# That Old Song And Dance

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/41 "2019-06-06T16:30:24Z")

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The same is true of Lily from Dylan’s Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. Lily is an exotic dancer, and loved by both JBig Jim and the Jack of Hearts

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**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, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/42 "2019-06-06T16:33:59Z")

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The Hold Steady, “Spinners”  
Video spoilered for line-art nudity: [spoiler][The Hold Steady - Spinners (Official Music Video) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He6p6IITy7M%5B/spoiler%5D)  
_She’s two years out of some prairie town  
She dresses up and she spins around  
Little looks and smiling talk  
Heartbreak hurts but you can dance it off  
She’s two years out of some prairie town  
She dresses up and she spins around  
She never lets them tie her down  
Its a big city, and theres so much love_

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**Author:** ![Onthefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de053/32.png) [@Onthefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onthefly)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/43 "2019-06-06T19:34:29Z")

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Barroom Girls by Gillian Welch

“Oh, the barroom girls go by your side, like the ponies who pass on a carousel ride.  
And all of the colors go ‘round in a swirl, when you dance in the arms of a barroom girl.”

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/44 "2019-06-06T19:51:15Z")

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“[Sharon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZJdMzkY_C4)” by David Bromberg is about an exotic dancer.

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**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/45 "2019-06-06T19:53:27Z")

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Frank Mills- Music Box Dancer!! Part 2, of course!

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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/46 "2019-06-06T20:57:11Z")

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_Bad Girlfriend_ by **Theory of a Deadman** is about the singer’s girlfriend (a bad one obviously) who is an exotic dancer.  
No link because the lyrics are NSFW

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/47 "2019-06-06T23:33:07Z")

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“Thumbelina” from the movie Hans Christian Andersen

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**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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/48 "2019-06-06T23:43:12Z")

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> [@Helmut\_Doork](#):
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> Frank Mills- Music Box Dancer!! Part 2, of course!

[This remix version, perhaps?](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=music+box+dancer+part+2&&view=detail&mid=1CCE5D33CD97E49C01B21CCE5D33CD97E49C01B2&&FORM=VDRVRV)

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/49 "2019-06-07T00:34:38Z")

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“[The Stripper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2CWfSLyjx8)”, David Rose Orchestra. Yeah, it’s a stripper, and an instrumental, but strippers dance.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/50 "2019-06-07T13:14:17Z")

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My uncle Walter goes [Waltzing with Bears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OCYIK95KXE)

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/51 "2019-06-09T18:38:01Z")

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Leo Sayers “You Make Me Fell Like Dancing”

ABBA’s lesser known [I’m A Marionette](https://genius.com/Abba-im-a-marionette-lyrics) could also refer to a dancer

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**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 9, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/52 "2019-06-09T19:51:26Z")

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I Can’t Dance - Genesis

Long Tall Glasses - Leo Sayer

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**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 9, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/53 "2019-06-09T23:14:13Z")

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[“Angel In Blue” by the J. Geils Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4YhOCnxADw)

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/54 "2019-06-09T23:55:21Z")

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Aretha Franklin - “[Rock Steady](https://youtu.be/b08wcyaPjII)” \<– This song is sonic caffeine!

Patti Smith - “[Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer (de)](https://youtu.be/cSk6jfln84A)” - The middle section interpolates a pastiche of the Wilson Pickett dance classic, which itself folds in earlier dance songs.

Bob Marley - “[Jump Nyabinghi](https://youtu.be/_h8-2QvCTtI)” - Its rhythm is as delicate and lively as a water strider.

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/55 "2019-06-10T01:24:32Z")

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Songs about dancers, OK.

Petra Berger - “[The Girl Looking Into Me](https://youtu.be/MpfTrQJpdXc)” - a song about Berger’s countrywoman Mata Hari, set to the tune of the “Gliding Dance of the Maidens” from the Polovtsian Dances from _Prince Igor_ by Borodin. (Classical crossover)

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/56 "2019-06-10T01:39:27Z")

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_And We Danced_ – The Hooters

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/57 "2019-06-12T08:40:57Z")

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Kate Bush - “[The Red Shoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(song))” - Based on the story by H.C. Andersen.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/58 "2019-06-13T15:40:18Z")

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_[Ballad of Cleo & Joe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na67DHCACfU)_

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> And he works his body just to be somebody.  
> There’s a woman in the mirror looking like a dream.  
> And he works his body just to feel somebody  
> And the working boy becomes a dancing queen.

–Cyndi Lauper

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/59 "2019-06-14T04:17:30Z")

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> [@Telemark](#):
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> My uncle Walter goes [Waltzing with Bears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OCYIK95KXE)

That song is a blatant rip-off of the Dr. Seuss classic “[My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes With Bears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQPhMOy0xiY)” :mad:

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018/60 "2019-06-14T04:20:13Z")

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My contribution: “[Dancing Shoes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa51jlYbbJo)” by Dan Fogelberg

This is the song that turned me on to him as a singer in 1977.

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