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Watching some reruns of Degrassi junior high right now in french, how 80's hardcore is that people? Seeing kids in the show struggling with their identities and puberty made me remember a lot of things I took for granted. Back when dating someone meant holding hands and those awkward, shy glances. Oh to be 13 again. Anyway, it just seems like yesterday but the first time I slowdanced with a girl was 84-85 at a birthday party, it was actually the birthday girl who asked me to dance and the song playing was Wham's Careless Whisper. I realise it's hard to remember the song or person back then but anyone else have these memories?
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i didn't have my first slow dance until jr. high and that was in '92. but i remember my first "couple skate." i was really into skating in the 4th, 5th & 6th grade. i skated to "RIGHT NEXT TO ME" by the r&b group WHISTLE. i wonder if anyone here remembers that song or that group. my friend's older brother...not that much older, asked me to skate with him. i was as happy as could be because i think i had a crush on him. the memory of us skating is quite vague, but it's still a great memory nonetheless! Posts: 4807 | Registered: Oct 2002 | Site Updates: 39
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I'm pretty sure the first slow song I danced to was with a cute girl named Jolene at a Sock Hop in Jr. High and the song was "Endless Love". Her ex-boyfriend got soooooo jealous....thank goodness he didn't know my address to burn my house down. Posts: 7845 | From: Smiling and glancing in awe in the back of a limo | Registered: Mar 2003 | Site Updates: 22
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wait a minute vals, what on earth is a sock hop? do those normally take place at the valley sheraton? Posts: 4807 | Registered: Oct 2002 | Site Updates: 39
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The only song I can actually remember having slow danced to at a school dance was "I can't fight this feeling" by REO Speedwagon.
I remember my cousin asked the boy I wanted to ask to the "MORP"...it was the reverse of the PROM...where the girl asked the boy...she did it to be mean....so I took her old boyfriend with me to the dance, and we had the best time ever, it was so fun, we slow danced almost like out of Urban Cowboy...just to make her mad...it totally worked...I do remember dancing with him and all my friends to a fast song...but it was "We don't have to take our clothes off, to have a good time" by Jermaine Stewart...
Infact...I might have requested that song that night!!!
They played Endless Love at the Christmas party I was just at...and they played "Against All Odds"...they are good slow dancing songs.
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And in the 80s...probably the 'Airwolf' theme tune.
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Wow, Nowhere girl, I had no idea you knew about Whistle. A month ago I found this old rap compilation tape called Gift Rapping, and it had two Whistle songs called I'm Bugging and Santa is a B-Boy a true lost classic for the holidays IMO. They are a forgotten group, I don't even know if they have any cd's or a best of compilation.
Valley, always thought a sock-hop was a 50's or 60's thing, cool to see they still had them in the 80's.
I also had another flasback, pretty sure it was the first school dance I went to in Grade 7, my supposed friend ended up dancing with a girl I liked, so I asked her friend to dance to Paul Youn'g's Everytime you go away, pretty sure this must have been 1985.
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NowhereGirl...a Sock Hop was a dance at your high school gym where everyone took their shoes off and danced in socks. It was tons of fun and you could get very creative with your dance moves with those slippery socks. I think it originated in the 50's, but my school had them mainly to protect the basketball gym floor from shoe scuffs.
The Big Sock Hop Song back then was ....Pop Muzik.
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Radio, video Boogie with a suitcase Your livin' in a disco Forget about the rat race Let's do the milkshake, sellin' like a hotcake Try some buy some fee-fi-fo-fum
Talk about, pop musik Talk about, pop musik
Shoobie doobie do wop I wanna dedicate this Pop pop shoo wop Everybody made it Shoobie doobie do wop Infiltrate it Pop pop shoo wop Activate it
New York, London, Paris, Munich Everybody talk about pop musik Talk about, pop musik Talk about, pop musik Pop pop pop pop musik
Come on you remember it from the roller rink at least right?
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Ok back to the subject at hand. A couple of more slow songs I remember dancing to quite often back in the 80's:
"Waiting For A Girl Like You" by Foreigner
"Almost Paradise" Ann Wilson & Mike Reno
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hey rip the only two songs i knew from whistle, were 'right next to me' and 'do we have a chance (for our love')?? do you remember those?
and valley, thanks for explaining. heh, i really cannot imagine myself or anyone else dancing in their socks to 80s tunes...that is hilarious. and actually my skating days were more near the later 80s....so we skated to songs like SUPERSONIC, BUFFALO STANCE, GOOD THANG, and many other dance/pop tunes. oh! and...THE SQUARE DANCE RAP.... Posts: 4807 | Registered: Oct 2002 | Site Updates: 39
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We did the whole sock hop thing too. I remember we dressed 50's style at a dance when I was in the 7th grade. I remember I cuffed my blue jeans up at the bottom, and I wore a flannel shirt, and unbuttoned the top few buttons, and then un did the bottom, and tied it around my waist, and I wore a ponytail with a ribbon tied around it.
And I love Pop Musik.
We did sock hops at the skating rink too, I remember me and my cousin going there, we had denim capri jeans on, that had slits up the sides, and we had matching crop tops on that were also sleeveless...they looked cool, we wore watching earrings. We had such a blast.
I remember we loved to dance, and we did the thing like in Saturday Night Fever, where you hold hands, and then you start spinning each other, around and around in a circle, super fast, we could do that on skates too. I loved roller skating...I could skate backwards and even around corners...down on one skate, knee bent, and your other foot straight out...that was hard.
I remember a concert we had in 7th grade, which was so cool, that they let a local band come in and sing for us in the auditorium. Everyone had huge crushes on the whole band....all the girls went nuts for all of them...they had their own 45 record back then called "Holly". It was so weird, cause when I was 19...I went out a few times with the guitar player from that band, he was 33 then, and I thought that was really old, even though he was still good looking, but he gave me the record that they had recorded, cause I never got one in junior high school, and never knew where to find it.
I can still picture him bringing me home from a date, and we were parked in my driveway, and we were listening to the radio, and the song Kokomo was playing, and he pulled that record out from under the seat and handed it to me.
Those were the days.
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OH my gosh Rip that is so funny about Wham's Careless Whisper!! That was the first song that I couple skated with someone. The first song that I slow danced to was Journey's Open Arms.
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