American Bandstand 1964 -Top 10- Wishin’ and Hopin’, Dusty Springfield

From Hollywood, the kids dance (somewhere between slow and fast) to Dusty Springfield’s hit song that, while not a #1 hit nationally, it does peak at #6 today.
Hootenanny is a musical variety show that began in April of ’63 and will finish its run next month. It is hosted by Jack Linkletter (son of Art Linkletter) and is filmed live at college campuses around the U.S.
…..And in about 14 hours from now, the U.S.S. Maddox will be attacked by 3 North Vietnamese Torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. In response to this unprovoked attack, in 6 days, Congress will pass the “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution“, giving President Lyndon Johnson “broad use of war powers to combat North Vietnamese and local Communist attacks…”, effectively starting the war in Vietnam.
Airdate: Aug. 1, 1964

[@robertyancey5712]

WISHING, HOPING, THINKING, AND PRAYING, THAT I COULD GO BACK IN TIME, AND RELIVE THE 60S ALL OVER AGAIN. OH PLEASE GOD......OH PLEASE!!!😁😆😊🤔😎

[@suzanpeters1093]

These kids are now 69+ years old now. I hope that they find your channel, so that they can reminise. I wish that we could turn back the hands of time. Thank you! xo

[@dancerdon9175]

Susan Peters, thanks to Aaron's channel YouCanDanceToit! and Jeff's ABdancers channel, they have given us the chance to turn back the hands of time, if only for a moment or so. Treasured and lasting memories! ~~ Don

[@suzanpeters1093]

dancer don Yes, indeed! Thanks a million, Don. xo

[@johe64]

That boy at 3:45 can't be older than 12 or 13. I thought maybe it was that girl's younger brother. Were kids younger than 14 allowed to attend?

[@pjmoseley243]

I found the channel and watching Dusty Springfield now at 06:24 hrs 27/01/2022 I remember first watching her in the late 1950s. I loved Dusty RIP

[@paulknapp7756]

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD SHE WAS A FANTASTIC SINGER SHE WAS A FANTASTIC BEAUTIFUL & GORGEOUS & AWESOME LADY SHE WAS MY #-1 FEMALE SINGER I L❤💙VE HER ALL HER RECORDS I GOT EVERY RECORDS SHE EVER MADE MY FAVORITE RECORDS IS WISHING AND HOPING I HAVE THAT 45'S R.P.M. ON MY 1957 WURLITZER JUKEBOXS & ON MY 1960 ROCK- OLA JUKEBOX THAT RECORD TO DAY IS STILL ON BOTH OF MY OLD JUKEBOXS I PLAY HER RECORDS ON A 1957 WURLITZER JUKEBOX AT JOY LAKE BEACH IT WAS ALL SANDY BEACH EVEN THE WATER IN THE LAKE WAS ALL SAND IN THE LAKE THE LAKE WATER WAS SO CLEAR U COULD DRINK IT IT WAS SO CLEAR JOY LAKE BEACH WAS A BEAUTIFUL & GORGEOUS & A AWESOME LAKE KIDS FROM 3 & 5 YEARS OLD GET IN FREE & 6 YEARS OLD TO FULL GROWN IT WAS 50 CENTS ALL DAY LONG FROM 8:00 AM TILL 6:00 PM FRIST THING AFTER I PAY 50 CENTS TO GET IN AT JOY LAKE BEACH I GO RUNNING STRAIGHT TO THAT 1957 WURLITZER JUKEBOXS JUKEBOXS ARE MY FRIST L❤💙VE & RECORDS & OLD CARS & OLD RECORDS PLAYERS. JOY LAKE BEACH IS ONE OF MY STOMPING GROUND I NEW THE MAN & HIS WIFE THAT OWN JOY LAKE BEACH THERE NAME WAS CLAUDE and RUTH COOGLER OWN JOY LAKE BEACH IN THE 50'S & 60'S THEN ABOUT 1966 MR,SAND MAN OWN IT. I HAVE 42 PICTURES OF JOY LAKE BEACH WITH A HUGE CONCESSION STAND & PLACE U COULD EAT & 💃 DANCEING HAD 🚿 SHOWERS AROUND THE LAKE TO WASH THE SAND OFF U HAD HUGE BATHROOM IT WAS REALLY A NICE PLACE TO SPEND THE WHOLE DAY WITH FAMILYS & FRIENDS.I.L❤💙VE EVERY MINS OF IT IT WAS JUST DOWN THE ROAD OFF THE FOREST PARK WAY IN FOREST PARK,GA SINCERELY YOUR PAUL ANDREW KNAPP✌🙏🎵🎶💒⛪❤💙💞💔💿💿💿💿 CONCESSION

