Teddy Boys '90's British tv document about 90's Teddy Boys

[@debsf1348]

My husband and I are in this. We were invited to take part in the filming as we were part of a classic car group who were also Ted’s. We lived in Enfield at the time and drove to East London for the filming. We’re the couple in red and dark blue sitting at a table talking to other people.

[@JeffPower-dv3zl]

I was in Dave Edmunds class Ambrose Fleming 1970s Lovely Guy True Gentleman Thanks ps iam still Rocking best Drug on the planet 🎉❤😊

[@angusmeigh5141]

This documentary is from 1987. Not from the 1990s. I can remember watching it back then.

[@stevenford727]

I was a young teddy boy in the late 70s but got into the rockabilly scene in the 80s and ive been a rockabilly since.I think the rockabilly image is more like a greaser look which i perfer to the drape jackets and thick soled brothel creepers,but may i add long live the Teds.

[@mattcollier5957]

ROCK N ROLL WILL LIVE FOREVER

[@pipfield1901]

Good to hear some Flying Saucers music!

[@Oooo-bi7bi]

They’re just enjoying themselves. It’s great music and you feel and look better. If you’re dressed how you like to.

[@TheRowlandstone73]

I got the train down to London from North Wales, both in '95 and '96 when I was in my early twenties, specifically to visit Ted's Corner which I'd seen advertised in Classic American car magazine, to get my hands on some authentic 50s clobber! I was hugely into that era back then.. the hairstyle, the clothes, the music, the cars, but unfortunately, after about 7 years of immersing myself in that style, it ultimately left me feeling very isolated and self-concious. No one else that I knew shared my love of it and I basically ended up being seen around town as that oddball who thinks he's Elvis. Eventually, I adopted a 'modern' hairstyle and started wearing contemporary clothes and immediately, I felt like I fitted in with society again. Sad, really.

[@ML-dh6ly]

Remembering the Tonbridge Teds.. Happy Days 😊

[@simong8907]

Teds Corner was from the 1980s, not the 1990s. Are you sure this documentary is from the 1990s?

[@psp66]

Ted's Corner in Victoria indoor market, used to pop in there regularly in the 90's, I remember Dave and Burnadette well. Wonder how they are these days?

[@andrewsparsholtt5338]

Rock n roll is for life, from Andy Sparsholtt from Edmonton North London.

[@jkrk7006]

I miss those parties .....

[@Stevieb333]

The lad at the end can sing, one of my all time favourites,teds are ok but the hepcats showed them what dancing is.

[@RockinRedRover]

thats Johnny Dumper / Earl, from Exeter originally, who was good enough to have the original Jordanaires no less back him in concerts in the UK and Europe early 90s.

[@russellwhite1581]

My Mum tells me that there were lots of Teds around in Catford about the time that Jeff Banks was growing up there....

[@RockinRedRover]

Great to see this again, especially from abt 4 minutes in which was part of the BBC tv "Clothes Show" programme, the interviewer at Teds Corner etc is fashion designer Jeff Banks, the show's co-host with ex-ITV news reader Selina Scott. The dancehall section was filmed at London Edwardian RnR Club in Southgate in 1986, the band on stage is the Avengers, led by Cliff Edunds who's interviewed "at the same time" lol. The tv cameras peeshed off several punters as they were fixated on filming up ladies petticoats, their cameras trailed heavy power cables across the dancefloor, and they needed massively bright and hot! floodlights. But still a good night at a great club.

[@debsf1348]

The section where people get out of their cars and walk in was filmed at an East End pub, sadly I can’t remember the name of it.

[@RockinRedRover]

@@debsf1348 was it the Adam n Eve, in Hackney ?.

