The girl that rushed up to be first, had to be garroted away! 1965 in the USAF tech school Biloxi Miss. We had a singing group! While attending a night baseball game, my group retreated under the bleachers to practice. After ending a tune, we heard a twig snap. They the civilians had heard us through the Bleachers. Left the game and surrounded us in the dark.
Oh man, here I am back in 7th grade in 1957, this "record" played over & over at the Friday night dances in the school gym. What fond memories of growing up in OUR country when all was well. So glad I grew up in those wondeful days. Thanks for posting. Oh, I had RCA's portable radio like the Motorola shown, actually worked great used a lot of D cells !
That guy that introduced them name is Milt Grant, he used to host a local show in DC that was like AB and Soul Train. Does anyone remember what happened to him?
@HoboGus The song never really resonated with me UNTIL I saw the movie. Since then, each time I hear it, I think of the scene in the movie when Valens's mother learns of his death (the song was playing on her radio).
OMG !!! The Milt Grant Show....right out of Washington, D.C. After being a disc jockey, Milt bought UHF channel 26 on River Rd. in Bethesda, Md. and became the President of
Metromedia in New York City. Still remember his record hops at Glen Echo Amusement Park, just out of D.C.It was a great time to be alive...........
Funny you say this as this also was my favourite song when i was 13. Boy i scrounged up nickels to play the jukeboxes. Great innocent time for us all.
OVER THE MOUNTAIN ACROSS THE SEA,OVER THE RADIO, INTO OUR HEARTS AND INTO DOOWOP HISTORY. THANK YOU SOOOOO VERY MUCH FOR THE MEMORIES AND THE FUN TOM D BRICK,NJ
@106732 Johnnie's mother was a member of The Hearts. This was written, arranged and led by Rex Garvin (also worked with The Hearts), who's also singing the uncredited harmony vocals with Joe.
Just think about this: These Two Beautiful Singers, who are Stars, probably couldn't use the Bathrooms where they were Appearing and singing this Magnificent Song!! Also, Johnnie did all of the "High Vocals" in this peace. Breathtaking!
they were great together she was so into the song. and so was he . that song should never be done over ithnk it was perfectly done. she can harmonize so well R.I.P johnny I know u are singing with the ANGELS
Notice that this was a SEGREGATED tv show in Washington, D.C. African Americans could only dance on this show on Tuesdays. Black were on if they were appearing at the Howard theater. The irony is the Howard was in a Black neighborhood so no whites went to it. I ever saw a white face there 1953-1968. Dick Clark would appear at the Carter Baron which was two blocks from my house but was segregated. I went for the first time in 1968 to see Ray Charles with my friend Stokely Carmicheal.
Wow, always nice to see original footage as a bonus to the listening experience! That PIP from 1:31-1:57 was probably cutting-edge technology in '57, right?
What a big hit for Johnnie&Joe. April of 1957 we were young teenagers and so was Johnnie. This song had the ability to get even the most shy girl or guy out to dance. It was a magical time, that in my opinion, created some of the best sounds ever. The 50's and early 60's songs have stood the test of time! Just ask 75 million "Baby Boomers" that danced and dreamed to this type of music. I hope I can do it again!
I was 14 when this hit came out! The Back-Up Singers are GREAT! So many memories of really, really good times. In just a couple of years, I would be Crusin' the Drive-ins, checking out the "hot Chicks" blasting my radio and feeling like I owned the World! What a great time to be a Teenager!
This was the song that was chosen to end the movie La Bamba. It was well done and every time I see the scene it really is the clencher. The gal that played Ritche's mother was very convincing and it just makes for a movie to remember. I really like this song done by Johnnie and Joe.
back then when everything was so beautiful ...Fuck this era i was born too Late...Too Fucking Late...wish i lived in the 1940s ...passing by the 50s the 60s the 70s an many years........
i remember the howard every thursday we all went to catch the last show this is singing along with jackie wilson the drifters,clovers,spaniels and many many more great artist
This is my daughters site, so the feminin username. When I went to Europe in 1986. I fell in love with a girl in Portugal. When I returned to the US. I listened to this song 1000's of times. Hoping
My friend and singing partner, Sundia's husband wrote this song, for which I am very proud. Rex, where are you today? I love this song! And how it's done. You shaped musical emotional history!
