I just can't stop watching this video, it's so great, how I wish we back in those times. Love Harvey and Carol. I bet I watch this video at least once a day. Makes me happy.
I loved watching them dance and I would mimic all their moves! This was the greatest way for my friends and I to keep up with the latest dances! R.I.P. Dick Clark!
Carole was a good friend of mine for many many years. Her death saddened so many of us. Her funeral was a great tribute to her life. Seeing this video brings me so much joy knowing that she will always be remembered.
oh that just brings tears to my eyes - I had read several months ago that she had some serious health issues, so sorry to hear she passed. I want to believe that there's a Bandstand in Heaven where we'll all get to meet up & dance the night away
@@gloriadiantonio7681 that's the beauty of these videos and the internet. We CAN all go home again. With a click of button/mouse it all comes back and makes me and many others feel good (or even a little sad). Now if we can get Prof. Peabody, Sherman and the Way Back Machine, I'd be in hog heaven!!!
I believe they are doing the BOP, a form of East Coast Swing. ECS can be done in single time, double time or triple time. If I was dancing to De De Dinah I would do a double time swing. If you live close to a community center they may teach ECS usually free and hold practice sessions regularly.
Of the teen dance shows of the time the Philly regulars were by far the best dancers, here Carole Scaldeferri and Harvey Robbins strut their creative footwork.
@@carolemcintire8304 Harvey was also my favorite male dancer. I think I was a about 2 years younger than he was in 1957. I liked his style and the way he always looked like he was really enjoying himself and having fun. He seemed to be humble and not a camera-hog like some others. It is very hard to find any details about his passing. I did read that he died of AIDS but I don't know exactly when.
She loved to dance I remember watching her on American Bandstand in the 60's but today she would be considered too hefty. Well, she's in rock and roll paradise dancing away. RIP Carol.
I actually bought this dvd a few years back, and it is trippy for me. Especially since my mom was only three years old!! Thanks Bunny for being a part of TV history.
Tell me about coming home to watch AB. Did it from my freshman year through senior, and my first year in college - when the Philly chapter came to a close in '64. That to me, ended my love affair. It was never the same in LA. Crushes? You know them: Scaldeferri, Giordano, Betrante (Rosie), Hamill, Molittieri, Carrelli, Di Pietro (sounds like an Italian law firm). Wasn't just the ladies, it was the guys too, and the total package: the East Coast kids, mature, great dancers, excellent music in the era (best of all-time IMO), and Dick as the handsome boy-next-door, master of understatement and humility. Where do you find that today? A time in my life that'll never be repeated. Memories and longing for that era remains. Forever. Probably didn't hurt that your teen years were, for me, the most impressionable, where your first love entered and you reached young-manhood.
I'm laughing because I was not born until 69 but ! I look at that kid in his suit & I can hear my Italian mother saying you will grow into it lol . Great memory's for so many i'm sure ! I go to Philly once a week & I eat at Ralphs that has been there for ever & its still great my Italian friends ...
Hey I still do it all because of AB I ended up being a dance teacher and I play keyboards, I wish I could go to a 50's dance party just to do it all again that was when we did all the dances and boys could dance 💃
The one surviving Kinescope that can be purchased on line at many different places is from December 1957. "Thevidiotkid" is just explaining a particular moment during the show. A cameraman took this kinescope home and had it transferred from 16mm film to video tape in the 80's and then it got out and was transferred to DVD. Dick Clark tried to stop it but it was ruled public domain for this one show.
Social Studies teacher showed this to the class. He said the boy dancing looked like someone present in the room. The class and I were confused and wondered who he was talking about. He then said "he looks like our Mr.Raya", which was me. I always come back to this video to remember that moment.
You are so correct, I loved Carole Scaldeferri, I would come home from school and run up 3 flights of stairs, to watch Bandstand. Then my girlfriends and I would watch Carole and Frani Giordano and try to learn their steps. We finally got the steps down pat, but the guys from Boston couldn't dance like the South Philly guys.........
That tall girl at 1:40 wearing the dark circle skirt. Those skirts were expensive but SO popular with girls for dancing and rollerskating. Girls would wear a minimum of two crinolines underneath those wide-sweeping skirts when participating in the above-mentioned social activities.
