Banana Splits - Wait Til Tomorrow (1969)

[@macuna1995]

I seriously wished The Banana Splits lasted longer, it could've been as big as Scooby-Doo. But obscurity is still cool.

[@clarencscoats3634]

Me too, even though the splits lasted 2 seasons on NBC, I believe Scooby Doo beat it out in the ratings. Another Hanna Barbera show .( Was Hanna-Barbera winning or losing?)

[@batcaveloner1383]

Banana Splits is a gem, musically too!!!

[@miked4377]

@@macuna1995 obscurity is the coolest!!

[@davidfiddleman2312]

Love this song! How could a kids TV show get an ending tune of this melancholy beauty?

[@jeffreythames4307]

By not dumbing down to the demographic.

[@batcaveloner1383]

The 60’s was an interesting time bro…

[@davidfiddleman2312]

@@batcaveloner1383 no doubt! I was born in the middle of it…

[@batcaveloner1383]

Lotta amazing music like the first punk band The Missing Links.!!!

[@Long-HairedLuigi]

@@batcaveloner1383That was Micky Dolenz! 😊

[@daryl060761]

Saturday morning TV in the 60's was the best. We were so lucky. Cartoons that just made you want to run around the neighbourhood with Monkees, Archies and Banana Splits songs in your head all day. :)

[@tdickensheets]

I miss old 60's cartoons! They don't make good cartoons anymore.

[@Shirase_Kobuchizawa_no1_fan]

To be honest, I didn’t live at that time, but my shows is from the 60’s, The banana splits being the best one and other one is The original top cat from 1961, it feels sad that those cartoons and other type of kid shows back then is gone, one of the bigger reasons I wish I could live at that time and wish time travel will come in the future.

[@roneastman4457]

Great video and times. Thanks for the memories. Now we have thugs storming the capitol Jan 6

[@Cleansed_One]

@@tdickensheets they made a horror movie

[@LannieLord]

Um, the Covid lock downs affected more people and caused MORE damage to our wills. And our children. @@roneastman4457

[@brunster64]

Remember watching this as a child in the 70s in the UK wishing I could visit the places I saw - all seemed so exotic 😃

[@johnpastore7685]

San Francisco CA

[@edwardkearney7581]

I’m 55 this year. We’re fucked up with lockdown. I remember this as a child and it’s just perfect. What a brilliant wonderful gorgeous song. Don’t want to go down the “things were better back then” route that all generations say but bloody hell right now I bet our youngsters would trade this nightmare for a piece of that magnificence

[@yourfavoritefrostedd1ldo]

as a teen, true that 🥲

[@LannieLord]

I remember when the planned "virus" attack was on the way here . I was driving in my car on the way to do shopping and Strawberry Alarm clock's "Insense and Peppermints" played on the oldies station on my iPod. I started to cry as to "how far we have fallen". @@yourfavoritefrostedd1ldo

[@LannieLord]

I'm 59 .

[@Long-HairedLuigi]

I'm a year older than U, a San Fran native, & I say the exact same thing all the time. It really was this wonderful back then...😢

[@professionaltaxevader4638]

Growing up in the 2000/2010s was great, even with the crisis. The only thing that ruined it was social media becoming as big and as manipulative as it did and is.

[@miked4377]

i love the banana splits.......what a great era this was.....1969....totaly different world than todays garbage...

[@suebetts]

I love this song. I’ve been singing it since 1969. Thanks for posting.

[@7DARKHELLS]

Love this awesome song. I remember I was at a parade with my family when I was little and the Banana Splits were there shaking hands with the crowd ..and that darn hairy elephant came walking toward us and my little cousin screamed like a bansee and she shattered every ear drum for miles. The guy in the elephant costume got scared and ran the other way and slipped and fell on the ground , and I remember falling on the ground laughing hard myself. Thanks for the memories.

[@Eltamir]

Probably why Snorky had a hair cut & makeover for the next season.

[@maryexstroughtonaire4244]

Im 61 and love this song! I remember this from channel 11 and 7.

[@stachuhello]

I am stunned by this! I swear to God, I havent heard this since I was 6 in 1970. I never really forgot it and this is the first time in 40 years I heard it again..Nice song..great show

[@CoalMiningPolak]

Wonderful footage of a long-gone time! It's funny how bubble-gummy tracks from a children's show eclipse anything on the pop charts these days. I tell that it's Joey Levine doing backing vocals on this track!

