Community Chat

[grandma r]

@Witchy Woman. The strand was an updated slow dance.  It started out as a regular slow dance, the the couples would move apart, some would even twirl.  I don't think it ever caught on the way the others did.

[Mersha]

Give a shout out if anyone here grew up in Pittsburgh and remembers Clark Race and his dance party on Saturday afternoon.

He was on KDKA radio also.

"Hello, Clark Race, hello........."

[Witchy Woman]

@grandma r 

Watching a YouTube video of a couple doing "The Strand."

Very cool!

"This is a Philly style dance called Strand. It's different from slow dragging/slow dancing because it is far more expressive and intimate."

[Annabellethecat66]

@Witchy Woman  I know!  Remember Hermin's Hermits?

I used to go to the same high school as Jim Morrison (The Doors).  He was right ahead of me.  But I knew kids who knew him way back when.

[Witchy Woman]

@grandma r 

Love "memory lane."

All the girls knew the dances so it was mostly us dancing with each other.

Now and then a guy would get brave and join us.

Such sweet, innocent times, just dancing!

[tansy]

I must have been in the 6th grade when the twist was the rage.

[Witchy Woman]

@Mersha 

As a young girl, I dreamed of going to Philly and dancing on American Bandstand.  Heck, I'd have settled just to visit the city! 

It was the center of the universe when I was a teenager. 

[Mersha]

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@Witchy Woman wrote:

@Mersha 

As a young girl, I dreamed of going to Philly and dancing on American Bandstand.  Heck, I'd have settled just to visit the city! 

It was the center of the universe when I was a teenager. 

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@Witchy Woman   Oh, yes!  I would rush home from elementary school because my mother would watch Bandstand from Philly.  She loved when Paul Anka was a guest and I was in awe of the kids dancing.

I wanted to grow up and do that too.

[grandma r]

Anyone is the Philly/Jersey Shore area remember Summertime on the Pier????  It would air on Saturdays at 1pm with Grady and Hurst as the hosts from the Steel Pier in Atlantic City.  I remember one Saturday in particular;  Fabian was the musical guest.  My Dad took my cousin and I down to AC and we waited more than 3 hours in line to get in.  The quota was filled 2 people in front of us.  We were so disappointed!!!  So, my Dad bought a box of fudge and we went back home.

[Mz iMac]

@grandma r   I don't remember Grady.  I do remember

Ed Hurst hosting the show.

Georgie Woods & Hy Lyte had dance shows too.  I danced on both from time to time.  My best friend was a "feature" dancer's partner on the Hy Lyte dance show.