# Is the slow dance still a thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 1, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-slow-dance-still-a-thing/1011031 "2024-12-01T23:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-slow-dance-still-a-thing/1011031/33 "2024-12-02T07:16:44Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Apparently Robert Preston’s recording had gone out of fashion by then, but I do know that song from _somewhere_. I hadn’t thought about it for years, but it got mentioned once on _Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me_. It was one of those three-things-that-sound-impossibly-ridiculous-but-one-of-them-is-true questions. I remember the song from elementary school so I got the question immediately, but no one else seemed to be familiar with it. Doing a search just now, it appears we talked about it ten years ago when the song was used in an Apple commercial. The best part is, they had to use a cover version. > [@iPhone's "Chicken Fat" commercial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphones-chicken-fat-commercial/692709/1): > > [What’s the deal?](http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/06/whats-the-deal-with-that-go-you-chicken-fat-go-iphone-commercial-anyway/) I saw this commercial Sunday night. Talk about a blast from the past. Suddenly I was in elementary school, attempting to do push ups. Who else remembers this song? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-slow-dance-still-a-thing/1011031)._