Saw the Cowsills last night, live at BB King's on 42nd in Manhattan. They've still got it! And they sang "Love American Style" with all the gusto of those good 'ol days when "American Style" was a positive reference.
I'm 49. I don't know why, but hearing this song just brings a tears of joy - it makes me so happy. I don't know why. Perhaps some long ago childhood memory that lives in my subconscious. All I know is that the feeling is real.
@Whiteyplaysthebanjo Thank you- it was my favourite episode as a boy "Colonel Klink" was a great actor..even did a voice on a Simpsons episode in one of Homer's dreams RIP
These days there are so much channels I have to flip through and not a single one that I want to see. I wish they'd put the reruns of Love American style on the regular channels, just like I love Lucy.
Why is it great programs like this were taken off the air and sick twisted ones put in it's place. I'd love to be able to buy the entire seres of this program
@organichealthycoffee Great programs like this were taken off the air because if great shows like this were put back on the air, then the producers of today would have to compete with yesterday's quality shows. So, it's easier for them to put up trash, and that's why all we have are the sick twisted shows of today instead of quality shows like Love American Style. I grew up watching this show every night on TV in the 70's. It was great. I miss shows like this.
This is the sort of shows that TV Land should be showing instead of the SHIT they show on a nightly basis. The Nanny is classic tv? Give me freaking break?
Wow, I remember this show - I was still in grade school and my mom didn't want me watching this show on our ONE and ONLY 15" COLOR TV (with UHF converter!). I still remember wiring up an old B&W (that's black and white for you Gen Y's) to the TV antenna so I could secretly watch it in our basement! And who could forget the ubiquitous brass bed. What great memories...
Thanks for posting this...we have really lost something as a nation. Not everything was perfect back then. Of course not..but we threw away what was good..no question.
I posted this on another video, but thought I would share. I showed this to my mom a few months ago, and she started bawling. Come to find out, this was her and my dad's favorite show back when they first got married after college. He died in 1976 from cancer at age 27. She was so happy for the good memories of the good times with my dad that this clip brought back. She bought all of season one the next day. Thanks for giving some good memories back to an older widow.
@jduborygun Wow wow wow hahahah Idiots like me? lol hahahah Dont be so bitter dude! Such an agression comes only from bitter people - hahaha and dont call me idiot you might regret it.
After doing a little research I found out that the comedian's name at 38 and 50 is Stuart Margolin. One of the other regular comedians on the show as hunky black actor: James A. Watson.
I use to love this show when I was kid... What a great time in America...What did we do without Crackberries, cell phones, and stupid video games. The dimise of Western civilization.,
@jperez1910 Amen! I loved this show also when I was a kid. Back then, we REALLY communicated, and we knew what it was to have real friends and spend time around the table eating as a family not all over the place. Nice memories. I wonder what would happen if we all gave up our cell phones/ Crackberries and Internet for a month? We might find that we really have lives.
@Beautifulmusiclistnr I agree let's all just sit our butts in the sand for a weekend, and see who really misses their Crackberries. Those that do, can go back to work. The rest of us will dig for clams and make huts. :)
As a young boy (about 5 or 6) I remember them filming one of those silly comedy bits near my cousin's apartment on Sunset blvd in LA. now near the CNN building, I remember how exciting my whole family was too watch them film!
Great montage of a one of a kind show! Even though it was a comedy, each episode had a moment of real romance and love. This combination of laughs and love, the positive aspects of relationships, is what made this show such a favorite of audiences then and now. Thanks for capturing that in your video - beautifully done! And The Cowsills were great, too!
Season one is out already. Season two is not available yet, but they say it is coming out. Friday nights at 10 o'clock in the east, it was shown. Back in those days, my brothers used to come home from work with pizza and we watched it a lot while eating pizza. lol You had to be there. I love this show!
Oh! how I remember this show and how I loved it! This brings back tons of good times and memories. ABC had Friday night sewn up tight. You couldn't touch them!!!
I remember begging my mom to let me stay up until 10:00 pm to watch this show. Im surprized she let me. I loved it. It shaped what I thought of as romance In my youth. I love the Cowsills!!!
