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The original choreography has 22 steps, [5] but variants include the Freeze (16-step), Cowboy Motion (24-step), Cowboy Boogie (24 step), and the Electric Slide 2 (18-step). The 18-step variation became popular in 1989 and for ten years was listed by Linedancer Magazine as the number-one dance in the world.
Genre. Freestyle, reggae. Label. Island / Mango. Songwriter (s) Neville Livingston. " Electric Boogie " (also known as the " Electric Slide ") is a dance song written by Bunny Wailer in response to his hearing the Eddy Grant song "Electric Avenue" in 1982. The song provided the basis for the success of dance fad called Electric Slide. [1][2]
George Beauchamp's invention, which he nicknamed the "Frying Pan", was officially called the "Rickenbacker Electro A–22", an electric lap steel guitar produced from 1931 to 1939. It was the first electric stringed instrument of any kind and was the first electric stringed instrument to be heard on a commercial recording. [ 2 ]
In 1963, Korg released the Donca-Matic DA-20, an electro-mechanical drum machine. [125] In 1965, Nippon Columbia patented a fully electronic drum machine. [ 126 ] Korg released the Donca-Matic DC-11 electronic drum machine in 1966, which they followed with the Korg Mini Pops , which was developed as an option for the Yamaha Electone electric ...
Cha Cha Slide. " Cha-Cha Slide " (or " Casper Slide Part 2 ") is a song by American musician Mr. C the Slide Man (also known as DJ Casper). The song was released as a single in August 2000 and spent five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 83. Four years later, it became a hit in Europe and Australia, topping the UK Singles ...
Electric Slide. (film) Electric Slide is a 2014 American biographical crime film written and directed by Tristan Patterson. It stars Jim Sturgess as Los Angeles–based bank robber Eddie Dodson, who robbed 64 banks in 1983 before he was caught. It premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release in April 2015.
Electro (or electro-funk) [3][4] is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machines, [5][6] with an immediate origin in early hip hop and funk genres. [7][8] Records in the genre typically feature heavy electronic sounds, usually without vocals; if vocals are present, they are delivered in a ...
Elektro was on exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair and was joined at that fair in 1940, with "Sparko", a robot dog that could bark, sit, and beg to humans.. Several minutes of color sound footage of Elektro in action can be seen at 33:55 in the movie, The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair, a fully-produced hour-long movie made by Westinghouse, which showcased the Westinghouse ...