I ♥ The 60's

OP, I am laughing so hard, I haven’t heard this song in a long time and the dancers are perfection!!! I already sent it to friends. I am determined to learn these dance moves now.

Thank you, OP. This is my jam.

The boys in this video are FODs.

I'm very familiar of the song but I never knew what it was called. It makes sense that this instrumental was by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, but I didn't know it was called Tijuana Taxi. It was ubiquitous on the radio and in the media from mid to late 1960s.

So many Pansies in ponchos!

Was that filmed at Olvera Street?

it was

Too funny

Wasn't this the theme song to some game show too?

R8 - The Dating Game!

Quando X 2

R10 ♫♪ Tell me when will you be mine. Tell me quando, quando, quando ♪♫

I don’t know if that song made anyone happy, but it sure made the guys in the video gay.

Isn't that Miss Turkey Lurkey Time lady?

r13 - no

Are you kidding, OP?! I became OBSESSED with both the trumpet, though I had loved it before with Perez Prado and Al Hirt. But add in the gorgeous HerbAlpert and it was Katy, bar the door! Had to buy and listen over and over to the TJB albums. ("The Lonely Bull" I think was their first hit. )

My favorite tune is "Zorba the Greek." Love a staccato horn. And the triple-tongueing? Mary! (This is from a 50-year-old memory.)

Finally at 16 I got to see them. The Greater Allentown Fair, summer of 1966. I'm somewhere right in the middle of the photo from that concert, on the back of the group's "SRO" album!

Hands off, r15.

[quote]And the triple-tongueing?

I could go for some of that.

A young Herb Alpert could GET IT.

Never liked this song.

Was that JoAnne Worley?

R19 - I don't believe any of the dancers were famous. I didn't recognize their faces.

Sez you, Lani r16!

Try again:

Twyla Tharp, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, eat your hearts out! THIS IS CHOREOGRAPHY.

The quality of dancing at Op leaves much to be desired.

Olvera Street never changes ;)

Dig those groovy outfits, R23!

R23 that looks like a cheerleading squats from an episode of The Prisoner!

*squad

[quote]The quality of dancing at Op leaves much to be desired.

Scopitones weren't known for their brilliant choreography, r24.

R28 she crashed a gay pool party in Bel-Air?! Quite the concept of a video called Femininity…

R10, thanks for posting that clip of the Kessler Twins. I never knew their name, but I have vague memories of them from my early childhood.

I found this pic of them from The Danny Kaye Show. I love the outfits.

I'm Pet Sounds.

[quote][R23] that looks like a cheerleading squad from an episode of The Prisoner!

They are the actual "dancers" from a show called " Where the Action Is." Wiki:

[quote]Where the Action Is is a music-based television variety show that aired in the United States from 1965 to 1967. It was carried by the ABC network and aired each weekday afternoon. Created by Dick Clark as a spin-off of American Bandstand, Where the Action Is premiered on June 28, 1965. The show was another step in the then-current trend of entertainment programs that targeted the teenage audience by focusing on pop music, following in the footsteps of Shindig! (premiered in the fall of 1964, also on ABC) and Hullabaloo (premiered January 1965 on NBC). Dick Clark's voice could be heard doing the artist introductions, and he sometimes did filmed interviews.

Another example. BTW, the boy on the right at 1:50 is showing a fine ass.

^ " dancer" not " boy." They are all grown men.

speaking of Herb, there's apparently a documentary out about his life

he's Ukrainian and Romanian so....definite sizemeat

Ooo-wee...

Now we have WAP. I love this song. I remember it being on the radio when I sucked off my college roommate.

They had Air Guitar, too! ^^

Couldn’t love this more. Thank you, OP!!

[quote]he's Ukrainian and Romanian so....definite sizemeat

And Jewish. So no smegma.

Here’s a favorite of mine from 1962.

“The Night Has A Thousand Eyes” by Bobby Vee.

It helps to be stoned whilst watching this.

R36 the video immediately cuts to another scene, so we don't see why the big guy grabs the mermaid's head... is that the "ooo-wee" part?

R37 it's amazing how four guitars sound exactly like a full orchestra!

[quote] it's amazing how four guitars sound exactly like a full orchestra!

They also had drums.

the Debster...

This thread makes me very very very happy. I don’t know what that says about me.

Le Hully Gully

I graduated from high school in 1967, college 1971. I wrote this Wordsworth quote (I had been an English major) in my '71 yearbook, for no words were more apt.

We took Elvis, Buddy, and Fats and turbo-charged Rock and Roll with the Beatles unto Heavy Metal, jettisoning the great Folkies like Phil Ochs and the Kingston Trio along the way.

We dressed, male and female, in brilliant colors and patterns, minis and maxis, and, of course, had "hair, shoulder length or longer 🎶." And our elders did, too.

We went to Woodstock. We joined the Peace Corps. We protested and died in the Vietnam Conflict. We wanted Clean Gene or Bobby, but Fate had us cast our first-ever vote for Humphrey.

But by 1971, we knew the Age of Aquarius was pseudo-science and not reality.

And that The Man was still in charge.

Ah, well. At least we can still watch our favorite TV shows from back then! I mean, we WERE called the "ME Generation!"

😴

R45, I bet Little Peggy March from Lansdale, Pennsylvania will make you even happier.

She was 14 when she recorded this number one hit.

From Wikipedia:

On April 24, 1963, her single "I Will Follow Him" soared to number one on the United States charts. She recorded the song in early January 1963 and it was released on January 22, when she was only 14. It sold over one million records. March became the youngest female artist with a number-one hit, at 15, in late April 1963, a record that still stands for the Billboard Hot 100.

Her version also reached No. 1 in Australia, Hong Kong, Israel, South Africa, Uruguay, Canada's CHUM Hit Parade, New Zealand's "Lever Hit Parade", and Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart.

This looks like Exercise Class in the DL Retirement Home.

r49, "I Will Follow Him" was my very first 45.

[quote]"I Will Follow Him" was my very first 45.

Mine was...

I'm guessing you're a little older than I am, r52.

- r51

I think Barrie Chase was a well known dancer back then.

She was known for partnering Astaire in his TV Specials, r54.

^ that choreography is barely one notch above Scopitones’ prancing poncho ponies.

Poor Barry Young...

Scopitones criss-crossed LA…here’s just opened Marina del Rey.

Scopitone

R50 should live so long.

Is that you know who G?

A Scopitone for your John Waters-themed Halloween party:

I knew the concept, but can’t say I knew this particular brand of fun trash.

Thanks to Op!

r63 see r59

I like my link better ;)

Queen...

R46 I recall the original version of Hully Gully by The Olympics because my older cousins had it in their collection of 45s. This is a pretty decent cover though. The music video is great, the super cute dancer on the left in the dark trunks with the white belt is the stand-out dancer.

Platinum coiffed Miss Jane Morgan chante en frawnsay!

I hope the Scopitone people sued MTV!

Well, r69, Soundies didn't sue Scopitone.

Anyone know who the brunette and brown hair broads are?

[quote]I hope the Scopitone people sued MTV!

For what? A concept can't be copyrighted.

People looked genuinely happy then

The '60s was so turbulent. The decade started out as one thing and went out as something very different.

Mother’s little helpers covered a lot of sins

More of Miss Jane Morgan. These were obviously played in bars. Those poor girls having to do upskirt shots in panties and garter belt...no dance pants in sight. I wonder if Miss Jane Morgan ever saw the finished product of this.