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Thread #99291   Message #1977990
Posted By: Azizi
24-Feb-07 - 11:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Thread of 1000 Dances
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Thread of 1000 Dances
Hmmm,I see that I hadn't actually mentioned the Juba dance in this thread, but just referred to a thread on the Juba. So to rectify that, I'm going to take the liberty of reposting a comment from that thread whose link I've already provided:

Subject: RE: Juba
From: Steve Parkes - PM
Date: 02 Feb 99 - 04:04 AM

I've got a 78 disc from the thirties (belonged to my granddad) by, I think, Jack Hylton. JH had a British swing band. The other side is Organ grinder's swing.The Juba in the song is a dance, The words, as far as I can remember:
When the folks up in Harlem do the Juba
They tap their feet like the rhumba down in Cuba
Hi-de-hi! Lo-de-lo!
But when the folks up in Harlem do the Juba
You get a rhythm you never hear in Cuba.
Hi-de-hi! Lo-de-lo!
[...]
Even old peanut vendors come from Cuba
To hear the folks up in Harlem do the Juba
It's actually in a rhumba rhythm, despite claims to the contrary; the old-fashooned rhumba, that is: it's a sort of syncopated 8/8 time, 3/8 + 3/8 + 2/8 - it sounds like 9/8 with a beat missing. I keep meaning to try slipping it into a slip jig.

Steve

-snip-

So, in addition to the Juba reference, that comment also gives us

28. The Rhumba