@@diane4537 I disagree. Perverts have always been around. Not accusing Dick but to say things weren't bad then is having blinders on. People didn't talk back then about the wrongs of people. They hid pregnant girls and people with mental disabilities...the way people of color were treated. I mean, come on. They weren't the gold ole days...no days really are. People just want to remember the good.
Just watched an edit of Freddie and Louis.... but in the edit he's just a newborn... and now he's already a toddler.... time flies so quick.... I have a pic of Freddie saved in my gallery and I stared at it and- I- I started crying he's growing up too fast😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@sunfieee lmao I can literally picture him saying "yess!! very good!! When are you meeting this bestie of yours? MAYBE WE CAN ARRANGE A BONEY M PARY AND DANCE!!!!" 😂😭
Well lets say this is 1960 So the girl is playing an old woman possiblity in her 80s, making him born in the 1880 aka. the Victorian Era. Clothes like the one the girl wore in the video is the common attire during those times. I didn't know why I put to much effort in explaining this lmao
I did too, GREAT track by Brian Hyland but the video isn't very good at all. I know it is of a time and was probably meant to be cute but it just isn't. A beautiful girl in a bikini would have been so much better and ditch the Granny.
My mother used to sing this song to me and my two sisters when we’re young. She passed a couple months ago and just today, I heard it on the radio in a store. Not a common song. It was my mama, hugging my heart! ❤😢
I recall I was fourteen in 1960 when I first Heard this song. I had just returned home from school that day of summer. I listened to radio only twenty minutes as I had some homework to do. And this was the first song which was played on that bygone day. It is curious I can even feel the heat of summer when I hear it despite it is now Winter.
I was eight or nine years old when this song came out. It was the first. Record that my brother and I bought. We played it so much that we somehow broke it. Those were the good ole days. No worries no health issues. Just having fun being kids.
The lyricist originally wrote the song for his 2-year old daughter who wore her yellow polka dot bikini in her kiddie pool. The song was meant as a cute kiddie song, but ignorant people of later generations who don't know the history behind the song jumped to conclusion and associated it with something much more disgusting.
Actually from the late 1940s through late 1960s, the bikini was mostly just a two-piece bathing suit that (then daringly) showed the navel. Strings came much later.
@@SkullCrusher757 that's not true! Most bikinis today that adult women wear cover the whole boob mostly, kids don't wear bikinis at all and when they do it's four times bigger than that string over the nipples that girl was wearing. Only women that wear something like that little girl are the women in porn or that type of magazines. This bikini just looks sexual when it shouldn't. It would've been cute if it was teensy weensy because she's a kid and she's small but it wasn't. The bikini joke was clearly sexual and the words sexual and children just don't mix.
My grandma used to sing this to me as a kid. She never knew the English language but she could sing this flawlessly. Thanks grandma for introducing me to English and this awesome song, I miss you and I wish I could’ve told you that ♥️
omg i love that! i remember sitting on a bar stool drinking a shirley temple with my father and this playing on the jukebox. we hit a lot of bars in those days!
When i was in High School back in 2017 me and the boys sing this song on the bus when we go for a Trip to the beach, many of us don't know the meaning of the lyrics so we just sing this out loud. This song is still popular here in Indonesia. This song has become our Trip song whenever we reunited again and planning to go someplace else.
The first time that a bikini came out. The girl in the song is afraid to show her body. In the water and in the open. Woman those days have a still have a respect to their bodies. Now you can see that the fabric the girls most wear are lacking of fabrics.
Why is it creepy? It's just a kid being embarrassed cause she's wearing a bikini for the first time 🙄 if you got creeped out by the host then no need to be worried, he is obviously just kidding around and teasing the kid *because her role was to be shy* 🤦 no other intentions, genuinely pure, funny, and CUTE. NOT SEXUALLY. GEEZ
It was a different world then. None of the crimes we have nowadays. People didn't tweet and people had a sense of humor. Not one person felt uncomfortable about this song.Of course their mind wasnt in the gutter and woman were virgins on their wedding. Drugs were for medicine not recreation. Women understood men and divorce was rare. People were friendly to strangers and most didn't lock their doors at night. Those in the video who are still alive would be uncomfortable with today.
@@janchy339 you are going back to the twenties and fourties with the two great wars. Actually racism is worse now then in the era of this song. I see trump supporters who hate anything not white and the KKK is back in business. Even worse, religious hatred is even stronger than it was back then. The Mideast was a place many went along with Cuba. People didn't have barriers like today. Of course no cell phones back then so people developed personalities.
