🥰
Yeah,the prudish adults who had done the Charleston ,or later the Jitterbug or Lindy in their own youth!
This looks so damn fun. I'd love to spend my evenings like this. And also it seems like a great way to keep fit too with how energetic it is lol
Get into Lindy Hop! It still exists!
Well notice fat people didnt exist back then
i know what keeps me energetic is hand walking and standing and spinning on my hands
I was a teenager in the 50s and for us it was the Friday night dance at the VFW...cokes in 6 ounce bottles for a nickel and beer was only .69 cents a six pack a dime for a pack of Camels non filter. I'm old now but can still dance the shoes off ladies half my age. Rock til you die.
Nice one. Good for you bud. Never stop!!!
How old r u
@@johnnyenglish8376 I am a proud 75 years old. I've been to war in Vietnam married and went on to college. I was married 32 years when my wife died. Life is interesting if you get involved. Glad I could give you some perspective on age. It's all a state of mind. And yes I use Viagra.
Ray Snyder wow you must be great inspiration to lots of young children ty
@@johnnyenglish8376 my motto is I may grow old but I refuse to grow up. Keep the inner child in your life and you'll forever be young at heart.
I love the fact that they fall or almost fall to the ground but they play it off and continue smiling, not stop and run in embarrassment.
Lol, those aren’t accidents or missteps though, that’s part of the dance. You don’t get embarrassed from *not* making a mistake.
Also you wouldn’t get harassed for not doing it right
The point is, for that kind of dance, there’s no messing up as long as you keep moving. Flow is everything, if you have the flow, you can do all kinds of awkward movements, but inertia carries you onward and makes it work.
@@clovers10 I agree. I didn't see a single true mistake in the whole thing, considering the couples that were on the front and received a special focus by the camera.
I'm amazed of how precise the movements are and the coordination of them all to avoid colliding with other dancers.
@@Zack-bl2gg To further this point, the early rock was blues based. Because of the minor seventh (the "blue" note) a musician could play the wrong note, and as long as they followed it with a correct note from the scale in the key, it sounded right.
The energy from 1:10 onwards was insane! I wish dances were still like this nowadays.
Lindy hop still exists! I was at a dance last night with a live band and the energy was just like this!
my grandma is 73 and she remembers dancing like this with her brothers as a kid 🥰
God bless and good health your grandma ❤️.
Wow that must be a fun..
I hope I can make it happen again.
I wish more people still danced like this...I love it!!
They DO still dance like this. You can find Swing-Dance clubs and concerts many places. There are rock-a-billy bands and fans everywhere.
wmlbrown Yeah, I swing dance, and have been to a couple of swing dance places...Really, what I meant is that, back then, SO many people knew how to actually dance...There are some people who are still into swing dancing and those kinds of dances, but not as many as back then
I wanna be there!
violinplayer101
***** What's your problem?
2019 is impressed with you 1950
& 2020
YES..back then, no killings, no knife assaults, maybe the odd fist fights at the end of the night but nothing to talk about. More atmosphere in the bars, BANDS played live back then also. I'm in my 70's now but remember the BEST times of my life in the 60's and 70's. Good luck to the future generations with MORE fights and deaths and more deadly DRUGS out there.........what a wonderful world eh? (not for me anymore).. BUT LOVE YOU TUBE and all the OLDIES>...THANK YOU AND THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!
@@gerryvanderzeypen1214 As much as I love the 50s and 60s life would be rather hard for a minority. I'm not a huge fan of this current day and age. But the 50s weren't easy for everyone.
2020 is impressed with 1950
Dances, cars and fashion were the only things that were impressive in the 50s.
And none of those people bumped into each other dancing like that. Amazing!
They did just once..1:58
It's because they're professional dancers making a movie
Anyway their dancing abilities are extraordinary nowadays there are not many talents being able to dance like them I suppose. May be I am mistaken but we don't see anything like these on TV except for performances half naked but it is not dancing show
@@francesquinn-escott744 yeah, no kidding! I was just about to write that. Do they honestly think the average person back then could dance that well?
