Baby How'd We Ever Get This Way? - Andy Kim

Lebanese Canadian writer-producer and syrupy hitmaker Andy Kim weighs in with a three minute sugar buzz pop classic. When the hits waned, Kim recorded in Canada under the name Baron Longfellow - the name I frequently check into hotels under.

Rock Me Gently, Kim's biggest US hit, is often mistaken by local radio DJs and other smug bastards for a Neil Diamond cut (and they actually use the word 'cut') and there are many eerie similarities between Andy Kim and Neil Diamond...

They both have their hair and sideburns sculped into large, elaborate furry halos and both perform on the revival circuit wearing leather trousers even though they're almost as old as Dr Fox.

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Rattle-snake Shake - Skid Row

The Dog, the Shrimp, the Lovin' Rug. The Ebb'n'Flow, Turkey Trot and the Shimmy. The Shag, the Zizzle, the Big Egg, the Clam, the Bristol Stomp, the Shing-a-ling, the Shake 'n' Vac and the Chicken-Back.

America's twenty five year post-war economic boom was built on the hula-hoop and a hundred different lasciviously-named three-step pop cult dance crazes. And then they stopped...

Between Watergate and Mister Mister there were no new dances. Then behold, the glorious ascent of chart metal and the dance known as headbanging. The furious one-step dance craze that eliminated the need for leg movement, elaborate hand gestures and a female partner.

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