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2 unusual facts about Hand jive


Hand jive

The 2005 album "Midnight Boom" by the band The Kills features the hand-jive rhythm in the song "Sour Cherry."

In 1957 when filmmaker Ken Russell was a freelance photographer, he recorded the teenagers of Soho, London hand-jiving in the basement of The Cat's Whisker coffee bar, where the hand-jive was invented.



see also

Willie and the Hand Jive

Otis' performance of "Willie and the Hand Jive" was included in Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty for Me.