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  • How many of you know that Suzi Quatro has an "official YouTube page"?

  • I remember seeing this as a kid. It's when my privates became private.

  • Man, Fonzy should be rippin that lead!

    

  • yeah! chucky on drums and ralph at the piano...rock'n'roll could be glad bout that!! :)

  • oh God! Her hair is gorgeous! And she is a Princess!

  • They had the Suedes, they could have called the band "The Sweaters".

  • Love Ralph on the piano.  Get down Ralph

  • what decade is the series on at this point? her outfit screams 70s glam rock but it wouldnt have been in style yet

  • @mjnoir1 Director was a bit sloppy about those details

  • @mjnoir1 The 50's to early 60's. It was a show for kids so we didn't follow that stuff too close, Plus this is where the phrase jumping the shark comes from (Fonzie jumped a pack of sharks on his motorcycle), the show got less technical post jumping the shark.

  • @verbusen

    Your info is not 100% correct. He jumped a caged shark on water skies.

  • @adobePC Oh OK, I knew a few years before that happened to stop watching that lame show, glad you stayed with it

  • Ritchie and Ralph left the show to become cartoon characters, get in a time machine, and try to get back to 1957. You see, they knew the time lines were screwed up.

  • OK I give up. What kind of bass is she playing?

  • well, to clarify, it STARTED set in the late 50's, but by the time Leather was introduced it would have been set in the 60's...actually, the early 60's, sorry

  • @SuperWright74 Johnny B. Goode was written and performed by Chuck Berry in 1958 and so it is assumed this was about that time. Ron Howard's character left the show in what would be about 1959. Regarding her music style, Leather was ahead of her time.

  • @Gnillob802 yep, she was ahead of her time with her hairstyle too. no chick would have ever had a hairstyle like that in the early 60s.

  • the show was set in the mid 60's

  • @SuperWright74 Always the 50's, Laverne and Shirley moved into the 60's.

  • @tryithere Actually Happy Days updated its year every year. It ran for 14 seasons & took place between 1952 (debuting 1/15/74) to 1966 (9/24/84). The "final" episode ran on 5/8/84 with unaired episodes continuing through the summer. Ron Howard left the show after the 7th season so the 1960's episodes are those w/o him, except when he returned briefly for season 11.

  • @tryithere ...(continued)....Later plots reflected the 60's including the family seeing the film THE MUSIC MAN, an episode where Fonzie travels to Alabama to participate in civil rights activities with the Freedom RIders (who formed in 1961), an episode where Fonzie is upset Folk Singing has replaced Rock-N-Roll, the Frankie Avalon episode (Beach Party era), & in the final season "The Spirit Is Willing" Fonzie wishes things could be the way they were back in the 50's when he was younger.

  • @Gnillob802 You are right, I am wrrrrr, You are right, I am wrrrrr, You are right, I am wrrrrr, You are right, I am wrrrrr, You are right, I am wrrrrr, You are right, I am wrrrrrong.

  • @Gnillob802 I liked the episode where Fonzie got aids. It was towards the end of the series.

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  • Ron Howard DESERVED to lose all his hair for this..

  • Wasn't this show set in the fifties? There was no woman performer alive in those days who had a shag haircut, played a bass and wore a glittery jumpsuit. Or had the name "Leather", either. Whose brainstorm was it to have Suzi Quatro on Happy Days? Talk about a stupid idea!

  • @cynthiacher hey, watch it, Suzi is great!!! I think it's good that she was on a few episodes and she was born in 1950 and she was born into a musical family, so yes, she was playing music and started around the age of 14 with her sisters. She was in her 20s here in the 70s, so yes, it was a perfect time for her to be in the show

  • lol happy days was so stupid after the first season

  • Ritchie trying to play the guitar...lol

  • John Denver also did a great cover of this song

  • Guitar? How many instruments does Richie play? Anyhow Suzi Quatro rocks forever.

  • Looks like the same guitar that was in the Back to the Future movies.

  • The Queen of Rock

  • no shit wireless.. they are props

  • Somehow I'd rather see a Led Zeppelin concert.

  • Funny, if this was set in the 1950's why does she have a Farah Fawcett hair style?

  • @unskinnyboba She was a head of her time, obviously...

  • @unskinnyboba That's Suzi for you. always ahead of her time!

  • Paris Hilton's mother Kathy Hilton was Gertie of The Suedes.

  • @tryithere The episode where Joannie wants to run away to become a Suede.