Love this--makes me remember romantic evenings of slow dancing in high school! Takes me right back to parties in the rec room at my best friend's house. She had a great record collection, but this song is the one I remember most.
This is where doo wop is best. Great song by J&J, so sorry the original Johnnie passed, great singer, RIP. The new Johnnie is good also. JOE RIVERS is GREAT! Could listen to this 24/7.
loved MILT GRANT even though on channel 7 was so blurry you thought u were blind...i remember the Chantels having to sing 'MAYBE" twice because the audience wouldn't let them go....
The Howard Theater! That was (is) in Washington, DC, where r&b groups played. I used to watch The Milt Grant Show when I was around 5, 6, 7 years old in the late 1950s on WTTG channel 5 in DC. It was an "American Bandstand"-like show. I don't have a recollection of what Milt looked like, but I'm guessing that this is from his show!
Great stuff, back in the day they really did do local stuff like this. I can remember running to the store in 64 or 65 with my mom because the supermarket was selling wonder bread with pix of the Supremes on the package and the store playing Supremes music on the PA.
I love Sirius Satellite Radio as they have a 50's and 60's music channel and you can hear these song 24/7. On some nights for all those in New York & Philly you can get Cousin Brucie formerly of WABC N.Y. Great memories!
I was born in 75 but I love Oldies and all kinds of music. This is a Classic. Look at all the young women and men fully clothed and not grabbing each others private areas and saving that for the bedroom. That is what it's all about. Never again will we see those days.
living in the san fran bay area califaz i grew up to this type of music. i remember tuning to wild 107.7 (now 94.9) sunday night oldies all the time. to bad they dont have that anymore.
its funny how some (not all) of the teenagers looked and sounded like adults...in this video I would have never thought she was twelve...at least around sixteen or seventeen
If there is one song that says 1950's rock and roll/doo wop, this is it. Just fantastic. As one poster previously said, there is so much happening vocally on this track it amazes me. Listen to it with headphones.
hehehehe,,, wow. great! the slow dance tunes in the early early 60s were perfect to get in a nice word or two to a sweet babydoll. love that piano and chorus. thanks for posting!
First slow dance, 1957, with Ingrid Wagner. Wow.........great for the 7th grade. She still remembers at all the reunions.....and we still dance to this song. Thanks Ingrid..........John
Wonderful song. Martin Scorsese uses this song in his movie "After Hours." I was born in '57, and so came to love this song, and others like it, in the late 60's. Musically, times get no better than this era.
I see the cameraman must have whistled to the dancers to clear the way so he could film Johnnie and Joe. I lived just two miles outside Washington, D. C., where the Milt Grant Show was filmed (local version of the Dick Clark's American Bandstand) on channel 5 (WTTG).
Redasoft......according to your bio on J & J (top right) Johnnie was born in 1945.....and Over the Mountain was released on Chess in "57.....thus Johnnie was only 12 yrs old at that time.......that is some very well developed 12 year old in the clip with Joe! Care to comment....maybe she was born a little earlier than 1945!!??? Brilliant song tho' no matter how old!!
Interesting. I just copied some text from Wikipedia without realizing that. However, several web pages mention that she was only 43 when she died in 1988, so unless that is wrong too, I guess that she was indeed much younger than she looked in 1957.
@redasoft According to Wikipedia, Johnnie was born in 1935, so she was 22 in 1957 when they recorded this song, and 53 when she passed away in 1988. Joe was born in 1937, so he was 20 in 1957, and is 73 this year.
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oldlps45s 6 days ago
Where is the rest of the television show?
hmldjr 1 week ago
RITCHIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
romero763 2 weeks ago 3
@romero763 LOLLLLLLLLL I remember that scene!
chris23316 1 week ago
Fantastic song!! I danced to this at our 8th grade graduation parties!!! I guess that means I'm getting old since that seems like a long time ago!!
doowopjim1 2 weeks ago
that is my grandma
1012singinggirl 2 weeks ago 2
@1012singinggirl - Cool, but WHO is your grandma?
redasoft 2 weeks ago
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rocknroll1955 1 week ago
that is my gramdma i love her
1012singinggirl 2 weeks ago
The girl that rushed up to be first, had to be garroted away! 1965 in the USAF tech school Biloxi Miss. We had a singing group! While attending a night baseball game, my group retreated under the bleachers to practice. After ending a tune, we heard a twig snap. They the civilians had heard us through the Bleachers. Left the game and surrounded us in the dark.
jor99912 2 weeks ago
Damn....i wish i was a teen in them days...i love this music!
