@@aydentorres7644 What did u say little shit I'll have u know I graduated top of my class in the navy seal and I have 438 confirmed kills and I have worked in many classified missions and I have 600 army recrots that will do what ever I say
Can't wait to learn this dance finally, when all this is over. Am a 60's baby, did regular free style dancing to this beloved song. Grooved to it MANY years & still to this day, just listening. Played it (the 45 &/or the 78 1/33 RPM) over & over on my lil record player growing up. Oh, the memories, right ? Just never learned to "do the hustle" 😁. Cannot wait ! Continue Van McCoy, to rest at peace. Miss him, gone too soon back when 😇🎵🎺🎼📻💜
Sadly I was 4 when the hustle exploded. And because I was 4, I was legally not allowed go to any discotheques to dance the hustle at places like Studio 54, or The Galaxie discotheque somewhere away from Chicago, or Faces in the heart of Chicago's Rush Street. Could not dance anywhere in those places. And then disco was blown up in 1979 and I was unable to dance the hustle until roughly 1995 when I did take up a basic hustle class at Urbana-Champaign with the great Paul Jones, and once I learned the few cool moves as the Turning Basic, Pull Basic, Coaster, Alternating Underarm Turns, and Cross-Body Leads - I was 25 years old at that time - I fell in love with a dance that I was unable to go dance to at the clubs at 4 years young - the hustle! I still love the hustle today! Every time I "hustle" I feel like I am Karen Lynn Gorney, even though I am not a lady.....
The 1970's, best decade of my life. This song played at all the dance clubs, it was great. Sometimes we'd do the Hustle as a group and there'd be like 20 of us on the dance all dancing in sync. Best time ever, complete strangers all dancing together. Doesn't get much better than that.
75, you were privileged to be from the Happy Days I would almost have sold my soul to have been in when I was a teen. I'm 60 and hated those disco times. I liked some of the songs, but my heart was with the 1950's up to mid-1960's. Malt shops, sock hops, cruising the block, Beach Boys music, Beatles invasion looked a whole lot more fun than stuffy old discos. I guess it wasn't disco, but Grand Funk Railroad redoing Little Eva's "Loco Motion" would drive me to tears I despised the disco and screwed up rock music days coming in my lousy life. Now I love both versions! But I'd still want nothing to do with going back to those days and the strong longing I had to be back in the Happy Days I was Born Too Late for.
phillip krikorian I’m 19 and I’m so sad that malt shops don’t exist today. I’ve seen movies like the Music Man, Back to the Future, and Grease where they go to ice cream shops or diners down the street. I’m in a swing dance club at my university because I love the music back then and the clothes back then. Hearing these stories from you guys is cool cause my grandparents never told me these kinds of stories :)
Makes me sad I wasn't born till 1999. Imagining that my dad was around then...lucky dude. He always talks about all the great music and I agree. He passed his love for this music down to me, and now it's all I listen to. Forget the music nowadays. It can't even compare.
@@deafleppard1812 ok, it's not the right moment bro, he's got a point though music nowadays are just lazy if you know that they were all created by one song writer youll be shock
Yeah but this person is old lol, I’m still in middle school, I actually enjoy music from the 50’s to today my favorite has to be the 80’s with its electronic pop and the no auto tune is good too
The thing people don't realize is that there was as much garbage music back then as there is now. You really only ever hear the same few hundred hits from a past era, but there were tens of thousands of songs on the radio then. And now we have a lot of trash, with the occasional gem, and when we look back we'll only remember the gems and none of the rest of the garbage. It's also pretty unfair to dismiss a whole generation of musicians as being trash just because there's a lot of bad music on the radio; there are a ton of musicians that are great and talented, you just gotta look for them.
When this came out my girlfriend loved it ........I cant dance for shit but she taught me to do the hustle.a magical time in the 70's I danced with her made my day .........Do the Hustle .......Thanks Emily.............a wonderful time in the hood .............
