SO FUN!| FIRST TIME HEARING The Dovells - Bristol Stomp REACTION

[@daynagillham7393]

My mother who's 75 when asked if she remembered this group she was blown away and said good Lord u just took me back decades but thanks for the memories

[@kathyrizzi8754]

I’m the same age as your mom. Oh yes she does remember & probably danced to it! 👍👏👏👏♥️🌹

[@daynagillham7393]

Yes ma'am she did

[@genataylor460]

@@kathyrizzi8754 I'm 76, remember it like yesterday.

[@decafjnr]

@@genataylor460 I'm 77 and yes it does! Such fun going to local dances!!!!

[@surlechapeau]

Jay & Amber, you'll love their other big hit "You Can't Sit Down" !!! Len Barry on lead vocals for Bristol Stomp. He had a solo career and a hit with "1-2-3" !!

[@cindysimpson1046]

Yes for the suggestion! ❤

[@timoteo950]

This is the best version or link to this song. Hopefully they choose this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5OyeYeMlp5gbKs

[@greglegakis4177]

Yes, the quintessential Musical Chairs song for kids(or adults).

[@greglegakis4177]

Hmm? I always thoughts the Dovells were black. Learn something new every day

[@maryellenazack4466]

Classic tune 👌

[@williamkolp4577]

I'm from Bristol and remember Dick Clark and this song was at every school dance

[@Ser_Arthur_Dayne]

I'm from Trenton and this song was on the radio in my parents cars all the time growing up in the 80s... Everyone loves this song lol. Even the people in the video's audience are vibing lol.

[@Alewifes_Husband]

I'm from Delco (Broomall) and I remember hearing this all over WFIL in the 60s 🙂

[@denisepaul7274]

Greetings from Bristol, PA! “It started in Bristol at a DJ hop.”

[@darren6202]

Greetings from Bristol UK

[@daveyhouston]

I had no idea??

[@debibailey2968]

Funny you mention Chubby Checker, that was him that introduced The Dovells! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@johnsilva9139]

Whoa! Should have noticed that. Thanks for pointing that out.

[@georgewallerlll496]

I was going to say that!

[@oldiesgeek454]

I did a little research, and this Dovell's performance is from the Movie: Don't Knock The Twist from 1962.

[@charlover]

The Dovells hit "You Can't Sit Down" is the bomb.

[@raymoles]

The Bristol Stomp was a dance banging your heels in time with your dance moves. If you were in a dance hall in Philly. When everybody got up to do the stomp it sounded like thunder.

[@warbaby5490]

i walked by a gym one night and heard the older kids inside dancing. It was thunder, but all in rhythm! .

[@Reyne-fb7mj]

This type of singing is doo wop, originating in East Coast urban areas. Excellent harmonies.

[@maryellenazack4466]

My neighbor has doo wop playing outside several hours/day 🎵🎶🎵🎶

[@maryanngarrimone1153]

Awesome memories! I'm 75 years young and remember us dancing to this song at our Friday matinee dances. I have this song on a vinyl record album. ❤❤❤

[@roadhog4582]

You should see my 82 yr old dad dance to this!!!

[@toots19]

Lead singer is Len Barry, who had a hit with 1 2 3

[@bert_towle]

...and that was far better than this!

[@57doodoo]

I really like his version of the song "Somewhere", from the musical "West Side Story".

[@jbrown081001]

It's so easy like takin candy from a baby..then some "There is a Place" and "Stay" in my corner by the Dells. hey everybody I'm Archie bell and the drells from Houston Texas and we can dance just as well as we sing we gotta song called the tighten up

[@rwschumm]

@@jbrown081001 Yes, J&Amber Reacted to 'Tighten Up' about 6mo ago. :)

[@sepi6053]

Yep, we danced in the living room, because there was only one TV for the family and American Bandstand was aired every weekday. Of course, there were "sock hops" on Fridays and the occasional "red light" basement parties on Saturdays. Loved the era of doo wop; rock and roll; and all that followed. Ended up working at Motown Records in the 60s and 70s. Love you both for always respecting and giving props to those of us who preceded. Thank you both for enjoying and sharing our memories! -- Best regards, SeLina

[@arthurburkhart3710]

Kathie says…Please Please Please Play “1 2 3” sung by LEN BARRY, the Lead Singer from the Donell’s. Another great song sung by Len Barry is LIKE A BABY ❤️

[@pjmurphy920]

Yes, 1-2-3 by Len Barry is a great song and would love to hear their reaction. It was my and my boyfriend's song in 1966. Didn't know he was with The Dovells.