[@russellcrawford7453]

She was a feisty beautiful lesbian who slapped drummer Buddy Rich ride across the chops for calling her abroad

[@patriciajones4761]

Good sound! Remember those little felt bows we wore.

[@supremes1964]

great mention of the Supremes too! they were on Dick Clark's caravan show in late June and early July 1964. Their single soon to be #1 in the USA.... "Where Did Our Love Go"

[@phatton1054]

What a great hit for the Supremes

[@TheArabchaser]

My friends Dean and Jean were on that tour, too.

[@jgnpercy207]

I love Dusty! She was incredible.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

Oh how I miss this show and this music!

[@mrob75]

Hi AARON R. I LOVE this clip! Incredible enhanced sound on such a beautiful song! Hilarious how the kids leave the dance floor zombie style before the record ends :---) I'm glad to see "Dusty" at #1 here today...She deserved it!

[@YCDTI]

Thanks Mario! I think they were being told to get off the floor for some reason, probably so Dick could review the caravan of stars schedule. But it is odd they were shuffled off before the song even ended, I agree. And Dusty is the best!

[@mrob75]

hi Aaron...VERY obedient group of kids...So unlike 2018...I think Dick would have let them all have it if they didn't follow their cues. And LOVE, LOVE Dusty Springfield!

[@funkibloo3811]

Me too! 👍😃💖

[@pdizbon]

100% real music and wholesome kids, unlike today, it was the best decade

[@sexymama1966]

If i was around back then, I would be getting ready for the new television season: Some of the new shows on ABC, "Bewitched", "The Addams Family", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "12 O' Clock High" and my personal favorite, next to "Bewitched", of course, is "Peyton Place". As for the leaving the floor early--I would have done some supermodel poses, as I hate to waste a good tune :).

[@suzanpeters1093]

Angelique Collins Your comment is so cute. I was 10 in 1964, and watched Ozzie and Harriet. I still do! How I miss the 60's and 70's era.

[@sexymama1966]

Susan Peters Much thanks😊😊😊😊 I watch O&H from time to time on here. There are plenty of episodes to enjoy.

[@dancerdon9175]

Angelique Collins your comment made me smile ... never waste the chance to work that runway! Good one. ~~ Don

[@shyphyre]

And to add to your information Dancing in the street, by Martha and the Vandellas was released the day before the air date of this clip. The song was recorded during the same week that the Supremes’ Where Did our Love Go” , which would become the groups first number one hit single, was released .

[@flavorfhul3909]

bro that one guy did the Miley Cirus hand move thing 😂😂

[@jerrygil1965]

ARMY💜What are you doing watching American Bandstand?!

[@antonioalvarez5145]

Thanks. excellent your comments

[@newgroovesradio8704]

Using the set from Philly here!

[@jerrygil1965]

It suddenly changed in October 1964

[@EaganChris]

I would like to know if anyone who is watching this has come on here and seen yourself after all these years? please make a statement and state your name and at what point are you seen in the video. would love to hear from you...so cool! :)

[@jerrygil1965]

I'm not a baby boomer but I'm 19 and I love AB

[@user-ms5tk7uk8z]

Dusty Springfield(April 16th,1929-March 2nd,1999).!

