Wish they would have been inducted before we lost Mary. They were a great group with tunes that you couldn’t forget R.I.P. Mary

Very ahead of their time. I don't think they wrote their own songs, but they certainly did bring those very edgy lyrics to life in a way that demonstrates they might not have had the easiest of childhoods. The 60s started to get real much earlier than 1968....

yeah, I hate those guys, idiots, no one even knows who they are but the Shangri-Las live on forever...

@@joejones9520 You're 100% right.

Indeed. I had no idea where the clip came from. Strangely enough, I watched I've got a Secret quite often, even though I was maybe 10. I wonder if I saw this episode.

What's MyLine

Great clip.

That's Great!

That’s good to hear since I haven’t heard any information about her since around 2010. Good to know she is living a good life with her husband.

Please give Barry my condolences. I was very saddened to hear that his beautiful wife passed away yesterday. Long live Mary and the Shangri-Las. 🖤💙

Very sad for Barry now What are the arrangements

Beautiful...

Never better than in Mr. Roberts.

It was replaced At number one by “Ringo” by Lorne Greene. Of course, the Beatles and the Supremes (and to a certain extent the beach boys) were the dominant group in 1964, but in the fall of that year there were some great number ones like leader of the pack and Ringo, Mr. lonely by Bobby Vinton, And everybody loves somebody by Dean Martin.

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I was six that year, Jennie L. My Mom, an high school director of choirs hired many of her girls to baby sit me. And yes, they had extensions and bee hive dos, too. Friday nights, they'd come set Mom's hair ... love back-atcha ! Viva AcquaNet ;)

I was "in vitro" at this time, as my mom figured out she was pregnant w/ me just a couple weeks after this show. I thought the Shangri-Las were a quartet. The lead singer's sister was also part of the group, at least for part of the time.

@ Jon H. - I have just discovered that the girls had several good songs that charted,but nothing as successful as 'Leader of the Pack '. Betty(19), was lead singer Mary's(15) older sister and had to step off the stage for a time, when she became in a 'family way '. If course,they made other excuses at time. My how they(the times) have changed.

@@aliceshaw8265 They didnt write the song, Shadow Morton, Ellie Greenwich and some others did...it was a finished song but without vocal track, they SLs added it. They made it their own, they are one of my very favorite groups ever and this is one of my favorite songs. I even have Mary Weiss's autograph.

It had to be Steve Allen's idea. He read as a poem the words to Be Bop A Lu LA on his show back in the 50's when it came out.

Me too, I was nine. And I meant it.

That's right. It was a shame. The "adults" took advantage of a song that was no 1 in the country, something they could never do and made it all about them

Steve Allen was a great talent. I always liked watching him but I heard he hated rock and roll. Where's his number 1 record?

They're just girls anyway, as far as they were concerned.

Sister Betty left the group early. She didn't have that vocal Quality!! So sad.

Unfortunately, you are correct. The older generation (our parents) didn't get rock and roll. They had grown up with swing in the 30's-40's and the stream of song crooners that followed after. Not that Sinatra, Vaughn Monroe and Guy Michell (to name three) were bad. But every generation needs its own identity. Music is perhaps the strongest factor in that. Chances are their parents didn't get the music they listened to. The cycle just repeats over and over.

Yeah, I love this kinda stuff!!! 😊😊😊😊😊

Cannot agree more, the host showing his disdain for R&R and his comedic talents. Few ever worked harder than both sets of twins on creating and perfecting the girl group sound. Screw the bit.

Older showbusiness types always belitted the younger artists at that time...or tried to

This was completely normal at the time...the group just showing up to lip-sync had little entertainment value to a game show audience of the mid 60's,...which were comprised of all ages and most were not fans of pop music aimed at teens.....Many in the audience seemed to be very amused.

I totally disagree. This shows the total disconnect between our parents and what we as kids were listening to on the radio. It's a great skit!

Loved the harmonies. Good song. Sounds as great now

75 😢

Rest in power and song, Mary. 🎶🎵🎶

Yeah there doesn't seem to be much. It's a shame.

Yeah, they were a REAL girl group. Way better than the fake rubbish you see today.

JHINTON69 cool!

If they had only known what a classic they were laughing at.

@@Astyanaz - Steve Allen mocked "Bebopalula" on another show once. Sometimes the guy makes me gag, acting so clever and snobby and superior. Ugh!

I was very disappointed at how Steve Allen didn't even acknowledge the girls. Not a particularly well mannered host. I always liked him before. Now I'm a bit less of a fan. Mary was soulful and beautiful. Teenage angst at it's finest.

@@tonysantiago255 Agree. They had the number 1 record in the country and he ignores them. They sang the song on his show, giving him big ratings and he treats them like garbage.

Ain't true, he featured young Jerry Lee Lewis on his first nation wide tv appearance and praised him, which made JLL become famous. He even named his son Steve Allen. I doubt, he "hated" Rock and Roll. In his own words he loved "excellence" in music, wether it may be polka, country or rock...

@@markusr7421 Totally agree, Markus. I was a big Steve Allen fan as a kid, my dad was a Jazz musician and Steve did celebrate a variety of musics on his own late night show, as well as his playing own piano Jazz. I think the producers of this quiz show made them do this corny bit.