[@guymowbray3713]

Living in England - I long for a time machine to take me back to 1960s America in San Francisco. Such a beautiful place and serious musicianship. Beats the pap we get today.

[@Syntox]

Lord, the songs they used to play on this show were AMAZING...

[@QueenSnowPea]

I remember I loved that song and I was around 12 at the time. I lived in Rhode Island at the time. I wish I could just jump in the screen and go back to 1969 and be 12 again with the innocence I had but with the wisdom I have now.

[@Bt.60]

This record has not aged it still brings a lump to my throat

[@Ben4810]

Just amazing how much groove & real musicianship went into these songs (for what was 'only' a Saturday morning kids tv series)....nearly 50 years later & this still sounds a giant of a song....beautiful stuff...!

[@larryellisreed280]

Come to think of it ... could you imagine such as a staple of FM stereo back when "easy listening" dominated? And Another Thing: I could imagine a video for a remix of this number being done on Broadway in Wisconsin Dells, including such crossing Broadway at River Road, plying the fudge shops and all that....

[@deborahwhittington4397]

Wish I could find the whole tape.it's my favorite song

[@robertmasina7388]

@Ben. This would have been worthy of an AM top 40 song on the radio.

[@kenderen3736]

Loved this show when i was a kid. Always liked the songs. Good times back then. It was all harmless fun.

[@ncc1313]

This has been an underrated song, and a great harpsichord intro.

[@teletubetodd]

This was the absolute best Banana Splits song, and the shots of San Francisco, particularly the majestic Coit Tower, are marvelous. This was San Fran at its finest (not long after Hitchcock's "Vertigo" was filmed there), before the Transamerica Tower took over the skyline and the city got prohibitively expensive. Thanks for posting!

[@tinydancer62]

I waa born and raised in San Francisco, a few blocks from Fisherman's Wharf, Coit Tower and the crooked street (Lombard) I was 6 years old when this video was filmed practically in my own backyard and didn't even know it, and I watched the Banana Splits all the time.

[@frankdenardo8684]

​@tinydancer6949 Very interesting to see what San Francisco looked like back in the day. I saw Alioto's 8 and sadly the restaurant is closed.

[@lincbond442]

Words can barely begin to describe how great this video and song are on so many levels. Like another poster said, this "filler" song is so much better than any kids show song today! Cruising the Golden Gate Bridge in a 1968 Impala convertible? It just doesn't get any better than that!!! An innocent and positive song in the face of all the chaos of Vietnam.

[@jerseyoldschool]

Beautiful video shot on a beautiful day in 1969! Those cars alone make this video a winner. And the fact it was shot in living color is a bonus! The '60s and the '80s were the two best decades!! Takes me back to the good ole days! Just seven years old back then -- thinking about Saturday mornings past...funny how time flies!

[@frankdenardo8684]

San Francisco circa 1968. They got the Chevrolet Impala convertible from the Stevens from Bewitched.

[@deborahwhittington4397]

Wait till tomorrow. Best song they ever did.

[@tonylilley6611]

I love this, takes me back to my childhood.....

[@charlesrlassiter]

Ohh, such a beautiful moment to be and understand. The ever so lovely "Wait Until Tomorrow" with the Banana Splits joyfully frolicking through the streets (and streetcars) of San Francisco. The song really hits me when the lover in the song knows that his love won't be cared for needed though he wants to wait 'Till Tomorrow" for what he hopes will happen will never be again. Thank you for sharing this special song and video. It is way too much. So special!

[@depaola63]

I’m almost 59 and through my era and youthful eyes in 1969 ❤️🤩 this has now become a beautiful dream to me, these memories are absolutely wonderful 😘

[@LannieLord]

Yes, hard to imagine it - it was like a hazy dream now. I'm 60.

[@depaola63]

@@LannieLord ✨✨📺❤️🎉 Absolutely 💯

[@AmazingG07]

It's so good to hear this again - even at the ripe old age of 45, I still sneak at peek or two at The Banana Splits every Saturday morning on Boomerang!

[@clarencecoats6498]

Hey,why not? For me, if it wasnt this it would be archie, and the cattanooga cats! (Their musical numbers anyway!)

[@digitalramyun]

As with quite a few commenters here, this was one of the songs on the "Banana Splits" TV show that really stuck in my mind, after I saw it as a youngster in England in the early-80s. "Wait Til Tomorrow" was my favourite, and still is - it was written by Mark Barkan ("Pretty Flamingo") and Ritchie Adams, who sings lead on this song. Sadly, Adams passed away on 6 March 2017, aged 78.

