41. Troppo Armadillo: Andrew Ford - All Round Good Guy 20th century social dance begins with wild cakewalk/animal dance fads. The 1920s explodes the limits of social dance in the Blackbottom and Charleston. http://troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/009298.html

Troppo Armadillo Musings on law, politics, economics and life from blogdom's cross-disciplinary post-moral majority Main July 18, 2005 Andrew Ford - all round good guy Andrew Ford - the lead ABC Radio National broadcaster on the world of music - seems like a remarkably nice guy. He just radiates good mental health. Talented, hard working, nice, modest. Daggy but just a tad - enough for it to be engaging rather than painful. In addition to being one of Radio National's freshest broadcasters, he's also a composer. Every now and then he puts in the effort to make great radio docos on the history of music and he's at it again. The first installment of Music and Fashion was on last Saturday. It was marvellous. Fascinating stuff about the evolution of modern dance beginning with the salacious volta in the fifteenth century, traversing through the scandalous waltz in the early nineteenth century to even more outrageous moves like the Tango. Interesting fact. Ragtime introduced the African two beat which has been common to every major modern dance craze since, as opposed to the three beat of the European Waltz. Posted by Nicholas Gruen at July 18, 2005 12:44 PM

42. AMAN Folk Ensemble Nineteenth century Russian aristocracy looked to Paris for dance fads, fashions and even language; and the Russian working people imitated the urban http://koger.sc.edu/aman.html

43. _Group Dances Of The 1950s_ An actual Annotated Score for Madison Time (with detailed descriptions of the figures!) A fairly comprehensive Index of dance fads http://www.jitterbuzz.com/dance50.html

Group Dances of the 1950s Hi Lindy Hoppers!!! Come, let's Stroll! Dances of the 1950s We did a whole lot of searching for information about the evolution of dancing. We found this "Time Line" on a C&.W website somewhere in Texas. (I forgot to write down the source, sorry...). This may not be authoritative, but it sounds right. So, without further ado, the Evolution of American Dance: pre 1890 Waltz, Quadrille, Minuet, Gavotte 1890's Polka, Schottische, Cotton Eyed Joe 1900-1920 Foxtrot, Turkey Trot, Peabody, Charleston 1920-1930 Jive, Lindy Hop 1930-1940 Rumba, Samba, Tango 1940-1950 Mambo, West Coast Swing 1950-1960 Cha Cha, Bosa Nova, Stroll 1960-1970 Monkey, Jerk, Mashed Potato, Madison For two nights (August 19 and 16, 2002) Ellen and Marc gave us a little more insight into the mysteries of dancing after 1950. Specifically they focused on three group dances of the period: The Stroll, the Hand Jive, and the Madison. By the way, they will be repeating this class in August of 2004 on Monday evenings. Check their website for details The Stroll The stroll is the classic line dance of the 1950's. It is performed to slow swing and rhythm and blues The stroll is popular throughout the swing scene in Europe (strange as it's an American dance). Less danced in the US, it's addictive so that this will soon change, especially if Ellen and Marc have anything to do with it.... You can stroll to loads of swing music, popular choices include -

44. American Bandstand: Dick Clark And The Making Of A Rock 'n' Roll Empire new teen performers (and a few older ones) clamoured to lipsynch their would-be hits on the show, and Clark could create new dance fads overnight. http://www.americansc.org.uk/Reviews/american_bandstand.htm

