| Hot Tuna – Keep On Truckin' Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| While like a lot of Jazz and Blues inspired longs and dances it certainly has sexual connotations, Truckin' is a jazz dance move. It was popularized by white students who discovered a black dance club called the "Big Apple" in the 1930s. They popularized "The Big Apple," a call-out where dancers performed dances they'd learned from the club. Truckin' was known long before R Crumb depicted it in his cartoon. The Cod Fish Ball has "Tunas trucking left and right," Bing Crosby and Donald O'Conner sing of "double truckin down the avenue" Back in the Old Routine, and the Crows in Dumbo "know of a man who made a vegetable truck" and then perform the trucking move. | |
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