Where the Action Is 1966 - The Temptation Walk - Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, The Temptations
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- čas přidán 15. 10. 2021
- Airdate: September 1, 1966 (Thursday)
The Action Kids - Mike Williams, Jerilyn Stapleton, Ted LePlatte, Lesley Evans, Pete Menefee (credited as the choreographer), Jill Gordon, Roger Minami and Roberta Tennes - show us their various takes on “The Temptation Walk”, a popular dance move in the mid 60’s. You can see the kids on Bandstand and Shebang doing their versions of the Temptation Walk in clips from around 1966.
I think, and correct me if I’m wrong please, that the basic core of the move is flexing both arms up at the elbow to the left-left, and then right-right and stepping back and forth in the direction of the arms you are swinging.I believe that each of the couples are just adding their own embellishment when they come to the front.
If you were around back in 1966, did you do “The Temptation Walk”?
“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 back on July 16th and was #1 for 8 weeks on the Billboard R&B chart.
Thank you for watching….now go practice your Temptation Walk! - Hudba
If only we had a time machine 💃🕺🏾🇦🇺😍
I AGREE with you 1,000% because this was when TV shows were TV shows, Music was Music & Movies were Movies. Today's TV shows, Music & Movies are GARBAGE & they're not worth a DIME.
Let me out in 1984!
Actually this is a time machine you don't go back physically But mentally you get to see it as it actually happened that time and day
Yeah 1970s i was a teenager! Good times! ⏳⌛⏰⌚☎📞😎🎸😎🎸😎🥁🏍🏍👨👩👧👧👨👩👦👦👨👩👧👦👨👩👧👪💃🏻🕺🕴🏻🏋🏌🚶🏃🏻👫👯👭👬🤰
@@erickthefantabulous1 Yes CZcams is a mental Time machine! Lol 😂 📼🎥📼🎥📷📸⌛⏳⏰⌚☎📞📱💻🖥💾💽📀💿📹📽📻📺📠📡
I do remember this. I watched this show faithfully. My Mum even urged me to hurry to see the show. What wonderful memories.
I have the BIGGEST SMILE on my face! I'd forgotten just how much fun we had!
When the world was truly a different place!!!!!!!!!!!!
When music and dancing were a joy and there was respect for everyone.
Music and dancing STILL is a joy to the youth of today. Stop shitting on the the talent that came long after your own youth faded away. But there was a "respect for everyone"? To use a vintage old saying, you're looking at the past with rose colored glasses because not everyone was respected during this era. Remember a little thing called the Civil Rights era?
@@generalyellor8188 There was respect. If a man raped a woman in front of strangers the strangers would step in to stop the assault. Can’t say that anymore.
@@Tomes23 In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens ... No one even called the cops, let alone went out to help.
Touched a few nerves here..rabble types search history
Agree.
Gosh,those kids were good!
we were so very blessed to have lived during these eras compared to now
Yes indeed. I remember that show and dancing along with the music. Memories☺☺💖💖💖
You mean when white christian extremists had power and people of color had no voice? No thanks.
Im an 83 baby and i always find myself saying that alllllll the time. Alllll love.
Я завидую людям рожденным в послевоенное время, они прожили отличную жизнь, даже в СССР . Сейчас мне 60 , жалко что не 72 .
that was great, super dance, my great-grandkids think it awesome
When I was 16 I Saw The Temptations and The Four Tops in concert I love it 🇫🇷 Arnaud Bourbon Amaral
Where the Action is on ABC was on at 3:30Pm after school 1966, those were the days, wow. We lived in NW Detroit at the time and were very proud of the Motown recording stars.
Thank-you Dee so very much for taking the time to post all that interesting information on this favorite show of mine, when I was a teenager! I watched this amazing video & was so happy! I then quickly tried to remember what yr it was exactly,when this series appeared ( fruitlessly, might I add lol! I tried but just couldn’t remember exactly when it appeared, the time or station until I saw your post! The memories immediately came rushing back, thanks to your detailed post! Thanks so much again!😄
I remember rushing from school to get home by 3.30 so I wouldn't miss the beginning of the show. And Dark Shadows after!