Home Page Online Magazine Forum Book reviews ... Response form American bandstand: Dick Clark and the making of a rock 'n' roll empire by John A. Jackson. Oxford UP, 1998. ISBN 19 5093232 T o most British popular music fans, with the exception of a few rock and roll aficianados, the name of Dick Clark means nothing. Yet, for the best part of four decades, from the mid-50s, he was one of the most powerful arbiters of teenage pop music tastes in the USA; his network TV show was watched by millions of youngsters. He could make (and perhaps just as importantly break) stars. "Bandstand", as it was originally called, began as a local television show in 1952 in Philadelphia, an important town whose musical tastes were often mirrored by the nation. It had an eclectic mix of musical performers from Mario Lanza and the Four Aces to the under-rated rock and roller, Charlie Gracie. And the TV show quickly took off. It helped that there was a large high school next door to the studio whose students were only too ready to be part of the live audience. In 1957 Dick Clark became the host, the show was renamed "American Bandstand" and networked across the USA…and Clark never looked back. Almost all of America’s new teen performers (and a few older ones) clamoured to lip-synch their would-be hits on the show, and Clark could create new dance fads overnight. He himself survived the payola scandals of the 50s and 60s to become one of the USA’s most powerful businessmen.

45. In The Moment: May-June 2004 The new dance fads and electric guitar sounds were all part of the attempt to disown the past. For an entire generation, the connection to fifty years of http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=2027

46. All About Jazz | Email This Article The new dance fads and electric guitar sounds were all part of the attempt to Any African influenced music and dance have always had a strong component http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article_email.php?id=2027

47. Did You Know dance fads may come and go, but there will always be an official state dance in New Jersey the square dance. It was designated as the American Folk Dance http://www.state.nj.us/travel/facts&fun/didyou.html

Did you know... Fast Facts About State Stuff. New Jersey's state "seal" doesn't live in the ocean! This symbol of the state was designed by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere and presented in May 1777. The three plows in the shield honor the state's agricultural tradition while the horse head stands for speed and strength. The female figures are Liberty (on the left side) and Ceres. Liberty carries the liberty cap on her staff. Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain, symbolizes abundance and holds a cornucopia filled with harvested produce. The banner below, "Liberty and Prosperity," is the official state motto. Adopted in 1896, the state flag proudly displays the official state colors: Buff and Jersey Blue. The state seal is emblazoned in blue on a brilliant buff background. Guess who chose these colors? The father of our country-George Washington. He was headquartered in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War and in 1779 chose the colors on the insignia from the state's early Dutch settlers. The eastern goldfinch was adopted as the New Jersey state bird in 1935. See if one visits your bird feeder and whistle "hello!"

48. RELIGIOUS ROCK... The Music Of Devils In The CHURCH!!! Also promoted dancing the new dance fads. Teen Idols were worshiped by teenage girls and being cool was in for boys. The stage was being set for http://www.biblebelievers.com/Rock1.html

RELIGIOUS ROCK... The Music of Devils in the CHURCH!!! By Alan Yusko and Ed Prior THE SEED SOWERS , P.O. Box 2513, Stn. F, Scarborough, Ont. M1W 3P2 Canada. Computers for Christ #22 (Due to the importance of this message...copy and distribute wherever the Lord leads.) FOR MANY MORE IN-DEPTH ARTICLES EXPOSING RELIGIOUS ROCK, CLICK HERE In the world of biology, we are given the example of a frog that when placed into boiling water, will immediately jump out. However, if that same frog is put into a bowl of cool water which is slowly heated by a bunsen burner, the frog will eventually boil to death. Religious rock and roll is like the frog and the water. The term "rock and roll" means fornication. It is a street name for sexual immorality. It has wrecked the lives of many teenagers through suicide, drug abuse, immorality, perversion, satanism, etc. Sadly, we live in a day where many Christians and church leaders are allowing this demonic music into their churches, claiming that the music is holy and sanctified because the lyrics are changed to include some 'religious' words. Where is the discernment in the church? Are Christians losing their ability to discern the difference between good and evil? The fact that this demonic music even made it into the church is proof of the moral and spiritual decline affecting the church today. We are being invaded by hard rock, acid rock, punk rock, new wave, and heavy metal music under the guise of religious rock and roll.

