Such beauty, innocence and optimism exists no more, but I am the luckiest generation in the history of the world to have dreamt it!!! Dreamy and gorgeous....
When I was still an active Police Officer, I was assigned to Frankie’s security detail on 4 different occasions. A true gentleman and outstanding performer. Frankie, thanks for the memories.
His songs "Venus" and "Bobby Sox to Stockings" are the first two songs I can remember hearing on the radio from my childhood. Great memories from those days.
I was lucky enough to meet him while having breakfast in Las Vegas and it was such an amazing experience. I was only about 12 or 13, and was too scared to ask him for his autograph, so my mother went with me. We stated that we didn't want to bother him while he was reading his paper and eating breakfast, but explained that I was a massive fan and would greatly love to have his autograph. He was the kindest man and such a true gentleman. He said absolutely and even stood and chatted with us for a bit. He said he didn't even know that people my age knew who the heck he was, and that he was lucky to still have fans around who even cared lol. We already had bought tickets to go see him in concert that night ❤️. It was the highlight of my entire vacation and to this day I will never forget how truly genuine and sweet he was.
Frankie Avalon looks like Sinatra when he was young. Frankie this was one of the best in the 50's. I am still a fan. All the very best to you, and thank you for the music.
I was so very in love with Frankie Avalon when I was just a little girl. His voice has always been like melted butter. Loved watching his movies with Annette Funicello.
Imagine that?... To be able to sell one million records... Today is so easy to achieve that... But in 1959, it wasn't that easy... Plus Frankie Avalon was very young at that time... Venus sounds as good today as it did in 1959. 🎶The song Venus is a classic song 🎶
Actually, MidnightVentures, it was magical. It was as innocent and as unchaotic as it's depicted. Vulgarity wasn't a thing. Drugs hadn't entered the picture. No one knew anyone who was rehabbing. We wouldn't have even understood that concept. Many of us were virgins until our wedding night. There wasn't a lot of rebellion or anger. You could watch TV as a family without fear of exposing young eyes and ears to immorality. We had no idea that mankind could spiral down in front of our eyes. Madelyn Murray O'Hare managed to remove prayer from school and the rot began setting in. This is not to say that we didn't have societal problems. We did. But they were getting better. Slowly, but still going in the right direction. As we took God off the throne, we began to allow drugs and rebellion creep in. We didn't understand that we were participating in our own downfall. Those of us who didn't participate were guilty of allowing our demise without fighting for the standards of our earlier years. I have to admit that I never knew we could descend to the place we are now. I believed that mankind had some kind of self-correcting mechanism that would prevent our demise. I was naive. So, yes, it was magical. In the last 2 years, I've lost hope for America. It's impossible to get the toothpaste back in the tube. Only a strong move of God could return us to a place of honor. P.S. I consider it a privilege to have been part of that generation as do my peers. We noticed that the switch from the innocent era was around 1965. This was the year we graduated high school, so we were blessed to have those first 18 years uncomplicated by the changes that were to come.
One of my bucket list items was to see Frankie sing this live, and I’m happy to say I got to cross this one off. Despite that it was a hit before I was born, it was always one of my favorites
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, but I was lucky enough to see reruns and movies from the 60s. I loved watching the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello movies on TV. I was so lucky to experience the 80s and in some ways the 60s too.
I was named,Venus,after the song by ,Frankie Avalon. My father feel in love with the song, and gave me my name. Now whenever I think about how I was named,I can think about my father,who's not with us anymore,and get a smile on my face. Thank You, for singing such a beautiful song. YOU have made my father a happy man,everytime he hear this song.
I'm not a boy,IAmAWoman!!!!58 years old,and am proud of the name that my father gave me!!!!!! As for strange names to name someone,look at the name that was given to you,and no ask yourself,who gave you your name and why? As I do have the knowledge of knowing that my father loved me enough,to give me the name of a song that he really liked listening too.
This is an all time classic song. Frankie Avalon delivered a brilliant performance. The cameraman captured the sweet innocence of the young girls (2:01-2:09) in the audience. The year 1959 was a unique period of time.
