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"Pony" is a song by American singer Ginuwine, released as the debut single from his first album, Ginuwine...The Bachelor (1996). Ginuwine sang, co-wrote, and produced the song with Swing Mob associates Static Major, Digital Black, Smoke E. Digglera, and Timbaland; the latter made his breakthrough as a producer with the song.
The song introduced a new dance style, the pony, in which the dancer tries to look like he or she is riding a horse. The beat is 1&2, 3&4. In the dance the feet are kept comfortably together, while various arm and hand motions are possible. Movement around the dance floor may occur, but there is no line-of-dance.
Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American singer and dancer.He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the pony dance style with the 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time".
Many 1950s and 1960s dance crazes had animal names, including "The Chicken" (not to be confused with the Chicken Dance), "The Pony" and "The Dog". In 1965, Latin group Cannibal and the Headhunters had a hit with the 1962 Chris Kenner song Land of a Thousand Dances which included the names of such dances.
Some releases of the song credit Antoine "Fats" Domino as a co-author of the song with Kenner. Domino agreed to record the song in exchange for half of the song's royalties. [4] The J. Geils Band released a live cover version as a single in 1983. Cash Box said that the band "does justice" to the original on the recording. [11]
The Stone Pony was built to last. The venerable yet humble Asbury Park nightclub and music venue has survived several owners, multiple closings, Superstorm Sandy, COVID-19 and the vicissitudes of ...
A song about a "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" villain written by Eurobeat Brony and remixed by The Living Tombstone is popular on TikTok.
The use of the name "twist" for dancing goes back to the nineteenth century. According to Marshall and Jean Stearns in Jazz Dance, a pelvic dance motion called the twist came to America from the Congo during slavery. [6] One of the hit songs of early blackface minstrelsy was banjo player Joel Walker Sweeney's "Vine Twist".