It was like we were in unison or the same wave length. I felt it for only being 10-11 yrs in 1967, but I listened to the radio daily and learned how to dance. Times of pure fun that seem so innocent now.
It Was 1967 in San Francisco. I was a Box-Top Head. The memories of me and my Friend Cruising in his 1963 Chevy- 327 in San Jose California, Listening to the Box Tops. R.I.P. Mike. Hard to believe we all laughing and sitting around the table, and all are gone, even my dad and Mom.
My best friends Dad played bass for The Box Tops. He passed away a few years back and I’ll always have fond memories of him and growing up with his two boys. RIP Joey Savage❤️
Born in 91 grew up listening to the Box Tops thanks to my dad and mom. I'm a metal head now days, but there are a few songs that get me jammin this hard from back in the day.
...the Box Tops are very underated as a band and they had many chart toppers. Superb Vocals. And yes, I'd give my World, this day, to go back just for ONE day in 1967!!
@@chipgaasche4933Thats your opinion,but my parents generation preffered the 60s,to modern britain of today.women were far more genuine,than today,look how fake many of the modern day women are today,far more arrogance,and greed now,than then.
I was a kid of 10-11 yrs in 1967, so I was much younger than these teenagers, but I watched these dance shows on TV and learned to dance. Me and my cousin used to dance to the 60s music, and i remember how we loved "Happy Together" by the Turtles. it still makes me happy especially in these uncertain times.
Aurel Negarea.... i thought about your post, i am 75 and you are right. We knew these were good times but we did not appreciate just how wonderful they were. Looking around at society today, that trust and innocence cannot come back. Just soak it up Aurel
I was 17 in 1967, but somehow I feared that the good times would not last. Music got dumber, and that was confirmed by 1970 with The Band, and later with The Eagles.
True. I was 20 in 67. You never know how good your have it till its gone. Never see times like that again. Music today we all know what happened to that. Watching shows like American Idol with their lame singers and songs . Feel sorry for the kids today.
Close your eyes and imagine the AM radio alive with songs like this. So good, innocent and a great time to be free and alive. If that era makes me old today, then I'm proud of it. I won't trade those years for anything.
+George Vreeland Hill I was right their with you sitting in NASHVILLE listing to ART ROBERTS out of CHICAGO at night spinning the hits and my buddy's and I got the SAN FRANCISCO ITCH and away we went,I wouldn't trade those times for nothing old age is a bitch. I started out as a roadie out of NASHVILLE my hometown and retired own the booking end now I sit back and play the hits from my time and yours.
+George Vreeland Hill Back in the early 60's, I saved up my 'lawn mowing' money and bought a 'Three transistor pocket AM radio, with leather carry case.( it even came with an earphone).. Yes, I said 'three transistor'..it was a big deal..i guess.. I'd listen to the Beach boys all summer long.. It went everywhere with me. I think the Gemini space program had just started.
In '67 I was 16 years old. I was in a band that competed in a "Battle Of The Bands". We did 3 songs...."The Letter", "Knock On Wood" and "You Keep Me Hanging On" (The Vanilla Fudge version). We came in 2nd. Good times. Back then we did a dance called, "The Skate". A lot of these teens in this video are doing that dance. "The Skate" became popular after "The Boogaloo". BTW...I'm 65...and I'm still in a band.
BOBCAT 4224 I agree. I am glad that every now and then they have great songs! Oh, wait! Remakes of the oldies? Music videos are also so generic because the entertainment is the same.
Maylene Mcdonald I'm glad to see someone agrees with me on this. and what the hell did rap turn into I mean I never really liked rap but god damn it just makes me want to tear my ears off just so I don't have to listen to it.
BOBCAT 4224, if I can't understand the lyrics or I can't dance to the music both romantically or for dancing fun, it isn't music! Also if I get headaches from the so called music, then it's just noise pollution!
