The bird is the word....

[Robes]

Remember the song by the Trashmen? Round about 1963. I never saw the video,... until today. Yikes... :shock:
The quality isn't that great,... but about half way through........ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4

I remember a band playing that at a wedding in the 60's. Did a great cover,...but thankfully they didn't do "the dance". There was one drunk patron doing something resembling the funky chicken though....

My grandson saw this and then looks at me and asks "is that how you danced?....grandpa? I was very emphatic that grandpa never danced like that....

 

[Danjet500]

Yep, I remember it. Even Peter Griffin knows about the bird. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OXVPgu6urw

 

[nekvermont]

There just had to of been some acid involved in that display of craziness.

 

[Taterman]

Ouch. I'm embarrassed for the guy.

 

[GP100]

I remember this song fondly. I've always enjoyed the music of the 50's and 60's. Can't stand the crap they call music today. You can't dance to it, and it's just noise..

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Little known fact. Surfin' Bird was stolen from the Rivingtons.

The Rivingtons - Papa Oom Mow Mow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrQjNNZCAo

and The Rivingtons - Birds The Word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYQiZxyw0I

from Wiki - After their two hit singles, the Rivingtons struggled to hit the charts. However, "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and "The Bird's the Word" were revived in 1963, thanks to a Minnesota-based group called the Trashmen recording the Surfin' Bird, made up from the Rivington's songs' nonsense syllables. The Trashmen made it in a record shop and passed it off as their own.[2] In fact, it was just a medley of the Rivington's choruses minus the verses.[3][4][5] The Rivingtons' manager reported it to their lawyers, and the Trashmen were ordered to add the surnames of the Rivingtons to the credits.[6] Because of the publicity in Billboard, the Trashmen had to share the writing credits on the recording and a later version as a sign of good faith. "Surfin' Bird" itself was revived in the 1970s by the Ramones[7] and the Cramps.[8]

 

[Colonel Daddy]

Remember it very well. Seems I can't listen to just one song on youtube so also listened to Wolly Bully by the Pharaohs and House of the Rising Sun by the Animals. We had some crazy music back then :D

 

[Jimbo357mag]

All the hits of 1963. Kinda like one of those 'Time/Life' infomercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxS9D0a9zQs&list=RDLxS9D0a9zQs#t=40

 

[blume357]

Didn't Gary Cooper sing that on the Ed Sullivan show?