Shirley Ellis - The Real Nitty Gritty

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1. It was so very fun to dance then.

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2. I loved dancing in those days, it was the best way to meet a girl. Most guys hung in the corner or the parking lot ...

... smoking cigs and drinking Strohs. I came to dance and socialize.

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3. Love the song, and that clip from the Judy Garland Show in 1964. That was from January 1964,

just two months before the show was canceled (it had no chance against Bonanza in the ratings).

There's a longer clip on YouTube which I first saw years ago, with Peter Lawford (standing between Judy and Martha Raye) introducing the dancers, with Bobby Banas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Banas - so brilliant there.

Always liked that Shirley Ellis song.

Manfred Mann did a good cover of it, too. Live on Germany's Beat Club in 1966:

And live for BBC Radio:

This was just a couple of years after that Judy Garland show, and everything had changed so much. Largely because of the Beatles, whose hairstyles had been inspired by a young German artist and musician they'd met in Hamburg in 1960, who was Manfred Mann's bass player from 1966 to 1969, and standing in front of the drummer for that Beat Club appearance.

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4. Shirley Ellis on American Bandstand in January 1964: