American Bandstand 1964 - TOP 10 - Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen

Airdate: January 18, 1964
Today is the unofficial start of “Beatlemania” as The Beatles first song to chart in America, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #45. It will be #3 next week. In about 10 minutes from now, in this episode, they will play it for, perhaps, the first time ever on national TV in the U.S. (eat your heart our Ed Sullivan) I will be posting a link to that clip soon. I will say, it is “very strange” (and very cool) watching 2 different eras crossover as the Philadelphia kids dance to “I Want to Hold Your Hand”. It almost seems anachronistic
‘Louie, Louie” is at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 today for its 3rd week in a row and 1 of 6 non-consecutive weeks at #2. It never made it to #1.
In response to never hitting #1 - The Kingsmen drummer Ken Easton: “F- - - !”
Only 3 more weeks until American Bandstand will start airing from Hollywood. They either taped the last episodes in Philadelphia last week or they are taping them as this episode is airing. The final Philadelphia kids dancing today are: Richie Cartledge & Michelle Liebowitz (1:44), Gary Stapleford (far left, 2:45), Bruce Richard & Barbara Warchol (2:54) and Bobby Baritz, Sandi Bartholomew & Ailyene Silverman (3:19).
Whether you prefer the more modern and long-running Bandstand from Hollywood or the more classic Bandstand from Philadelphia, thank you for watching!
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This episode (a new one to the library) was donated by @jthyme. Thank you Gary!

[@Gigi-zr2gh]

These kids all so pretty happy and carefree. What a time it was! Love this stuff.

[@juanrivera3247]

Su única preucupacion en la vida era ser destruidos por bombas nucleares Pero ya se estaba aproximando la guerra de Vietnam

[@kevinmadden1645]

A curious statement! It was not quite two months since JFK was assassinated.

[@orangezeb1785]

...and to see a pretty mixed crowd racially: not just all Caucasian.

[@boomerguy9935]

I was 14 years old in 1964. Two years later, I was playing this song in a garage band. This song provided a lot of money for us!

[@mangoxxgames744]

What's the name of your garage band?

[@boomerguy9935]

Long before they became popular as a little hairy toy, there were a group of imaginary creatures that lived underneath bridges that demanded a toll to cross them. They were called Trolls. We liked the name, played for a couple years and broke up for some reason that I can't remember. About a year later, a couple of us went to a dance with another garage band who used to be competitors. They were friendly and and recognized us and yelled, "Hey, it's the old Trolls!" and invited us on stage to play a song with their instruments. We got some applause and the atmosphere was very friendly. After the dance, we decided to get back together again as the "Olde Trolls". We played until we graduated from high school and went separate ways. I continued my drumming education with professional jazz drummers and continue to moonlight today as a jazz drummer.@@mangoxxgames744

[@MusicandDancing4Ever]

And people say rock n roll was dead after Elvis was drafted and before the Beatles came. Louie Louie is one of the few rock n roll songs during that time. Love it!

[@archangelmusic13]

it was dead.

[@sandienochs6132]

It will never die as long as someone remembers it, I know I will.

[@bengaljam4550]

61, 62, 63 were horrible years for Rock n Roll, Charts were filled with the likes of Pat Boone, Fabian, Frankie Avalon and a lot of other squares.

[@JimMorrisonsboots]

This makes me nostalgic for a year i was not even alive in lol But what a time, look at the fashions,the girls and music.Beautiful clip.Thank you.

[@paulblatchfordplymouth]

The guys to!

[@brianrocks2087]

This song was a rock and roll and pop hit all over the world.

[@trevorcolas]

Great post, Aaron! Don't know why I'm surprised, but I never thought of "Louie, Louie" as a song that you could touch-dance to. Definitely the end of the Philly era.

[@YCDTI]

Hi @tacnid Yeah the Philly dancers really loved to dance arm in arm. I keep thinking they’re going to bust out the twist, watusi, monkey, slauson, mashed potato etc… but no. That wasn’t their “bag” at the time I guess. It was definitely an end of an era in Philly and everywhere - well said. Thank you!

