It's Friday and seems to me, tonight would be a great night for a sock-hop. Now of course we know that I am too young to have actually attended a 1950's sock-hop..but I think it would have been a blast.
Put on your poodle skirt or your madras shirt and have a go at this oldie but goodie!
Put on your poodle skirt or your madras shirt and have a go at this oldie but goodie!
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Hi Leelee: I know that I was not around for the original Sock Hops, but I do remeber my older sister all excited about going out dancing. Bill Halley and The Comets were my dads kind of music. I hop you have a good weekend. Get it? Hop > Hope?
I'm so old that I went to the foot-hop. Socks hadn't been invented yet.
Why the heck did they call it a sock hop anyway? Me will have ti go Wiki-doodle-do as me listens to the tune.
STOMP.
It was a sock-hop because they held it in the gym and you couldn't wear street shoe in the gym. In those days you only wore sneaks during gym class or at home - never in public.
Sock Hop or soc hop (rarely) is a term coined in the 1950s in the United States, following the growth in popularity of rock and roll, to refer to informal sponsored dances at American high schools, typically held on the grounds of the high school itself in the gymnasium or cafeteria. Music was often recorded, sometimes live.
Initially the term referred to the practice of removing one's shoes in order to dance in stocking feet, typically to spare the floor from the scuff marks of dress shoes.
In "She's Got It" (1956), Little Richard opens the song with:
All the flattop cats and the dungaree dolls
Are headed to the gym for the sock hop ball
In subsequent decades, with the widespread popularity of sneakers and other types of shoes the practice of removing shoes was dropped and the term began to be applied more generally to any informal high school dance.
Record Hop refers to a hop at which disc jockeys played records. The number-one song of 1958 "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors, describes the scene. Sock hops were often record hops and vice versa.
wow, haven't heard this one in a long while. makes me want to watch American Grafiti.
Good job.
Wow...thanks guys for sharing all your info with each other. Yes no street shoes allowed in the gym..
When I was in high school back in the mid 70's...they held a sock hop in our gym..it was one of the funnest dances I ever went to.
I love this song..originally recorded by Big Joe Turner..but made most famous by Bill Haley.
Glad you are enjoying it!!
HUGS!!
Bill "Crash" Haley
sadly yes :-(
I wasn't around for the original sock hops but we had "sock hops" on our lunch hour a few times a month in my junior high and the $2 cover charge went to treats for the classes that participated... It was a blast!
That's what my teacher said to do if I ever caught on fire. (She wasn't my favorite teacher)
Hi jeannegirl, thanks for stopping by. Funny how these old songs bring back memories even if they weren't from "our" time. :-)
Pug- I'm glad you still remember those important lessons..and above all...be careful!
Duck and cover!!
Alone again, naturally...
must've really pissed her off this time - still ain't back...
I'm back phos!! been away...see my other blog for a brief explanation...
Thanks for checking on me..
HUGS!!
You're welcome. I'll mosey on over to your other Blog and see what it be like...
Bop-bop-a-reebop
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