Yes, I read that just the other day, that Billy Joel is the perpetrator of those fabulous piano chords in "Walking in the Sand". Wow. Did he play on their other songs too? Makes sense, these young ladies were teenagers from Queens and Billy Joel would have been about 15 years old, from Long Island, just starting to play school dances. Maybe they had an associate in common? He claims he never got paid for the gig. I'll bet these young ladies were not paid fairly for their amazing work either. I know they didn't write their own songs, but they certainly brought these rather dark edgy songs to life. Listening to a lot of their stuff now, it really holds up even today. No wonder Amy Winehouse liked them. 🎶🎵🎶

@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 I don't actually know if Billy Joel got onto other commercial recordings. And if he did, they probably weren't hits. Another odd bit of trivia, is that all of them - the Shangri-Las, Billy Joel, Mort Shuman, and Amy Winehouse - were Jewish.

Just as they are today

Yep. Where are their number 1 records?

Hear hear - well said! To hell with these so-called "adults" - here's to teen wildness and passion and ROCK! And Shadow Morton was a genius.

Glad when he wrecked

Most of their songs told a story about true Love and affection ❤️

Goulet went on to perform successfully for decades after the Shang-ri-Las were finished.

Your question answers itself. 😅

But the song was written by adults, not teenagers. None of these girls wrote any song.

Apparently it was written off when he crashed it.

Top 40 and Rock and Roll were virtually synonymous, particularly among parents of teenagers.

it is a rock and roll song, very rocking, (the engine revving is almost like Hendrix's feedback in a few yrs) very intense, sung passionately, a person DIES in the song, we hear him die!

She just performed with them on and off -- Mary's sister Betty. Tall and very sweet looking, but always looked a little out of it when she did perform with them, out of practice I assume.

Betty had a daughter in 1964, which prevented her from always being in the group.

Not true.

Not when she was pregnant and "showing"

One of his routines was the reading instead of singing of "Who put the bomp in the bomp she bomp she bomp." That passed for hilarious comedy at the time.

only good thing he did was have Kerouac read...

@@aliceshaw8265 He was very talented but all wrong about rock n roll and nearly ruined the song

***** do you really think the older generation at the time gave a crap about teen music?

True, it is a shame. But just a different time over all. Rock music and teen pop was considered silly and child like to the WWII generation; they appreciated easy listening and jazz, not to mention classical. Eh... What can ya do?

At that time, I think the only time the WW2 generation cared about teen music is when their children played it too loudly.

If someone would play out the lyrics of the current top 1 billboard hit right now, I would have no fucking clue as to what song it would be. And I am saying that as someone who quite enjoy that artist and song.. (looked it up who is number 1 as I am writing this)

Alterdestiny you are spot-on with that comment! Steve Allen was an ass. Rock soon rolled over people like him like a steamroller.

I agree.

Steve Allen hated rock n roll. Real jerk.

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@111sienna You're totally right Sienna, and the fact that Steve Allen and Robert Goulet were successful only makes it more shocking that they couldn't show these girls the respect that their talent and success deserved.

@@vincentalonzo4351 I hate to tell you this but speaking as someone who was three months older than the twins and a junior in high school at the time of the show, everyone over the age of 12 thought the song was ridiculous and I would bet the girls in the group felt the same way. My bet is that all of the panelists knew of the song and the whole thing was just a put on that the girls were happy to go along with to get the additional exposure. They were extremely talented and professional and grown up enough to realize that there was no disrespect intended toward them at all.

@@dennisgallagher There was a lot of disrespect toward them and to the audience who liked the song being done seriously, not as a stupid joke. It was the number 1 song in the country done exactly as it was and not being made a laughing stock.

@@dennisgallagher I agree, Dennis, I was in junior high when this came out and it really was a joke. Remember the sequel: The Leader of the Laundromat?

@@rickrick5041 Actually Steve Allen was already famous for ridiculing Rock and Roll, having already done a dramatic recitation of "Who PutThe Bomp In The Bomp Bomp Bomp She Bomp" (itself a parody) and he was hardly the only one to do that kind of stuff. Mad Magazine also satirized the genre and there was much to do made of the fact that, just as in this case, almost all television performances were lip-synched and many records were actually sung by artists whose names were not on the record. However, none of the above demonstrates any disrespect toward the artists performing the song here.

That dick on the bike was such a goofball, but the girls were really cute and adorable.

Stupidity. Probably trying to make fun of it.

GREG Hubbard It was the number one song for a reason. All the great songs except novelty songs are sung with meaning as if the person singing is living it and believing it. Then you have a guy acting like an idiot smiling and mocking the whole thing. Have him playing like a joker when Dion sings Teenager in Love or anyone sings any great song. What did Goulet sing, What Kind of Fool I am or something like that, a serious song. Bring in some fools while he is singing and see how he likes it.

Yeah, the guy was such a jerk. But we will always remember the gorgeous Mary Weiss, who's gonna remember Steve many years from now?

​@@kazamshah4543 EVERYONE will ALWAYS remember Steve Allen.

​@@RonGerstein He was/is one the icons of early TV. I always thought some of the lyrics of the rock and pop songs of that time amused him.

Man, this was so bad. Really tacky. I would've felt really bad if I had been on this stupid show. Not funny at all.

Robert Goulet was the best singer and Broadway actor in the world in the 60s and 70s. His rendition of the songs from Camelot was the best rated.