[@jamesperley7010]

Rock and roll had run its course by the early 60s, and besides folk and a little surfer music we were stuck with wholesome slow songs.. Louie was written in the early 50s near the birth of rock and roll. Louie attracted attention because it was a throwback to an earlier age. It didn;t fit the general mood. It was an island in a bland sea ahead of a tsunomi of our own music crashing from the UK. It was a relic from our forgotten past. At least that is how I rermember it.@@YCDTI

[@Don-zz9ym]

@@jamesperley7010 Louie Louie was originally written and composed by R& B singer Richard Berry 1955 released 1957 As usual

[@toomuchinformation]

​@@Don-zz9ym"As usual".

[@НиколайМарковски-у9ы]

The Most! The Great! The Best! ❤️

[@jerryjayson14]

Grew up with this show thank you

[@charlesharnois3684]

I Was 14 Yrs. Old, Lots Of Great Memories,So Glad I Was Able To Live It!

[@GLD-hopeful]

Watched this show every Saturday. Who else learned how to dance by watching?

[@carltwidle9046]

I remember this song as a young one. Looking at the dancing here in this film clip, a couple of the dancers were not moving in the style of rock and roll. They were more free style. Dancing was changing and becoming go go style.

[@RichardArnista]

I wish I could go back in time, this was the best ever!

[@michaelchapman4955]

Neighborhood Rock Bands were playing this song at Fri night parties all over Southern Ca... A Neighbor of mine a few years ago who grew up in 'South Philly, John Medora wrote "At The Hop" with David White & Artie Singer for 'Danny & The Junior's in 1958 & it was on launched on ABC Dick Clark's American Bandstand Ch 7 in LA in 1958

[@loveyu2778]

Love this..this is what America wants to see more of... Not these disastrous kids dancing today..

[@louisramosLEFTYLOUIE]

Love this show love that song !

[@RandyR]

Still one of the most controversial songs ever. Never could figure out why. Just think it sounds great. Was 11 and in a much different world

[@marksinger3067]

I'll take a ride on that time machine.

[@anttissy2773]

Me too

[@mikebarrett3982]

Count me in

[@dout0rm942]

Take me with'ya

[@CarlasHausofCrochet]

Sameeee ✌️❤️🎶

[@Thadmotor1044]

Got away with line I felt my bone slide thru her hair ....and all the hub bub surrounding that

[@sandienochs6132]

Born in 1949, when this aired I was building a Heathkit 23 channel C.B. Radio in Las Angeles California. WOW, somehow I got old, back then I didn’t think it would ever happen to me! I’m so lucky.

[@StanZ-i6w]

Old age is like a Mack truck, coming out of nowhere at full speed and colliding head-on with all of us sooner or later, and leaving us bleeding and dazed and feeble and totally shocked by the side of the road!!!😮😧😲☹️😯🤕

[@Habsbsbgirl1909]

I was just a year old 😊remember my older siblings watching and dancing with me

[@karensparks2509]

Oh so many memories. Saw them in my hometown and Indiana beach. This song is still used and great! Kings men so cool!

[@fredk9999]

Wow! What can be said? Fabulous then and still, Nothing like it

[@bostezogris]

Fantastico documento, la cancion, un maravilloso clasico del garage rock

[@brianrocks2087]

It's a rock and roll and pop classic but it's not garage, it just influenced the sound

[@bostezogris]

Estas equivocado, informate, es un super clasico del garage rock, variante northwest sound

[@brianrocks2087]

@@bostezogrisNo lo es, en su momento era un éxito de rock and roll y pop, luego el periodismo lo llamo una influencia para el garage rock por su sonido pero está canción fue un éxito pop mundial en 1963 y 1964 bailable

[@bostezogris]

Hombre es que en la decada de los 60´s no existia el termino garage rock fue posteriormente que se puso esta etiqueta a las muchisimas bandas que hubieron durante ese periodo y que tenian unas caracteristicas similares aunque dentro de este estilo el abanico sonoro era variado, por ejemplo no era lo mismo el sonido The Sonics que The Music Machine o The Seeds, pero si que eran bandas de garage, por cierto que el Louie Louie de los Kingsmen ha sido descrita alguna vez como el prototipo perfecto del sonido garage@@brianrocks2087

[@robertwheeler4068]

WOW! I was 10 years old in grade school when this was released. This became the National Antheim for every garage band that started up after the British Invasion!🎵🎶😎👌

[@XJarhead360]

It's nice to reminisce about past songs we grew up with. Let's face it that times change. You change with the times or get left behind. BTW, I'm a 'Nam vet, USMC, 2/5. I still remember many of these people that now long for those oldies were throwing garbage at returning vets and calling us "baby killers." ENJOY THE MUSIC BUT OTHERWISE STF.

