Spring is here and it's time to dance! Wilson Pickett has been kind enough to join us, and he is going to show us a few of the moves popular with today's teens:
1) The Boogaloo - you know that one don't you (not to be confused with the Electric Boogaloo)
2) The Skate - lookee here baby
3) The Shingaling - the whole wide world is doing (wait, the link indicates that the Shing-a-ling was the same as the Boogaloo...hey, what are you trying to pull on us, Wilson).
Wilson's favorite is Soul Dance Number Three - the Shingaling. He says you heard about it ain't ya? And oh I like that one. I love it when his voice gets all shredded and husky on side to side at 1:59. During the song, Wilson says Lord have mercy seven times. He's burning up. It's 1967, and the Twist is a distant memory.
For some reason I have conjured an image of Roosevelt Franklin teaching these dances to his muppet classmates at Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School, dancing all around the room. Now I'm wishing that Wilson Pickett had attended Wilson Pickett Elementary School.
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