@@dang2443 Back then, a lot of the dances were in the high school gym. Yes, we danced like that and had a ball. It was all about muscle cars, cruising, going to the drive-in and to the dance on Friday night. It was a wonderful time to be young.
Oh man…to think my grandparents were dancing like this in their 20’s and I’m sitting here in my 20’s watching this. Let’s bring it back please! This looks so fun.
This honestly had me smiling the whole time. I wish days were still like this. It just looks so much like a “simple life” and I’m here for it.
The good times are there to be had. I hope I can create this kind of mood.
if this is what it was like to go out these days id never be home
solreaver83 Exactly i dont consider myself a Parties person, Actually i dont party at all, i think if i were alive in that decade I would have Party like a Rock Star.
Modern Jive, Lindy hop, it's all out there NOW, EVERYWHERE, go find it buddy.
i did't
You do realize there swing dance and lindy hop venues right? Stop making the excuse "of if it were like this I would do X" they exist now go out there and have fun
Believe me, i was a teener then
Great times !!!
Grandparents decade was awesome!!!❤ I'm jealous 😢
No hoodlums, no baggy pants.. Just pure Rock 'n Roll fun 😁👍🏻
No baggy pants??? Are you stupid and blind???
Boy that’s what you call having fun in those days I was having a heart attack just looking at them
Ryan G and didn't need drugs or alachol
Missed that era, shame, born in 59, but enjoyed another great dancing time, funky and later disco (without the cocaine), what happened, having fun waiting for saturday night all week, to me, just the dance floor and the back of my VW Bettle :).
These people are someone's great grand parents lol.
@Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart true and they will talk about me/ us too. 😊
@@robincorprew9007 the thing is, can they say something amazing about us?
@@CrystalRuizEnriquez let pray they can
Most of them are 33-Year-old now. Forever. Trust me.
Maybe not great grandparents yet but grandparents for sure. My nana was a teen in the 50s. I’m in my early 20s no children yet (only grandchild)
I sometimes think that if we just had more social dancing and much less social media everyone would be so much happier !
I get tears in my eyes while watching this. This people had far more fun compared to my generation. I’m 30 years old, been to a lot of different kind off dancing clubs, never had that grade of fun as the people on the video. Most of the people at my age are staring at their phones in the club. I wish i was born during that era.
I need to speed my songs up and get the boogie going.
I grew up during this period. What is different from today. Among other things, we all went to church every sunday, we all respected our teachers, our parents and especially the police. Most of us kids never expected mom and dad to give us money for things, we tried to figure out how we could earn money to buy things. Was such as caddying, ,baby sitting, hauling groceries from the supermarket, shoveling snow for neighborgs or working part time somewhere. Most of the homes had a mother and a father, we ate dinner every night with the family, we did our homework, and spent our spare time at the playground playing basketball, or other games with our friends. Our fondest opposite sex dream was to kiss a certain girl, or maybe hold her hand. We respected our lady friends and were nervous when a special one smiled at us. We did not have any drugs, although some smoked cigarettes, these were the "bad" kids. Yes there was segregation to some extent, but whites and blacks did not hate each, many were friends, especially through sports. I grew up in Pennsylvania. Loved my mom and dad and my aunts and uncles and cousins and they loved me.
grampy thirteen I wish I could grow up back then. I'm still a teen and when I look around my high school, it makes me sad and think what went wrong. I grew up listening to my parents music and I was raised a lot like the 1980s, so I can't complain to much. But I totally prefer the way things were back then. Now everyone lacks respect and kindness for each other I find.
Been there, done that. I am 64 and comparing today verses many years ago, I will pick many years ago. I understood what my father fought for during WWII. So did our neighbors. We were poor and did not have much but we did have a hot meal every night and 2 channels on TV to watch.....God Bless
it is not exactly this generations fault but it is demographic or overpopulation issue that made people cold and insensitive to each other.
You`ve been blessed. Thanks God.
It's Staurday night and I'm spending my evening alone on the internet watching how people used to spend their Saturday nights back when their was no internet.
The future isn't what it used to be.
Thats a pretty profound comment to make my friend - unfortunately its also a very true one. Technology doesnt always mean that things get better. I think we've all lost something somewhere.....
