Flash Cadillac And The Continental Kids - At The Hop

From the movie, American Graffiti.
Rock and Roll will never die!

[@DevilDogDen1775]

This was filmed in the gym at Petaluma High School in Petaluma, CA. I was one of the guys dancing.... We did about 20 takes.... We were completely worn out at the end, but we all had a blast....

[@cheril8891]

Dave Hanson: Cool story.

[@alfonsomoreno3748]

Then you must be between 60s and 70s...Good memories man...congratulations being on one of the best movies...

[@whiskeyrun4996]

For those who don't no SAM [ FLASH] and spike,] keyboards have passed away and are greatly missed by all, RIP BOYS,

[@denedias9817]

queria ter sido você nesse baile

[@thea6903]

im from sweden love that movie seen it 50 times at leest

[@brianolson6366]

Without American graffiti there would be no Star Wars

[@jedimike1020]

My Grandpa was a teenager in the late 50s and early 60s. He says this is the most accurate depiction of teenage life during that time. Roadster racing, sock hops. It actually makes him cry

[@TS-ev1bl]

This movie was filmed only ten years after its setting (filmed in '72, set in '62), which to us back then seemed like such a long time but it really wasn't. Now it'd be like making a movie set in 2010. Big deal. I guess some things changed in those ten years but a lot of things didn't. Teens still cruised in the '70s just like in the movie, hung out at burger joints and along the "strip" trying to see and be seen, went to dances and roller skating rinks, etc. In the mid '70s the soundtrack from this movie was very popular for cruising (on 8 track), so even though I wasn't a teen until the '70s the songs from this movie remind me of my teen years. With no Internet and only one phone line in the house that we weren't allowed to "tie up", if we wanted to talk to our friends we had to physically go hang out with them, preferably where there was no adult supervision. In fact, things didn't really change that much for teens until the early '00's with the Internet, social media, and cell phones.

[@detroitrockcity3389]

Makes me cry an im in my 30s

[@robinrobyn1714]

My Mom was a teenager in the 1950s.

[@hmackie6823]

they took 32-34 FORDS and made HOT RODS

[@hmackie6823]

I swear if it had a set of wings it could fly

[@mikewhitworth2392]

Can we please oh please live like America did at this time in history? May I please go back in time? Pretty please? With a cherry on top?

[@mikewhitworth2392]

@@32southpaw76 yeah... I guess the '50's seem great, but knowing me, I would probably want to go back to the '20's if I was around in the '50's... I guess that's how we as humans roll... I guess right now has to be as good as we can make it.

[@davidjhitztaler-mrrocklight]

Great ❤

[@leslieldenning]

I lived in Boulder when these guys got started. We were laughing at them for playing that 'old' stuff. Guess they got the last laugh. LOL

[@schizoidboy]

Good music knows no age, people will always like it if it has kick.

[@leslieldenning]

When I married my husband, he was a huge fan of 50s and 60s rock and roll. He surprised me with tickets to a New Year's Eve show where they were playing in 1979, and it was the best New Year's Eve EVER!

[@leslieldenning]

When I married my husband, he was a huge fan of 50s and 60s rock and roll. He surprised me with tickets to a New Year's Eve show where they were playing in 1979, and it was the best New Year's Eve EVER!

[@bluesjammer1]

I also lived in Boulder but liked the Astronauts a little better at the time

[@BadRonald1]

What kind of music did they originally play ? They were on Happy Days also. 1975

[@filoescobar4926]

I was at the hop growing up. Currently I am 72. Great times. Whitharrerl Texas

[@jeffgandy2288]

I saw them in 73-74 at the Univ of South Carolina Colliseum. They opened for the Allman Brothers. Great music. Great concert.

[@choptopnubbins3005]

Great scene from an even greater movie

[@shoknifeman2mikado135]

Better than the original

[@2011littlejohn1]

Very authentic - you notice most of the dancers have serious faces - that is correct.

[@cato451]

Simpler times I miss

[@tuckerhoefer254]

Those days were really the days

[@cheril8891]

Loved these guys. They were my favorite 50's revival band. Liked them better than Sha Na Na.

[@joyhall6924]

Yes, they were better.

