Kiddie A-Go-Go - New Colony Six
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- Pandora (Elaine Mulqueen) introduces the New Colony Six, who sing "I Lie Awake," in this segment from a 1966 installment of THE MULQUEENS' KIDDIE A-GO-GO, which aired on Chicago TV from 1966 to 1970. (This clip appears courtesy of Jack Mulqueen, copyright Mulqueen Productions.)
Read about KIDDIE A-GO-GO and other Chicago kids shows such as GARFIELD GOOSE, ELMER THE ELEPHANT, GIGGLESNORT HOTEL and SUPER CIRCUS in the book THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHICAGO CHILDREN'S TELEVISION available from Lake Claremont Press at www.lakeclaremont.com - Zábava
The closest I've seen to replicating the dancing on Charlie Brown Christmas.
😂 Peanuts!
Too funny!
Perfect description!
I like to think that growing up in the 1960's I also had one serious advantage - a much older (by 6 years) sister who did her homework, housework and just about everything else while listening to WLS and WCFL. That's how I got to hear a lot of these great songs (including this one) as a kid when they originally came out. Because she listened to those stations, I had to also - and THANK GOD for that!!!!!
Evidently I would stand in front of the television as a toddler, watching Kiddie-a-gogo, and dance.
It's no wonder that I'm such a complete musical NERD to this day. Man... psychedelic pop just warped my mind. I love it
The kids dancing look like the Peanuts gang dancing on "A Charlie Brown Christmas"! How cool is this??
I remember the Kiddie A-Go-Go show hosted by no other herself Elaine Mulqueen. She have had quite a few Rock and Roll singers in the late 1960s. The The show was on WCIU channel 26 in Chicago. She show some tiny of the Little Rascals segments. I rush home from school just to see the program with the teenagers on the show dancing and having a good time. Elaine Mulqueen RIP.
It's amazing what American Bandstand had started, this was so cute, these kids are older than me today, this was truly reality television, 60's style! Love it, thank's
I saw this show and performance when I was a kid in Chicago. I could not believe it when I saw this....I actually remebered this clip from the first time. Love this sound then and now...I love the kids dancing ...could have been me....Another planet or something..I loved Kiddie a Go-Go. Can't believe this clip...I don't know wether to cry or laugh.
OMG, this is priceless. Especially the little girl doing the 'Freddie.' lol
that dude is getting down in his cub scout uniform!!! this is great!!
These lyrics are pretty heavy for 4 year olds. LOL
This is great. Love the New Colony Six !!
I was born 6/6/1952, I'm 57 and from St. Paul, Minnesota.......we also had many Kiddie shows on from about 63 to 70 here in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul. I really liked this group from Chicago....one of my cherished tunes from the 60's.
I was 14 (57 now)when this show was on in Chicago. At the time my younger brother and cousin watched it but I thought it was lame and I was too cool to watch. Now it just seems sweet and a reflection of a simpler time.
NY's "Wonderama" also had a GO-GO segment. Every week the kids would dance to the Box Tops "Cry Like a Baby". I think that was the only record they had!
I have this myself for years now. Great seeing kids dancing to innocent, clean music. Also a music group on a kiddies show? How times have changed. great post!
I'm 57 and from St. Paul, Minnesota, but never unfortunately was able to get it on TV from up here in St. Paul............
I agree, jaw dropping is an apt description. I DIG the new colony six.Great to see a wild clip like this. Cheers
so funny. I've watched this about 20 times.
I was on it in 1968 in Chicago, very funny to watch it now
OH MY GOD LOL I wonder what they thought of the management fixing them up with this gig!!!! What a Great clip
The boys in the band knew they had finally hit the big time when their manager finally booked them on the much sought after “Kiddie-a-Go Go.
LOL!
The 1960's where a swinging time period in history. cool to see the New Colony Six in their early days.
Unfortunately I was only 2 years during this time. But I do remember that kids were really kids at that time, dressed like kids and not coached into mini-mes of their parents. They were more innocent and not soured on cynicism. I like the fact that most of the kids are doing completely different dances to express their individualism. Great video that gives more insight into the culture and attitudes of the time.
2008PLS You are correct !!! Yes.
elderly poodle. If this was Today it would be against The Law big time. All The People there are White. And that is now illegal and un politically correct.
David Frehlini I believe today the crowd would be a bit more diverse, reflecting reality.
@@josemolinaro This was 1966 and was the reality.
@@danneeson7056 thanks for the reality check.
Oh my... this is like a "real life" version of the Peanuts characters dancing in "A Charlie Brown Christmas"... I love the little girl doing her version of "the Freddie", or perhaps she's just hopping aorund...
these kids are in their 50's and 60's now.
My "Pogo" dance style of Jumping/Hopping to each beat is right here. Thanks for posting!
I went on Kiddie a go go with three of my friends in 1967
Those kids were lucky. Todays children probably wouldn't appreciate something like this.
