Real 1950s Rock & Roll, Rockabilly dance from lindy hop !

Real 1950s Rock & Roll, Rockabilly dance teenage style !

[@zibbybadfo8418]

How can you not fall in love with someone while dancing like this

[@zulubeatz1]

They look so flippin cool as well

[@kiara.b945]

#soulmate🤭

[@nightwi1dernessbrianjohnso803]

How can you not end up in the hospital while dancing like this? it's from a movie, they're probably top notch professional Hollywood dancers, very few people in the world can do some of those dance moves!

[@icollectstuff-vinylcommuni7294]

Try and do this with ww2 boots

[@kyo1860]

@@nightwi1dernessbrianjohnso803 man is not that hard to dance like this... maybe some of those movement are, but the normal dance is just fun

[@mxtb1888]

I thought grandma needed the hip replacement because of old age but it was really because she was living life hard back in the day.

[@waynezahra9213]

Lol 😂

[@bogeythedog163]

😂

[@lothibx]

Wayne Zahra lmao

[@_sammie5397]

HAHAHAHAHAHA😂😂😂

[@kingcrown2285]

Lol 🤣 of course 😂😂😂😂

[@johnmullens2857]

When I was 12 I didnt even know my parents could dance.. Then one night in 1987 or so, at a birthday party, in the middle of the living room, they did EXACTLY THIS right in front of me!! My eyes POPPED out of my head!

[@penelope8969]

Did you ask them to teach you how to do the dance 💃🏽 🕺🏻?

[@johnmullens2857]

@@penelope8969 no, those kind of questions were useless. They werent the kind of parents whod "waste time" teaching their kids anyrhing. Alcohol was more important.. :(

[@2eleven48]

@@johnmullens2857 ....Aaah, mate. Thanks for sharing that. Robert, UK.

[@spacies8882]

which head u talking about?

[@johnmullens2857]

@@spacies8882 which head has eyes? Try again, funny boy

[@cherinoelke]

When you realize your parents were far cooler than you'll ever be!

[@cherinoelke]

@@grapefruit3581 I was taliking about the dancing, and just to let you know my 90 year old mother is a social and political, activist that has NEVER uttered a racial slur in her life. Her surpise 18th birthday party in Chicago in 49' had more black people than white and none of them were serving. You thinking everyone's a bigot is just as bad as all racist people thinking all nonwhites should be subserviant. You're a reverse fucking RACIST!

[@cherinoelke]

@@grapefruit3581 Again I was talking about the dancing, and my mother danced like that alone side and with black people in the 50's, southside was not segregated, my grandparents were live in servants yeah the help came in white too. I have never pretended to KNOW what it's like to look thrpugh a black persons eyes, but you don't own suffering. My mom was beaten by her biological father because she and my grandma weren't racist pieces of shit like he was. My grandma took my mom and left when she was 3, my grandma just turned 19. I'm in my 60's and I've been fighting all my life for basic human rights and equality. Hell I was tear gassed in Seattle over 40 nights in a row in the protests last summer. Thinking the worst of someone before you even know who they are is prejudice...and that ain't right.

[@dang2443]

Except those were obviously professional dancers

[@hazels.1199]

Cheri Noelke, ich bin 58 Jahre, mein Mann 64 Jahre und unsere Tochter ist 29 Jahre. Sie sagt das gleiche wie du! 😂👍‼️ Rock and Roll ist toll und wir tanzen jeden Tag. Ich arbeite im Krankenhaus und das Tanzen und Motorrad fahren sind mein Ausgleich. Bleib gesund ‼️

[@javaally1203]

I would say grand parents... my dad was a typical flower power boomer degenerate ... this video shows silent and GI generations dancing to Jump Blues

[@LuvFreedom70]

My dad is 83 and can still dance like this, minus the jumping lol. Use to love watching mom and dad dance.

[@Hi-ey5zt]

Lee Pratt aww that’s so cute

[@kirayamishi5590]

Lee Pratt I’d love to learn this ;-;

[@kirayamishi5590]

Lee Pratt does he give courses ? xD

[@graymajick5140]

I use to watch my folks dance like this until l got older & he taught me how, give me my knee brace & l will work it again (minus the jumping)

[@sallymiller1359]

God bless him, Lee

[@squishymeatloaf3085]

I want this type of dancing back.

[@jogmas12]

squishy meatloaf did they outlaw this kind of dancing??? Go out and dance like they are in this video. No one is stopping you. Stop your complaining!!!!

[@TheSeanoops]

Go to an Arthur Murray’s dance class.

[@marywebb9127]

@@jogmas12 PMS or are you always this hateful!

[@marywebb9127]

squishy meatloaf you can still dance like this at certain clubs. Do research in your area that teach the Jive, Jitter Bug and other dances of that sort.

[@jogmas12]

Mary Webb not hateful, just that people get to me about complaining about how things are now compared to how things were. Granted there are some things we can’t get back but certainly dancing and music are not one of those things!!!!!

[@raysnyder7512]

I was a teenager in the 50s and for us it was the Friday night dance at the VFW...cokes in 6 ounce bottles for a nickel and beer was only .69 cents a six pack a dime for a pack of Camels non filter. I'm old now but can still dance the shoes off ladies half my age. Rock til you die.

[@jonathanmoore7788]

Nice one. Good for you bud. Never stop!!!