MSANABANANA80 2 weeks ago
Great rendition. 5 stars
Petekiv 3 weeks ago
i was going steady with a girl Virginia when this song came put summer 1957, but our relastionship never worked out, but it was fun times that summer
dagosliv 3 weeks ago
A Class Act!!
My God They Were a Beautiful Couple & Can Sing!!
I Remember them..........
desert3347 1 month ago
Great song but the guys. But someone is a bit rough grabbing the neck to move the girl in the cameras way... Gentle please!
DeanCarrot 1 month ago
This song was in the film La Bamba
burstyn1fan1972 1 month ago
Excellent, thank you so much!
krobigraubart 1 month ago
I'm not racist but, all the greatest singers i know are blacks and they sing just amazing!!
Chabelo54 2 months ago 3
@Chabelo54 wtf? lol thats an observation, doesnt mean you're racist. x)
SenorPackABowl 2 months ago
@SenorPackABowl I KNOW THAT!! BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN THINK THAT I'M BEING RACIST
Chabelo54 2 months ago
Oh man, here I am back in 7th grade in 1957, this "record" played over & over at the Friday night dances in the school gym. What fond memories of growing up in OUR country when all was well. So glad I grew up in those wondeful days. Thanks for posting. Oh, I had RCA's portable radio like the Motorola shown, actually worked great used a lot of D cells !
LMHS63 2 months ago
That guy that introduced them name is Milt Grant, he used to host a local show in DC that was like AB and Soul Train. Does anyone remember what happened to him?
MrBonessd 2 months ago
Joe could do it, man. What a voice. Johhnie too.
47barolo 2 months ago
WOW!!!
hmldjr 2 months ago
blah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
joelochoa99 2 months ago
Thanks for posting this. This is great!
Barrog1 2 months ago
awesome! thx for posting!
valor423 2 months ago in playlist More videos from redasoft
Alot of talent from the Bronx. NYC. ▼♪
Khultan 2 months ago
Still one of the best numbers to fish by.
claboz 2 months ago
Superb record. Harmonies are 10 or more years before time. No electronic jiggery pokery on this track!
Propylnitrite 3 months ago
Wow!!! Is this the Milt Grant show?????? Wow.
mcoldskool 3 months ago
a wonderful classic xx ta very much ,have always loved the song .great to see them performing in the flesh , so to speak xxxx
origamipig 3 months ago
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sopaman1234 3 months ago
The portable radio's were very large back then untill the Japanese introduced those great lttle radios that actually fit into your pocket!
jimmyratz 3 months ago
WONDERFUL SLOW DANCE RIGHT HERE!
cynthia6637 3 months ago
RITCHIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
DoinFineOnCloud9 3 months ago
One of my favorite songs
115musiclover 3 months ago
I wished I lived back then when music really did rocked and rolled
mimato 3 months ago
ANOTHER CLASSIC HIT THAT WILL LAST FOREVER ROCK AND ROLL WILL NEVER DIE.HOT ROD
hotrod3able 4 months ago
this song slaps
locoblinkz209 4 months ago
Para mi Tia Juana con mucho amor y cariño.
ginam1234 4 months ago
wow, they had motorolas that day.
twoadvils 4 months ago
Classic song! I wish I knew where to go to find MY girl.
MrGotsquashed 4 months ago
This song is bad ass, Johnnie's hair is conked and so very cool. Jos talking stuff in the end makes this reign supreme in RR heaven
maveric23100 4 months ago
love this.. what a great share! thank you!
TREYOLDHIPPIE 4 months ago
good music
luciano9009 5 months ago
This song slaps
sayroyalty 5 months ago
NOOOOOO NOT MY RITCHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
timpriddy73 5 months ago 3
Thumbs up if you remember this song at the end of the movie LaBamba.
HoboGus 5 months ago 48
@HoboGus lol, lol, lol, I remember the song when it came out! I was a Jr in High School.
sugarfoot59 2 months ago
@HoboGus The song never really resonated with me UNTIL I saw the movie. Since then, each time I hear it, I think of the scene in the movie when Valens's mother learns of his death (the song was playing on her radio).
chatman2a 1 month ago
I remember this song from Jr.High. Great harmony by Johnnie & Joe.
