American Bandstand 1968 -Beatles Criticism? - Top 10 - Everything That Touches You, The Association 

Yes young people, you're parents (grandparents) were this classy and beautiful!!!

This was right during my parents time! Both were in high school then. Teenagers seemed so grown up and much more well mannered;. things changed so much by the time I was that age in the early 90s....

These kids are all in their late 60's now........ and time marches on!

The great bassist Joe Osborne is prominently featured on this track. One of his best (of countless recordings). I also love the outfits and hairdos these young ladies sport. The styles were so attractive in this era.

None of the teenagers are pathological exhibitionists, their awkwardness in front of a camera is refreshing.

I saw the Beatles for the first and last time in 1966 Dodger Stadium I was 15. The Beatles were evolving into greatness and only someone like me I guess could see that they would be the greatest band of all time not to mention their individual works. At fifteen I had a hard time relating to my friends to think outside the box. Sincerely 🇫🇷🎶🎼🎵🍷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

RIP, Charlie O'Donnell, the announcer on "American Bandstand" from 1958-68.

A fantastic Association song that I discovered several years ago (despite owning their "Greatest Hits" LP as a kid)! They had zero problems dancing to this one back in '68.

To me, the girls at 4:25 - 4:30 and at 4:38 - 4:50 are the personification of those times, the fashions, the look. The latter the last vestiges of the innocence of the 50's and 60's, the former the onset of the revolution, the hippie/free love movement. Granted, in '68 I was but 10 going on 11, but those days are ingrained in my memory. What do I remember the most? The music. The soundtrack of a generation. Every generation has one, and this was ours.

Bet the guy who said they're perfect is proud.

This era beats today hands down 🇺🇸🎶🎶🎵💜🎶🎶🎵♥️ 😎

That is one of my favorite songs by that group.

That's me starting at about 1:09 - 1:12 A little embarrassed by my response being that they ultimately became among my fav's

How can I forget this tune , that yr! I was 10 when this tune came out early 2/68 . Just 3 wks later my uncle was kia in NAMs Central Highlands mid 3/68 , tail end of TET , 10 days b-4 my 11thbday. Seen friends bro + neighbors sons sent there from 65-69 , last one hm by late 71! This tune was indicative of the times , the 60s .And 68-69-70 were real catalystic , radical times politically, socially , civilly . The music , hairstyles , clothing , attitudes, and over indulgence in LSD , Heroine , Speed , barbiturates , cocaine , and alcohol were going on But , Associations tune was a gem in that peace movement , and hippies were going strong.

Dancing to the tenderness of "Everything That Touches You" one could never have foretold the impending LBJ, MLK, RFK and 1968 DNC events that defined the remainder of the year. Thank you Aaron for your always significant descriptors.

I can still sing every word of this song. I really enjoyed it much more than Cherish which dominated the airwaves upon its release. Don and his partner as well as the couple next to them were dancing very well to this moving melody. The lyrics and melody both build to that wonderful crescendo toward the end. I would've wanted to be dancing with a fine young man in my arms! Must've been something going on for so many regulars to be absent. Thank you Aaron very well done!

Little did they know what lied ahead later that year with The White Album

This was my time great memories for me

A year and a half after they stopped touring, the AB kids are hoping they'll do more concerts!

‘The way they dress’ said the girl with the beehive hair do.

The Association's absolute best song.

I was just noticing that the boys are wearing suits and ties. Oh for the days when people dressed up to do special things, both performers and audience.

Everything That Touches You is a perfect song with incredible harmonies. The Association were incredible performers. What a record. I did like the 1910 Fruit Gum Company who made fun pop records like “1,2,3 Red Light.” Classic 60’s.

No "Twerking"? No one doing selfies, and on their cell phones.

Wow this song takes me back

Anybody have a time machine I could borrow?

Quick Note: Part 2 of Robin Miller's montage is up on Jeff's channel AB Dancers. She's fabulous! Also, something personal, tomorrow 6/9 is my 3rd grandson's very first birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY P.E.!! 💖🎂

I love this song by The Association. Like others, I grew very weary of "Cherish". It was overplayed on the radio, just like "Turn,turn,turn". I cringe every time I hear it. Wish they played more Motown too! Guess they didn't want to compete with "Soul Train". I have seen 3 of your clips where Dick is asking questions about the Beatles. Do you have any clips with a Beatles song and dancers cuttin' up the floor? I remember Dick polling the dancers off camera during breaks as to who we would like to have as guests on the show and what songs we would like to dance to. The Beatles and the Stones always came up. From 1964-1968 was the time of the "British Invasion" and this was "American" Bandstand. I remember being disappointed that we were forced to dance to so many crappy American bands....especially those "rate a record" songs. The show really was conceived as a showcase for US music but many American artists were creating psychedelic music. Also....god forbid they should play "Purple Haze"!