*****
It's all about the reality you create. I learned how to swing dance three years ago, and got good at it. Now, I'm going to Friday and Saturday night dances almost every week, and having a good time dancing my butt off. So the way I see it...you have a choice. You can sit around rolling your eyes, grumbling about how technology has ruined things...our you can get out there, learn something new, and live life.
Gerry Thrash
AMEN! You speak the truth! Bill Haley and The Comets was one of my favorites growing up in the '50s & '60s. There were so many of them and, oddly enough, ballroom dancing and swing were, often, taught in school.
It's better to get out there and live the life you want rather than bark at cars as they pass you by.
Gerry Thrash um he singing lil Richard hope they paid my man
That's life babe, y it ain't what it used to be!!!
Watching this video brings tears to my eyes. How happy and jovial they looked to the sound of the song. They were amazing dancers.
Such energetic dancing like this isnt easy. Bill Haley and the Comets delivering one hell of a beat that also focused strongly on rhythm, he unlocked that formula to get people to move and you just can't sit still when Bill Haley plays.
These days only cartoon characters dance like that
They actually still hold rockabilly comps to this day.
Which ones?
I didn't realise that cartoon chRACTERS COULD DANCE VERY WELL
Swing dancing is really big and older people love it - It is a form of jitterbug and lindy hop - There are lots of groups that dance every Saturday night -This kind of dancing is alive and well for a while but I am not sure the younger generations will want to continue but I could be wrong -
Isn't that a shame...
They were celebrating life...
WE are not.
@@7spiritualcompass706 That was before the drug culture. Didn't need much money to have fun either and if you didn't have money that was okay too. By the early 70s the natural glow started to leave peoples faces and "spacing out" became popular.
60% dancing 40% judo moves
wtf man hahaha
XD
Hast recht, schon Krass :D
+Gabe Asher And they became ghouls later. But at least they have the judo skills!
+Fortunata Pacheco but whatever. It looked like so much fun and everyone was enjoying themselves. :)
The godparents of my eldest sister danced like this, they were in their late 40's back then when my mom asked them to show the kids their "hidden" moves one afternoon, they looked at each other and winked. Mom moved the furniture and plants, dad put the music and once the tune played... wow, they were no longer a middle age couple but a pair of happy teenagers rocking our house. I cheered them all the way, then asked them to dance two more songs and try to dance too with our uncle, but I was too small and not acrobatic, my sister did it, then for the next months I had to be her dance partner 😅, then I had to be her Lambada partner, then her Cumbia partner 😅, and so on until she got her first boyfriend, I was off duty 😂.
Can't help but notice those people look a lot happier then we all do these days😅
Amazing how the girls could dance like that wearing tight straight skirts.
And girdles. Not because they needed them.
I was thinking the same thing, they could MOVE in those tight straight skirts.
And guys in suits
They also give birth to humans, remember...
AAND HEELS
Amazing. The little fella in the glasses and his partner were exceptional👌🌟👏💕
siii Antiojito la rompe toda
Yeah! Agree! Everybody danced great but he was omg amazing!
Guy in the glasses was named Ken Criswell. He was a great dancer and was many movies dancing and teaching other extras how to dance. He was from Kentucky.
Some of the coolest, most brilliant dancing I've ever seen. Wow!
I wear skirts/dresses and people always ask me “how do you do that with a skirt/dress”. From now on, I will refer them to this video!! I just walk in my dress/skirt in all seasons. It’s nothing compared to THIS!
Go Dollie , go!
Same here!!! My family get that all the time. Once when I was younger some kids told me I couldn't climb up the tree with them because I had a dress on (the kids meant it to be mean, the where a bit of a bully) and I promptly climbed up that tree and faster then they did! Now I will admit to wear shorts underneath because I have always been the type to hang upside down from something when I was young so Mom had us wear them to stay a little ladylike (she was just like us when she was young), I have alwayhung out with the young children and they always seem to catch a skirt with there foot. My motto is better safe then embarrassed!
This makes me smile. It's fun to see people dance like this. They look like they are so happy and that they don't need to drink just to have fun. I wish it were the same in these times too, but it's too rare.
progamer1o5 I bet a lot of them where high or drunk
@@particulasdecaos really 🙄
Lol you think they hadnt been drinking to let someone throw them around like that?? HAHA
I feel so melancholic watching this....its so surreal that there was such an era......soo nostalgic and just beyond words.....
It kinda makes me
sad because they were the greatest times in my life.
bring back dancing like this fr. In high school dances nowadays people just stand around
Wow I found it the guy with the glasses was my great grandpa he passed away last year at the age of 89 all I know was that he could still dance great at an old age except not like when he was younger lol
Awe that’s lovely,you found him ❤️🦋
Was that his wife he was dancing with?
No it was just a partner he was assigned by the producers
I think he was simply brilliant! I’ve noted him dancing in a few other films, too.
Isn't it so exciting to find great grandpa dancing that great? I hope you've got some of that dancing!
I could watch this dance for HOURS!!!
Damn! Look at all these beautiful couples! They could really dance those days! The way they move is amazing! That's frankly impressive!
Ooooh man. When I heard this music coming from the living room and the house started to shake I couldn't find a hole big enough to hide in. Cuz I knew my big sisters were coming to find me and bring me out to the living room floor and make me dance with them! 55 years later I'd give anything to go back to those days....
As I watch this, I am more and more convinced that I took the right music genre to listen to. Rock and Roll will never die.
I would like to thank the young audience, aged between 15 and 20, who somehow enjoys music and dances from the 50's and 60's. Congratulations, you have good taste!
Burning the calories. Hope I can create that mood someday.
@@greg62945 Sure bro...rsrs cheers !
Now that what I call high energy dancing. Wish I could move like that.
Try to find a dance school where they teach Latin and ballroom dancing. I've don it for 4 years and it never fades. The basic steps of the Jive are easy to learn and fun to do.
That's some serious cardio and footwork.
When i watch them.i feel i want to dance like them..they look so happy dancing
got to admit.. that takes skill
It sure does and it also takes alot of stamina... I took dance class in college and my instructors were oldschool and tried teaching the class how to dance like this. And booooyyy was this difficult and tiring
And years of training...
When your realize your grandma and your grandpa were far stronger and faster than you'll ever be!!!
I was born far too bloody late. What a blast.
a lot of kids could use this type of exercise today
You aint lying, but so may today are overweight they couldn't handle this type of dancing
Big,Ern MCCracken yeah
Exactly
a lot of 'kids' still dance this - i.e. me
Swing dance is funny𗀂
There are some dance schools that teach it this days𗀉
I love the style. The moves. The energy.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
This is what my parents living room looked like every weekend. I had an older brother and sister whose friends all were welcome at our house. I was only in my preteens but I loved watching them.
I believe people were much happier in that era.
At least they look like they have so much real fun together.
Women and men were really enjoying each other, and look at the people now....
The BEST thing I ever saw in my life
I want a time machine...
I've got an old one in my garage ya can have !
Меня ещё не было, но мне нравится эти танцы и мода, да и вообще мне нравится те времена, девушки , музыка, кино, автомобили и т.д. Золотое время!
I WANNA LIVE IN THIS TIME!!!!
I've watched "Last night in Soho" last night, and GOD I LOVE IT!!!!
They are so naturally real and enjoyed their times... Something we have all been lost somewhere midway ...
You aren't kidding! I use to take dance back in my teens and early 20's, did mostly ballroom but I had a friend who was very into swing dancing and got me into it too. This has a lot of swing dance in it; it's as fun as it looks but when you get hurt, it hurts! 😅
They're actors
This is a movie clip. Sheesh
this is so fucking cool I cant like what they all look like professional dancers
Lesley May not pro's just real cool Teds showing how to groove'my wife and I used to dance just like this
john marlog Wow man, i can olny imagine how it was back then....
+Salim Northwood
It was just like a good ol' Fallout game...
Old Jazz and Rock... And the fear of a nuke blast 24/7
+Lesley May With Bill Haley and the Comets playing this wasn't just some random sock hop. These dancers, while not pros, were selected to be part of the show because they could dance.
+HOW TO PUNK Yep because these are totally not professional dancers.
The 50's. Incredible age with the rock appearance!
Great dance moves. I hope I can play music like this.
As good as it gets! That little guy with the black glasses is amazing and the girl also.
This video makes me so happy
I’m one of those great-grandmas, and I remember those moves like it was today. 🤩
This era of dancing and music beats todays dancing and music a million times
Check this version out of Rip it up by Little Richard 😎 czcams.com/video/elRb3DTbX1Y/video.html
I remember dancing the jitterbug and we were moving, had a ball of fun, none of us were on drugs or booze, we just danced & loved the music .Like Elvis said, you just have to move with the music.
Believe me, there was booze. They just carefully concealed it. Pills too.
Hello glenda how are you
Can't believe they didn't recognize,Bill Hailey and the Comets in the description!!!COME ON!!!!
I agree. Some acknowledgement would have been nice.
Proud to say l lived this.
Still listening an lovin it.
I feel so sorry for you young people having to put up with rap and the rest of the crap today.
bill haley very much underated the comets were the tightest combo in rock brilliant musicians
Forget twerking, the lindy hop is the coolest dance ever!
They move that quickly and that precise without breaking their smiles or pauses. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn! i wish i could do that! plus all those flips and stuff! yes please!
Look online for lindy hop dance lessons, I am quite sure you will find something relatively nearby
I’m 20 and really like those 60’s 80’ and 90’s songs
Our parents and grandparents had style when it came to dancing. My dad was born in 1946 and my mom in 1950. Those times were phenomenal when it came to dancing. Nowadays what you see is twerking.
Now that's what I call dancing!!!
Great scene with some fantastic dancing. I have this movie on video somewhere in my collection. It's called "Don't Knock the Rock" from 1956. The people dancing here are professionals because it takes a lot of skill, good timing and stamina to dance like that. I used to be able to dance like that without the flips and the fancy maneuvers when I was younger but now nearing 50, forget it. The brain says go, go but the arthritis in the knees says sit down sucker you ain't going nowhere. Getting old sucks! Lol. Thank you for uploading this clip.
This is great :)
Tx for the heads up on this movie. I saw a movie called simply "Dance" on my old movie channel. Have been looking for it for years. So far, you've come close. So thanks again, I hope you're arthritis isn't too bad, I feel your pain, but let's keep dancing, just maybe slower.
Now THAT'S Dancing!! And the music was GREAT! In case you didn't realise - I'm 78 years old!
Everytime I watch dancing like this, I can't help thinking these are profesional dancers.
A little before my time (73), but great dancing with Bill Haley and His Comets. "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets is considered to be the first truly rock 'n roll song. Thanks for the video!
Maybe you never heard of Little Richard
I watched this 30 times in a row. I need to find people like in my city
JB_XYZ same!!
Typically they have lessons you can take and dance afterwards.
This is the best experience for me 👍👍👌all moving is really good 👍 👍👍💃💃🕺🕺
As if they lived at another dimension. That's Art folks.
It's amazing how they never crash into each other, whereas nowadays people are bound to collide with each other somehow
they did crash sometimes but dancing in those days was done at arms length if you know what i mean and it
created space if you couldnt dance like the bill haley clip you needed to get some help it was dangerous believe
me if you observe the aerials it was risky this kind of jiving meant dancing with your partner knowing were she
was at all times not like on tv nowadays dancing 5 metres apart doing there own thing thats not jiving and
im damm sure of that and if a couple were good we would stand back and empty the centre of the dance hall
and give them floor space great entertainment when the beatles came on the sceen jiving almost dissappeard
the 60s seem to slow down the music but im glad i didnt miss any of those magical years im 71 now and stil
turn the clock back now and again --------------
1:57 on the left
Today people/couples dancing do not care to look ( the guy is suppose to keep watch ) to make sure he and his partner do not hit or run into anyone around then.
Self centered today. And today people would rather get angry and fight instead of saying their sorry in case they did class accidentally
Edward Lack lol
Yes. This one is directed. Set up.
Crazy to think we went from this to the cardi b dance
Luke Stuller 😂😂😂😂😂
Fuck modern music
@@sprucelee2025 ,you got that right!
