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The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes.Created in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood.
"The Hampsterdance Song" is a novelty song by Hampton the Hampster. The song's hook is based on a sped-up sample of "Whistle-Stop", a song from the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood. This sample was originally used for a 1998 web page called the Hampster Dance, created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte.
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The Hampton version advertised itself as "The Real Hamster Dance" (with CvsI knock-off cover graphics no less), as whoever lashed it together managed to get clearance for the ACTUAL Whistlestop sample - though AFAIK the original Cuban Boys version also used this sample (in early versions played e.g. on the John Peel show MONTHS before release ...