Do the Dangle
"Do the Dangle" is a song written by John Entwistle.
The song is on his album, "Rigor Mortis Sets In".
This entire album is an affectionate homage to, or satire of, 1950s and 1960s rock music.
In addition to some actual "oldies", original compositions include "Roller Skate Kate" and "Peg Leg Peggy".
The lyrics for the latter say that Peggy "really knows how to hop", a phrase originally used in rock songs to mean that a person was a skilled dancer, but in this case is a blackly humorous reference to Peggy having an artificial ("peg") leg.
The song is also found on Entwistle's compilation album "
So Who's The Bass Player?
The Ox Anthology".
The BBC said that "Do The Dangle" song "prospers" Entwistle's dark sense of humour, and that it is a "1950s" rock and roll homage about strangulation.
The song's opening lines list actual popular dances from the early to middle 1960s: the Shake, Boogaloo, Mashed Potatoes, Hoochie-Coo, Twist, and Funky Chicken.
All of these dances, and numerous others, were created after the huge international popularity of the aforementioned Twist, which began in 1960 with the release of the song of the same name by Hank Ballard.
A sound-alike cover version by Chubby Checker tremendously out-sold the original, and was the first recording to attain the number one position on Billboard magazine's Top 100 listing in two different years (1960 and 1961).
The overall dance fad faded after 1965 when progressive rock music rapidly evolved away from lightweight subjects like dancing.
In "Do the Dangle", composer Entwistle sings of three new dances, invented by him in 1972 but described in the style which would have been used a decade earlier.
These are the Wheezy, the Strike, and the Dangle.
Instructions for dancing the latter, from the lyrics, are:
"
Here's a brand new dance with a brand new angle /
It's the very last waltz, and it's called the Dangle /
You tie a rope '
round your neck, then you stand on a chair /
Then you kick it away, and you're dancing on air."
The dark humor of this ironically light-hearted description of suicide by strangulation ends with Entwistle urging his listeners, "Everybody get up and - swing!
"
This phrase too had been used in older songs as an exhortation to dance, but here conjures a vision of a body swinging from a rope.
Entwistle called this album "Rigor Mortis Sets
In" and illustrated the cover with a photo of a coffin and a grave, implying that rock music was dying or dead, and that one could only look back at its earlier days of glory.
In fact it was released just as a re-appreciation of older rock & roll was just getting started, which served to invigorate the careers of former singing stars and introduced their songs to a new audience.
An early manifestation of this awareness was the performance of the group "
Sha Na Na" (a nonsense phrase from the 1950s doo-wop song "Get A Job")
who sang 1958's "At The Hop" at the Woodstock music festival in 1969.
Popular music had changed so drastically in the previous ten years that the Woodstock audience could laugh knowingly at the perceived naivete of the 1950s.
The film "American Graffiti", first shown in 1973 (the same year of "Rigor Mortis Sets
In") was the real instigation of the fad for the so-called "Fabulous '50s" which also inspired the hit TV series "Happy Days".
Although "American Graffiti" was set in 1962, its soundtrack featured 1950s music, to emphasize that society was about to change drastically the following year with the death of President Kennedy and the subsequent upheavals in much of society.
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John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was an English bass guitarist, singer, songwriter, and film and music producer.
In a music career that spanned more than 40 years, Entwistle was best known as the original bass guitarist for the English rock band
the Who.
He was the only member of the band to have formal musical training.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990.
Entwistle's instrumental approach used pentatonic lead lines, and a then-unusual treble-rich sound ("full treble, full volume") created by roundwound RotoSound steel bass strings.
He was nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers".
In 2011, he was voted as the greatest bass guitarist of all time in a "Rolling Stone" magazine readers' poll, and in its special "100 Greatest Bass Players" issue in 2017, "Bass Player" magazine named Entwistle at number seven.
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His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
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Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."

Question: When is the performer of song Do The Dangle 's birthday?
Answer: 9 October 1944