[@dancerdon9175]

Ah, Aaron -- the great Dusty Springfield. What a talent! My favorite female songstress from the 1960's UK. Quite the panoply of songs in The Top Ten and dance styles on the floor. Musically, everything from Motown to the emerging British invasion popped up on The Top Ten that week. The dancers are seen strutting the cha cha, the Slauson, the Pony, and Its west coast version, the Surfer Stomp. I rarely get political on these threads, but the Tonkin Resolution proved a travisty. The declassification of documents and tapes available at the Johnson Library reveal what historians could not prove: There was not a second attack on U.S. Navy ships in the Tonkin Gulf in early August 1964. Furthermore, the evidence suggests a disturbing and deliberate attempt by Secretary of Defense McNamara to distort the evidence and mislead Congress. Without the full picture, Congress could not offer the checks and balances it was designed to provide. Subsequently, the White House carried the nation into the longest and one of the most costly conflicts in our nation's history. ~~ Don

[@YCDTI]

Hi Don. I love Dusty too. Id listen to her sing the phone book, lol. And that top 10 list is filled with major pop classics, I agree. As to the Tonkin Resolution. I refreshed myself on that this week. I left out the second attack for brevity, but you are so right. as you mentioned the “second attack”, which never happened, actually lead to the resolution granting Johnson his new power, leading to Vietnam. I don’t ever get personal on here, but my dad fought in Vietnam in ‘68 on a gunboat. He suffers to this day from medical issues acquired through that (dam) war. We are still paying for it. (Ok, I’m done) IMO this clip nicely shows the dichotomy of innocent teens dancing to the pop tunes of the days, blissfully unaware of what was right around the corner. Thanks for the comment Don!

[@dancerdon9175]

Aaron, thank you for sharing the personal poignancy of your father's experience. Apologies for being redundant, but your channel continues to provide a look at the respite that AB's weekly hour of entertainment gave viewers devoid of the turbulence of the era. I agree with you, it is a dichotomy between innocence and the ravages of geopolitical engineering. ~~ Don

[@laminage]

In England, Dusty is a Icon. To many she kicked the door for every Blue Eyed Soul Singer many of which you may have heard of from Amy Winehouse, Duffy, Natasha Bedingfield, Adele, Jessi J, and fellow Irish Lass Nadine Coyle formerly Of Girls Aloud. She also did The Motown Special Ready Steady Go in 1965 where she and Martha & The Vandellas did Wishin' & Hopin'. It made history because it was the First Time A Black & A White did a Duet together on UK TV and at that time, there weren't many British Blacks on TV.

[@YCDTI]

I just watched the RSG Motown special. Very nice duet. I’m sure it blew their minds iIn the UK. Thanks for the tip!

[@laminage]

My pleasure. Dick Clark did alot for UK Artists back in the day. In fact there was an Artist named Chris Clark who recorded for Motown but her Career never took off. She instead became an Executive at Motown co writing the script for Lady Sings The Blues.

[@dancerdon9175]

laminage I have read your replies for a very long time with interest. Your added insights are fascinating as they generally include tidbits about the music scene from across the "pond". Are you from the UK, may I ask? ~~ Don

[@laminage]

No, I'm Canadian but growing up I watched American Bandstand, Soul Train & The Midnight Special. I listened to alot of UK Music which I still love to this day. I'm also a very big fan of UK Soaps and TV Shows whether it was Benny Hill or the UK Version of The Office, Queer As Folk and The soaps.

[@laminage]

Oh I forgot to tell you that back in the day there was a Short Lived Version of Top Of The Pops in the US but people didn't really watch it. To them American Bandstand was over and that was that but is it true that if you were a UK Act and you did Top Of The Pops, you pretty much arrived musically. I know so many acts appeared on The Show. Liberty X (The Popstar so called rejects), Girls Aloud and even Nu Schooz with I Can't Wait. What other US Singers appeared on the show.

[@laminage]

Dusty Springfield (Born Mary Elizabeth Catherine O'Brien) is considered to be The Queen Of Blue Eyed Soul and to many UK Historians she kicked the door open for future Blue Eyed Soul Singers from Europe. Lisa Stansfield, Amy Winehouse and of course Adele. If you can, check out other Irish Born Singers who are great at doing Blue Eyed Soul. Nadine Coyle (formerly of Girls Aloud) and Ruthanne.

