American Bandstand 1964 -Slauson Shuffletime, Round Robin/True Love At First Sight, Johnny Jack

From Philadelphia, here is Rate-A-Record when it was known as “Record Review” and had 3 teens rate the songs instead of 2. I can’t help but think what a nightmare it must have been to average 3 numbers, in your head, on live television.

The Slauson was an R&B dance named after Slauson Avenue, a street in southern Los Angeles. Although the dance never caught on nationally it inspired several songs in 1963 including the song in the clip as well as “Do The Slauson” also by Round Robin and is the same song but with lyrics, “Slauson Shuffle” by the Meadowlarks before they became the Larks and released “The Jerk” in 1964, “Do The Slauson Shuffle” by the Olympics and “Slauson Shuffle” by the Romancers, which is different from the one by the Meadowlarks….it’s confusing, I know, lol. Slauson Shuffletime (the song in the clip) also inspired the 1963 song “Harlem Shuffle” by Bob and Earl and later covered by the Rolling Stones reaching #7 in 1986.

Round Robin would appear on American Bandstand in 1964 singing “Roundest of Them All” and “Kick That Little Foot Sally” a cool song that was his only song to chart and only made it to #61.

…..And while the Philly (and Montreal) kids here have never heard of the Slauson because, as Dick Clark mentions, “it’s a west coast dance….and hasn’t reached us yet”, in less than a month the show would be located only 10 miles away from Slauson Avenue in its new home at the ABC Television Center on Prospect Avenue in Hollywood.

Airdate: Jan 11, 1964

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