[@johnnyenglish8376]

How old r u

[@raysnyder7512]

@@johnnyenglish8376 I am a proud 75 years old. I've been to war in Vietnam married and went on to college. I was married 32 years when my wife died. Life is interesting if you get involved. Glad I could give you some perspective on age. It's all a state of mind. And yes I use Viagra.

[@johnnyenglish8376]

Ray Snyder wow you must be great inspiration to lots of young children ty

[@raysnyder7512]

@@johnnyenglish8376 my motto is I may grow old but I refuse to grow up. Keep the inner child in your life and you'll forever be young at heart.

[@Fitzliputzli23]

Today this old footage simply expresses fun and youth - but back in the 50's it meant shock and horror to the prudish adults. Thanks for posting!

[@AS-og6sj]

And back then people were complaining about the music and dances just like people nowadays do! It's all a circle

[@kenkens9874]

50s rock and roll made the youth crazy.

[@vio3366]

@@AS-og6sj I agree, but no matter how you compare it, most music you hear these days have disgusting lyrics! I can't talk much about modern music in English as I only listen to old music in English but at least in Spanish I always have to hear my neighbours playing music with terrible lyrics. Not all songs are like that but the popular ones are surely awful to listen to.

[@groovywitch1955]

@@vio3366Agree,miss music like this🥰

[@debra1363]

Yeah,the prudish adults who had done the Charleston ,or later the Jitterbug or Lindy in their own youth!

[@chalk869]

I love the fact that they fall or almost fall to the ground but they play it off and continue smiling, not stop and run in embarrassment.

[@clovers10]

Lol, those aren’t accidents or missteps though, that’s part of the dance. You don’t get embarrassed from *not* making a mistake.

[@Helloknight]

Also you wouldn’t get harassed for not doing it right

[@Zack-bl2gg]

The point is, for that kind of dance, there’s no messing up as long as you keep moving. Flow is everything, if you have the flow, you can do all kinds of awkward movements, but inertia carries you onward and makes it work.

[@marcalm4013]

@@clovers10 I agree. I didn't see a single true mistake in the whole thing, considering the couples that were on the front and received a special focus by the camera. I'm amazed of how precise the movements are and the coordination of them all to avoid colliding with other dancers.

[@blindjustice8718]

@@Zack-bl2gg To further this point, the early rock was blues based. Because of the minor seventh (the "blue" note) a musician could play the wrong note, and as long as they followed it with a correct note from the scale in the key, it sounded right.

[@violinplayer101]

I wish more people still danced like this...I love it!!

[@wmlbrown]

They DO still dance like this. You can find Swing-Dance clubs and concerts many places. There are rock-a-billy bands and fans everywhere.

[@violinplayer101]

wmlbrown Yeah, I swing dance, and have been to a couple of swing dance places...Really, what I meant is that, back then, SO many people knew how to actually dance...There are some people who are still into swing dancing and those kinds of dances, but not as many as back then

[@820south3]

I wanna be there!

[@josedeleon3310]

violinplayer101

[@820south3]

***** What's your problem?

[@cc6546]

This looks so damn fun. I'd love to spend my evenings like this. And also it seems like a great way to keep fit too with how energetic it is lol

[@fxcomm24]

Get into Lindy Hop! It still exists!

[@tomasrivero6423]

Well notice fat people didnt exist back then

[@honeychildlor]

[@phoebthepancake]

The energy from 1:10 onwards was insane! I wish dances were still like this nowadays.

[@ellieb.5281]

Lindy hop still exists! I was at a dance last night with a live band and the energy was just like this!

[@robincorprew9007]

These people are someone's great grand parents lol.

[@robincorprew9007]

@Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart true and they will talk about me/ us too. 😊

[@CrystalRuizEnriquez]

@@robincorprew9007 the thing is, can they say something amazing about us?

[@robincorprew9007]

@@CrystalRuizEnriquez let pray they can

[@Kolob7000]

Most of them are 33-Year-old now. Forever. Trust me.

[@annm861]

Maybe not great grandparents yet but grandparents for sure. My nana was a teen in the 50s. I’m in my early 20s no children yet (only grandchild)

[@solreaver83]

if this is what it was like to go out these days id never be home

[@normanpadilla6240]

solreaver83 Exactly i dont consider myself a Parties person, Actually i dont party at all, i think if i were alive in that decade I would have Party like a Rock Star.

[@crus1n]

Modern Jive, Lindy hop, it's all out there NOW, EVERYWHERE, go find it buddy.

[@1racemate]

i did't

[@subscribes6434]

You do realize there swing dance and lindy hop venues right? Stop making the excuse "of if it were like this I would do X" they exist now go out there and have fun

[@fransdielis2532]

Believe me, i was a teener then Great times !!!

[@Mike-gz4xn]

2019 is impressed with you 1950

[@avarudy5306]

& 2020

[@gerryvanderzeypen1214]

YES..back then, no killings, no knife assaults, maybe the odd fist fights at the end of the night but nothing to talk about. More atmosphere in the bars, BANDS played live back then also. I'm in my 70's now but remember the BEST times of my life in the 60's and 70's. Good luck to the future generations with MORE fights and deaths and more deadly DRUGS out there.........what a wonderful world eh? (not for me anymore).. BUT LOVE YOU TUBE and all the OLDIES>...THANK YOU AND THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!

[@JulioTheGorilla]

@@gerryvanderzeypen1214 As much as I love the 50s and 60s life would be rather hard for a minority. I'm not a huge fan of this current day and age. But the 50s weren't easy for everyone.