Шикарная, трогательная музыка молодости, мечтаний и волнующих воспоминаний

I loved the Beatles since "I Want to Hold Your Hand" came out, when I was little, but it was disconcerting to see them get so hairy and weird-looking. (Eventually, I too got hairy and weird-looking.)

4:37, that adorable girl! Young people, did you know your'e grandparent's were this beautiful!!!

15 that year wonderful time great music simpler time.sad where we our at now.

"The way they dress" said the girl who should change the way she looks,LOL.

Sweet. Will be interviewing the Association's Terry Kirkman (author of this hit and "Cherish") for an upcoming podcast. This vid I'll share with him.

I was 18 when this showed was on, I'm 73 now, memories all I got now!!

"Let's look at the Bandstand Top 10. We have songs that will define pop music for decades to come. And now the #1 Song - "Simon Says". AAAAAUGH!!! I must be living in a parallel universe! WHY?? WHY???

Dick Clark never thought they would make it.

I wish for those days. I was fourteen and l loved watching American Bandstand!❤️Loved the Association and Neil Diamond.

1:45, Jerry Hughes looks exactly like Tim Matheson, I know it's not, but amazingly close.

No tattoo ssss

OMG! Flashback to my freshman year in high school! Love it!

I was 15 years old!! How time flies. I still love to dance and listen to music. Funny that the Beatles are my all time favorite band.

Wow, a time when men and women could still swing dance, oh so beautiful, come on young people, bring back swing dancing, so cool when a guy could swing his beautiful girl!

Young people! Did you know your parents/ grandparents were this beautiful! SO classy! SO beautiful! Learn to swing dance, you'll never regret it!

Thank you!❤ Have a Blessed weekend!

Anybody have a time machine I could borrow? I want to go back and then live!

The girls look very uncomfortable answering the Beatles question.

Boy I remember 67- 68 and being 12 or 13 and watching Bandstand on Saturday mornings after cartoons. There was even a Beatles cartoon in those days and Paul Revere and The Raiders had a show after Bandstand for a while but Bandstand was always there. The kids actually were not that hip and neither was Dick Clark and interracial dancing was not allowed on the air because people in the south reacted violently. A few years later Soul Train came on and stole alot of Bandstands thunder with much better dancers. The Beatles were HUGE in 68 and no one could touch them. By then they stopped making personal appearances and only made records. Now Dick Clark is gone and so is Bandstand but for a while in those days it went on forever.

Is there a name for the dance they were all doing? I don't remember what it might have been. I watched this show a lot, but the dances, and some of the bands I have never even heard of. April 2022.

They had respect for themselves at that time, not all sloppy and obese like now, fast food joints weren't on every corner.

It's hard to believe but some of these KIDS are now in their seventies!

Ok, how many of you were glad to hear this song instead of Simon Says? You don't need to reply really-I'm pretty sure I know the answer already. BTW, I got a kick out of the girl who was obviously camera shy and embarrassed.

Hold me close my darling My love For these are the moments that Dreams and memories Are made of.

2021: Music producers have fantastic technology but create and celebrate musical mediocrity. Instead of musical progression, the world is forced to idealize the vastly superior musical past via the youtube time machine.

My favorite song by the Association.

I wanna go back to those days. Great memories.

Aaron R. TOTALLY and especially digging your posts on Saturday mornings...Makes one feel closer to the days of American Bandstand. ( I'm curious as to what your "Beatles" criticism would be, if any ?! Would love to hear from DON on this subject as well!) Mine would be a more current observation: I think a lot of us think that the 1960s were ruled exclusively by the Beatles, as giant as they truly were, I think others, especially the Motown acts, sure gave them a run for their money.

Aaron, your last clip asked the girls about the length of their skirts....Funny...that should have been the question proffered on this weeks line-up. Midi and mini in the same group!

The kids wishing the Beatles did more concerts didn't realize the Beatles stopped doing concerts in August 1966.

I was 10 years old then, and knew the Beatles music from the beginning,...my mom had their first album playing all the time when I was very young. My friends and I stopped liking the Beatles after they became associated with the 'hippie movement' and therefore illicit drugs. We felt they went bad, as in "off the wall". I grew up in New York City too,....not Nebraska, or Alabama. When the Monkees came along and other groups that seemed 'clean cut', we latched on to them, and they pumped out hits (singles) like the Beatles used to. Plus, the new bubblegum pop was aimed at us kids. I got back into the Beatles once 'Hey Jude' came out, and slowly began to appreciate their place in music and the world. The Paul is Dead thing was really creepy to me as well....and the obscure way they influenced the Manson Family. Everyone loved the early Beatles and the happy feelings they evoked, but that was gone once they stopped touring...and they kind of had a dark cloud over them beginning in the psychedelic/hippie era as did the USA in many ways at the time.