[@debsf1348]

@@RockinRedRover I’m not sure, my memory for the pub name fails me, I think it was more East Ham way but I could be wrong. My husband who would remember where it was passed away a few years ago so I can’t even ask him 🙄

[@RockinRedRover]

@@debsf1348 Sorry to hear about your husband, you have my condolences. Re the pub I've been a fool, the pub in this video is the Burnell Arms at Manor Park, just a few yards from East Ham station. Often held rockin nights in the 80s and 90s, and probably before that (I only moved from west country to London in '84). It closed abt 20 years ago and is now an Indian temple/place of worship iirc. atb JJ. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJTbmq1vga54hcU

[@debsf1348]

@@RockinRedRover certainly looks like the pub from what I remember. It was a fun evening filming it all.

[@fs.pureblood]

That young Ted near the start of the video appears in a lot of pictures from the era. Wonder who he is and if he's still alive.

[@geralddolan9417]

I'm a ted since the late 1950s I now know live in Australia

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

Now we know that you know you live in Australia.

[@mvalentinpb]

Teds❤

[@davidphillips2259]

They are bad sun glasses mate ,I loved being a tedboy some really good times in the 1970s

[@OldAgeTeddyboy]

When do you stop being a Teddy Boy??, You Dont!!, the 70`s were great, best time i ever had back then, still wear me Drapes today, Once a Ted always a Ted.. One thing we didnt have back then was politics like we do today or social media stuffing it up, as old as we are today, some are so sensitive and are so easy to fall out with, bring back the 70`s where we didnt give a Monkeys..

[@cooldaddy2877]

I was a Teddy Boy in the 50's and politics was for old people. We didnt care if you were black, white, brown, pink or orange. In fact, I knew some black Teddy Boys. Also, the vast majority of Teddy Boys were into looking cool, chasing girls and listening to music. Gangs and fighting was very rare and usually made up by the press. So dont believe all the hype.

[@OldAgeTeddyboy]

@@cooldaddy2877 We got into some scraps with punks and skinheads, dont think much about it these days, it was normal back then, loved going down the coast, Hastings, Brighton and margate, the seaside tows were full of different subcultures, and it did cause some problems cant deny it, still wear my Drapes and Creepers today..

[@santalofty4917]

R.I.P RON

[@TootingRay]

Definitely 70's, and Ron, great bloke that he was, was not an original Teddy Boy, but one of the 70's re-juvenation.

[@fs.pureblood]

Ron was born in 1944 so he could quite easily have been a Ted in the 50s.

[@TootingRay]

@@fs.pureblood you are right. he could have been. Age 10 in 1954, 16 in 1960. When he arrived at the Raven, according to many who new him, he was a self-confessed hippy. Given that, I was born in 1947, so I couild have been an original Teddy Boy. But I wasn't. I'll leave it there.

[@fs.pureblood]

@@TootingRay I was thinking more 14 in 1958 as I believe people left school at 14 back then. Mind saying that I didn't know about the hippy thing. I know the press created a lot of hype. I never met him so I really don't know.

[@stevem1208]

@@TootingRay he was a hippy in the early 70's .

[@proud_to_be_a_ted]

Ron was a lying fucker , he wasn't an original as he claimed. Many of us knew him as a hippy. It was really quite funny, hippy one week then the next week he was wearing Ted regalia.. never mind, he was a face in his own right & the girlies adored him & he never said no.

[@Cormac-jd2kx]

Teddys in the 90s? The last ones were More like early mid 80s😂

[@cooldaddy2877]

It should be made clear that these are not Teddy Boys but are Showaddywaddy clones. Real fifties Teddy Boys did not wear sunglasses, sideburns down to their chins, hair past the collar, visible tattoos, earrings, jeans, bright coloured drapes, skin tight trousers, thick soled brothel creepers, large belt buckles. They always wore ties and nearly all wore waistcoats or jumpers. The biggest culprit was the so-called King of the Teds Sunglasses Ron. Rock'n'Roll saw a huge revival in 1976 and the new teenage generation laughed and were embarrassed by these brightly dressed clowns. They refused to dress in such an exaggerated way and looked elsewhere for fifties inspiration and hence we saw the emergence of the American styled Hep Cat. Sunglasses Ron often moaned about the Hep Cats.....but if he and others of his generation had stuck true to the proper cool dapper style, we would more than likely never have seen the Hep Cat revival!

