Dance the Bop!

Dance the Bop!
Studio album by Ray Conniff
Released 1957
Genre Rock 'n' roll
Ray Conniff chronology

'S Wonderful
(1956)		 Dance the Bop!
(1957)		 'S Marvelous
(1957)

Dance the Bop! is a 1957 album by Ray Conniff. All the tracks were written by Conniff with a "solid rock and roll beat" to appeal to the teenage audience of the time.[1] Released by Columbia Records, the album was an attempt by the company to cash in on the teen dance craze.[2][3]

Track listing

  1. Walkin' the Bop
  2. The Drop
  3. Just Boppin'
  4. Doin' the Twister
  5. The Flea Hop
  6. Cross Over
  7. Walkin' the Bop Again
  8. Swingin' the Bop
  9. Hand Around
  10. Play a Guitar Solo
  11. The Spinner
  12. Honky-Tonk Rock-Around


References

  1. ↑ "The Billboard‍ '​s Weekly Packaged Records Buying Guide". The Billboard 69 (18): 32. April 29, 1957.
  2. ↑ "What's New in Records". Redbook: The Magazine for Young Adults (Redbook Publishing Company) 110: 108. November 1957. His latest, Dance the Bop! is not named for bop music, but for a teen-age dance craze, for which he provides a program dominated by the heavy accents of rock 'n' roll
  3. ↑ Down Beat (Maher Publications) 24: 21. 1957. Heaven help us! It's Dance the Bop! (Columbia CL 1004), a collection of 12 rock 'n' roll types of tunes, complete with echo chambers, vocal chorus yammerings, instruments that sound like kazoos, hard-toned tenors, and the backbeat as regular as a headachethrob Missing or empty |title= (help)