When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Rock and Roll (dance) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_(dance)

    The double somersault, one of the most demanding acrobatic moves (Daniela Bechtold and Bernd Diel, World Games 2005 in Oberhausen, Germany) Acrobatic rock and roll (spelled rock'n'roll by its organizing body, the World Rock'N'Roll Confederation) is a fast, athletic, physically demanding form of partner dance that originated from Lindy Hop but has evolved to a choreographed sport, often done in ...

  3. The Big Beat (TV program) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Beat_(TV_program)

    The Big Beat is an American music and dance television program broadcast on the ABC Network in 1957. [1] It was hosted by Alan Freed, and subsequently by Richard Hayes.The program debuted on May 4, 1957, four months before American Bandstand, making it the United States' "first nationally-televised rock 'n roll dance show".

  4. Rock and roll - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll

    Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll, Rock n' Roll or proto-rock) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. [1][2] It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, and jump ...

  5. The Stroll - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stroll

    The Stroll was both a slow rock 'n' roll dance [1] and a song that was popular in the late 1950s. [2] Billboard first reported that "The Stroll" might herald a new dance craze similar to the "Big Apple" in December 1957. [3][4] In the dance two lines of dancers, men on one side and women on the other, face each other, moving in place to the ...

  6. Black or White - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_or_White

    Black or White. " Black or White " is a song by the American singer Michael Jackson, released by Epic Records on November 11, 1991, as the first single from Jackson's eighth studio album, Dangerous (1991). Jackson wrote, composed, and produced it with Bill Bottrell. Epic Records described it as "a rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony".

  7. Twist (dance) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_(dance)

    The twist[a] is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music. From 1959 to the early sixties it became a worldwide dance craze, enjoying immense popularity while drawing controversies from critics who felt it was too provocative. It inspired dances such as the Jerk, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken ...

  8. I Knew the Bride - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Knew_the_Bride

    I Knew the Bride. " I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll) " is a song written by Nick Lowe and first popularized by Dave Edmunds. It was released on Edmunds's 1977 album Get It and a year later in a live version by Nick Lowe's Last Chicken in the Shop on Live Stiffs Live. Edmunds, who had been insecure about his songwriting ...

  9. Rock 'n' Roll High School (song) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_'n'_Roll_High_School...

    The first was recorded in early 1979 by Ed Stasium and was intended for the Rock 'n' Roll High School soundtrack. This version opens with an extended drum beat first, with Joey eventually singing the opening line, "rock, rock, rock, rock, rock 'n' roll high school". This is also the version they usually performed live.