Monday, October 5, 2009

Do The Tantrum?




Any 'Spillers around in 1967? Did you dance like this? I used to go to an ace night in E'Burgh where folks would dress up like that and get down to some freakbeat, it was fab!

Also found via boing boing:



Anyone got any more cool retro dancing clips for us?

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18 comments:

  1. treefrogdemonOctober 5, 2009 at 8:38 PM

    1 Yes.
    2 No.
    3 No, sorry!

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  2. BlimpyOctober 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM

    Well, if you didn't "do the tantrum" - what did you do?

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  3. steenbeckOctober 5, 2009 at 8:47 PM

    Rufus Thomas, the crown prince of dance!!

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  4. steenbeckOctober 5, 2009 at 9:21 PM

    Funky CHicken...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwlGNNqGf_g&feature=related

    Do that Breakdown Chillin

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD_TaNvm9s&feature=fvw

    Soul train was great...here's the O'Jays Love Train

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MiG2fe8lE

    I could watch these clips for hours.

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  5. UnknownOctober 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM

    Solid GOLD!!

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  6. BlimpyOctober 5, 2009 at 10:03 PM

    Hey, I've been doing the Funky Chicken all these years, and I never knew!!

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  7. BlimpyOctober 5, 2009 at 10:05 PM

    hee hee, wait til you see all the dancing in my video! it's cutting together a treat!

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  8. BlimpyOctober 5, 2009 at 10:07 PM

    Seriously though, how did the dude in steen's clip 3 get that t-shit on?! it's so tight!! how did it get over the huge 'fro?!

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  9. BlimpyOctober 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM

    the love train clip is too good for words (nice one steen!)

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  10. nilpferdOctober 5, 2009 at 10:20 PM

    In that soul train clip, there's the classic couple doing a slo-mo thing, which the camera man kinda misses, then the guy sort of sinks off screen..

    Genius.

    I liked the one Ejay posted a while ago with guys modelling German football jerseys, that must have been seventies.

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  11. ejaydeeOctober 5, 2009 at 10:27 PM

    Of course, here it is:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6r7J6L2bk

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  12. steenbeckOctober 5, 2009 at 10:36 PM

    Remember this song? I used to like it in the same way as Let's Hear it for the BOy...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28KobNbbI2s

    I think this is the ultimate solid gold moment for me...

    solid gold shake grooved thing

    Although...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow1gS3m1ckM&feature=related

    The 80s were so weird.

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  13. steenbeckOctober 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM

    Oops, the middle one was this...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYLwZLvkzzU

    Great post, Blimpy.

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  14. ejaydeeOctober 5, 2009 at 10:54 PM

    I didn't know what Matthew Wilder looked like until now, I know it's mean, but I wish I hadn't.

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  15. ejaydeeOctober 5, 2009 at 10:55 PM

    Hey that's another song that was sampled, in this case by Puff Daddy, I seem to recall.

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  16. ejaydeeOctober 5, 2009 at 11:02 PM

    I'm looking for a clip of the Madison, but I can't find any old ones by non-actors. Of course there's the one in Bande A Part and Hairspray. My dad knows the Madison, if you ask him he'll do a demo.

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  17. steenbeckOctober 6, 2009 at 12:09 AM

    I feel the same way about Matthew Wilder. Mauve and Lavender? Really?

    How bout this?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G8XH4WDxP4

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  18. nilpferdOctober 6, 2009 at 7:05 AM

    Love it, Ejay. Now I look at it again, though, isn't that Messi wearing the rainbow coloured Duisburg shirt? And Kaka, right at the end, doing the Beatles head shake? Interesting to see how these guys started out.. maybe the German national team should send their players on a booty shaking trip to Rio...

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