I was not born until a couple decades later . But this truly looks like fun & the beets not bad either . I bet these young people loved it So sad that they don't have things like this anymore & why ? I would rather watch this then stranded on an Island naked & trying to survive !!!
I agree! The other surviving dance shows, the kids were very jerky. The south Philly kids were very smooth and looked well rehearsed even though they didn't really rehearse.
There are several different clips from the show of the songs played on that day. It shows the kids dancing but you really have to have the DVD to know what songs were on that show. Otherwise they just look like random Bandstand clips. Some may be marked 12/18/57 but mostly they are named after the song like, "At The Hop" or "Joann."
On this day in 1974 {May 17th} Frankie Avalon appeared on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'... He performed a medley of his hits; "Why" {#1 for 1 week in 1959}, "Just Ask Your Heart" {#7 in 1959}, "De De Dinah {#7 in 1958}, "Gingerbread {#9 in 1958}, "Bobby Sox to Stockings {#8 in 1959}, and "Venus {#1 for 5 weeks in 1959}... R.I.P. Robert Weston Smith {aka Wolfman Jack; 1938 - 1995} and Mr. Avalon will celebrate his 74th birthday this coming September 18th...
On this day in 1958 {March 28th} Frankie Avalon performed "De De Dinah"* on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'... At the time the song was at #36 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, seven weeks earlier it had peaked at #7 {for 1 week} and it spent fifteen weeks on the Top 100... Between 1958 and 1976 the Philadelphia native had twenty-five Top 100 records; seven made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Venus" for 5 weeks in 1959 and "Why?" for 1 week, also in 1959... His 25th and last Top 100 record was a disco version of "Venus", it peak at #46 on the Top 100 and on March 14th, 1976, it reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart... Mr. Avalon, born Francis Thomas Avallone, will celebrat his 78th birthday this coming September 18th {2018}... * Some sites claim he also performed his next release, "You Excite Me", on this 'Bandstand' appearance, it reached #49 in late April of 1958... In addition, When "Why?" peaked at #1 on December 28th, 1959, it achieved the distinction of being the last #1 record of the 1950s...
I answered you earlier but it seems there are more films. These films should be in the National Archives. Very important films here. Is there any time table for their release? I knew that there had to be other films because I have seen other clips of the dancers doing other dances like the stroll and the circle dance. What Carol Scaldeferri and Harvey Robbins are dong here is "the Push". So there is hope to see more shows from the 50's and early 60's.
Carole didn't do a commercial. There were several 7up commercials and WFIL commercials. Some of the 7up commercials were cartoons and some Dick did live. There is an interview with Carole on this show right before she does this spotlight dance with Harvey.
Spotlight dancer Harvey Robbins was a great dancer with Carole Scaldeferri, together they compliment each other. When he's dancing with Arlene he seems to be lost, Arlene wants to do her own thing. Arlene was not a great dancer, but she made a nice looking couple with Kenny Rossi who was a good dancer.
Those were the Days! The boys were dressed to kill and they looked sensational. Those of us who are in our 70s now still have our values. And the men are gentlemen. They open doors for us and walk us to our condos and apartments. So unlike the selfish children of today. If only we could bring back those days!
Im 71 & truthfully I'm glad we don't dress that way anymore! However, the styles were classic & when you see those clothes you know what decade/generation they came from. I just posted a clip of Arlene dancing w Harvey on her site & I commented on how we wore those bobby sox & bubbles shoes, how our skirt hems had to touch the top of those sox otherwise we'd be square -- hahaha
Phyllis Sinoradzki thank God I idolize the 50s and 60s. I'm 15. People ask me why, and I tell them everything was better then. All these terrorist attacks and shootings, you didn't hear about it. The only thing you had to really worry about was how to properly do a duck and cover procedure. Other than that, you could go down to the Malt Shop and dance with your high school sweetheart until dinner time and then go home and spend the rest of the night with your family
WOW!! I like everyone's comment on the dancers both girls & guys on American Bandstand.The first couple on the dance floor are fabulous dancers. Sorry to hear Carol's passing.Rip 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✝️❤️Whatever happened to the guy?????👍🏼👍🏼
I love how the kids look like they are wearing their fathers suits . Back then your mom always bought you a extra size because you will grow into it lol ;)
@@maureenmcgovern6119 The Philly dancers on Bandstand were all from neighborhood high schools and the local Catholic girl's school. It was really a neighborhood thing, with alot of kids with Italian surnames reflecting their family's heritage. When the show moved to California in early 1964, apparently the show's dancers were gotten from around southern California, not just a local neighborhood. And Beatlemania was in it's early period in the country. And I believe Bandstand moved the same week as the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, where the national focus was. Then, added to that, Bandstand went from being on everyday to once a week Those were major changes that were overwhelmed the Bandstand show. Locally, such as in Los Angeles, there were three very popular dance shows on everyday during the week, making Bandstand, which was now only on Saturdays at noon, seem less cool, and a bit dated. Not really Bandstand's fault. American Bandstand was once the TV centerpiece for what was cool in music/dancing, etc. But the times changed, and Bandstand was never fully able to come to terms with it.
