DATING IN THE 1950S

[Burdie]

DATING IN THE 1950'S

WHAT DATING WAS LIKE IN the 50's. It's the summer of 1956 and Harold
>>goes to pick up his date, Peggy Sue. Harold's a pretty hip guy with his
>>own
>>car and a duck tail hairdo.
>>
>> When he goes to the front door, Peggy Sue's mother answers and invites
>>him in. "Peggy Sue's not ready yet, so why don't you have a seat?"
>>
>> Peggy Sue's mother asks Harold what they're planning to do. Harold
>>replies politely that they will probably just go to the malt shop or to a
>>drive-in movie.
>>
>> Peggy Sue's mother responds, "Why don't you kids go out and screw? I
>>hear all the kids are doing it." Naturally this comes as quite a surprise
>>to Harold and he says, "Whaaaat?"
>>
>> "Yeah," says Peggy Sue's mother, "We know Peggy Sue really likes to
>>screw; why, she'd screw all night if we let her!"!
>>
>> Harold's eyes light up and he smiles from ear to ear. Immediately, he
>>has revised the plans for the evening. A few minutes later, Peggy Sue
>>comes
>>downstairs in her little poodle skirt with her saddle shoes, and announces
>>that she's ready to go.
>>
>> Almost breathless with anticipation, Harold escorts his date out the
>>front door while Mom is saying, "Have a good evening kids," with a small
>>win! k for H arold.
>>
>> About 20 minutes later, a thoroughly disheveled Peggy Sue rushes back
>>into the house, slams the door behind her and screams at her mother:
>>
>> "Dammit, Mom! It's the Twist! It's calledThe Twist!!!

 

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[ivan salis]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

opps

 

[Digginman]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S



DM

 

[borninok]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

I loved it!

By the way, for those who may think Chubby Checker "invented" the Twist...he didn't.

Hank Ballard and the Midnighters were playing at an Atlanta roadhouse called the Peacock Club. To liven up their show, they had worked up a little dance routine. Hank wrote a tune to go with it, and three weeks later, on November 11, 1958, the band recorded the original version of "The Twist".

King Records put the song on the "B" side of "Teardrops On Your Letter", which made the R&B top ten in the spring of 1959. In those days, flipping a record over to hear the other side, was a common practice of DJs and "The Twist" started to get some air play. Teenagers loved the song and Dick Clark was quick to notice. He booked Hank Ballard and the Midnighters on his show, but the band made what must have been the greatest mistake of their career...they failed to show up. Dick then suggested that someone else record the song and recommended it to Danny and the Juniors, of "At The Hop" fame. When the recording session failed to produce any positive results, Henry Colt stepped in, and asked that his protégé be given a chance at it. Chubby Checker sang his vocal over a pre-recorded instrumental track.

Bernie Lowe, president of Cameo-Parkway Records, was not impressed with Chubby's recording and felt that it might be suitable for a "B" side at best. For that reason, it took nearly fourteen months, from June 1959, to August 1960, for the Checker version of "The Twist" to catch on. Chubby worked hard at promoting the record, undertaking a non-stop round of interviews, TV dates and live performances. After three weeks of demonstrating the Twist, he had lost nearly thirty pounds.

"The Twist" became a dance sensation and scores of twist tunes followed, like "The Peppermint" Twist", "The Oliver Twist" and dozens of variations. This opened up a floodgate of new dances. The Fly, The Hully Gully, The Popeye, The Jerk, The Boogaloo, The Philly, The Locomotion, The Swim, The Hucklebuck and The Funky Broadway were just a few.

Now...if anybody asks who first did the "Peppermint Twist"...that was done by Joey Dee and the Starlighters in 1959, but it didn't catch on until 1961.

Now..................what the heck were we talking about?

Oh.............screwing.....er...twisting....LOL

--Mel

borninok

 

[stefen]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

Somebody woke the sleeping dragon...chewed you up and spit you out

 

[Burdie]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

Excuse me, but you're a decade off. The twist was in the early 1960's. Poodle skirts were long gone and everybody knew that scrweing and twisting were two totally different things, although one might eventually lead to the other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_(dance)

In the 1950's young men and women were doing the bunny hop and the bop. If you kids are going to make fun of us older folks, please get yer facts straight. Thank you. Now I will hobble back to my room and leave you alone.

GOOD LORD I LIVED THROUGH ALL THOSE DECADES. It all seems a heavy fog to me. Thanks for pointing it out. OH yea now some of it is coming back to me and it's not the twist.
Burdie

 

[oldhermit34]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

WOW, I dated that girl.

 

[warsawdaddy]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

Let's talk about the Stroll.I loved it,it was easy to do after several scotch/water or vodka/7's.

 

[stefen]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

Let's talk about the Stroll.I loved it,it was easy to do after several scotch/water or vodka/7's.

How many does it take for you to demonstrate your table dancing techniques?

 

[borninok]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

Hey, Stefen, don't ask WD that question....Lordy, apparently you didn't catch the bit about WD's sly technique of getting the garter off of a young lady at the Chisholm Trail Hunt. LOL 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
---Mel

borninok

 

[stefen]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

Nice shoes

 

[borninok]

Re: DATING IN THE 1950'S

TT, I loved it!!!!
----Mel

borninok