[@robertyancey4867]

Cool Cats and Kitties in a Far Out Out of sight World...GrOoVy!!!😆😆😆😊😊☺😎

[@lindadee2053]

What kind of dance is that? It looks like half a cha-cha mixed with a slow pony or stomp or something, but I don't remember it at all. And I was a teenager in Philly at that exact time.

[@dancerdon9175]

Linda Dee they're dancing the "Slauson Shuffle" which originated in L.A. This post by Aaron on his YouCanDanceToit! channel aired August 1, 1964. Bandstand had been coming from Hollywood since 2/8/64. Check out another early Bandstand from L.A. where Dick mentions The Slauson by name. ~~ Don kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZireH94gs6La6s

[@mrob75]

DANCER DON: great insight, as always, regarding your comments below...So agree. I hope I don't lay an egg here and so not trying to sound too political, but I can't help not ignore the elephant (pardon the pun) in the room: I find a parallel kind of thing in the news of the day 1964 and and the disturbing news we hear on television today...Just on a slightly different scale and rather warped. In '64 the kids escaped to AB at least for a while...In 2018 we escape to the world of 1964 "AB" and all the memories it had to offer...Again, at least for a while...Very ironic. :---)

[@dancerdon9175]

Mario, this donkey, too, finds an alarming elephant size parallel. gmta ~~ Don

[@koryb33kory]

Is there a full episode of this one?

[@paulbarber9599]

Better than these times now

[@TheArabchaser]

Is Jim Miranda dancing here?

[@mikeg3281]

wait.. no facial tats, nose rings and guys wearing earings?

[@mbookey7561]

Turn off that damn counter!!!!!!

[@1158scott]

"this is THE number one record" - BS ! Only in Dick Clark's corrupt mind & ulterior motives. Wishin' & hopin' was released weeks before A Hard Days Night in May & never reached higher than #6 in the charts. The 1st full week A Hard Days Night was released it shot right to #2 on July 25 & was #1 August 1 & 8. Complete garbage top 10 chart.

[@stuckinthetimemachi1]

Wishin' and Hopin' did hit number 1 regionally in the US, as well as number nationally, so it very well could have been #1 in Dick Clark's location the week of this show. Sounds like you have sour grapes and an axe to grind.

[@1158scott]

​​​​@@stuckinthetimemachi1You have a more twisted agenda than Clark or his network & a delusional axe to grind. The Beatles song was never only #1 in some places & only #6 anywhere as Clark claims on his list !! The Beatles went right to the top & were at #1 by all music publications - Billboard, Cashbox, & Record World. It's up to Clark to state HIS LIST & HIS #1 are subjective, his own invention, & not backed by any research. Then he can falsely put Wishin' & Hopin' as #1 & claim his weekly list is a created regional list, as you invent the excuse for him without any facts to back it up. But Clark never even says his list is regional. It's suppose to be the NATIONS top 10 & it's a knowing fraud.

[@1158scott]

You have a more twisted agenda than Clark or his network & a delusional axe to grind. The Beatles song was never #1 only in some areas or only #5 anywhere as Clark says. The Beatles shot right to the top & were #1 on this date by all music industry publications - Billboard, Cashbox, & Record World. It's Clark's list & his #1 that are subjective & created without evidence. You make the excuse for Clark that it's his regional list, but Clark never makes such a claim, as you do without any facts or evidence, to put Wishin' & Hopin' at #1. It's supposed to be a NATIONS top 10 & it's a fraud.

[@stuckinthetimemachi1]

Hey, chill out, it's only great music and nostalgia, plus it happened 60 years ago! Go have your miserable drama, I'm going to have fun, along with the majority of people on here.

[@stuckinthetimemachi1]

Paying closer attention, Wishin' and Hopin' was chosen number 1 for the week, by the show's own poll, had nothing to do with the national charts. As good as the Beatles were, there were plenty of worthy artists, including Dusty Springfield, who deserved high praise.