Paul Baransky I think the phrasing of your first comment is odd. The crimes we have today happened back then, they were just “close-doored” and people made sure they weren’t in the limelight. Also, this song was written in 1960, which was 4 years before the Civil Rights Act. I do believe that racism still exists today, but the media has exaggerated it. There are only a small number of KKK members and Neo-nazis, and compared to past discrimination, it has died down to a small percentage (it’s still a problem, just not as big and should never be compared to segregation)
@@cassi5420 you may be correct about crimes committed going unreported. Seems like all of the trump supporters are white racists. people have gone off the deep end with guns and crazies. I think social media plays a part as well as the president. People have lost respect for others now and that is sad. Maybe the belief in a higher power was greater then and more people didn't want to go to the wrong place when they died. People rarely locked their doors or cars, with the exception of big cities. Now there is no safe suburbs. Another problem is America has 200 million more people now than 1960. More people,less space more crime.
someone explained that it was about a woman but if they put a grown woman up on stage in a bikini there would be many complaints; it would be scandalous. this was supposed to be a cute little thing but ofc ppl with their dirty mindsets in this society want to make it something it’s not.
@@ecliptik8020 it wasn't supposed to be about a little girl. It was supposed to be about a teenage girl, but they put in a little girl to make it more appropriate for TV broadcasting.
Richard Rodler the word nigga shouldn’t be restricted for use by a specific race. Skin color shouldn’t be the reason for having advantages over others.
what was that tv host thinking that he did that cat purr for the little girl in the bikini she was like 7 years old she easily could've been his daughter *
I was 12 and my fav cousin was 24..she loved this song so much and I did too..I hear this song and all of a sudden I'm back in time..yet I'm almost 63..love this...thx and GOD bless you all..😊
I believe they used the little girl as a joke. Imagine being back then and they brought out a 18 year old beautiful young lady in a very tiny swimsuit??? There would have been an avalanche of complaints from many shocked viewers. It would have been to racey for the times. I bet they thought long and hard about how to present the song and get past the sensors. No pun intended...
Robert S It’s not a very funny “joke” it’s creepy to use a little kid i feel like it would be less shocking to use an 18 year old teenage girl bikini then a small child in a bikini especially since the singer was around that age himself it actually seems more racy & shocking to me to use a little kid & not sure how it’s a “joke” but
Daisy Lawton At this time, pedophilia was rarely talked about, and people minds weren’t stuck in the gutter. Most people in this time held strong Christian values, so seeing a half-naked woman would’ve been seen as offensive (and a little girl as cute). Don’t take this as an insult (as that isn’t my intention), but you seem to be the one with the perverted mind, as you instantly interpret the video as if it could be sexualized, however I will admit that I myself was very uncomfortable as well
This song was written by Paul Vance about his little daughter's embarrassment of wearing a bikini. Paul was a very prolific song writer but this seemed to be is biggest. He also wrote "Playground In My Mind" (a hit in 1973) in which his 8 year old son Phil sang a backing chorus.
Ewww... Creepy song that "Playground"... coincidentally, I was 8 yrs. old myself when that song was in the Top40 in the 1970s. The song mentions the boy finding a nickel. I went to this park in our neighbourhood, and went to the adult swings. A 20-ish (maybe a bit older) with reddish hair had a transistor radio with him (we didnt have headphones back then)...That song was playing on the radio. Eeek! I really hated that song though. That one and the one from '77 (cant remember the name now), something about Summer. Actually, if that man had taken me away and killed me or had sex with me would have taken me out of physical and verbal abuse I was experiencing at home.
@@gewoonik687 No, Paul Vance was born in 1929. I read another (younger) guy was pretending to be the author, but when he died it was revealed he was an impostor.
Yep, if you stop the video at about the 2:20 mark you can see where the strings are tied together at the front. There's basically no material covering her in the front. I guess it was so small that whoever put it on her couldn't tell the front from the back!
I wonder what the little girl featured here is doing now.One thing for sure, she has one incredible 'that was me' claim to fame where her Grandkids are concerned!.
She was afraid to come out of the locker She was as nervous as she could be She was afraid to come out of the locker She was afraid that somebody would see Two, three, four, tell the people what she wore! It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini That she wore for the first time today. An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini So in the locker she wanted to stay. Two, three, four, stick around we'll tell you more! She was afraid to come out in the open And so a blanket around her she wore. She was afraid to come out in the open. And so she sat bundled up on the shore. Two, three, four, tell the people what she wore! It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini. That she wore for the first time today. An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini. So in the blanket she wanted to stay. Two, three, four, stick around we'll tell you more! Now she is afraid to come out of the water. And I wonder what she's gonna do. 'Cause she's afraid to come out of the water. And now the poor little girl's turning blue. Two, three, four, tell the people what she wore! It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini. That she wore for the first time today. An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini. So in the water she wanted to stay. From the locker to the blanket, From the blanket to the shore, From the shore to the water Guess there isn't any more.
I think I'd appreciate it if you didn't automatically assume the worst about everything and question something from over 60 years ago that might not perfectly align with today's standards because of your corrupted mind in this extremely over-sexualized society.
Hey guys! For those who are saying the song is predatory..It isn't actually! The reason why they put a child was because if they put an older lady in a bikini on stage dirty minded people would doing weird things! And since people unless there predators don't really blush or do weird things when it's a child! That's why they used a child instead of an adult! I hope it makes sense!!:)
I think it is about a woman, but it would be considered too scandalous to have a full grown girl wearing a tiny bikini when this was done, so they used a little girl for both that and to be comedic.
