The Boogaloo or Shing-A-Ling was a 1960's Fad dance which kinda caught on with the public thru American Bandstand and gained momentum in the late 1960s. It was considered a Latin dance because of it's Mambo patterns, but was used in the Blues and Rock and Roll as well. The Boogaloo replaced the popular Latin Pachanga dance in popularity.

    The dance basically means to do simple weird movements with your feet, hips and body (kinda like speaking in tongues, but in dancing .)

It makes sense only to the dancer who is doing it at the moment and a good example is James Brown's Boogaloo. The Electric Boogaloo was a different dance entirely except that the movement's can be just as adlib.

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Birth Place

Creation Date

Creator

Dance Type

Columbia ?

1963

José Calderón (music)

Freestyle / Fad

Posters, Lobby Cards etc.

Sheet Music Covers

Music Titles

Boogaloo

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Baby Likes To Boogaloo

Back Off Boogaloo (Starr)

Beale Street Boogaloo

Boogaloo Down Broadway (Calderón)

Boogaloo, the

Boogaloo Blues, the

Boogaloopa (El Lupe)

Choo Choo Boogaloo CD (Kids-Zydeco)

Do The Boogaloo

el Watusi

Little Boo Ga Loo (Chubby Checker 1966)

Sock Boogaloo

$ West Coast Boogaloo CD (Greyboy Allstr)

Night Clubs

Theaters

Locations

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Instructional / Exercise

Television

Ballets / Stage

JFK

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$ Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo dvd

Publications

$ Boogaloo: The Quintessence of
American Popular Music

Other Related Dances of the time...

Bug

Horse, The

Mashed Potato

Popcorn

Swim

Cha Cha

Hully Gully

Mess Around

Rumba

Temptations Walk

Frug

Jerk

Monkey

Shing-A-Ling

Twist

Guaracha

Madison

Mule Walk*

Slop

Watusi

Mambo

Pachanga

Dancers, Choreographers etc.

Political

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Books, Magazine Articles on the dance...

Title

Author

Date Published

Publisher

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Musicians / Singers

Poets

Writers

James Browm

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"Boogaloo Joe" Jones

Chubby Checker

Don Gardner

El Lupe (w/ Puente)

George Guzman

Harvey Averne

José Calderón

Ray Barreto

Misc. Research Words that may be related ... to help your searches

12 Bar Blues

American Bandstand

Blues

Stride Piano

45's rpm records

Blue Note

Shine

Other...

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