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"Electric Boogie" (also known as the "Electric Slide") is a dance song written by Bunny Wailer in response to his hearing the Eddy Grant song "Electric Avenue" in 1982. The song provided the basis for the success of dance fad called Electric Slide. [1] [2] According to Marcia Griffiths, "Electric Boogie" was written for her by Bunny Wailer in 1982.
The original choreography has 22 steps, [5] but variants include the Freeze (16-step), Cowboy Motion (24-step), Cowboy Boogie (24 step), and the Electric Slide 2 (18-step). The 18-step variation became popular in 1989 and for ten years was listed by Linedancer Magazine as the number-one dance in the world.
Anthony was born to an Italian family in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, but moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he studied the trumpet.He played in Glenn Miller's band from 1940 to 1941 [2] and appeared in the Glenn Miller movie Sun Valley Serenade before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II as Miller joined the Army, organizing another famous military band before his 1944 ...
Legendary bandleader Ray Anthony, who made his bones with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and worked with Marilyn Monroe, turned 100 on Jan. 20. ... His contributions to the lost art of the boogie ...
Gary Glitter – "Give a Little Boogie Woogie in the Back of My Mind" Les Gray – "A Groovy Kind of Love" Heatwave – "Boogie Nights" Hot Chocolate – "So You Win Again" Thelma Houston – "Don't Leave Me This Way" The Jacksons – "Show You the Way to Go" The Jam – "In the City", "All Around the World", "The Modern World"
Boogie-woogie waned in popularity in the 1930s, but enjoyed a resurgence and its greatest acclaim in the 1940s, reaching audiences around the world. Among its most famous acts was the "Boogie Woogie Trio" of Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons, and Meade "Lux" Lewis. Other famous boogie woogie pianists of this peak era were Maurice Rocco and Freddie Slack.
This recording was made in 1928, and its lyrics are exclusively instructions to dancers in the audience, as was traditional at the time. Musically, it is strikingly similar to the previous year's hit, "Honky Tonk Train Blues", by Meade Lux Lewis, [2] which like "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" went on to become a standard recorded many times by many artists.
"Boogie Woogie" is a song written by Australian singer Dannii Minogue and Dee Wright for Eurogroove's greatest hits album The Best Of (1995). The song features guest vocals by Minogue and was produced by Tetsuya Komuro. It was released as a Japanese-only single in June 1995 and reached number one on the Japanese singles chart. [1]