[@dankonesovic8437]

2020 is impressed with 1950

[@faviolaortiz8831]

Dances, cars and fashion were the only things that were impressive in the 50s.

[@laurenw.8178]

my grandma is 73 and she remembers dancing like this with her brothers as a kid 🥰

[@youtuberate35741]

God bless and good health your grandma ❤️.

[@hemanthmehta1689]

Wow that must be a fun..

[@greg62945]

I hope I can make it happen again.

[@overcamehim]

Amazing how the girls could dance like that wearing tight straight skirts.

[@lettyguerra371]

And girdles. Not because they needed them.

[@rustinaginger9502]

I was thinking the same thing, they could MOVE in those tight straight skirts.

[@appletree8441]

And guys in suits

[@karenmcdonald4263]

They also give birth to humans, remember...

[@randomaf2848]

AAND HEELS

[@JP-1990]

It's Staurday night and I'm spending my evening alone on the internet watching how people used to spend their Saturday nights back when their was no internet. The future isn't what it used to be.

[@johnnybs7]

Thats a pretty profound comment to make my friend - unfortunately its also a very true one. Technology doesnt always mean that things get better. I think we've all lost something somewhere.....

[@gerrythrash6563]

***** It's all about the reality you create. I learned how to swing dance three years ago, and got good at it. Now, I'm going to Friday and Saturday night dances almost every week, and having a good time dancing my butt off. So the way I see it...you have a choice. You can sit around rolling your eyes, grumbling about how technology has ruined things...our you can get out there, learn something new, and live life.

[@tophtml1]

Gerry Thrash AMEN! You speak the truth! Bill Haley and The Comets was one of my favorites growing up in the '50s & '60s. There were so many of them and, oddly enough, ballroom dancing and swing were, often, taught in school. It's better to get out there and live the life you want rather than bark at cars as they pass you by.

[@sierria64]

Gerry Thrash um he singing lil Richard hope they paid my man

[@rosemarydiaz3362]

That's life babe, y it ain't what it used to be!!!

[@jayphive2468]

These days only cartoon characters dance like that

[@hazelchief-rabbit5903]

They actually still hold rockabilly comps to this day.

[@ItsNotRealLife]

Which ones? I didn't realise that cartoon chRACTERS COULD DANCE VERY WELL

[@carolirvine7663]

Swing dancing is really big and older people love it - It is a form of jitterbug and lindy hop - There are lots of groups that dance every Saturday night -This kind of dancing is alive and well for a while but I am not sure the younger generations will want to continue but I could be wrong -

[@7spiritualcompass706]

Isn't that a shame... They were celebrating life... WE are not.

[@samualcrocket1405]

@@7spiritualcompass706 That was before the drug culture. Didn't need much money to have fun either and if you didn't have money that was okay too. By the early 70s the natural glow started to leave peoples faces and "spacing out" became popular.

[@easydoesit1962]

I honestly don't know how many times I've watched this video, but every time I catch myself smiling. HOW FUN!

[@beckscharre7375]

This honestly had me smiling the whole time. I wish days were still like this. It just looks so much like a “simple life” and I’m here for it.

[@greg62945]

The good times are there to be had. I hope I can create this kind of mood.

[@furnicaticaloasa]

60% dancing 40% judo moves

[@mrjugil]

wtf man hahaha

[@sfa4657]

XD

[@michaelastarke7861]

Hast recht, schon Krass :D

[@BushidoEffect3]

+Gabe Asher And they became ghouls later. But at least they have the judo skills!

[@Ninjaslikelamas]

+Fortunata Pacheco but whatever. It looked like so much fun and everyone was enjoying themselves. :)

[@KosherEggo]

Wow I found it the guy with the glasses was my great grandpa he passed away last year at the age of 89 all I know was that he could still dance great at an old age except not like when he was younger lol

[@caroleyre9144]

Awe that’s lovely,you found him ❤️🦋

[@SeriouSXXFireworks]

Was that his wife he was dancing with?

[@KosherEggo]

No it was just a partner he was assigned by the producers

[@frankie-b-gud1343]

I think he was simply brilliant! I’ve noted him dancing in a few other films, too.

[@mohammadakhsan3312]

Isn't it so exciting to find great grandpa dancing that great? I hope you've got some of that dancing!

[@matjb]

Oh man…to think my grandparents were dancing like this in their 20’s and I’m sitting here in my 20’s watching this. Let’s bring it back please! This looks so fun.

[@progamer1o5]

This makes me smile. It's fun to see people dance like this. They look like they are so happy and that they don't need to drink just to have fun. I wish it were the same in these times too, but it's too rare.

[@particulasdecaos]

progamer1o5 I bet a lot of them where high or drunk

[@marywebb9127]

@@particulasdecaos really 🙄

[@katierasburn9571]

Lol you think they hadnt been drinking to let someone throw them around like that?? HAHA

[@RyanMadsen67]

Boy that’s what you call having fun in those days I was having a heart attack just looking at them

[@rippingale100]

Ryan G and didn't need drugs or alachol

[@marcoss6212]

Missed that era, shame, born in 59, but enjoyed another great dancing time, funky and later disco (without the cocaine), what happened, having fun waiting for saturday night all week, to me, just the dance floor and the back of my VW Bettle :).