  • @tryithere She wanted to be a black guy?

  • @SyvetheShairks Suede, not Spade.

  • @tryithere They were called suedes, too. Trust me... I was there.

  • @tryithere They were called suedes, too. Trust me... I was there.

    The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

    

    suede

    noun a black person US, 1973

  • The uploader means Rock and Roll over in his grave.

  • potsy on the acoustic is clearly carrying the band

  • 0:53-1:00 haha suzi shoves him so she could do her bass solo LOL i love Suzi Q

  • How do you know they were miming ?

    Because the guitar and bass weren't plugged in. Or they'd have tripped over the leads as they did the side shuffle out of the door and back.

    Meanwhile Ron Howard can cry all the way to the bank - he's a very successful film director now. I was in one of his films; only background, but hey, I stood that close to the man between scenes. Never worked with Suzi Quatro though, botheration !

  • sexy

  • This show just got horrendous about this time. When Potsy went from absolute dork to some kind of entertainer/"heart-throb" it just became awful. Rotten scene.

  • @Squirrlyburt Nah, this was great!

  • Uh, wireless guitars??????

  • @raptor15sc and mics

  • Everytime I get a crap haircut where the hairstylist doesn't understand "long layers in the front only" I end up with her hairstyle- reminds me of this all the time!

  • Her hairstyle ,as well as evreyone else's was not 'IN' then!!

  • If the 1970s and the 1950s were the same decade, this what it would look like. Pretty fucking awful!

  • Happy Days was the best show ever!!! Glad I was there to watch it.

  • @amcfan100 It was cool unless your name is Ralph (like me) in the 5th grade, lol. Still enjoyed it though, good times until Fonzie jumped the shark! This song was probably post jumping the shark days.

  • I love suzi quatro!!!!!!!!

  • Cool bass that lady's got.

  • Haaaa Bobby, you're right!!!!!

  • I was born wayy too late..

  • I always assumed Suzi Quatro was a dyke with that mullet and shapeless body.

  • @Spartacus217 you could be right before she became famous she had a brief romance with alice cooper !?!?

  • @Spartacus217

    i believe that's a shag, not a mullet. As for her body, that's on her parents...

  • Is that Chachi on the drums? Screw that where's BAG?

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  • @FatherTimeST1300 or not

  • The Archies were more believable than the band with no name.

  • Keep hopin' Leather will eventually spit in Potsie's face , kick him in the balls, and split his skull open with her bass.

  • Mittie and Tittie (the swings) had some real smooth moves.

  • Suzie Quatro - true American rocker.

  • The suedes.....lol

  • i loved when she shoved him aside like

    "No!....My turn." ;)

  • Hey, Danny Bonaduche got away with it for four seasons on the Partridge Family- Ron Howard's a better actor than Danny so if Danny could pull it off so can Ron.

  • when I grow up I wanna be potsie

  • how bout potsie

  • Nuce rickie nice that is sooo goood i love rickie cunningham <3

  • What a GREAT Rock-Chick!! Love you Suzi - ALWAYS!!!!!

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • No cables or microphones required. The technology in the late 50's was incredible!

  • The audience isn't ready for this music... But their kids are gonna love it.

  • Suzi Quatro is a musician! not an actress!! besides as far as I know it was her first show to play in. so how is she suppossed to be perfect at it?!

  • Um... are you people seriously questioning the authenticity of "Happy Days"??? ... thats hilarious!

  • Rididulous! The hair was not in then,Johnny B.Goode would have been an 'oldies'by then.,and women didn't front bands like then back then.Vocal groups,Yes,BandsNO!

  • Wanda Jackson played guitar and fronted her own band back in the 50's

  • True,In part. She did play guitar and she did front the band but mostly known as Wanda Jackson not WJ and the..... Plus ,Not whole heartedly Rock n Roll, tho close in some ways. For that matter so did Loretta Lynn. I guess my point was that a group like 'Leather Tucsadero and the Suedes' would not have existed. I do appreciate your input!

  • @Nickcat5 Hey check out Suzi's band with her sisters called The Pleasure Seekers here on YouTube. So far I have only found an audio recording of them but I think some video exists of them somewhere..

  • Does anyone have the episode, where Raplh and leather go to the ROTC dance?

  • The '50's version of Joan Jett.

  • One of the back up singers is supposed to be Paris Hiltons mother

  • @tryithere If so, I would say the chick in the brown based off how she walked up to the front of stage and took a bow.

