I also dig that disk, along with the their follow-up, "Do the Slauson Shuffle." The Slauson Shuffle, a dance craze named for Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles, probably never got far beyond the Southland, but it inspired a number of songs such as "Do the Slauson" by Round Robin. His follow-up, "Kick Your Little Foot, Sally Ann," also inspired by the dance, nosed nto the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1964 about the time the Beatles arrived.
Don't remember the Slauson Shuffle, Fiji Hill. Is that anything like The New Continental or The Philly Freeze? Not to mention the Tennessee Birdwalk. I grew up in Philly, so I'm pretty comfortable with the Bristol Stomp and The Pony. Of course, the Olympics also gave us the Hully Gully, but then again they did The Philly Dog too, so maybe at heart they were bi-coastal.
Bet you know all about Vernon Green and the Medallions and Don Julian and the Meadowlarks. When I lived in LA, among other musical pilgrimages I went to the house where "Earth Angel" was written in South Central and the site of DooTone Records. Also paid my respects at the grave of Cornell Gunther in Inglewood.
A tragic sidenote to The Olympics.One of the group was killed by police for looting a store during the 1965 Watts riot!
This according to the seminal book of the riot,Rivers of Blood,Years of Darkness by Robert Conot.