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Day 8 - First Song you remember dancing to with someone you weren't related to.
 

Day 8: The first song you remember dancing to with someone you weren't related to


Once upon a time square dancing and ballroom dancing was taught in gym class. I have no idea why we did this. Maybe they thought it would make us better human beings or well rounded or some such shit.

Line dancing should be obliterated as a form of expression. It sums up all that is bad about society: conformity, unoriginality and lowest common denominator thinking.

I would’ve learned this in first or second grade, so 1972 or 73 I guess. Later on we had to learn how to square dance. I kid you fucking not and then we were forced to foxtrot and waltz starting in sixth grade. I guess people took all that old school shit seriously, but thank God I learned how to do the slam, the mosh, the skank, the windmill, the pogo and other better freeform types of self expression.

Starting in sixth grade, we had school dances, where we would dance to actual rock music. We would do modified versions of the foxtrot or waltz, simply called the turn and shuffle.

My parents taught me to dance, and we had a musical household, but my first dances were probably in first or second grade learning shit like this: the alley cat and the hokey Pokey.


I brought this up to my sisters and here were their memories.

The one we did when they taught us dancing was the foxtrot and waltz. Can you even believe they did that in the 70’s?

What memories! We also learned the Hustle, Locomotion and the bus stop. We did square dancing (which Ioved) and waltzing. But the worst memory is that they’d line up girls on one side of the gym, boys on the other, then we’d all walk forward and the person opposite you was your dancing partner. THAT was the mortifying part! I wonder what they did if there was an odd person out
 
Later on we had to learn how to square dance.
5th & 6th grade incorporated in to History. We also made tallow candles etc.
Starting in sixth grade, we had school dances,
We had Sock Hops once a month after school in the gym. BTW: Same gym used for the dance scene in American Graffiti so fictional Richie Cunningham went to my school.

Day 8: The first song you remember dancing to with someone you weren't related to:

A Sock Hops favorite…..

 
5th & 6th grade incorporated in to History. We also made tallow candles etc.

We had Sock Hops once a month after school in the gym. BTW: Same gym used for the dance scene in American Graffiti so fictional Richie Cunningham went to my school.

Day 8: The first song you remember dancing to with someone you weren't related to:

A Sock Hops favorite…..


I just found an original first run, pressing of this 45… about a month ago, I acquired several thousand 45 RPM records and this was among them.

Only bad thing is the price tag on it ¢75!

 
Day 8: The first song you remember dancing to with someone you weren't related to.
I was finally convinced to go to a school dance in grade 5 or 6, it was a sock hop. Not knowing what that meant, I relied on my eccentric grandmother's explanation and so I wore silver beaded foot jewelry that she'd picked up on one of her world adventures. They were beautiful.

Being 12 years old and the only one barefoot in the gym was mortifying enough, then my best friend decided that I needed to be the one to break the ice between nervous kids and so I danced with a boy to

Kiss from a rose - Seal
 
Once upon a time square dancing and ballroom dancing was taught in gym class. I have no idea why we did this. Maybe they thought it would make us better human beings or well rounded or some such shit.
Basically racism and antisemitism 😕 I remember it feeling like The Twilight Zone in high school gym class for like two weeks and at the time I couldn't figure out why.
 
Basically racism and antisemitism 😕 I remember it feeling like The Twilight Zone in high school gym class for like two weeks and at the time I couldn't figure out why.
No shit! Had no idea. I thought it was just an old school thing.

Well I’m glad that shit (dancing in gym class I is over on many levels. At least my kids didn’t have to do dancing.)

Damn.
 
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