[@johnnie135]

I saw this movie when I was 13 years old with my dad and my sister. I've often wondered whatever happened to the girl at 1:01 who was kissing her date. For some reason, she left me with an indelible mark that has lasted within me for some 47 years on. Amazing how just 2 seconds of film was burned into my mind and is still there somehow. I hope she has had a great life and has had children and hopefully she is now a grandmother as well. Does anyone else have a story like mine?

[@amycrunch3812]

Kathleen Quinlan - she later appeared in a movie by Ronnie Howard, remember?

[@johnnie135]

@@amycrunch3812 NO WAY! That's her name? The girl getting a kiss????

[@jodysawatzki8647]

Any update on this? I just watched this with my buddies last night, and she left an impression on us too. We were curious as to who she was, and if she starred in any other films

[@johnnie135]

@@jodysawatzki8647 Isn't that remarkable? Just a one or two second clip of a girl with a mysterious smile that has left an indelible mark on some of us. Let's hope she has had an extraordinary life with her two seconds of fame.

[@jodysawatzki8647]

@Johnnie It is pretty incredible that a few frames of a girl who’s name is a mystery to us is that thought provoking. I too hope she got the most out of life.

[@grundid44]

This is by far the best version of this song I've seen here. Well sung harmonies, fabulous presence. Great presentation as well. Brings back memories of great bands like this when I was in high school. Much more musical and classier than Shanana.

[@porgy]

One of my favorite movies ever. Me and three of my friends from highschool saw this at the midnight owl show in St Louis back in 1973. We got off work from the restaurant we were working and rushed to the cinema. It was completely sold out except for 4 seats in the front row. It played there for over 50 weeks. What awesome night that was.

[@Chuck5653]

Went to High School with Sam McFadin - lead singer. Very nice guy.

[@mikewhitworth2392]

Can we please oh please live like America did at this time in history?

[@MrRacket991]

No. Sadly that America is gone forever.

[@hcirgew1]

I met Sam and the band in 1979 or 1980 in Colorado . Help them set up and they were all super guys. Very nice place in the mountains. RIP Sam . Also saw them in Champaign Illinois in the 90's they played with the Champaign County Orchestra and we had a lot of fun with them. Thanks for the memories.

[@Cinemagoer_64]

Is he the singer here?

[@enriquebriseno894]

I saw them in Disneyland ca back in the 70s they were awesome

[@gwolfe1231]

Great fade-in from the movie clip to the remainder of the song! Absolutely love it.

[@justgreg2690]

Never gets old

[@craigconley1872]

This is music!!!

[@paulhyland5956]

Still cannot beat Danny and the juniors- never will

[@davidignatiusbalestreri1737]

Seen these cats in 73-74 at Lake Forest College in Illinois. There cover of California Sun was fantastic. Built a human pyramid whiled they jammed. They are pretty restrained here.

[@tonyrossas5979]

It's very fun... The band playing a rock 'n' roll-boogie and some guys and girls dancing... twist! LOL!!!

[@WOODBINEXX]

great song great version great film

[@ottomatic3123]

I get goosebumps all over watching the kids swinging while this jam is jamming! Makes me want to mosh!

[@hmackie6823]

love the piano

[@dommirra5429]

Love it!!! Went to high school in the 70s & we always had 50's greaser dances back then & this song really takes me back to my school days just great memories with American Graffiti movie & Happy Days etc. What a great time...I really miss those days...This is my favorite version of At The Hop👍🎸🎤

[@detroitrockcity3389]

God id give anything to be there

[@TheSpookyDuke]

0:13 the drummer though 😆

[@crooning4leftovers125]

These dudes were highly entertaining LIVE !!!🎶 🎸🧋🎶

[@MrRacket991]

Yes. I used to see them at Knott's Berry Farm at the John Wayne Theater.

[@8avexp]

They pushed the tempo; it's faster than the original Danny and the Juniors version. But still a great performance. According to Cindy Williams, that entire sock hop sequence was filmed in one day. I was in high school when this movie came out; I was just a kid in '62.

[@ronaldt491]

Remember them guesting on Happy Days and performing Young Blood and just found it on YT!

[@hmackie6823]

this song is driven by the piano

[@theartfuldodger935]

0:16 - world class editing.

[@amycrunch3812]

Why?

[@93qketq8]

They did this song well. I saw the movie in the theater.