Rjay290 5 months ago
Who wouldn't love this beauty from the year I graduated from high school! Gives me chills it is so awesome. 1957 forever!
TheNWBerry 6 months ago
WOW!!! J & J RULE!! Thanks -Gj
djangoman2008 6 months ago
OMG !!! The Milt Grant Show....right out of Washington, D.C. After being a disc jockey, Milt bought UHF channel 26 on River Rd. in Bethesda, Md. and became the President of
Metromedia in New York City. Still remember his record hops at Glen Echo Amusement Park, just out of D.C.It was a great time to be alive...........
msd49 6 months ago
ONE OF THE BEST SONGS IN THE 60'S!
LOVE TO DANCE TO THIS SONG HERE!
BEST SLOW DANCE TODAY, YESTERDAY!
cynthia6637 6 months ago
Love the song. Features in Scorsese film "After Hours." Lots of Bronx and Brooklyn singers: Chantels, Aquatones, Johnny &Joe. Thanks for posting.
odovicor 6 months ago
its a beautiful song! i like to dance that song ^^
Jonathanbeatles1 6 months ago
Joe was dark
juke521 7 months ago
Lots of glances at the camera.
TheHuntersBounty 7 months ago
Over the mountain and across the sea
No one could block your love from my heart
We made vows
Rock N Roll
1954LincolnV8 7 months ago
God, This is Just the Best, Pure Heaven!!
Joe is still Singing & Sounds Great!!
I Heard She Passed Away in 1982.
What A Beautiful Singing Couple They Were.
desert3347 7 months ago
La Bamba soundtrack. :D
krylon2009 8 months ago
It was like yesterday that lovely year 1957 my senior year in high school, love this song so much.
jfktwo 8 months ago 25
i remember it like it was yesterday-i'm 63 and i loved it then and i love it now!! thanks soso much for posting!!!!
dogcat126 8 months ago 2
Damn he was black!
Mumsilius 8 months ago
back then this was devils music
420leadville719 8 months ago
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Love, love this record!!!!!!!
TJCATLOVER 8 months ago
Funny you say this as this also was my favourite song when i was 13. Boy i scrounged up nickels to play the jukeboxes. Great innocent time for us all.
lyleslarder1 8 months ago
Oh how I miss music from the late 50's and the 60's! Music was at its very best then!! This song was my very favorite when I was 13!!!
nanassue2 9 months ago
Fantastic slow dance
Great Memories
cynthia6637 9 months ago
OVER THE MOUNTAIN ACROSS THE SEA,OVER THE RADIO, INTO OUR HEARTS AND INTO DOOWOP HISTORY. THANK YOU SOOOOO VERY MUCH FOR THE MEMORIES AND THE FUN TOM D BRICK,NJ
doowopman49 9 months ago
baby makeing music
estbroadway 9 months ago
doing my sexiest slow dance with Gwen Farera...great memories from St Barnabas dances in Germantown
hopalong675 9 months ago
great song one of my first favorets, you can't find music like this today.
aldonis77 9 months ago
dreat song one of my first favorets, you can't find music like this today.
aldonis77 9 months ago
God, this Takes My Breath Away. Saw Joe On A Recent Doo Wop Show.
He Looks Amazing!! Sounds Amazing. RIP Johnie
Ilvcamusic 9 months ago
The SOUND of Real Music at last. Music that made our music! What a Great couple! Gone but not forgotten. Thanks for loading!
robertquentincobb 10 months ago
I love this beautiful song. Yesssss.
RaptorKiller01 10 months ago
this song is beyond the claud
MrDucKevin 10 months ago
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This song is beyond every claud
MrDucKevin 10 months ago
This song is beyond every claud
MrDucKevin 10 months ago
This was a Chess Bros, record, also on J&S. Anyone know who the group was? Possibly the Hearts (female) or maybe just a studio group?
106732 11 months ago
@106732 Johnnie's mother was a member of The Hearts. This was written, arranged and led by Rex Garvin (also worked with The Hearts), who's also singing the uncredited harmony vocals with Joe.
WayOutWardell 10 months ago
Just think about this: These Two Beautiful Singers, who are Stars, probably couldn't use the Bathrooms where they were Appearing and singing this Magnificent Song!! Also, Johnnie did all of the "High Vocals" in this peace. Breathtaking!
