Pink Shoelaces - Dodie Stevens Live 1959 

Same age as me, and I loved her back in the day!

she tried acting but things didnt fall in favor .i don't know why ...she has a great personality

She was quite mature for her age, especially back then. Extremely talented professional by thirteen years old. Should have had much bigger career on TV, film and particularly should have been a huge Broadway musical star. What little I've been able to read about her doesn't seem to get into much detail on her life except in a very general way. Even in the rare interviews she doesn't really get into much. Largely, I think, because most interviewers concentrate on this one song and period of her life relative to it. I read, though, she didn't like Pink Shoelaces, preferring to perform the more adult standards of the time. And was, and apparently still is to some degree, irritated that that's pretty much the only thing she's remembered for. I can understand, given her well rounded singing and acting chops. Unfortunate for her and the general public that she never really got to use all that talent at the level I think she warranted and deserved. I get the impression she saw herself as more suited talent-wise to '40 and early to mid '50s musical films where she could've really stretched her skills. Well. Is what it is.

So not much older than me. I was almost 12 years old. I thought she closer to 77 years old now.

So closer 16 years old then.

Cisco Pike nice memories !

I wasn’t even born

so cute !!!! im glad you won! its neat you got to live during such an iconic period of time!

That is so cool! Well, it might be a bit late now, but congratulations on winning. Lol

Fabulous talented girls, well done. Great memory to keep. 👍

stlgtrace we'd cope terribly

How about have to share a three party telephone line

This is how 13 year old girls should be

Yes I am laughing too

That's the only reason I'm here sir

Watchn everyday❤😊

We are..!

Me

Take out still ❤ love hear life❤

Heard it on the way home from work. 1 shot/take is also impressive

🙏🏻❤️memories. Prayers for you and your family ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I'm very sorry for your loss. It's very hard to lose a love one. My prayers go out for you❤.

@@pamhutson475 Thank you! 💗

@@cherylszink3715 Thank you! 💗

I'm so sorry for your loss. Great memories you have. I lost my husband last year way too young and my brother is on his death Bed now again way too young.

she's a natural..

+Eric cole What about this conversation is perverted? Get outta here.

I feel her singing style is more like Doris Day

utoobuser101 she might've made the song with 13 but could be performing this as she's older?

Erick Cole, Really? He was just mentioning the obvious, that's she was cute. She has poise and sophistication, so It's an honest mistake to think she was older than 13. I don't believe he was drooling as he was typing that.

Tell her we all love her!❤

That's awesome...

It's a catchy song, and she's an amazing singer, but isn't it creepy that she was singing this (at 13) about her boyfriend that was joining the military, so he's 17 or 18 at the youngest?!?!

​@@docvic9533wow....different times and yet tehy've come full circle in the creepiest way, far more sinister than this portrays

@@docvic9533 I don't think the song is meant to be taken as actual facts of what happened

I'm watching on my 2 billion transistors phone. Lol.

I'm a 1946 baby, too...we were so lucky to be born that year, weren't we?

@@kencampbell2359 Tell me more about your years growing up in the 50s, 60s and the years leading to now! I’m interested in the history of people living in those eras.

I bet there was none of this lgtbq crap in those good ol days, huh? Just people being respectful and having fun.

Same here. My transistor was a Sony worth a kickstand to prop it up. The best of times.

I'm much younger than you But I still find this song nostalgic Because it was in a video game called littlebigplanet 3 released in 2014

I was born in 58 and I too am amazed at how things have changed. Take care -

Im 2 Days older than You 😊

You and I would have been classmates. I was born 10/23/49. I remember this song very well.

I am 4 days older than you. I was born 12/18/1949. I agree with everything you said.

Ur head

What? She's 13? How come? She look 16 or 17

you think she's singing live?

MrFloundermania There is no way in the world she is singing live!

@@bzakie2 at 1:50 you can hear the bass player almost enter early.

69? why

@@anapaulagomes5582 probably Vietnam.. hopefully they don’t mean all of the social progress of the 60s

@@anapaulagomes5582 en effet,pourquoi?