Sane people having fun dancing. A much better time than we have now in 2019. No drugs mobile phones or computers. I remember this time so well. I bought a 3 piece suit that was made in Italy from Australian Merino wool. It took me 12 months to pay it off in installments. On with my suit into my 1956 Ford Customline and off to the cabaret. I looked and felt a million dollars. We had it all,back then, but the world was too stupid to realize it. If I ever get to heaven I want to live in the 50s, 60s and 70s, have a nice simple girl with no tattoos and just have fun again.
I left school in '62, and enjoyed all that you see in the above clip.I'm sooo glad I'm not a teenager today. Look at those girls, clean, tidy and not a tattoo to be seen. LOL! Now I'm 70 and miss it like hell.
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+Bernie Andrews Yeah if you went to an upper class High School.The jocks got the fine girls,and right on down to a miserable marriage ,mortgage and divorce Even back then you had to pass muster by your date's Dad to even get her out of the house. Then you would get wild and smoke some cigarettes and maybe a warm can of beer. In my town at 18 you would have no time to party,you'd be working at least two years already.
@Megan Shell Rude?? ,,,,very glad not to be a teenager today, i mean look at you. Fifty years on from here will you look back on today with fondness, with the bullshit music and screwed up values. Get another tatt, make you feel better
@Megan Shell ,,,clearly you are just another left wing loser who seeks to inject racism into every situation, warranted or not. Turn up yr rap and get that tatt
Use to sing this song with a dear friend , Johnny Ryan . Sitting on the steps of the building we lived in back in 1968 . we were 13 years old back then . Johnny and me both became friends and did 7th and 8th grade dances at St. John's school and ran track played basket ball , he was like the brother i never had . He passed away over 10 years ago , i hope and pray the Lord receives him with open arms and that his Mother is also there to receive him , his Mother passed away when he was 6 years old and it did effect the way he looked at life. And so being one of his only earthly brothers , i hope our Lord GOD in Heaven receives him with open arms. 1955
I remember running this continually through my mind during long runs in basic training for the Army the summer after high school. I've since read the backstory about the singer and the song, but still remember the North Carolina dust that summer and thinking about a certain few girls as I ran around Fort Bragg. Oh, I thought I wasn't a good dancer, but compared to the guys in this video I was pretty good. Still can't think of the song without imagining carrying a wooden M-14 in a cloud of dust; the 16's hadn't reached training yet, we got those in Vietnam.
Loved the track, but I wasn't even listening to it..............I'm 68 now, but that video took me back there when it was great to be alive, people dressed up to go out, and still had some manners. And the music was FAB!
On the commercial flight taking me to Nam, summer of 68', there was a headphone set up that had about a dozen songs on it.This was one of them. I played those songs over on over most of the way. A few months later I was on a stretcher headed back to the USA.
Each generation has their way of dancing, so how they dance was cool to them at that time. The Box Tops song "The Letter" was one of the biggest selling records World wide in 1967. It's still one of my favorite songs from that era.
The thing about American Bandstand and other televised shows in that era, is that everyone could identify with all those people. They dressed the same way everyone did, wore the same hair, danced to the same tunes, worried about the same stuff. You didn't feel like they were separate and on some distant stage. It wasn't about "the star".
yes Thats Music come on I was born on 1970 but I Remember my father singing that song also The Beach boy, The Animals, The Mamas and The Papas. The crap they sing today stinks all they do is curse talk about satan. when I listen to those song it brings back memories. God Bless You
wow ***** 1967 KYA & KFRC RADIO SAN FRANCISCO THE CITY BY THE BAY ! 1960s Good Ole Days We Had Look At how People Dressed Was Cool And The Boss Cars & Some The Best Music Ever Take Me Back !! Thanks tabbap
I sent a copy of this song to my far away girlfriend but we didn't see each other again and I still have a copy as well.Great song, love it to this day. Thx Alex.