49. The Stanford Daily Online Edition The Ball changes each year as dance fads come and go, Pham said. She cited the swing craze seven years ago as the “peak of student interest” in dancing. http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=15905&repository=0001_article

50. "It Has A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It" and dance fads (Many teens learned the Stroll and other latest steps through Bandstand.) It was Clark s efforts that led Bandstand to national success; http://www.useless-knowledge.com/columnists/patjacobs/article17.html

HOME POLITICS SPORTS LIFE ... Useless-Knowledge.com Articles Patricia Jacobs "It Has A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It" Aug 5, 2003 It was 46(!) years ago on August 5th, 1957, that a true musical icon was born. American Bandstand, with host Dick Clark, aired its first national show on ABC. It became the longest running series on the ABC network, which aired from 1957 to 1987! (It was resurrected for a year on USA in 1989.) It was the first network rock and roll show, and the longest running musical show in television history. And it became the flagstore and launching pad of a media empire for Richard Wagstaff Clark. Born on Nov.29th, in Mount Vernon, New York, Clark discovered the joy of radio in the tenth grade and proceeded to forge a career. A few years later, Clark was given a summer job at WRUN- AM radio in Rome, N.Y., a station owned by his uncle and run by his father. (Connections do help!) He started as an office boy, but advanced to fill-in for a vacationing weatherman on the WRUN's new FM station.

51. WFMU's Beware Of The Blog: He Hunches In Heaven. Hasil Adkins Dead At 67. His Chicken Walk and The Hunch became two shortlived dance fads. There also were tunes like Chocolate Milk Honeymoon and Boo Boo The http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/04/he_hunches_in_h.html

WFMU's Beware of the Blog Categories Amanda's Posts Andrew Earles' Posts Art Audio ... July 18, 2005 - July 24, 2005 Recent Posts Bingo Gazingo Serenading Kenny G Montreal Post-Punk Invasion Kanye West Video Mashup Scientifically-Formulated Pop Hits ... Main April 27, 2005 He hunches in Heaven. Hasil Adkins dead at 67. Few people can really claim to be the "Wild Man of Rock & Roll." Hasil Adkins walked the walk as well as talked the talk, and hearing "We Got a Date" for the first time with it's lo-fi, distorto pounding and maniacal shrieks and cackles over the prospects of cutting his impending date's head off (only *one* of the decapitation-themed songs in his repertoire) quickly set the bar to which anyone else claiming to be "demented" had to rise to. Below is the sad news as reported by the AP. Sad news for us, good news for chickens and women who want to keep their heads. SOME RECOMMENDED RELATED LINKS: Interview Rocktober Magazine article. Hasil's last radio appearance on WFMU, interview with Dave the Spazz on his Halloween show , 2004.(Real Audio).

52. Dick Clark He d ask about favorite songs, clothing trends and watched for dance fads. At 26 he was young enough to be a friend and projected a none threatening image. http://www.history-of-rock.com/clark.htm

Dick Clark As host to the first network television series devoted to rock and roll and the longest running musical show in television history, American Bandstand, Dick Clark made rock music palatable to the mainstream American public and help promote the careers of many rock and roll artists of the 50s, both the talents and no talents. Richard Wagstaff Clark was born November 30, 1929 in Mount Vernon, New York.He was an average student until he reached the tenth grade and discovered radio..At that time he decided radio would be his career. The summer after high school Clark was given a job at WRUN-AM radio in Rome, NY. The station was owned by his uncle and run by his father. Clark was only an office boy, but the station manager asked him to fill in for a vacationing weatherman on WRUN's new FM station. By summer's end Clark had advanced to station breaks. Clark attended Syracuse University where he majored in advertising with a minor in radio. In his senior year he had a got a job with WOLF a country station in Syracuse He came back to WRUN for a short time where he used the name Richard Clay that led to his first television job, as a newscaster at WKTV in Utica, NY. Using the name Dick Clark in 1952 he went to work for WFIL radio and television in Philadelphia, PA.That summer WFIL decided to follow the new trend of having announcers play records over the air. Shortly there after, they tried the same format on television. Bob Horn , a WRIL radio deejay, aired an early form of music video on a show called "Bandstand". Within a month teenagers were invited to come and dance while Horn played records.. The show became very successful with the high school students.

