Uploaded May 2007 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"Start a little movement in your WOH-WOH-WOH!"
"The Hucklebuck" was a Big Band and Jump Jive standard from the 40's. Everybody had a variation of it in their repertoire. The reason was that 'hucklebuck' was a euphemism for something the latter part of it rhymed with. When couples trysted to it on the dancefloor, band leaders knew how to swing that sexual energy. It survived into Rock'n'Roll through versions like Chubby Checker's, which may be where the Birdies learned to shake a tailfeather.
The "Girls In the Garage" CD I culled it from was no help for any info about them. (Where are Alec Palao or Lois Wilson when you need them? Hopefully making the all-girls NUGGETS box set of my dreams!) But a fan informed me they were another guise of Darlene Love & the Blossoms! Ms. Love is legendary for her chameleonic turns behind the mike under different names: The Crystals ("He's a Rebel"); Bobb B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans; and the K-C-Ettes, behind guitarist Al Casey ("Surfin' Hootenanny"). Darlene had a funny story of evading producer Phil Spector when he was mad at her for working other studios under aliases, but now that story sounds really ominous. Darlene is also famous for portraying Danny Glover's wife in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies, and is just as potent a performer today.
To have a Movement, ya gotta move first. Rock propelled the hips before it prodded people to be hip in awareness. As Feminism would soon declare, "the personal is political". Just the act of freeing your body, your inhibitions, your appearance, your choice of partner, or your choice of music was tantamount to a political action. In a turbulent time when the youth were starting to question everything about any arbitrary boundaries, every move they made away from these was rebellion. No neat little boxes for them. More like a spectrum of rooms to explore and exceed. In this moment, the air is electric with the tension of possibility...
Check out more of my Herstory Of Rock videos on my YouTube channel:
youtube.com/funknroll
A great site about 60's women rockers to check out is:
myspace.com/girlgaragemayhem
(All rights reserved, Fan-made video for promotion of the artist.)
Tym Stevens
"Start a little movement in your WOH-WOH-WOH!"
"The Hucklebuck" was a Big Band and Jump Jive standard from the 40's. Everybody had a variation of it in their repertoire. The reason was that 'hucklebuck' was a euphemism for something the latter part of it rhymed with. When couples trysted to it on the dancefloor, band leaders knew how to swing that sexual energy. It survived into Rock'n'Roll through versions like Chubby Checker's, which may be where the Birdies learned to shake a tailfeather.
The "Girls In the Garage" CD I culled it from was no help for any info about them. (Where are Alec Palao or Lois Wilson when you need them? Hopefully making the all-girls NUGGETS box set of my dreams!) But a fan informed me they were another guise of Darlene Love & the Blossoms! Ms. Love is legendary for her chameleonic turns behind the mike under different names: The Crystals ("He's a Rebel"); Bobb B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans; and the K-C-Ettes, behind guitarist Al Casey ("Surfin' Hootenanny"). Darlene had a funny story of evading producer Phil Spector when he was mad at her for working other studios under aliases, but now that story sounds really ominous. Darlene is also famous for portraying Danny Glover's wife in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies, and is just as potent a performer today.
To have a Movement, ya gotta move first. Rock propelled the hips before it prodded people to be hip in awareness. As Feminism would soon declare, "the personal is political". Just the act of freeing your body, your inhibitions, your appearance, your choice of partner, or your choice of music was tantamount to a political action. In a turbulent time when the youth were starting to question everything about any arbitrary boundaries, every move they made away from these was rebellion. No neat little boxes for them. More like a spectrum of rooms to explore and exceed. In this moment, the air is electric with the tension of possibility...
Check out more of my Herstory Of Rock videos on my YouTube channel:
youtube.com/funknroll
A great site about 60's women rockers to check out is:
myspace.com/girlgaragemayhem
(All rights reserved, Fan-made video for promotion of the artist.)
Tym Stevens
