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Have you mash potato-ed?
Posted by Olthwaite on 3 August 2011 - 11:04am.
...or done the twist?
I love those old dance routines - they're so much more interesting than the 'indie shuffle' (move feet slightly, look at feet while doing so).
Whenever there's a sniff of a Hammond organ on the turntable, I can't resist getting up and doing some sort of swim mime, thumbs over shoulder-type dance.
Does anyone else get into a Hammond dance frenzy - or tried the Madison or some such routine?
(Clips - Madison Time from Hairspray, Jimmy McGriff - I've Got A Woman)
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I dream
of being in a Madison type dance routine, where everyone's perfectly in sync doing all the right moves.
Briefly mastered the Macarena and that's about it.
Never managed the Madison...
...but i know what you mean about a hammond organ
(Phil Upchurch - You Can't Sit Down)
Sheesh, kids of today...
My adolescence straddled the transition between the last of the 'proper' dances (twist, swim, monkey, etc) and the emerging 'ad hoc' form of self-expression that's now universal.
I still had Saturday morning ballroom dancing lessons in 1963 as it was expected that a young gentleman should know how to darnce with a young lady.
It's a brand new bag!
I adore these dances.
Here's 6'9" Ted Cassidy from The Addams Family teaching "The Lurch". YOU RAAAAANGGGGG?
Here's Bobby Freeman urging us to "C'Mon and Swim":
If you haven't already got Ace Records' "Land of 1000 Dances" compilations, hurry to Amazon now. Here's the first:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-1000-Dances-Vol-1-Compilation/dp/B00000I7W...
There are some nifty instructions here:
http://www.sixtiescity.com/Culture/dance.shtm
Of course the king of all novelty dances...
... was The Shag. As described by The Tams...