Early "American Bandstand" but better ! Thanks for posting this incredible clip of the 1960's.
Wow! Great show for kids! What they should have done was put The Rolling Stones on that show and let them sing "19th Nervous Breakdown"! LOL
those dance moves!!! Awesome!!!
Not a lot of people know this, but this was the precursor to "The Soul Train".
I think this is the precursor to the dance sequence in the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
And Chic-A-Go-Go?
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@@nuthineatholl6434--Scissor Girls--1996...pretty funny (and not to be confused with the Scissor Sisters, BTW!) Another funny thing--the New Colony Six's drummer christened himself with the stage name "Chic" James....his real name is James Chitkowski...how Chicago is all of that? ;)
Soul Train also began in Chicago, same UHF network, WCIU channel 26 in black and white. It went national when it moved to Paramount Pictures Hollywood on soundstage 30. Years later I eventually made my way from Chicago to Paramount Pictures as a production employee, and worked on many productions...such as SOUL TRAIN - in color!
Gee Whiz! I didn't know that! I'm surprised that they didn't have any Black Kids on The Show. Keep in mind that Chicago was also the Birthplace of Ebony Magazine, Chess Records whose Artists would be a major influence on The Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, and The Yardbirds. Ebony Magazine would also Sponsor Soul Train with Afro Sheen and Ultra Sheen and in later years it would create the First African American Cosmetics Line Fashion Fair but it went out of business when more Companies created Cosmetics for Women Of Color like L'Oreal and Mac which has done alot for the LGBT Community.
I remember when American Bandstand had their Xmas Show and The Little Brothers & Sisters of The Regulars came on and they were so happy to be on. They even let them do the Spotlight Dance and Rate A Record.
I was on that show a few Times.
A great time in our Lives...
Thank you !!! Looking back I remember how cool we were. I went to my first concert when I was five. It was Paul Revere And The Raiders. This band looks similar.
I was a member of Ron Riley's Batman Club.
This is great! I love watching those kids dance!
I will say this...kids then_could dance.
this clip is too cool !!!!!!
This was a really cool show. I remember this show from my childhood growing up in Chicago. I wish I could have gotten on it but now I guess I'm thankful I didn't. I've got 2 left feet! LOL!!!
Just reading the local paper and one of the stories was about Elaine Mulqueen who just passed away at the age of 80. She apparently lived in the Chicago suburb of Bartlett. Its fun watching a show like this from the past. A different time. Rest in peace Elaine.
Drummer swears he’s rocking it lol
'You and I will be together til the end of time". Elaine and Jack Mulqueen.
My younger sister and I would make fun of how most of the kids on the show danced. But we watched this on a regular basis.
That one girl is doing "The Freddie".
1966 was truly the high point of Western civilization. Also the KAGG theme song by the Males features young Theodore Nugent on guitar before he moved to Detroit first to form the Amboy Dukes and then to become a municipal madman.
ok, i HAVE to ask my mom what i wore to Kiddie a Go Go!! all i know is that she had to convince them to let me on, because I was underage! lol. I'm not sure... but that may be me in the bottom right hand corner, white blouse, dark jumper...thanks, mom, for the black anklets.
It looks like pre-teen American Bandstand.
Broadcast on channel 26 from the Board of Trade Building in downtown Chicago.
I remember Kiddie a go go. I bet the New Colony Six were dying inside playing here.
I use to watch this everyday after school!
It's really groovey! :-)
i was on that show with my sister and two cousins. i am watching and LMAO!
complex song for the kids!
Man, those paying gigs must have been hard to come by.
Check out New Colony Six Then(1965)&Now(2005). There are even later videos.This group still performs great to this day!
Those kids were free. And they were jammin'! Love this song, love this band. I come back to this video regularly. Thank you so much for posting.
I think ELAINE is great I would've loved to have her be my neighbor or my school teacher 'she's so vibrant and youthful ;I would've liked to have known her, if only I would have been born around 1946 or so.
Thank goodness for local television stations in those days.
Haha..there are kids doing the frug, crawl, backwards crawl, the freddy (heh)..and one kid who is doing the slow jerk!!!
Love the song but can't believe that there was actually a show called "kiddie-a-Go-Go. I still dance like that kid in the middle of the pack early in the video.
Kiddie a go go sponsored by The Mul(l) Queen...Im amazed to see there was a sixties garage show for kids..they didn't know how lucky they were..
Hilarious. And superb.
I'd like this video except for one thing....they all dance better than I do !
I wanna do Pandora!
This great stuff!
Is she still around? she must be getting up there by now, still wgn was a powerhouse of shows, well at least as far as kids shows went, and was one of the original cable channels from the short lived demote network. Then it became the independant channel that it was for years. Too bad bozo is not still on, though I dont know how much relivance it would have but it was a land mark show unmatched to this date for local kids shows.
ahh loving kids dancing kiss kiss
OMG. I remember watching Paul Revere and the Raiders on this and then I asked my mother to buy me Ups and Downs...my very first 45.
evoman1776 my first concert was Paul Revere And The Raiders !!! I was 4 yrs. Old
THANK YOU.
