American Bandstand 1966 -Rate-A-Record -These Boots Are Made For Walkin', Nancy Sinatra/Jewel Akens

[@erikkaldor2]

Never watched AB when I was young. It’s crazy to catch these clips now. I don’t think kids today are watching, but these kids are your great grandparents!

[@AdrianDeVore]

Both songs were simply danceable and the '66 kids were enjoying themselves!

[@GeneRogers-xl9um]

I was 17 that year and graduated at the beginning of 67’. Had a wonderful summer of Love and then into the Army 67 to 73. Missed out on some of these shows! 😂

[@annahshoffner1871]

Love THIS song and the white go go boots took me back to 2nd and 3rd grade cause that the style then I was 7. Love You Aaron 😘 for this Great Memory 🤠😎❤️‼️LOVED SEEING FAMOUS HOOKS❤️‼️

[@angiedipaspule6113]

Those were the magical people would call it. Historical lol ,we all bought white boots it was riot because we were good friends and we danced like Nancy so never to forget back back and the day of laughter and soul.

[@gregmoore7709]

OOOh yes thax a heap Gary and Aaron for a wonderful memory ,that was a great walk for me. Lots of young regulars. They were probably ready to start opening the dance floor up for the swing dance too. GOOD work guys!!!!!

[@robertharrison2.055]

merry christmas .i bought the 45 of these boots . still have it ,

[@stormhawk3319]

In England we had Top of the Pops for the U.K. charts but usually it had the act in question performing on the show.

[@thewilscott]

Great song, fun to dance to, thank you for posting🎉

[@davidfrehlini968]

USMC 64 -- 68. Great Song and I still have the 45. As for this episode of A.B. Well another One I did not see. Let's just say duty calls and I was not Home. But during The 4 years that I was in The Marines there is many more I never got to see. Thank you for this video and God Bless.

[@celsobodini1883]

Very cool this video from 1966, at this time I was 8 years old, these people of 16 years are today 72 years and 18, 74 years, back in timeVery cool this video from 1966, at this time I was 8 years old, these people of 16 years are today 72 years and 18, 74 years, back in time

[@Pimp-Master]

Your math skills prove that we all got great, public school educations even though our parent's houses cost so little back then.

[@stacystoltz8722]

Cheers sweet dreams god love you

[@dancerdon9175]

✔️➕ Gary and Aaron. I’m phoning for an Uber Time Machine ride back to this mid-60’s era. Who didn’t know the lyrics to this Nancy Sinatra classic? Bandstand had finally settled into its Hollywood comfort zone by January 1966 with a solid compliment of “regulars”. Groovy man.

[@thefirstMrsLankton]

I have a 4yr old grandson who loves this song. When it comes on the oldies channel, he wants everyone quiet so he can groove to his tunes!!! 😎 Paul is an old soul!!!!

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

Where were you hiding out?

[@dancerdon9175]

@@thefirstMrsLankton If music be the food of love, play on!

[@dancerdon9175]

@@AmericanBandstandAgain I went to only a couple of tapings in '65; a few more in '66 but, alas, no footage exists. Footage of me shows up the first Saturday of January 1967, which was taped in December 1966.

[@gregmoore7709]

Hey Don i know you told us before but ,how long before you were out there swinging a dance partner and who was she?

[@SkyBlue-qn8me]

Boy, the dancers' shoulders sure got a work out that day!

[@slapdog1833]

Boots turned out to be a iconic song that everyone knows. They base their ratings on dance ability. Who ever heard of the other song?

[@moorlock2003]

Jewel Akins did have a hit, “The Birds and the Bees”, which this tried to emulate, unsuccessfully.

[@Dave-dp7zh]

I was 15 in 1966. I DO NOT remember that second song. Jewel Akins did have much more memorable recordings.

[@susanphillips7801]

Thanks again Aaron! Love seeing my 15 year old shoulder shrugging self having fun dancing with my boyfriend. I will be 73 this coming year so hard to believe almost 60 years ago! We were growing up in a time of such change and hope for the future. Love this clip! All my love and happy holidays! Sue Hipple

[@YCDTI]

It’s always fun seeing you and the rest of the kids dancin’ back in the day. I love the dress and hair too…very “mod” 👍 You have a great Holiday too. Every one of our staff is sick with Covid now. Stay safe and healthy!

[@carking8604]

@Susan, where are you in this clip?

[@Novaman66]

Yes Susan what are you wearing,where are you in this clip?

[@jimsmith6547]

Thank you sir for another great ab drop. Merry Christmas to you and everyone.

[@YCDTI]

Same to you!

