American Bandstand 1967 – Spotlight Dance- Let’s Live For Today, The Grass Roots

Airdate: May 27, 1967

The Grass Roots offer some good advice for people in 1967 and today. The best-known incarnation of the The Grass Root (with Warren Entner, Rob Grill, Rick Coonce, and Creed Bratton) will have their first big hit when “Let’s Live For Today” peaks at #8 in July. Today it is still new on the charts and is at #46.

Our Spotlight dancers today are all “regulars” on the show in 1967 including Marcel Poitier & Diana Bower, Dan Snell & Christy Schneider and Buddy Schwimmer & Olivia “Liver” Favela. (another clip featuring Bud and Olivia is coming soon)

Anyone from St. Louis listen to KXOK radio in the 60’s?

For 60’s music nerds (like me)– The Grass Roots released 2 versions of “Let’s Live For Today”. The original version, which is the one they are playing today, has the lyrics “I need to feel you inside of me…got to feel you deep inside of me”. This was deemed too risqué for radio stations (you can figure that one out) and the group quickly released another version changing the lyrics to “I got to feel you BESIDE me”. The original, mono, single, “inside me” version played today is pretty rare and hard to find.

In case you were wondering – The Who appeared on film, not live, but it’s not on my copy of this episode and I can’t find any record of what song they performed. The in-studio guest today was The Buckingham’s.
La la la la la let’s live for today…and help others live tomorrow – thank you for wearing a mask and keeping a safe distance and thank you for watching!

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