The Shangri-Las on The Lloyd Thaxton Show (February 23, 1965)

[@classicmusicofyesteryear6709]

I'd love to find a copy without the blurred lines if anyone has one! I believe the blurred lines are an attempt to remove onscreen time codes and other watermarks.

[@glorygirlpunkrockkid7893]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmK8loOwoJdsg8U

[@dereks7745]

@GloryGirl PunkRockKid I believe they meant this video. Not a completely different one. I've seen the unblurred version a few times before. It's out there.

[@freyatilly]

Yes there are a few on YT. I've never aeen this one with blurred code numbers. Try a channel called scriptworker. He has 60s stuff.

[@dsgp7835]

Mary's passing has broke my heart. That voice of innocent soul, her adorable face and personality has had me under a spell for a long time. RIP Dear Mary, your voice lives on.

[@hillarykildepstein3196]

She didn't die at age 16 ya know!

[@dsgp7835]

@@hillarykildepstein3196 Are you insulting my heartfelt sentiment?

[@Ralphfan1]

Rest Peacefully Mary Weiss. You are a part of our music history and also our hearts.

[@john_from_eastcoast.]

❤ RIP Mary Weiss 🌹🌹🌹 1 19 2024

[@MatthewPoplawsk]

This is the first thing I've seen regarding Lloyd Thaxton IN MUCHO MUCHO MANY YEARS!! God bless your memory and God rest your soul Mary Weiss❤❤❤😢😢😢

[@richardherrera1736]

RIP Mary Weiss🌹1948-2024 🎙🎼🎸💐💗 Thanks for the memories 🙏🏼

[@lpnelson6584]

hard to believe she was only 16 in this clip!

[@DavidRomero-y6s]

The Lloyd Thaxton Show was one of the best dance shows ever produced. I used to watch it everyday it was on. Channel 13, Los Angeles. He had so many great groups on his show. And he was very funny, entertaining. Great seeing this short with the Shangri-Las. Mary was so damn cute. Her voice! Great rendition of the Isley Bros. classic, Shout. RIP Mary, you were truly awesome!

[@RetroMusicMan369]

Wow Lloyd Thaxton Haven’t thought of him in ages Watched him everyday Loved his finger singers 😄

[@princeee4417]

Mary is just adorable💖

[@nancysinatraswift]

Yesss

[@aaronweiser5421]

Yes, she.was cute and baby faced and shy here, almost like she leaned for a kiss from him right before the comercial break.

[@wa1ufo]

Absolutely!

[@David-h4z2s]

Such a cheeky cute face she had💗

[@Lorenzo1950]

I was thinking the very same thing. What a beauty. She had such an innocence while singing those wild songs. Just read that she died recently at age 75. So sad.

[@thelakeman5207]

Lloyd Thaxton, WOW! That name brings back memories!

[@jimmynew-man6882]

If "Shangri-la" is another word for "paradise", I pray sweet Mary, Mary Anne and Margie are there forever.💞

[@Johnnycdrums]

Sadly they are all gone now, except for Betty, I think.

[@Laurita7]

Mary is so cute!🤗Love this group so much!

[@stewartfenton7660]

Wow, I never realised how good they were on stage!

[@richardharris8867]

And Mary'e voice is outstanding!

[@carmenflorio3458]

Rest in Peace sweet Angel thank u for your Music

[@SusanNakahara]

Loved all their songs.Grew up with this music. Best music of the 60s girl groups.

[@markonline1662]

Mary was badass.. And, the twins were something else. And, I was just a tiny, long haired baby boy when they ruled...

[@josephmazzotta8813]

The twins died to soon🙏

[@raulpozos5090]

RIP Mary Weiss, she was so lovely

[@donmartin986]

Nothing like the Shangs! Love all of their singles and still have them! These girls were the real thing off of the streets of NYC.

