Who else is grateful for growing up in the 70's!

@bryanloveseighties

4 ай бұрын

Heck, I'm grateful for growing up in the 80s! We still had some Krofft back then, in the vain of Land of the Lost, Barbara Mandrell and her sisters, Pryor's Place and D.C. Follies.

@noreenanthony-tabar2148

2 ай бұрын

@@bryanloveseighties Nice, but I bet you saw the reruns of cartoons from the 1970's like I saw the reruns of the 1960's

@atrocchia

2 ай бұрын

A magical decade that I love and cherish.

I had the biggest crush on Superchick! This stuff was great back in the day ❤️

@EdMelendez

2 жыл бұрын

Still Do!

I MISS 1976

Never knew Mickey was with Three Dog Night...my favorite band!

@tod3msn

2 жыл бұрын

Mickey was at the very end of their big run. I think he played on their final regular non greatest hits album "American Pastime" which had only one cut from Danny Hutton that was left over from previous album and mostly Corry and Chuck doing vocals. A great LP and very much in line with the disco sound but it did not sell like the other albums.

Brings back childhood memories ..... great Saturday mornings. 😁

I need a time machine, I want to go back.

@Eddie42023

2 жыл бұрын

msg me when you get that chance, I'll go with you!

This is so cool i never knew They were on american bandstand Awesome

@MrNoturaveragerednek

3 жыл бұрын

I just just asked google why Flatbush left the band in the second season and it doesn't say much of anything.

@phatcat3705

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrNoturaveragerednek I read somewhere that it was because Bert was working on an album at the time, and left the show to focus more on music.

The Kroft Supershow was my best Saturday morning show when they came out in 1976. Michael Lembeck and the rest of the band was the coolest and perfect for that era. I watched the show and my favorite was Magic Mongo. But in 1978 Kaptain & The Kongs was replaced by the Bay City Rollers! I stopped watching the show. The era was perfect for Kaptain Kool & The Kongs. It coincided with the popularity of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal groups like KISS, Alice Cooper, and Angel.

Man, my childhood was fuckin' WEIRD.

@rustybeltway2373

3 ай бұрын

That's why we're weird now. Glam Rock. But being a kid in the 70s was the best.

This is the Kaptain Kool & The Kongs I like the best. GLAM ROCK! Before Season 2 when they went denim and lost Flatbush, so they could pair up. I miss those days.

@jourellelane1686

5 жыл бұрын

Mee two my childhood

@creepyzeek1

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know what Brooklyn and pantyhose have in common ?? FLATBUSH.

Saturday morning tv show I liked as a 8 year old kid

I was 10 years old 1976 on American Bandstand but the captain in the congs the Super Show

Tubi just introduced me to this wonderful group.

I totally forgot about this. OMG! This was my life as a kid.

Fantastic! Michael Lembeck looked alot like his father Harvey Lembeck! Thanks for posting

Great childhood memories

I want to see the full performance of this so bad.

@whitewitchoz

6 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@NeluThat70sKid

6 жыл бұрын

Wishful thinking

@cjjrtoronto

17 күн бұрын

It's possible that the person/people who post on KZread under the name "YouCanDanceToit!"...may...be willing to post the full performance (if that has not happened already)....

I once looked up a Saturday Morning show book and noticed this picture. And I asked, "Why is Max from One Day at a Time dressed up like Kaptain Kool?" --- And then I read the entry . . . (and I knew Louise DuArt from Hollywood Squares too.)

I turned 16 in 1976 and thankfully after getting my driver's license I spent most of the time listening to More Than A Feeling by Boston rather than Kaptain Kool. ..

I used to watch Kaptain Kool and The Kongs!! Was watching January 7 1978 with my sister at our grandparents house when our dad called to say our youngest sister had been born.

I love this,Thank You!

Wow, Louise DuArt....I remember her from the 80's when she would do hilarious impersonations of Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand

@millenniumman75

5 жыл бұрын

I knew about Michael Lembeck, but had no idea Louise duArt was in it, too. She even hosted her own game show called Rodeo Drive.

