Wah-Watusi-the Orlons-original song-1962

[dreotingle]

It's so cool to be able to listen to the music your grandma listened to when she was young :D

[Immabeaver7]

So much better than screamo :(

[TatanBrown]

The Help brough me here XD

[fg6971]

jr high,hush puppies,a burger and a coke 30 cents, and a cheer leader with big brown eyes that makes my heart skip a beat.

[KREEPNASTY1]

I listen to this song Naked !

[loungerenownrecords]

What a great decade the 60's was!!! "I Want Yo' Number."

[fg6971]

gather ye rose buds while ye may.

[Slynneroth]

@AceNightCreeper

what a disgusting thing to say.... I'm assuming you're not being serious about the molesting part. If you are please get help, tell someone to make it stop!

[juanmendoza15]

am a 16 year old teen and i love this music. i wish i could of been born in the 60s jejejejejeje

[xphibron7]

Remember, next time you see those old 65-75 year old guys and gals, they were there when all this happened. Be glad you're young.

[MrRonnieG]

I was 15 the first time I heard this ~ it was either on L.A. radio, KRLA/AM or KFWB/AM; B. Mitch Reed, Jolly Joe Yocum, Bill Balance, "Emperor" Bob Hudson, Al Jarvis, Casey Kasem. My favorite Orlons' record was "South Street." My mom & dad bought me a 7 transistor portable radio for Xmas in 1958 (I was 11 and portable radios were hot stuff!), they paid $55 which was alot of moola in 1958, and from then on, that green & white Admiral radio and I became inseparable, interrupted only by sleep.

[DaveWollenberg]

The Orlons hit #2 in Billboard, 7-21-62. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

[DaveWollenberg]

The Orlons hit #2 in Billboard, 7-21-62. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

[blockbluezz]

@NuPhil4You & @TheButterflygarden Wow you guys are lucky, now in 2011 it never these types of songs anymore it's all about partying in nightclubs and dancing in raves

[TheEagles1161]

Wouldn't the kids today love to live back in these time of these hot rod cars and drive in movies and car hops! They don't know what they missed!

[Bubberscat]

OMG does this bring back memories, and they really are good ones.

[ernieleem77]

I was seventeen when this song was played in our dance party.Another great music from the 60,s

[nickums69]

Whoa! This brings back Good Times for me.. :)

[carboned4]

@firax456 thanks for that.

[bayougrrrl]

@firax456 americans do this too



[jakestud2007]

OMG, OMG. Yeah, back then it was "dirty dancing." Jeez, it's so tame now!

[metropolisio]

This was an awesome dance,but not very easy..I was 11 and my sister patricia taught me it

[hitzingd]

I want to eat that plate of food so bad.

[dahur]

Down with rap-crap, bring the 60's back. I sure miss those times, and especially the music. 95% of today's music is junk, IMO.

[BatBastardson]

5 people don't want

to do the Wah Watusi?

[neonangel82]

good song

[calimarishefebeash]

Wa Ah Watusi

[JuliusThomTrilogy]

The real Philly Sound....Overbrook High School!!

[akrakowiakow]

I'm 35 and was the only one listening to this when I was a kid. It was already 25 years old. I still love it.

[Wolf251982]

Good Stuff.

[saxmanatmaplewood]

this is soooo dry...this is the best version of this song youtube com/watch?v=TjFeIUUh9tg

[kitfam7]

another great song by a great group

[tumsabai1]

If you can do the jerk, then you can do the watusi.

Just jerk both arms at the same time instead of one

arm at a time. WATUSI

[PlanetIre]

great song from Quadrophenia film but alas not on the original soundtrack album

[SHANNONBELCOURT]

This was the Orioles song, NOT The Lennon Sisters - No comparison between a white Big Band girl group to a black 60's girl group!

[turbo1964]

Philly Rocks!

[lowrell]

nice one Mick love this choon, im also Streatham sw16 son, god bless!!!!

[boatracer39]

The Lennon girls do it better !!