[@GrizrazRex]

Thanks for posting. I remembered this song from long ago, and knew that someone would have it here. Yes, it may be a "filler," but it blows away most of today's sonic manipulation that passes for music.

[@MrKaywyn]

Exceptionally beautiful song.

[@fernandocarrazzoni]

"How 60s you want this song to sound?" "Yes."

[@saucy3101]

Heaven. Oh to re live the childhood of yesterday. How lucky we were. We now can only live them through you tube and our dreams. Thank God for you tube. To all Banana Splits and their fans everywhere happiness always. xxxxxxxxx

[@edwardkearney7581]

Watched this in the 70s in the UK. This song sends me back to wonderful times as a child. A fantastic song that should be known as a wonder chart hit

[@PlatinumDragonProductions999]

This song in particular, drove me as a musician, just as much as the Mamma and the Pappas, Three Dog Night, Neil DIamond, and the classics of the era, so I will forever hold it in the pantheon... thank you for posting it so I don't have to scramble around searching for it. :-)

[@craigd426]

what can I say? Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this video. The Banana Splits were a part of my childhood and to see this video and also knowing people that have played in costumes before and looking at how they react has made me tear up. We had so much fun back then. To grow up in that period was brilliant. Thank you, Banana Splits. You made us happy

[@robertvelez8485]

Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork are the Banana Splits! This clip bring back so many memories of 1969 specifically watching the San Francisco skyline with the majestic Golden Gate Bridge! Can someone released the whole Banana Splits series on dvd please!

[@freedomspreads9683]

Robert Velez unfortunately a good amount of their shows got burned up in the 2008 universal fire, some of the episodes along with other shows and movies are forever lost to time and the flames of that fire 😞

[@frankdenardo8684]

@@freedomspreads9683 😥bummer

[@pfordsq]

"Those damn Hippies are getting stranger looking all the time !" Thank you for posting.

[@7DARKHELLS]

I had the wind up Hippee toys myself.

[@pfordsq]

cool.

[@Long-HairedLuigi]

pfordsq That was priceless! ;D

[@yasmineharris6483]

Language please

[@lukcgepwr70]

That brings back memories of my childhood. I was 7 in 1969 and remember this song like it was yesterday. Thanks for sharing...man I'm getting old! LOL!

[@loboboy5113]

I enjoyed that so much! Thank You! I really was a kid growing up in Philadelphia, PA and I used to come home to watch the Banana Splits.... Thank you for sharing!

[@DeeTomm]

My favorite Banana Splits song!

[@Teri_Berk]

This morning I've popped into this tune and just wanted to check its release year with no intention of watching the clip at all. But just to check what they've done in the clip I've clicked it and WOW it's hilarious. I'm amazed at their spontanous dancings, picture quality, singing, everything.

[@jessicaquintin7812]

❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉❤😂❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😊

[@WDH59510]

Whoever you are pmanis09, you are a star, thanks for uploading this ! I was 9 and living in Britain when the Splits were on Saturday morning TV and this song stood out. A great show and quality bubblegum pop to go with it. Thanks again.

[@jenniferellis3621]

Love this song these guys rock

[@ruben-zo7hk]

I will always love this song,

[@MrStereo10]

I remember in the 1980s being in a record store. I was flipping through albums and someone was auditioning singles. I had no idea this song had been released as a 45-let alone on an LP. The clerk put it on and I went nuts! I had to have it. I scared the customer away-I wanted it so badly. :)

[@mistofoles]

Who was the actual artist credited on the record?

[@larryellisreed280]

"The Banana Splits"--what else?

[@mistofoles]

Yeah, but the actors weren't the actual vocalists....what is the identity of the guy/band who's singing?

[@DCinchi]

@@mistofoles If you haven't found them already, look at the Wiki.

[@manuelarturog]

Oh my, San Francisco in the late 60s, what a sight!

[@rarebutgreat]

They dont make music or kids programmes like this anymore. Thanks for posting my favourite BS's track

[@neillewis9133]

I find this song amazingly sad. It reminds me of Orwell's description of the coral paperweight in 1984. A sliver of time, bright and colourful, forever preserved in imperishable crystal, to be wondered at in these dark, drab times. I watch it and wonder whatever happened, and whatever will happen.

[@anthonylowder6687]

9n of my favorite songs from the show!!

[@petercamilo4624]

I remember this song from the Sunday Morning lineup on channel 11 in NY. Thx for posting this. Cherished Memories 😢

[@MrMoggyman]

Hey, its the Splickers......great memories of my childhood and the fantastic music. I loved The Banana Splits as a kid......and I still do. They were and are still the best. Wait Til Tomorrow? Superb! As was Barry White's Doin' The Banana Splits Show. Where has this quality gone? Thanks for putting this one up Cicero. My goodness what memories you have rekindled. This is a part of my childhood I will never forget.

[@LincolnshireLass63]

From watching this video and loving this excellent song, I finally realised a life-long ambition to drive over the Golden Gate Bridge in the sun in a convertible - well worth the wait!

[@myfriendgoo2816]

Ted Turner's channel 17 in Atlanta used to show this show in afternoons for a time in the early 70s. This song made the biggest impression on me of all the Banana Splits songs at the impressionable age of 8 (when I could memorize something catchy after just one exposure to it!). Though I think there were multiple versions of the video and the one I saw was a "Six Flags" one. Anyway, 14 years later it was quite a thrill to find the Decca 45 at a record show in 1985 and recover the "lost" song. No Internet then and no outlets showing the show to record on VHS, so it was a big deal to me at the time...I finally get to hear it again at age 23. Now you can just punch it up on KZbin. I'm not letting go of the 45, though.

[@kainnosgoth7336]

I used to watch this on Saturday morning when I was a little guy back in 1970 at the age of 6. While this is San Francisco, the actual show was filed at Six Flags Amusement Park in Texas. Also, a young Jan Michael Vincent played in the mini live action series Danger Island ( I THINK that was the name of the miniseries).

[@larryellisreed280]

And at the "old" Coney Island in Cincinnati, which Taft Broadcasting had just acquired. And would close in 1971 to make way for Kings Island in Kings Mills, some 25 miles northeast via I-71.

[@fdasazevedo]

I watched TBS In Brazilian television on Saturday mornings too. My daddy, my mom, my brothers, great and sweet memories. I miss it so much.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Actually the park still exists but it's an exclusively a water park now.

[@gergehimon2177]

I'm six going on fifty seven. Still loving past times of being with mom. Don't judge me. She's the closest of all human beings to you ,and I miss her , great to go there imagination is heavenly.😇

[@1979cl1]

Good quality film, thanks for uploading it, it brings back the good old Bubblegum years of the late 60s and early 70's!!

[@PlatinumDragonProductions999]

One of my all time favorite songs! I used to play this record ad infinitum as an elementary schooler... :-D

[@yaraaltro]

FINALLY, MY FAVORITE SONG!

[@Rodxyou]

I love that sweet slow psychedelic song from the last 60's. From my childhood to today, i still remember & love this song (TIMELESS).

[@JFBridge]

...They are actually on DVD now;the first series is available from Warner Home Video.

[@bryanpalmer9660]

Love the song and the video

[@jamess8566]

I've seen a few different versions on KZbin but I think this is my favorite one. I don't know why, but it reminds me of Seattle in the mid 70's.

[@PajamaManFan]

When I was sad and disappointed about The Banana Splits did not come to MeTV for last time! That's too bad, The Banana Splits and Friends Show hasn't been arrived to DVD yet!

[@mihailbaldani5972]

The Magic show,It's beautiful.Fabulous years .Magic Verry Verry .Michael from Brazil.

[@loboboy5113]

Wow.... That made me realize what it was like to be a kid.... Thanks for sharing!

[@norellpolk]

Sept 7 1968.is when this came out.great song

[@sampson1959]

love this!precurser to the music video.wonderful days back when i was young.

[@shelleyganz9095]

LUV This Number, Soo MUCH!!..., Soo Much, A Real FAVE!! Dark/But, very touching!! The Real Thing....Please to enjoy, Happy Ending...😟😟😟

[@freddiebarber4662]

I remember this was on Cartoon Network back in 1994.

[@bartolomeestebanmurillo4459]

No matter the era, these shows represented a more innocent time for kids.

[@Yugi40]

LOVE that song!! Wish they use that song in Disney world! Reminds me of Saturday mornings where I met Mickey.

[@noizyneighbour5790]

American cars just had so much style compared to what we had here in the UK. I love the '50s shapes the most but even the '60s and early '70s shapes are just amazing. Favourites : 1958 Edsel, 1958 Plymouth, 1959 Chevrolet Impala.

[@ralphlaureano2468]

It was a beautiful song then, and still is all these years later, thank you for posting this video, seeing them cross the golden gate Bridge in a 1968 impala, doesn't get any better ten that

[@ObiTrev]

The Harpsicord makes it.

