American Bandstand 1963 - TOP 10 - Sally, Go 'Round The Roses, The Jaynetts 

"Sally Go Round The Roses" was MILES ahead of its time. Haunting beauty and reverb vocals. You might call it the first Psychecedelic Song. Grace Slick's "Great Society" recorded a cool version before she moved onto "Jefferson Airplane". For my money, the Jaynetts' version was the definitive recording. It was 3 years before American Rock caught up to this Spooky offering.

Take me back that tine, please. I love seeing all the guys in suits, and the girls in nice dresses. People actually cared about their appearances.

And two months later, on a Friday afternoon, America changed forever.

I was 13 when Sally Go Round the Roses hit the charts and it BLEW ME AWAY. It has no equal and should have its own genre.But nothing will ever be cool enough to be it its genre so in has to be its own ,which is awesome.

1963 is my favourite for music

This was popular in my day. Especially when I said I DO with my right hand in the air at the US Navy sign up at New Orleans and then after 3yrs 9 months and 20 some odd days I got out the day before I was 21 all in one piece during the middle of the Viet Nam war an still alive at 75 and still kicking. I wonder how many of these guys who were drafted came back like I was so lucky to do?

Wow ... my birthday in 1963. This old-timer was all of seven years of age when this episode aired. It's nice to remember days when people dressed up to go out.

Early 1960's I think was a very interesting time. You can especially see it in the dancing styles. You can still the more controlled dance of the 50's but 60's free style is definitely creeping in. Hairstyles were everywhere !

Those of you not fortunate enough to have been around in 1963 do not known the sensation and controversy of this song. There were all kinds of theories and ideas to what the song was about. The song writers never revealed it. In addition to the spectre of the song, can you dig the 1963 hairdos and fashion?

That was a Great song. 63 Was a year of change ; when this song came out the the Beatles and the Mersey beat were already hugely popular overseas

Oh to be back in those days.. that was about twenty years before me, but I would have loved to have been there

A staple of oldies stations everywhere, The Jaynettes were a one-hit wonder that were never heard from again. A very good single with a nice mysterious mood to it. 💿💿💿💿💿 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 📻📻📻📻📻 👍👍👍👍👍 😁😁😁😁😁

So happy to see Lorraine Iannetti, Geri Iannetti, Pat Carpino, Sandy Short, Barbara Warchol, Bruce Richardson, Norine C, Steve Lewis, Richie Cartledge, Gary Stapleford, Jack DeSorte.... more like this please!

I love this recording because the organ was in it. Thanks to ABS!

Hey Aaron! Thanks for the great clip! I always say 1967 is my favorite year for music but 1963 is a very close second. Have a great weekend everyone and stay safe!!

Ah yes, I love Early 60s episodes of AB along with the songs right before The Beatles ATTACKED the charts! Great upload, Aaron, love from Pennsylvania💜

GOD I LOVE THIS SONG !!!

Solid bass riff just grabs you! Reminds me of my mom dancing to this record

Great piece of music, always been a favorite,. very fond memories of life

What pleasant memories the music and dance steps conjure up.

One of the coolest songs ever. That was one fantastic top 10!!!

OMG !! An Old School Timeless Classic !!

I forgot how good this record is. Thanks for posting!

Nice clip! The Jaynettes classic had sooooo many vocal overdubs from various singers. That organ on the tune is icing on the cake.

Good Saturday to you one and all. We usually don't get to see too many clips from the Philly years, but when we do they are certainly diamonds in the rough. One day I will eventually learn the names and faces from Philly just as well as I know the names and faces from the early Cali years. One day I'll be able to say "Look there's Bruce Richard!" as easily as I say now "Look there's Don Sanuskar!" Looking forward to the futures clips and maybe the full show at a later day. As suggested I am following protocols to stay safe and eagerly awaiting for the first granddaughter coming in a few weeks. HAve a blessed weekend!

Even though I was only five at the time of this original airing this Top Ten has more songs I know than some Top Ten in the later years. However I do not remember the number one song...but hearing it now I like it!