God Bless Both of Them. RIP Johnnie
2lovs4music 11 months ago 2
This is just pure magic....the blend at 1.40 is perfection.
willbashem 11 months ago 2
they were great together she was so into the song. and so was he . that song should never be done over ithnk it was perfectly done. she can harmonize so well R.I.P johnny I know u are singing with the ANGELS
hello45999 11 months ago
I just LOVE this song So many memories in this song!!
cynthia6637 1 year ago
Fabulous Song!!! In 1957, when this song came out i was in the 2nd grade and i remember hearing it on the radio in our car.
HoboGus 1 year ago
53 years ago wow, what a great song, I was 7, still listening to robin hood, that's all we had then.
soulman1950 1 year ago
Notice that this was a SEGREGATED tv show in Washington, D.C. African Americans could only dance on this show on Tuesdays. Black were on if they were appearing at the Howard theater. The irony is the Howard was in a Black neighborhood so no whites went to it. I ever saw a white face there 1953-1968. Dick Clark would appear at the Carter Baron which was two blocks from my house but was segregated. I went for the first time in 1968 to see Ray Charles with my friend Stokely Carmicheal.
yourgrandmadarling 1 year ago
was that Shia Lebuff at 00:21?
626rukus 1 year ago
Possibly the greatest Rock and Roll song of all time.
cockroachcrusher 1 year ago
labamba "richie".."not my richie"
tcannard123 1 year ago
@tcannard123 my thought exactly!
reneamsu28 11 months ago
I had this one on 45....
jzzlvrmee 1 year ago
Wow, always nice to see original footage as a bonus to the listening experience! That PIP from 1:31-1:57 was probably cutting-edge technology in '57, right?
vonbontee 1 year ago
Now don't get me wrong I love this song but.. They can't lip sing at all XD
GeekUltra 1 year ago
Amazing video thanks.
radiotubes 1 year ago
Great Record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TJCATLOVER 1 year ago
One of the truly great doowop tunes ranks right up there with Come Go With Me, and Blue Moon !
tomwills100 1 year ago
What a big hit for Johnnie&Joe. April of 1957 we were young teenagers and so was Johnnie. This song had the ability to get even the most shy girl or guy out to dance. It was a magical time, that in my opinion, created some of the best sounds ever. The 50's and early 60's songs have stood the test of time! Just ask 75 million "Baby Boomers" that danced and dreamed to this type of music. I hope I can do it again!
Ron--Highway Stars Magazine
rvictor64 1 year ago
the J & S Record Label was co-owned by JOHNNIE's Mother , ZELL SAUNDERS ... I don't-know Who the "J"-was.
thePharoah90650 1 year ago
Wow......! Never seen this clip.such a great doo wop tune.
brian4858 1 year ago
genial j adore
TIOBILOUTE62 1 year ago
I was 14 when this hit came out! The Back-Up Singers are GREAT! So many memories of really, really good times. In just a couple of years, I would be Crusin' the Drive-ins, checking out the "hot Chicks" blasting my radio and feeling like I owned the World! What a great time to be a Teenager!
spikebogey 1 year ago
Still killin' - nothing like it any more; thanks for keeping it for us
claudia723 1 year ago
it's what was playing on the radio when bob hears on the radio about the plane crash...
MsCherrykissess 1 year ago
What a lovely song by these greatest singers!!! With love from Chile
juan58102 1 year ago
wow
mareannie 1 year ago
Milt Grant looks a bit cornfuzzled on how to operate that Motorola radio.
CatalinaSafari73 1 year ago
Johnnie looks like she wasn't too used to lip syncing too well.
ElCriticon82 1 year ago
This was the song that was chosen to end the movie La Bamba. It was well done and every time I see the scene it really is the clencher. The gal that played Ritche's mother was very convincing and it just makes for a movie to remember. I really like this song done by Johnnie and Joe.
coventry107 1 year ago
@coventry107 Last song played on the movie was an instrumental. Was that a version of this one?
Papatorrejano 1 year ago
I want to go to a record hop.
Big60sfan 1 year ago
I know that Joe has passed away since he did this song on the PBS Oldies show.
handballr15 1 year ago
WOW!!! This Amazing!!! Great Listening!! Hugs Jessie xxx
jessie101ist 1 year ago
Truly one of the great ballads of all time...in the Oldies Community! Joe is still singing his heart out!
Dr.D.
