Hard to believe the 80s were 40 years ago.

I was 23-24 years old at this time, clubbing three or four times a week, every week!!! I bought all the records showcased here like Peech Boys, Quando Quando, the Jamaica Girls....it was a very special and pivotal time in Dance music or what we called "Club Music". Chicago House was about to pounce upon the NYC/NJ scene in about 4 to 6 months. The Paradise Garage was everything at this time...Larry Levan was slaying week after week...introducing the latest Italo-Disco cuts, UK imports (British Jazz Funk, Funky New Wave & Synth-Pop), then all the tunes coming out of NYC indie dance labels like West End, Salsoul, Beckett, Prelude, etc. It was an amazing time and I'm so glad that I was there to experience it all! Mudd Club, Pyramid Club, Reggae Lounge, Funhouse (I went once...more of a Funk Garage/Zanzibar head), of course, Danceteria, Better Days, The Loft on 99 Prince St., and Melons.

Just got done reading "l:ife and Death On The New York Dancefloor 1980-1983" by Tim Lawrence... I was already drawn to so much of the music. That's whole damn reason I picked up the book. But learning about this scene was so inspiring. Dreaming of what a night, the dancefloor, a club can be. Happy with what I got to work with today, but damn, do wish I woulda been there.. A completely magical place and time. So many elements intersecting to create something that, surely, was a new nirvana, peak living, transcendence... I won't spend too many words on what it was (I wasn't there!!) But if I was, I surely woulda have been dancing well past sunrise...

Red Parrot, 1018, 4D, Zenons, Lime Lite, Magique, Starbucks, Underground, Palladium, Cat Club, Roxy, Fun House, Ritz, Tunnel, Beat Street Sqeeze, Visage, Danceteria, Leviticus, Bentleys, Garage, Private Eyes, Nirvana, & Studio 54....GOOD TIMES, GREAT MEMORIES!!!

Thanks for posting this classic tube new york club special !! Remember watching this show back in either it was october or november 1983.

The shape of that cab's windows (which gives us a sense of the year and make), The Police's Every Breath You Take on the cab radio (radio!) and the streetlight windshield washer: a time capsule in seconds.

*classic* So much fun in NYC during that time.

this was great lots of energy i miss this type of energy coming from this time so eclectic and adenturous

Wow, this is gold. Thx for the upload!

The "Apache" scene with the b-boys is fantastic

loved seeing Mark Kamins segment in Danceteria...nice film, thanks for uploading!

the second they shows the Klaus Nomi stuff i got a little sad knowing that he had just passed not long before. always cool to see some vintage footage from The Roxy and Danceteria and a little bit of the Break groups. and of course the empty front of CBGB a little after its heyday.

Love videos like this , back in the good times

I absolutely love Arthur Baker and Tina B. Thanks for sharing!

awesome upload - some serious archival footage here, danceteria, roxy and the garage... what a tour! but they left the garage and it was dark :-( you supposed to leave in the morning man!

i feel like i just went back in time. this is so cool man.

The Legendary Crazy Legs of Rock Steady! true NYC LEGENDS!!!

Dear..God! the soundtrack to this clip! NYC was a Blast! London too! 1983!!

Hard to believe most of the people here are probably around 60 by now... and they were just so young and hip then!

😂 they _absolutely_ edited in the audio of decent scratching when the British woman was giving it a try on the record

Brings Back Wonderful Memories.

The Garage portion made my hairs do jumping jacks,hilarious how these two squares played it down!

Wow. Thank you so much for posting this.

This is essential. Wow ♥ NYC.

I can’t believe I was there at that time and had such a great time and am still here!

GREATTTTT!!! thanx for uploading this!!:)

WOW, I wish I was an older teen back then. I was born in '84. listening to what PLJ was playing then, if only they'd play that good music now!!

This was fantastic thanks!

3:34 Mark Kamins was the DJ that Madonna gave her demo reel of "Everybody" to and the rest is history!