[@lawrenceusher1902]

there seems to be this image of them as being tough girls. I am not sure that is the reality though

[@joannebeauchamp1169]

The Shanghai-Las were real fashion icons back in the mid 60’s! True! When they came along in 1964, they were the 1st girl group to wear PANTS on stage! Before them, all the others wore dresses. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@Ramblin-Man]

And already from 1964 they toured with James Brown (who - just like myself once - thought they were black...), The Iguanas (with a young Iggy Pop!) and The Sonics from Tacoma, WA (Kurt Cobain's favorite band, who made yet another comeback just before Covid put an end to allt that 4 years ago). And a young Billy Joel played the piano on their first hit, 'Remember (Walkin' in the Sand' in 1964, covered by Aerosmith in 1980 (on the 'A Night in the Ruts' LP, when they made a comeback after disco and punk killed the radio star 1975-79...). When they signed with Mercury, they actually toured in 1967/68 with another band from that label, Vanilla Fudge (who became a world famous heavy prog rock band that I saw in Copenhagen around in 2001...), which also was the begiinning of the end, and they had no more US hits. They were still popular in UK, and toured in England with The Animals. They never saw any money though, and just disappeared in 1968 (Mary Ann was already hooked on alcohol and drugs), with their name unregistered why another band appeared as The Shangri-Las in 1989, even singing their old hits... Youngest member and most often lead singer, beauty Mary Weiss, died on Friday, aged 75 (b. Dec. 28, 1948, thus being 11 months younger than the Ganser twins, who died in 1972 (Mary Anne, from drug abuse), and in 1996 (Marge/Margeruite, from breast cancer). Betty Weiss (also a redhead beauty who had a baby in 1964, and took a short break until 1965), is now the sole survivor, aged 77. J, Sweden (and Wikipedia...)🤔

[@Soapking1965]

Mary Anne Ganser died in 1970.

[@peppercat8718]

That's right, that's why they looked so cool LOL RIP to all 3 of these beauties 💔💔💔🌻.

[@defbt5]

They wore pants cause they were from NYC!

[@annahshoffner1871]

REST IN HEAVENLY PEACE 🙏🏽✝️🕊️☮️🎶🎤🏍️"Leader of the Pack" and "Remember Walking in the Sand" 🎶

[@pbamse]

MARY WEISS (1948 - 2024)

[@wa1ufo]

I just love her voice!

[@donaldshaw2627]

Unforgettably brilliant I don't know where they came from or how they existed but they were amazing they'll never be forgotten

[@GeneRogers-xl9um]

They were from Queens, NYC.

[@steveb1164]

They were discovered by songwriter & producer George Morton, known as Shadow Morton because of the way he would shadow in & out of a room.

[@patriciahunter-hw9cl]

@donaldshaw2627.. check out Walking in the Sand...

[@straycatttt2766]

3:22. Went to school together in Queens

[@JukeboxJoeB]

Give Him a Great Big Kiss & Shout by the Shangri-Las! 2 great records! 👍

[@aaronweiser5421]

Leader of the pack.

[@JukeboxJoeB]

@@aaronweiser5421 Yes, another great hit. But I was referring to the songs they performed in this show.

[@cynthiapickett7403]

RIP Mary Weiss.

[@monkmchorning]

If memory serves me, Lloyd was Hartford's local version of Dick Clark. We used to watch his teen dance show on the Hartford CBS affiliate.

[@zanti4132]

The show originated in 1961 as a local program out of KCOP in Los Angeles. Three years later, it went into national syndication and received high ratings for the next eight years. Your Hartford station must have one of the many, many stations that picked it up.

[@gidneyandcloyd]

I watched his show in Baltimore.

[@normanbommarito6029]

These girls are great.

[@stephenspencer4672]

When I was a kid in the 60s I had a paper route and one of my customers looked exactly like Lloyd Thaxton.😂

[@jamesewanchook2276]

FANTASTIC!

[@wetukman]

amazing there is a recording of this at all. good job

[@和彦名雪]

KZbinのおかげで、こんな貴重な映像見れて良かったです。中学生の頃から彼女達を知ってますが、映像見て、はじめて知ったこの娘達って感じです、10代の甲高い声が耳に刺さります❗最高です！

[@suit-espanola]

"Shout”のリードボーカル、実際は姉のエリザベスなんだけど、その姉がこのショーに出演できなかったので代わりにメアリーが口パクでやってるようですね。

[@steveb1164]

The Shangri-Las are the best girl group ever. They were so lucky to have sung the songs by Shadow (George) Morton, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwitch.

[@Ramblin-Man]

All female Filipino/American rock group Fanny (!) from Sacramento was the first ever to get an album deal with a major label circa 1971, and had a couple of hits in the early 70s, and also appeared on German TV (available here on YT), where one of the two Filipino sisters (a gay beauty, almost 80 and a big girl now, whereas her sister dated Gene Simmons of Kiss in 1974...) wore brand new, German Birkenstock sandals (Birkenstock had just opened an American division, and was introduced on Wall Street in October 2023).

[@ceeceetracey9839]

me my friends and cousin use to sing this in our basement. What a flashback. We were teenagers in the 80s and 90s singing this and some other classics. This one was so much fun. Great footage here too but the strip across their faces is ruining it.

[@66oldgold]

Exactly a year and a day before I was born. Wow I missed out!

[@vtm57]

RIP Mary Weiss❤

[@enzorossi1363]

RIP Mary 😢

[@josephmazzotta8813]

I would love to walk down with the street with these ladies.

[@davidbatteau-d3b]

I love the Shangri-Las!

[@joycemartin7516]

It’s 9/15/24 in Austin, Tx! Great singers and all their songs! Seniors were great in ‘68! I’m 75 and still rockin to the ‘60s🎶🥳

[@MarkMiller-i8q]

Brings back memories of 10th grade.

[@danielwriston1848]

Thank you for sharing this 😃

[@Thomas-em9du]

This was awesome 😊

[@paulsolon6229]

The brill building. 100s of hits

[@patrickcosgrove886]

Lloyd Thaxton was on channel 13 in Los Angeles.

[@darkwitnesslxx]

If anybody can find ANY video of them performimg Sophisticated Boom Boom, I'd pay big bucks for that.

[@zenbabaloo1931]

Miss Weiss in that "Wow, I really drive men crazy" phase and using it to devastating effect on Mr Thaxton.

[@princeee4417]

Woah 57 years

[@josephmazzotta8813]

I was in 2 grade when they sung this song.

[@aDogNamedHandsome]

Love the choreography. Sweet 16s.

[@electrolyticmaster8396]

Good old kine-scope. Thanks for posting

[@nancysinatraswift]

My favorite group🧡🧡

[@john_from_eastcoast.]

❤🌸🌷🌹 RIP Mary Weiss 🌺🌹🌹❤️ I loved you! 😢

[@drstevie]

WOW !!! :) brilliant.

[@David-h4z2s]

My Mum And Auntie Used Dance Around To This Group When They Were Girl's In The 60s

[@boybblue]

Rest in peace Mary Weiss, dear Miss Weiss

[@elmerpintar4693]

Lloyd Thaxton....the luckest dude on earth.

[@firsteerr]

soooooooooooooooooooo cool

[@MissPerriwinkle]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THEM.

[@paulreuben7343]

Mary Weiss' voice....

[@alfx5432]

She's a killer

[@和彦名雪]

僕の耳をくすぐる、ペパーミントボイス最高です。ティーシャツ持ってます。

[@laminage]

Sadly alot of Girl Group Icons are no longer with us from the 1960's. The Supremes, The Shirelles, Labelle, The Marvelettes, the Ronettes. Then Lisa Left Eye Lopes dies in 2002 in April and in November a New Girl Group is introduced to The Public called Girls Aloud in the UK and in 2021 Sarah Harding dies of Breast Cancer. Lloyd Thaxton also created Tiger Beat, and in her Book Rock Star, there was a group loosely based on them called Nellie & The Knockers.

[@larryalvarado981]

When the artists could sing live and have great choreography tells alot about a time when they had true talent and didn't have to be dirty or phsyco to get a hit!

[@stephanelord189]

Those blurry rectangles on the screen are ruining this video totally

[@classicmusicofyesteryear6709]

I know, but sadly it's the only copy available anywhere :(

[@stewartfenton7660]

Don't forget to say thanks to the person that posted it for you to see, Stephanie.

[@stewartfenton7660]

You should have tried watching the TV we had back then.

[@jamie-leetoppkaukau8245]

Babe. It's a video from the 60s, get the fuck over it. You people complain about the most miniscule shit

[@suit-espanola]

Lead vocalist, per song "Shout"- Betty (in spite of Mary later lip-synching the song on the Lloyd Thaxton show in February 1965 due to Betty's absence)

[@WilliamNast-v1g]

BLESS THEM ALL. THEY HAD A UNIQUE SOUND!!! SO CUTE.