  • @tryithere The strange thing about that though is Susi introdues them as Lilly and Tilly to the crowd, but on the IMBD website it claims they were cast as Bertie(donna fein) and Gertie(kathy richards(hilton).

  • Woman Guitarist in the Late 50's /Early 60's with a 70's Hair style? Yea,sure!!!

  • I always thought leather was gay, she was always fun to watch on here

  • leather Tuscadaro is one of the greatest actresses and musicians ever

  • Did you forget to take your Meds again???

  • greatest mullet in the history of tv

  • Brilliant! Brilliant!!!!!! LOOK OUT MAIDEN!!!! LOOK OUT PRIEST. SHE ROCKS SO HARD. SHELL BLOW YOU TO THE EAST! ....Apparantly she only faces east when shes performing. now that I explained the joke I ruined it. GREAT JOB, -ME!

  • ron howard was an awesome guitarist, he should have stuck with it!

  • better than Hendrix....not!!!!

  • Richie isn't a guitarist, he's an actor.

  • Sure he plays Guitar,He first played on the 'Andy Griffith Show' as 'Opie'. If that doesn't make him a TRUE GUITARIST, I don't know what does!!

  • Richie is hilarious

  • zapkvr you are a prat of the first degree piss off and get a life idiot

  • Ugh. Why did we put up with such CRAP in the 70's!? Oh yeah, no competition from cable tv, internet, etc. All we had was shitty tv shows and disco

  • @sweetttina666 Yea the 70s had its lameness.

  • No one knew Suzi Quatro before she went away to England and hooked up with Mike Chapman. She wasn't even on the radar in the U.S. Hell, she was bigger in Australia. Of course we aren't known for our discernment here. We will listen to just about anything. Can you remember Quatro singing 'i wanna be your man" Christ it was awful. Can the can indeed. Give me Joan Jett any day. At least she had some balls.

  • I don't think Ron would be so proud of this. Little wonder he moved behind the camera. Oh and plus that he went very bald.

  • Hell I would be so PROUD to play with Suzi Quatro

  • watching this is a guilty pleasure.

  • Jumped the shark

  • Potsie!

  • I wanna stroke that mullet.

  • I remember that episode so well.

  • Wow. I think Ron Howard is right up there with Steve Vai and Eric Clapton. And he's quite a dancer. How about that great rendition of JB Good? Thanks for sharing. I have to go throw up now...excuse me...

  • my nickname is fishback by the way....

  • mmm suzi! Brings back memories

  • Wow! Lori Beth was a little cutie!

    Malph rocks out at 01:09!

  • She could've dethroned Elvis

  • True and before he died Elvis had bigger tits then her

  • I agree they got lax after the first couple of seasons with "true" 50's styles!

    But I love the show AND Suzi, she rocks :)

    Plus, it IS a comedy! That's why everything is over the top...

  • After a few seasons it was no longer the 50's but the 60's

  • I meant the first few seasons that "were the 50's" it didn't get into the "60"s WAY into the series run.

  • was before or after they jumped the shark?..............cause this sucks big time! ralph mouth and potsie where more entertaing

  • aw man i always thought joan jett was leather...nope. cool tho.

  • This is the great, Suzi Quatro. There are over 20 of her videos on the MrPerod channel. She was Joan Jett's inspiration. Suzi was much bigger in the UK than in the USA but she was a Detroit girl in the Mitch Rider mold..

  • Oh my God! I remember when this aired! I was just a kid, but I remember thinking how gay it was then!

    Suzi rocks though!!!

  • I didnt know that arnolds had spotlights. Those guitars sure are loud for not being plugged in... what a sad time for television!!

  • OMG Richie!

    His licks are too righteous!

  • This show was actually good the first few seasons. Remember when fonzie was a bad guy. It went downhill when they went to a live studio audience & started using those crappy catch phrases. The people in charge of props were way off. Look at all the 70s hair styles & even some of the clothes. this show was supposed to be set in the early to mid 60s. I cant beleive I watched this crap back then. Horrible!!!

  • Actually the show was supposed to set in the mid to late 50s.

  • i agree but they jumped the shark long before they jumped the shark

  • This is where I first got my Suzi Quatro fix, before getting into her classic Glam rock stuff.

  • Suzi's first big "Glam" hit was Can The Can in 1973. This was shot in the late seventies when Suzi's career was in a decline. Pity she never made it big in the U.S., her native country.