1967; straight outta American Sound Studios in Memphis, with a 16-year-old named Alex Chilton on lead. The perfect song for when you mistimed the backtiming into the news at the top of the hour; fading anywhere from 1:30 till the song ends at 1:57. Joe Cocker covered it in 1970, with a completely different arrangement, and it hit again. As for AB, it was still on weekdays in some places on ABC; no dirty dancing allowed back then.
I got out of the US Navy in 67 so yes I remember this song and hundreds of others that you could actually understand what they were singing about not like most of them today..
Watched Dick Clark's American Bandstand every Saturday just to hear and see the groups and artists he had on the show and how dancing was evolving through the years.
The late, great Alex Chilton. Good to see people actually dancing to interpret the music in their own ways instead of vulgar twerking or just conformist imitation.
+Anne Marie Callaghan What gets me is how great Chilton's next band would be, and no one cared. Nothing against this great song mind you: but Big Star and how they were the victims of bad distribution is just wrong.
You're right. Big Star were not promoted globally at all. I only got to hear their music properly about 15 years ago. I'm guessing Alex Chilton paid the price for asserting his own musical direction in the face of industry moguls and their diktats. Anyway, I love Big Star. Their music so eu makes me think of what the Beatles may have gone on to do had they stayed together. 😊
+Anne Marie Callaghan Fun fact: Big Star was a local grocery store chain in Memphis where Alex Chilton was from. You can still find a few stores in Mississippi & Tennessee.
Myself, was in. "7th or 8th Grade when this came-out. I'm 64/Yrs Today. Remembering as it was just Yesterday. That Girl/Wall-Flower.. at "1.45".. I would Dance W/Her in an Heart-Break. Myself, would be Dancing My-Ass-Off. Every Song played. That would be so much Fun. Obviously,You didn't know it. How to Appreciate good music. During that time. Today, I can Only Dance standing or sitting. What great time music coming out. So fresh.
standard of excellence, solid gold top of the line, one of the very best songs of all time, great music & memories of life, outstanding video from the greatest musical decade of all time, magnificent masterpiece forever
The dancing may seem a bit boring but it's just ordinary people dancing the best way they can. There is something comforting about that. I so miss this era. Life keeps getting more and more fucked up and I really am saddened for the younger generations for how they will be forced to live their lives because we were too ignorant not to protect this way of life.
Joe G One of the most normal nicest messages I have read on here, you are so right. I miss this era too and I always tell my kids that I so wish they had experienced those special times.
Joe G The most embarrassing thing about this dancing is that...I used to dance like that. Actually it is much more fun to dance than to watch. As teenagers we used to dance like that for hours, in our local disco. It was a great way to know the girl without getting too much sexual, which we were not ready for yet. This is free style dancing. We called it "Shake".
I was only ten, but I still grew up with it. The music of the sixties is my comfort zone. I would love to do the Austin Powers thing and zap my back to the day in my Shaguar. Yeah Baby!
So hard to explain to somebody who wasn't there. It wasn't just music, it was a feeling. A happening. Still feel it in my soul.
I know...I was a kid and I felt it too... listening now Sunday 2019
People aren't really "I Love" no more.
@@jerrybrink5075 I know. And now I'm too old to fall in love any more. If we only knew, back then, what we had.
But this shows it- the pure joy, fun, and expression of youth.
It was like we were in unison or the same wave length. I felt it for only being 10-11 yrs in 1967, but I listened to the radio daily and learned how to dance. Times of pure fun that seem so innocent now.
I was 17yrs old ,now I'm 69yrs old & STILL Like this song!!
It Was 1967 in San Francisco. I was a Box-Top Head. The memories of me and my Friend Cruising in his 1963 Chevy- 327 in San Jose California, Listening to the Box Tops. R.I.P. Mike. Hard to believe we all laughing and sitting around the table, and all are gone, even my dad and Mom.
S.F. is a freak show now
All your friends and family are still out there somewhere in time and space
Jack roper yeah I hear ya man. Life is short. In the words of Geronimo: " We are only here a few winters."