[@llwil2003]

Funny I associate that son with my later years 1966-1969. I guess the bands that played at high school dances played it a lot. I do not associate with being 14 (1964).

[@НиколайМарковски-у9ы]

Great Time! ❤️

[@allegra0]

Silly little tune but they are enjoying the music. Just to think it’s not that long before The Doors would explode with “ Light My Fire”

[@lissamarie8836]

Does anyone know of a way to search for American bandstand episodes that were filmed in San Jose California between 1961 and 1963? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[@suzieparis6821]

So cute

[@MissPerriwinkle]

gooood music bak then....

[@Michael-xk3sp]

In Mr. Holland's Opus Richard Dreyfuss referenced this song in his classical music class. The students couldn't believe it after Mozart. I knew what he was going to say: That the song is like three or four notes, is terrible musically, but is FUN. That's it. Anybody been to Louis Louis Day in Philadelphia? Now there was a sight.

[@dennisshaub4576]

Great party music

[@XJarhead360]

Yall, pining for these oldies. Remember, R&R was considered obscene and there was even a Congressional hearing regarding this genre. Some older folks said it was satanic (sound familiar?) or Communist. Now to the '60s, all previous norms were thrown out regarding dress and music. Then punk rock came into the scene. MUSIC EVOLVES WITH PAST GENERATIONS pining about the songs they grew up with, whether they're boomers, millennials, or Gen Whatever. As for bellyaching about naked bodies with current music genres; this started in the '60s. Have you forgotten Woodstock, free love and all that BS?

[@georgeswift4063]

One thing I know is we are now old and fat...some fatter others no longer with us. Sweet and sour moments. The magic of video tape is all that's left.

[@judylutz1702]

And everyone thought they could hear the nastiest lyrics. 😂

[@danklein7318]

I swear they were smashing

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Wow, there were more girls than guys, so they danced together. That's how we did and kids to back in the day at little parties.

[@cynthiapickett8577]

#2 🎯.

[@josephguagenti3730]

Only 3 weeks left in Philia? When does Famous Hooks debut on AB in CA??

[@Vic-mv8iz]

Guys wearing tie's look good

[@melgrant7404]

Came out in 63?

[@elicampo9646]

Lo que es la vida ,ayer todas las chicas vestidas como monjas 😃😃😃hoy siglo 21 están todas sin ropa x todos lados hasta las que cantan jajajaja ,bueno así es la vida 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🙏

[@carrietucker5989]

I can't believe that I tortured myself watching these offbeat shows during the early 60's .

[@elainemurley9509]

Controversy about this song back in the day

[@eddieboggs8306]

Was it the Kinks cover that allegedly had the F word?

[@Honey_Moon_Delight]

Yo hare una maquina del tiempo, ¿Quien se une?

[@YCDTI]

¡Iré contigo!

[@Honey_Moon_Delight]

@@YCDTI 😍

[@StanZ-i6w]

I have already beat you to it! I constructed a time machine in my basement a long time ago, and I go back to those good old days on a regular basis! The problem is that nobody believes me, and right now a psychiatrist is approaching me on my bed, and telling me I should relax! He has a great big hypodermic needle, and is telling me I should quit having these fantasies about living in the past! If I ever could free myself of all these straps tying me to the bed, not to mention the straitjacket, I could take this quack to my basement and show him I really did create a time machine, and then I would take him back to the 50's and 60's, with me, and then he would believe me!!!😮☹️😯😲🙃

[@leerhode1021]

Interesting how the camera never showcases any of the black dancers. You can catch glimpses of them dancing in the background, but they seem to never have their own Kodak moment. Racism is a very real thing.

[@nuttybar9]

That's in your head.

[@sureshchiatar9641]

I love the hairstyle on some of the females.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

The dance floor was really crowded

[@pintobeans2973]

When girls were girls and boys were boys.

[@StanZ-i6w]

The gays and trannies were there too, but they were just hiding in the closet! Some of the dancers that American Bandstand hired to appear on a regular basis on the show were gay! One of the most popular male dancers died of AIDS years later!

