Word: frug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carson and Mike Tschudin and lyricist Timothy Mayer. Most numbers have a pleasing if eclectic sound and all are literate and clever. A trio of songs in the first act-"Lingua Academia," "You Made My Conscience Expand," and the title song--are exceptional. And the rousing preintermission finale, "Forbidden Frug," rocks the club house as that other House must have been shaken by the antics of America's favorite teen-ager...
They mingled and they ate and they drank. When things loosened up, the crowd made room for indefatigable Luci Baines, who, with her father looking proudly on, gyrated through a vigorous Watusi, an arduous Frug, to such notable compositions as Monkey Climb and Walk Right...
...Anne, 14, Mum and Dad might have known what to expect. To celebrate the holidays, the royal rockers rolled back the red carpet in the drawing room of Windsor Castle, then asked 120 chums over for a dinner of hors d'oeuvres and turkey. Main course was the frug, to the big beat played for Their Highnesses by a disk jockey who rents himself and his $3,000 hi-fi rig for just such occasions. Party over, host and hostess hopped off with Prince Philip to Liechtenstein for a few days of skiing-but not before taking...
...nothing new (noblemen and chorus girls have worn them for centuries), but only in the past year have they become more than an occasional lark for a far-out coed or a conversation piece for a starlet in need. Now, to the yé yé sounds of the Frug and the Monkey and the fashions that dance along (high high boots, short short skirts and cut-out shoes), manufacturers are moving fast to get them on the counters again...
...followed by the Garland Dance, the Polka Sleigh Ride and the Christmas Star, in which the gals kneel in the dark, hold candles and sing carols. Meyer Davis' band struck up Every thing's Coming Up Roses, swung into rock 'n' roll for the watusi, frug and monkey lovers. And before anybody realized it, it was 3 a.m. -and Good Night, Ladies...