Since you are a CHILD of 44....congrats, I guess, you have NO idea of what the 60's music was to YOUR PARENTS!!! And that;s why PBS plyas it to get money....because it was GREAT!! I really don't expect you to get it....you are too young to understand it.
Yeah, I'd like to see someone try to dance to Ornette Coleman.
A - I don’t care about dancing.
B - you can dance to jazz just fine if you have the ear to understand it, most of the big dance troupes that come through town dance to jazz.
Actually I know what the 60s music was to my mother. It’s her record collection that got me started down this path because I didn’t like the “modern” music of the late 70s (really I didn’t like what was on the radio, I’ve discovered lots of great late 70s music since then), and we’d discuss it. And then I explored further. I have a complete set of Kinks albums, and The Stones, plenty of Motown, Buddy Holly. My grandfather worked for the Chess brothers so family history drove me to explore that (amazing) catalog. I get it. I just have open eyes and I’m willing to explore beyond the easy to find, which is why I know there was a lot of real crap then, just like now.
Actually the reason they play that stuff on PBS when they’re begging for money is because of YOU listen to it. You’re their target demographic so they’re trying to make you happy. If I was their target demographic they’d be playing Nick Cave, but I don’t watch PBS, never will.
The 1960’s was, indeed, a decade known for its dances—the Madison, the Twist, the Afro Twist, the Continental, the Fly, the Mashed Potato, the Hully Gully, the Bristol Stomp, the Philly Dog, the Jerk, the Cool Jerk, the Monkey, the Surfer Stomp, etc.
And there were some local ones—the Slauson Shuffle was a big craze in Los Angeles in 1963-1964, but I doubt that it got beyond the Cajon Pass.