[@paulblatch01]

Happy days.

[@toddwacha5108]

This American Bandstand show aired originally on January 15, 1966, only four days before my first birthday.

[@thruthealcove]

Hey Aaron, great clip. It's always interesting to me to see clips of the kids dancing to an iconic song, when it was just the new latest song for them then. So weird. Like they have no idea what was coming for certain songs, and they just danced to them like it's "all in a day". Lol Thanks so much for this & Happy Holidays to you man!!!

[@dancerdon9175]

LOL Kevin. The operational phrase is “no idea what song was coming”.

[@JoanSmith-t7k]

Every time - EVERYTIME I hear that “Boots” song, I’m twelve years old again …😊☺️

[@scottburton9701]

This is nostalgic!-Thanks for posting!

[@davidbrunson8887]

I like the Jewel Atkins song. It's got that Motown-ish sound that I loved as a child in the 80's when hearing old Motown stuff...its a shame it didn't chart. I'm going to Google him.

[@moorlock2003]

It’s a lukewarm follow up to his “The Birds and The Bees” hit.

[@davidbrunson8887]

@@moorlock2003 different strokes/different folks. Ain't no big deal!

[@pattyvantassel6955]

Great song, one of my favorites ❤

[@timstamps5281]

It's crazy how they often got their ratings wrong on the Rate-a-Records.

[@BleedBNG]

I know. Back in Oct. of '63 they gave She Loves You a low 70.

[@Pimp-Master]

@@BleedBNG When the Strawberry Fields video was shown to this audience in '66, nobody liked or understood what had happened to The Beatles...lets say that the kids on AB weren't trend setters too much?

[@csmelen]

You never fail to impress Aaron. Great post.

[@michaelbond145]

Aaron, thanks again for another memory for us to enjoy. Saw where Dancer Don had some input which is always appreciated. Noticed that we have not heard from Peggy for a while, I hope all is well with her. Please keep the hits coming we appreciate all the work you do to enable us for a little while to revisit our youth.

[@DougCeleste]

Nancy's song might have been her BIGGEST hit but I never heard this song by Jewel and I wonder where it charted. He sure hit it big in 1965 with "The Birds And The Bees."

[@chrisfreeman9960]

This song was number 1 for WEEKS on Boss Radio 93/KHJ in Los Angeles. Every Wednesday night at 8:00 p.m., Boss Jock Sam Riddle would unveil that week's "Boss 30", starting down from 30 to number 1, and Nancy's song just stayed there at the top.

[@GeneRogers-xl9um]

Remember Sam Riddle very well at KHJ am radio station in Los Angeles.

[@dancerdon9175]

Wednesday cruise nights on Van Nuys Blvd. with all the car radios tuned to 93 KHJ on the am dial. Great times.

[@moorlock2003]

Yes Boots was huge in LA; it got mega play and for good reason; it’s great.

[@moorlock2003]

…..and deservedly so!

[@hoosierladyus48]

Love the close up of the Go-Go Boots.

[@ОльгаШварц-и2ц]

Какие скромные девушки! Какие раскованные ребята! Браво!

[@mistery-ed7900]

My ratings... 99 for Boots 80 for Pie I can't believe that pair weren't into Nancy's vocals!

[@Pimp-Master]

It's that fretless bass...I mean, what a hook!

[@marcyhoward4121]

Oh the good old days love this music still listen to it

[@shyman99]

Sounds like the teenage girl wanted to tie Nancy down to her dad's style of music. But glad Nancy refused to go that direction as this great record set off a string of many remarkable and iconic hits.

[@thomassurette6118]

I grow up in the 1950s and 1960s cooling

[@sandraandrews9907]

Hey, this is great!! Although AB's Rate a Record segments only played a small portion of the song, it's great to hear the song in full. Man, to know what thise two rated Nancy's song so low?! It's her SIGNATURE song!! A #1 song at that!! 🎶 Thanks for posting this!!! 😊

[@keithidota]

Where else can you find the word same/samin' used as a verb? The r-a-r board here can be seen at the beginning of the T-Bones clip posted a year ago. The Jewel Akens song is not bad, should have at least made the Hot 100. His follow-up to Birds & Bees, Georgie Porgie might win the contest for follow-up that sounds most like its predecessor hit (along with the Reflections' Romeo & Juliet/Like Columbus Did).

[@RT-mu3bh]

We Boomers generation.