I look at this and where we are musically in black culture now and I don't know how we have totally fallen so far. We have sold ourselves out for the almighty dollar to produce poor quality of music
Amen. All you gotta do is look at videos like 'anaconda' by Nicki Minaj. It is utterly embarrassing and disgusting. All they care about now is how much 'green' they can make. SMH
@@sdovas It was so sad, it SHOCKED the world. He was so young and gifted and we will not let the world forget Van McCoy and "The Hustle." In fact, the University of Maryland Global Campus is using the song as part of an Ad campaign at this time.
Ok no worries, keep that energy, it's good to know you being 50 years older than me you're still moving, I'm glad to know there's people still having fun without letting their age to stop them :^).
I was in the 6th grade when this came out. During our last period of every day we all had to push back our desks and line up to do the hustle so that we got to work out a little bit of energy before being dismissed for the day...it was a great time!
I would personally like to thank everyone over the age of 30 for giving us the best music created, I am only 16 years old but I prefer older music so thank you for giving us eternal and forever lasting music such as this.
"Best music created" ever heard of Jon Bellion? Kyle Cogrithe? Marvin Divine? No? Or are you just stuck on "this generation sucks" just because of what you see on the top of the surface? Don't be scraping the top of a bowl. There's always amazing stuff below it.
The year was 1975...I was 18 years old...I danced all I could...I loved all I could...Drank far more than I should...Would I do it again...In a heartbeat...If I could...
I never understood why people hated Disco Music, it was just happy music that made you want to dance. Great fun back then at the dance clubs. Thanks for posting, JN
Argh, WHO are the session musicians? McCoy was so out of the box to use a flute in a pop song! And i know its the great Melvyn Davis on Trumpet and legendary drummer Eric Gadd, but who's playing that great lead guitar? Who is the flautst? Or is it a piccolo? These questions remain unanswered....
lol I can hardly imagine I was born in the late 90's, my mother, grandmother and grandfather loves this music, doing the hustle they will never show how they did it back in the day XD
This marvelous song drove me wild when I was 16 years old (and later)! I recall several unforgettable nights at ZIG ZAG or SOTON (two fabulous Rio de Janeiro discos of the era) nobody could stop me from reaching the dancing floor. Wonderful memories...
I remember 1983 watching mom and dad put this on that huge phonograph console. You know the great big wooden one. While my sister and myself watched as mom and dad rocked out the highlands neighborhood in Louisville Ky. Wow the memories.
Greetings family, thank you for sharing that wonderful memory ! My Momma still has her big wooden console. With the radio on one side, record player on the other. and.......8 track tape deck in the center, with storage space for records and tapes ! 76, 12yrs old and oblivious to the world. Thanks for the memories. Love this song. It's Big, Brassy, and Lush ! It got in my soul and never left. Be well, JB
Yes! that big analog console which made the hair on the back of your neck stick up when you heard your favourite tune. That feel is lost with digital music.
I've seen this video soooo many times and I can still see it a million more times. People seem HAPPY and with beautiful smiles and just dancing. I LOVE IT!!!! I wish we still lived in happy times.
Sums up the 70s for me! I picture all my family and friends dancing with me when I hear it. A fabulous tune from a fabulous era. Thank you for uploading. ❤
+Jeffy Samuel You're missing a trick there pal; nostalgia isn't crap, not by a long chalk. Nosatlgia plants seeds, you gotta keep growin' 'over there, past the trees.....'....
I love the fact this song has very few words. I guess as long as you have the rhythms and melodies working so well, words really don't have to be a priority.
I think this was one of the Songs that started Disco... I remember it vividly as I was about 12 or maybe 14. Still a Fabulous Tune. Those days are gone forever which is so sad.❤️
Got this song in my head tonight, decided to listen to it here, so glad I did - got me up dancing, smiling and in a great mood now. Can't beat good dancing music.