[@JB-ox7ib]

Amazing. The little fella in the glasses and his partner were exceptional👌🌟👏💕

[@pabloramon9339]

siii Antiojito la rompe toda

[@iveniga38]

Yeah! Agree! Everybody danced great but he was omg amazing!

[@misshanyan]

Watching this video brings tears to my eyes. How happy and jovial they looked to the sound of the song. They were amazing dancers.

[@jamesr1703]

And none of those people bumped into each other dancing like that. Amazing!

[@theemptyone7650]

They did just once..1:58

[@francesquinn-escott744]

It's because they're professional dancers making a movie

[@ulkerallahyarova9835]

Anyway their dancing abilities are extraordinary nowadays there are not many talents being able to dance like them I suppose. May be I am mistaken but we don't see anything like these on TV except for performances half naked but it is not dancing show

[@dang2443]

@@francesquinn-escott744 yeah, no kidding! I was just about to write that. Do they honestly think the average person back then could dance that well?

[@shirljohn5900]

@@dang2443 Back then, a lot of the dances were in the high school gym. Yes, we danced like that and had a ball. It was all about muscle cars, cruising, going to the drive-in and to the dance on Friday night. It was a wonderful time to be young.

[@D-Dollie]

I wear skirts/dresses and people always ask me “how do you do that with a skirt/dress”. From now on, I will refer them to this video!! I just walk in my dress/skirt in all seasons. It’s nothing compared to THIS!

[@shawnmalone9711]

Go Dollie , go!

[@glorygracek.1841]

Same here!!! My family get that all the time. Once when I was younger some kids told me I couldn't climb up the tree with them because I had a dress on (the kids meant it to be mean, the where a bit of a bully) and I promptly climbed up that tree and faster then they did! Now I will admit to wear shorts underneath because I have always been the type to hang upside down from something when I was young so Mom had us wear them to stay a little ladylike (she was just like us when she was young), I have alwayhung out with the young children and they always seem to catch a skirt with there foot. My motto is better safe then embarrassed!

[@yeldnezzuproc3336]

When i watch them.i feel i want to dance like them..they look so happy dancing

[@cassiekay8633]

I sometimes think that if we just had more social dancing and much less social media everyone would be so much happier !

[@grampy12]

I grew up during this period. What is different from today. Among other things, we all went to church every sunday, we all respected our teachers, our parents and especially the police. Most of us kids never expected mom and dad to give us money for things, we tried to figure out how we could earn money to buy things. Was such as caddying, ,baby sitting, hauling groceries from the supermarket, shoveling snow for neighborgs or working part time somewhere. Most of the homes had a mother and a father, we ate dinner every night with the family, we did our homework, and spent our spare time at the playground playing basketball, or other games with our friends. Our fondest opposite sex dream was to kiss a certain girl, or maybe hold her hand. We respected our lady friends and were nervous when a special one smiled at us. We did not have any drugs, although some smoked cigarettes, these were the "bad" kids. Yes there was segregation to some extent, but whites and blacks did not hate each, many were friends, especially through sports. I grew up in Pennsylvania. Loved my mom and dad and my aunts and uncles and cousins and they loved me.

[@autumnshadow700]

grampy thirteen I wish I could grow up back then. I'm still a teen and when I look around my high school, it makes me sad and think what went wrong. I grew up listening to my parents music and I was raised a lot like the 1980s, so I can't complain to much. But I totally prefer the way things were back then. Now everyone lacks respect and kindness for each other I find.

[@pipesmoker4238]

Been there, done that. I am 64 and comparing today verses many years ago, I will pick many years ago. I understood what my father fought for during WWII. So did our neighbors. We were poor and did not have much but we did have a hot meal every night and 2 channels on TV to watch.....God Bless

[@symmetry08]

it is not exactly this generations fault but it is demographic or overpopulation issue that made people cold and insensitive to each other.

[@juanflores2882]

You`ve been blessed. Thanks God.

[@buddhahead27]

The police used to act more respectable

[@insonh21]

a lot of kids could use this type of exercise today

[@m.j.c.183]

You aint lying, but so may today are overweight they couldn't handle this type of dancing

[@ytn675]

Big,Ern MCCracken yeah

[@lorimorris8772]

Exactly

[@DivinityFallen]

a lot of 'kids' still dance this - i.e. me

[@lilli4900]

Swing dance is funny𗀂 There are some dance schools that teach it this days𗀉

[@silverbells4732]

I feel so melancholic watching this....its so surreal that there was such an era......soo nostalgic and just beyond words.....

[@janicemire3511]

It kinda makes me sad because they were the greatest times in my life.

[@ALFAJERKBFH]

I love the style. The moves. The energy.

[@vaneegupta]

Yes. Yes. Yes.

[@mathiasriff]

As I watch this, I am more and more convinced that I took the right music genre to listen to. Rock and Roll will never die.

[@anthonymannaerts6275]

I get tears in my eyes while watching this. This people had far more fun compared to my generation. I’m 30 years old, been to a lot of different kind off dancing clubs, never had that grade of fun as the people on the video. Most of the people at my age are staring at their phones in the club. I wish i was born during that era.

[@greg62945]

I need to speed my songs up and get the boogie going.

[@sarkaniemi]

Damn! Look at all these beautiful couples! They could really dance those days! The way they move is amazing! That's frankly impressive!

[@herrbrucvald6376]

Some of the coolest, most brilliant dancing I've ever seen. Wow!

[@reddymahender9618]

They are so naturally real and enjoyed their times... Something we have all been lost somewhere midway ...