[@thescarletandgrey2505]

American Bumperpeople

[@rogerborroel4707]

Notice that the black couples are never shown like the white dancers! Well, it was 1964!

[@teresarenee3829]

Sure looks like people of all colors got along fine....isn't that interesting....

[@georgemusic4all4seasons]

4 years old when this song came out and can still remember my mother cleaning house 🏠 and throwing in a few moves while cleaning. To think mother was only 27 years young. Rest In Peace mom and thinking of you everyday ❤️

[@daisychavez8869]

George196 Sorry for your loss. I miss my Momma too.

[@sunlandleaonard]

i was 15 years old . i wonder how many of these kids are dead now .I'm 73 now, it seems to me like a different world . time goes so fast

[@skipdow3]

I am 74 now. Don't wonder about it, Get out there and dance to it.

[@StanZ-i6w]

I was 11 years old, and I also wonder how many of those kids have died. A lot of my former classmates are gone, not to mention everyone in my immediate family! Life really is short!!!😢😿

[@StanZ-i6w]

​@@skipdow3 You are just trying to keep from being depressed about the horrible passing of time, try not to fall down with your arthritic knees when you dance, not to mention getting a stroke or heart attack! Old age and death to me are terrifying, especially as I see there is no evidence of any afterlife!😮😧😲

[@damiangavigan6485]

Keep it light 😅

[@joycepino9749]

I was going to write the same thing. I'm 69. The year is 2024. Sixty years ago. I great time to be a kid.

[@keithbate9405]

I am now 67 years old. But when I hear this track I just want to get out on the dance floor and dance and dance !

[@rangvi1956]

0:29 me too, I'm 68 !!! 💐

[@keithbate9405]

@@rangvi1956 I am 69 in 3 month time !

[@parakeet8157]

Love this song. Great group having fun dancing!Was only a baby when it came out

[@lard_lad_AU]

1964, everyone dressed up classy to go out, ladies had the big hair, young men and women just enjoying living in the moment, some on dates that would lead to marriage. Simpler times back then, nobody needed drugs or validation from facebook likes to feel good. Everybody worked hard and saved their money for a car or a house. Some of these young men may have gone to Vietnam and paid the ultimate sacrifice. But I hope that they survived and became grandparents and great grandparents

[@marysherfinski5787]

I remember theses times with great fondness...i dance to this song and still live it...thanks for the memories....

[@thewilscott]

Great looking teens, great danceable song thank you

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

No piercings, no tattoos, no half naked bodies. Boys in jacket and tie, girls with set hair and nice dresses. Great time to be around.

[@markperlman8384]

The boys also had hair.

[@CEETEEEFF13]

Calm down pop pop

[@juanrivera3247]

Pero llegaron los hippies y despues los punks y los hooligans el resto del siglo

[@Thomas-lg6jx]

Then liberal socialist judeo-bolshevist hippiedum happened.

[@dannymcrooster4089]

But ready to be teamed. 😊

[@kevmichael2064]

Louie Louie is one the best songs ever!!!!... Great Beat!!!

[@corinne4090]

I remember I loved that song, was only 6 but my Mom was a dancer and that was one of her favs at the time. I am still a 💃 teacher to this day and watched AB liked Philly better than Cali better dancers.

[@kevmichael2064]

@@corinne4090 My Dad said he Liked AB when it was in Philadelphia.....He remembered how it was....He also said he didn't like much after it moved to L A

[@MusicandDancing4Ever]

And people say rock n roll was dead after Elvis was drafted and before the Beatles came. Louie Louie is one of the few rock n roll songs during that time.

[@MH-be6hr]

Groovy, man!🏵🌻🌺

[@pack-wr6nq]

Had to be January of 64..... Beatles looming on the horizon..... music about to change big-time...

[@adrianmartinelli9799]

John Lennon 2.59 spying better looking than Yoko Oh ! no.

[@Brutorious]

@@adrianmartinelli9799 YES! Thought I was the only one who saw it! So Funny!! Just like John to do that HAHAHA!

[@JJ-tr3zo]

Time machine - more early 60's please

[@montyduskin4610]

Toward the end of the song with that young man dancing with those 2young girls is everything cool !!! Wow !

[@williamzinser2378]

The three of them dancing together at 3:25 definitely were 6 months ahead of everyone else. Everyone else looked like they were still stuck in the 50's.

