https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgMidz9alPU

This was the #1 hit when I was born...

Brenda Lee was 13 when she made these, but she looks younger.

This was recorded two years before I was born. My dad loved this song and wanted to name me Maybelline (Maybellene). Mom said no. They settled on Roxanne. 😀

Happy father’s day, Dad. I miss you.

Dumb intro, great song

Lars, I learned to tap dance to Alley Cat.

Here's another one from 1955

I love the dance moves in this video.

#1 song when we were married

My friends and I went nuts for this song the first time we heard it in eighth grade.

dedtired, what was that dance called?

Was that the watusi?

Annie, You're good. I think it is. When someone asks what is something young people never heard about, we know the answer!!!!!!!

Ooh Poo Pah Doo - Jesse Hill - Feb 1960 (extended version with part 2)

Ike & Tina version, Live, 1971

Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances [Full Version] [HQ Audio]

60s Dance Moves

Hellzapoppin' in full color | Colorized with DeOldify

An Oldies theme is right up my alley! And I recall my dad singing Jamaica Farewell as a lullaby - he loved Harry Belafonte 😊

There's no way to choose a favorite from so many old songs I love, but here are a few that spring to mind, thinking of songs that aren't commonly played nowadays:

Chris Montez

And I was thinking of this one the other day - I remember it was on an 8 track tape of popular hits we had back in the day:

For me as a kid, Glenn Campbell personified "Middle of the Road" "Middle of the Dial". I'd hear stuff like this all the time when Mom or Dad selected the radio station. Naturally I rebelled against it, and for years despised it. But now, well, I'm not rushing out to buy his greatest hits but it's not so awful.

The Walker Brothers (no relation to each other) were 3 American performers who left the States and hit the big time in England in the mid 60's.

Here are their 2 biggest American charting hits.

I have heard that first Walker Bros. song recently - was it on a show or a commercial?

And Campbell was a monster musician. He was a member of the Wrecking Crew - the group of studio musicians who played on almost every hit song of the 60s & 70s.

Haven’t heard this one in awhile.

I still have my collection of 45s from the 1950s and 60s. I’m pretty sure Johnny Angel is one of them.

Have them too. Uncle serviced juke boxes in the late 40s through the 60s and would give us all the 45s he replaced each week. Some very interesting ones from some of the bars.

Love this one, and Swayze isn't so bad either!