Great upload!

they did sort of,the music video "confusion" that arthur baker played was filmed in the funhouse. the funhouse was represented.ny clubs in the 80's ,historic and if you werent there..you missed it..awesome video .thanks for uploading,a real treasure..too bad clubs in nyc cant compare.peace to all clubheads, old school.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTT ???? THATS JOOL HOLLAND IN THE CAB

AMAAAAAAAAAZING!!! Love this so much!❤

Even though it's only a movie 🎬 ... THEE BEST showing of ROXY was in BEAT STREET.

at 14:00 jools hits a (then hidden) mark, they're actually talking about ''house-music'' as we now know it.. luvin every sec of this video..thanks for this!!

I WAS THERE!!! (in spirit). I was actually 13/14 and living in Shepherds Bush.

My favorite thing about this vid is how it shows just how progressive America was going back to the 80's. Gen z is so clueless. They aren't doing anything that hasn't been done before

This is sooo awesome

Good 'ole New York...before it changed.

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I’ve been to the Loft… Xenon…Funhouse…Zanzibar…Limelight…but when it came to sound systems. Paradise Garage. Was a regular. It was in another dimension compared to all rest. By far.

While i never been to DANCETIERIA, i remember people telling me that madonna used hang out there (BEFORE she became MADONNA to the world), which i'm not really really surprised, many people from all over hung out in NYC back then. She just happened to have the ambitious soul and acted on it.

Technics 1200s. Still the best

the people that worked there and created the atmosphere your the best

So in the 80s there was no stupid rock vs rap war? People just listened to whatever they wanted to as long as it sounded good?

Dam No One Remembers Crisco Disco West 15th Nyc- I Worked There it Was an After Hours From 12 Midnight to 10am in the Morning Where Do You Think Everyone Went After All the Other Clubs Closed at 4am ' We Were Always Packed With A 15 Foot Crisco Can With Famous Djs and A Light Man on the Top With Technic 1200 Tables '

Let me just add, Leslie Ash is a actress, mostly on TV in the UK at the time. Jools Holland was a band member of a UK group 'Squeeze'. This show (The Tube) was broadcast for several years, filming in the North East of the UK. Although, the two Brits seem out of place? I would suggest that the UK broadcaster (Channel 4) was keen to see the underground side of NYC, which is in total contrast to large swathes of US media, who pretended the underground scene wasn't there? The UK music scene has long had a very close association with the States. In fact, House Music flourished in the UK, while it was ignored in the US by most network radio stations. Many House/Techno 'US' DJs travelled around the US pretty much unknown ... whilst in the UK they had become iconic with the youth of that time. It has taken nearly 30 years for the mass audience of the US to get on board with 'Dance Music' in a modern form. The only downside is the US music companies have tried to dilute the original 'underground' sound, originally feature in the above video and thereafter. The tag 'EDM' is the media mainstream version of dance music ...

Much Respect!!!

this is awesome. slightly before my time although i did make it to danceteria shortly before it closed down.

I wonder if I'll see me in here. 1983-1985 I practically lived at Danceteria, or so I recall. We were all so cute back then. Does anyone remember Liz the bartender? Short black hair, always wore black leather, she had icy dark eyes and would stare people down as if she could freeze them solid right then and there. I was enchanted by her. I'd forego dancing and mingling to just sit at the bar and watch her. I think she kind of adopted me for a while. She never let anyone mess with me. And she'd let me catch some sleep at her place while I was waiting for my train. I miss that woman. That dark goddess. Oh and her former profession was shocking and yet alluring to me. I always regret losing track of her...

Check out....The New York Dolls at the 82 Club in New York.....from 10 years before this, Bowie, Ferry and other rockers would go there....it was a disco that played an mix of rock, new wave, and dance music......there was also Max's Kanas City.no dancing there but they did have bands......These were emerging clubs before 54 and CBGB....There were other discos Le Jardin was one.

More likely 50ish since most of these people were in their late teens early to mid 20s at the time. Arthur Baker excepted.

Shock when New Order popped up. Transported from NYC to Manchester in a second.

Paradise Garage...original underground NYC mecca whence came house music later. He was right to mention that tracks would become popular later, first at places like the Garage then the mainstream experienced it later via house music.

I would have loved Danceteria and Paradise Garage the best!

You know . . .i wish i was able to go out in NYC at the time of this clip,im not to disapointed cause i did get in on the partying that took place a few years after this (ZANZIBAR and PARADISE GARAGE

so cool

i miss these days ny is filled w/ posers not pretending to be from here if u weren't here before the later 90s u dont know what it was like so stop it

Wow even showed cb gbs. Where it all started for a lot of huge bands

@21:38. I couldn’t imagine waiting until 4-4:30 in the morning just to hear this

Wow 1 night! Unbelievable!