[@Limba777]

Excellent point. It’s a song meant to be danced separately and very a go go

[@mdmphd]

Not those hairstyles (the women at least) and it was integrated - one of the 'subtle' reasons they showed the crowd.

[@kathyrizzi8754]

I was 15 in 1964, but I remember dancing to the song “ Louie Louie “ in 63…The Good Ole Day’s!👍👏👏👏🎶🎵🎼🥁🎺🎷🎸🎹🎶

[@SouthBaySteelers]

This was broadcast by satellite. So somewhere out in space, roughly 58 light years away, space alien teenagers are watching this. The teen space alien girls are screaming to the Beatles and Rolling Stones…and driving their parents nuts.

[@whatsit2ya247]

@BBR2 Only we're the space aliens! 🤔👾

[@thedarkdescent2387]

Did the Philadelphia dancers not know how to jerk or a-go-go dance? I never thought you would’ve lindy hopped to louie Louie 🤨

[@YCDTI]

Lol, these late Philly dancers “couples danced” really well, but they did it to everything, fast or slow. I think that was a Philadelphia thing as it stopped when they moved to Hollywood.

[@shyphyre]

Maybe because the jerk and go-go dancing came about after AB relocated to Hollywood.

[@jsch9173]

It’s probably no accident that you see black faces in the audience but you don’t see black couples dancing. Yep, those were the good old days.

[@rickwilson8354]

Yeah I used to run home and get off the bus and watch American Bandstand plus we had something else show we're on Chapman and a couple of other local Woods here in Fort Worth Texas I miss those old days

[@johnmoore5455]

Thank you so much for continuing to post these wonderful videos! I stay on the lookout for the new ones!

[@johnlandis2346]

I'm looking at the audiance and the dancers for Steve Lewis, one of Dick Clark's regulars who was Dicks right hand man out in Hollywood...

[@dr.aniasara7038]

When it was cool to dance with your best girlfriend or whoever wanted to dance that day.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

I was 12 yrs old in the 7 grade. What memories 😜💙🇫🇷 Arnuad Bourbon Amaral

[@dancerdon9175]

Wouldn’t be Philadelphia American Bandstand without the “bumpty bump bump” jitterbug and lindy steps on the dance floor. Does anyone wonder how the Bandstand Philadelphia dancers’ steps might have morphed into the freestyle line dances featured on the show from Hollywood had Bandstand continued originating from WFIL? Good to see you back Aaron and thank you @jthyme for this glimpse of the dawning of 1964.

[@YCDTI]

They’d still be Lindy Hopping to “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” Don, just with more hip threads, lol. Interesting to ponder.

[@gregmoore7709]

YO Dancer Don , How would you and your dance colleagues have handled dancing like the kids in this video? Thank God you didn't have too,i'm thinking lol...

[@dancerdon9175]

@@gregmoore7709 Hey Greg we would have been dancing the Slauson. I have the gray hair to prove it. LOL

[@gregmoore7709]

@@dancerdon9175lol that's great Don HAAAAhaaaa

[@thefirstMrsLankton]

@@dancerdon9175 Don weren't a lot of the early Cali regulars still partnering to the majority of music on Bandstand circa/1965/66/67? It seems like somewhere in 1967 we saw more "freestyle" on the floor. I adored the sure-footed well-led partners the best and you know who you are! Thank you Aaron! Great song and video!!

[@gregmoore7709]

Hey Aaron,Even though it was a hair before my watching bandstand, its still great. With all that jostling around i was waiting for an elbow or a punch lol. The song Louie Louie is still alive today and is a great dancer. I will never forget Watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan for the first time, My dad said look at that they will never make it. lol. Thax Aaron ,i enjoyed your little history lesson a lot too. AAAAAH memories...

[@rickwilson8354]

Yeah this is Ricky Wilson again I forgot to mention I do a sixties old Nostalgia show at 12 on Saturdays as for All My Hotrod Buddies listen to it on the old radios in their hot rods it's a small transmitter so I don't reach a long ways but we have fun with it it's called rapid Rick 1075

[@YCDTI]

@Greg Moore Hi Greg, this was a bit before my time too, but every time I watch that Ed Sullivan Show episode, I can imagine how new and exciting the Beatles were in ‘64 (and still are) and I’m sure a lot people (of a certain age) thought the Beatles were a quick fad with their long hair and incessant caterwauling, lol. Thank you Greg

[@YCDTI]

@@rickwilson8354 Hi Rick, That is really cool that you do a local radio show. I’ll bet you guys really know your 60’s music and hot rods…sounds like my kind of place! If you ever stream your program over the internet, I’d love to listen to it and I’d be happy to give you a plug here on YT 👍 Thanks Rick!