[@anelisamorgan8590]

You aren't kidding! I use to take dance back in my teens and early 20's, did mostly ballroom but I had a friend who was very into swing dancing and got me into it too. This has a lot of swing dance in it; it's as fun as it looks but when you get hurt, it hurts! 😅

[@francesquinn-escott744]

They're actors This is a movie clip. Sheesh

[@theanimeluvr12345]

They move that quickly and that precise without breaking their smiles or pauses. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn! i wish i could do that! plus all those flips and stuff! yes please!

[@draco5991rep]

Look online for lindy hop dance lessons, I am quite sure you will find something relatively nearby

[@jojorobino5312]

Such energetic dancing like this isnt easy. Bill Haley and the Comets delivering one hell of a beat that also focused strongly on rhythm, he unlocked that formula to get people to move and you just can't sit still when Bill Haley plays.

[@TheTheater4life]

I could watch this dance for HOURS!!!

[@tomcline5631]

Can't believe they didn't recognize,Bill Hailey and the Comets in the description!!!COME ON!!!!

[@7spiritualcompass706]

I agree. Some acknowledgement would have been nice.

[@patriciajrs46]

This is when guys could dance! Ladies looked pretty.

[@corinnewoolley9822]

When men were men, girls were girls, just the two sexes, no one imagined that one day there would be 4 or is it 5 types of human...

[@apan8783]

Corinne Woolley transsexuality existed back then too, transvestites. Very underground and hidden though because it was dangerous . We should be happy that their lives aren’t in danger today, though in a lot of countries they still are beaten and killed.

[@missano3856]

@@corinnewoolley9822 4 or 5 types of human...all of them fat.

[@jamesl.g.4245]

@@apan8783 lies

[@marywebb9127]

@@corinnewoolley9822 Amen! People were not crying in their safe space when they don't get their own way!

[@E2_2020]

Can't help but notice those people look a lot happier then we all do these days😅

[@michael0155]

got to admit.. that takes skill

[@charliecoronado4657]

It sure does and it also takes alot of stamina... I took dance class in college and my instructors were oldschool and tried teaching the class how to dance like this. And booooyyy was this difficult and tiring

[@Polyglot_English]

And years of training...

[@johnhiram1207]

As good as it gets! That little guy with the black glasses is amazing and the girl also.

[@parmjr1]

I would like to thank the young audience, aged between 15 and 20, who somehow enjoys music and dances from the 50's and 60's. Congratulations, you have good taste!

[@greg62945]

Burning the calories. Hope I can create that mood someday.

[@parmjr1]

@@greg62945 Sure bro...rsrs cheers !

[@enza5787]

Now that what I call high energy dancing. Wish I could move like that.

[@surgemeister182]

Try to find a dance school where they teach Latin and ballroom dancing. I've don it for 4 years and it never fades. The basic steps of the Jive are easy to learn and fun to do.

[@andreea4691]

This video makes me so happy

[@faunnyc.7678]

Forget twerking, the lindy hop is the coolest dance ever!

[@91clarie]

Decades later we have twerking. Wtf went wrong.

[@andreapalacio1649]

***** lmfao no. This time period also had a lot of racism and where the kkk would go out and lynch innocent black people. Not everyone loved each other and it was not peaceful for shyt. Unless you mean peaceful and joyful for white males but other than that it was the worst time period. The music was great but not the majority of people.

[@appizano592]

+Andrea Palacio music was amazing it will never be like this ever again. Lyinching? Not every single person was lunching back then I'm. Not even sure when ur ended

[@jerryhenry6246]

+91clarie Parents are to blame for the decline

[@tommytruth7595]

+Jerry Henry And liberal politicians.

[@tommytruth7595]

+Andrea Palacio So now you can't walk down the street in many sections of our big cities without being attacked. Believe me, things were better back then and a lot safer.

[@ElizabethMunday]

Love this 1959 for the dance and music, bring back them vibes!!

[@iced5815]

The BEST thing I ever saw in my life

[@stevehazzard3120]

A little before my time (73), but great dancing with Bill Haley and His Comets. "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets is considered to be the first truly rock 'n roll song. Thanks for the video!

[@jeffersonwinfrey2219]

I'm black and I still wanna live in those times lol.

[@Smjfantasy]

I hear you, just for the dancing. Thanks Hairspray and Grease for introducing me.

[@thaliistjago5390]

same here!! You must see the faces of people when I say that I want to experience that time XD

[@Elgar337]

Living life on the edge!

[@BOWEASE1]

We were going strong with our families until welfare, drugs and single mothers/ fatherless homes. Oh what could have been.

[@smitprmr]

I am brown and i envy black people when they dance. I wish god gave us that flexibility. Hehe

[@HAMBURGER-s1l]

Love how they choreograph the dancing without bumping very hard into other dancers.....amazing!!!!! Thx

[@AFJ_]

Crazy to think we went from this to the cardi b dance

[@jmunnyrulz6175]

Luke Stuller 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sprucelee2025]

Fuck modern music

[@michaelgaynor6866]

@@sprucelee2025 ,you got that right!

[@jogmas12]

Luke Stuller so what’s stopping you from going back to dancing like this? This kind of dancing isn’t outlawed!!!

[@jogmas12]

Michael Gaynor am I right? What gets me is that people complain about today’s dancing when in reality they enact a law that prevents people from dancing like this. So what’s stopping you?