I enjoyed this show, but let's face it. Network TV did a crappy job of portraying what was going in in the late sixties and early seventies. When they did shows about counter culture themes, the actors had nice, middle class quaffed haircuts. People I ran with had hair down their backs and it was wild and it was free. I enjoyed the show, but that was network TV back then. They had to present the counter culture in a nice, safe middle call way!
very nice....I rember this show when I was really young,like 3 years old when it was originally on TV,amd it really makes me think about how things were so much simpler back then,and Love meant so much more than it does now.makes me yearn for those days again....
I echo those sentiments buddy, I also remember watching these original episodes when I was seven and eight years old. No doubt it was a great time for music, cars, miniskirts and free love,
wow! hard to believe this show aired 35-40 years. i would trade all the shows on tv these days for any of the classics i watched as a kid. thanks for posting this!
@RFKFANTS67 Talk about great memories! Hogan's Heroes, Adam 12, Emergency with Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe and of course Gilligan's Island. Great quality shows!
Love the longer version of the song that I had never heard anywhere till now I am 45 and remember the song so well and watching the show every week as a girl of about 6-8. Thanks for the wonderful memories this music and video brought back.
I'm 42 now and watched this show as a kid...Everything seemed better in them days...like the cars! each had it's own unique look unlike today yuk! and Ginger here is looking as sweet as i remember from Gilligans island..AH the good old days..
My girlfriend (and future wife) was Mary Grover's roommate for a number of years, so I saw Mary frequently during the early 1970s. She was always fun to be around, but I lost track of her around 1975.
I know that Mary co-starred in a musical with Robert Goulet, but I don't recall which one it was. As for her shorts for "Love American Style," I think her contract ran for 2 or 3 years.
I also recall that Mary appeared in commercials early on as the "Westinghouse Girl."
Funny you should mention, "Carousel" , Mary Grover and Robert Goulet. At 3:12, kissing Arte Johnson in "Love and the Living Doll", was actress Marlyn Mason, who was also in the production as Carrie Pipperidge.
This was a funny show and a great opening theme by "The Cowsills".
bornyesterday21 1 month ago
What a great Video. I used to watch this show!!! Great memories.
artanisdio 1 month ago
thankyou so much for posting this for us all to enjoy... Merry Christmas from Montana, Lindie
lindieann 2 months ago
Tune reminds me a little of " The Association"
5uspended4nimation 3 months ago
The Cowsills are playing a free concert at the Cannery Casino Las vegas NV on labor day weekend sunday september 4, 2011
rocmaven 6 months ago
@rocmaven Too bad they're not appearing on the telethon.
StanBennet 5 months ago
I remember this horrible show. Girlfriend back then made me watch it. Great song, though.
kodiakfred140 6 months ago
It's that weasely Evelyn "Angel" Martin from the "Rockford Files".
vatonorteno 6 months ago
Saw the Cowsills last night, live at BB King's on 42nd in Manhattan. They've still got it! And they sang "Love American Style" with all the gusto of those good 'ol days when "American Style" was a positive reference.
I'm 49. I don't know why, but hearing this song just brings a tears of joy - it makes me so happy. I don't know why. Perhaps some long ago childhood memory that lives in my subconscious. All I know is that the feeling is real.
Thanks for posting!
barker131776 7 months ago 3
If only I could return to this simpler time and stay!
RFKFANTS67 7 months ago 2
what was the episode with Colonol Klink "Werner Klemperer?"
RFKFANTS67 8 months ago
@RFKFANTS67 "Love and the Unbearable Fiance."
Whiteyplaysthebanjo 6 months ago
@Whiteyplaysthebanjo Thank you, I searched and see no one has posted it yet obviously O'well perhaps in time lol
RFKFANTS67 6 months ago
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@RFKFANTS67 I haven't seen it on youtube.