BTW this is my favorite song by The Association 😍❤️❤️

Dick Clark was allowed to grow up on TV he was very unpolished in the early days and even in this 1968 clip he's pretty rough around the edges...but that was totally acceptable at that time and rather charming now looking back

Those were the days back then...our lives were so different from now growing up...

Great song by "the Associations".

My goodness...The Beatles are a classic.

I watched and wondered how kids today would show up for a taping of AB in todays world.

Here's what most people don't understand when the make a statement like " there music is not what they did before or it's too different'. No artist wants to be stuck in the same thing; they want to grow musically. Of course, record companies and fans want them to stay the same but unless you're Lawrence Welk it just doesn't work that way.

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such dreamy days.....

Loved this song when I first heard it back in February, 1968. I was in 8th grade, and it really touched me. Terry Kirkman's best, in my opinion.

No fatties, no tattoos and no piercings, the young women were naturally beautiful in the 1960's. Little did the young men know that they'd soon be drafted into the United States Military to fight in Vietnam. Not everything in the 1960's were happy events.

Great video interesting how the “white bread” teens didn’t like the whole Beatles innovation but wondering how they felt about “white bread” Beach Boys innovation in music since they inspired the Beatles at one point with Pet Sounds my parents are in their 50’s I asked them how they felt about about it & I asked my grandparents too and everyone said they looked forward to The Beatles coming up with new & fresh music. I agree but other then a couple songs I don’t like Yellow Submarine or the movie! But I adore & truly admire The Beatles I was born in the 90’s but wish I was born in the 50’s or 60’s The Association have Killarney harmony!

I'm not sure how an analog, black and white TV show of 50 years ago broadcast a song in high quality stereo. I bought that 45, by the way. I was 17.

thank you .

Anyways, good song and amazing segment.

Just my own opinion/memories here. I distinctly remember the day when I first heard the Beatles. I held the transistor radio to my ear, and listened closely. I knew right then and there that they would negatively affect conventional American music; they did, especially with their psychedelic music. They had a particularly negative affect on Motown since this sound was literally from the soul aka 'soul music.' Decades later, I still believe that I was correct; I think of things that might have been, but couldn't because of the their/Beatles' sound.

Wonder if any of the kids in these clips are aware they are RU-vid stars.

Interesting how the Beatles were being criticized by one girl for having mustaches & beards. I don't like that style either, but recently in a 2021 study, women were asked if they preferred a man clean shaven, a 5 o'clock shadow, a moderate mustache and/or beard, or a really long beard like in the Duck Dynasty. Well....."Clean shaven" came in as being the least appealing and least attractive style for a man. 😆

I am surprised that someone didn't say 'I think Yoko will end up breaking the band up" or "they are great, I just hope nobody gets shot"

My observation is that The Beatles were always considered ultra cool almost godlike back in the late 60s. No matter what they said or how they looked it didn’t matter. Most people loved them.

Then after the show, they got in a new Plymouth Roadrunner.

Well they call them the good ol days but a lot was going on back then. Vietnam, riots, protests and assassination. But we dressed well and had Manners.

This came out the year I was born! The only song I don’t recognize was the number one song. Never heard of that one.🤔

Saw a shy girl in this one who looks very much like a teenage Chris Evert, future tennis champ.

Where's at show devoted to the Beatles? I want to see that. Where is it? Provide a link to it. Do something here.

Such apparent innocence, it seems..............fantastic!

most seemed to want them to show up in person/be visible on television & concerts. why didn't they? ;]

Sweet memories✌️❤️

I was born in 58 so I was 10 in September when this came out

The episode featuring The Beatles would be interesting to see

Everyone here 4 (some 5) years behind in fashion and critcising the Beatles dress sense lol

My favorite song by them the 60s best period in music by far

Estos chibolos del 68 son unos troncos para bailar incluso musica a la que estaban acostumbrados

I was 13 in 1968. Should I be dead by now? No one ever wanted to dance with me in school.

1:38-1:42 That's Kathy or Cathy? What her name?

But do you have any bubblegum segments?

How dare DC talk about the Beatles in this fashion. I heard he wouldn't let them perform on his show because he didn't think they were make it big at 5he time.Unbeleivable. if the Beatles were from American, just starting out,I bet he would have them perform on his show.SMH

Hey Beatles, don't let Yoko screw it up! I guess I'm a tad late with that.

Interesting that "Just Dropped In" is at No. 3. Right out of the gate for Kenny Rogers. The Association song hardly gets airtime like the warhorses and "Simon Says" is probably limited to countdowns.

That first guy sounded a lot like Dick Clark