Having a MILLION SELLER was BIG back then/late 50's, and 60's...its still BIG today, in the 2000's...Frankie Avalon was BIG too, as a teen idol. It wasn't my time, I was born in the LATE 60's. and LOVE that song.
I remember this song 🎵. I was just a teenager back then. It was such a good time back then. I will always remember the fifties and the sixties. Rock N Roll will always live in my heart ❤.❤❤❤😄😄🙂😊😊
This takes me back to a time when innocents was a virtue not a forced necessity, and songs were readily heard and understood as you could always hear the lyrics and this young man has a fabulous voice and talent plus he really looks the part and it shows with the audience was 95% young girls and dressed in crazy nice period clothes fabulous.
I loved this song! Back in the day, or way back in the day when you could call a radio station and request a song. After calling on my party line phone, getting thru to the station, talking to the DJ, this is the first and only song I ever requested! :)
I wish wish wish I could’ve lived through this time. Things are so different now. Things back then we’re so much purer and innocent. Songs we’re so beautiful and didn’t talk about sex and guns like they do today. I wish I was alive during those times. I know that a lot of people say this and that’s it’s a cliche but I’m 15 and I was born waaaaay in the wrong time.
If you were born in 2004 then there's a good chance you lived a previous life around the time this recording was popular...that's why you feel so attracted by those years ! This is just imagination, but you could well have lived a previous life that was rather short (i.e., born in '44 and died in '74, so you would have been a teenager in '59... Then rested 30 years in heaven and came back to this world in 2004. Think about it.
Nice and dreamy song this is a teenager's song. I used to hear it so long ago and thought how loving a girl outside my family would be like when I heard it.
Beautiful oldie I first heard when I was eight years old, I recall my long gone Parents and my late Kid Sister and how we played then. Nice song to hear and enjoy
Those who that did not not grow up in the 60s as I did, it was a wonderful memorial time and the music of that period reflected the innocent more so of the young people than as oppose to the young people of today.
This song brings back so many memories for me when I married my husband back in 65 and he has passed away now 15 years ago every time I hear these old songs I think about him
If you were a teen at the time Frankie came out with this song, you would live it and appreciate it so much more. The 60s were a fabulous time to be a teenager and just to be living it! To take "Venus" out of that period and listen to it now in some other movie, game or whatever is not the same. You are really missing and not feeling the truly family-oriented, close friendships and romantic AND cool times of that never to be seen or felt again era!
You know, I'll never be able know how it felt in the 60s to listen to this, but I am thankful for the way it makes me feel now. I've always had a connection and strong emotions attached to jazz songs to songs like these. It amazes me how music, even if not the same from back then, can still bring so much emotion with it. And with the internet today, I can find amazing jewels like this.💛💚
@@Clayisgaeeeeee9004 - I'm so glad that those of us who were teenagers back then can share with today's youth music that made us happy in our High School days...I remember listening to this Avalon recording on the radio so often in '59 /'60...
60's is the decade of thrills such as songs, dances, parties, outings, bar hoppings, watching our favorite star performers in person or in a concert act with natural simplicity without so much worry in committing illegal activity such as prohibited use of drugs which were not so common at those eras.
I wish I was alive then. I always hear it was the best era to be alive in. My Mom and Uncle aaaaalways listened to Cousin Brucie growing up so I'm a HUGE fan of the oldies!
Even Frankie stated this was his fave song, over 50 years later. I'm an 80's kid and like it too. I never knew he started out as a trumpet player, and loves golf.
Such beauty, innocence and optimism exists no more, but I am the luckiest generation in the history of the world to have dreamt it!!! Dreamy and gorgeous....
This is crazy, defeatist talk!
I known what you mean and wish I could have been there to.
This is like climbing out of the sewers into fresh air and sunshine
Literally
No doubt!! 👍🏼
Absolutely! 👍🏽
I've never experienced that.
Brasil
When I was still an active Police Officer, I was assigned to Frankie’s security detail on 4 different occasions. A true gentleman and outstanding performer. Frankie, thanks for the memories.
He looks so diaper. I mean dapper lol
It's like Annabelle creation movie Lulu Wilson she was new girl
His songs "Venus" and "Bobby Sox to Stockings" are the first two songs I can remember hearing on the radio from my childhood. Great memories from those days.