[@user-eh8zq1vi4e]

OMG MY TEEN YEARS I'm so excited. Smiling ear to ear. My twin sister is visiting and we are just laughing our heads off because our older siblings went Crazy for this and it was sooooo crazy. We used to laugh at them over this song. We are so sorry but we were those little sisters that laughed at our big sisters so hard because of some of their musical tastes. However, we are bopping across the floor right now and laughing our assets off. So much fun. Need to call our big sissies and remind them. LOL Canadian Grandma Lori. C.

[@yvonnemendez3075]

Yes here in California we did the Bristol Stimp🎉❤

[@christianmattison6096]

No flip flops, baggy pants, t-shirts or ball caps ! just sheer class and elegance. Did you see the girls in the crowd, so poised and classy? All with a hot band swinging to good basic rock N roll! Can't beat it!

[@joemc1960]

Everybody who went to St Tim’s dances in Philly back in the ‘70s know this song. This was one of the few fast songs that got the boys up dancing.

[@kathleenoneill9218]

I used to watch the kids dance to this on American Bandstand. ETA: "In the old days" DJ's from radio stations would host "hops" where they'd play records at gymnasiums or local halls. My dad was part of a group of DJ's who sponsored them.

[@pjmurphy920]

What a fun time and memory for you!!

[@willdwyer6782]

They went on tour with Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars in 1963. Their Dallas performance on November 22 was cancelled due to the JFK assassination. Nine months later, their song Watusi With Lucy was on the record player when Steve McQueen danced with the President's daughter at a fundraiser.

[@davidcohen4536]

Remember this song played on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. You wanted the latest dance step, American Bandstand brought it to you👍👊

[@edogg9704]

Hello friends from South Dakota, I'm new here

[@LillyMarz777]

Hello from your cornhusker neighbor.

[@barrymuller5131]

Sioux Falls says hello

[@BobGeogeo]

Bristol is a suburb of Philadelphia.

[@williamdavis7629]

Never realized that, thanks!

[@marcushart3360]

But I live in the original 1000 year old Bristol in England 😂

[@kimstockwell721]

@@marcushart3360 Me too.

[@paulstudley7170]

@@marcushart3360 BBBBBRRRRIIIIIISTOL!

[@BobGeogeo]

@@marcushart3360 I'm in New England (US, Connecticut) so of course a Bristol is nearby. About half of US states have a Bristol, says Wiki.

[@melissaford717]

Thank you very much for this song, you two!! This song is one of many of my parents' and relatives' music right here when they were teenagers in Philadelphia. And yes, the Dovells are from Philly, and the kids in Bristol, PA, were doing the dance The Stomp. This was on the Cameo-Parkway label. Another great one by these guys is Do the New Continental, which is featured in the original film Hairspray (1988) by John Waters.

[@gbh0031]

We have a wall mural in Bristol, PA honoring The Bristol Stomp.

[@michaelwhelan2376]

Love you guys!! Bristol is about 20 minutes from me. I live in NE Philly! Check out some of the early American Bandstand performances---they were all filmed in Philly from 1952 to 1963! What a time for music. Cheers!

[@sandralorenz1796]

We had the best music to dance to....way back when.

[@kenjordan5750]

Don't forget to stomp your feet 3 times for each syllable of Bris-tol-Stomp. Had tons of fun in Jr High dancing to this one!

[@littlecatfeet9064]

Gonna do that!

