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The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...
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]
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.
Throughout most of the 1950s, the magazine published the following charts to measure a song's popularity: Most Played by Jockeys – ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys and radio stations. Most Played in Jukeboxes – ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States.
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, American radio DJs appeared live at sock hops and "platter parties" and assumed the role of a human jukebox. They typically played 45-rpm records, featuring hit singles on one turntable while talking between songs. In some cases, a live drummer was hired to play beats between songs to maintain the dance floor.
Madonna achieved her 50th Dance Club Songs number one with "I Don't Search I Find", making her the first ever act to score as many as 50 chart-toppers on any single Billboard chart. Lasting for nearly 44 years, the Dance Club Songs chart was defunct after the issue dated March 28 due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing nightclubs to close. [47 ...