Whiteyplaysthebanjo 6 months ago
@Whiteyplaysthebanjo Thank you- it was my favourite episode as a boy "Colonel Klink" was a great actor..even did a voice on a Simpsons episode in one of Homer's dreams RIP
RFKFANTS67 1 month ago
@RFKFANTS67 And the nudest colony wedding one was amusing as a kid too
RFKFANTS67 1 month ago
These days there are so much channels I have to flip through and not a single one that I want to see. I wish they'd put the reruns of Love American style on the regular channels, just like I love Lucy.
otherperla 8 months ago
My mom grew up with Barbara Minkus in Chicago. She was/is a great singer, actually was understudy to Streisand in Funny Girl.
albinom 8 months ago
Awesome video and song!!
billyjack1973 11 months ago
@billyjack1973 Strange lyrics though, for example at 01:40 "I will defend your right to try" -- to try what ???
sweetredredwine 10 months ago
@sweetredredwine Good catch. That part slipped by me. I am sure they had a meaning they could not air back then. Love this old stuff.
billyjack1973 10 months ago
@sweetredredwine To try Love: American Style.
mvp822 8 months ago
Thanks for the memories. Ahhhh, yesterday!
MrsSam 1 year ago
And we have so called High-Definition? Man, this is so clear. Guess I'm showing my age by saying "man".
Translation for "Man" = Dude, Homey, Bro, Dog, Bruh, Homeslice, Homeskillet... ad infinitum.
THB79 1 year ago 3
Why is it great programs like this were taken off the air and sick twisted ones put in it's place. I'd love to be able to buy the entire seres of this program
organichealthycoffee 1 year ago
@organichealthycoffee Great programs like this were taken off the air because if great shows like this were put back on the air, then the producers of today would have to compete with yesterday's quality shows. So, it's easier for them to put up trash, and that's why all we have are the sick twisted shows of today instead of quality shows like Love American Style. I grew up watching this show every night on TV in the 70's. It was great. I miss shows like this.
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
I LOVED these olds shows. I had no idea it was the cowsills who sang the theme song!
iLnY130 1 year ago
agree with you multimrfalcon,now tv land is showing reality shows,give me a break,they have sold out to the crappy generation.......
auggdogrules 1 year ago 4
This is the sort of shows that TV Land should be showing instead of the SHIT they show on a nightly basis. The Nanny is classic tv? Give me freaking break?
MultiMrfalcon 1 year ago 7
Wow, I remember this show - I was still in grade school and my mom didn't want me watching this show on our ONE and ONLY 15" COLOR TV (with UHF converter!). I still remember wiring up an old B&W (that's black and white for you Gen Y's) to the TV antenna so I could secretly watch it in our basement! And who could forget the ubiquitous brass bed. What great memories...
tritonrocks 1 year ago
I remember seeing this show ack when I was 9 years old. I'm now 49. I wanted to get married in hot pants because of this show lol
belladeballe 1 year ago
The video is amazingly clear.
StanBennet 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this...we have really lost something as a nation. Not everything was perfect back then. Of course not..but we threw away what was good..no question.
taureanblack 1 year ago 2
Great video! Thanks for putting it together, I loved it.
flashandthepan 1 year ago
I posted this on another video, but thought I would share. I showed this to my mom a few months ago, and she started bawling. Come to find out, this was her and my dad's favorite show back when they first got married after college. He died in 1976 from cancer at age 27. She was so happy for the good memories of the good times with my dad that this clip brought back. She bought all of season one the next day. Thanks for giving some good memories back to an older widow.
bhkidd 1 year ago
I wonder if TV shows used different cameras or film stock in the 1960s as opposed to the 1970s.
The 1960s shows have more colors, color depth, and clarity.
1970s shows are all grey and grainy.
wheelinthesky300 1 year ago
We really shouldn't have been watching that at such a young age but I think we learned a few things.
MSDARHUM 1 year ago
It memory serves correctly wasn't their a daytime version of Love American in the late 70's or early 80's which featured soap actors.
raydio60 1 year ago
@jduborygun Wow wow wow hahahah Idiots like me? lol hahahah Dont be so bitter dude! Such an agression comes only from bitter people - hahaha and dont call me idiot you might regret it.
Serglish 1 year ago
Excellent show. We watched it every night, and it brought a lot of laughs and a lot of famous stars into our homes nightly!
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
@jduborygun You think Bush was bad? Open your eyes and see Obama bin laden hahaha - how sad man!
Serglish 1 year ago
After doing a little research I found out that the comedian's name at 38 and 50 is Stuart Margolin. One of the other regular comedians on the show as hunky black actor: James A. Watson.
ekocentric 1 year ago 2
What was the crazy guys name @ 28 and 58?
ekocentric 1 year ago
I was 7 years old watching this series, my favourite was the one with Colonel Klink "Werner Klemperer"
RFKFANTS67 1 year ago
Love it! Great job!
Shular67 1 year ago 2
This was such a cute innocent fun show. Nothing is this upbeat or sweet anymore.
DA90027 1 year ago
I use to love this show when I was kid... What a great time in America...What did we do without Crackberries, cell phones, and stupid video games. The dimise of Western civilization.,
jperez1910 1 year ago 2
@jperez1910 Amen! I loved this show also when I was a kid. Back then, we REALLY communicated, and we knew what it was to have real friends and spend time around the table eating as a family not all over the place. Nice memories. I wonder what would happen if we all gave up our cell phones/ Crackberries and Internet for a month? We might find that we really have lives.
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
@Beautifulmusiclistnr I agree let's all just sit our butts in the sand for a weekend, and see who really misses their Crackberries. Those that do, can go back to work. The rest of us will dig for clams and make huts. :)
TheScotch69 1 year ago
WHEN AMERICA USED TO BE GREAT, WHAT A SHAME NOW WITH THE WAY IT IS GOING AND THE PRESIDENT AMERICA HAS.
Serglish 1 year ago
As a young boy (about 5 or 6) I remember them filming one of those silly comedy bits near my cousin's apartment on Sunset blvd in LA. now near the CNN building, I remember how exciting my whole family was too watch them film!
vegas787 1 year ago
Cowsills Rock
atp1962 1 year ago 3
A real pleasure to wath it again, after so many years. thanks a lot!!
Jota21Chile 1 year ago
Great montage of a one of a kind show! Even though it was a comedy, each episode had a moment of real romance and love. This combination of laughs and love, the positive aspects of relationships, is what made this show such a favorite of audiences then and now. Thanks for capturing that in your video - beautifully done! And The Cowsills were great, too!
jimagineer 1 year ago
I remember this series when I was a Kid growing up in Chicago,Ill.
sswopes17 1 year ago
Season one is out already. Season two is not available yet, but they say it is coming out. Friday nights at 10 o'clock in the east, it was shown. Back in those days, my brothers used to come home from work with pizza and we watched it a lot while eating pizza. lol You had to be there. I love this show!
monkeeman1966 1 year ago
Oh! how I remember this show and how I loved it! This brings back tons of good times and memories. ABC had Friday night sewn up tight. You couldn't touch them!!!
MrDRUID27 1 year ago 2
I remember begging my mom to let me stay up until 10:00 pm to watch this show. Im surprized she let me. I loved it. It shaped what I thought of as romance In my youth. I love the Cowsills!!!
fantasyfan2010 1 year ago
the late 60s fashions are fabulous
catchersmitt0 1 year ago
I enjoyed this show, but let's face it. Network TV did a crappy job of portraying what was going in in the late sixties and early seventies. When they did shows about counter culture themes, the actors had nice, middle class quaffed haircuts. People I ran with had hair down their backs and it was wild and it was free. I enjoyed the show, but that was network TV back then. They had to present the counter culture in a nice, safe middle call way!
starVol 1 year ago
Ri0ght at 2:17 is a heartbreaker the way she is is clutching her book and crying....
Foolishpleazure 1 year ago
That was great. Thanks.
GalapagosPete 2 years ago 2
Loved this show - great upload!
SueSnell 2 years ago 3
Those were the days, all right. TV sucks so bad today. I mean, even the music today sucks. I guess even art has an entropic nature.
1129Irving 2 years ago 8
very nice....I rember this show when I was really young,like 3 years old when it was originally on TV,amd it really makes me think about how things were so much simpler back then,and Love meant so much more than it does now.makes me yearn for those days again....
Foolishpleazure 2 years ago 8
I echo those sentiments buddy, I also remember watching these original episodes when I was seven and eight years old. No doubt it was a great time for music, cars, miniskirts and free love,
please take me back......NOW!!!!!!!!