Drdms62 1 year ago
I always loved this song. Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting. What a treat.
robshannon 1 year ago
back then when everything was so beautiful ...Fuck this era i was born too Late...Too Fucking Late...wish i lived in the 1940s ...passing by the 50s the 60s the 70s an many years........
HALIHALAO 1 year ago
i remember the howard every thursday we all went to catch the last show this is singing along with jackie wilson the drifters,clovers,spaniels and many many more great artist
123scorp1 1 year ago
an "Invisible" REX GARVIN is providing Harmony Vocals
thePharoah90086 1 year ago
What a great video...so rare
Loved this song.. so long ago..thank you for sharing these wonderful artists..they really will live on in our memories...
and...a great song to to the stroll....*smiles*
elisa412 1 year ago
Such a beautiful song and time in our great country! but I'm sorry she can't lip sing for her life XD
GeekUltra 1 year ago
That is Milt Grant introing Johnnie & Joe...
TucsonTerpFan 1 year ago
Video clip is from Milt Grant's "Record Hop," WTTG-5 in Washington, D.C. Show on during 1950's - 70's.
Great song...great show...great memories!
TucsonTerpFan 1 year ago
This is my daughters site, so the feminin username. When I went to Europe in 1986. I fell in love with a girl in Portugal. When I returned to the US. I listened to this song 1000's of times. Hoping
I could go back.
queeng1998 1 year ago
Who can bit this song!!!!!!!!!!!
juan58102 1 year ago
WOW!!!!. I never knew how they look. Love this song. Thanks redasoft. This is so cool. Where are they now? This ain't bandstand. GREAT STUFF!!!
mittie49 1 year ago
Kid looks like he's going to break that girls neck
Budma30k 1 year ago
What an amazing voice, it's like he opens his mouth and this sound falls out, it's like he isn't even trying.
nilrem2 1 year ago
My friend and singing partner, Sundia's husband wrote this song, for which I am very proud. Rex, where are you today? I love this song! And how it's done. You shaped musical emotional history!
virginiabeachgirl 1 year ago
Love this--makes me remember romantic evenings of slow dancing in high school! Takes me right back to parties in the rec room at my best friend's house. She had a great record collection, but this song is the one I remember most.
radhau2 1 year ago
This is where doo wop is best. Great song by J&J, so sorry the original Johnnie passed, great singer, RIP. The new Johnnie is good also. JOE RIVERS is GREAT! Could listen to this 24/7.
music4me50s 1 year ago
WOW! In my top 50 of tracks! They can't make stuff like this now. The emotion in this song is just amazing!!!
trackieben 1 year ago
he looks like wesley snipes lol great song
vincenz55 1 year ago
Bringing back the memories. Way back when I was a small fry.
hermanjr47 1 year ago
Wonderful tune. I had it on a78rpm but i sold it, foolish me.
PerToms 1 year ago
Wonderful! Thanks for posting! I have this on a CHESS label record and didn't know it was a male/female duo. Learn someting new every day. Cool!
cdbpdx 1 year ago
nooo not richie not my richie;'( love that movie and this song all doo wop songs love it!!!!
FalynA18 1 year ago
loved MILT GRANT even though on channel 7 was so blurry you thought u were blind...i remember the Chantels having to sing 'MAYBE" twice because the audience wouldn't let them go....
emb1st 1 year ago
Joe had an unbelievable voice. Everything about this song is golden. Old song but his music lives on. GREAT SONG.
ILoveLugoff 1 year ago
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cenick213 1 year ago
Oh, of course, I posted too quickly, I see Milt Grant's name on the wall! This has made my week!
rslitman 1 year ago
The Howard Theater! That was (is) in Washington, DC, where r&b groups played. I used to watch The Milt Grant Show when I was around 5, 6, 7 years old in the late 1950s on WTTG channel 5 in DC. It was an "American Bandstand"-like show. I don't have a recollection of what Milt looked like, but I'm guessing that this is from his show!
rslitman 1 year ago
This is so good.