Such fun dances and music. Great memories.
Да.это быдо здорово.
I remember this dance move choreographed by some members of the Detroit Lions football team in the end zone after scoring touchdowns back in the day!!
And the Washington Redskins "Smurfs" gang of the early 80's...Alvin Garret, Vrgil Seay, and Charlie Brown
They borrowed this move from the Temptations. Band member, and lead singer, Paul Williams was responsible for many of the group's signature dance moves, along with Motown choreographer, Cholly Atkins. Check it Out! Ciao!!!
Can remember a crowd of us doing this ( the temptation walk)when the fantastics were performing at the brave new world club in Portsmouth 🇬🇧 U.K. And the groups then told how to do it correctly. Absolutely brilliant 😎
I remember this! I was 4 with teenage siblings. Never knew what it was called.
I remember doing this in Jr. High! They added some extra moves here for more variety, when the couples came up to do their own special moves. At that time we also did the Skate, the Twine, the Monkey, the Hitch-Hike, the Break Down, and a little before that the Pony, the Slauson, the Jerk, the Mashed Potatoes, the Swim, the Twist of course... and I'm probably forgetting some!
Such great memories so sad that it's gone
I remember watching this show and have tried telling my friends I saw it in color. FInally, now, I can prove it with Dick Clarck's statement at the end of this video that "next week will be in color".
Nice to see you posting again. Thanks for all you do.
Everybody and his brother and sister was doing this-especially at South East Los Angeles. There were fun times, believe me!! Thank you Aaron for that clip after a rough week!!😊 looking forward to the Raiders-every day on WTAL!!
The Temptations was a great group. Paul Revere and the Raiders was the first concert I attended in Dayton, Ohio in the ‘60s.
All these performers are now certified senior citizens 2021
I was only 10 yrs old in 1966 Lol 😂 We still had fun dancing to the music! 💃🏻🕺👯👫👭👬🏃🏻🚶🚶🚶🚶🙆🏻👪👨👩👧👧👨👩👦👦👨👩👧👦👨👩👧🏍😎🎸🥁😎🎸 Good old days! Iam 65 now! 👶👴🏻👵👶👴🏻👵🤶🎅👻👻👻
1st time I saw this was on "Fresh Prince" when Uncle Phil did the Temptation walk not realizing it was a real dance craze from the 60's!!!
More early 60s please 😁
Oh yes!!! Love everything & anything from 1960’s!!!! Hullabaloo, Shindig & etc! Thank-you again Aaron for this amazing video!♥️
How cool it would be to see my grandmother dancing on this show 😀😊
It' shows that your grandmother was cooler than you will ever be. Sorry if that hurts. Couchgrouch
The "Skate", the "Slide", the "Jerk" and a few other dances I remember ‼️ Oh if ONLY I could go BACK in TIME ‼️ THANKS FOR POSTING AARON. SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK ‼️
Ditto Annah
@@dancerdon9175 ❤️💋👍🏽
@@annahshoffner1871 Annah , perfectly said.
And to think....it's called the electric slide today (thinking it was something new.) The temptation walk! Gotta love it!
I have done the electric slide for at least 25 years, and that's not it.
I was born 3 days after this episode aired.
Well Aaron this was a time machine trip for sure. Bravo. And, yes, your explanation of the Temptation Walk dance step was spot on. Makes me feel 55 years younger. Brilliant remaster. Thank you.
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I remember this show on daily during the school week. Rushed home to watch it. We called the tops the girls are wearing poor boys. I think there was a guy on called Steve Alamo? Those were fun times! I did see the Raiders a few times!
BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES OF A TIME WHEN THE MUSIC WAS GREAT ALONG WITH,CLOTHES, CARS GUITARS, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. TODAY WE HAVE THE MEMORIES OF A TIME IN OUR LIVES THAT WAS GREAT. 🎸🎙🎷🥁🎺🎤🚘🛳🛵⌚🌞🌚🌜🌛💵📚💴💷📖💑💏
Notice that everybody looks cool dancing the basic moves, even the girls.
I wouldn't say they look "cool" but they certainly looked like they're enjoying themselves.
@@generalyellor8188 It's a hell of a better-looking dance than the "bumper car" dance from 1963.
The Skate, done beautifully!
Action USA, love it💜
Where the Action Is aired right after Dark Shadows on ABC . It was a great time for Television and to be a kid.
Yes it was.
I used to want a pair of white GoGo boots SO BAD!! 🤣🤣
beclairful- I got so tickled at your gogo boots response. It made me think about kd langs white boots in an early tv performance. She's in white boots and I wondered why she was wearing majorette boots but I bet those were gogo boots. Then kd being kd those boots probably were majorette boots. I dont remember getting any gogo boots either.
@@gayleburton4245 Gayle, I was born in 1955, I was quite the Motown fan, heck, a music fan back then! My transistor radio went everywhere with me!
I got to see the Beatles in 1964 when they came to Seattle, and I wanted a pair of Black Beatle boots like forever!! Of course, the answer was always “NO”.
I always had to wear “corrective shoes” 🤣 saddle shoes, because I had orthotics! 🤣🤣
So guess what?? When I grew out of that “crap” and started working I’ve had a “shoe thing” my entire life! Most are in their original boxes because I buy the good stuff. And I lovvvvve BOOTS!
But, no white Go Go ones!
beclairful I loved the Beetles too. Was never lucky enough to see them. My friend and I just went to their movies and of course cried as if we were seeing them in person. I think we were wearing black and white saddle oxfords and then the penny loafer. I'm a few years older than you. (You really should see if you can find a pair of gogo boots on ebay to satisfy that longing.)
me too
I had a pair. (Not comfortable - lol!) And I still have my WMCA Good Guys sweatshirt. I was so excited when B. Mitchell Reid announced my name as a winner on his show! Good times.
OMGOSH!!!! The memories of this favorite tv program I watched as a teenager, practicing all those “very cool dance moves” in front of my dresser mirror 🤣. that I watched the dancers execute so effortlessly! They had the top groups singing on this show & I even loved the opening intro song ( FREDDIE CANNON’s “WHERE THE ACTION IS”which will play forever in my memory! How I loved that song!🎵!!! 😄Loved this whole amazing series & it echos happy memories of my teenage yrs! What a joy to see a clip of this show here! Thank-you so very much! This is a phenomenal video ( great job!!!) & once again, thank-you for allowing me, along with everyone here, a chance to relive, even for a few mins. happy memories, many of us had forgotten ( me!) Ha!♥️ You allowed me, for those brief moments of watching your fun video( just loved it & wished it went on forever!😂), to travel back in time. Once again I was a 15 & 16 yr old, racing home from school, so I didn’t miss one second of this show. I hurriedly changed my clothes, told my mom I would do my homework after this show( my mother loved 🎶 🎵 music 🎼 playing the piano 🎹 professionally herself, so she would call me to tell to come quickly for “my show was on.” I would curl up on the floor in front of the tv watching my favorite program, studying all the dance moves, too! Best memories ever!!!!♥️ I so miss this show!( I miss my beloved 💕mother, too who also loved this show, watching it faithfully with me!)💗Thank-you Aaron for a extraordinary video as always! You do such an amazing job!🌺
Bella 🌺🌺🌸🌸 generación
Soy de 1968... Esta música escuchaban mis Abuelitos......🏵️🏵️
All this fun could come back again if anyone out there gives a damn!!
It is 2021 and this song still kicks but!!!
Thanks for this memory!!!
