Stop! Op!

I am absolutely gobsmacked over this fabulous blog that gives me absolutely tons of failed dance crazes, Le Pinguin by Henri Salvador, and even one by my beloved Antoine!

But to celebrate this lovely blog, let's all study the back cover of the EP and do a feverish Stop! Op! with Aimé Barelli.

Galeria of Failed Dance Crazes Part QUACK QUACK Do the Peanut Duck! quack-ee quack-ee

Quack.

Sophisticated Sissy, the Not-So-Failed Dance Craze

If you live in New Orleans you may dance the Sophisticated Sissy on a regular basis, maybe they have Sophisticated Sissy classes through the park district the way many other places have Zumba. I imagine all that backbone slippage burns the calories, I wouldn't know, the only regular exercise I get is from complaining. Home of the Groove has a lot of info about the dance and a few Sissy songs by Curley Moore and The Meters.

Galeria of Failed Dance Crazes: Do the Napoleon!

Napoleon XIV sheds his straitjacket and hits the dance floor, to lead this failed dance craze from his album "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Haaa!"

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":