[@gymshoe8862]

The twins! They were so damned cute when they screwed up their movements then laughed about it--they were excellent--just young girls making nation wide shows! Mary managed em--booked travel, hotels, everything.

[@VictorNapolitano-o7n]

I saw them at Murray the K in the early 60 's

[@tonylichacz6453]

Got any more clips like this one? Would like to see more.

[@alfx5432]

Man I just became a big fan. There not alot of videos. I hope more come up.

[@JoeFolgers]

The 60's

[@vendusa58]

It's Mary's vocals on "Shout."

[@Corporations8MyBaby]

Not this version... this is Elizabeth's (Betty's) take. They recorded it in their first year... late 63, early 64... but when you hear Mary do it live it's really close... a little less Alto... but very close.

[@Samstraysongs]

Super Hot Act, great hit songs, well deserved!

[@joycemartin7516]

It’s 9/15/24 in Austin, Tx! Great singers and all their songs! Seniors were great in ‘68! I’m 75 and still rockin to the ‘60s today🥳🎶

[@curtgottler9961]

Do you think they came up with these moves or did they have a choreographer?

[@alfx5432]

These are there own. ❤

[@johnstewart9166]

The Lloyd Thaxton Shows are the missing link in rock and roll history. Unfortunately the films are sitting on the shelves of the UCLA Film Archives, never to be enjoyed by the public again. Lloyd wanted to put some of the shows on DVD but he died before that happened and UCLA got the films.

[@brupic8968]

used to watch his show after school in the mid 60s. i'll be 72 april 9th....thinking those girls are probably about 80 now.....life is a blink

[@Mer1912]

Happy belated birthday. Unfortunately, I think the twins have passed away. But Mary Weiss, the main girl, is 73, and her sister is just a couple of years older.

[@brupic8968]

@@Mer1912 thanks. i googled after i posted. i was too lazy before. used to watch the show regularly. not sure i saw this particular one and, if i did, think it was as creepy than as i do now.

[@Mer1912]

@@brupic8968 Yeah the whole flirting bit was a little too much.

[@brupic8968]

@@Mer1912 he looks a lot younger than he did when i was 14-15.

[@brupic8968]

oops...just realized in my first response i typed 'than' instead of then. my editor seems to slip up more often these days.

[@patriciahunter-hw9cl]

Lloyd seems forgotten.. I knew bed his show! I remember this one...

[@blakemcnamara9105]

These interviews were always so awkward and uncomfortable with these old guys either doing flirting skits with young girls or just asking dumb questions to guys. You could tell how annoyed the twins were at his "leader of the pack" comment.

[@af635]

Mary was hitting on the host really hard wtf are you talking about...

[@tomjones7089]

Big influence on a lot of singers and bands. Very sorry concerning Mary....

[@GBR1111-x2t]

Good singing voice

[@KellysClassics]

Too bad about the embedded time code placed right over there faces....kinda makes it unwatchable...I've had many videos like that that I've never posted.That sucks😮‍💨...great music thou👍

[@davidreyes1913]

Where did you find this?

[@CarterUSM-o2u]

Rip Mary 😢🙏

[@kthorning4459]

How old was the lead singer when this was recorded?

[@stephenhowell5611]

Mary, in the video was 15 I think, but it is her sister Betty's voice, she was 17 I believe but took a hiatus from performing. RIP Mary.

[@rascal211]

She was 16, this is 1965.@@stephenhowell5611

[@Rollin_L]

Based on the posted date of the broadcast, Mary would have been less than two months past her 16th birthday. (December 28, 1948) But she was indeed 15 when they recorded that first album.

[@naifalruzog9135]

That’s what Richard Hobbs was watching after he had branded Sylvia’s stomach

[@Col92018]

Yep.he watched this show also after she died.

[@bigbern6366]

Any money says none of these girls has a tattoo!

[@clintonstahlman4618]

Shame they broke up when they did. There could have been many more beautiful songs!

[@straycatttt2766]

The Mercury Records label promoted Janis Ian and Vanilla Fudge rather than the Shangri-La’s. Sales dropped. The teenagers felt that the label was withholding royalties from them so they quit.