Here's another fun story. When it was featured in The Big Chill, they pretended to hear the music and then they put it in after. The Album that said The Temptations Anthology, was kind of bittersweet. It had Otis Williams (The Only Surviving Member) Melvin Franklin, Richard Street, Dennis Edwards, and Damon Harris. All of the guys I just mentioned are dead as well as Ali Ollie Woodson who helped them come back with Treat Her Like A Lady.
Uuuuuuuuupiiiiii, dan ganas de bailar!!!!...hasta que veo como se bailaba esa canción. Super!!!. Que bella época, esa si era música, arte, baile!!. Que bueno que se tiene acceso a estos vídeos. Muchas gracias.
Thank you Aaron . Nice write up to go with a wonderful oldie.That was fun....
Thank you Greg!
wow the kids were really giving us a show! i am very entertained!
Looks like so much fun
Love it ; ) Motown line dancing.....
Paul Revere & the Raiders was my very first concert in what turned out to be a long, joy-filled list of bands & solo artists that I have been fortunate enough to see live over many years. I was almost 15 & what a blast it was! Dino, Desi, & Billy were their opening act…such fond memories! 🎶🎸
Awesome!! Thank you, Aaron!!
The white go-go boot needs to make a return!
Hey Aaron I love 50,60 ,and 70 s music and watched 3 years of bandstand until sports made it too hard. Now that i'm an older man i will watch one of your clips a few times . It makes things better every time. Hope you keep going for a time....
Glad you enjoy these Greg and that they make things better. It’s my pleasure.
@YouCanDanceToIt Welcome Back!
Seeing these Action kids doing the Temptation Walk was really cool!😎 More full episodes of AB and WTAI, please? .
I think I now strongly believe in back to the future . Good great times.❤
The couple @1:57 to like 1:59 are doing the truest version of the Temptation Walk. We wore this dance OUT back in the day !!
The Way You Do The Things You Do... that was the best to do it to... (IMO)
If you really want to know how to do the Temptation Walk just watch a video of the Temptations! They'll show you how it's done! Great video, thank you!❤
Soundtrack of my youth 🎼🖤
We did the Temptation Walk, The James Brown, splits and all, the Jerk the Monkey, etc. in Jr. and High School days. We had Soul back in the day.😎
Nice find. Thank you. And great fun.
Beautiful Jeri
Awesome Video Aaron.
Thank You so much.
60s, please come back.
PARABÉNS tanto as músicas e as danças da época são excelentes .✌👍🇧🇷
I had a pair of those white go go boots 👍 ☺️
picture it! Miami 1966, it truly was hair spray in real time ⏲.
I'm 70 now, but still can pull off some of these moves when needed... loo
cheers 🐒🍾🍾🍾🏳️🌈
Welcome back! Good clip for another one of Dick Clark's production. I think there are other full episodes of WTAI roaming around the internet if one looks. I vaguely remember seeing some clips where some of the WTAI segments were filmed from my old hometown of Huntsville, Alabama. I was too young to see them film it or watch it on TV but none the less a good trip to the Way Back Machine. By the way, off topic, I officially became a grandpa on Tuesday afternoon. Have a great fall weekend!
Hi Bill, this clip is from the episode where they filmed in Huntsville. 👍
And congratulations grandpa!!!!
Congrats Bill!
They are there Bill Ritter.
you gotta look around for them. And some interesting 🤔 ones for sure.
If only Dick Clark and ABC had the foresight to save videotapes.
A great time to be a young kid. Love the song and the dancing. But my girlfriend and I loved to slow dance, a great time to kiss on the gym floor.
Truth Indeed
I always loved the Action Kids. Lesley Evans was my favorite!
Sensacional 👏👏👏
Sigh. Took the soul out of a soulful dance.
good old days for sure
This was ABC's 1960's version of after-school specials. Hopefully we'll see some more WTAI clips soon.
Great video, Aaron! Wish i was go back in time machine for sure and i did enjoyed watching these dancers doing the Temptation walk. Great to see you posting again.
Great times the kids now days don’t know what the. Missed not been there in those time !