53. About The Savoy Ballroom A long succession of dance fads were launched from the Savoy that swept the nation and overseas in response to ever changing music trends from dixieland, http://www.savoyplaque.org/about_savoy.htm

*About the Savoy Ballroom.* See the historical timeline The staff of 90 permanent employees at the Savoy included musicians, waiters, cashiers, floor attendants, porters and administrative assistants. There were also hostesses with whom a visitor, mostly from downtown, could dance for a dime or be tutored on the latest steps, as well as a team of bouncers clad in black tuxedos and bow ties. The bouncers were ex-boxers, basketball players etc., who would rush in on a moment's notice and put out any person. Over 250 name and semi-name bands were featured at the Savoy. The house bands included those of Fess Williams, Chick Webb, Erskin Hawkins and Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans, just to name a few. The two bandstands allowed continuous live music all night, and provided the stage for the famous battles of bands. The most famous, and one of the most highly publicized, was the battle of Chick Webb vs. Benny Goodman, when both bands were at the crest of their popularity. Future Be-bop stars like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk played there too. As a matter of fact, Teddy Hill, who later became a manager at Minton's Playhouse, also led a house band at the Savoy at one point. A long succession of dance fads were launched from the Savoy that swept the nation and overseas in response to ever changing music trends from dixieland, ragtime, jazz, blues, swing, stomp, boogie-woogie, bop to countless peabody, waltz, one-step, two-step and rhumba variations. Among the countless dance styles originated and developed at the Savoy were: The Flying Charleston, The Lindy Hop, The Stomp, The Big Apple, Jitterbug Jive, Peckin', Snakehips, Rhumboogie and intricate variations of the Peabody, the Shimmy, Mambo, etc..

54. Untitled Document clubs which breed sexual harassment and perpetuate dance fads that should ve been long gone, like the Macarena and lambada (yes, the forbidden dance). http://www.generationj.com/issues/jan_1/wonderbra.html

I Wore a Wonderbra to the Matzah Ball By Caroline Tiger You always hear that it's good to try something newtry it once or you'll never know, as the adage goes. I think it was Erica Jong who said you should do something every day that scares you. And from Faust, "Whatever you believe you can do, begin it: Boldness has genius, power, and magic." Granted Faust may be a little highbrow to apply to these ventures: I wore a WonderBra to the Matzah Ball. I'm proud of that statement, because not everyone can say it. And you have to admit, it has a certain ring to itI'm thinking a book deal or movie rights. Actually I wasn't planning on saying it out loud to anyone. The whole thing was under wrapsa harmless foray into the singles world that no one had to know about. But when an ex-confidante at work blabbed it to some fellow cubicle-dwellers, I figured I should come out of the lingerie drawer and set the story straight. I think it was around late November last year when I started seeing ads for the Matzah Ball. I had heard of the event before, which is surprising since I don't have many Jewish friends. My family isn't exactly religious, and my parents sent me to a private school where I was the only Jew in my class and then to a prep school where there were only two others. When my grandparents died, we stopped going to temple. Growing up, my only taste of Judaism was the bitter one of Hannukah in a world populated by goys. Then there was my school's annual Christmas Singtwo and a half hours of carols and odes to the baby Jesus with one token "Ya Ba Bim Bom" thrown in halfheartedly and met with puzzled or hostile stares from the red-and-green adorned audience.

