NOW THIS IS HOW YOU GET THE PARTY STARTED!!! DANNY AND THE JUNIORS - AT THE HOP (REACTION) 

Sock Hops were held in the school gym, every one took their shoes off so they didn't scratch the floor.

If you remember in school when you couldn’t wear “street shoes” in the gymnasium…this was why school dances were referred to as “sock hops”…you either had to have perfect/new shoes on or dance in your socks to prevent scratching up the floors in the gym.

The Hop was a dance held on the Basketball court at school, so you had to take off your shoes. It was a ":sock-hop", cause you danced in your socks.

My Mom LOVES this. She is Class of ‘55. She was there for the birth of rock n roll. 🎶🎵

I danced to this song at the malt shop, way, way back when. I was a tiny little girl and my much older sister would take me with her. Boys would want to impress her so they filled me up on malted and french fries. Years later I asked my big sister, " Connie, why did you take me everywhere with you"? She looked at me with a straight face, and said, "birth control.". I laughed so hard, and I still laugh when I think about it.

"Rock And Roll Will Never Die "by them was a huge hit as well.

The other big hit by Danny & The Juniors was the prophetic "Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay".

My sister did this dance!! She did them all...🕺💃it was amazing watching her and her friends.. ( they had to run home to watch American Bandstand)❤

So many people seem to have forgotten just how much fun the 1950's were in this country, The 50's were a great time.

Great stuff. I was born in '66 and on the weekends my parents played music most of the time: both the stuff they grew up on, like this track, and the stuff that was "new": Santana, Hendrix, the Doors, etc. So I got a great musical education growing up. And as a result most of the new stuff today doesn't impress me. In the 50s, "sock hops" were a big deal for kids. They'd get to their school gym, take off their shoes, and dance to stuff like this in their socks.

There was a club in Houston called the hop.🎶🎶🎶. When the d j played this song all the waitress's did a great dance routine 💃💃💃💃💃. Man that was one hot club🔥🔥🔥🔥

When I was in my Tweens and then Teens, we used to go to the Sock Hops. That's is where everyone danced in their socks to the latest 50s RnR tunes.

We used to have sock hops at school dances. Used the basketball court so no shoes allowed. Everybody wore socks and danced, lol.

It's such a pleasure to see the two of you enjoying this kind of music 🎶 I'm 66 so this is my music ha ha. Also I love 💕 country music. I am so happy I found your channel. Love you

You two are better than I am. All this great music I grew up on and you haven't daced to any of them. How can you stay in your seats? 😄❤❤❤❤❤

I remember the sock hops. I am now 73 and miss those days. Good Times!!!

I was born in 47 my parents bought this 45 With a record player and gave it to me for Christmas.

I can see my late Mother doing the Lindy in Heaven to this - I was her dance partner many times! The sound of the 50s!!!!!

From Philadelphia. They met in high school. Their song got sent to Dick Clark who was doing American Bandstand out of Philadelphia, and promoted them to a hit song. They were 16.

Great jitterbug song, especially when you weren’t wearing shoes, glided across the floor!

I was 12 when this song came out. I can't remember ever seeing the video before. Thanks for reacting to this.

You're doing a public service by bringing this great music to a new generation of listeners. Thank you.

The Splits was a big move back in the day, I remember going to Family parties, dances, bull & oyster roast, I couldn't wait until my Uncle Paul started dancing as he was the split king in our family also a great dancer!!!

You guys are fun! I love how you took the song all the way back and played it all over. This is always been one of my favorite songs from the 50s.

Yes the Hop was a Place for dancing. Usually the school "Sock Hop" but it also was a Night Club (At The Hop) in So Cal. At one time partially owned by the Righteous Brothers.

I remember dancing to this song at Teen Town held at our local YMCA when I was in Junior High. This in 1960-1962. Brings back lots of memories! Great fun dancing to great music.

If you want the cliff notes on early Rock & Roll, I reccomend the film "American Hot Wax".

I can't help thinking you guys would enjoy "Who Put The Bomp" by Barry Mann released in 1961.

This was my mom's music. At the Hop was my first record from my mom. Giving me good memories 😊

I really appreciate the suits, steps and background singing.

Danny and the Juniors had great moves for a vocal group…sharp dressers also.

Another of the 50's doo-wop groups. Their biggest hit was "At The Hop" but they had a few other songs such as "Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay", "Dottie, "Twistin' USA" etc.

The actual "Hop" was usually a roadside restaurant with plenty of parking. You could get burgers, hot dogs, chicken, pizza, malts, shakes, floats, and ice cream sundaes. There were the classic chrome swivel stools to sit on in the front, and many of them had a separate area with speakers that they would clear out on a Friday and Saturday night for some dancing. Good tunes, good food, good vibes, and good times back then. Doo wop was an all-american invention. 🇺🇸

I love seeing the different dances they had to Rock and Roll. Wish I could do them. It always looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for another great reaction ❤

I really love that you are playing these older songs and can see how their voices are so amazing and talented bunches of entertainers back then. My grandmother would sit in a rocking chair after dinner and play records , close her eyes and sing to the songs. I would watch her and was entertained by her loving these old songs. I remember hearing many of these 1950's songs as a kid. She did like songs like this, I did, but she liked slow, warm stuff as she called it

Yay! I was in lower grade school when I first heard this. You guys have put a smile on my face for days now.

