Remember Break Dancing?????

[Back Burner]

This may be a long shot and your age will show, but when break dancing first got popular in the 80's there was a song the
'NY City Breakers' used.

It started with a strong trumpit & the first line went "Watch me now, feel the move"

I'm not sure but I think they used it at the Ronald Reagen Special.


Again, I would be surprised if anyone new the song but................



Does anyone know what the song is.

Pleaseeee!


Back Burner

 

[Muddy]

Dunno about the song (and, to be honest, couldn't care less), but here's one fact for nothing:

The minute you start giving dance lessons in a musical genre, the genre is over.

You could go and take "breakdance lessons" - and look what happened to breakdancing. You could take "disco dancing and it ended that music (for a while, anyway, until they called it "dance music").

Line dancing lessons killed country music. Swing dancing lessons killed the (brief) swing revival.

Don't learn to dance. Just shake your ass, if you don't care what people think, and you'll be fine.

Me? I'm sitting this one out

 

[Berlin]

Off the top of my head, the other famous break tunes I recall are:

A.E.I.O.U. by Freeze ( well, Arthur Baker...)
Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaata
and
Rockit by Herbie Hancock

I remember in States, they actually made a break dance movie, around 1984...

 

[submissivedave]

How about the music video for "It's Like That"? : Run-DMC Vs. Jason Neville?

That was an amazing music video and the dancers had wicked moves ...

 

[Top Jimmy]

I remember in States, they actually made a break dance movie, around 1984...

Actually, they had 2 in 1984: "Breakin" and even more impressive, "Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo". Both starred Shabba-Doo Quinones and Boogaloo Shrimp Chambers. Ice-T was actually in the 2nd one. Both films were truly horrible.

PS: Northred, can't believe you nailed that one. We are not worthy!

 

[Big Papa Smurf]

Ahh,
Those were the years. I remember the mesh pants with the zippers. I remember the Chuck Taylor's with the neon cat laces. I remember collecting huge cardboard boxes from the local mall's garbage, and spray painting it with the sig, "Property of ABC -- The Atomic Breakin' Crew". The Renegade Rockers and the H2O (hard to oppose) Posse were the enemy.

I remember the dance battles at the movie theatre when Breakin' 1 first came out. Tunes from UTFO, Roxanne, Lisa Lisa, Herbie Hancock, Midnight Star, Klymaxx, Whodini, Fat Boys, LA Dream Team, Run DMC and Kurtis Blow were common place on the blacktops.

I still know the moves. Body Popping was my forte. I could do it all from the moonwalk to the smurf walk. Those were truly the days.

 

[Back Burner]

Northred....you rule!

B.B.

 

[Back Burner]

I used to break with a bunch of different crews on a regular basis, some being Wildstyle, Chocolate City, FlipRock, Rebound, Continental... we all used to hang out at parties, and competitions (Crunchie at the CNE).

Northred - we have more in common then I thought.

You wanna battle * arms crossed, standing in his B boy stance*



B. Boy Burner.