@johnpastore7685

Жыл бұрын

I just found out she was with this group. I watched this as a kid.

@robertorick6383

Ай бұрын

I loved Louise as "Nashville". Her first season glitter cowgirl look was sexy. By season two, she lost the cowgirl hat and with a different style in denim clothing with butterfly design. It was cute, but the first season costume made me have a crush on her as an 8-year old boy in 1976.

So funny i know Michael Lembeck from One Day at A Time and his acting classes back in the 90's

Man i lost track about the interview on A.B.S really the memories came back missed those days middle-aged of the 70s

Glitter- Buble gum rock for TV. it was new but just couldn't take off. Missed those 8track days good stuff kroft supershow

@jourellelane1686

5 жыл бұрын

This was my childhood growing up This show was on the head of the Fonz craze of happy days

@robertorick6383

Ай бұрын

Epic Records did issue an album by The Kongs in 1978, but it got lost in the shuffle. By then, disco was the craze, and early 1970's glitter was fading out a little.

Soy de habla hispana. Yo amaba estos personajes y su música.

1:21 She just realized what she said :)

@batfink5961

3 жыл бұрын

That's what she said

Awesome! I have the series on Blu-ray. It's the greatest!

Wait a second, the only thing I was allowed to watch was Davy and Goliath and Gumby on Sunday if we did our chores on Saturday morning.

1:20 - Superchick realized what she just said could be perceived as dirty!

Ah, the 70s.

While they were very friendly to the host. I liked the look that they had in the second season better with the denim and Debra Clinger and Louise Du Art did not have their hair like in the first season. To me the second season was a more relaxed look, but I did enjoy this interview.

Saw a episode of this show on KZread though it reminded me of a TV show on Nickelodeon it involved a group of kids signing it was called roundhouse 🤗

@Eddie42023

2 жыл бұрын

This show was often copied, never outdone.

@mikesilva3868

4 ай бұрын

Agreed 😊​@@Eddie42023

I had a crush on Debbie Clinger.

Great 😌

I only have a vague recollection of these guys. The tall one with the Afro.

Bert Sommer in Kaptain Kool and the Kongs... That's about as sad as the time Robbie Krieger showed up on some cheesy game show in rhe 90's.

@cjjrtoronto

17 күн бұрын

That stated....in the above interview....he claimed to be loving what he was doing there. (The question that should now be asked--->Did he ever--from circa September 1977 onwards--ever publicly repudiate what he said; on this specific American Bandstand episode? [I will now presume that Bert did not have a subsequent oppourtunity to perform a song--as a solo artist--on this specific TV show.])

I want a VH1 Behind The Music as to why Flatbush left after Season 1. Season 2, the band ditched these outfits and went with an all matching combo.

@JFS3

26 күн бұрын

I heard that someone asked Mickey McMeel about that, and he said that Bert quit to work on his 1977 self-titled album for Capitol Records, which sadly flopped, and ended his major label music career.

Everyone loved Superchick but Nashville was just as sexy

@robertorick6383

Ай бұрын

I agree. Nashville (played by Louise DuArt) was sexy. I love cowgirls, even "glitter' cowgirls, and Nashville represented it. By season two, she changed her look and wardrobe by wearing denim, and she lost the cowgirl hat and went hatless, though she still had her mini-afro, though it was no longer colored blue, and was slightly bigger than it was in the first season. Her afro went from blue to au-natural brown by 1978. The band itself was a cross-examination of KISS with Fonz of "Happy Days", though their music was more pop-oriented than KISS. Superchick was fine, but give me Nashville any time. I was 8 years old when the band debuted on ABC TV.

Mick as Turkey, was a kids version of Gene Simmons.