[@douglasbrasher2134]

thanks for posting full version of the song !!!!!!!!! :>)

[@bluesjammer1]

Every bit as good as sha na na

[@cheril8891]

Bill Hyder: I always thought these guys were better but Sha Na Na got more attention.

[@Buzzramjet]

Damned shame the band was not seen for all their performances. Oh well.

[@nickaadams6296]

I want steves 58 impala so bad

[@ronaldt491]

Our family car in 57/58 was the Bel-Air version w 348c.i. which was handed down to me a few years later as a 15 year old.

[@tomodonovan5931]

And on the other side of the pond, a little known band were playing at the Cavern, and ready to introduce their bug music to the whole wide world!!

[@dm19609721]

Amazing movie and it's the only DVD movie I own!!!!!!!!!!

[@kurtb8474]

It looked some of these boys didn't want to get their hair cut for the movie. I was a long-haired boy in the 70s and I think the only reason I would get a hair cut would be to be in this movie. My older brother had a chance to be in a 50s-era movie back then, but he wouldn't get the hair cut.

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

Actually there were fair number of guys in the 'greaser' era who grew their hair long but slicked it back including Jerry Lee Lewis...there's a great picture of him leaping off of his piano with his hair suspended above his head like a big blonde flame...

[@lilorbielilorbie2496]

I saw these guys at Knott's Berry Farm in the old John Wayne Theatre. Seems like a lifetime ago.

[@princederomulus6280]

Le bon temps ...

[@KentAndersson-db4il]

best movie EVER

[@hasehershfeldhershfeld9004]

🐰🎸🇺🇸🎤☮️🐰01-08-2020wed *ROCK N ROLL* 🎶🎇♥️

[@ivan4087]

Neo rock n roll. that what this style called (many people forgets that)

[@tonjahilton4899]

Knew them well in Hollywood.....Wow👍

[@thespeedymatt2018]

I hear this song being played at Knott's Berry Farm at the Boardwalk area and on the loading station on Xcelerator

[@hmackie6823]

I love this shit,I swear I heard this song while in my mother's womb. ::my smiley face is broke

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1975 {March 15th} Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids performed "Good Times Rock and Roll" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'... At the time the song was at #72 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, the week before it had peaked at #41 {for 1 week} and it spent eight weeks on the Top 100 chart... Besides the above, the Boulder, Colorado sextet had two other Top 100 records, "Dancin' (On A Saturday Night)" {#93 in 1974} and "Did You Boogie" {with Wolfman Jack, # 29 in 1976}... They appeared as Herby and the Heartbeats in the 1973 movie 'American Graffiti' and performed a covered version Danny and the Juniors' "At The Hop", and exactly seventeen years earlier on March 15th, 1957 the original version was at #29 on the Top 100, eleven weeks earlier it had peak at #1 {for 7 weeks}...

[@Glidescube]

This song was only 15 years old when it came out.

[@johnprince5000]

Live on brothers 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@antoniomanni4582]

Ho fatto parte di quegli anni...❤

[@ezequielgomez7083]

That music is awesome by celebrate 50th Anniversary of American Graffiti this year

[@tonjahilton4899]

I knew them in Hollywood,My friend David Day moved in with them in the Big Hollywood house.

[@jamesalcock5840]

It looks too 1950's for 1962. They would be doing the Twist in that year.

[@RemiRoland]

MAFIA II

[@istvanweber9089]

Igazi Rockandroll! Nagyon jóóó!!!Köszi a feltöltést!

[@remymcdonnell-courtney1420]

When ever i watch this it always looks like the lead singer gets annoyed at his two band mates for starting the "Ba" part...just watch it at 0:07 and the lead singers face,alway thought that from the first time seeing the film

[@kuriaki71]

Good eye, never caught that.

[@MeMeDaVinci]

Great for Tamalpais High in Mill Valley!!! Where the sock hop dancing scenes was really filmed, everything else filmed elsewhere.

[@MeMeDaVinci]

Warren Knight, the bass player, confirmed it as Tamalpais High. He should know, that's where the contract said to show up on August 1, 1972.

[@X-Prime123]

Lol, that one girl lights up when she gets kissed. I don't think she saw that coming.

[@kenniebur284]

Actually it was filmed at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley.