[@sarahholguin9794]

We should bring rock and roll dancing back Dance in this generation is stupid

[@MichaelFay63]

+sarah holguin I am old enough to remember 'jiving' and the problem was you needed to practice with a girl to get the moves right and if you picked a different girl you were often out of synch. In the Bill Hailley movie the star dancers were brother and sister. I think sport spoiled dancing,dancing was the only exercise boys and girls could do equally well. Dance halls were a big thing as youngster growing up in Britain. But drinking before the dance by boys lead to violence and security had to be upped and that lead to a decline. In those days there were plenty teenage pregnancies but if that happend then you married. Boys were married at 20 girls younger plenty jobs in the 50's. No fertility problems.

[@daliamasilionyte869]

+sarah holguin You should change the places that you're going to ;D There are lots of people dancing rock n roll or especially lindy hop. And we go to dance just for fun. In clubs/venues.

[@MichaelFay63]

Good to here a new generation is rocking. Keeps you sober and you don't need,'Lifts' as dancing in those magic fit years between 12 and 25 is truly fun. Thanks to Bill Hailley.

[@MichaelFay63]

All the boys dance and the girls. After your married none of the men dance. But all the women want to. I think women are more flirtaceous than men!

[@4ll3sb4n4n3]

+sarah holguin A-f'in-MEN

[@glendametivier6027]

I remember dancing the jitterbug and we were moving, had a ball of fun, none of us were on drugs or booze, we just danced & loved the music .Like Elvis said, you just have to move with the music.

[@ksol1460tv]

Believe me, there was booze. They just carefully concealed it. Pills too.

[@aleksynich3240]

Hello glenda how are you

[@JW-eu7br]

Now THAT'S Dancing!! And the music was GREAT! In case you didn't realise - I'm 78 years old!

[@franciscomtirado97]

Incredible timing and rhythm energy. All we have today is a two-step. Two steps to the left two steps to the right.

[@MrRockabilly70]

Great scene with some fantastic dancing. I have this movie on video somewhere in my collection. It's called "Don't Knock the Rock" from 1956. The people dancing here are professionals because it takes a lot of skill, good timing and stamina to dance like that. I used to be able to dance like that without the flips and the fancy maneuvers when I was younger but now nearing 50, forget it. The brain says go, go but the arthritis in the knees says sit down sucker you ain't going nowhere. Getting old sucks! Lol. Thank you for uploading this clip.

[@vaneegupta]

This is great :)

[@LorilMiller]

Tx for the heads up on this movie. I saw a movie called simply "Dance" on my old movie channel. Have been looking for it for years. So far, you've come close. So thanks again, I hope you're arthritis isn't too bad, I feel your pain, but let's keep dancing, just maybe slower.

[@L3SlLeYh]

this is so fucking cool I cant like what they all look like professional dancers

[@johnmarlog6933]

Lesley May not pro's just real cool Teds showing how to groove'my wife and I used to dance just like this

[@salimnorthwood9598]

john marlog Wow man, i can olny imagine how it was back then....

[@Megatoncaferadiostation]

+Salim Northwood It was just like a good ol' Fallout game... Old Jazz and Rock... And the fear of a nuke blast 24/7

[@RDArtist81]

+Lesley May With Bill Haley and the Comets playing this wasn't just some random sock hop. These dancers, while not pros, were selected to be part of the show because they could dance.

[@Homik111]

+HOW TO PUNK Yep because these are totally not professional dancers.

[@bryanlb4987]

This is what my parents living room looked like every weekend. I had an older brother and sister whose friends all were welcome at our house. I was only in my preteens but I loved watching them.

[@ktkat1949]

This is a dance craze that lasted from 1930s to late 1950s and early 1960s and then came the Twist which was such a huge craze. It sold records by the millions so everyone tried to start the next dance craze. Then came 'dirty dancing' and it kind of went down hill to what we have now which is no one dancing but some woman on the stage doing movements that would have got her arrested 40 years ago. It is rather sad because now young people can't even do a straight dance like a waltz for wedding dancing. This was when you went out to have FUN not get so drunk you were vomiting in the street or so stoned you couldn't remember what you did or 'hook up' with someone to ''scratch an itch' that left you soulless, lonely and with VD. I feel so sorry for young people today. They have so much stuff dumped on them. Parents who want them to make millions or parents who want them to be politicians or parents who want them to save the earth. No wonder they get drunk, stoned or whatever to escape from it all.

[@valentinguillet5690]

insert gif *thank you*

[@CodNeverEnds]

kate baxter I don't know about you but it seems to me you are describing a delinquent that comes from a somewhat broken home

[@guillo2420]

fabulosló

[@SoFkwHat80]

Dancing died for guys when the Twist came in . Separated boys and girls forever.