@robertorick6383

Ай бұрын

That is, a much less vulgar version of Gene Simmons. Gene could be extremely outrageous in his opinions at times, Mickey McMeel A/K/A "Turkey" was much more loveable. Bert Sommer, who played the role of "Flatbush" was originally a hippie singer/ songwriter from the late 60's who recorded for Buddah Records, and appeared at "Woodstock" in 1969, though he didn't get much of a headline act. "Kaptain Kool & The Kongs" was an attempt for Bert to change with the times in the mid-70's, and change from hippie singer to glam pop star. Bert passed away a number of years ago (1990), and is well remembered by those who grew up with him. R.I.P., Bert.

I wonder if they are still washing the glitter out of their hair.

I don't know them ... Why did they choose that name, was it a parody of the group ''Kool & the Gang" ... ?

I recognize Michael Lembeck from other things but do not remember Kaptain Kool and the Kongs at all.

@jourellelane1686

5 жыл бұрын

+Garden Plots Before Kaptain Kool. In 1974 Micheal Lembeck was on an episode as a hood on Barney Miller With long hair and a beard And the audience went crazy after He shaved he was young and cute then the girls screamed like mad In the tv audiences of Barney Miller

@quad5186

5 жыл бұрын

That’ll save you some therapy dollars.

@ljhunlimitedart

2 жыл бұрын

Kroft Saturday mornings were best part of the mid 70s as a kid. I still remember the lyrics to Land of the Lost. Late 60s Early 70s Hannah Barbara had it sewn up with Scooby-Doo Doo and Wacky Racers.

Season 21 Episode 1 September 10 1977

@cjjrtoronto

17 күн бұрын

Didn't they actually perform/appear on the Saturday, September 18th, 1976 TV show?

No one had any muscle tone back then

Louise Du Art got almost no time and 1 question! Snubbed! harrumph! 🧐

@robertorick6383

Ай бұрын

I agree. Though Nashville was hot stuff to me, Superchick was personally picked by Sid & Marty and the ABC staff to be the heartthrob idol for the boys in the audience. I didn't care, to 8-year old me, cowgirls were hot, and Nashville was a sexy chick in her own right. Even as she changed her costume and wardrobe during the second season, she was still a hottie. The Native American cowgirl on "Bigfoot & Wildboy" was also super hot. I loved the way she rode her horse in the episodes.

Turkey's eye makeup had a great similarity to Gene Simmon's (of KISS) eye makeup.

Bert Sommer died 1990

@phatcat3705

3 жыл бұрын

:'(

Is it just me or do they still look the same?

Didnt these actors Mime to The Osmonds vocals and instruments?

@whitewitchoz

6 жыл бұрын

Yes they did...but they're still awesome. Especially if you remember them from childhood. Every Saturday morning on ABC 7:00 am central time 76-77.

@jrasicmark1

6 жыл бұрын

Really? I don't know. I remember the show and even tracked down the album on ebay, and the lead singer definitely sounds like Michael Lembeck singing. Maybe the Osmonds pitched in with backup vocals.

@jourellelane1686

5 жыл бұрын

The Osmonds discovered them And finance the kroft supershow And the TV executives stole it out From under Sid and marty kroft And gave it to the bay city rollers Which pissed me off

@pownbnull

4 жыл бұрын

Remember this is a kid.. the worst manufactured band ever...lol

@coderspy

Жыл бұрын

Clinger and Lembeck did their own singing. I listened to a recent interview with Michael Lembeck where he talked about it. The Osmond's contribution was just song writing.

What song did they sing?

1:12 Please feel free to insert joke...

They should've kept Kayfabe....

duh

Michael Lembeck stole Freddie Mercury look and style.

Communist propaganda. “You’ve all done serious musical things in your life, so how do you feel about this crazy get-up?” The speaker was told exactly what to say. He was implying that “art” is political. It’s serious! And since Art (in this case as music) is serious and political, it should naturally be controlled by the government. Any art outside of government boundaries is crazy. It’s not even worth considering. So it’s excommunicated.

Kroft Super Show

She is very careful swallowing and what she puts in her mouth, lol