60'S Dances

[andy-hughes]

Just watching an old b and w clip of John O'Hara And His Playboys doing a cover of Wooly Bully, the old Sam The Sham chestnut.

The audience are all doing.a formation dance, similar to the old Wigan Slosh for those of (ahem!) a certain age.

Does anyone remember doing this dance in the old Tiffany's and Locarno's of our fond past?

[TheWinner]

here's the link

[Buenchico]

My memories of that era seem to centre more around this type of dancing:

[Buenchico]

I reckon that Andy's somewhere among this lot ;-)

[smurfchops]

Buenchico… that’s the real Slosh …. Let’s see some proper Mods dancing though. Up the Mods!

[Barsel]

The Winner looks like line dancing to me although I thought that was done by cowboys. My cousin had the boots!
Never heard of the slosh, that looks like the Watusi to me.
I was a rocker so the only dance I did was the jive.

[237SJ]

Before my time. We did The Bump to Joe Tex. Oops Upside Your Head has just come on local radio - the rowing song. I was too cool to do that though )

[Buenchico]

I've never heard of the Wigan Slosh and Google doesn't have many references to it either. Someone on this Twitter thread suggests that this dance looks similar though:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1622028937147580416

[pastafreak]

Were any of these done in the UK? I remember the Stroll, Mashed Potato, Jerk, Pony...and of course The Twist.

[Barsel]

Chris that looks like an exercise class in an old folks home.

[barry1010]

Not heard of The Slosh! Let the old boys show you how it's done https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=APwXEdefTT9IXcJq7w8Tv1M0dvU5Hq6m_w:1682975181300&q=The+Slosh+dance&sa=X&;ved=2ahUKEwi-lOOOg9X-AhVVMsAKHQ_HDBEQ1QJ6BAgjEAE&biw=412&bih=564&;dpr=2.63#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c35cf0be,vid:88NNMTmEY0g

[237SJ]

I remember the Slosh. I remember my parents doing that at the local hotel on NY Eve (1970s) while my friends and I were working our way through our parents booze collection. Happy days.

[barry1010]

I knew the OP dance as the woolly bully shuffle

[Barsel]

Pasta, did all those dance phases originate in the USA?
The only one of those I did was The twist, hitchhiker, and the swim.
The only one I can still do is the hand jive!

[pastafreak]

I'm pretty sure they did Barsel...they were mostly pre-Beatles/ British invasion.

[Buenchico]

One from good ol' Blighty:
https://hackskeptic.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/dance-crazes-the-cavern-stomp/

[Old_Geezer]

Clearly I didn't take much interest in jerking one's bod around looking like one was having some kind of episode, since I recall few of the above. But there again, one only partook in these femine type interests in order to meet girls. Otherwise one wouldn't have touched dances with a bargepole.

[Old_Geezer]

...feminine...
!