So, I'm kind of obsessed with eventually having a sock hop, and with learning to do the mashed potato:
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Unfortunately, I'm hopelessly awkward. But I'm trying, with the help of some amazing youtube users. Apparently, remaking Hairspray (which I still refuse to see) has made the entire internet obsessed with the Mashed Potato.
There's this one, which is totally jerky but to the point:
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And there's this one, which is awkward, longwinded and British but in the long run was more informative:
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If I eventually have a sock hop, there's some even better general links:
Fiftiesweb appears to have been made by someone who genuinely lived through the 50's. Lots of myth-debunking, song facts, and really to-the-point descriptions - plus she describes what necking and first through third base meant back in the day ("Nice girls didn't go to third base before marriage. Enough said.") Check out the sock hop page!
StreetSwing Dance History Archives is basically a database of dance crazes and their origins. Some tutorial kinda stuff but not always.
Sixties City's dance page is suuuuuper useful. The frug, the watusi, the pony... basically everything. Also, it reveals that the Monster Mash is just the Mashed Potato with monster-like arm waving. SO RAD.
Dance parties, anyone?
i say since people are now dressing like it's the 60s they should be required to act and dance like it just as well. kudos...
I will totally do the mashed potato with you, anytime!