text: The Duck in 1965 - Jackie Lee....\n\n1960 - The Twist, Chuby Checker\n\nThe Pony - 1961, Chuby Checker\n\nThe Bird - 1963, Dee Dee Sharp, I think.\n\nHow about 1962 - The Mash Potato, Dee Dee Sharp.\n\nThere was the Watusi, the Ska, and the Monkey.\n\n1962 - The Locomotion, Little Eva\n\n1960 - The Twist, Chubby Checker\n\n1967 - The Camel Walk, James Brown\n\n1969 - The Popcorn, James Brown\n\nThe movie Hairspray, it had all those dances in it.\n\nYou can see a few more dances from that era - even though the movie is actually set in 1980 - in the "dancing in the street" scene (Ray Charles' performance of "Shake A Tail Feather") in the first Blues Brothers movie. I also recommend the "Chicago Black Dance" chapter in Robert Pruter's _Chicago Soul_.\n\nAnd don't forget, if you watch the old reruns of "The Addams Family" on Nick at Nite, once in a while Gomez does his favorite, "The Freddie".\n\n1962 - "Peppermint Twist", Joey Dee; "Twist And Shout", Isley Brothers\n\nWatusi "The Wah-Watusi", Orlons\n\n1963 Monkey "Monkey Time", Major Lance\n\n1964 Swim "C'mon And Swim", Bobby Freeman\n\n1965 Jerk "The Jerk", the Larks\n\n1967 Boogaloo "Boogaloo Down Broadway", Fantastic Johnny C\n\n1969 Popcorn "The Popcorn", "Mother Popcorn", James Brown\n\n1970 Funky Chicken "Do The Funky Chicken", Rufus Thomas\n\nThere was a dance called the Tighten Up and the Horse. The Horse was a take off on the Camel walk. It was very difficult to tell the difference between these two dances. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of dances in the '60's. Not all of them caught on nationally. The post didn't say very popular dances nationwide, it just said dances from the '60's associated with a song. The Shotgun by Junior Walker is another good example. People in my town did that dance all the time.\n\nDuring the early and mid '60's there were new dances every week.  As new songs came out so did a dance to go along with it.  Only a few dances lasted more than just a few weeks.  Usually when the song faded so did the dance. The was the Hully Gully, The Box, Sissy Strut, the James Brown, and many others that were not very popular and faded with the songs.  I don't know where the dances went but they slowed down in the '70's and almost came to a halt in the '80's.