He lists some of the dance sensations that swept the nation. It was a time of fads in part because modern communications made it possible for them to spread so fast.

Love your reactions. I was a baby when this came out, so too young to go to the hop, lol! One of my favorite 50s songs, love their rhyming and beautiful harmonies. When people can get together again throw a 50s themed "hop" it will be the talk of the town! I would love to see you in a poodle skirt & ponytail, Mel!

It was hip to go to The Hop . So we just started calling it The Hip-Hop...this is when Hip-Hop got started. 😎

Fun reaction This i one of the great high energy, early rock hits Love that you guys reacted to this one

58 I was 9yrs old but still remember it well. Back then this music was only on AM radio

Loved those sock hops! From the hops to Woodstock! Great musical Era!

Back in the day High Schools used to have dances in their gyms. People had to remove their shoes to get on the floor. Those dances became known as "sock hops". Thats what they are singing about,

I was born in 1964, but was brought up listening to this kind of music. IMO, you can't beat it. Thanks mam. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Young people need to listen to that era of music. It's fun and makes you smile and feel good. It does me, and I lived through it.

I just danced with my 33 year old autistic son! Thank you!☮️💙😍

You can rock it, you can roll it! One of my all time favorite songs. We used to dance at house parties, over at friend's houses or at the donut shop. Danced all the time. Loved your reactions to this. Had lots of fun with you two tonight.

When all these vocal groups practiced and polished up a song before going into a recording studio, they sang it acapella, no instrumental accompaniment, on the street, in a hallway, someone's house, wherever. It would've blown your minds to have been at a good doo-wop group's practice and actually FEEL the magic of their harmony being created in midair right in front of you. Back in the day,, I did that at least a hundred times.

Shawn and Mel - Both of you are so very warmly appreciative of the music groove of the past. We enjoy watching you enjoy.

I was 13yrs old in 1955 at the birth of rock n roll ,being aTeenager at that time was great ,we thought we would be young forever , listening to all the greats of that era ,Elvis-Buddy holly Jerry Lee Lewis Chuck Berry and the wonderful female singers .

It was ALWAYS a school dance in the gym, where you had to take your shoes off so as not to scratch the basketball court, so we danced in our stocking feet, so that is why they were called "SOCK HOPS" THIS is ROCK 'n' ROLL, NOT heavy metal that is always referred to as rock 'n' roll. TRUE rock'n' roll is from the '50's through the early '60s. Alan Freed was the first to use the term "rock'n'roll for this type of music, He was a Cleveland DJ in the '50s (my hometown and where I still live) and that is why the city of Cleveland petitioned so hard to have the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, built here in Cleveland, and WE WON.

You two are way more fun to watch than the video when u play 50/60's music !

Shawn and Mel...Home Free does a nod to the 50's with a couple of songs 1. CRAZY 2. Blue Ain't Your Color, I know that ya'll have done several Home Free songs, I have been Home Fry for a while so give it a try! I was born in the 51, my brother was 11 years older than me so these type of songs played all the time...my brother would have his friends over for a record party and yes we all danced like crazy (we took our shoes off and wore only socks, so this is where the term "sock hop" came to be)!

Making me dance!!!

If a song can evoke feelings, and spark joy, and have the longevity that music from the 50's and 60's and even later, you know you have a great song!!

I think the "hop" they're referring to is sock hops. Even in the 70's, we had school sock hops in the gym which was dancing to music in just your socks.

Poodle skirts with lots of slips or tight skirts, Bobby socks and penny loafers were the outfits we wore while dancing to this. Such fun times. 💃🏽💃🏽🔥🔥

"who says "white boys can't dance" ... I'm callin' for a dance off, lol! Great post!!

Should listen to -Venus by Frankie Avalon Breaking up is hard to do by Neil Sedaka This diamond ring by dion and the belmonts Badfinger-no matter what Last kiss by j Frank Wilson and the cavaliers

I was born in '53, and in the mid-sixties my junior high school had a Friday "sock hop" once a month. You couldn't wear your street shoes on the gym floor so you had to leave your shoes in the hall. I was a nerdy little girl, but my (some nerdy, some with a little more panache!) friends and I sure went to the sock hops! No swing dancing then, sadly, but some of the popular dances were the Mashed Potato, the Swim, the Pony, the Twist and the Jerk. Lots of fun.

