The Lindy Hop, a popular dance from the late fifties and early sixties, actually began in the 40's as a ballroom dance, "The Lindy" which was jittered, with the prior generation's dismay, to big band swing tunes like Glen Miller's "In The Mood" or Duke Ellington's "One O'Clock Jump." When Danny & The Juniors zoomed to the top of the charts with "At The Hop" and the follow up "Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay" (on our Classic Oldies Video Juke Box), it was Alan Freed's dancers in New York and Dick Clark's dances in Phillie that put some rock and roll shoo-bop steps to "The LindyZ" and voila, "The Lindy Hop." Guess how many parents who got slammed by their parents for doing "The Lindy" winced when their kids did "The Lindy Hop." You can swing it, you can groove it, you can really start to move it At The Hop.

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