Galeria of Failed Dance Crazes: The Sputnik

I suppose if all the Martians were doing it, YOU would need to do it too, right? Right! It's the Sputnik, and since all you have to do it put you foot out and back, and then put your hand on your partner's back, I think we can all learn it. Yes?

Galeria of Failed Dance Crazes: The Eggbeater

Dead Wax offers up the tune and fledgling dance craze (that died in the nest) "The Egg Beater".


Billboard, March 3, 1962 :

Cincinnati
« The Egg-Beater, » new release by Dale Wright and the Wright Guys on the Starburst label and an accompanying dance originated by the lads, is taking off in this sector. WKRC-TV started the Egg-Beater Dance Contest on Glenn Ryle’s « Sub-Teen Dance Party’ several weeks ago, with finals held on the Ryle show before a studio audience Saturday (24). Bob Braun, at WLW and Bob Smith and Dick Provost, of WCPO, have also been spinning the new Wright release. Next Wednesday (28), Wright and his guys introduce the Egg-Beater tune and dance on the Dick Clark TV-er.

 Bonus track - Dale Wright "She's Neat":

Chi-Bi-Do-Wam

This is the Swedish rock and roller Jerry Willliams and his band The Violents doing "Just The Same (Chi-Bi-Do-Wam)" in 1963.
Clip taken from the Swedish cult movie 'Åsa-Nisse och tjocka släkten'

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Galeria of Failed Dance Crazes: Plip Plip!

Dance craze, or spontaneous mass neurological condition? I think they've all been eating leaded paint chips.