I was lucky enough to meet him while having breakfast in Las Vegas and it was such an amazing experience. I was only about 12 or 13, and was too scared to ask him for his autograph, so my mother went with me. We stated that we didn't want to bother him while he was reading his paper and eating breakfast, but explained that I was a massive fan and would greatly love to have his autograph. He was the kindest man and such a true gentleman. He said absolutely and even stood and chatted with us for a bit. He said he didn't even know that people my age knew who the heck he was, and that he was lucky to still have fans around who even cared lol. We already had bought tickets to go see him in concert that night ❤️. It was the highlight of my entire vacation and to this day I will never forget how truly genuine and sweet he was.
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing.
Golden era of romantic music. The USA was full of great talent. Thank you for CZcams
Hello there and how are you doing?
I'm 68 years old and still listen to his songs
My absolute fav frankie avalon song. And im 45 years old
Hello beautiful, how are you doing?
I'm 25 and I just found this gem through Dexter season 4.. 🤩
I wish I was born in the 50s when music was this magical! ❤️
Yes , I've been there
Dexter season 4, and I liked this song 😍
It sure was all the oldies but goodies and they were all clean music
Good music is timeless, welcome to the memories kid ; )
😃♥️👌👌👌
Me too but 32 😅
BORN IN 1978
. FIRST TIME HEARD THIS SONG AND FELL MADLY IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG
Hello Angela, how are things going with you?
Frankie Avalon looks like Sinatra when he was young. Frankie this was one of the best in the 50's. I am still a fan. All the very best to you, and thank you for the music.
How are things going with you Annette?
I was so very in love with Frankie Avalon when I was just a little girl. His voice has always been like melted butter. Loved watching his movies with Annette Funicello.
Hello Shelly, how's everything going with you?
Ahhh, those were the days ! Sure miss them. I still see gorgeous Frankie Avalon on QVC selling his family's homemade food...Italian at times.
How are you doing Lyn?
Imagine that?... To be able to sell one million records... Today is so easy
to achieve that... But in 1959, it wasn't that easy...
Plus Frankie Avalon was very young at that time...
Venus sounds as good today as it did in 1959.
🎶The song Venus is a classic song 🎶
It's still my #1 song till these days.
Same
Brings back magic memories, and I'm 71 now.
GOD BLESS YOU.🌹
Don Hamilton so true I’m 67
God bless u .. glad to find this song and this comment of u after I heard the song in Dexter ..
Are you still here buddy? I hope so.
I am 71 too, and boy did I love this song.
Amazing, Frankie Avalon! ❤️💫
What a magical time it must have been. The 50's and early 60's.
It surely was not
It came back in the 70, in Disco form. I Loved it either way.
Actually, MidnightVentures, it was magical. It was as innocent and as unchaotic as it's depicted. Vulgarity wasn't a thing. Drugs hadn't entered the picture. No one knew anyone who was rehabbing. We wouldn't have even understood that concept.
Many of us were virgins until our wedding night. There wasn't a lot of rebellion or anger. You could watch TV as a family without fear of exposing young eyes and ears to immorality. We had no idea that mankind could spiral down in front of our eyes. Madelyn Murray O'Hare managed to remove prayer from school and the rot began setting in.
This is not to say that we didn't have societal problems. We did. But they were getting better. Slowly, but still going in the right direction. As we took God off the throne, we began to allow drugs and rebellion creep in. We didn't understand that we were participating in our own downfall. Those of us who didn't participate were guilty of allowing our demise without fighting for the standards of our earlier years. I have to admit that I never knew we could descend to the place we are now. I believed that mankind had some kind of self-correcting mechanism that would prevent our demise. I was naive.
So, yes, it was magical. In the last 2 years, I've lost hope for America. It's impossible to get the toothpaste back in the tube. Only a strong move of God could return us to a place of honor.
P.S. I consider it a privilege to have been part of that generation as do my peers. We noticed that the switch from the innocent era was around 1965. This was the year we graduated high school, so we were blessed to have those first 18 years uncomplicated by the changes that were to come.
Still listen to this song thanks Frankie
Hello Jennie, how's everything going with you?
One of my bucket list items was to see Frankie sing this live, and I’m happy to say I got to cross this one off. Despite that it was a hit before I was born, it was always one of my favorites
Hello Liz, how's everything going with you?
My dad named me Venus after this song 💔 he always sang it to me 🥺😢🤧 my dad's name was Frankie too
Beautiful name
AWWW!! Frankie Avalon is Soo "CUTE"... I love the song, Venus 💞💞💞🎶🎶🎶
sure miss the civilized days. before the darkness
Ahahahahaha you mean when the darkness was surpressed and killed off because god forbid someone fuck either capitalism
me too. now have tattooed drug- taking scruffy youth
we have, sorry i'm very old!!
oh yes i miss the days where i would potentially would be rolled into a carpet or hung from a tree in public 😻😻😻
Idk racism was pretty bad
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, but I was lucky enough to see reruns and movies from the 60s. I loved watching the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello movies on TV. I was so lucky to experience the 80s and in some ways the 60s too.
Hello Sandy, how is everything going with you?
Fantastic always loved this song love the sixties music
Me too!
My mom still has her Frankie pin with his photo on it, she got it during 1959, from his fan club membership.
Hello Michelle, how are things going with you?
Thank Mr. Dick Clark, Mr. Frankie Avalon for the wonderful memories...and yes I'll always believe in the beauty of love!
This was the best era of music change my mind
You’ll get no argument from me.
Grandma loved this song.
Miss her.
She misses YOU !
i miss my grandma i wish she still with me :(
Shalt David Karen Carpenter sings Johnny Angel
Me too
kelman727
I agree. The 50’s and 60’s were many of the best times in this country! And I just loved Frankie Avalon!
Salvo que seas negro 🤷♂️
I was named,Venus,after the song by ,Frankie Avalon. My father feel in love with the song, and gave me my name. Now whenever I think about how I was named,I can think about my father,who's not with us anymore,and get a smile on my face. Thank You, for singing such a beautiful song. YOU have made my father a happy man,everytime he hear this song.
wow cool
I'm not a boy,IAmAWoman!!!!58 years old,and am proud of the name that my father gave me!!!!!! As for strange names to name someone,look at the name that was given to you,and no ask yourself,who gave you your name and why? As I do have the knowledge of knowing that my father loved me enough,to give me the name of a song that he really liked listening too.
Dayga why would you say something like that ? dont be rude
Venus Glancy i
Lololol...damn!
I hope Frankie lives long. Much longer. He stayed clean for like ever! He deserves it.
This is an all time classic song. Frankie Avalon delivered a brilliant performance. The cameraman captured the sweet innocence of the young girls (2:01-2:09) in the audience. The year 1959 was a unique period of time.
I Love this Song!🔝❤😍🤗🌷🥀
Hello Sandra, how's everything going with you?
Dick Clark was such a dream boat!!! ❤
Hello Nancy, how's everything going with you?
I wish I could time travel to this beautiful time!
Hello Cindy, how are things going with you?
Remember this song from the best era thanks for this
Hello Primrose, how's everything going with you?
Taking me back in times so beautiful💕
I was born in 1964 and so glad my sister introduced me to this awesome music. I still listen...
Back then wasn't this music famous enough? Or how so?
Having a MILLION SELLER was BIG back then/late 50's, and 60's...its still BIG today, in the 2000's...Frankie Avalon was BIG too, as a teen idol. It wasn't my time, I was born in the LATE 60's. and LOVE that song.
Memories! ❤️👍. Great song by Frankie A.
Memories of my school years......Guines 1962....
This WAS a great time to be a teen. I wish teens today could have the experience we had.
I remember this song 🎵. I was just a teenager back then. It was such a good time back then. I will always remember the fifties and the sixties. Rock N Roll will always live in my heart ❤.❤❤❤😄😄🙂😊😊
Hello Mary, how's everything going with you?
I was born in the 60’s but the songs in the 50’s was so cool I love it!
Ongod Venus i remember it and i loved Franki Avalon very much !!! Thank you!!