55. Urban Dictionary: Author Hytham_hammer dance fads in clubs. 132. normative pressure, Jul 11, 2005. in upspeak, or Valleyspeak this means simply blamecountering! 131. Hinternet, Jul 11, 2005 http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=hytham_hammer&page=4

56. DVD Breakdown | The Movie Lover's DVD Site A documentary examination of postwar dance fads with special attention devoted to the Twist. Film review. Documentary filmmaker Ron Mann continues his http://www.dvdbreakdown.com/titles/twist.html

Twist Ron Mann Hank Ballard, Cholly Atkins, Chubby Checker, Joey Dee Anamorphic widescreen Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS Trailer(s) Featurette(s) Documentary Audio commentary Deleted scenes Concept art / storyboards Multi-angle feature Quote Hank Ballard : I was in Miami at the time, in 1960. And I was taking a swim, when I heard this song 'The Twist' blasting across white radio. And I said, 'Wow! I'm finaly getting some white airplay, I'm gonna be a superstar!' And it was Chubby Checker! [chuckles] And I thought it was me. He'd made such a beautiful clone of my record, and I'm grateful that he did. It takes a master to emulate myself, and he did it, you know? Plot summary A documentary examination of post-war dance fads with special attention devoted to the Twist. Film review Documentary filmmaker Ron Mann continues his playful examination of teenage popular culture and the overblown adult reactions fads can provoke from concerned parents and adults with nothing better to do than vent their outrage at the changing times. In Twist , he has chosen an unlikely but highly rewarding subject, resulting in a fun, swinging and surprisingly meaningful film that takes something as seemingly trivial as a dance fad and usese it to chart the major cultural shifts from the 1950s into the 1960s. He also manages to set the record straight on the extent to which white music and dance crazes were essentially sanitized carbon copies of elements from black popular culture. The film is stuffed to the brim with great tunes, hilarious archival footage, and highly illuminating new interviews with a great many colorful characters whose music helped define a generation.

57. Chubby Checker - King Of The Twist! The Twist phenomenon inspired a rapid succession of additional dance fads. His dance hits included The Hucklebuck (Parkway 813; 1960), http://www.jeffosretromusic.com/chubby.html

R E T R O s Rock And Roll Social Hall © Ivy Jivy's Rock And Roll © Doo Wop Party(Friday Night)© Rosita © I'm Gonna' Tell Ya'© Grape Of The Fruity Vine © Thunderbird(That's The Word)© 1959 Longhorn Cadillac © Boot Soup Blues © So Broke © It's A Rockabilly Party © Rumble In The Alley © Hound Dog Rockabilly Man © Born To Be A Rockabilly Star © Kid Blast! © Horrible Crash In 55 © This Song Of Love © Dream Angel © El Twango © Old Town Jail © Just One More Day © 99 Special © Baby Toy © Never Been In Love Before © Lorraine © Never Forget My First Love © Runnin' Shine On Highway 9 © Aces Over Kings © It's Soup Kitchen Time © We Will Always Be In Love © Smooth Blue Wave © Love Is An Island © Groove Me Baby Be My Squeeze © O L D I E S M U S I C Click buttons below after selection S O N G S Your Ad Here Chubby Checker By Dr. Frank Hoffmann A native of South Carolina, Ernest Evans grew up in Philadelphia performing for classmates along with friends such as future teen idol Fabian Forte. The owner of the meat market, where Evans worked after school, arranged a private recording session with American Bandstand host, Dick Clark. As Evans completed a Fats Domino imitation, Clark’s wife asked him his name. When he indicated "my friends call me Chubby," she playfully responded, "Like in Checker?" That episode of humorous word play inspired Evans’ professional name.

58. P.O.V. - Wattstax . Watching "Wattstax" (Ed Guerrero) | PBS platform shoes, brightlypatterned dashikis, floppy hats, bell-bottomed pants and new dance fads all visualize the loud and liberated aspirations of the http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/wattstax/special_watching_eg.html

Check for Rebroadcasts Film critic Ed Guerrero looks at the black image in popular media of the era and places "Wattstax" in context. FROM THE ARCHIVES Wattstax, 1972 WATTSTAX RADIO "A Soulful Expression of the Living Word" With the turn of the decade, one of the sites where this fresh, rebellious sense of black politics and identity came to full expression was in mainstream popular culture. Blaxploitation flicks in all of their regal "baadnesssss" exploded on the cinema screen, producing among sixty-odd films, including the classics: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song in '71, Superfly and Shaft, Black Journal and Julia in '68, Soul Train and The Flip Wilson Show in '70 and in '72. At the same time, visionary musicians such as James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, the Staple Singers and Isaac Hayes shifted the subject of black popular music to urgent African American social concerns and agendas. Clearly though, the most ubiquitous expression of the new mood and times, displayed by all orientations and classes of African Americans, was the insurgence of nappy hair sported au naturel , or most assertively as the humungous "Afro."