[@johncagnettajr344]

This is late 50s. Even though it was released in 61 it was pure 50s vibe.

[@jangle4246]

Around the time I was just starting college, I often heard "The Bristol Stomp" on the radio of my '62 Pontiac.

[@rwschumm]

Chubbie Checker on the Introduction! Real Oldie Memories! Another '50s early '60s Hit I'd suggest You Guys React to is The Flamingos 'I Only Have Eyes for You'. Great Reaction! :)

[@joshsmith302]

Amber and Jordan you may like to hear The Surfaris (Wipeout)1963 it's a classic. Keep up with the good work 😎👍

[@TonyM1961]

I just researched and found out that this is the original and The Ventures was a cover. I thought it was the other way around since I was a kid (62 now). Never too old to learn

[@RonSafreed]

The drumbeat of that song Wipeout was popular for years after the song came out!! Kids in school would pound that drumbeat on desk tops or table tops everywhere!!

[@janesandrahernandez5081]

Shirley Ellis The Nitty Gritty.Check out the video

[@ericarachel55]

love this, all over the radio back then, my sisters would blast this and dance

[@luckyskittles5007]

The stomp, the pony and the South Street became the basis of all of our teen dances back in the 60s

[@anthonymussari8783]

The group was from the Overbrook section of Philadelphia. If you watch the guy on the far right of the group you'll see him stomping. This was a huge dance record in Philadelphia, And the Stomp was an extremely popular dance.

[@oldiesgeek454]

I wonder if Overbrook High's Wilt Chamberlain ever danced the Bristol Stomp? 😊

[@dicedice-yc5vn]

Jay & Amber this is NOT soda-shop-pop as you called it this is Philly doo-wop dance rock at it's finest.

[@avidrdr5640]

Dick Clark's "American Bandstand", which was a must see tv show every afternoon after school in the 50's and 60's, was produced in Philadelphia. Almost every rock and roll musician and band performed there at one time or another. Philly was actually THE rock and roll mecca for years. Most of the dances we did back then originated on that show.

[@pjmurphy920]

In St. Louis, American Bandstand was only on on Saturdays around noon. After school, in the 60s, we watched Lloyd Thaxton or Hullabaloo. There was one other one that I can't remember the name of. Fun times and great music!!

[@oldiesgeek454]

Could it be "Shindig" you're trying to remember?

[@pjmurphy920]

@@oldiesgeek454 Yes, Shindig is it! Thank you! ;-)

[@oldiesgeek454]

@@pjmurphy920 👍😊

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

Love the Dovells, love the Bristol Stomp, love the video and I love especially that they are introduced by none other than Chubby Checker!

[@helgar791]

Not only am I old enough to have seen The Dovells in person do this song, I also saw Len Barry, who sang the lead for The Dovells, live in person doing his big solo hit, "1-2-3". The best of days man.

[@mamaasaiz]

Always loved this one... I believe the lead singer (Len Barry) went on to act in a wonderful movie called, "Mr. Holland's Opus"

[@andymageen5308]

This track was hugely influential on early British rock. Classic Doo Wop. ✌️

[@pjmurphy920]

What a fun song! I had older sisters and the radio was on duringmy whole childhood. This song has a huge doo-wop influence. It was written and performed in 1961 and, of course, the '50s were largely doo-wop. Thanks, Amber and Jay!! Always enjoy your reactions. Best music--the 50s, 60s, and 70s!

[@SusanJohnston]

Gotta move with this song!

[@cindyerick2968]

I remember dancing to that song. I was probably around 5 or 6. I never knew who sang it though. I find out so many different things from your show. I have even learned that I’ve been singing the wrong words for 50+ years. Your channel is so informative. Thank you for all you do.