[@alfx5432]

I try to find all the information and videos I can about the Shangri-las. Charlie Chittenden did a spirit box session on Mary Weiss on you tube she got like 346 views I saw it I thought it was interesting. I hope her fans view it and give a like. It was disappointing to see others who were not as talented or unknown to me get over a thousand likes.

[@JukeboxJoeB]

I believe there was a girl who joined this group at some point in the 60's named Betty. Does anyone know what her full name was? And does anyone know if that happened to be the same Betty who was part of "The Shangri-Las" in the 80's and 90's who did the Dick Fox shows? I know that wasn't actually the same group, but I do think one of the members was named Betty.

[@mikelewis1436]

Betty Weiss was lead singer Mary Weiss's elder sister who sang lead vocal on one or two of their tracks and left the group early on...she briefly emerged frim seclusion in the early 90s when the Shangs tried to prevent an imposter group from using their name...

[@JukeboxJoeB]

@@mikelewis1436 Oh OK. Thanks for the additional information. I believe the lead singer of the imposter group you mentioned was actually named Betty. Or at least that was the name she was using. (I have an autographed photo from them, and I believe the name she signed was "Betty".) That's why I was confused. I thought that perhaps it was the same Betty. I thought maybe the original Betty from the Shangri-Las had broken away and started her own version of the group.

[@SSHitMan]

Betty was Mary's older sister and they were originally a foursome. Betty got pregnant, very taboo in those days for single girls so she left the group but returned later on but unfortunately their heyday was past by that point. But there's some videos of the group as a foursome again.

[@BigStar303]

You've already been put straight about Betty Weiss. I'd just like to say that I had the misfortune of seeing the bogus Shangri-las in the time frame you mentioned. The tickets to the show were provided to me free, otherwise I never would have gone. I knew they were phony, but went out of morbid curiosity. The lead singer had long blonde hair...longer than Mary's, in fact, but she was obviously going for that look. One of the other two "Shangri-las" was - wait for it - her mother! In the course of their show, they did exactly TWO Shangri-las songs; "Remember" and "Pack," as you might expect. Everything else was some other artist's song. I mean, really?? They sat in the lobby signing autographs after the show for the clueless patrons who came up and asked for them. I had to really restrain myself from approaching them and outing them. But I figured that wouldn't make me very popular with anyone present.

[@straycatttt2766]

I assume “Betty” in the imposter group was pretending her name was “Betty.” The real group sued the creator of the fake group.

[@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731]

were they in the Witness Protection Program?

[@curtgottler9961]

????

[@gidneyandcloyd]

😆

[@lincbond442]

Yeah, that's why they appeared on a popular TV show.

[@geetee4459]

So sad that so many of them died due to drugs

[@darkwitnesslxx]

Only one of the four. You make it sound worse than it is.

[@whiteplainsvisioncareinc2119]

The hottest girl group of all time

[@38yofrmut]

Where is Betty?

[@josephmazzotta8813]

Did he ever said iam sorry for hugging Mary Weiss

[@alfx5432]

Why

[@internationalicon]

When I was a kid watching these tv show lip sync performances, I always wondered where the music was coming from …

[@sparkystours]

lol with that Hat he looks like Soupy.......lol

[@metallitech]

4:07 Jimmy Saville moment? 🙃

[@alfx5432]

Looks like marry liked him.

[@pink_kino]

noticed everyone calling Mary Weiss pretty in the comments but me ima have to say the Gasner twins are very pretty:)

[@alfx5432]

They are. All the girls are gorgeous

[@pink_kino]

@@alfx5432 Sad everyone hating on the Marge and Mary Ann

[@mga2899]

Good Greaser Chick band.

[@RegnaSaturna]

I'm good bad but not evil too.

[@jameswoodend6029]

Not one of the greatest voices in rock and roll but Mary Weiss was also incredibly hot

[@AlexYounger]

She’s 17 Lloyd…

[@doowopsidoo1]

It makes me laugh when people say the spice girls are the best girl group ever when you have real talent and much better vocals and one of the best girl groups ever

[@Kristinapedia]

She was 16 here.. and Lloyd Thaxton was all over her... Gross that that was ok back then....

[@Grizzlied555]

She was all over him first.

[@lincbond442]

It looked like Mary was into him too.