50s Britain A Street Party Then Jiving At The Hop

[@georginab6995]

Oh those were wonderful days. The music and the dancing 👌😍

[@johndean4765]

40 years before our country was betrayed and millions of freeloaders arrived all paid from our taxes.our way of life destroyed for ever.

[@doeharris5363]

Absolutely fabulous, gosh this has cheered me up what a great time to have lived in. Thank you for sharing your video. 😊😊🐱🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@bikerfred6765]

Great video,brought back many happy memories thanks for posting.

[@chazmork8265]

thank you Biker Fred, very much appreciated got a few more ideas for another follow up soon.

[@bikerfred6765]

@@chazmork8265 looking forward to it.

[@chazmork8265]

cheers should have the video up by the weekend

[@janewarner5779]

Great video, but a shame you claim it's all from the 50s ! The Ted's in one of the pictures will be chuffed you thought it was taken in the 50s. Like I say, great video, good bits of footage actually, but you mustn't be using pictures of modern times and claim they are from the 50s. :) if it was all from the 50s as you say, I would share the video, but it's not unfortunately. It's a false claim 😞

[@chazmork8265]

that was a mistake nothing intentional Jane no one has a perfect soul, didn't realise that till months after, 99.99% isn't too bad

[@johndean4765]

Look carefully and you can tell the real 1950s Teddy Boys from the later ones.

[@njoyingtube1]

@@chazmork8265 I think you, STEPPED ON HER BLUE SUEDE SHOES . THE MUSIC NEVER DIES , .THANKS FOR YOUR SHARING APPRECIATION .

[@RockinRedRover]

well said Janie, shame this guy doesn't like any form of constructive criticism even from folk like us who know the facts. Good luck btw to you and Adie for the new year at the Dynamite club !

[@janewarner5779]

@RockinRedRover cheers ! 🍻

[@shaunmatthews3791]

great

[@RockinRedRover]

Shame about the backing track as it's not very relevant to the film clips, which are great. Not seen the first clip before, guess its from c1957, looks like they're dancing to a skiffle band, VERY British and sounding nothing like Danny and the Juniors, and many of the youngsters are wearing clothes more akin to the Trad Jazz craze so prevalent at the time, especially among university students. Second clip is taken from the 1959 film "We Are The Lambeth Boys", essential viewing for British 50s fans, all about the going-ons at a youth club in Kennington south London. The film was actually intended to show an accurate, sympathetic, view of London youngsters, to disprove the media perception of all UK youngsters being "typical" Teddy Boys aka violent thugs that was not true.

[@chazmork8265]

Never seen "We Are The. Lambeth Boys" the people dancing of all ages are actually celebrating one of their neighbour's going into an old folk's home, the parties for the old lady, when was the last time you saw anyone in an actual so called "community hub" do that for a well loved and respected neighbour.NEVER, that's how life has changed, this is of its time, if you can do better, show everyone how you can do better, btw I made that video in under 12 minutes , the music was in my head, not Trad Jazz when did you see a street party of neighbours of all ages doing Trad Jazz I can't see any university students either ,and no I was not showing a sympathetic look at 50s Kennington, just a great send off for an old lady respected and well loved by her neighbours, kids and teens, the likes of what we will never see ever again,they new how to have a party, and it is Danny & The Juniors, from my vinyl collection not a c.d MP3 as these clowns claiming they own my vinyl collection, chancers the lot of them corporate suits claiming they own my original 45rpm, they are all farting unicorn dust out their bum's 😂😂😂😂😂

[@RockinRedRover]

​@@chazmork8265 thanks for proving the written world doesn't need full stops, that must be the longest sentence on KZbin. Sorry if you're offended by my comments, I wasn't trying to criticise, I just gave my honest opinion as to what I was watching and hearing. I also "liked" the vid for you. Interesting to read your take of the apparent reality to the first clip - please clarify when and where it was filmed, thanks. Meanwhile I stick to MY perception of the event, based on the fashions etc, and there WERE some youngsters in the clip who looked and danced exactly as if they were British (dunno where you are ?) uni students who at the time, mid 50s esp 1956/57, were heavily into the brief resurgence of trad jazz and skiffle too, and being mid-upper class dressed "sensibly" (cord trousers, roll necj sweaters, etc - and def not like the infamous Teds etc, they were the hipsters of their time. The small group of musicians looked in every way to be a folk cum skiffle group, which matched the background (bomb site ?) and the clothing fashions on show, which all pointed to c1957, but if you know better than please correct me. Meanwhile, YOU admit the music "was in your head" - which implies you also don't KNOW what actual music the happy crowd were dancing to ?. "At the hop" wasn't heard in the UK until mid 58 at the very earliest, so again I suggest later than the clip, and a much different sound than would be created by the musos in the clip. These are my personal reasons for my comments re the backing track, perhaps you could if not should have spent more than 12 minutes putting the vid together.... But then again, I'm a perfectionist, a stickler for historical accuracy, perhaps you're not. And yes, if I wanted to, I could have created a video as good as this, if not better. But nowadays I leave that sort of thing to my son who works in Soho on digital special effects for big movies, Star Wars etc... Moving on to the second part of your vid, which despite your protestations IS A DIFFERENT CLIP/EVENT entirely, nowt to do with a send-oof to an old lady (really confused why you claim it is, I see no old folk in that second clip, sorry for my dimwittedness ahem but you're rant is far from clear... Sorry you've not seen "We are the Lambeth Boys", I suggest you do so, as thats def where the second half of your vid originates from. It was a film made in 1959, with sound, so you can hear and see the local band the youngsters are dancing too, which includes their take of "Putting On The Style" by Lonnie Donegan (yes, skiffle again, ahem) . Sadly I cannot post you a link to the exact dancehall part of that film, where its clear that most of those at the small dance are the younsters (late teens) from the local youth club which the film is based around, altho we do see an obviously slightly older Teddyboy couple jiving too. And I also have NO idea why you rant at me about cd collections and chancers in suits, I didnt comment on the originality of your soundtrack, but you seem to be having a drunken? rant at me and anything else, why ?. I too hate the suits who continually pull excellent musical vids off Facebook just because of music rights etc, as if the Elvis Graceland Foundation really needs any more money, for example, so then I agree with your hatred of such people and empathise entirely with your views, I've suffered from this myself, so don't blame me !. And finally, and fwiw, actually YES I have witnessed and been part of a social event such as this, albeit in more recent times, NOT quite all of modern society is as bad as you seem to think. Yes the sense of "big city community spirit" for white Brits has gone down the pan, but then again having lived in West London since the mid 80s, I know that the nonsense spouted on old tv and film about the good ol Cockney friendliness etc is a load of hokum these days, sadly, its easily the most unfriendly part, insular, uncaring part of the UK - ask ANYbody from up north, or my west country homeland, who's lived and worked in London in the last 30 years and they will always confirm this. Where we're from we still have communities, we know our neighbours ffs, so YES you can still witness social community events such as this, albeit admittledly less so than say 20 or 30 years ago, sadly. I wish you well, thanks again for posting the first part of the vid, its a lovely clip as you say. But please, try to calm down, if only for your health's sake. And, if as I suspect you're a subscriber to the BFI website, you can see AND HEAR the film here. www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/439103/