[@rosek2967]

Great choice!! Please also check out another of their songs "You Can't Sit Down." I'm 75 and I still dance to both of these songs!! "Really somethin' when the joint is jumpin'!" And, Jay, it was the soda shop or malt shop, not soda pop shop. 😁♥

[@user-zk4vi5hw6x]

I am a teen of the 60's being born in '48. Dancing we did with Dave Clark. Never missed his show. Learn all the new ones there first. As for going to dances'. Went to rich school so we had live bands at our school dances. As for parties in homes they were not dance parties but makeout ones. In a basement lights almost none parents upstairs happy that we were not making a lot of noise. Stake a dz 45's on the record player and just.... Ya it was a record player not a stereo unless the party was at Joes. His family had a lot of money.

[@pjmurphy920]

I didn't grow up in a rich area but we had live bands at the Catholic school dances, too. They played the popular songs of the time--mid-60's. Bob Kuban would play at splash parties or dances in the summer at local parks on the tennis courts!! Great times!!

[@stevenblock9712]

This hit is from 1961 and continues to be a popular oldie wherever oldies are played. In 1962 the Four Seasons started their string of hits that lasted for about fifteen years or so with Sherry and Big Girls Don't Cry. You would really enjoy them.

[@paulthompson4545]

Yes, they need to back to The Four Seasons, from New Jersey!

[@Gloren50]

If you like this, and i do, check out Gary US Bonds, Quarter to Three.

[@rayezzo8889]

This really brings back memories. I feel so old! Great reaction

[@maajorkv]

Lead singer is Len Barry. He did a big Hit "One, Two, Three" in 1965. It's as easy as taking candy from a baby! :-)

[@MPeckins1]

i can hear my sister singing this and dancing all over her bedroom floor including the bed when she heard this song on the radio. Go Carol! she's 75 and i'm 72.

[@dwhite849]

street corner harmonies love it

[@surlechapeau]

for street corner harmonies, there was some in the movie 'American Hot Wax'!! Movie about the DJ who introduced and popularized rock and roll!!

[@alejandrobojorquez6181]

G.B. & The Tracks - " Chicken Stomp "(Instrumental)🎸🎶 🎹 70s GROOVIN' Old School JAMS No poultry sounds JUST Great Music all the way thru.

[@josephmilitello647]

I'm just now hearing a resemblance between this song and "We Go Together" at the end of Grease. All the songs in Grease contain at least some reference to one or more songs from this era

[@YouKnowWhereYouWentWrong]

Born in 1968, my Dad had two 8 Track tapes, one was blue (the guys singing) and one was pink (the girl groups.) I grew up on this kind of music. This song in particular brings back so many memories.

[@cindyv1401]

Amber would have been a Dancing Legend if she was in the 60s as a teenager/young woman 🤗😎🤗

[@peggysmyth6110]

Hearing this song takes me back to the 'long time ago'.

[@pocketnunu]

I grew up in the Philly area and this song was a huge hit and the dance too (the Bristol stomp) was a real thing. Bristol was a real place too. But there is a special energy! I was in "junior high" (middle school) at the time. I'm 75 now.

[@kathyrizzi8754]

Alright, more great 60’s, love this & danced a lot to this song & more back then…YAY! Thank you, both! 👏👏👏💃🕺🏾💃🕺🏾💜💜👏👏👏

[@monicagatten9894]

Straight no chaser the movie medley they're an awesome acapella group!

[@chrisvanderhoof9990]

I didn't recognize this until you started the song. I immediately remembered hearing it as a kid and beyond, even though it came out 5 years before I was born! Fun song!!

[@ColoradoGrami]

The reason everyone is sitting down during the performance is that this was part of a movie. The movie had multiple acts and you have seen several 😊. I'd dance with the fridge or door jamb while watching American Bandstand. ❤

[@bernie66]

Those were the days. I was into all music growing up. Many good thoughts sent for appreciating our music. Your faithful follower. 🎤🎼💯💚👍

[@mbarnum2]

That clip of the The Dovells is from the 1962 film DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST, which was one of two films made by Columbia Pictures to exploit the twist craze . Cute film. Very little plot, but lots of great music by Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharp, Gene Chandler, and others, as well as The Dovells.