[@tomemeornottomeme1864]

Swing dancing was dead before the 60's hit; by then the dance crazes like the Madison had begun and then the Twist dominated everything. The Mashed Potato, the Swim, the Monkey - gradually dancing got more and more individual and a lot more crazed in a good way. Then the disco scene brought people back together and after a couple of decades that involved into grinding and such lmao

[@edwardlack9665]

It's amazing how they never crash into each other, whereas nowadays people are bound to collide with each other somehow

[@stanleytomlinson9530]

they did crash sometimes but dancing in those days was done at arms length if you know what i mean and it created space if you couldnt dance like the bill haley clip you needed to get some help it was dangerous believe me if you observe the aerials it was risky this kind of jiving meant dancing with your partner knowing were she was at all times not like on tv nowadays dancing 5 metres apart doing there own thing thats not jiving and im damm sure of that and if a couple were good we would stand back and empty the centre of the dance hall and give them floor space great entertainment when the beatles came on the sceen jiving almost dissappeard the 60s seem to slow down the music but im glad i didnt miss any of those magical years im 71 now and stil turn the clock back now and again --------------

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

1:57 on the left

[@trudykraft5110]

Today people/couples dancing do not care to look ( the guy is suppose to keep watch ) to make sure he and his partner do not hit or run into anyone around then. Self centered today. And today people would rather get angry and fight instead of saying their sorry in case they did class accidentally

[@lorimorris8772]

Edward Lack lol

[@nonkonform1st]

Yes. This one is directed. Set up.

[@AnInsideJob-mynewbook]

Now that's what I call dancing!!!

[@jeffhampson869]

bill haley very much underated the comets were the tightest combo in rock brilliant musicians

[@Evelin7977]

I wish i could lived in that time 👍🏻 those parties had probably more fun like today 😁

[@danarowe3969]

I was there twelve years old when the decade ended a different time better place

[@NihonloveFTail]

I want a time machine...

[@petermaxwell2965]

I've got an old one in my garage ya can have !

[@craycrayxd7280]

To all those saying you should bring this back....What is stopping you!?

[@theonestoridis4642]

If you see better,they wore different clothes and shoes...Pfr example today's bitches can't dance with those rediculus super high heels.Plus today's kids and the 2000s is already fucked up,raised with stupid modern dances like wiggling all over the place or grinding.Then you ask why can't we bring back rock & roll.

[@JohnnyAteMySon99]

+Theo Nestoridis not true... I was born in 2000 and I couldn't love the 40s,50s and 60s more! I also don't dress or act like the sluts that my generation unfortunately created....

[@ducky6623]

that doesn't explain why they can't learn, dumbo

[@marlenalinne7958]

CrayCrayXD. For one thing, good old-fashioned rock n roll is nearly impossible to find nowdays. About the only place you can find it is in the used record stores. Add to that the fact that they no longer have sock hops after the Friday night football or basketball game or teen canteens in the summer. And see those cute little ballerina flats the girls were wearing? They were must haves!! And one can never forget the dancefloor chaperones who made sure you didn't dance too close for too long during the slow songs. Granted, this isn't the way kids normally danced. Nobody did all that goofy junk like the guys pulling the girls between their legs or rolling them over their backs (for lack of better descriptions), but we could move our feet. So all you need is a record player, some good 45s and a place to do it and, voila!!, you're in business. As a footnote, this is Bill Haley and the Comets, who a lot of people my age consider to be the originator of rock n roll. When he recorded "Rock Arond the Clock" in 1954, we loved it!! We didn't know exactly what we were hearing, but we knew it was good. He was waaaaay ahead of his time and recorded some of the greatest rock n roll ever. He set the example and the standard.

[@sarahbrinkley2180]

Society

[@randyniemi4963]

Great music. Dancers show incredible skill and energy. And look how well the guys are dressed.

[@wdyyat2321]

I wasn't born but the music is AWESOME!! It sounds GOOD!! I definitely LOVE the way this generation dances.

[@benji.B-side]

Some outstanding moves there. The little guy in the glasses knows how to dance the best!!

[@patbreslin5793]

He has humour too and doesn't take himself too seriously.

[@Elyannia]

The godparents of my eldest sister danced like this, they were in their late 40's back then when my mom asked them to show the kids their "hidden" moves one afternoon, they looked at each other and winked. Mom moved the furniture and plants, dad put the music and once the tune played... wow, they were no longer a middle age couple but a pair of happy teenagers rocking our house. I cheered them all the way, then asked them to dance two more songs and try to dance too with our uncle, but I was too small and not acrobatic, my sister did it, then for the next months I had to be her dance partner 😅, then I had to be her Lambada partner, then her Cumbia partner 😅, and so on until she got her first boyfriend, I was off duty 😂.

[@gameuniverse_ua]

I WANNA LIVE IN THIS TIME!!!! I've watched "Last night in Soho" last night, and GOD I LOVE IT!!!!

[@LilChuunosuke]

Now *this* is dancing. I want to learn how to dance like this so badly. And I am not going to allow myself to mope around, complaining how badly I want to dance like this, I am actually going to learn how to! I don't think there is any form of dance more fun and exciting than the sock hop.

[@bruva207]

+Phantomhive This is very popular around dance studios... Tango is more common but you'll find this quite easily...

[@LilChuunosuke]

João Ribeiro Really? I have not taken the time to look around for local dance studios to see which forms of dance they teach (mainly because my parents won't let me take any extracurricular activities and instead force me to work in the family business). Glad to know it is easy to find, now when I finally am able to take the time to learn, I can actually find a proper instructor! Thanks for telling me that!

[@melaniegardiner1868]

+Phantomhive Shit, you wanna get out more!

[@LilChuunosuke]

Melanie Gardiner I really gotta get out more, I know. XD Other than school and work, I am only allowed to go out of the house every couple of months. Or, when you include going out to the store to get groceries or something, I go out 2 times per month or less (and again, that is only at the store, nowhere else).

[@borisesquilotromp89]

Total Trash Mammal so, how is it going?

[@JukeboxJoeB]

BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS! The TRUE Originators of Rock & Roll!

