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The History of the Shim Sham Originating from a style of dance termed the ‘Goodus’ in the late 1920s, the Shim Sham Shimmy was first performed on stage in Harlem in the early 1930s as a closing routine that would get all of the singers, dancers and performers on stage together with the audience joining in. It wasn’t until some lindy hoppers at the Savoy Ballroom did the Shim Sham as a group line dance (without the taps) that the dance style really took to fame. In the mid-1980s, the Shim Sham wa

🎸 On This Day in Rock & Roll History – March 12, 1965! 🎶 Get ready to watch it now, watch it! because "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs hit the airwaves for the first time! This wild, high-energy party anthem—originally a reworked version of Big Bo & The Arrows' 1962 tune "Hully Gully Now"—became an instant favorite, turning dance floors into a frenzy. Despite some radio stations scratching their heads over the song’s hard-to-understand lyrics (seriously, who or what was Wooly Bully