As an Aussie, I was gunna tell you what I have known close to 54 years.. I was born in 58.. but the comment just before this one.. told you where & how the sock hop came to be.. In American high schools before I was born..👍👍🦘🦘

A Hop is a dance hosted by a school or community organization, also known as a sock hop because the kids of that time took their shoes off & danced in their crew socks (bobby socks). They took their shoes off to preserve the gym floor & aid in slipping & sliding around for the various dance moves.

Omg such a classic!!!!! Wow. 👌🏼👍🏼👏🏻

You’ve made an old white guy happy, saying we got some moves. 🤛🏻🇬🇧

My parents taught me how to dance to this as a kid. I remember Mom burning dinner because we danced so much and got lost in it. Baloney sandwiches and oldies for dinner that night! Lol.

My sister and I use to make the windows shake when we would dance upstairs to the oldies. She would yell you girls stop shaking the windows 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Man! Bandstand kids jumped on the dancefloor when this song came on.

Back in the 50's, schools had sock hops, because you had to take your shoes off to dance on the school indoor basketball court.

The "sock hop" is where the action was.

The hop was another name for dance; let's go to the dance.

In "American Pie", Don McLean sees a couple -- who had both kicked off their shoes -- dancing in the gym. They were at a school sock hop.

Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers started a dance club in Southern California called The Hop. Pretty much named after this song. From 5pm to 8pm, they played oldies for the older crowd to dance to. I used to go on Friday nights and dance with Papa Hop (a older regular gentleman) He was old enough to be my father but taught me to dance couples dancing like they did in the 40's to the 50's oldies at The Hop. Sadly, The Hop is no longer. It closed down almost 20 years ago. I sure miss that place. Sometime during the night, someone is a full rabbit costume would come out and dance with the people. There were also couples games which were lots of fun. One was the woman grabbing a blown up balloon, run to her partner sitting down and sit and the balloon until it popped... and keep doing it to pop as many as you can until the time ends. The couple with the most popped ballons won.

In the '70s there was a group whose entire act was a parody of Danny & the Juniors - they were called Sha-Na-Na - recalling common lyrics from doo-wop songs of the late '50s and early'60s.

Something added to songs geared toward dancing at that time were the names of the dances that kids were doing. For some reason it would always bring the song up in sales.

I love pioneer 50s rock, I am glad you guys reated to It!

There's a lot of original 50's-era rock 'n roll that's SO much fun!

The lead singer was Danny Rapp who sadly passed away in 1983.

Shawn and Mel: Enjoyed your enthusiasm as you were reacting to Danny & The Juniors.

I love you guys!☮️💜

I was 15 y/o, the schools had SOCK/HOPS in the gym. Playing all the TOP 10 records. Many times local bands would play LIVE @ the hops. Safe, sane, fun for teenagers!! Dance the night away 🎶 ✨️

The hop was a school dance. Sometimes it’s referred to as the sock hop cause kids actually danced in their socks. Went to a few of those back in the day. Waaay back!

You guys need to listen to Percy Sledge's When A Man Loves A Woman. It's the greatest love song ever recorded in my opinion. Juice Newton's Angel in The Morning is another great song. I could name a very long long list of great songs.

This was one of the classic’s of the 50’s!

The ‘sock hop’ was a dance at the school gym, where you danced in your stocking feet so you not mar the gym floor. They played records and danced. You would go over and ask a girl to dance. You danced with all the girls. Fun time.

Hop. Where we danced mixed groups both sides of the tracks. I remember the Roller rinks dance skating. Line dances on our skates. Evenings open to dancing in socks. There should be no mention of skin tone. Talent is talent. Why is anyone shocked God gives true talent and He is color blind.

My wife and I have went to many sock hops. We even went to dances at skating rinks after 10 PM on Saturday night.

I love this! One of my all time fav Oldies ☺

Loved going to the Hop every weekend in the school hall, the parish hall. Great times not like today.

In my town, the hop was a small cinder block building owned by the VFW . On friday nights, they had a DJ. The girls were on one side of the room, the boys on the other and everybody dancing in the middle. I went to a Catholic school. If the nuns found out you were at the hop, there'd be hell to pay.

YUP! We had a dance for this song too. It was very popular in my day!!!

I LOVE the songs you do!

One of the first rock and roll songs.

Glad to see you getting into all this 1950s and early 60s music….so much more to discover! I’m gonna sub now!

Reminds me of the great dances at Riverdale Collegiate in Toronto way back in the early 1960's. Good memories.

Nothing like the great music from the early 1960's.

Oh you mean you liked the "Bass Man" thats what those guys were called in Doo-Wop. there is even a song called "Mr. Bass Man" by Johnny Cymbal from 1963. yall should hear that

BTW, Doo Wop music started on streets in cites. Friends would get together and sing and even sometime make up songs. They has no instruments to accompany them. So they began to vocalize instruments. If you listen closely to doo wop vocals you can hear horns drums etc from the group

schools had record hops, where a local dj came & spun the hits and the kids danced.If it was a sock hop, you had to take your shoes off.

You can do your own! It’s just a hop and a skip away!

"Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay" -- same group