These songs have lyrics that teach you a dance

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@Scientist

apparently its from Shirley Ellis’s “Clapping Song”

If you don’t know Shirley Ellis’s work, all her songs are great. The wonderful dancers from Judy Garland’s problematic variety show did an amazing routine to Ellis’s Nitty Gritty, I linked it in the last BB thread about songs with special dances:

"The Fuddy Duddy Walk," is the ‘60s dance craze that never was

None of these ever caught on in the real world, except the Twist. (And maybe the Teaberry Shuffle a few years later.) Occasionally someone would do a step of the Swim, but ironically. Sid Vicious did bring back the The Freddy (though it was renamed the Pogo). Shirley Ellis gave no description of the Nitty Gritty in her eponymous song, so Bobby Banas came up with choreography nobody could properly emulate: [Nitty Gritty with Bobby Banas - 1963 (corrected aspect ratio)]

@anon76551318

Similarly the lyrics of “The Twist” never go beyond “round and round.”

Well, they do tell you to “go like this”.