Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sock hop at Shimer College, Illinois, in 1948. A sock hop or sox hop, often also called a record hop [1]: 199 or just a hop, was an informal (but officially organized) dance event for teenagers in mid-20th-century North America, featuring popular music.
WTTG launched Milt Grant's Record Hop on July 22, 1956, with WOL simulcasting the television station's audio. [8] Grant's show, which had added support of area police and civic organizations as a "constructive approach" against juvenile delinquency, [9] originated from a ballroom at the Raleigh Hotel [1] six days a week (weekday afternoons at 5 p.m. and noon on Saturdays). [10]
The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. ... ’ performance of Hound Dog on the Milton Berle Show in 1956 was met with outrage over the singer’s hip-swinging moves.
Many 1950s and 1960s dance crazes had animal names, including "The Chicken" (not to be confused with the Chicken Dance), "The Pony" and "The Dog". In 1965, Latin group Cannibal and the Headhunters had a hit with the 1962 Chris Kenner song Land of a Thousand Dances which included the names of such dances.
In the 1950s, radio disc jockeys from local and regional radio stations took advantage of their popularity and augmented their income by playing records and performing as master of ceremonies at teen dance parties called sock hops or record hops.
East Coast Swing and the Lindy Hop social dance exchange event in Montreal in 2022. Some dance events may put an emphasis on certain genres of dance. For example, an event may feature swing or square dancing rather than dancing in general. A masked ball is a type of costume party that features dancing.
She dances West Coast Swing, Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Tanga and Ballroom. ... 90-year-old shows off incredible dance moves. Updated May 9, 2019 at 3:31 PM. 90-Year-Old Shows Off Incredible Dance Moves.
Jim Lounsbury (February 24, 1923, in Colo, Iowa – January 8, 2006, in Tucson, Arizona) was an early pioneer in rock and roll music and a radio news anchor.. Lounsbury hosted many of the first rock and roll radio programs (WIND and WJJD, Chicago; WOR, New York City) and later many rock and roll television shows, including Jim Lounsbury's Sock Hop, "Bandstand Matinee"', and The Record Hop (WGN ...