they both were great dancers, as were all of the regulars - like professionals except they were teen agers & in high school (as I was) Harvey especially was an absolutely fabulous dancer..............those kids were so sophisticated (at least on Bandstand); me & my friends in Chgo far south were such dumpy dopes! lol
Bunny Gibson you have been so sweet to me growing up back then I was born in 1966 so it was quite a bit before my time but I just love that style that music you know the way you girls look back and it's awesome it's just I love it I love that time I wish I could go back in that time
I love the one kid on the dance floor getting caught by the cameras holding a 7up bottle and she keeps trying to hide it and her partner keeps moving her around. BUSTED! LOL
He had asked for the films when he left WFIL and went to California. The told him no. All the old Kinescopes were to be destroyed. Some kid in charge of gathering up all the old films called Dick up and said, "I got a whole bunch of stuff here with your name on it. You want it?" Dick said, "YOU BET I DO!" He knew he had about the only "video" collection from the late 50's and early 60's and could make money.
Dick Clark was the best miss him and Carol she was so pretty this is good music the best better then today music my kids love head bang. Stuff I say fifty's and sixitys are the best I hear it all thime love it love it I watch bdiffent and stand on my phone
I know dancing is called different names in different parts of the country, but can anybody tell me what this rock and roll dance was called back then in Philadelphia in 1957? Was it the Jitterbug? The Lindy Hop? I could watch for hours. Sure do wish we danced like that.
Harvey Robbins and Carol Scaldaferri rockin' out. Harvey's signature was the folded newspaper in his coat pocket.
I just can't stop watching this video, it's so great, how I wish we back in those times. Love Harvey and Carol. I bet I watch this video at least once a day. Makes me happy.
I keep watching Harvey.
He is my favorite.
I literally watch this video once a day. It makes me happy, I wish we can go back to those times. Love you guys
I loved watching them dance and I would mimic all their moves! This was the greatest way for my friends and I to keep up with the latest dances!
R.I.P. Dick Clark!
Carole was a good friend of mine for many many years. Her death saddened so many of us. Her funeral was a great tribute to her life. Seeing this video brings me so much joy knowing that she will always be remembered.
oh that just brings tears to my eyes - I had read several months ago that she had some serious health issues, so sorry to hear she passed. I want to believe that there's a Bandstand in Heaven where we'll all get to meet up & dance the night away
Amen. She was one of my close friends. I miss herm
So sad to hear of her passing...that girl danced with a whole lot of soul👍😑🤧
My condolences. Carole was always known as the fashion plate-at least that is what all the fan magazines said about her.
She was a knock out.
Boy this brings back memories dancing to all that music back then.
I love watching these clips. It was a big part of my life. I would love to have the Bandstand specials from the 50's and 60's
Yes me to!!!
Me too
@@gloriadiantonio7681
that's the beauty of these videos and the internet. We CAN all go home again. With a click of button/mouse it all comes back and makes me and many others feel good (or even a little sad). Now if we can get Prof. Peabody, Sherman and the Way Back Machine, I'd be in hog heaven!!!
The couple at the start are incredible dancers, perfect form + style!
I was born in 1955, and I love the way they danced back then. I would love if this style of dance came back .