Your memories sound greats!💫👋
My best friends Dad played bass for The Box Tops. He passed away a few years back and I’ll always have fond memories of him and growing up with his two boys. RIP Joey Savage❤️
😳.....how cool!
YOUR PARENTS FRIENDS WHERE GOOD AND U HAVE TO REMBER ALL THE STUFF😅
The Style and the elegance of the 60's is incredible.
Rodrigo Avila
bajar frío mañana no si va hacer frío mañana
@@juanromero7305 hey
Beautiful
After all this time, still unique and wonderful.
❤Thank goodness there were no cell phones in the 60s!
Who else is loving this in 2019? I can't get enough of it 1:57 of pure bliss xx
Lydia Orr good music never gets old
Отличное звучание!
Born in 91 grew up listening to the Box Tops thanks to my dad and mom. I'm a metal head now days, but there are a few songs that get me jammin this hard from back in the day.
@@F0rce078 2021 for me
2022
...the Box Tops are very underated as a band and they had many chart toppers. Superb Vocals. And yes, I'd give my World, this day, to go back just for ONE day in 1967!!
If you'd give your world to back for ONE day in '67, you've made some bad life choices.
@@chipgaasche4933Thats your opinion,but my parents generation preffered the 60s,to modern britain of today.women were far more genuine,than today,look how fake many of the modern day women are today,far more arrogance,and greed now,than then.
Don’t long for “the good old days.” This is not wise. Ecclesiastics 7:10 NLT
I was a kid of 10-11 yrs in 1967, so I was much younger than these teenagers, but I watched these dance shows on TV and learned to dance. Me and my cousin used to dance to the 60s music, and i remember how we loved "Happy Together" by the Turtles. it still makes me happy especially in these uncertain times.
Those days while not without disappointment were very very good! 65 here. Peace
They had no idea that they were living the greatest times in music ever. Just never the same again yes sir
Aurel Negrea That is the Honest too god Whole Truth
Aurel Negarea.... i thought about your post, i am 75 and you are right. We knew these were good times but we did not appreciate just how wonderful they were. Looking around at society today, that trust and innocence cannot come back. Just soak it up Aurel
I was 17 in 1967, but somehow I feared that the good times would not last. Music got dumber, and that was confirmed by 1970 with The Band, and later with The Eagles.
Aurel Negrea Exactly!!
True. I was 20 in 67. You never know how good your have it till its gone. Never see times like that again. Music today we all know what happened to that. Watching shows like American Idol with their lame singers and songs . Feel sorry for the kids today.
0:06 my man is killing it in the back.
Thought the same things. Mans got them moves
First thing I noticed.
Close your eyes and imagine the AM radio alive with songs like this.
So good, innocent and a great time to be free and alive.
If that era makes me old today, then I'm proud of it.
I won't trade those years for anything.
+George Vreeland Hill right on brother, I'm with you on that. A great time to be young for sure.
+George Vreeland Hill To be young in this era, the 60's, nothing compares.
+George Vreeland Hill I was right their with you sitting in NASHVILLE listing to ART ROBERTS out of CHICAGO at night spinning the hits and my buddy's and I got the SAN FRANCISCO ITCH and away we went,I wouldn't trade those times for nothing old age is a bitch. I started out as a roadie out of NASHVILLE my hometown and retired own the booking end now I sit back and play the hits from my time and yours.
+George Vreeland Hill Back in the early 60's, I saved up my 'lawn mowing' money and bought a 'Three transistor pocket AM radio, with leather carry case.( it even came with an earphone).. Yes, I said 'three transistor'..it was a big deal..i guess.. I'd listen to the Beach boys all summer long.. It went everywhere with me. I think the Gemini space program had just started.
+George Vreeland Hill
you not old your like fine wine only better with time and your words like this song pure gold
What a voice. Have always loved this version by the Box Tops. Joe Cocker also did a nice version.
Alex was 16 years old when he was the lead singer on this hit record. He made the song!
