Lloyd Thaxton opens this 1966 installment of his Los Angeles teen dance party by lip syncing "Getaway" by Georgie Fame and The Flame, then awards neat prizes to students from Gardena, CA.
What the youth today may not understand is that Thaxton taught us to watch and listen and to immitate respectably in lip sync, so we learned to play music by his good example. I don't think many kids today are learning much past pushing buttons on ipods. My brother and I made cardboard mock guitars, lip sync-d to Bealtes records. Other local friends did this with us, some of them went on to become great local blues musical performance acts and master musicians. I in graphic astronomy arts on CD
@1979cl1 I think some of the disparaging comments here are very unfair. I also remember enjoying this show as a child and compared to the other shows on daytime TV it was wonderful. I still remember one of Thaxton's opening lipsynch routines to Oscar Brown Jr's "But I Was Cool". How hip was that for daytime local TV? Thaxton and Dobie Gillis were as hip as it got on daytime TV back then.
Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates fame, was quoted as saying.. " When i was a kid in the 60's , i watched the Lloyd thaxton show a couple of times and that was my first exposure to California culture. I had thought , These kids are geeks. they cant dance, thy're ugly, the're fools and they dont know how to dress.
"Slowly hanging out in Los Angeles in the late 70's i began to realise that i had been right as a kid '.
Judging by that show i would say that daryl was dead right !
I was on the show with a few other high school kids and it was great! What is and isn"t cool is all relative.
southwestcds 2 weeks ago
I once watched this show (when I was a child) and my parents thought it was terrible muck. Now I think it is terrible muck. Guess I have gotten old!
ZarahLean 1 month ago
What the youth today may not understand is that Thaxton taught us to watch and listen and to immitate respectably in lip sync, so we learned to play music by his good example. I don't think many kids today are learning much past pushing buttons on ipods. My brother and I made cardboard mock guitars, lip sync-d to Bealtes records. Other local friends did this with us, some of them went on to become great local blues musical performance acts and master musicians. I in graphic astronomy arts on CD
cosmiclight 1 month ago
I am very sorry, but I loved this show and watched it every night.
hrjhouston1 1 month ago
@1979cl1 I think some of the disparaging comments here are very unfair. I also remember enjoying this show as a child and compared to the other shows on daytime TV it was wonderful. I still remember one of Thaxton's opening lipsynch routines to Oscar Brown Jr's "But I Was Cool". How hip was that for daytime local TV? Thaxton and Dobie Gillis were as hip as it got on daytime TV back then.
jazmaan 1 month ago
Lloyd Thaxton show was 'ORRIBLE !
oluham 2 months ago
@TeenCretin Amen!
hemming57 2 months ago
@TheTwd1211 Back then, just about everything was made in the USA
jackinla8 2 months ago
That is some bad dancing, I must admit, but still fun to watch.
P90X490104 4 months ago
Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates fame, was quoted as saying.. " When i was a kid in the 60's , i watched the Lloyd thaxton show a couple of times and that was my first exposure to California culture. I had thought , These kids are geeks. they cant dance, thy're ugly, the're fools and they dont know how to dress.
"Slowly hanging out in Los Angeles in the late 70's i began to realise that i had been right as a kid '.
Judging by that show i would say that daryl was dead right !
MrOzgooner 6 months ago