Yes it was fun l used to dance that way with my Mom!
I believe they are doing the BOP, a form of East Coast Swing. ECS can be done in single time, double time or triple time. If I was dancing to De De Dinah I would do a double time swing. If you live close to a community center they may teach ECS usually free and hold practice sessions regularly.
Of the teen dance shows of the time the Philly regulars were by far the best dancers, here
Carole Scaldeferri and Harvey Robbins strut their creative footwork.
Harvey was my favorite along with Carole Kenny & Arlene
@@carolemcintire8304 Harvey was also my favorite male dancer. I think I was a about 2 years younger than he was in 1957. I liked his style and the way he always looked like he was really enjoying himself and having fun. He seemed to be humble and not a camera-hog like some others. It is very hard to find any details about his passing. I did read that he died of AIDS but I don't know exactly when.
Harvey is so sweet.
She loved to dance I remember watching her on American Bandstand in the 60's but today she would be considered too hefty. Well, she's in rock and roll paradise dancing away. RIP Carol.
I love watching this video. Carole was a close friend of mine until her sudden death four and a half years ago. I still miss her.
I know Rick. May she RIP.
She was so pretty
I actually bought this dvd a few years back, and it is trippy for me. Especially since my mom was only three years old!! Thanks Bunny for being a part of TV history.
Janna Watson where do you buy the DVDs at American Bandstand I'd like to know so I can buy some thank you very much
Always always always thank Bunny Gibson for keeping it alive! She is a true cheerleader and she was there 😉
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You know it's the 50's if it's got a beat and the guys are wearing a suit! Those were good days....
Yes forsure love A.B
That young couple did a fabulous job on the floor, I love watching them.
I totally agree. They made a great dancing pair. And as others have commented, it's nice seeing the guys in suits.
Doesn’t look like all kids in audience
Hope they find more films of the early Bandstand.
Tell me about coming home to watch AB. Did it from my freshman year through senior, and my first year in college - when the Philly chapter came to a close in '64. That to me, ended my love affair. It was never the same in LA. Crushes? You know them: Scaldeferri, Giordano, Betrante (Rosie), Hamill, Molittieri, Carrelli, Di Pietro (sounds like an Italian law firm). Wasn't just the ladies, it was the guys too, and the total package: the East Coast kids, mature, great dancers, excellent music in the era (best of all-time IMO), and Dick as the handsome boy-next-door, master of understatement and humility. Where do you find that today? A time in my life that'll never be repeated. Memories and longing for that era remains. Forever. Probably didn't hurt that your teen years were, for me, the most impressionable, where your first love entered and you reached young-manhood.
How right you are !!!
That was a spotlight dance for Carole Scaldeferri and Harvey Robbins.
Also will miss Carole S. Because the girl had fascinating rhythm!
I'm laughing because I was not born until 69 but ! I look at that kid in his suit & I can hear my Italian mother saying you will grow into it lol . Great memory's for so many i'm sure ! I go to Philly once a week & I eat at Ralphs that has been there for ever & its still great my Italian friends ...
Loved watching Mum and Dad Dancing back in the 50s..
I remember these days well...and I still love to dance.
As do I still love to dance. Only problem is my hips don't go in the direction they're supposed to. OUCH!!!
Hey I still do it all because of AB I ended up being a dance teacher and I play keyboards, I wish I could go to a 50's dance party just to do it all again that was when we did all the dances and boys could dance 💃
I never get tired of watching this video.
The one surviving Kinescope that can be purchased on line at many different places is from December 1957. "Thevidiotkid" is just explaining a particular moment during the show. A cameraman took this kinescope home and had it transferred from 16mm film to video tape in the 80's and then it got out and was transferred to DVD. Dick Clark tried to stop it but it was ruled public domain for this one show.
There are times when I really don't admire Dick Clark. He was obsessed with the idea that he would never surrender a penny to anyone.
This clip is from December, 1957, so you were right on with your years.
iloved carol s very muc she was great dancer
My name is Carlos and in 1957 I was 10 years old,,in 1962 I was a teenager rebel
Social Studies teacher showed this to the class. He said the boy dancing looked like someone present in the room. The class and I were confused and wondered who he was talking about. He then said "he looks like our Mr.Raya", which was me. I always come back to this video to remember that moment.
i was on bandstand many times in 57 and 58
George cook was my favorite
of of course the lovely Charlotte Russo
+vinny marini Hi Vinny, I'm crazy about. these shows. We used to ron home from school and watch "Bandstand".