In '67 I was 16 years old. I was in a band that competed in a "Battle Of The Bands". We did 3 songs...."The Letter", "Knock On Wood" and "You Keep Me Hanging On" (The Vanilla Fudge version). We came in 2nd. Good times. Back then we did a dance called, "The Skate". A lot of these teens in this video are doing that dance. "The Skate" became popular after "The Boogaloo".
BTW...I'm 65...and I'm still in a band.
Thumb up !!!
Onion Soup or The Vagrants?
Cool
Keep on making music!
MrGandharva108 And I still do the skate..lol
Happy days and happy memories. I was 17.Thanks.
A mi me hubiera gustado mucho vivir en esa época!😊❤
The attitude while dancing is priceless 😅😁🫶
Alex grew up in midtown Memphis , was four years older than me . He was our home town hero .
All these kids are seniors now, enjoying the past watching the good old days.
"Pick ye daisies while ye may … "
i was in grade 4 then in 1967...
i wonder if these kids know their on youtube in this old clip
would love to see some of the reactions if they did
Peter M I DID!MY EX WASTHERE !! DANCING WITH HER OLDER BROTHER !! HA! HA!
Yes, indeed! A l'époque, j`étais amoureuse pour la première fois de ma vie... And now, je suis une sorte de mémé :)
Que linda época y que diferencia con el baile y vestimenta de hoy. Buena musica!!
yo escucho esta musica y jamas en mi vida no me a gustado el regueton
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG! IT'S MY MOMMA'S GENERATION MUSIC AND I LOVE IT! SUCH A GROOVY TIME!
Same here
Maylene Mcdonald it's a lot better than the shit now almost anything after 1999 sucks ass.
BOBCAT 4224 I agree. I am glad that every now and then they have great songs! Oh, wait! Remakes of the oldies? Music videos are also so generic because the entertainment is the same.
Maylene Mcdonald I'm glad to see someone agrees with me on this. and what the hell did rap turn into I mean I never really liked rap but god damn it just makes me want to tear my ears off just so I don't have to listen to it.
BOBCAT 4224, if I can't understand the lyrics or I can't dance to the music both romantically or for dancing fun, it isn't music! Also if I get headaches from the so called music, then it's just noise pollution!
I love this song ,good old music!!!!!!!
Sane people having fun dancing. A much better time than we have now in 2019. No drugs mobile phones or computers. I remember this time so well. I bought a 3 piece suit that was made in Italy from Australian Merino wool. It took me 12 months to pay it off in installments. On with my suit into my 1956 Ford Customline and off to the cabaret. I looked and felt a million dollars. We had it all,back then, but the world was too stupid to realize it. If I ever get to heaven I want to live in the 50s, 60s and 70s, have a nice simple girl with no tattoos and just have fun again.
7316bobe You’re so right I like to be there too I’ll be the one drink double Jamesons 🥃😂
7316bobe I will be so drunk looking through beer goggles I can assure you my girl we look more beautiful than yours lol😂
My graduation class---of 1967 ---theme song. What memories! Forever remembered! Takes me right back there.
This song jams! I always wished it was a little longer, like maybe another 30 seconds or so.
linda cancion hermosos recuerdos del ayer gracias por compartir esta cancion.
fantastic dancing, they were really getting into the music, all innocent fun
The dance moves, eyeliner on the ladies (popular again via Meghan Trainor) the babydoll dresses.. Classic song.
I love this track!!!
How the hell did Alex Chilton's voice sound so cool at age 16? Unbelievably Great.. RIP
I left school in '62, and enjoyed all that you see in the above clip.I'm sooo glad I'm not a teenager today. Look at those girls, clean, tidy and not a tattoo to be seen. LOL! Now I'm 70 and miss it like hell.
+Bernie Andrews Yeah if you went to an upper class High School.The jocks got the fine girls,and right on down to a miserable marriage ,mortgage and divorce
Even back then you had to pass muster by your date's Dad to even get her out of the house.