Classic song!

Listening to my 7 Transistor radio at age 8 in 1963 this song too sophisticated for me to remember. I first heard it in Johnny Sacks Mercedes S Class.An absolute MASTERPIECE of a song !!!❤

my favorite in '63..14 year old freshman

Speaking of DCP, the name is no more. Dick’s production company is now under another name. But good to see a clip with the late Bruce Richard in it and AB was starting to have black dancers also. The presence of the Black dancers reminds me of a line in the movie “Hairspray” that “The Corny Collins show is now integrated.” Sally Go Round the roses is one of my favorite songs in that era. Thanks Aaron for another awesome clip from the Philly era and I hope everything is going well with you and stay safe.

Wow just wow thank you sir for the ab upload. I haven't heard this song in years.

I loved Steve Lewis. My mama got me started on AB back in the Justine and Bob and Arlene and Kenny days !

Oh my! I haven't thought of this song in FOREVER!! I see our Philly regulars are bumpin', pushin' and shovin' their way to the camera as usual. The little sad eyed fellow at 1:11 far right, managed to keep from getting pushed to the rear. Go whoever you are!!! Aaron, I'm glad you posted this. I really enjoyed listening to it. A lovely surprise this cloudy Saturday morning. I hope all of you are staying well. The Covid variant has run over Kentucky, with most hospitals filled to capacity. If you have not done so, please get vaccinated and continue to Maskup in crowded locations. Its more than likely we'll endure another year or so with this vile disease, so let's all do our best to keep our friends and family safe! Big virtual hug to you Aaron! I've missed you. ♥️

Thank you for posting this...I imagine this was just before every thing changed .

How incredible different they and their clothes looked from 1968 or so; only 5 years, but a complete different world. I was born in the mid of '63. I am forever happy I spent my childhood still on the good side. The world went so bad after ca. 1972.

I love everything about this video! It brings back so many memories.

My time machine is worming up !! We will start to board.. Don't be late..

Man.. Was all of 11 years back in 63.. Might sound morbid but wondering how Many of these Folks still around in 2021..

My sister Loved this song!

Thanks for this clip, one of my favorites. Watched every day from 57 to 61 when I graduated. Were the most fun times and great music. Wished VCRs were around then so I could’ve taped the shows!

Wow, me & my cat enjoyed watching & listening to this video & it always keeps my cat's ears up like an owl 🦉LOL. One of my favorite oldies but goodies songs. Awesome! ❤️👍✌️🦉.

On this particular day at AB. they had some really good dancers. Also, this video is a good example of the "Philly style" of fast dancing. Guys and girls all appear to be having fun dancing on live TV.

Top-notch!

Really love music from the early 60’s. I hope you can post more shows from that era.

Just one word: Fantastic !!!!

Great find!! Love this site!!

Can't get enough of AB clips from Philly! Thanks!

More like these please.

I have been watching some of the " Happy Days " episodes from the early 1980s on Me TV. These episodes are set in the early 1960s. Their wardrobe, hair & make-up personnel should have watched this video for reference!

Dick's last words in this video are reminiscent of what his broadcasting contemporary, NBC newscaster David Brinkley, would have said. :) :)

Great song!

The year I joined the marines. Big hit.

I was 11 years old when this was happening!! Love this song ! Beautiful. Music was really MUSIC !…. Just saying 😁👍❤️🇺🇸🎼

More Philly dancers....LOVE!!!!

Thank you Aaron .Don't know the dancers but the song i do and its still fun to watch.Looks like a brawl could take place any second jostling for position on the dance floor and you had to swing dance by a wall and corner lol. Thanks again Aaron always fun....

Man. All these dancers had great rhythm. Thanks for posting.

Simply put: your work is sensational. Congratulations. I have been monitoring your videos because I am studying the music of the 60s and the change that the Beatles gave to the record industry in America was total. and that includes the fashion of the new beat rhythm, the wardrobe and the long hair ... Thanks for your contributions.