The 50's ended on Dec. 31,1960. That was the end of the SIXTH decade of the 20 th Century. The Century (and Millennium) ended Dec 31, 2000.

@@georgejuniorleedom4476 Are you deranged? Get lost, troll.

YESSSS I AGREEEEEE

YES

Same

Yeah

I thought I was the only one here because of little big planet

Wtf

Noah poop fu

How old was she in this video ?

Dark Reaper 13 or 14, She also was a singer with 'Sergio Mendes & Brazil '77' in the '70's, 'Geri Stevens'.

Wow...Most impressive . Thank you kindley

I've dody very much

I WAS GOING ON 2 YEARS OLD! WOW!

Yeh, never occurred to me either. What a shock to find out after all these years.

DomiTastyVideos yes manglewood

A Plots!! A Nut Twist!!

:) yea!

You were brought here by it too?

Ikr

Automobile's built that not only had fins but character.

1959...The year I entered kindergarten...also the year of the first Mr.Peabody cartoon-which included the Wayback Machine, for going back in time.(Chuckle!)

I want to go back to 1959 too in a time machine!

Me too! 🇺🇸🎙📞

Me again...was there a more musically talented 13-year-old than Dodie at that time...never tire of her remarkable talent and confidence.

agujetas de color de rosa

Agujuetas de color de Rosa

También salió una novela en 1994 con el título y la canción al inicio del capítulo.

@@Elida001 ya perdio la cuenta

@@yessicacaballero8891 ya perdio la cuenta?

EVERYTHING used to be fun.Then,the Democrats began to ruin it all.

@@rentslave Ok, boomer It wasn't any political parties or ideology that degrade the meaning of FUN, its the today's generation that generally lacks the creativity to create iconic music without sensation and money

@@ryhanzfx1641 Do you know why they lack that creativity?The Pill+Roe v Wade+Feminism+AFDC+EBT has greatly reduced the number of intelligent people OF ALL RACES.

Christ, a bunch of leftist boomers and right wing conspiracy nut-jobs flinging shit at each other, but really having no idea what they're talking about... Music still is fun, and I guess everyone's idea of fun differs and is subjective... however, if you look, you can easily find things like this that still go on today.

Tom Dockery ... didn’t the Greeks come up with the Democracy way before the Romans came up with the Republic?

Oh, yes, agree. More please.

and of course the Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini!

Well it was halcyon for some, I guess America of that era needed something to be an antidote to pesky songs like Old Man River, or Strange Fruit, by that time. It never ceases to amaze me how nostalgic people get for this post War America era. A time when people were still being persecuted for their politics, forcibly had their sexuality oppressed, and criminalized, where an entire race was reduced to second class citizens, oh yes, times were so good. It was a terrible time for anyone not a politically conservative, middle class, hetero, WASP, but hey, you had this song so all was right in the world right?

Koo Ki Koo Ki lend me your comb..

In answer to Apis4....In comparison to what we have today, those days WERE golden. So, you must love the crap that we have today. Yes, the world is SO MUCH nicer these days. We just had another mass shooting. If these shootings become any more frequent we'll all soon be able to set our clocks to them. And the drug problem in this country is beyond out of control. And if people are so damn confused as to what gender they are, God gave everyone a big clue. All you gotta do is look between your legs. I'll take the past anytime over the way things are now. The way I see it, the past is all we got, 'cause I sure don't see a future for this country or this world. Somethin' got to give, and soon!

Born in 46, so 1959 puts her at 13 years old, and the only music shows that attribute her guest appearing, are in 1959. Bob Hope Show, Juke Box jury, Dick Clark Show, BP Super Show. If she was 15, that puts her to 1961, Here's Hollywood, which was an Interview show. After that she drops off the radar, until 68, for the Joey bishop Show. She married at 16, and went to live on a farm, so that explains the ~7 year break. She divorced in 66, and by 1969 she was performing again, with 'Billy, I've Got to Go to Town'.

How new is the dance ?

She had professional voice training, unusual for pop singers back then or now for that matter.

jake spivey She aint singing live.

@@bzakie2 It doesn't really matter dude.

