Totally Cool Dance Crazes of the Rock N Roll Era
The Shag is the official state dance of Carolina. Although nowadays contemporaneous R&B beach music - as it has been, for the past four or five decades - it has its roots in a number of eight-count 1930s Swing dances, notably the Flea Hop and the Carolina Jitterbug. Billy Graves monumental (sic) homage to the The Shag, which he rightly identifies as being Totally Cool! , takes it deep into areas of R n R and teen angst! It remains, to this very day, the de rigeur dance to perform when in this part of the world, much to the amusement of visiting English folk who are barely able to stifle sniggers at the prospect of attending an open-air Shag-A-Thon! (incidentally, it seems that Billy Graves disc, which became a significant crossover hit in early 1959, spending a couple of months on the US Top 100, was briefly scheduled for release here in the UK, on the London-American label; then someone at Decca, who owned the London imprint, thought about it...)But this compilation ain t just about shagging, no siree!...
Totally Cool Dance Crazes of the Rock N Roll Era  (Artist)    Format: Audio CD
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