Many many thanks.
laurenjaynecoffeeice 2 years ago
backround alone makes this great
gscharger 2 years ago
Yes, the background is fabulous!!!!
laurenjaynecoffeeice 2 years ago
Great stuff, back in the day they really did do local stuff like this. I can remember running to the store in 64 or 65 with my mom because the supermarket was selling wonder bread with pix of the Supremes on the package and the store playing Supremes music on the PA.
myboylollipop09 2 years ago
I love Sirius Satellite Radio as they have a 50's and 60's music channel and you can hear these song 24/7. On some nights for all those in New York & Philly you can get Cousin Brucie formerly of WABC N.Y. Great memories!
kennbix 2 years ago
so sweet to look at the kids dancing hey ..sweet thank you ...
badboybaldy1 2 years ago
Also the cameraman whistles to get the kids the hell out uf the way!
handballr15 2 years ago
P.S Look at the announcer at the beginning of the video reading off the portable radio announcing Johnnie and Joe !!LMAO!!!!!!
TONYANDCYNTHIA 2 years ago
I was born in 75 but I love Oldies and all kinds of music. This is a Classic. Look at all the young women and men fully clothed and not grabbing each others private areas and saving that for the bedroom. That is what it's all about. Never again will we see those days.
Peace , Tony G.
TONYANDCYNTHIA 2 years ago
living in the san fran bay area califaz i grew up to this type of music. i remember tuning to wild 107.7 (now 94.9) sunday night oldies all the time. to bad they dont have that anymore.
MobHeataEnt 2 years ago
great song.... saludos from mexicali baja mexico........ love oldies for ever.....
muchomusculo 2 years ago
I didnt know Joe was a girl, and 12?
hotwheelz18 2 years ago
@hotwheelz18 I believe Johnnie is the girl and Joe is the guy
AllMemoriesFadeAway 2 years ago
yea, got that now.
hotwheelz18 2 years ago
its funny how some (not all) of the teenagers looked and sounded like adults...in this video I would have never thought she was twelve...at least around sixteen or seventeen
AllMemoriesFadeAway 2 years ago
Johnnie looks quite a bit older than 12 on this. Other than that, this is still a wonderful song.
MadameLil 2 years ago
If there is one song that says 1950's rock and roll/doo wop, this is it. Just fantastic. As one poster previously said, there is so much happening vocally on this track it amazes me. Listen to it with headphones.
FrightNight7387 2 years ago
hehehehe,,, wow. great! the slow dance tunes in the early early 60s were perfect to get in a nice word or two to a sweet babydoll. love that piano and chorus. thanks for posting!
alexwritestube 2 years ago
I love the 50's :]] :]]]
gameonline13 2 years ago 3
Can you believe...kids with clothes on dancing?
DebiNga 2 years ago
Great song to stroll to
DebiNga 2 years ago 7
First slow dance, 1957, with Ingrid Wagner. Wow.........great for the 7th grade. She still remembers at all the reunions.....and we still dance to this song. Thanks Ingrid..........John
marksjjr 2 years ago 5
So much happening vocally on this song-such a great song.
beefoneeto 2 years ago 2
WOW GREAT VID
supermanchu 2 years ago
the teenagers that are now our parents..
commentmutant 2 years ago
Sublime!!!!!
willbashem 2 years ago
Wonderful song. Martin Scorsese uses this song in his movie "After Hours." I was born in '57, and so came to love this song, and others like it, in the late 60's. Musically, times get no better than this era.
odovicor 2 years ago
I see the cameraman must have whistled to the dancers to clear the way so he could film Johnnie and Joe. I lived just two miles outside Washington, D. C., where the Milt Grant Show was filmed (local version of the Dick Clark's American Bandstand) on channel 5 (WTTG).
1royalpalm 2 years ago
Great song ...johnnie has passed in 1988 the new johnnie does a great job!
340audrey 2 years ago
Redasoft......according to your bio on J & J (top right) Johnnie was born in 1945.....and Over the Mountain was released on Chess in "57.....thus Johnnie was only 12 yrs old at that time.......that is some very well developed 12 year old in the clip with Joe! Care to comment....maybe she was born a little earlier than 1945!!??? Brilliant song tho' no matter how old!!
woody7075 2 years ago 9
Interesting. I just copied some text from Wikipedia without realizing that. However, several web pages mention that she was only 43 when she died in 1988, so unless that is wrong too, I guess that she was indeed much younger than she looked in 1957.
redasoft 2 years ago
@redasoft According to Wikipedia, Johnnie was born in 1935, so she was 22 in 1957 when they recorded this song, and 53 when she passed away in 1988. Joe was born in 1937, so he was 20 in 1957, and is 73 this year.
radhau2 1 year ago
@radhau2 Thanks for the info. Somebody must have updated Wikipedia since the last time I checked. I changed the description.
redasoft 1 year ago