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The country/western two-step, often called the Texas two-step [2] or simply the two-step, [3] is a country/western dance usually danced to country music in common time. "Traditional [Texas] two-step developed, my theory goes, because it is suited to fiddle and guitar music played two-four time with a firm beat [found in country music].
Urban Cowboy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1980 film Urban Cowboy. It spawned numerous Top 10 Billboard Country Singles, such as #1 "Lookin' for Love" by Johnny Lee, #1 "Stand by Me" by Mickey Gilley, #3 "Look What You've Done to Me" by Boz Scaggs, #1 "Could I Have This Dance" by Anne Murray, and #4 "Love the World Away" by Kenny Rogers.
Western couple dancing is a form of social dance.Many different dances are done to country-western music. These dances include: Two Step, Waltz, Cowboy or Traveling Cha Cha, [2] Polka Ten Step [3] (also known as Ten Step Polka [4]), Schottische, and other Western promenade dances, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and Nightclub Two Step.
[3] "There are really two histories of what is called 'two step dance,' because the name jumped from one type of dance that is no longer done to another that is done, called the Texas Two-step or collegiate Fox-trot. The original Two-step was a simple dance that first caught on with the public when John Philip Sousa came out with the ...
As a result of the film's success, there was a mainstream revival of country music. [2] The term "Urban Cowboy" was also used to describe the soft-core country music of the early 1980s epitomized by Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Johnny Lee, Mickey Gilley, Janie Frickie and other vocalists whose trademarks were mellow sounds of the sort heard in ...
On July 31, 2006, Schwimmer's 5-6-7-8 Dance Studio suffered a major fire while Schwimmer was in Los Angeles watching his son, Benji, compete on the program So You Think You Can Dance. The studio resumed full operations in September 2006. [5] Schwimmer died September 13, 2023, of cardiac arrest. [1]
In 1981, The Urban Cowboy Band won its first and only Grammy for "Best Country Instrumental Performance." The band also received the Academy of Country Music's "Band of the Year Award." The Urban Cowboy Band still performs all across the U.S., paying tribute to the legacy of Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee, performing the songs fans love to hear ...
Two-step (dance move), a dance move used in a wide range of dancing genres; Country-western two-step, also known as the Texas Two-step; Nightclub Two Step, also known as the California Two-step; 2-step (breakdance move), an acrobatic maneuver used in breakdancing; Two step, a style of moshing which creates a running–in–place motion