by designs 22 Replies latest social entertainment
I was the youngest, but at our Parties, we all did the Twist...then the Wattusie, lol, but when the Watchtower came out, we all had to quit. They said the origins were from African fertility rites and no Christian should dance to them. But then the Surfer Stomp started. After a few years it was The Jerk. It was fun. I miss having old friends and old dances and old music. I liked having fun. I miss that too, lol.
Just Lois
WT '62 7/1 p 411
"To illustrate: Suppose a young adult or a parent has heard about the twist and wants to know whether it would be proper for a Christian. Well, observe how people describe it. .......................
But the youngsters at [a certain New York nightclub] have revived The Twist and parodied it into a replica of some ancient tribal puberty rite. The dancers scarcely ever touch each other or move either feet. Everything else, however, moves. The upper body sways forward and backward and the hips and shoulders twirl erotically, while the arms thrust in, out, up and down.”3............
So what have you learned about this dance? In this example we have found that the dance craze mainly involves bodily gyrations and that the words used to describe them are “frantic,” “sensual” and “erotic.” You have also learned what kind of persons developed the dance and that it is basically an imitation of some pagan tribe’s dance, involving gestures of a sexually suggestive nature."
Wt '69 2/15 p113
"For example, when dances like the “twist” and all its later developments are introduced, the young accept them eagerly and without question, while their parents raise their eyebrows or smile indulgently for a while and then take them up with almost equal fervor, ostensibly in order to project the youthful image themselves. What they fail to realize is that such dances have their origin in pagan fertility dances that were performed in times past as a part of immoral religious rites. And just as they were designed to arouse the sexual emotions of the participants in the religious orgies, so their modern-day counterparts contribute to the loosening of moral inhibitions. Those who subscribe to the modern morality that allows for premarital sex relations have no objection to this. But what of those who have no such end in view, who may be indulging themselves simply because it is the custom? Such ones should not deceive themselves. They are still affected emotionally in the same way. Stimulation of this sort inevitably leads to improper inclinations, and those who entertain wrong desires can be just as completely overtaken as the twenty-four thousand were in succumbing to the Baal of Peor in the days of Israel.—Num. 25:1-9."
NB...Chubby Checker was THE MAN of his day!...and a million aching backs proved it.....
I sure don't have knees for the Twist today...maybe because I twisted them too much as a kid!
Ouch!
Glander- POP was a great park, out on the Pier. We also use to go to The Pike in Long Beach, our Assemblies were right next door at the old Long Beach Auditorium. We would sneek over to The Pike during the lunch break. They had the freakiest Freak Show around, I had nightmares from it for years!
Soupy Sales- he was the guy, his banana cream joke got him kicked off the air.
Dick Clark yea, and remember Lloyd Thaxton, he had on Bo Diddley one time with his backup singers all in skin tight gold lame outfits singing Who Do You Love, I thought the knobs on the TV would melt.
"The Twist" is one of only two songs to re-enter the charts and return to # 1.
This happened in 1960 and 1961. The other is Bing Crosby's version of "White
Christmas" (Irving Berlin).
Lyrics:
Come on, baby, let's do the twist (oo wah wah....)
Come on, baby, let's do the twist
Take me by my little hand (oo)
And go like this (oo wah wah)
Ee-ah twist, ba' baby, twist (round and around and around and around....)
Woo yeah, just like this
Come on, little miss (oo)
And do the twist (round and around and around and around)
My daddy is sleepin' and mama ain't around (oo wah wah....)
Yeah, daddy's just sleepin' and mama ain't around
We're gonna twist 'n' twist 'n' twist 'n' (oo)
Till we tear the house down (oo wah wah)
Come on, and twist, yeah baby, twist (round and around and around and around....)
Woo yeah, just like this
Come on, little miss (oo)
And do the twist (round and around and around and around)
Ee-ah
(sax solo) (round and around and around and around....)
(oo wah round and around and around and around)
Yeah, you should see my little Sis (oo wah wah....)
You should see my--my little Sis
She really knows how to rock (oo)
She knows how to twist (oo wah wah)
Come on and twist, yeah, baby, twist (round and around and around and around....)
Woo yeah, just like this
Come on, little miss (oo)
And do the twist (round and around and around and around)
Yeah Dance on down (?) (round and around and around and around....)
Yeah Twist on now (?)
Twist (oo round and around and around and around)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jh189-uIEg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecjIqwPWFkc
I was always partial to the Peppermint twist, seemed a little more demonized.
Jgnat, In NY and NJ Cousin Bruce was an essential part of growing up. I stopped doing my homework to concentrate on his show. He would announce every few minutes that we were listening to A Beatles C. I was so impressed
Later, Ithought he was moronic and had no appreciation for the Beatles or any serious rock or folk music. He only knew commercial and trivial pop. Others must have felt the same bc we abandoned Bruce forever to hear free format. rock on FM. The better station refused to tell the present time. Rock merited the same treatment as classical music. Those were the days, my friends.
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"Twist on now" may be "We're sore now" (?)