[@gregmoore7709]

​@@YCDTI Aaron i'm going to just throw this out to you because it was so great when i heard it . Unfortunately it was a while back and i think the interview was with Paul.He said the first time on the Ed Sullivan show when John was singing and kind of shook his head and his hair moved, the crowd went wild so they all started to emphasize it lol..

[@debbiewalker2611]

Love it always watched American Bandstand. Really love watching the dancing we use to do !

[@paulbroderick8438]

Couples dressed like ladies and gentlemen back then. Time to feed my dog, Louie!!

[@annlouisescheuer1979]

Great song,never knew exactly what they were saying but it was great anyway. I was a senior in high school when this was popular. Watched AB everyday after school.

[@hayshammond5499]

Well, it came on TV Sat. ….

[@elainecrossan5751]

Love this song! Camping with my family back around the time this song was a hit on the radio, watched teens dancing around picnic table to this blaring from their radio. Great to watch kids dancing on Bandstand to this great song!

[@bob343536]

Thank you Aaron!! I like the question marks in the number one position. I had never seen that in any AB clips. Have a great weekend everyone!!

[@YCDTI]

@bob343536, good catch. It’s funny how, even after being a major, well-financed, national TV show on ABC for 7 years, they still use a homemade, hand- drawn Top 10 board. Dick definitely had a penchant for “thrift”, lol.

[@YCDTI]

@SuperStoneyMan I’m afraid I don’t have that one. Sorry. If I ever I get it, I’ll be happy to post it though.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

One of my favorite songs when I was a kid. I watched American Bandstand every weekend. Thanks for the video. Brings back memories.

[@majaman1978]

Wasn’t AB on Monday thru Friday during the early 60’s?? I seem to recall that.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

@@majaman1978 We watched it on Saturdays, we were in school during the week and had to do homework and dinner. We went outside to play after that bedtime.

[@majaman1978]

Yeah I was in grade school too but seem to remember it came on around 4:00. Well after I had been back home. I thought it ran till 6:00 but might be mistaken.

[@tammyrenee64]

I was Born in 64, was a teenager in late 70s and they were the Best years of my life 🫶✌️🎐🪩🎐📻🛼🆒

[@zaker721]

My family was all alive! My grandpa…even my great-grandma, his mother! I was 1. Okay, I wasn’t doing anything too exciting if you don’t count the Great Ex-Lax adventure--It looked like chocolate and though my folks put it out of my reach…I was a very resourceful baby, and it ended unpleasantly for all concerned. But I would love to go back to being the adored baby of the world, surrounded by all my family. In all honestly we would have been watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents as aside from my mom who was into the British Bands, nobody else was interested in AB’s music.

[@StanZ-i6w]

I was the youngest in my family, and the same as you, a lot of my immediate family was alive, but now everyone is dead, my mother, father, brother, sister, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins! I also have memories of listening to all the old songs and watching Alfred Hitchcock!!! That's all I have now, j

[@rickytickykatz9599]

Can’t wait for the I want to hold your hand clip too!

[@shave-a-thon3415]

Neither can I!

[@psw4763]

Love watching these and back then good dancers to fun songs.

[@jimsmith6547]

Thanks for the ab upload sir. Always look forward to a new one.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

They really dance well in such small space. Not stepping on each other's toes. Lol!

[@doctorbohr1585]

The episode is dated Jan 18, 64. In as little as a fortnight these kids were going to have their minds blown by a certain mop topped quartet from Liverpool!

[@boinknook]

True, and I wasn't born till May so I kinda missed it. 🤭

[@จันทร์พรส์สุธาสินี]

This song make me smile and want to dance with💃🕺

[@shave-a-thon3415]

Aaron - In other words, Bandstand's first airing of a show from Hollywood was Feb. 8th, 1964, the day before the legendary, live Ed Sullivan show broadcast with The Beatles from New York City. Sullivan was usually low key and kept his feelings to himself, but in the biography I read about Sullivan, in the week leading up to The Beatles appearance, everyone around him said he was a different Ed Sullivan. He was all smiles and affable. Staffers felt that he sensed that he knew he finally booked the act that would make him an American icon.