Too bad they didn't hit the Funhouse ... That would have awakened them ...

Joy Division and then New order returned the music to NY via Italy and Manchester which is pretty cool😉👌🇮🇹🗽

Pretty cool, so much culture must be forgotten

Must. build. timemachine.

this video reminds me about grand theft auto, especially the radio stations being played in the background.

These kids of today have no clue on the great times & fun we had back in the day. Sad.

Arthur Baker said he was producing for his wife, the one and only Tina B...

i was in grad school in ny during this time never stepped foot in a club

Mott st, use to get m80's there in the 90's

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"This is the real sort of American cab driver." So funny when the presenter says that. Ah. What happened to New York? There's nothing like this anymore. It's been whitewashed and the fun driven out.

great, would be nice if you could ad Klaus Nomi in the tags... thx

I went to CBGB's from the UK when I was 19. It was like a religious pilgramage. None of the taxi drivers in New York knew what it was or the significance of it.

Ain't nothing but a heartache.

Looking at this reminds me of one fact as we gain so do we loose. These film seems highly antiquated for 1983/4 but at the same time those were some truly stylish years and the House music thing was really booming. Perhaps the only bad thing is that AIDS was just starting and stuff would surely dissolve in the years ahead.

My regret was I didn’t get the chance to attend Danceterria.

It's happening Underground...Now you have to Dig For those Treasures!

@Vassilika1 Klaus Nomi added to tags. ;-)

The male Londoner seems out of place as Rod Stewart. Damn, Rod Stewart? But, really, it's good to see people like them chillin' at places like The Roxy, I would never have known.

This is my new York! Lol

interesting question about "complete rhythm records", as this video pre-dates house music by a couple years. The original house records were totally just programmed drum and bass and they were HUGE

f%#k, New York is so dead now...

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✌80's💥🍾

Mark Kamins! Wow. He made Madonna famous. He helped launch her career!

16:44 Rock Steady b-boy king Crazy Legs, looking pretty much the same as he looks now days--b-boys age well!

I love those B boys!! As a 48 year old woman, I've always secretly wished that I could breakdance! I guarantee the only thing that would break would be me, so not gonna try, but keep it up b boys, you're the best!

What track plays, when Peech Boys talks?

Lol..god I'm old..

George Kranz - Din Daa Daa

LOL - Yeah, that guy from the Peach boys looked overly healthy. Wonder why they didn't serve booze ;)

rudolf at danceteria when he still had 2 eyes and the gov' had'nt f with him.

Even though he's dead and gone ,i have to keep giving LARRY his props & praise for keeping DISCO ALIVE, when most others were moving on musically, and YES he did play the new sound that was coming in and all the rest, but STRAIGHT DISCO , the PHILLY SOUND, the MOTOWN SOUND and other Hot Tracks of the 1970's,MEL CHEREN said of LARRY playing SYLVESTER'S music: LARRY LITERALLY WORE THE GROOVES OUT ON THE VINYL HE PLAYED OF SYLVESTER ,like at the time of this video, some of the music played at the GARAGE was 10 to 15 YEARS OLD ... ALREADY !!! And we (at least "i") absolutely LOVED IT !!!! Matter of fact I STILL BUY OLD DISCO RECORDS to this day!!!!!! My girlfriend at the time ,is 10 years older than me (i was 18, she was 28 ), and was in her late teens when DISCO was THEE ONLY MUSIC, she said of me liking Disco: IN ANOTHER LIFE YOU DIED IN A THREE PIECE SUIT AND ON A DANCE FLOOR 🕺 💃 SOMEWHERE, HOW COULD YOU LOVE DISCO THAT MUCH !!!!!

*Arthur Baker* 🎼🎶🎶🎶💯💯👍🏽

What about Save The Robots club

Is anyone still running this KZfaq channel?

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Isnt that the DJ[4:00] that Madonna slipped her demo to in '82 and got her big break into music?

Oh absolutely but really It couldnt have kept going I think health and security are really what is needed for a while. Once all the numbers and systems are solid people will return to the original NY.