I don't remember hearing this song when it was popular. I became aware of it a decade later when Casey Kasem's American Top 40 did a special countdown of the top disappearing acts (Casey called this a strange-sounding record). The Jaynetts' "Cry Behind The Daisies" was on Rate-a-Record which Aaron uploaded a few years ago.

Hooray! Great to see a new upload from YouCanDanceToit!. Despite spelling (another example of DCP's on-the-fly production), this is a solid Top Ten board from September 1963. Thanks Aaron and @jthyme Gary. Interesting to see Barbara and Bruce switch partners for this Jaynetts one hit wonder. An aside -- I still own "She Loves You" 45 on the Swan label. Wow, 58 years ago. Tantalizingly retro. Everyone stay well. Follow protocols. Please.

COOL!! Glad everybody's digging it! Love how DCP spelled (or mis-spelled) The Ronettes name AND The Crystals.

Great one, I've always wondered what it would like if the kids danced to this in a late 60s setting like the Davy Jones dance (daydream believer). i think I would like it!

I am from that Era, Thank God ❤

Brings back great memories 🤗🤗🤗. Arnold Bourbon Amaral 🇫🇷

Love this song, such an uncanny mysterious feel to it. Girls knew that it was about becoming pregnant by your boyfriend who then abandoned you; the shame, anguish and a future forever changed - for the girl.

Bruce Richard he was a good dancer..he could get down an with it if he wanted .I say a few of them could live the Philly days on AB

Ritchie Cartledge and Steve Lewis !!

I had the single when I was a kid. It was on a yellow label called Tuff Records. The B side was an instrumental of the same song. Loved it, but had no idea what it was about. I read a strange analysis of it somewhere that suggested it was actually a song about a woman spurning her man to be around lesbians, LOL! I am skeptical of that but it was an interesting take on the song. Gotta love mysterious tracks like this!

Original version with organ and mistery sound!!!! , love it

Al ver este video me hizo recordar mi adolescencia, que tiempos maravillosos.

Hey Aaron! This is such a cool song, too bad they never achieved more success after this. Well so much for social distancing. Lol I always get a kick at how close everybody has to dance in the Philly episodes. I really got a kick out of seeing Micky's Monkey on the Top 10, it's a forgotten dance gem of theirs & always fun to sing "lumdy lumdy laaaaa" Lol Another great clip on this fine Saturday afternoon Aaron. Thanks for this & hope you're doing well man!!!

Watching closely each couple is fascinating and sometimes hilarious. Some guys literally shake their female partners :)

It appears that some of the dancers were engaged in VERY important conversations. And then there is the brother and sister couple with the sister getting bumped till she is black and blue. It also appears there is a competition to get in front of the camera ... My favorite is the neatly coifed couple who looked like they practiced their moves in the Living Room recently.

1:60 Wow, cute! ❤

This is when the music changed, with the Beatles. They ruled the airwaves, along with the Supremes.

😃just found out one of the jaynetts is my great aunt, finding this is like finding a lost piece of history I never knew of.

New clip. Aaron I wonder how you literally pull rabbits out of hats to find these. Great song here too.