59. P.O.V. - Wattstax . Resources . Broadcast Quick Links | PBS behind clenchedfist salutes and soul handshakes, platform shoes, brightly-patterned dashikis, floppy hats, bell-bottomed pants and dance fads. http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/wattstax/resources.html

Check for Rebroadcasts BROADCAST QUICK LINKS During every P.O.V. broadcast, we let viewers know they can find out more about certain topics on the P.O.V. website by running text alerts across the bottom of the TV screen. Some of the alerts describe features on the P.O.V. website and others are about resources we've linked to elsewhere online. In order to make it easier for you to find the features and links related to these topics, we've put together this new resource page listing all the alerts in one place. Jump to: Find out more about the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles. Learn more about the music performed at Wattstax Find out more about the fashion and styles of the '70s Read articles and reviews of Wattstax from 1972 and 1973 Find out more about the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles. Resources: Watts Find links to neighborhood organizations and learn more about the history of the Watts riots. Learn more about the music performed at Wattstax. Wattstax: The Songlist Find a list of the onscreen performances at Wattstax.com. Resources: Music and People of Stax Find out more about the artists who performed at Wattstax at these websites.

60. The Golden Age Of New Orleans CD Shimmy, Black Bottom, Turkey Trot, or one of the many other dance fads that swept the land. New Orleanians of all backgrounds were fanatical dancers. http://louisianajazz.com/golden_age_cd.htm

PROGRAM: 1-BOURBON STREET PARADE 2-THE ST. LOUIS BLUES 3-WA WA WA 4-THE BURGUNDY ST. BLUES 5-AS YOU LIKE IT 6-PASTIME RAG 7-ANGRY 8-THE OLD RUGGED CROSS 9-SHE'S CRYIN' FOR ME 10-SOBBIN' BLUES 11-NEW ORLEANS STOMP 12-THROWIN' THE HORNS 13-LOVE DREAMS 14-DO DOODLE OOM 15-SHAKE IT AND BREAK IT NOTES: Jazz began in New Orleans. Contrary to popular understanding, it did not go "up the river" to Chicago, for the Mississippi doesn't go near the Windy City. But as early as the 1920's, jazz did begin to evolve and change and has continued to do so ever since. Swing, bop, cool jazz, fusion, and free jazz each followed in succession. Amidst these exciting transformations, the early days of the New Orleans pioneers were all but forgotten. There are exceptions to be sure. Louis Armstrong, for one, remains alive in memory, as do a handful of others. But what of Armand J. Piron or Leon Rappolo? Or the fine players who made up the New Orleans Owls? Or the Halfway House Orchestra? These are scarcely household names! Oh yes, there are still some old timers in New Orleans who once danced to the music of these great players and who recall their names with a twinkle. And there are a few fanatically loyal record collectors worldwide. But beyond these limited circles, the Golden Age has slipped from memory. In this collection, the renowned Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble of New Orleans offers a sampler of classic jazz from the heroic years before 1930. This was a period when few New Orleanians referred to the music as "jazz," preferring to describe it instead as "our dance music." And it was music for dancing - for stepping out with a Fox-Trot, Shimmy, Black Bottom, Turkey Trot, or one of the many other dance fads that swept the land. New Orleanians of all backgrounds were fanatical dancers. As the dance fashions changed, so did the music, at least in New Orleans. As early as 1915, the city's Creoles, Anglo-Saxons, African-Americans, Sicilians, Germans, and Jews were all head over heels in love with their city's new, syncopated music.

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