[@miggans21012]

Awhile back I watched a backstory of this song and was said that when they did the recording that the drummer dropped a drumstick and said the f word during the recording and the censors didn't catch on. You can hear it at 1:59. I also noticed the two girls at 1:58 were giggling when they heard it.

[@DrJohnPollard]

1:05. Words to the Classic. Always a mystery. Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby Me gotta go Fine little girl waits for me Catch a ship across the sea Sail that ship about, all alone Never know if I make it home Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby Me gotta go Three nights and days I sail the sea Think of girl, constantly On that ship, I dream she's there I smell the rose in her hair. Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby Me gotta go Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now! See Jamaica, the moon above It won't be long, me see me love Take her in my arms again Tell her I'll never leave again Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby Me gotta go Let's take it on outta here now Let's go!

[@lynnenewcomb5554]

The lyrics I heard in college aren't fit to be displayed here. I'm glad to see the "supposed" lyrics. lol

[@trevorcolas]

Thanks, Dr. John 🙂

[@altfactor]

Supposedly, "Louie, Louie" is one of the most recorded songs in history, with over 250 known recorded versions. But this is by far the best known version, although not the first recorded version.

[@dariowiter3078]

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" hit No. 20 on its second week on Billboard's Hot 100, not No. 3 as the host of this channel puts it. After hitting No. 20, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" hit No. 1 in week number 3 on Billboard and it stayed there for seven consecutive weeks. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was Billboard's number one song for 1964.

[@YCDTI]

www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1964-01-25/

[@mckennuhhhhhhhhh]

i can relate with some of the commenters in this section in that it does make me wish that i was alive at a time to where i could go to a club or bar and hear this song out of nowhere, where i could listen to this song for all of its unbridled greatness and still dance around and appreciate it. to see this on television would be unprecedented. i can still partly do that now, but it feels like less people will or would appreciate it, and it also feels like it would be less revolutionary.

[@nancysloan3731]

Best party song ever!

[@darreleggemeyer5541]

We used to go to the Lion's Club in Sparta, Illinois where a band called the Knight Beats played. This was in the mid 60's. Sure brings back a lot of great memories. Wish I could do it all over again!

[@skipdow3]

Do it while you can, I have girl coming from China that will be dancing this song with me, I'm an old man , but will dance as long as I can. She's half my age, but still has the moves, and a killer figure, like the Playmates did back then. All real and all her.

[@antonioalvarez5145]

WOW! Great!!! Thank you for these pleasant memories!

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

A great start to a cold snowy Saturday here in the Great White North

[@YCDTI]

That sounds nice and winter-appropriate Andrew.. It’s freakishly warm here - in the mid-70’s and nearly 90 up the way in LA for the Super Bowl.

[@jthyme7940]

@@YCDTI Another great post, Aron!! As for the weather, I'll take YOURS over ours ANY TIME! It is -1 as I type this right now and a HIGH of 5 is forecast for the day. I can't wait for Vegas heat!

[@gregmoore7709]

Put on your long johns Andrew and have a good time watching the super bowl lol and its hideous were i live too. I'll still have a Pabst Blue ribbon or so and eat a lot but it won't be warm enough to sit in boxers lol...

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

@@YCDTI Enjoy the great weather you guys are having. I wish I could golf

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

@@gregmoore7709 I always wear 2 pairs of pants, actually pants on top of sweats, keeps my legs super warm

[@TheHaratashi]

Funny how the guys are all wearing suit and ties still - 5 years later it was all totally different.

[@Mark-td5ux]

It all went to hell.....

[@mikeberg5003]

I was about 8 years old when this came out. Right before The Beatles came to the US and even at that age we were thinking it was a dirty song. The FBI spent 2 years investigating the lyrics which back then weren't easy to find. Louie, Louie, me gotta go. Louie, Louie, me gotta go. A fine little girl, she wait for me; me catch a ship across the sea. I sailed the ship all alone; I never think I’ll make it home Three nights and days we sailed the sea; me think of girl constantly. On the ship, I dream she there; I smell the rose, in her hair. Me see Jamaica moon above; It won’t be long me see me love. Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again.