[bearnurse1]

@boatracer39 Better??? Are you out of your mind? When the Lennon Sisters did this they couldn't even do the hand claps in time with the beat.

[blackolivejazz]

Great harmonies, chords on Wah WAh,

[elamite66]

one of the first songs I bought in the Summer of 1962 and one of the few my Mom also liked My Dad no, not his style nor we're any black performers, for years i disliked music form the 1940s because all I heard were my Dad's old 78s it wasn't until I was in my late teens that there was a lot more to swing or that period than what my Dad liked, no criticism of him just different tastes in music

[mikekadas]

The Wah Watusi - The Orlons - No.02 for 2 weeks on 6/23/1962. 11 weeks Top 40. - "Lead vocalist Rossetta Hightower, Marlena Davis, Steve Caldwell, and Shirley Brickley scored with 'The Wah Watusi' in 1962; it was a number five R&B and number two pop hit,..." - Cameo Parkway 1957-1967 [Box Set, Original Recording Remastered] (ABKCO)-2005.

[grundid44]

Excellent production values great rhythm, compared to today there's nothing as infinitely hip, keep listening, those voices are haunting,G.

[IanHunedoara8]

In 1962 I met a cheerleader from Lafayette HS playing this song on a jukebox. She was wearing elf boots and had her hair in a beehive. I was 11 but never forgot her and the song.

[stevejmoffett]

@IanHunedoara8 it's amazing how music can take you right back to a specific time and place.

[IanHunedoara8]

@stevejmoffett Sorta a "wake up- there are girls in your world" moment

[57highland]

Front porch of our house, 60 Masseth Street, Rochester NY, summer 1962, playing the radio on the porch and hearing this great song. 

[hyoutantugino1]

very good^^

[BobbyDelRiv]

Song was so big in the summer of 62 that even my grandmother was talking about this group and what she know of RnR? It's the dance if you can't afford romance. Great song and they don't write words like this anymore.

[billeybop]

Great!

[staticmunk7777]

nothing like a the original lp version and a lil scratchy this is perfect thankies for making me one happy bearmunk.

[giorgioadams]

Thank you so much ( AK47bandit ).. like all your songs you posted.. love my oldies.. great job.. bless you and keep on doing what you are doing.. its great... thanks again.. BRAVO!! ... your friend from... California.. USA... :)

[pollegazon1]

great song, but the original is made in '61 by Chubby Checker,

Paul from Belgium(Flanders)

[MickeyMudTurtle]

Hey! Check out that Edsel @ 0:13!

[mikemikeyf]

Heavy Hit in NYC. By 1962 Cousin Brucie and the WABC DJs were dominant on our transistor radios, now up to an amazing 10,,,if you had an Emerson.

[hyoutantugino1]

im looking for this number

very  good^^

[darjim68]

Great song!!!

[arkyron1947]

In the 9th gr. lunchtime,girls would do the Watsui get in trouble with the Asst Prin. Bunche JHS.Compton CAL.

[TAKR287]

@arkyron1947 --That is SO Funny! Too bad today can't be like that!

[steve1954lancaster]

Got to see them finally in person at Hershey Park last June. They still look and perform great! Love this song and South Street.  Hope to see them again soon!

[JEThomTrilogy]

Those were the days of segregated radio stations and only a few played R&B...different era!

[JEThomTrilogy]

Big hit in Georgia! As a ninth grader in a small town in North Georiga in 1962 I listened to the Soul Station out of Nashvillle, Tenn....very few stations in the south played this kind of music....go Orlons!

[ranmae57]

@JEThomTrilogy why not?

[peanutzinuk]

AK47bandit, you've got another hit from Philadelphia on Cameo. Was also a Pittsburgh hit. Played on Porky "The Bossman" Chedwick's WAMO show. More play on white Pgh radio, i.e, the late WEEP & KQV when it was Top 40. Great times. Thank you for posting

[cuneo1950]

sitting on my buddies back porch in 7th or 8th grade. along with 'south street' and 'bristol stomp' and 'you can't sit down' by the dovells

[carolyrrh]

@cuneo1950 i loved all those songs back then and loved all the dances that went with them , I"m a jersey shore girl , we love that music

[m1up]

teee heee

reminds me of good old times when I wasnt born...

o...wait...

