Monkeyng Around

with Georgie Fame in France.

Perestroika Be Damned

Float like a butterfly, sting like a proletarian.


Another grab from coisas do arco da velha

Wild and crazy beach dance from 1929

Flexible twist girls in gold pants ... hallelujah!

nouvelle danse

A brand new blog dedicated to dance crazes music curated by legendary french vinyl records addicts: "a la piscine" and "rond carré".

http://nouvelledanse.blogspot.com



Let's begin with la yenka ... Yenka riketik






few years later ...

Galeria of Failed Dance Crazes: The Sputnik

I suppose if all the Martians were doing it, YOU would need to do it too, right? Right! It's the Sputnik, and since all you have to do it put you foot out and back, and then put your hand on your partner's back, I think we can all learn it. Yes?

Dance Raja Dance

Raja Poppin and Lockin.
Dial-A-Nihilist

Dance With Your Baby With A Bump Ball In Between

Now pay attention people, 'cause you shouldn't miss a dance that's bound to be a #1... 


Well, I guess people were just too busy doing the ZONK! to pay attention to this little Pickwick ditty. The LP is pretty fun, but the only mod song is this title track. The rest of the LP is a lot of Mersey Beat songs with bad British accents and lots of "oooo's" and "yeaaahhh's". Pickwick must have had these songs from an older 1964 release and slapped them on this 1968 record. Go out and nab a Bump Ball for your next party... it could replace nude Twister! ~ Click on the images for hi-rez views.

From the back of the LP: The cats at Milton Bradley threw the Bump Ball into the teen scene and a whole new bag was born.  It's time the boys got closer to the girls, and this newest dance craze makes more fun than any historical fox-trot. Join the fun people. Get on the Bump Ball. LP by Pickwick/33 performed by "The Bumpers".

There was also a 45 released by RCA Victor giving performing credit to "The Combinations", who do not seem to be the same band as "The Bumpers".

Fsssst Booing!

I'm not sure if I put enough "s"'s or "o"'s but I can't get this song of out my head!

Again, the quality's not great, but here's another clip of "Fssst Booing." More!

It's Madison Time - in Athens

Le Petit Coolie Chinois

Hey isn't that Phyllis Diller on tambourine?

I would have to say I dig these songs by Emille Decotty and Luc Harvet, including Le Jerk Militaire, Le Petit Coolie Chinoise, et Jerkorama. I guess I'm just a sucker for anything that ends in "o-rama".

Hey everybody....

Looks like rain in my part of the world, which is a great excuse to sit back and listen to a new compilation of dance crazes from Stigma Rest Room. Which came first....the Banana Splits, or Cal Tjader's "Tra-la-la song"?

Hully Gully Time!

It's European Hully Gully time, kids, at the fab-o blog Berlin Beatet Bestes--featuring Die Crazy Girls, The Danish Sharks, Ronny Dixon and the Music-Turbins....dig it and dance it!