Groovy 60's Dances

 GROOVY 60's DANCES  

How many of you were 'burning up' the dance floor at the North Knox high school gym in the late 1960's ?
     Let's see how many of these you remember.
 


                   THE TWIST                                   
 

Born Ernest Evans, Chubby Checker is the man who changed the way we danced back in 1960.That was the year he released a cover version of a late ‘50s Hank Ballard B-side, "The Twist," and introduced both the song and dance on Dick Clark’s Saturday night show in New York City.With simple, pivoting moves, which were controversial at the time, the Twist was fun and manageable. It became a national craze, and Chubby’s "The Twist" was the first record to reach the No. 1 spot twice - in 1960 and again in 1962.The latter time, its popularity spread from kids to adults, such as Lou Belfus, proprietor of Vineland’s Harmony Shoppe. Once a devotee of minuets, he could be seen gyrating in the aisles, stopping only to ring up another sale of the more than 40 Twist album titles that the store offered.

Area school administrators may have been slightly less enthusiastic, for Twisting was banned altogether at Sacred Heart school functions. It was allowed at Vineland High, Memorial Junior High, and Delsea Regional schools, although the dancers’ styles "of expression" were "closely regulated."Pooh-poohed by the Times Journal as "an erotically suggestive dance," more than 70 percent of local teens polled, were, nevertheless, dedicated Twisters in 1962."I think the Twist is the sharpest dance out," said one 17-year-old, while another praised the song as "the singingest bunch of noise ever put together."

Vineland teens overwhelmingly dubbed Chubby Checker as the king of the Twist in 1962. Runners-up included Bobby Rydell, who, the previous year, had teamed with Chubby on the hit single "Teach Me to Twist," and Joey Dee of Manhattan’s famed Peppermint Lounge.
 

 

 

                  THE MONKEY                                  

 

 

 



 THE WATUSI                                                   

 

 

 



                MASHED POTATO                             

 

 

 

 



       THE SWIM                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

   THE JERK                                                       

 






                THE FREDDIE                                    

        Who didn't watch Freddie & the Dreamers on 
              ABC -TVs  'SHINDIG'  every week !!
And tell the truth, who didn't stand in front of the TV and                  try to do the 'Freddie' ?             
 

 

 

 

 

             THE LOCOMOTION                             

 

The Locomotion dance was born, when 'Little Eva' released a song by that name in 1962

 

 

 

 

 

 

  THE FRUG                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

   THE HULLY GULLY                                         

 

 

 

 

 


 HITCH HIKER                                                   

 

 

And that concludes 'Groovy 60's Dances'
          "Thanks for the dance"  !!