[@Madminute1968]

The Bristol Stomp is a song written in 1961 by Kal Mann and Dave Appell two executives with Cameo-Parkway record label for the Dovells from Bristol Pennsylvania who recorded it late that year, Appell also produced and arranged the track and his Cameo-Parkway house band served as the studio musicians.

[@marqetteliz]

I remember my mom listening to this off a cassette tape when I was a kid. Catchy and fun.

[@billmoser2802]

Finally a song i suggested from the Bristol area myself and when this song played every inch of the dance floor was covered instantly....thanks

[@jrox6091]

Wow!. This is from 1961 when I was a year old. Great doo wop song. The lead singer has a great cry in his voice, ala Eddie Brigati of The Rascals. Great reaction choice. Be blessrd ❤

[@Kathe255]

I had forgotten about this song! So fun. Way before my time but I've always loved the oldies!

[@gpxo11]

you can't sit down, Stop Monkeyin' Around and No No No are worth checking out. Lead singer Len Barry had a big solo hit in 1965 with 1-2-3

[@user-ii4zf5iq3t]

There used to be singing quortets, acapello on every corner in the inner cities. We had no real music programs in the 1940s except Church, Orchestra, Grand Ol Opre, Blue Gras style. It just grew out of teens and young adults in the 40s & 5Os.

[@taun856]

The audience was the way they were because this is a clip from a movie. The movie was "Don't Knock The Twist" (1962). One of a string of "Rock and Roll" movies of that period. I was 9 years old when this came out and I had a 45 rpm record of it. Played this song and "Ally Oop" by the Hollywood Argylls to death, which my poor mother had to endure..

[@fabiocortinovis8858]

you should check out some more Judy collins, she's a folk legend. she was the first to ever record a Leonard Cohen's song, Suzanne, even before he started recording his own music, same thing with Joni Mitchell, Judy recorded the first version ever of Both sides now in 1967, and helped Joni's career take off. these two songs are definitely some of her best works, with other covers like In my life by the Beatles or Turn Turn Turn by Pete Seeger. she also had original songs like Someday soon and some that she even wrote herself, like Albatross or My Father

[@mpsarge2]

I lived in Bristol Pa. I went to BJHigh. Bristol junior senior high school i heard them at a block party At a local FD. We have a few FB groups about Bristol. And If course The Stomp always comes up. Its our song. Ive heard it now last 55 yrs.

[@yoclark2723]

I won this record from an oldies radio station back in about 1968, It was so fun!

[@ptournas]

You mention hair slicked back. In the late 50's and very early 60's lots of boys used Vasaline to slick back their hair. Lots of mothers and grandmother's hung doilies over the backs of upholstered chair and couches to keep the grease off them from teenagers hair! It was great for holding that Elvis curl in the front of your pompadour. In the seventh grade I had a friend I walked to school with. He called me one morning in a panic, he was out of Vaseline! I put a few globs on a piece of cardboard and brought it to him. But it was bitter cold outside and when I got there it was frozen sold. He was freaking until I told him to just warm it in a pan on the stove. We got to school a little late that day! 😊

[@stevehatton-bw3bo]

Another fun dance song, though much newer, 1995, is “Mambo #5” by Lou Bega. It’ll getcha movin’!!

[@sandraminton2056]

Love the 50's , 80's, and 90's music!!!

[@EgbertWilliams]

Bristol, PA. Just outside of Philly.

[@willdwyer6782]

The Dovells were scheduled to perform in Dallas on November 22, 1963 with Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars US tour when their show was cancelled due to the JFK assassination. By August 8, 1964 Actor Steve McQueen was filmed at an LBJ fundraiser dancing with the president's teenage daughter Luci Baines Johnson to the Dovells latest hit, Watusi With Lucy.

[@r2x262]

Ok now You've entered a hole of the worlds of '50s and early '60s music I could think of 400 groups right now that were so good. Personally I love this era

[@tonyrussi7777]

"Hully Gully Baby" was a big hit in Miami by the Dovells.Hully Gully was a line dance.