These 2,could really dance!
Golly! You just LIVED FOR THE Spotlight Dances!!!
They knew how to dance back then...got a littlle dizzy watching this but it's still great. :D
Thanks for posting!
You are so correct, I loved Carole Scaldeferri, I would come home from school and run up 3 flights of stairs, to watch Bandstand. Then my girlfriends and I would watch Carole and Frani Giordano and try to learn their steps. We finally got the steps down pat, but the guys from Boston couldn't dance like the South Philly guys.........
bandstand 16 Thats funny you and your girlfriends should have taught them.
my all time favorite show
I can't help it.
Harvey is so cute.
I bet he was just as nice.
Kenny and Arlene are on this ’57 video but the couple dancing is
Carole Scaldeferri and Harvey Robbins
That tall girl at 1:40 wearing the dark circle skirt. Those skirts were expensive but SO popular with girls for dancing and rollerskating. Girls would wear a minimum of two crinolines underneath those wide-sweeping skirts when participating in the above-mentioned social activities.
I was not born until a couple decades later . But this truly looks like fun & the beets not bad either . I bet these young people loved it So sad that they don't have things like this anymore & why ? I would rather watch this then stranded on an Island naked & trying to survive !!!
Those boys and girls in 1959 should be granddads and grandmas in 2020.Wow so long ago.Sixty one years ago but that was Frankie Avalon's "Dede Dinah".
eso si era baile q hermosa musica amo los 50 60s
Fantastic video..WOW!!!
DaddyCool1947 Thank you very much. I actually have more inquires, I have to find the right clips. So many of these kids resemble each other
I agree! The other surviving dance shows, the kids were very jerky. The south Philly kids were very smooth and looked well rehearsed even though they didn't really rehearse.
There are several different clips from the show of the songs played on that day. It shows the kids dancing but you really have to have the DVD to know what songs were on that show. Otherwise they just look like random Bandstand clips. Some may be marked 12/18/57 but mostly they are named after the song like, "At The Hop" or "Joann."
caroline and i were married in 62 50 yrs. now still boppin
I'm still a pretty good jitterbugger. Of course I can't do really fast stuff anymore or the lindy tricks but I can still move! LOL
Harvey.
I just love him.
On this day in 1974 {May 17th} Frankie Avalon appeared on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'...
He performed a medley of his hits; "Why" {#1 for 1 week in 1959}, "Just Ask Your Heart" {#7 in 1959}, "De De Dinah {#7 in 1958}, "Gingerbread {#9 in 1958}, "Bobby Sox to Stockings {#8 in 1959}, and "Venus {#1 for 5 weeks in 1959}...
R.I.P. Robert Weston Smith {aka Wolfman Jack; 1938 - 1995} and Mr. Avalon will celebrate his 74th birthday this coming September 18th...
WISH I COULD FIND THE EPISODE I WAS THERE WITH MY FRIENDS JULY 20 1960.
Harvey and Carole.
Both gone.
Rest In Peace.
Love this song, great dancing!
On this day in 1958 {March 28th} Frankie Avalon performed "De De Dinah"* on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
At the time the song was at #36 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, seven weeks earlier it had peaked at #7 {for 1 week} and it spent fifteen weeks on the Top 100...
Between 1958 and 1976 the Philadelphia native had twenty-five Top 100 records; seven made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Venus" for 5 weeks in 1959 and "Why?" for 1 week, also in 1959...
His 25th and last Top 100 record was a disco version of "Venus", it peak at #46 on the Top 100 and on March 14th, 1976, it reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
Mr. Avalon, born Francis Thomas Avallone, will celebrat his 78th birthday this coming September 18th {2018}...
* Some sites claim he also performed his next release, "You Excite Me", on this 'Bandstand' appearance, it reached #49 in late April of 1958...
In addition, When "Why?" peaked at #1 on December 28th, 1959, it achieved the distinction of being the last #1 record of the 1950s...
