Summer's here and the time is right for dancin' in the street.
Martha and the Vandellas first hit. They must have been amused by the totally lame...er...rhythm-challenged white kids!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2wSiOs2rs8
Big hair and better dancing six years later on Soul Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK5Lu759llk
The Grateful Dead covered the tune as part of their standard repetoire. Ignore the idiotic voiceover in this 1967 clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97JXkUK6NsM
Twenty years after the song's debut, the aging white boyz can dance at last.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y-x2fWKbmo
Now here's the strange seque...
In the summer of 1518 people danced in the streets of Strasbourg until they fell down dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518
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