Luke Stuller so what’s stopping you from going back to dancing like this? This kind of dancing isn’t outlawed!!!
Michael Gaynor am I right? What gets me is that people complain about today’s dancing when in reality they enact a law that prevents people from dancing like this. So what’s stopping you?
Little guy with glasses and his lady in tight skirt look like they broke loose after a day at their office and I love it!
Love how they choreograph the dancing without bumping very hard into other dancers.....amazing!!!!! Thx
This is when guys could dance! Ladies looked pretty.
When men were men, girls were girls, just the two sexes, no one imagined that one day there would be 4 or is it 5 types of human...
Corinne Woolley transsexuality existed back then too, transvestites. Very underground and hidden though because it was dangerous . We should be happy that their lives aren’t in danger today, though in a lot of countries they still are beaten and killed.
@@corinnewoolley9822 4 or 5 types of human...all of them fat.
@@apan8783 lies
@@corinnewoolley9822 Amen! People were not crying in their safe space when they don't get their own way!
50s had some intense dance moves O__O
Now that's what I'm talking bout !!! Man , if this don't make you wanna shake a leg ( like my grandma used to say ) you may be a stick in the mud. People having a blast and I can still feel the heat all these years later.
I imagine it would have been a great way to celebrate with good music and dancing like this after the Allies defeated the army of the villain with the short mustache. This music is great.
I wish i could lived in that time 👍🏻 those parties had probably more fun like today 😁
I was there twelve years old when the decade ended a different time better place
This is a dance craze that lasted from 1930s to late 1950s and early 1960s and then came the Twist which was such a huge craze. It sold records by the millions so everyone tried to start the next dance craze. Then came 'dirty dancing' and it kind of went down hill to what we have now which is no one dancing but some woman on the stage doing movements that would have got her arrested 40 years ago. It is rather sad because now young people can't even do a straight dance like a waltz for wedding dancing. This was when you went out to have FUN not get so drunk you were vomiting in the street or so stoned you couldn't remember what you did or 'hook up' with someone to ''scratch an itch' that left you soulless, lonely and with VD. I feel so sorry for young people today. They have so much stuff dumped on them. Parents who want them to make millions or parents who want them to be politicians or parents who want them to save the earth. No wonder they get drunk, stoned or whatever to escape from it all.
insert gif *thank you*
kate baxter I don't know about you but it seems to me you are describing a delinquent that comes from a somewhat broken home
fabulosló
Dancing died for guys when the Twist came in . Separated boys and girls forever.
Swing dancing was dead before the 60's hit; by then the dance crazes like the Madison had begun and then the Twist dominated everything. The Mashed Potato, the Swim, the Monkey - gradually dancing got more and more individual and a lot more crazed in a good way. Then the disco scene brought people back together and after a couple of decades that involved into grinding and such lmao
Good old days, golden time.
Bring back the 50s!
That is some BAD ASS dancing! WOW!
Now *this* is dancing.
I want to learn how to dance like this so badly. And I am not going to allow myself to mope around, complaining how badly I want to dance like this, I am actually going to learn how to!
I don't think there is any form of dance more fun and exciting than the sock hop.
+Phantomhive This is very popular around dance studios... Tango is more common but you'll find this quite easily...
João Ribeiro Really? I have not taken the time to look around for local dance studios to see which forms of dance they teach (mainly because my parents won't let me take any extracurricular activities and instead force me to work in the family business).
Glad to know it is easy to find, now when I finally am able to take the time to learn, I can actually find a proper instructor!
Thanks for telling me that!
+Phantomhive Shit, you wanna get out more!
Melanie Gardiner I really gotta get out more, I know. XD
Other than school and work, I am only allowed to go out of the house every couple of months.
Or, when you include going out to the store to get groceries or something, I go out 2 times per month or less (and again, that is only at the store, nowhere else).
Total Trash Mammal so, how is it going?
Damn our grandparents wildin
это так классно, чёрт возьми 😭💔
я едва сидел на стуле, чтоб не пуститься в пляс тоже
currently doing a swing dance marathon. please i miss this type of dancing