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Carol was beautiful but sadly in today's thin obsessed world, she would almost be called plus sized. They were all so classy & beautiful...
Catherine Erwin almost??
A high percentage of people today are plus size due to poor eating habits, far more than in the 1950's.
Young people are bigger today because of all the fast food, preservatives, and less exercise
I answered you earlier but it seems there are more films. These films should be in the National Archives. Very important films here. Is there any time table for their release? I knew that there had to be other films because I have seen other clips of the dancers doing other dances like the stroll and the circle dance. What Carol Scaldeferri and Harvey Robbins are dong here is "the Push". So there is hope to see more shows from the 50's and early 60's.
Carole didn't do a commercial. There were several 7up commercials and WFIL commercials. Some of the 7up commercials were cartoons and some Dick did live. There is an interview with Carole on this show right before she does this spotlight dance with Harvey.
Bandstand was the best I wish we could go back in time I would love to see how crazy I was I did
Spotlight dancer Harvey Robbins was a great dancer with Carole Scaldeferri, together they compliment each other. When he's dancing with Arlene he seems to be lost, Arlene wants to do her own thing. Arlene was not a great dancer, but she made a nice looking couple with Kenny Rossi who was a good dancer.
luis grant that is so true.I agree hundred percent!!!!
luis grant
still waiting to see if any one knows when Harvey Robbins died from what he was such a great dancer you can send me a message f you know
Exactly how I learned back then, and that's how my friends, boyfriends and I danced. Love the steps.
me too
Annette Thermos
PL call back from a mo mo all all
Those were the Days! The boys were dressed to kill and they looked sensational. Those of us who are in our 70s now still have our values. And the men are gentlemen. They open doors for us and walk us to our condos and apartments. So unlike the selfish children of today. If only we could bring back those days!
You nailed it, Phyllis ! I'm 69 and know just what you're taking about. Nice, clean clothes. Not like the rags so common today.
Im 71 & truthfully I'm glad we don't dress that way anymore! However, the styles were classic & when you see those clothes you know what decade/generation they came from. I just posted a clip of Arlene dancing w Harvey on her site & I commented on how we wore those bobby sox & bubbles shoes, how our skirt hems had to touch the top of those sox otherwise we'd be square -- hahaha
Phyllis Sinoradzki thank God I idolize the 50s and 60s. I'm 15. People ask me why, and I tell them everything was better then. All these terrorist attacks and shootings, you didn't hear about it. The only thing you had to really worry about was how to properly do a duck and cover procedure. Other than that, you could go down to the Malt Shop and dance with your high school sweetheart until dinner time and then go home and spend the rest of the night with your family
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American bandstand 1979 with color
Performance by de Dinah by Annette
We all know one thing this era was the era where you got the girls this era was the best era to pick up some chicks and gals in that convertable
I'm 67 and don't think kids now a days don't know how to dance.I don't think they even know how to slow dance
WOW!! I like everyone's comment on the dancers both girls & guys on American Bandstand.The first couple on the dance floor are fabulous dancers. Sorry to hear Carol's passing.Rip 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✝️❤️Whatever happened to the guy?????👍🏼👍🏼
His name is Harvey Robbins. He passed away also
0:34-0:40...I wonder how much practice went in to getting those steps down. AAA+++
Another Frankie Avalon songs
They are
Why (1959)
Venus (1959)
I love how the kids look like they are wearing their fathers suits . Back then your mom always bought you a extra size because you will grow into it lol ;)
Amen Michael!!🙏You got a witness!
Funny, I had three younger brothers 😂
Loved her...........
The girls, in this time period, had NO TATTOOS, NO PIERCINGS and NO FILTHY MOUTHS! An era that has passed. Just saying. :^[}
They’re all good dancers. I Loved Philly Bandstand. It was definitely better than in California.
@@maureenmcgovern6119 The Philly dancers on Bandstand were all from neighborhood high schools and the local Catholic girl's school. It was really a neighborhood thing, with alot of kids with Italian surnames reflecting their family's heritage.