I was 18, dancing in clubs in NY/NJ, meeting great people, doing really good pharms....such a great time! I cry when I think of all those who have passed since, but man we had fun. those
My History teacher Mr read used to play this song in his class room back in 2012 at the beginning of class and tell us how lucky he was to dance with his girl friend before she became his wife. RIP Mr read your where the best American government teacher ever he took his own life in 2018 after his first wife died of cancer. He always said he couldn't life without her I guess he made that choice on his own.
Van McCoy R.I..P ....you left us far to young a heart attack at 39 !!! ....Obviously Heaven wanted you early to set the dance floor alight ....if you don't feel good after listening to this then your not alive 😁✊
Mind blowing ...... listening after almost 4 decades....I was in my teens when I heard this.......and this instrumental sent me in memories lane of that golden yester years.....thanks
I remember when I learned to do the hustle. I was 18 years old in a gay bar in Huntsville, Alabama in 1975. It was fun learning to line dance to this song that night.
I have been singing at a different nursing home once a week every month and wanted to make this month disco month. This song is definitely a winner as the seniors love to dance!
The Hustle is one of the most loved easy listening classics from Disco era. Strings, brass and vocals reached the perfection in this heavenly piece of music.
Being born in 1984, I have always been fond of the 70s era. I would do anything to live in the height of disco, go out on a Saturday in the freshest clothes with a pair of girls on my arm and we just dance the night away. I would love to do it. Maybe watching "Saturday Night Fever" made me feel like this but "the Hustle" is what the disco era was all about. I am/have always being jealous of people born in this era. It was an amazing time. It would have been more amazing to have lived through it!
I am always amazed at people your age who pine for the period when I was young...and how I really miss it all. I just wonder what happened to the energy, the creativity and the fun of a much better time in history. This is why I watch this video often.
I know how you feel, brother! You are so lucky to be born in that time period. I miss the 80's and 90's but I can't imagine how awesome it was the be born during the 70's. Things have changed a lot and it makes me cry sometimes.
Man, I was born in 1952...was 12 years old when the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan and within a year, Motown was just kickin our butts! The Four Tops were my absolute favorite...Motown really changed the state of things along with the British invasion...what a wonderful time it was to be alive! Man, I so miss it as I was in bands from 64-70 and daily I recall what a great time those years were.I'd give anything to live it all over.
Phoenix, I am here to tell you that it was so awesome. I was a bartender in the late 70s and early 80s at several clubs and discos. The music, attitude, attire and energy were sky high. More fun than anything I have ever experienced. And the women loved to get on that floor and show it off!!!!!!
My great aunt who was like my grandma passed away a few weeks ago and her funeral was yesterday and this was played there, she’s be dancing away so I can relate, one of her favourite song 😥
Looking at this video and not neglecting years below 70s and 80s this was an intermediate time for the world both in music and films, in short this video is a relic, whoever took advantage of that time knows.👏👏👏
I got a flashback hearing this one again, I was 13 years old in 1975 , it was a hot summer in the U.K that year, I had just received a brand spanking new 10 speed racing bike from my parents which made this song even better , oh the happy memories of a nice childhood !
I haven't heard this since I was a teenager in the 70's and it still makes the hairs on my back stand on end. What a privilege it was growing up in the 60's and 70's and being spoiled with such fantastic music. I'd go back in a heartbeat and leave this modern world behind - Anyone else feel this way?
Lotus Alstom ...Me Too... these Poor kids today won't, experience the times we had. I would love to transport back to the 70's for my last years. I don't care for today's world ..at all... We had such a wonderful time. ...no cell phones , no computers & all the crap that goes with computers. Life was good...
@@elaineshelton5825 - Totally agree! I don't know whether it was as much fun for adults back then, but growing up was a lot of fun.. If someone invents transportation before I peg it, I'll wait for you on my Chopper behind the bike shed (or should that be with my Chopper)?
Oh i wish i could bring back these days, such a cheerful and happy tune and one of many, great memories of my early teenage years, a fabulous and amazing disco era, carefree and happy times, they are long gone, but never forgotten, always brings a smile to my face when i play this song ❤❤❤