Then you would get wild and smoke some cigarettes and maybe a warm can of beer.
In my town at 18 you would have no time to party,you'd be working at least two years already.
+molson12oz Hi, I can sympathise with some of that, but I'm in the UK. Are you in the US of A?
@Megan Shell Rude?? ,,,,very glad not to be a teenager today, i mean look at you. Fifty years on from here will you look back on today with fondness, with the bullshit music and screwed up values. Get another tatt, make you feel better
@Megan Shell ,,,clearly you are just another left wing loser who seeks to inject racism into every situation, warranted or not. Turn up yr rap and get that tatt
@Megan Shell Megan, you are right there are negatives to everything if you look hard enough. Perhaps you should stop looking so hard.
Never ever herd it put better, or with such eloquence, I miss those times' so much that if I dwell to long it really hurts.
Use to sing this song with a dear friend , Johnny Ryan . Sitting on the steps of the building we lived in back in 1968 . we were 13 years old back then . Johnny and me both became friends and did 7th and 8th grade dances at St. John's school and ran track played basket ball , he was like the brother i never had . He passed away over 10 years ago , i hope and pray the Lord receives him with open arms and that his Mother is also there to receive him , his Mother passed away when he was 6 years old and it did effect the way he looked at life. And so being one of his only earthly brothers , i hope our Lord GOD in Heaven receives him with open arms. 1955
I remember running this continually through my mind during long runs in basic training for the Army the summer after high school. I've since read the backstory about the singer and the song, but still remember the North Carolina dust that summer and thinking about a certain few girls as I ran around Fort Bragg. Oh, I thought I wasn't a good dancer, but compared to the guys in this video I was pretty good. Still can't think of the song without imagining carrying a wooden M-14 in a cloud of dust; the 16's hadn't reached training yet, we got those in Vietnam.
Thanks for sharing, I love hearing the memories that song trigger. Beautiful they are
M14s weren’t very good. Humid weather in Nam made things worse.
One of the shortest songs on record. Alex Chilton was quite young when he passed away.
Thank you for serving
Que suerte tuvieron nuestros abuelos en tener esta música y que cada vez que ponían la radio salían música de estas. :3
Sadie Lehnsherr. Que suave Los tiempos de mas antes. Las chicas bailando allegre y Los muchachos tambien. Y bien bestidos.
Such beautiful ladies
I always loved that song!
Hard to believe that Alex Chilton was only 16 years old when he recorded this song .
Fantastic . Still sounds great today . Classic .
*Un momento en el viaje por el tiempo en mi época de estudiante, sería fabuloso regresar el reloj del tiempo*
Look at all the guys in suits & the girls in dresses. That's class back then. Love it.
j avais 20 ans et je faisais mon service militaire en Allemagne maintenant j ai 72 ans et c'est encore un plaisir de réécouter ce morceau
My baby wrote me a letter...give me a ticket for an aeroplane...lonely days a are gone...
Love those old days of dancing...!!!!!
Nunca jamás habrá otros bailes así! Omg... qué tiempos!
Wow! I was 12 years old when this was made, and I remember the song, and so many others. Thank you for sharing!
Those girls' baby doll dresses take me back! Really cute style.
I like the every one is dressed; decent!
Loved the track, but I wasn't even listening to it..............I'm 68 now, but that video took me back there when it was great to be alive, people dressed up to go out, and still had some manners. And the music was FAB!
Hi mate I love the song u was born that year lov Kar x
Karen Turner Well I'm buggered, where the hell did you come from?
I love havein a look around and when I seen you name you know you can't get away mate I'm your pain in your bum take care x
That brother at the end with the black coat and tie. I'm lovin' those dance steps.
On the commercial flight taking me to Nam, summer of 68', there was a headphone set up that had about a dozen songs on it.This was one of them. I played those songs over on over most of the way. A few months later I was on a stretcher headed back to the USA.