When the show moved to California in early 1964, apparently the show's dancers were gotten from around southern California, not just a local neighborhood. And Beatlemania was in it's early period in the country. And I believe Bandstand moved the same week as the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, where the national focus was. Then, added to that, Bandstand went from being on everyday to once a week
Those were major changes that were overwhelmed the Bandstand show. Locally, such as in Los Angeles, there were three very popular dance shows on everyday during the week, making Bandstand, which was now only on Saturdays at noon, seem less cool, and a bit dated.
Not really Bandstand's fault. American Bandstand was once the TV centerpiece for what was cool in music/dancing, etc. But the times changed, and Bandstand was never fully able to come to terms with it.
Alot were Gay ..
I DANCED JUST LIKE THEM IN BRISTOL PA.
Released: December 23, 1957
Love Harvey.
had a huge AB tv crush on Norman and I was just 10.
I take it that the couple starting out dancing alone were Carole Scaldiferri and Harvey Robbins? Excellent! I'm going by other's comments.
they both were great dancers, as were all of the regulars - like professionals except they were teen agers & in high school (as I was) Harvey especially was an absolutely fabulous dancer..............those kids were so sophisticated (at least on Bandstand); me & my friends in Chgo far south were such dumpy dopes! lol
Harvey Robbins was my favorite dancer
carole mcintire did he ever smile?
So great to see beautiful Carole Scaldeferri and Harvey Robbins......my Bandstand buddies.
Bunny Gibson 1959-61 (have more videos on my website
Bunny Gibson you have been so sweet to me growing up back then I was born in 1966 so it was quite a bit before my time but I just love that style that music you know the way you girls look back and it's awesome it's just I love it I love that time I wish I could go back in that time
Bunny Gibson Michigan person you were my brother and my dad's favorite dancers on American Bandstand I just like for you to know that
Bunny Gibson you must have some amazing memories working on this show
Ok, Thank you very much. Ernie
cool dancing!
I love the one kid on the dance floor getting caught by the cameras holding a 7up bottle and she keeps trying to hide it and her partner keeps moving her around. BUSTED! LOL
A few years before mt time, in 1957, I was only12 but I watched later
Martha Moet I was only 10 in 57 and I watched it.
Actually, 1958, I have the complete show
Bunny Gibson I love you girlie! :-D
Is it me or do us Italians know how to sing and dance ?
So glad to have found you! My dad was on this show from 57-60. Do you know how I can get the episodes? Thanks!
Carol Scaldeferri RIP It was almost 56 years that did this dance with Harvey Robbins that she died - ten days short.
He was an excellent dancer I would have to see him and Pat dance more together.
Justine ... I still love you!
They practiced.
Not a suit to be found on a dance floor from NY to California now days !!!
With a fabulous tenor solo by Buddy Savit.
He had asked for the films when he left WFIL and went to California. The told him no. All the old Kinescopes were to be destroyed. Some kid in charge of gathering up all the old films called Dick up and said, "I got a whole bunch of stuff here with your name on it. You want it?" Dick said, "YOU BET I DO!" He knew he had about the only "video" collection from the late 50's and early 60's and could make money.
great
when humans sang
Isn’t it strange ?
This was the very first 45 I bought.
LOVE THE DANCEING.AND A.B. DICK CLARK
THOSE WERE THE
DAYS OF EASY
LIVEING TO BE
YOUNG AGAIN
AND TO KNOW
EH AS T WE KNOW NOW.
12/18/57, AB - NOT- 1958. Other posting elsewhere of Anka miming this is from 1958 "Beech Nut Saturday Night Show"
I love it so much fun My voice in doing Solo
They can't get off their cell phones long enough to learn anything.They're not smart enough anyways.
DaddyCool1947 I didn't finish my sentence below, or check my spelling please excuse my mess. I pushed the Post button by mistake.
Dick Clark was the best miss him and Carol she was so pretty this is good music the best better then today music my kids love head bang. Stuff I say fifty's and sixitys are the best I hear it all thime love it love it I watch bdiffent
and stand on my phone
I know dancing is called different names in different parts of the country, but can anybody tell me what this rock and roll dance was called back then in Philadelphia in 1957? Was it the Jitterbug? The Lindy Hop? I could watch for hours. Sure do wish we danced like that.
A all Catholic girls school around the corner. The El subway 46 th street station. All Catholic boys school 3 blocks away.