I love this song

Abner Spector, A&R dude for Chess Records, produced. Written by his wife Lona Stevens & Zelma "Zell" Sanders, owner of J&S Records. Sanders formed Jaynetts. Arranged by Artie Butler, who prepped backing track at Broadway Recording Studios in the Ed Sullivan Theater. Butler played all parts except Al Gorgoni on guitar & Carl Lynch on bass. Recorded "on an old Ampex tape machine at 71⁄2 IPS mono. Each time when I added another element" - including the final element: the vocalists - "I added a different type of reverb. Each generation seemed to add to the distinct sound of the record." Besides the 5 vocalists credited in the group Sanders assembled to record the song, Yvonne Bushnell, Ethel Davis (aka Vernell Hill), Ada Ray Kelly, Johnnie Louise Richardson and Mary Sue Wells, at least 5 other vocalists are featured: Selena Healey, Marie Hood, Marlene Jenkins (aka Marlina Mack/Marlina Mars), Louise Harris Murray, Lezli Valentine and Iggy Williams. The sessions took over a week, costing $60K, which was then an exorbitant amount of time & money for a single track. According to Johnnie Louise Richardson, "Anybody that came in the studio that week, [Spector] would put them on [the track]. Originally, I think he had about 20 voices on 'Sally.'" Butler's recollection is that Spector only heard the "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" track when it was completed and "hated it. He was really angry. He felt that I wasted his money." Butler played the track for Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who offered to buy it from Spector: the interest of the duo caused Spector to reassess "Sally...", which he had Sanders release as a single credited to 'the Jaynetts', with the instrumental track as the B-side. Butler claimed his only return for arranging "Sally..." was being credited as the arranger on the record: a 1971 Billboard article states that Butler's arrangement of "Sally..." did earn him $3. Recording engineer was John P. "Jack" Sullivan. "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" had its first major market breakout in San Francisco, its ringing arrangement being a precursor of the San Francisco Sound. The song was a favorite number of Grace Slick when she fronted the Great Society, her pre-Jefferson Airplane outfit, and it was a formative influence on New York's Laura Nyro. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 28, 1963. #7 in France, #2 in NZ. On the Jaynetts' LP, there is a sister song to "SALLY" called "Peepin' In and Out the Windows". Basically they are the same song with different lyrics.

PS that song is gonna be in my head for a few days XD

I lived for Saturdays as a kid! AB and Soul Train! The hell with the cartoons!

Great video! Doesn’t seem right when Barbara and Bruce are not dancing together!

Makes me think of the Allen Park chatterbox in the 60s in Allen Park Michigan

63 was a great year then Wow nice to see that time again . .and things was good then not like today. No lye

Weird to see this song being danced as it’s original intended rhythm ( the bump) because it feels it should have been danced in a solo fashion

I love the song featured. But, I have to say I’m disappointed in the dancing. They did their usual bumping into each other fast swing dancing. I love the beat of the song & think it deserves more of a faster partners farther type of dancing. The feel of the song seems to be more edgy 1966 than 63. But just a viewers opinion. Appreciate the upload of the video thank you!

Awesome post! I didn’t even know clips from this time existed! I’ve only seen March and November of 1963. But this is so cool! Does the full episode exist? Watching it would be really cool! Thanks Aaron!

I love these American Bandstand uploads! Unfortunately, the Dick Clark Productions name is going away for good, if you haven't read about it lately. Its parent company, MRC, has decided to eliminate the DCP name in favor of MRC Live and Alternative. But at least they'll have the American Bandstand library and archives with them at MRC.

This song clip played in the Sean Penn movie Colors in the scene with Maria Conchita Alonzo and Sean were in the car on a date.

Like this song

Good song

No face mask No social distancing Goodluck to these people

Época boa

Just saw the Pentangle's virgin of this song. Early 1970's, a very acoustic British folk band doing this. This song definitely has a cult following.

The set of Bandstand in those days looked pretty cramped. Not much room to dance. The WFIL studio at 46th and Market was comparatively smaller than the one they were building in Bala Cynwyd at that time. Interesting that Dick Clark kept the same set arrangement for the first two years in LA. American Bandstand took on a California look in 1966.

Now! Where is Season 9 Episode 38? There’s a certain musician that is on the “Hot Line” segment. Aka. Bobby Fuller! Please let me know if that clip is on this channel or somewhere on RU-vid or the internet!

How do you guys (and girls) know so many of the couples dancing? Were they interviewed by Dick or what? I find it fascinating so many posters know their names from almost 60 years now!

Celebrities turned 20 in 1963 Barry manilow John Denver Leslie Ugglems Christopher walken

Big bomb hair all the way! It's gear!!!!

Justine (Baby) Washington sung with this group.

Was this one of the first AB on Sat afternoons??