You Gotta Know How To Pony
From Robert Fontenot,
Your Guide to Oldies Music.
FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!
The dance crazes of rock's first era
As befits a music that was birthed mostly from black musical sources, rock and roll became synonymous with dance crazes - blink-and-you-missed-it fads that involved some wild new dance steps, usually accompanied by a hit single either before or after the fact. In the Fifties, rock dances were generally appropriated from other sources; the lindy hop and the jitterbug served as a basis for many of the fast dances, and aside from the occasional glorious one-off (The Diamonds' deathless, monumentally sleazy "The Stroll"), most rock dancing in the Ike Years remained confined to a few moves.

That all changed in the early Sixties, as a nation desparate for fads and able to buy armloads of 45s discovered the thrill of making an idiot out of yourself, all by yourself, on the dance floor. If you were around then, you know the names by heart: The Twist. The Hully Gully. The Watusi. The Jerk. The Fly. There were dozens of others.

 

 

 

Keep Us Alive, Please Donate
 
Check Out Our WHOLE PAGE...there are lots of goodies allover
The music and People represented in all of our Pages are for you to enjoy. For without Music and The happiness they bring and sometimes sorrow...our world would not be complete. So enjoy all that you see and hear on The Staten Island Boys.com

We Have 222 Great Songs FOR $5.DONATIONS ...Thats 2 cents a song...Wowee Click Here for those and they change every month.

_________________

We Have A Sounds Package for those who want an unbelieveable amount of material for E-mail fun, Web-sites or for pure enjoyment. there are thousands of these for a $10.00 DONATION...Click Here for those.

_________________

A Software Package to Die for! For a 10.00 DONATION You will get over 600 programs...That's not even 2 cents a program! CLICK HERE

_________________

Lastly We have over 45 programs... Lots Of Templates, Banners, Midis, Icons too...for a DONATION OF 10.00 DOLLARS YOU Need to see it to believe it. CLICK HERE for the unbelievable package!

 

 

FREE DO-WOP SONGS Click Here