[@thomassurette6118]

I been there at that concert wow

[@stevieg7672]

Thanks for the amazing video Aaron! By the way, do you have any more New Year's Eve or Christmas episodes of Dick Clark programs? Specifically, the "Where the Action Is" Christmas show of 1966, the Bandstand New Years Eve epsiode of 1966? (The Blues Magoos appeared in that one I believe), or any Bandstand Christmas episodes? Anyways, I cannot wait for what's in store next week!

[@josephguagenti3730]

Thanks for the video!! Love to see Famous Hooks! When does he start dancing with June??

[@davidfrehlini968]

Joseph Guagenti. Siciliano Americano. Ciau Joseph e Bona Sirra da Corleone Sicilia. Sei Siciliano e' Italiano? Abito a Siracusa. Addiu e Diu vi Benedicu.

[@nuwavedave]

I had the pleasure of meeting Jewel Akens. "Birds & Bees" had a unique sound, but "Pie" is just too derivative of Motown. I'm surprised the Bandstand Kids didn't dig Nancy Sinatra's delivery. I liked "Boots" the moment I heard it - but, in 1966 I could've said the same thing about 100 other Top-40 Hits. The array of fantastic '60s songs is staggering!

[@moorlock2003]

Yes the best songs really grab you from the start and they never let go.

[@Pimp-Master]

Boots is her most famous song. The other one tested...geez, I never heard of it or the artist. Those kids!

[@ethelryan257]

It's incredible that both songs are still played today, though, of course, 'These Boots are made for Walkin' did make it to #14 on the Hot 100 Billboard and eventually to gold.

[@AdrianDeVore]

It actually went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1966!

[@tomgeauvreau7099]

Yes it was #1. A slice of the pie tanked after his birds and the bees however.

[@toddwacha5108]

From the last full year that American Bandstand was entirely in black and white. Around the Fall of 1967, AB went to color.

[@1219Jeffrey]

The problem was nearly 2/3 of the nation were not able to the color telecasts due to the fact that half of the ABC affiliates only picked up the network as a secondary program source, and as a consequence, aired the programs on a week-old Kinescope delay in B/W, which in some rare cases continued even into the early seventies.

[@edwinlim8863]

1966 - the Change Began

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

As always, another winner. I always got a kick out this song. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't this Nancy Sinatra's claim to fame song. I saw another clip where she appeared on the show and Dick was interviewing her. I couldn't seem to catch most of the regulars other than Lori Montgomery and Famous.

[@YCDTI]

Hi Andrew, She had other hits, but this is the song I most associate with her. She had another #1 hit with her then-unknown dad, Fred Sinatra (I think was his name) in ‘67 - “Somethin’ Stupid”. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 😉 Frank at 2:12 in his Shivaree sweater, Peggy at 4:16 next to Debbie Sewell. 🧐

[@dancerdon9175]

@Andrew you can also see Frank, Danny McClane, Peggy, and I think Debbie Sewell.

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

@@YCDTI Thanks Aaron, i must be blind, now I see Peggy and Frank

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

@@dancerdon9175 Aaron pointed out where they are in the video, so now I see Peggy and Frank. Great!!

[@johnpastore7685]

The Batman T shirt must have been a huge hit in 1966

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was 5 years old in 1966, these kids are not that old now. Somewhere between 70 - 73, in my book that's not old.

[@jayveebloggs9057]

A slice of the pie became a Northern soul hit in the Uk in the 70's...

[@duffbaker9554]

@6:27 "Psst..nobody's looking. Hurry, let's go.."

[@lusasilva8373]

The girl dancing barefoot to Boots. Lol. I am sure her shoes were killing her. Probably brand new.

[@niksapate9622]

❤

[@JesusOnlyWay-d8e]

i was 4 yrs old

[@79tazman]

I should of been alive back in the 60's instead of born in 1979

[@gordonteats298]

THESE BOOKS GOD MADE YOU'RE MOCKIN' by APOLOGETIX a great parody of THESE BOOTS

[@georgeswift4063]

Nancys song went further. Jewel Akins had one hit.....Birds And the Bees. That "pie" one stunk.

[@moorlock2003]

It was horrible. And he was still singing about the birds and the bees. Nobody wants to buy the same record twice.

[@michaelflorez4194]

Every girl wanted too look like. Nancy. Sinatra. I wanted a pair

[@balkandancer]

Can't say as I've ever heard "slice of the pie" but never really cared for "these boots are made for walkin".

[@dannybenair]

Sorry kids..

[@tonybensley6246]

Real fun segment, but those ratings did not age well at all!! 😂🤣

[@sandy3482]

when These Boots started the dancers looked lost but they got it down by end, the 2nd song was awful and it got 92 Nancy got 77, go figure

[@gueromex3056]

Great track …. Nancy’s vocals?? Cringe