Are they wearing go-go boots? Omg, we had them and our biggest dilemma of the day was whether to buy the boots with the gold zipper or the silver zipper. Lol 😆
Motown sound my sister and her friends hung out with the Temptations went to High school with them later on in life they had the a old juke box and he had collected all the Temptation records for his 60th birthday he and his college buddies got up and did the Temptation moves
Action packed experience!
Mes 20 ans...... Souvenirs.. Souvenirs..... 👍💗🗣️🌻✨🎸👗
How fun was that!!!! :D
Yup remember watching this and the shindig....brother and sister would have these on.tv
Wonderful!
Wish i could go back!!!!!!!!!
This video makes me smile
I like the 'go-go boots. Lol!
Someone from Ed Sullivan Productions (maybe Ed's son-in-law, Bob Precht) should have had a good talk with Dick Clark and ABC's head, Leonard Goldenson in the 1960's and influenced them to keep the original videotapes of these shows (and Bandstand). Those old "Where the Action Is" clips look like it was broadcast from the moon!
I had a pair of those white GO GO boots and I loved them! I was only 7 or 8.
Friday night dances-- oh yes!!!
Love this
I had the plaid skirts too. :-)
"it's so neat to meet you baby where the action is!"
I wonder where these dancers are today. I would love to know where life took them.
I remember doing steps like those at
Wow! This hip crowd are really gettin' down!
Our kid's "Grandmothers" didn't look too bad back then. 😊
Very elegant
used to watch it on tv
I see you have figured out how I do my remasters, good job!
After 4 years of trial-and-error, lol.
@@YCDTI What application did you use for it? I use Audacity. You can tell from my old videos that I had no clue what I was doing, delayed and echoed, but now I've improved and make stuff in fake stereo now, something I also wasn't good at in the beginning.
@@JonathanMcKey I’ve heard of audacity but I do it all manually on Pinnacle. The difficulty is that the videos often run a hair faster or slower than the original song. This video, for example, ran 2% faster than Ain’t Too Proud… I play with the speed settings of the video so it syncs exactly with the song, which can be tricky. I’m sure I’m doing it the hard way, but it works. Lol.
@@YCDTI Same thing with me when it comes to speed, especially the Beech-Nut show videos, and yeah, you definitely do it the hard way. With Audacity, I can zoom in on the audiotrack and match the song with show sound, do some tweaking, then export it and add it and the video into the built in Windows video editor and mute the original audio, and add the custom sound, then export the whole video from there. Seems complicated but once you do it it's much easier. The one thing I sometimes have a hard time with is long splices in the film, where I have to cut out 10 seconds sometimes, and try to figure out where it splices, and what I need to cut out to match the show audio again. Ah, don't you just love technology?
THERE WAS THE SKATE THE MONKEY THE JERK THE BOOGALOO. I WAS STATIONED IN PEARL HARBOR HAWAII FROM NOV. 66 TO JUL. 67. WE HAD THE BEST OF TIMES IN THOSE DAYS. GIRLS WERE MUCH BETTER LOOKING AND WELL DRESSED. I WOULD NOT TRADE THOSE DAYS FOR ANYBODY. GOOD CLEAN FUN AND MANY FINE MEMORIES.
I ADMIRED 6OS DANCE
Do you have first-hand access to the Dick Clark Archives?
Hi Tim, I wish…but no. I’ve just been fortunate enough to find various episodes over the years and some people have generously given me their copies of shows as well
2:13 Roberta Tennes! The prettiest dancer in Clambake!
I was around but I was only 2 1/2 months ago, so I wouldn't remember this.
Sounds like Dick Clark on the intro. I forgot he did Where the Action Is. My older sisters did all these dances.
The Temps defined Motown imo.
The oh-so careful bent-legged white booted line restricted Tempt-Walk, done mostly in some corner of a tacky set-up disco full of teens frozen with self consciousness in the carefree 60s. I enjoyed it so much.