alan jackson sang your mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll.
alan jackson sang your mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll.
who sang your mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll?
alan jackson
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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. one of the hit songs of early blackface minstrelsy was banjo player joel walker sweeney's "vine twist". one of the early black dance crazes of the early twentieth century was the "mess around", described by songwriter perry bradford in his 1912 hit "messin' around" as: "now anybody can learn the knack, put your hands on your hips and bend your back; stand in one spot nice and tight, and twist around, twist around with all of your might". but the twist at this point was basically grinding the hips. blues singer bo carter recorded "twist it babe" in 1931, the reference in the lyrics apparently being a metaphor for sex. in his "winin' boy blues" in the late 1930s, jelly roll morton sang, "mama, mama, look at sis, she's out on the levee doing the double twist". in the 1953 song "let the boogie woogie roll", clyde mcphatter and the drifters sang, "when she looked at me her eyes just shined like gold, and when she did the twist she bopped me to my soul".
twist (dance)