Mark Williams you best believe it! I danced this extremely enthusiastically at my wedding with a large pour of red in hand, not a single drop on my white dress.
I was a DJ from 1976 till 2002, I have played this and watched this virtually every night I spun discs. It hasn't changed since 1976, same song, same moves, same response, it was the same with the Bus Stop, which you usually played straight after, to maximize the aerobic workout and get the punters thirsty, after all, that's what clubs are about. Best result ever, Townsville Mall, 1995, a makeshift DJ console on the patio of a long closed bank with very nice stone fascia, and a mob that just grew and grew to dangerous proportions. Clubs and pubs had emptied and everyone just wanted to dance in the street. Played Nutbush and everyone, even the cops there to attempt to control the mob, lined up and did the dance. There were people from children through to the elderly, doing the Nutbush, I couldn't see, but was advised, it had been done by in excess of 10,000 people who just coagulated into a dancing mass that just didn't stop. I played music from 6pm till 1AM, and the mob just grew and grew, consuming everything the guy in the kiosk adjacent to me had to sell. The second biggest was the Nimbin hemp festival years later, but that is to be expected. I believe private school girls started the craze many many mango seasons ago, or so the legend goes, however I know for a fact, every night I played it, since 1976, it happened just the same way, a packed floor, in ranks, bouncing in unison, it looks cool from the DJ pit, and feels great in the mob.
Great story.People enjoying themselves and trouble free.Need more of these nights since clubs and pubs are closing by the hundred.You get a great thank you from me.
No where it started was in public primary schools in the late 70's - the education department instituted a thing called the 'Health Hustle' after recess (playlunch) in primary schools, where we all had to line up and do these prescribed moves to a number of dances. There was this one, Jesse's Girl by Rick Springfield, Bad Bad Leroy Brown (or something...), My Sharona....and a couple of others - but this one obviously stuck in all schoolkids heads from that era and got passed down at weddings, roller rinks etc and must have just stayed in the school curriculum/fitness 15 mins or whatever in schools from that time on. I remember doing it in about 5th grade lol in my Canberra primary school which would have been 1978 I think.
Was so weird seeing this done... Working on the Pacific Jewel first time i saw this dance this year "wtf.... How does everyone know this dance???" Im from New Zealand btw :) Daza: (Insert sheep joke here) 1minute ago
How to tell Australians: put on 'nutbush city limits" How to tell someone from my school: put on 'mY SHARONA' Instead and still see people dance the nutbush.