[rjca1]

memories of ken carters pepsi dance party every friday nite seaside ballroom revere ma. . who else remembers?

[GNRSlashLover]

this is the weirdest song i ever heard, but i love it!!

[oldermusiclover]

are any of the orlons still alive?

[nancyfloressantos]

1962 song....1styearhighschoolmemor­ies

[r8rpride1]

just a great song

[2222kurt]

WAAAH WAH WATUSI

nice :)

[ChicanoOldiesRuca]

this is a great song.....

[mactopolis]

Great song and great dance...they are a couple ways this dance was done...the kiddy/teen style and the grown-up style...just like the pony and the dirty-dog

[harpozzz]

i dont want to be a $!#@@! but this song wasnt in American Graffitti EVER. still great way great thanks for playingit!

[AudioMobil]

I bought this 45 record on Ebay a few days ago. It's a german pressing on Ariola records, the B-Side is "Holiday Hill"...nice tunes!

[fairfax1960]

@AudioMobil -- "Holiday Hill" is a beautiful, if somewhat sad song. I love it!!! Hope you consider uploading it. I've been looking for it forever.

[NuPhil4You]

I was in the 7th grade when this song came out. I remember my shop teacher thought the dance was too nasty. Can you believe the times?

[oldermusiclover]

yes he would die now. unfortantly the morals od US now days are so different

from when we were kids. everything that is

dirty, blue humored ect. is what sells TOO

SAD!!

[oldermusiclover]

@NuPhil4You he would flip out now

[StickWarrior]

@NuPhil4You

Too nasty? Ha, well thank God for the Watusi. It's one of the few dances I'm capable of doing.

[ITALIANJRZYGUYNNJ]

@NuPhil4You if it was anything like hair spray with the trolls grinding on others then yea it was lmao

[afro20man]

@NuPhil4You Haha thanks for the memory...Im 19...I can only imagine what he'd say of current trends...

[ronetteloverz]

The Ronettes also recorded this one. Nedra sang lead.

It was an excellent rendition. It's a toss-up as to which

one is better. You be the judge. It's on YouTube.

[presidentfrierson]

Great song. I wonder where I can find the piano piece for this music.

[oldermusiclover]

there are some books of old music you can get through librarys or maybe online

somewhere

[oldermusiclover]

@presidentfrierson try music stores, or

a music teacher

[tomkes100]

wah watusi solid gold from 62 so this doo wop rocknroll historian can tell you, the Orlons had a MEGAHIT with this immortsl song from a bygone era. Thanks Orlone. We still love you. Its still 1962 to us. God bless you all. TOMK

[soulfultony]

Phil Spector had NOTHING to do with Wah-Watusi. Thats a Mann/Appeal song, Orlons original produced in Philly for the Cmeo/Parkway label. Phil did have Nedra Tally sing the song then put it on a Crystals LP on Phillies as filler.

[TheButterflygarden]

Oh those were the days.......my friend Tricia and I in our early to mid teens dancing and swinging our hips to this song playing on her sister Fran's Hi-Fi stereo......Priceless

[rottenlydon]

Quadrophenia, the scene at the end of the dance hall in Brighton.....great song

[blueycarlton]

I bought and still have

"The Wah-Watusi"/"Holiday Hill" The Orlons in 1962.

Released on Columbia here in Australia.

[FastphillyCorvette]

I have this 45 single. it's a shame that youtube is rejecting the upload...something to do with copywrite issues..

[bearnurse1]

Not that it matters, but this song is not on the AG soundtrack and it wasn't in the movie. It is from the same time period, though

[Vincent50]

Thanks Korky94. I saw American Graffiti many times and loved the sound track. I was just stating a fact mainly, didn't mean to sound harsh.  Though i was a kid when this song came out it was one of my favorites. 1962 I believe was the year this song came out. I remember the kids were dancing a lot to this song at the kiddie parties I attended.

