25/03/2019
Category: rock-n-roll-dance-songs

Here's a song not many people remember, but it's a great dance track worth adding to a Rock n Roll dance playlist. It was a top ten doo-wop hit in 1961.

Curtis Lee was a hit-making vocalist and songwriter in the early 1960s. He recorded this track with backing group The Halos and the original version of Under The Moon Of Love.

This is a song with Rockabilly pace but you can dance to it with slower steps if you wish. That's a boon for us older dancers. We often don't have the energy of the younger set who enjoy the fast pace of Rockabilly, nor the knees and hips to dance that way regularly.

Produced by Phil Spector during his most productive era, the song is classy and with a great strong dance beat that is regular and appears to be very fast.

But if you listen to the base line you will soon realise that you can skip every second beat of the melody line and dance a regular back-step to the song. It's a little challenging to do, but it's a great habit to get into with faster songs if you don't want to dance at full speed.

This means that instead of having to sit down when a song with a cracking pace is played, you can simply adjust your dancing to suit yourself. That saves you from having to vacate what may be a very convenient position among other couples on a crowded dance floor, something that's very annoying to have to do.

Alternatively, you can do as I often do when a track is played that is faster than I like. I just take my partner in a ballroom hold and shuffle around until the song is finished. I know that's not in the spirit of Rock n Roll dancing, but I like to save my energy for songs that I can dance to meaningfully and my partner is happy about that.