  • Its definately a pity. I recently discovered her stuff here on youtube as I was watching Joan Jett stuff a few years ago. US's 70s music was pretty much soft rock and MOR stuff. We missed out on 95% of the kick ass Glam rock/ Pub rock.

  • Suzie Quatro sells out in the 70's.

  • Her version is pretty good!

  • they were trying work ANOTHER spin off for leather but she didnt work well with the producers,

  • Richie (Ron Howard) is an actor . He acts . He doesnt play any musical instruments . Your a little on the naive side I guess . 99% of all actors you see playing musical instrument on T.V. and film are faking it . THEY ARE JUST ACTORS !

  • Suzi Quatro has a few albums to her name alright. She even had a hit single doing a duet some someone out there. Chris Norman whoever that is. Ths songn was called Stumblin' In. As for Richie, he has been seen playing the sax but I don't know if it's for real.

  • And he has the moves, the duck walk needs work though. Practice, Practice, Practice.

  • Richie is a musical God! How many instruments has he mastered? The sax, guitar, drums, piano, harp! He's a freakin' genuis!!!

    Whatever happened to the actress that played Mary Beth? She was a semi-main character on the show but she's never mentioned on any of the retrospectives/reunions. She always reminded me of the wife in 'Family Circus.'

  • Did Richie, Potsie, & Ralph ever find a name for their band? Leather & the Suades were damn hot. I think I prefer Leather over her sister Pinky.

  • I think they were called 'Potsie's Players.'

    Leather was hot but there was something ragged about her hair.

  • They became known as The Happy Days Band. Pretty original, huh.

  • @jksonny He can't even pretend to play guitar.

  • @jksonny

    First of all the charcther was Lori Beth, not Mary Beth. Second, she appeared on the 30th Anniversary Special- only in the softball game. Her name was Linda Goodfriend.

  • ok.......

  • go jhonny go go!!

  • does anyone have Devil Gate Drive when she sang it on Happy Day's?

  • SUZI Q. WE ALL LOVE U

  • I interviewed her brother!!!

  • Really?? And when?? where can I read it??

  • Yeah really. He was really cool. I interviewed him at the radio station that I work at. He invited me and my mom to come to the place he was performing, I was supposed to meet his sister but we had to do some other things. So its recorded not written. Sorry...

  • Ok thanx for the replay... I have some good records of him... but his sister Suzi is great!

  • Hey she seems pretty great. He's really cool too. Nice guy. And im sorry I forgot to answer when he came, he came about 2 weeks ago...it was really cool

  • nice TV flashback...loved it...

    if I'm not mistaken, I think one of The Suedes was Paris Hilton's mother...thought I heard it somewhere...just a bit of TV trivia

  • ive heard that he can play guitar this might be real

  • Talk about a flat chest.

  • Oh GROW UP!!

  • What, the truth hurts?

    They gotta have big milkers to feed those babys.

  • Suzi é a maior!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • lol... cool...loved loved loved Suzi, still listen to her music now.

  • Video request: Fonzie loves Pinky

  • I love happy days! It's as funny as hell,especially seasons 3-6.I also discovered Suzi after seeing her on happy days and bought all her albums and still buy her new stuff when it comes out.She should have recorded a version of this song,she sounds great here!

  • You're crazy!The show was a hit,besides she is supercool!

  • On the contrary, Happy Days is where i 1st saw her. i thought WOW there are girl rockers. The next day i bought her album. I think the reason she didn't "make it big" in the usa, is because the usa wasn't ready for a real rock n roll woman. same with joan jett & the runaways. in the late 70s, they never got air play even on the so called "progressive" radio stations.

  • It's always been a mystery to me too that Suzi was never bigger in the US than she was. 48 Crash and Devil Gate Drive were awesome tunes. But I guess people liked her for her ballads (Stumblin In).

  • I agree. Anyone on Happy days was a dork, or so I thought, so I discounted her. I was wrong about her. I only found Suzie by accident last year.

  • Actually, Potsy was a very cool character in the 1972 pilot. Check it out. It's too bad he was relegated to such a background, dorky minor character in the real series.

  • very nice

  • potsie sure is a great guitar player

  • he looks such a loser in the show though

  • Suzi's brilliant - but WTF is the deal with the cheesy cheerleaders in the background??

  • They were Leather's backup dancers, Millie and Tillie, "The Suedes."

  • LOL, how do you remember that? The Suedes, classic.