[369bollix]

Hi Vincent, I'm a Londoner still trapped in the 60's although my age is a little over that number. I've got all those swinging, funky, rocking, bopping sounds on my juke box which NEVER gets played less than FULL VOLUME. Blacks, whites or greens, it doesn't matter what colour as long as it's fantastic music. Regards, Mick (ex of Streatham - SW2)

[Orimentals]

Mick,I guess you were a Mod in the 60s?

[369bollix]

Yup! we were the smart mods not the scooter boys. We all wore light grey suits with ice blue linings and rocked to the Who, Small Faces and best of all Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band at the Locarno ballroom Steatham Hill. Fantastic time to grow up in London.

[Orimentals]

I missed out on that being a baby and all, but got into via the late 70s Mod Revival.

We were definatley Mods not scooter boys.

Did the scene in Quadrophenia bear any resemblance to the Wah-Watusi dance that you guys did?

[joshisdabest2010]

@369bollix Im only 18 and this is the best music ever made the new stuff is bull!

[elamite66]

@joshisdabest2010 This music is great I grew up with being 12 or 13 when this record was released and I bought it still got it as a matter of fact but there's great music now too, there's great music from every era and every style or just about any style I'm not big on heavy metal but I did love Led Zeppelin when they were new

[TheBlueoverthemoon]

@369bollix

Mick--We're two of a kind! I'm from London but from the other side of the Thames and I bought this when it was first issued over here--and I still have it on a 45. I'm still up to my neck in vinyl from US pop from 57 -64. I know I'm daft but my kids love it too.

[MZuchick]

@369bollix Nothing with the Sixties.. They can say what ever they want about our generation, but we made Great Music.

[Vincent50]

I don't want to sound prejudice but we blacks were jamming to this song in the 60s and all the pictures focused on was the whites during the day or American Graffiti. Hello, we existed during those days too, damn!

[korky94]

u dont sound prejudice

they're all images from a movie

this guy uploaded songs from the soundtrack

"american graffiti" watch it, its very well done..

[BergLarsen110]

That is how whites lay claim to everything that has passed on. They put their image on things they had nothing to do with when it was being created, but, because they discover it later (when it is "out of style" the creaters) they put their image on it and lie to the world that they invented it when they are the last ones to discover it! In reality, it is really nothing but "Culture Lag".

[rudeboyjohn]

well when you take a look at someone like Phil Spector who was white, and how he wrote many of those hits.

[Czechmate1967]

What a lot of toss you talk. While it is somewhat true that America did not quickly embrace the black music coming from Chicago and Philadelphia and Georgia and elsewhere it WAS white audiences and later artists in England that picked it up and sold it back to the American mass market -many of those sounds only had local success before sometimes not even that.

[luvureally]

@Czechmate1967 These musicians were superstars in the American Black Community, so they had an audience of millions before white people anywhere caught on.

[Czechmate1967]

@luvureally True enough -.in the USA. What I'm refering to is the white run tv networks and their audiences falling over themselves to listen to the Stones and the Beatles singing their version of black music while they barred the originators from the airwaves. There was also a lot of great music that never got played very widely that has had a long second life abroad..what we call Northern soul.

[OttisIII]

@luvureally Gee I guess I'm the exception because I'm white and was listening to this in the late 60's

[luvureally]

@OttisIII See what I mean, this was released in 1962, you didn't listen until late 60s! This song was a #2 pop hit so it was well known. I am talking about people like Baby Washington, Maxine Brown, Gene Chandler (he was more than "The Duke of Earl"), Bobby Marchan, The Intriques, Manhattans, Patti Labelle & Bluebelles, Garnett Mims, etc., artist that had huge following in Black community, but not in mainstream circles.

[pataphysician66]

Mel's is still on Sunset.