@@bzakie2 Then why is she wearing that cumbersome lavaliere mic around her neck? If she were lip syncing they wouldn't have included such a distracting piece of technology.

Young people today have no experience with genuine talent so of course they think everybody always lip syncing everything.

More mature than 30 year Olds today. More talent than any current musician.

​@@Surfer041 I agree with you but "any" is a bit of a stretch lol

@@Mr.SoggyShoes I disagree

@@Surfer041 so you genuinely believe that there are absolutely no more talented musicians left?

@@Mr.SoggyShoes yes.

I sing without auto tune.

This is what you call talent lmfao 😂😂😂😂

FLAWLESS! I NEVER SMILE AND CRY AT THE SAME TIME!

-I was 8 and Mom had "Pink Shoelaces" on the jukebox at the cafe she owned. It was the hangout for the high school kids.

Did she have any other hits?

@@georgeousharrison She performed with The Chordettes when she got older

Me too! I loved it.

LOL, how do you know her maturity from watching her sing a song she probably rehearsed hundreds of times? She didn't write the song. She only sang it. Any 13 year old can do that.

@@phil1517 But not as well.

I was seven. It's hard to believe she was only 13 with that voice.

Fuck, your old

+Haytham Nawaz someone will be telling you the same thing someday - it's guaranteed - be ready for it.

+EBthere I hope so, I wasn't trying to be hostile with that comment like wow it's amazing someone that only can like connect with something with modern technology and if you think about it like she saw it when she was ten and now she's talking about it like 50+ years later on the Internet. I was just like wowed out. Again no hostility

+EBthere You are betting he lives that long. I would bet on it. Course he wouldnt say crap in person

His old? Oh, you mean YOU'RE.

doughnut 123 I know right

Then she hangs up on her!

doughnut 123 smoking crack

doughnut 123 She's can't hear a thing she's saying cause her ears are bleeding

Has to be wondering why she is dating a pimp...

Note the bulky/awkward microphone she had to wear.

This is not the original recording from the record.

Things were spontaneous in those days.

@ 1:50 Bass plucks early ! Very subtle though 🎵

You're God

@@lia1740 I guess i'm just really niche.

Me to Hee-Hee

I was born in 2005 lol

more of that "im litening to (song from long time ago) and im only (x) years old" bullshit dude i was 8 when i first heard this. and i was born in 2006. dONt JUdgE mE

+Sir Prize Nice idea, BTW, to make a phone tube into mic ;-)

Telephones have microphones too...

I live in the Permian oil basin and there is a regional Mexican grocery store that exclusively plays 1950s and early 1960s music. My mom I always look for excuses to go there. I am 29 and she is in her early 50s.

That's why I'm here lol

@@leahischilly7976 it's a great song, weird to see it blowing up on tiktok lately too. people do this cringe af dance and all

@@MrJaFumb thankfully I haven't seen that yet lol

Yeah that guy...

PEOPLE ALREADY SAID MARLON RANDOM!

Phouthone Louankang except that was the chordetts version

.-.

+Phouthone Louankang hahaha true

Are you fucking serious..?

+Necromaster2077 yep

+Necromaster2077 simmer down

Same lol haha

What???

I'm pretty sure Dooley's not real. I mean, _obviously,_ but what I mean is, I'm pretty sure the song is just Dodie _making up_ an interesting date on the fly, which is why her friend didn't know who he was and why his personal details are all over the place. Dodie just didn't want to go with "He goes to another school... uh... in _Canada!_ You wouldn't know him".

this kind of fashion was popular

Lol

Waiting to use the phone

Sounds like she's going out with a pimp, that probably won't end well

lmfao

i think dolie was just over reacting

Try not to think>

Kids are like that, it's always 'love at first sight' with them.

What is popular today isn't even music! None of it is any good! Now, there's some GREAT MUSIC off the popular path, and it's GREAT because it's written by those that sing it, and they sing it from the heart! ❤️ Avi Kaplan is my new FAVORITE! Neil Diamond is my all time favorite since the late 60s!!!

I was born in 2005 and this era of music is better than anything in 2024