[@l.c.1704]

Would you beleive they had 2 versions of this song in the same year by Lil Richard and this group? Also both artist were in this movie, but this groups version was used in the movie. The things they use to do in the '50's was crazy!

[@branscombe_]

I watched this 30 times in a row. I need to find people like in my city

[@m1tch3llb]

JB_XYZ same!!

[@johnlafever3162]

Typically they have lessons you can take and dance afterwards.

[@savannahburgess5591]

bring back dancing like this fr. In high school dances nowadays people just stand around

[@zelmiracholevova184]

70 years ago. Healthy optimism, happiness, courage, joy. Without drugs.

[@basteagui]

actually they had drugs. but progressive values hadn't completely eroded conservative values then so. society still kind of had a moral backbone as opposed to now

[@wms72]

@@basteagui I was alive in those days. The only drug users in America were on skid row. Beatles hadn't yet degraded everything by makin drug use fashionable. Most Americans preferred God.

[@francesquinn-escott744]

Yes they had drugs; Alcohol and tobacco Cannibis or 'Mary Jane" Cocaine Heroin and morphine Were all used during the first half of the 20th century

[@M0butu]

@@francesquinn-escott744 Yes. Heroine, Cocaine and Opium are all at least ~150 years old.

[@ViolettaD1485]

Great exercise, too!

[@kwhardin]

why cant dancing of our current generation go back to this? this looks fun as hell! better than twerking or the douggie or some shit. and yes I'm only 24 saying this haha

[@creme8338]

dude i'm 14 and prefer this over every other dance style. just looks way more dynamic then what many people would call dancing today.

[@kwhardin]

The Goddamn Batman I know right?! Much more energetic, fun, and talented too!

[@musicfreak9762]

It looks really cool and so dynamic i guess today its all about looking cool (although i dont know how people can feel cool when they twerk...just looks weird)its not about looking cool when you dance its about having fun and it looks like their having a lot of it!

[@rosemaryguzman8575]

I agree and I'm 15 lol

[@Blacklilly22]

honestly I think a lot of the younger generations are pining for this. more than we think. I mean, despite alot of the social changes for the better it really feels as if something is missing. Men and women are *terrified* of one another despite our culture being more saturated with sex than ever. personally I think while there were HUGE flaws with the fifties we have shed alot of the benefits of time as well in the name of social, and economic justice. while murders are down, teenage suicides have gone way up! I don't know, perhaps I am ranting but that's sort of how I think of it... yeah the dancing was pretty jive too.

[@alhajbouchialgeria9826]

As if they lived at another dimension. That's Art folks.

[@snowflake2346]

Grandparents decade was awesome!!!❤ I'm jealous 😢

[@patapax7033]

1950s, when people weren't ashamed of having fun yet.

[@juanflores2882]

???

[@lorimorris8772]

Ya because there not 2018 scary cats!!!!!

[@Lameashellcosplay]

Except you were expected to supress your feelings and were made fun of if you liked shit like comic books...

[@LuluDumpling]

Patapax what are you on about!

[@jogmas12]

Patapax and what’s stopping you from dancing like this???

[@mrs.thomas-usmcwife5686]

They may have been small guys but they had to have some muscle to throw those girls around! Back when dance was really dancing and not just shaking your junk around!

[@digitalnomad9985]

And vice versa.

[@keptyeti]

Those guys were all 6'+. The women were just very big.

[@Adiiti.the.dreadfull]

Even those guys throw themselves without breaking women's hands.

[@rockluver84]

50s had some intense dance moves O__O

[@agusatmadja8064]

This is the best experience for me 👍👍👌all moving is really good 👍 👍👍💃💃🕺🕺

[@RealD8]

What's crazy is the elders/parents found this too provocative, "devils music" they called it, but looks so fun, I would love this today, these girls much more classy than today, and the fellas too, I would love to dress like these guys at the swing dance club and not be made fun of...This needs to come back!!!

[@jamesrosales1631]

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[@jamesrosales1631]

@Matrixnukum will do man!

[@Az-pe8jj]

Older generations are always like that. I really hope this way of thinking stops with gen z

[@AS-og6sj]

Just like you said those teenagers looked vulgar to their generation just like this generation considers people vulgar now

[@MCYTJHONY]

@@jamesrosales1631 glad to find another greaser

[@__xomary9312]

This was amazing

[@alyanabila8472]

I'm here because my teacher assigned my class questions about the dances and the music in the video. Though I'm not really a fan of old songs, the song was really good! And the dances were amazing. I didn't know they were so talented!

[@machinistmikethetinkerer4827]

Ooooh man. When I heard this music coming from the living room and the house started to shake I couldn't find a hole big enough to hide in. Cuz I knew my big sisters were coming to find me and bring me out to the living room floor and make me dance with them! 55 years later I'd give anything to go back to those days....

[@PauloOliveira-iw7dq]

The 50's. Incredible age with the rock appearance!

[@constantdarkfog49]

OMGod , talk about natural energy, these kid's really had it. Never seen dancing like this. Wow. So Cool

[@londonr6422]

Damn our grandparents wildin

[@Calliope634]

This what you call ecstasy!! Raises your vibration sky rocketing high let alone the physical benefits!! Life is supposed to be fun too, not just challenging. Doesn't cost much!

[@williamberkowitz9388]

When your realize your grandma and your grandpa were far stronger and faster than you'll ever be!!!