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Maybe that's why there were less over weight people - back when this was popular.

Man that wore me out just watching it..........whew!

Russ,
It's called 'eight to the bar', or 'boogie woogie', and the dance is 'the Jitterbug.' Very popular in the late 1930s and 1940s.

Happy music for a troubling time. Watch the beginning of '1941' to see a comic version of it.

I just wish I could play 8 to the bar! I'd be willing to bet Mac can really knock this stuff out.

Then, there was the "Lindy Hop".... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJj0mNNe1Y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_hop

Gary

Russ,

For a short while I thought that was “Mean old Linda and I”, but I never was that slim.

Hey the dancing was great but what about that trio? Man they drove that stage right out of the auditorium and onto the freeway! Now that is an example of a driving rhythm section my friend.

Later,

My now deceased much older brother used to tell me that he and his friends growing up around Memphis who went to the early rockabilly shows thought that Jerry Lee Lewis would be bigger than Elvis - Jerry Lee at that time was much into the boogie woogie style of playing and the jitterbug was still being danced by teens in the early fifties.

Those guys in the video sure cut a mean rug.

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friends growing up around Memphis who went to the early rockabilly shows thought that Jerry Lee Lewis would be bigger than Elvis

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So did Jerry Lee!!

Mick