Dancing in the Street want to get up and dance". In 2013, the original Motown recording was remixed for club and summer celebration airplay by Minneapolis' Billboard charting producer/remixer Joel Dickinson as well as Danny Shaffer. "Billboard" named the song #29 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. In 1966, the folk rock group, the Mamas & the Papas, recorded a cover version of the song "Dancing in the Street," which was taken from their second studio album "The Mamas and the Papas". Mama Cass Elliot sang the lead vocal, while the other members did their harmonies in the
The Mamas & the Papas peaking at number eleven. It was the only Mamas and Papas single to chart higher in the UK than in the US. The fourth and final single from "Papas & The Mamas" was "For the Love of Ivy" (July 1968), which peaked at number eighty-one in the US and did not chart in the UK. For the second time, Dunhill returned to their earlier work for a single. In this case it was "Do You Wanna Dance" from the debut album, released as a single in October 1968. It failed to chart in the UK and reached number seventy-six in