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The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes.Created in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood.
"The Hampsterdance Song" is a novelty song by Hampton the Hampster. The song's hook is based on a sped-up sample of "Whistle-Stop", a song from the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood. This sample was originally used for a 1998 web page called the Hampster Dance, created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte.
The song garnered extreme reactions. Music journalist Charles Shaar Murray said the song was "eloquent in its sheer vacuity" during a highbrow debate on Channel 4 News, and Cliff Richard, whose song "The Millennium Prayer", which had been number 1 in the three weeks before the chart debut of "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia" and was released to very negative reviews, said the song was "awful ...
Dad turns on "hamster dance" from work while Mom is dressing triplets. Dad turns on "hamster dance" from work while Mom is dressing triplets. Getting kids ready for the day can feel like an uphill ...
Image credits: @w.holesomeegf Why Your Pet Hamster Is More Active When It Gets Dark. If you own a hamster, you have probably noticed that your pet is a night owl — rummaging around and burrowing ...
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The Cuban Boys' next single, "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia" was built on a sample used from "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller which was featured in the Disney movie Robin Hood. It was first featured online as part of the Hampster Dance song on the website of the same name.
The Hampton version advertised itself as "The Real Hamster Dance" (with CvsI knock-off cover graphics no less), as whoever lashed it together managed to get clearance for the ACTUAL Whistlestop sample - though AFAIK the original Cuban Boys version also used this sample (in early versions played e.g. on the John Peel show MONTHS before release ...