[@masterlink2319]

I was not expecting to see "Bristol stomp" when I decided to peep your channel; hell I don't expect to see reactions for that anywhere. this is one of my fave oldies.

[@drc1989]

There's another one of those great dance songs! ✌️😁❤️👍🎶🎶🎶

[@nelsanderson1726]

Chubby Checker introduces them and the lead singer is Len Berry. He is doing the twist when he is singing. Real popular. We all dressed well back then.

[@carolmartin4413]

Great exercise dancing to this song! Bristol Stomp is the grandpa of today's stomping around theatrics...😁

[@jeffjohnson7041]

Another great Doo-Wop band from the 60's you should check out is Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers. "Why do fools fall love" and "Tears on my pillow" are great songs I think you two will love.

[@davidkelly2355]

My favorite scenes in this are when the background singers are turned away from the microphone but you can still hear them like they never left the microphone and the old man with the glasses

[@Joseph-ax999]

Another hit was "Bristol Twisting Annie". ..and we rocked with Daddy G.

[@LeilaBelleWarner]

You mentioned "dance songs" and Chubby Checker. That reminded me of a REALLY fun song by Chubby Checker: "Limbo Rock." Be sure to check it out soon!

[@andrewcoleman6349]

My home town, Bristol,Hyde Lit, Jerry ( The Heater With The Heater ) use to come to the Delaware River in the late fifties and early sixties in the Bristol, I was to young but I heard the stories, I was born in 1956, but Grundy Library have old photos 😊

[@genataylor460]

1967 seems to have been the year when rock n roll, like much of society really changed. The so-called Summer of Love. Music got harder, clothing styles changed radically, drugs made a huge imprint on society, the anti-war movement. I had joined the Army that summer and got out 4 1/2 years later, and when I went back home I felt like I had been in a time warp, things had changed so drastically.

[@mikew6025]

I'm from the South Jersey Shore (still live there). When everybody's on the beat and stomping really hard we could make the windows rattle. We even made the record skip a few times.

[@user-xu7gt1mj6s]

THE GROUP WERE FROM BRISTOL, PA., THREE OF THE DOVELLS WERE IN MY SISTER'S GRADUTION CLASS FROM BRISTOL HIGH SCHOOL. THE LEAD SINGER WAS FROM PHILLY. THE STOMP WAS A BIG DANCE CRAZE FROM THE EARLY SIXTIESS.

[@JasonHalversonjaydog]

lead singer is Len Barry who also had a solo hit with "123"

[@alexsherel3344]

From dances held in a firehouse in the Philly SUBURBS, in Bristol, PA.

[@danven1256]

I was just 5 years old when this came out. Regardless this was the start of a great decade. Wish you were there with us.

[@LittleWolf194]

"Girl Watcher" Improved stereo, The Okaysions. American Bandstand 1967 "Expressway To Your Heart". The Shades of Blue "Oh How Happy". "The Cool Jerk" the Capitols. Major Lance ; ; "Um,Um, Um, Um", "Monkey Time", "Gypsy Woman", "Watusi" :) Great 1960s Party Songs!

[@RobertoSantana61]

Check out The Tokens - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" - from this same era. And when you're ready for a 90's gem, check out Edwin McCain - "I'll Be (The Greatest Fan Of Your Life)"

[@Lovegun-w4s]

When I was a kid we had what they called " Youth Center" at my school on Friday nights where they played music and the kids could dance. They really need to bring stuff like that back and keep the kids off the streets causing trouble!!!!!

[@jvsmith7888]

I believe those scenes of people just sitting around are from the 1961 Chubby Checker movie "Don't Knock The Twist." There were a lot of movies like this around that time. There's actually very little movie or plot, but a lot of performances by popular groups of the day. Some other Dovells songs you might enjoy are "No, No, No", "Your Last Chance", and "Cheat."

[@louella616]

Loved your music video picks today, fantastic!

[@LouieLouie3]

One of my all time favorites.