A really great time to be young.
What a beautiful song and a singer. I wish the 50s and the 60s will make a comeback.
I want to travel back in time. A great time to live here
Im addicted to oldies ❤
Same yoooo something bout them just magical
This song has stood the test of time!!!
Yesss!!! :D
J. McKinley 7
J. McKinley 9
Yes, he was very good looking, back in the day. Still is today!!
Hello Linda, how are things going with you?
Just a beautiful song. Plus the young men were so polite.
Hermosa canción , y el guapísimo
This is so fabulously retro! Love that smile while singing. Memories.
This takes me back to a time when innocents was a virtue not a forced necessity, and songs were readily heard and understood as you could always hear the lyrics and this young man has a fabulous voice and talent plus he really looks the part and it shows with the audience was 95% young girls and dressed in crazy nice period clothes fabulous.
my mom was a teenager when these songs came out
Beautiful song Frankie Avalon the man!
I remember that song from my early, early childhood. I loved it then and I love it now!
How are you doing Nancy?
Literally a lifetime ago. I wish I could go back.
I was 13 when this song came out. What a romantic era. Love Venus. What a classic. Dick Clark looks so young!
I still love this song.I remember my Dad loved this song too.it holds childhood memories for me
Hello Linda, how is everything going with you?
I love Frankie Avalon ❤❤
I loved this song! Back in the day, or way back in the day when you could call a radio station and request a song. After calling on my party line phone, getting thru to the station, talking to the DJ, this is the first and only song I ever requested! :)
Hello Lily, how are you doing?
Still listen to this song thanks Frankie good times back in the days 🤣💗😍
Hello Jennie, how are you doing? It's a pleasure meeting you here today.
Es muy bonito me trae grandes recuerdos pues mis hermanos escuchaban estas melodías por lo tanto yo crecí con ellas, gracias por ello.
Frankie Avalon looks so shy and yet, he has this heartmelting voice! XD
it's 2021 now born in the 60's wish it was the 50's they had great music, movies and gorgeous guys😀
@@sandranewborne7257 The guys were clean-cut and handsome, the girls were beautiful and classy. Must have been a great time to be young and in love.
The most beautiful song of all time, very nice, I am not of the time but this melody makes me very nostalgic. Greetings from La Paz Honduras
Venus is my favorite song! I love this guy! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
Hello Sandra, how are things going with you?
One of the Greatest Songs Ever Made!!!!!!!!
I wish wish wish I could’ve lived through this time. Things are so different now. Things back then we’re so much purer and innocent. Songs we’re so beautiful and didn’t talk about sex and guns like they do today. I wish I was alive during those times. I know that a lot of people say this and that’s it’s a cliche but I’m 15 and I was born waaaaay in the wrong time.
If you were born in 2004 then there's a good chance you lived a previous life around the time this recording was popular...that's why you feel so attracted by those years ! This is just imagination, but you could well have lived a previous life that was rather short (i.e., born in '44 and died in '74, so you would have been a teenager in '59... Then rested 30 years in heaven and came back to this world in 2004. Think about it.
Pop stars were so clean cut in those days. No bad behavior and negativity is the norm and accepted and praised.
AMEN!
yea but racism was there. just watched the white people was shookt watching a black man perform
Adrian Cooke how? What?
France Mata and yet blacks were also still happier back then than now
@@Nick-ve1kg Not really?
Nice and dreamy song this is a teenager's song. I used to hear it so long ago and thought how loving a girl outside my family would be like when I heard it.
Good days in simpler times!
FRANKIE AVALON canta una de las canciones mas hermosas de todos los tiempos.
Beautiful oldie I first heard when I was eight years old, I recall my long gone Parents and my late Kid Sister and how we played then. Nice song to hear and enjoy
I love this song!!!!
How are you doing Stephanie?
Venus great song bring back memories of my young man days nice. Girls cherry coke laughing just great times and beautiful memories thank you 😊❤️👍
2020 and this song stills inspiring to fell in love...
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it's 2021 and it's still so good to hear dis song by franky😀
2023 and i Listen to it every day
The melodies and lyrics is so meaningful..bring tears to my eyes..the golden days..