Looking back at the dancing way back then and it looks soooo cool now. Great track too, takes me back to my teens in the mid sixties. Great memories.
Each generation has their way of dancing, so how they dance was cool to them at that time. The Box Tops song "The Letter" was one of the biggest selling records World wide in 1967. It's still one of my favorite songs from that era.
I was born in the 80s but love this era of music 😉👌
2020..I'm here..listening and watching an awesome video...
2 dislikes? I don't think there were 2 people in the whole world who didn't love this song when it came out. Smashing! Thanks boxtops!!!
yep, from people that never received a love letter.
dang, next year this song will be 50 years old and all in here are in their 70's by now.
+Pauley Pavillion I'm 66..............remember this song very well. SANYO Transistor Radio. Had it for years . AM & SW 1 & 2
Yeah, and I am only 67, as well!!!
Great song played on the radio in Aden for my 21st birthday 1967
Who is sitting here in 2021 lockdown still loving this classic l📦📦
phenomenal classic, great music & memories of life, very special song for sure, one of the best of all time
The thing about American Bandstand and other televised shows in that era, is that everyone could identify with all those people. They dressed the same way everyone did, wore the same hair, danced to the same tunes, worried about the same stuff. You didn't feel like they were separate and on some distant stage. It wasn't about "the star".
Love this! i remember hearing it years ago! Great to dance to! Love the lyrics too! Thank you for the memories!
I remember when this song was No.1!
Oh man what a songgggg yes that's music yes.....not crap from today
yes Thats Music come on I was born on 1970 but I Remember my father singing that song also The Beach boy, The Animals, The Mamas and The Papas. The crap they sing today stinks all they do is curse talk about satan. when I listen to those song it brings back memories. God Bless You
Decent music yeah Country Music, Gospel Music, I dont know what else.
How true!! Just imagine writing this song and using the word E-Mail instead of letter.!!
Words well spoken !!!!
Huber Hacker "my baby wrote me an email" just doesn't have the same ring to it. 😉
wow ***** 1967 KYA & KFRC RADIO SAN FRANCISCO THE CITY BY THE BAY ! 1960s Good Ole Days We Had Look At how People Dressed Was Cool And The Boss Cars & Some The Best Music Ever Take Me Back !! Thanks tabbap
This song the letter was written the year I was born 1967 thank you for bringing back so good memories everyone happy Mother's Day
And still is to this day!! Dave Auten !!
I sent a copy of this song to my far away girlfriend but we didn't see each other again and I still have a copy as well.Great song, love it to this day. Thx Alex.
1967; straight outta American Sound Studios in Memphis, with a 16-year-old named Alex Chilton on lead. The perfect song for when you mistimed the backtiming into the news at the top of the hour; fading anywhere from 1:30 till the song ends at 1:57. Joe Cocker covered it in 1970, with a completely different arrangement, and it hit again. As for AB, it was still on weekdays in some places on ABC; no dirty dancing allowed back then.
and Rich Malone was guitarist on the original recording but he had to move with his parents to Calif before the song was released.
I am from Serbia and I love it
I got out of the US Navy in 67 so yes I remember this song and hundreds of others that you could actually understand what they were singing about not like most of them today..
Simplesmente 💯 sacional valeuuuuuuuu
We all danced like this back then, don't knock it ! Just an age thing.
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These were the days it was safe to dance, cuz every move (or non-move, LOL) was okay. ;)
Watched Dick Clark's American Bandstand every Saturday just to hear and see the groups and artists he had on the show and how dancing was evolving through the years.
My Uncle Sam wrote me a letter that summer !!! Wish I still had it.
The late, great Alex Chilton. Good to see people actually dancing to interpret the music in their own ways instead of vulgar twerking or just conformist imitation.
+Anne Marie Callaghan What gets me is how great Chilton's next band would be, and no one cared. Nothing against this great song mind you: but Big Star and how they were the victims of bad distribution is just wrong.
