# That Old Song And Dance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018 "2019-06-04T15:50:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/21 "2019-06-04T23:45:23Z")
“Stop Stop Stop” by the Hollies: - See the girl with cymbals on her fingers Entering through the door Ruby glistening from her navel Shimmering around the floor\* …and so forth. Then, of course, the singer gets kicked out of the club for getting handsy. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/22 "2019-06-04T23:51:57Z")
Does Walk the Moon’s “Shut Up and Dance with Me” count? > [@](#): > > […] A backless dress and some beat up sneaks > My discotheque Juliet teenage dream […] > > She took my arm > I don’t know how it happened > We took the floor and she said > > Oh don’t you dare look back > Just keep your eyes on me > I said you’re holding back > She said shut up and dance with me ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/23 "2019-06-04T23:56:05Z")
And if non-English songs count, Yvette Giraud’s “La danseuse est creole”. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/24 "2019-06-05T00:15:06Z")
The long Gotta Dance sequence from _Singin’ In The Rain_. And before anyone says it’s about dancing, it’s the story of a guy seeking employment as a professional dancer ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/25 "2019-06-05T00:20:14Z")
Harvest Moon, Neil Young ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/26 "2019-06-05T00:20:25Z")
“I’m 'n Luv (Wit a Stripper)” by T-Pain ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/27 "2019-06-05T00:32:25Z")
Van Morrison - [Ballerina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdB5N4meH9g) Frank Zappa - [Dancin’ Fool](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSdkPMc7aEo) Sting - [They Dance Alone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqPdJ20Bsfo) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/28 "2019-06-05T00:39:25Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > [Maniac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evyKPVS_M7E) by Michael Sembello > “She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor > And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before” “[That’s the stuff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ubTe3wy1U)!” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/29 "2019-06-05T01:15:11Z")
[“Mainstreet” by Bob Seger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH29n-MVW4k) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/30 "2019-06-05T14:22:18Z")
“Ten Cents A Dance” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/31 "2019-06-05T14:48:47Z")
Thirty posts, and no one has mentioned “Cheek to Cheek”? :eek: \*Heaven, I’m in Heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak; And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we’re out together dancing, cheek to cheek Heaven, I’m in Heaven And the cares that hung around me thru the week Seem to vanish like a gambler’s lucky streak When we’re out together dancing, cheek to cheek\* [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WOYzFKizikU/hqdefault.jpg "Fred Astaire - Cheek to Cheek") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOYzFKizikU) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/32 "2019-06-05T15:31:04Z")
**Old 97s** - “The Dance Class”. The protagonist is an agoraphobe in love with a girl in a dance class across the street. _“I’m wishing I could leave my house But it’s been a year since I went out You’re so far over there in your dance class I am in love with whoever you are Whoever you are…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/33 "2019-06-05T16:21:12Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Thirty posts, and no one has mentioned “Cheek to Cheek”? Presumably because it’s about dancing rather than specifically about a dancer as the OP requested. See posts #5 and 8. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/34 "2019-06-06T10:14:57Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Presumably because it’s about dancing rather than specifically about a dancer as the OP requested. See posts #5 and 8. It’s Fred Astaire singing about himself dancing with Ginger Rogers as he dances with Ginger Rogers. How does this not meet the criteria? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/35 "2019-06-06T10:49:47Z")
[Tomorrow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuntWQBJ5GM) from _Bugsy Malone_. Technically about someone that \*wants \*to be a professional dancer. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/36 "2019-06-06T11:35:18Z")
Kinks, “[Come Dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRUE0aAI5o8)” Specifically about Ray Davies’ sister (who, in real life, died of a heart condition in a dance hall) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/37 "2019-06-06T15:43:01Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > It’s Fred Astaire singing about himself dancing with Ginger Rogers as he dances with Ginger Rogers. How does this not meet the criteria? 😕 Well, take it up with the OP, but ISTM that it’s pretty clear that the OP’s criterion is a description of someone **else** dancing. Not about the emotions that the experience of dancing makes the narrator feel (which is what “Cheek to Cheek” is about), even if the singer happens to be a famous dancer in real life. For example, the OP explicitly disqualified “The Safety Dance”, which is also about the narrator’s feelings about dancing. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/38 "2019-06-06T15:47:44Z")
Jackson Browne - [For a Dancer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeeO8yS4VDQ) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/39 "2019-06-06T16:12:12Z")
I realize that all songs about dancing are also about the people doing the dancing, but for the purpose of this thread I would just like to stick to songs about the dancers themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/40 "2019-06-06T16:26:57Z")
Would Copacabana count? Lola is a dancer, but most of the plot of the song is about stuff to the side of that (a couple men fighting over her, her being a has-been who’s still trying to cling to when she was Hot Stuff)…though it is all consequences of her dancing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018.md?page=3)