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Episode 8: Trendy Dance Craze Episode.

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OK so sometime last week I was cruising down (or was it up?) the radio dial and came across a dance craze song I hadn't heard in a long, long time. You know the kind of song that has it's own special dance moves, becomes super popular in a very short time, makes you sick just hearing it and sticks around for what seems like forever but is really anywhere from 6 months to a year and a half. I don't recall which song outside of square dancing was the first song to have it's own special dance but they keep coming and coming, like 3rd and 4th cousins on your best friends in-laws side of the family when you win the lottery. They recycle every couple of years just to confuse everybody like fashion trends, one year ugly fuzzy sweaters are in the next they are out and form fitting skin tight leather jackets are in, then a couple of other things then five years or so later surprise ugly fuzzy sweaters are back in.

Maybe dance craze songs did start in the middle ages as suggested in the Musical "Once Upon a Mattress" with "The Spanish Panic" a fast paced, makes everyone tired but the princess who is supposed to be tired out by it dance, that according to the queen is the latest thing and "all the rage in Paris"!

Dance craze songs seemed to be really big in the 1950's and 60's with such dances as The Mashed Potato, The Aligator, and songs that had dances The Twist and The Loco-Motion. During the 1970's it was The Hustle and maybe even California Disc Jockey Ric Dees' smash Disco Duck which he followed up with the mega flop Disco-GRilla. Even Country Western music has "Line Dancing" with songs like My Achy Breaky Heart which "Weird" Al Yankovic parodied marvelously with "The Achy Breaky Song"

"And if you play that song,
That Achy Breaky Song,
I Might blow up my radio."

More recent songs have been just as annoying as "The Hokey-Pokey" with the likes of the"The Electric Slide" very popular at weddings, and the most evil of all Dance Craze songs, "The Macaraena" and that my friends is the song I heard last week. I had stumbled upon a Spanish speaking radio station and was completely out of Salsa. Well since I don't have any sour cream either I'll have to wait for some other time to have that mucho Grande Chicken fajita, so until next time campers.

Thank You and See Ya!

Kirk

"I ah have trouble getting my songs on the radio, cause they're too long,
but this is a song that snuck on for on the charts for about 15 minutes"
~ Harry Chapin from "Greatest Stories Live" (Intro to W*O*L*D)

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UPDATED NOTES: 10 February 2006: This Episode of Kirk's Knook appears mostly in it's original form. It appeared in TJ Maher's blog/newsletter/email Your Daily Irish News (Now called Daily Irish News The DIN for short). The original version had all the font faces in bold and in Purple.

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