On my radio show, I often talk about the rock ‘n’ roll era and record companies desire to make up dance crazes and then release dance songs to go with them.
Just about everyone knows about the twist and how successful that dance craze became around the world. Here is another peculiar dance craze, with the song promoting it, that I loved. I had the 45 RPM disc back in London. I read about it in the New Musical Express, the music paper my friends and I read every Friday. I saw a review about the song, and that Saturday morning I went to the local record shop and asked to listen to the tune and loved it. I don’t know anybody else who liked it, my friends just put up with my peculiar tastes and humored me, as I played it often when they came over for a visit.
It took me decades to find another copy after I had immigrated to Canada. Here it is now, can you waddle done by the Spartans.
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Here is write-up in Billboard in early 1962 about this record.
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