Azizi, I think songs like "Do the Dog" and "Walkin' the dog" refer to the same dance craze, presumably called "the Dog". Although I remember the songs, I don't remember seeing (let alone doing) the actual dance that went with it.

Likewise, there were many songs about "The Monkey", another 1960s dance craze.

Limbo and Limbo rock refer to the same "Limbo" dance craze. As you might have guessed, this was based on the limbo dance where you get down really low and dance under a bar set a few inches above the ground.

The Jerk was one I forgot - as well as the Capitols "Cool Jerk", I can remember the Miracles' "Come on do the Jerk" and there are probably others I've forgotten.

There were a lot of 'failed' dance crazes (i.e. crazes that never were!) that people tried to cash in on. There seemed to be a new one every week for a while in the early 1960s, until the 'craze for dance crazes' went the way of all such fads.

Most of them involved doing some sort of daft movements that vaguely fitted in with the dance name, e.g. the Twist was where you rotated your body in a twisting motion; Locomotion a bit like a twist but with added hand movements suggestive of the piston rods on a train wheel; the Bird involved flapping the hands; the Funky Chicken involved moving your elbows up and down supposedly like a chicken; the monkey involved 'scratching' your armpits; etc.

Not sure what "the dog" involved - sniffing each other backsides? LOL

:-)

Not sure if you've covered the Hand Jive, and those hand movements you see people doing, where they touch their elbows and twiddle their hands around, etc. (I hope someone knows what I mean!) - do they count as dances, as they only seem to involve the arms and not the legs (you can do them sitting down).