They use a kid to make it CUTE .... Not SEXY ... That's why they didn't use full grown woman or teen to wear a SMALL yellow polka dots bikini to illustrate the song ... Even though the song is about grown woman since they can't use a teen or grown woman wearing a bikini in a live show ..unless it's a beauty pageant. ..they are more conservative ... THAT'S THE POINT ...
I was born in the mid-1950s, so I heard the song on the radio all the time. I thought it was supposed to be a risqué number about a hot teen! So I found this tv show very creepy.
Not sure why this was in my recommended and not sure why the presenter says to check the girl out in the bikini than purring as if she's supposed to look hot. Strange!
isitme I hope he tried to be funny by making men think there was going to be a grownup woman and instead find a kid or that someone played a joke on him because it’s frankly sickening to consider he meant those sounds while talking about a girl.
...he was playing a little joke on the television audience at home... ...he introduced her the way he did and the home audience be like: ..."Oh, great, they're gonna show a hot chick in a bikini!!!... 🐺🐺🐺! ...then the bikini-girl shows up on camera, and the home audience be like: ...Aww,💩!... ... it's just a little girl in a bathing suit 😞... ..."
This goes to show how we got worse overtime as a species. Even if it’s just an innocent joke and an innocent song, people scream pedo jokes left and right
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@@if6was929 In 1960 I was 10 years old. Had no idea At that time the bikini was around since 1946. You probably had to look it up yourself in order to comment!
@@victoriat8481 lol, then you didn't know 60's at all. People always hide in plain sight. Doesn't matter the decade. Also children are still not as protected. It as taboo then as it is now. The ONLY difference is the amount of evidence that can be gathered from everyone's day to day life. Making it easier to find said pedophiles,and making it easier to hide from authorities. Evil has always been around, to assume it was worse back then compared to now just show how much you don't know about the world. About people.
Most of you making these stupid pedo comments obviously weren't around in 1960, when the World was a different place, and everything was not so Politically Correct. Back then, this song video was considered "cute". As for Brian Hyland..he was the cutest on the video.
+Daniel Pena Brian was adorable. The little girl was having fun though. You can see it as she "acts". Brian on the other hand..had the cuteness quite naturally.
Beech Nut Gum was a sponsor of the show during some of its run. I read elsewhere that they passed out gum to the audience members and had them chew it. Beech Nut said their gum was "Flavor-ific" and in some shows most of the audience sport "IFIC" buttons.
She was afraid to come out of the locker she was as nervous as she could be she was afraid to come out of the locker she was afraid that somebody would see Two three four tell the people what she wore It was an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini that she wore for the first time today an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini so in the locker she wanted to stay Two three four stick around we'll tell you more and make it pretty and we'll tell you more She was afraid to come out in the open so a blanket around her she wore she was afraid to come out in the open and so she sat bundled up on the shore Two three four tell the people what she wore It was an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini that she wore for the first time today an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini so in the blanket she wanted to stay Two three four stick around we'll tell you more Now shes afraid to come out of the water and I wonder what she's gonna do now she's afraid to come out of the water and the poor little girl's turning blue Two three four tell the people what she wore It was an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini that she wore for the first time today an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini so in the water she wanted to stay From the locker to the blanket from the blanket to the shore from the shore to the water yes there isn't any more
"and the fbi would kicking the door down in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1," and then I stare nervously at the door waiting for the pinkertons to barge in with revolvers in hand. but minutes without them coming though. I know this comment be long but who really cares at this point, pinkertons won't be kicking my door down for i'm just a qrteen and they don't exist anymore or whatever
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Taipans it was actually written about his toddler daughter who was shy about wearing a bikini to the beach, so it’s really just an inncocent song people just perceived it the wrong way
My mother grew up with Brian. She said they dated a couple of times, but decided to stay friends instead. Hence....my father. 😁 He never wrote anything but checks.
Boy: Hey girl, want to go down to the juke joint to catch a malt? Girl: Why, you're as cool as ice daddy-o! Sure! Lets jam! Boy: Baby girl, you're as sweet as cream! Lets roll!
I heard that Brian Hyland got his inspiration for this wonderful song when he met this young couple walking on the beach one day. She was wearing a yellow polka-dot bikini and he had an itsy-bitsy teeny weenie. Not that anyone noticed, mind you.
My dad used to play this song everytime in the car and I don't know the lyrics I just singing that itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka but the dot bikini was a shock for me👀 and I thought it was doctor clinic wth lol
I remember this song very well but don't remember seeing this video. I always pictured a a hot looking woman not a child. lol Makes me wonder with all the abuse being exposed from the entertainment industry back then... hmm NOT SAYING IT PROMOTES THAT HERE,,, but it just spoiled the vision I had for this song...
give it "this song a break & as for "S4uryk" or what ever your name is if you don't like it get off RU-vid & this song was in the 60's and not everybody was politically correct back then
I know what you mean. I didn't even notice on how the bikini was bordering paedophilia until soft morons pointed it out in the comments. I was just listening to to the retarded but catchy song.