[@cooldaddy2877]

@Oddjob6120 and I agree with you too 100%. Its amazing how the Glam Rock version turned so many young kids against the Teddy Boy look. Thats why so many went into the Rockabilly/Hep Cat look. It looked way cooler. I miss those days of peg pleated pants, box jackets, bowling shirts, gabardine shirts, Harrington jackets, brogues etc etc!

[@nelg70]

Spot on m8. My father was a teddy from 1956 onwards, from the photos I've seen they were real smart.

[@TootingRay]

1976 revival? The Black Raven was running from around 1969, with many original Ted's going there. . I cam out of the Army in 71 and went ot the Raven in 72. yes, threre was a "revival" around 71/72 but there were, and still are original Ted's from the 50's. Don't believe the hype the press feeds you. Fashions, nd styles, change, but the ideal is still the same.

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@TootingRay yes 1976 revival. Certainly there were always some teds around but the numbers grew during the revival. I have been into R'n'R since the 50's and have seen the awful fashion chances.

[@jamesdean1143]

@@cooldaddy2877 1976 was the year of the march to the BBC to petition for a Rock n Roll radio programme, organised by Stu Coleman RIP. I think that the petition was signed by 50’000 people. 1977 saw the first Rolling Rock show, plus Charlie Feathers, Jack Scott, Warren Smith and Buddy Knox concert at The Rainbow, in Finsbury Park. Same year as the LWT show with Janet Street Porter, where she asked Stu Coleman how many Teds there were in London at the time, and he said about 10’500.

[@charliedrake247]

Sun glasses Ron now passed away 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻🗳

[@jamesdean1143]

Think that he died in 1997 and was born in 1944. So, only 53 years old when he died.

[@13MrKieran]

Whos singing at the end?

[@Tom197613]

Johnny Earl and the Jordanaires

[@robertwalden2372]

Johnny earl

[@gregkamer3754]

2:19, she looks like she's having an absolute blast.....

[@albertbarra8026]

Who is singin on 5.20

[@sirrobin.63]

originally by Cliff Richard and the Shadows.

[@albertbarra8026]

@@sirrobin.63 you know what song called thank you

[@sirrobin.63]

@@albertbarra8026 it was called "Put on your dancing shoes."

[@albertbarra8026]

@@sirrobin.63 thank you 😀

[@RockinRedRover]

@@albertbarra8026 the singer here is Cliff Edmunds fronting the Avengers, a London-based band who specialised in the British RnR sound, similar to the Rapiers. Cliff is still singing, as are some of the band, other vids are on YT. I was in the audience that night, London RnR Club at Southgate in 1986, the filming was for the BBC Clothes Show. In that sequence you can see my mate Fred ("I'm not a teddy girl" lol) being interviewed by the show's compere Jeff Banks. After that singer Cliff is himself interviewed, apparently while still on stage lol.. A fun night despite the intrusive (stockings-fixated) cameras and very bright n hot! lighting peeshing off the punters. Happy daze.

[@BoggWeasel]

No more or less than any other working class fashion driven group. Originally skinheads were pretty much the same, short hair, a "sharp" fashion style and a strong liking for reggae music, until their style of haircut and dress, ( short hair, boots and braces mainly ) was high jacked by racist right wing extremist groups, in the UK it was the National Front, and soccer thugs which pretty much lead to the demise of the skinhead as a trendy fashion statement.

[@Steve_305]

Lol Psychobilly ended the Teddy Boys

[@cooldaddy2877]

No, original Teddy Boys (the clue is in the name) died out when they grew up and got married. Psychobilly....awful music and hairstyles.