[@kaib4605]

Thankyou !! Your absolutely right ! 4 of my friends were in the Gym Dancing To " At The Hop " All from Terra Linda High School Interesting info Flash & His Band Payed little for their songs in the movie cuz it was Lucas & Low Budget after THX1138 BUT Flash struck gold when he played the cover CCRs Suzie Q in the Blockbuster Apocalypse Now It was a cool version 👌🤩

[@hmackie6823]

so is a guitar...the way I play it :)

[@billschaefer8158]

they should have watched tapes of American Bandstand to really see how to dance to this song.

[@ltcajh]

The blonde with the frizzy hair, and one other couple could really move.

[@TS-ev1bl]

@@ltcajh Yeah, I always suspected they brought in a few ringers to put in with the local teen extras.

[@susikoir]

Vitun kova !!

[@igorsiqueira6567]

Lets go to at Hop

[@laminage]

Try as they might they were just a Poor Man's Version of Sha Na Na. So much History in this Song. It was originally called "Do The Bop" but Dick Clark of American Bandstand convinced them to change The Title, and the rest is History. It was also during that time that One Hit Wonders very common they sang it on American Bandstand during an Outside Location. Also, Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids appeared on Happy Days and sang "Youngblood" originally done by The Coasters written by The Late Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller and they showed how "White" Artists covered Black Artists Music to sell it to a wider audience. Were it not for American Graffiti and The "Original" Broadway production of Grease Happy Days may not have had a second chance. In The UK alot of Boy Bands/Girl Groups "Cover" songs originally done by US Artists and the Children don't know who did the Original but The US Songwriters make "Bank" off of them.

[@maria1223m]

ポニーテールにサーキュラスカートで公園で踊った16才のあの頃……

[@MisterE80]

500th like

[@JP5466]

~aka~ Johnny Fish and the Fins!

[@EvilSkeptic]

A Danny And The Juniors cover.

[@raillease1452]

Saw these guys in 1979 in Portland, OR. They rocked. But I don't think they were as good as Sha Na Na, if only because SNN had more guys and did more choreography as they sang. But both groups brought back great memories of an earlier, simpler time. Rock and roll is here to stay!!! In fact, after many remakes, Sha Na Na is still performing with a couple of the original players from the late 60's in their college days.

[@hmackie6823]

the piano is a string and percussion instrument

[@scottytoohotty7380]

Kathleen Quinlan was so yummy back then.

[@janreznak881]

Must have been an awful time to be alive....no internet, no iphones, no netflix, no rap music, no political correctness, no...diversity....just low crime, respectful people, harmonious communities, and a clear future. Terrible!

[@GrtSatan]

Yeah right. We need to bring back systemic racism and vote suppression. MAGA!

[@screamingtima1318]

GrtSatan Whatever! Was the best time to be alive!!!

[@bluesjammer1]

@@GrtSatan And u are happy with what we have today?

[@ottomatic3123]

And don't forget pussy with hair on it. Not like this metro-sexual aversion to pubic hair and pseudo pedophilia desire nowadays.

[@ottomatic3123]

@@GrtSatan Twas a great time to be white!

[@mws755]

Girls with long hair from 1973 hahahaha I see one girl at least wore a wig that's 50's to early 60's style hair lol

[@commanderstraker1082]

Movie was set in 1962.

[@ltcajh]

Wigs were very popular in the 70s.

[@TheLAKERSareGodsTeam]

Jenna

[@d.e.b.b5788]

For those looking for the original, Danny & the Juniors, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJmYqWt5qaemo6s

[@billcollins2798]

Great cover, but boys' hair, in general, wasn't that long back then. Practically all the boys in this scene need a haircut.

[@scottabelli3406]

This was REAL music---wow--rap is crap

[@poochillipickles8525]

My mans George Lucas directed this film

[@amycrunch3812]

He conceived it, he shepherded it, he cowrote it - and, yes, he directed it.

[@TS-ev1bl]

The story was a semi autobiographical composite of himself and kids he knew while growing up in early '60s Modesto, CA. The characters Curt Henderson, John Milner, and Toad all represent Lucas at various stages of his adolescence.

[@poochillipickles8525]

@@TS-ev1bl interesting I never knew that hood to know

[@rustykoehler2789]

And yet Danny and the jrs is still better.

[@rustykoehler2789]

This is a miss.