Live 😗Love Life🤗
The best time ever for teens. Miss it so. I was a bit younger but still grew up with these teen idols.
Hello Judy, how are things going with you?
What a beautiful song. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Those who that did not not grow up in the 60s as I did, it was a wonderful memorial time and the music of that period reflected
the innocent more so of the young people than as oppose to the young people of today.
:) boys were boys, girls were girls...music was sweet...life was simpler :) x
Yes because heavier racism, sexism and the enforcement of European beliefs vs facts is soooo innocent
I get goosebumps listening to this song....I loved it then, and love it in 2015!
+Lynette Nortman So do I!!! that was real music, no offense to today's youngsters.
+Lynette Nortman I love this song!! music was so much better then!
+Lynette Nortman My mother played Venus every weekend from a record when I was a child.
+maureenavena33 Yes, it was a great one, but look at that list of the top eight. At least five were totally forgettable. We remember the best.
I am pretty sure Franky Avalon had all the ladies throwing themselves on him back then.
I love this song. I'm 40 years old.
Hello Annmarie, how are things going with you?
Was seen his concert on tv in 1998 i was 18 then now im 37 nd happy to found these . I love classic music
Hello Sandra, how are things going with you?
Having young parents I was exposed to this great music even as a kindergartener. Still one of my all time favorites.
How did we ever lose this type of soulfulness and purity
This song brings back so many memories for me when I married my husband back in 65 and he has passed away now 15 years ago every time I hear these old songs I think about him
How are you doing Brendle?
The 365 people that don't like this you have no taste, this is a beautiful song xxx
Hello Janet, how's everything going with you?
If you were a teen at the time Frankie came out with this song, you would live it and appreciate it so much more. The 60s were a fabulous time to be a teenager and just to be living it! To take "Venus" out of that period and listen to it now in some other movie, game or whatever is not the same. You are really missing and not feeling the truly family-oriented, close friendships and romantic AND cool times of that never to be seen or felt again era!
This is late 50s but yeah I. Guess it's pretty 60s ish
You know, I'll never be able know how it felt in the 60s to listen to this, but I am thankful for the way it makes me feel now. I've always had a connection and strong emotions attached to jazz songs to songs like these. It amazes me how music, even if not the same from back then, can still bring so much emotion with it. And with the internet today, I can find amazing jewels like this.💛💚
Great time to be a teenager ❤️
@@Clayisgaeeeeee9004 - I'm so glad that those of us who were teenagers back then can share with today's youth music that made us happy in our High School days...I remember listening to this Avalon recording on the radio so often in '59 /'60...
60's is the decade of thrills such as songs, dances, parties, outings, bar hoppings, watching our favorite star performers in person or in a concert act with natural simplicity without so much worry in committing illegal activity such as prohibited use of drugs which were not so common at those eras.
such a beautiful voice....
Danke super tolles lied sehr schöne Musik ich liebe sie vielen herzlichen dank ,mehr davon. Wünsche ihnen noch einen schönen Tag. LG A.K
My grandma would sing this song to me when I was little🥺💜
what a great time to be young.
Oh SO much better than these days.
I agree
I wish I was alive then. I always hear it was the best era to be alive in. My Mom and Uncle aaaaalways listened to Cousin Brucie growing up so I'm a HUGE fan of the oldies!
Oh yeah...segregation, racism, lynchings...great time for sure...
Parroting in place of true knowledge is never becoming.
Makes me tear up every time I hear it. Love it, forever!!
I too. Those days were the best of times.
Hello Lisa, how's everything going with you?
@@JanetteCHAN how are you doing Janette?
Bendito mi Dios y hoy las disfruto con mucha alegría
Congratulations -----Frankie Avalon * Number One on "Venus".....(from) ..Texas Top Cop....folks.!
One of my all time favorite oldies.
Even Frankie stated this was his fave song, over 50 years later. I'm an 80's kid and like it too. I never knew he started out as a trumpet player, and loves golf.
Hello Hilda, how's everything going with you?
My favorite song🎵 from the 50's😀💖👌
THIS IS REAL MUSIC.
CLASSIC FOREVER.