[@ralphlaureano2468]

Thank you for posting this video mr Cicero, you brought big some wonderful memories from my childhood

[@David-f1y2u]

You're not the only one I when I was young I used to watch it all the time

[@paisleybabee]

How I miss the days of Saturday morning 70's fun!

[@christophers.8553]

Since it's 1968-69 in San Francisco, nobody in the crowd seem to even notice them. I saw one driver react. Love the scenes of the city. That's back before California was ruined.

[@RejaneHinkle]

Thanks for the memories!

[@TheVarietyChannel2008]

This is my favorite song The Banana Splits ever made

[@donovansullivan5130]

I always did love this song. Way before my time, though.

[@catcookie6726]

Thank you for posting this. This really takes me back :)

[@frankd1965]

I wasborn and raised there. Watching this brings back memories.

[@joncorso6103]

Thanks for this. Just found myself humming this song and had to look it up. I loved the Splits when I was young. Snorky was always my favourite, but man, he sure lost the costume lottery. Everyone else is so mobile and he can just barely waddle.

[@picark]

Allan Melvin whom played the role as ''Sam the Butcher'' in the Brady Bunch , played the role as ''Drooper'' the lion.

[@allanscot1]

This is my all time favourite kids show from when I was growing up in the late 60s/early 70s. I have the dvd of the first series and it is still great, apart from the 'Danger Island' part which is pretty naff and poorly acted. The rest though - brilliant! And the music is great too, as this wonderful clip proves. The San Francisco tourist board should've employed em, coz this Brit would love to go there!

[@MrOmgfreak]

omg look at how young the world was compared to this covid shit now!! i miss my mom everyday and i have a fond memory of being 6yrs old sitting on my moms lap watching this on a black and white tv back in 1974

[@mariaisabelaranguiz2295]

Que bellos recuerdos, grande Bananas!!!! My Love!!!!

[@crastersolocraster]

tienen una pelicula de miedo si la quieres ver...

[@rjmcallister1888]

That's a triple oooch! Without a doubt their best record; have the Decca 45, in mono, with "We're the Banana Splits" on the other side. It's a bit worn, but this song still gets across, from the teen years till now. Unfortunately, tomorrow never came.

[@deborahwhittington4397]

Can that album be found now. Wait till tomorrow was the best.

[@robertvelez9557]

@@deborahwhittington4397 - Wait till tomorrow is the 2nd best song of the Banana Splits! The first and best song ever of the Banana Splits is called Doin the Banana Splits y'all written by none other than the Maestro himself Barry White!

[@1979cl1]

Ah yes watching this brings back my good old childhood days, 1969 was such a great time and year for the bubble gum era and best summer closing the 60s. Cicero thanks for ulpoading this video, I enjoyed it alot!!

[@christopherphillips8027]

I remember this very well watching this kid back in the 70s. Loved me some Banana Splits and this song is a classic from this show. Take me back to the 70s before we became so politically correct.

[@dang2443]

Back when you could say the N-word and "faggot" in public? Is that what you long for?

[@rjun67]

Love it..well done mate!..it takes me back ..but what kids these days would think of it makes my mind boggle!! ha ha!!

[@hartsford59]

What a Great Song..revisit the Sixties Music ., I was 10 years old at the end of this Year 1969..Did The Banana Splits put together an Album..Thank You for posting this.

[@paulinekimpton2158]

Just watching this on the Banana Splits dvd :)

[@sacheverelle]

One year after I was born. I feel old.

[@fgldnglbs]

Funny, Drooper with tears of graditude at the end: "You're too kind, too kind!"

[@pmanis09]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ultragor]

It hurts so bad, that I'll never meet these guys. My childhood heroes.

[@Amanda-hy3fp]

Wow brings back some early memories

[@reubensane5539]

I wish I could go back in time ,I would give up all of todays amenities and Technologies to live in those days .

[@marvinbundy2501]

This song brings back lovely childhood Times

[@jlovebirch]

By far the best pop song on the series -- one that could have stood on its own. This was released as a single in 1968 and the Banana Splits LP. There was also a surprisingly good funk song by Barry White ("Doin' the Banana Split") performed with the Sour Grapes girls dancing Tina Turner-style. The other songs were a mixed bag with crazy psychedelic graphics. Nice that Boomerang is rerunning this show. Was into Danger Island as a kid.

[@3kevat]

Ritchie Adams and Tony Powers according to my sources, they also wrote the 'Tra la la' theme I think. Hope this helps.