You're right. Big Star were not promoted globally at all. I only got to hear their music properly about 15 years ago. I'm guessing Alex Chilton paid the price for asserting his own musical direction in the face of industry moguls and their diktats. Anyway, I love Big Star. Their music so eu makes me think of what the Beatles may have gone on to do had they stayed together. 😊
"dancing is such a stupid activity"
J Seinfeld
+Anne Marie Callaghan Fun fact: Big Star was a local grocery store chain in Memphis where Alex Chilton was from.
You can still find a few stores in Mississippi & Tennessee.
Thanks! I love that band :)
Colección sensacional, grandiosa, historias de evolución juvenil de la vida. Gracias a todos.
Loving it even more in 2020 Lydia- Pure bliss still
This song will last forever.
I danced topless to this song in Amarillo,Texas 1967 at the GUYS N DOLLS LOUNGE on Filmore street.I was 15.
stillsticky That sounds illegal.
thamnosma It was illegal back then,but the club owner fought the law but the law won..
stillsticky That's funny. Thanks!
thamnosma You are very welcome..
stillsticky atta girl. I was driving on Fillmore today..
Wish they could have kept the show American Dreams on. Took me back to the fun days of American Bandstand
I love the dancing... every generation has its own style... :)
They look like we used to. In 1966, 67, 68. We feel like it today. It hasn't much changed in a way.
It is so great to see all the guys wearing ties. Certainly not today, so sad.
Esta canción sera eterna ...2019
'67 was a brilliant year for music.
This is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Ladies looking like beautiful ladies no tattoos or metal sticking through the skin.
and no fat in the stomach and junk in the trunk hanging out everywhere like you see today at Walmart either smh
Ronald Watson yes the women back then were beautiful
Nailed it!
And the men weren't drunk fat slobs like they are now with big tattoos and beards
I love that generation forever...
This was one of my favorite songs timeless music.....
Myself, was in. "7th or 8th Grade when this came-out. I'm 64/Yrs Today. Remembering as it was just Yesterday. That Girl/Wall-Flower.. at "1.45".. I would Dance W/Her in an Heart-Break. Myself, would be Dancing My-Ass-Off. Every Song played. That would be so much Fun. Obviously,You didn't know it. How to Appreciate good music. During that time. Today, I can Only Dance standing or sitting. What great time music coming out. So fresh.
good old memories coming back
Great record. :)
1 minute and 57 seconds of pure genius
Yes. Great record and great teenage genius;Alex Chilton (r. i. p.) at 17.
I was 2 ....heard it in life loved it
standard of excellence, solid gold top of the line, one of the very best songs of all time, great music & memories of life, outstanding video from the greatest musical decade of all time, magnificent masterpiece forever
The dancing may seem a bit boring but it's just ordinary people dancing the best way they can. There is something comforting about that. I so miss this era. Life keeps getting more and more fucked up and I really am saddened for the younger generations for how they will be forced to live their lives because we were too ignorant not to protect this way of life.
Joe G One of the most normal nicest messages I have read on here, you are so right. I miss this era too and I always tell my kids that I so wish they had experienced those special times.
***** And so one of the Commonwealth subjects weighs in!
Joe G
The most embarrassing thing about this dancing is that...I used to dance like that.
Actually it is much more fun to dance than to watch.
As teenagers we used to dance like that for hours, in our local disco.
It was a great way to know the girl without getting too much sexual, which we were not ready for yet.
This is free style dancing.
We called it "Shake".
Boring perhaps....but they had fun.
James Johnson not boring just not so buzzy as today.
0:44 very beautiful ☺️
I was only ten, but I still grew up with it. The music of the sixties is my comfort zone. I would love to do the Austin Powers thing and zap my back to the day in my Shaguar. Yeah Baby!
so nice to see the youth dancing on this great hit The letter of the Box Tops. Great that I was part of this time
great to see grandma and grand-pop do their thing_____________
Patrick Groome n
Oh you may live to regret every smug thing you say now. I did.