Ronnie Self - Bop-A-Lena ("Seventeen" WOI-TV Ames IA 2/1/1958) video free download

Nathan Pretlow

What no black kid's !

jim lennon

I think some people have got you tube OCD when they have to dislike when no one else has ahhhhh

Savadorason1

They knew how to have good times in the 50s to mid 60s.

percival ramirez

this is dancing unlike todays Ballroom..its rock nroll...yeahhhhh

Fênix Filho

QUE DELICIA. isso que é ROCK AND ROLL. BRAVO RONIE!!!!

bluebeat00

good! I've come to it because Neil Young mentions it. he love it in his beginnings

Jerry Richards

great ,ty very much [wurlitzer1450]

belisario guerra

Cover: Los Iracundos ( Uruguay ) - Bop-a-lena ( 1966 ).

Laurel Kildare

Oh man! I grew up with this TV station. Love Ronnie Self, how awesome!

Duke Feist

We danced to this song SO MUCH FASTER....and we rarely danced holding the girl...we were ROCKIN to it...

B Metz

The saddle oxfords with the buckle on the heel, were called rock n roll shoes. Some of the skirts had an odd fullness to them because there was a one hoop slip/skirt (like the wedding hoops) and then the layered crinolines/petticoats (one or two distinct petticoat slips were worn) were worn on top of the hoop and then the skirt itself over the crinolines/petticoats. Each layer of the crinoline edging had a satin biased edging. Today, little girls wear the crinoline slips as dressy skirts, not underwear. When or if the petticoats were washed, they were stiffly starched with Faultless cooked starch, not a spray starch--it was a drippy messy ordeal.

hebneh

I kept expecting the moving camera to actually bang into one of those kids, who in some cases weren't watching where it was moving.

rick roblek

this is beyond a doubt the greatest rock-a-billy hit ever

Carl Maison

cool. the film great showing youth fashion

Russ Johnson

For the most part, the quality review board here (my daughter) disagrees, saying video and audio are in sync. Still, there might be a bit of a disconnect towards the end. I had to restore the song audio as ISU Special Collections dropped it from their YouTube post of the raw kinescope film. There was a splice about 2/3rds in that threw it off. Try The Chantels clip on my channel...took a while to get audio digitally synced to video to match a girl lip-syncing. Not perfect but I said goodenuf

Carl Maison

Love the music, love the dancing, but they don't match i.e. they are dancing to a different beat compared to this song.

La Malice

let's bop

Wdroster

There's more oil in there hair than in Kuwait. lol

Insight200801

Great stuff

Russ Johnson

their heart was in rockabilly, that's for sure

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