Brilliant!
This is great!!! : )
LOL Those poor children...
In July of 2009 this had 32,400 views. 16,000 hits the first two years and 90,000 from 2009 to 2013. Couldn't get the stats graph to open today
fiend--You are right. The NC6 took on their name and garb in 1964--in answer to the 'British Invasion.' I first saw them in '66, and they were wearing the 'Nehru' shirts, or 'mod' look, no costumes! I still say neither group 'copied.' But then along came...Gary Puckett & The Union Gap...!!
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i am amazed
just when you've seen it all
soomthing like this wow
these children if they survived being on a gogo show at 5 or 6 are close to 5ifty now.
wonder where they are now?
Paul Revere and the Raiders had the colonial outfits as far back as early 1963 (around the time they were signed with Columbia Records) when NC6 weren't even formed.
My dad called this a show jungle music for little hippies
i was on the show where mr. sun gave my sister the age ofaquarius album and my twin and i won a dance contest. i think it was 1968. if anyone has a video pleaese share
I don't have a video or anything, but as I watched this with a chuckle, I also was really impressed with the one tiny girl with the short brown hair on the far right of the screen. She was actually a really naturally talented dancer (my career is as a dance critic for several newspapers and magazines -- so I'm just not an odd ball but someone who is genuinely impressed). I have to wonder what her career path ended up being.
YOU were on Kiddie a go go? (I lived in Chicago suburbs back in the 60s and remember that show very well as a preteen)
Anyone remember Two Ton Baker at the piano and Bubbles the whale? ;)
"Two Ton Baker the Music Maker".
@sarahelaineenglund
Hi, That is awesome. I watched it all the time. Pandora (Elaine Mulqueen) did a great job on camera. I'm from Chicago and now live in Scottsdale, AZ. At 52 years old, it's hard to believe that once upon a time, I was an 8 year old watching the show. Seems like yesterday. Please say hi to Pandora from a fan. Glenn.
I'll bet the NC6 fired their booking agent after this gig. I do enjoy watching it, though!
Blazer Boy has got the moves.
@Herb Garble, we'd need a time machine for that. I wonder what 1969 was like
:) cositaaas
OMG Kiddie A Go Go from WCIU Chicago's First UHF Station with studios in the Board of Trade. I think I will dig out and wear my Madras shirt to work monday!!!!!
PS I AS a Weber's Commando!!
micki--I was looking through the comments here, and the story is that the outfits were pretty much coincidental. The two bands met, wearing similar costumes, in '65. Both lived in the same duplex in LA, trying to get famous. The NC6 gave up and returned to Chicago after PR&R's got signed by Dick Clark! Actually, I think Ray has commented that the NC6 were first with the outfits. We may never know :)
It would have been cool to have the Doors play this show. Open with "Roadhouse Blues" perhaps?
@bze2nlz1 yes they dropped those outfits on Breakthrough because of Paul Revere and the Raiders. They didn't want to be thought of as copycat, but they did honestly have no clue and it was an odd coincidence. I think there were lots of bands that used those Nehru shirts too.
One of my favorite songs. Check out the Cub Scout.
@zapkvr she is a my aunt and a wonderful woman. Watch how you talk about people!
How many of those kids are collecting social security now
Hey, is that Paul Revere and the Raiders? Nice style copy guys!
OMG, I did`nt know I could DANCE !
@zapkvr 'Chicagoland' is just a term that applies to the roughly 50-mile radius around and including the city itself. Small parts of Indiana and Wisconsin are in there too. The exception, of course, would be Lake Michigan where you may get a bit soggy :)
hahaha the song is actually pretty cool, I like how none of the little kids could really care less about the band
How I wished I could have been on this show when I was 8. Sigh...
11 years ago lol
@zapkvr Pink Floyd & Disneyland? Haha, you're so funny.
Wow! Flasback! I remember this from Chicago TV. And, of course the New Colony Six. Does Ronnie Rice remember how he use to be in those costumes
Ronnie was never in those costumes, William. We brought him into the band in 1966 and by then, we had abandoned this look thinking that folks might feel we were ripping off Paul Revere & the Raiders. Was not true as we both came to the colonial/Rev War idea independently and essentially concurrently. Did you know that we shared a 2-flat in L.A.with PR&R in 1965 - prior to them landing "Action" and our release of any recordings? True!
Ray. I stand corrected. It would be hard to imagine the "human juke box" in them anyway.
Craig Kemp is on organ here-Ronnie Rice came on board after Craig left. Ronnie played guitar, but was known more for being a fine singer. (Also, on this clip, Wally Kemp was on bass; Craig’s cousin.)🙂✌️🎶