AllAmerican1964 1 year ago
one of my all time fav... thanks
meck444 2 years ago 2
wow! hard to believe this show aired 35-40 years. i would trade all the shows on tv these days for any of the classics i watched as a kid. thanks for posting this!
rmcaliolio 2 years ago 31
@rmcaliolio I agree! Emergency, One Adam 12, Gilligan's Island, Hogan's hero's ect ect! Hillariois house of Frightenstien lol
RFKFANTS67 1 year ago
@RFKFANTS67 Talk about great memories! Hogan's Heroes, Adam 12, Emergency with Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe and of course Gilligan's Island. Great quality shows!
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
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@Beautifulmusiclistnr All my favorites . . . if you add Bonanza!
phrogbubba 9 months ago
That was an exciting look back at 5 years of this innovative series
richardbyt1 2 years ago
good song, no means in denying it.
tangwich1 2 years ago 5
Nice twist for the bench skit. I didn't see that coming :)
fbebeats 2 years ago 4
I had the 45 as a child. I was never allowed to watch the show. I remember sneaking an episode once, while my parents slept.
AnEProGamers 2 years ago 3
Great shot of the Santa Monica Pier circa early 70s at 1:41. It looks entirely different these days, with a ferris wheel and roller coaster.
IDLERACER 2 years ago 3
This was a great show on Friday nights. It should be placed on DVD complete and uncut. And SOON!
Subwayguy98 2 years ago 25
@Subwayguy98 Love, American Style Season 1 Volumes 1 and 2 is available on DVD. I shold know, because I have both volumes.
mratfauver 2 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
shit 4 brains,I assume u voted 4 Obama
Syzygy60 2 years ago
My favorite episodes of this show were "Love and The Happy Days" and "Love and The Bathtub"
robertmastroianni 2 years ago 2
Please enter "Love American Style Petition" into google so you can visit the petition site & add your name!
Hopefully enough people will do this for CBS/Paramount to listen and issue the remaining seasons (uncut & with all original music, as with Season 1).
And a bid thank you to TerryT1976 for having created the petition. ;-)
ajbalfour 2 years ago 3
Love the longer version of the song that I had never heard anywhere till now I am 45 and remember the song so well and watching the show every week as a girl of about 6-8. Thanks for the wonderful memories this music and video brought back.
PamelaRP 2 years ago 3
*****
newmediaformat 2 years ago 3
I'm 42 now and watched this show as a kid...Everything seemed better in them days...like the cars! each had it's own unique look unlike today yuk! and Ginger here is looking as sweet as i remember from Gilligans island..AH the good old days..
RFKFANTS67 2 years ago 4
2:37 it's Tina Louise from Gilligans Island :)
aquaiz 2 years ago 4
Thank you so much. This took a lot of thought and time.
34airflow 2 years ago 3
I knew Mary Grover (the blond in many of these clips) back in the 1970's. Beautiful lady and a very talented singer to boot. - Ghs
smikro1 2 years ago 5
Didn't she appear in "Carousel" with Robert Goulet? What's she doing these days? Why did she leave Love, American Style?
Whiteyplaysthebanjo 2 years ago 3
My girlfriend (and future wife) was Mary Grover's roommate for a number of years, so I saw Mary frequently during the early 1970s. She was always fun to be around, but I lost track of her around 1975.
I know that Mary co-starred in a musical with Robert Goulet, but I don't recall which one it was. As for her shorts for "Love American Style," I think her contract ran for 2 or 3 years.
I also recall that Mary appeared in commercials early on as the "Westinghouse Girl."
Ghs
smikro1 2 years ago 3
Funny you should mention, "Carousel" , Mary Grover and Robert Goulet. At 3:12, kissing Arte Johnson in "Love and the Living Doll", was actress Marlyn Mason, who was also in the production as Carrie Pipperidge.
TerryT1976 2 years ago
This full version rules and this is one of the best youtube videos ever!
elmerfusco 2 years ago 8
Great job on the Cowsills' best song that was surprisingly released only as a B side of a single.
peeterpoon 2 years ago 2
Me too! Now,I can hear this theme the way it should be sung...by The Cowsills!
nanajanamike 2 years ago
Klaatubes - you reposted. I am so glad. :)
Whiteyplaysthebanjo 2 years ago