Anybody else interested in learning how to go-go dance? (1966) | Sixty years of Four Corners

Who knew you could make money as a “go-go” dancer?
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In 1966, Denise Drysdale earned as much as $400 a week as a go-go performer.
Today, that is more than $5,300.
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[@Dragongod462]

Is it my imagination, or do those women look better than the ones of today. OMG

[@jaelge]

Not your imagination - they're gorgeous.

[@dankamp2872]

@@jaelge And 60 pounds lighter.

[@phantomstrider]

Watching the go go dance class gave me a big grin 😁 wonderfully silly

[@goobywooby963]

howdy PhantomStrider!

[@user-dk9sd5pn2u]

Why silly? Normal dance. Sure men liked it.

[@fitnessago-go7831]

This is awesome. Go-Go dancing is such a fun way to exercise!

[@corryjookit7818]

I sang with a BIG BAND and in a small space at the end of the stage there was a Go-Go girl dancing away to the Band playing and me singing. . At that particular point we had a Male singer and he began dating the Go-Go dancer. After a few weeks of them going together the GoGo got a bit bold and tried dancing on the floor in front of the stage. It was really busy, she was swaying, hips gyrating, and a young guy asked her for a dance. Next thing I knew the Male singer dived from the stage into a group of dancing patrons. His girlfriend had been dancing with one of them in his full view. What a kerfuffle! I recall he was fired instantly, and no contract ever renewed for any other Male singer. The Band leader thought we could all go on without one. They had me,. GoGo dancer was finished, she never got paid anyway, she just volunteered. 4/5 years I sang there The Cavendish Ballroom had a sprung floor, and it was very popular. I sang at weekends, and through the week I sang a lot of standards for the Ballroom crowd. I loved it all.

[@lcmarina]

So cool

[@BrassLock]

Of course for the non Aussies commenting here who have no idea what they're talking about . . . They need to know that *Denise Drysdale* went on to have a career in entertainment for decades (currently working aged 72 on TV Morning Show), and is a *True Aussie Legend.*

[@kristinburton4953]

Also known as Ding Dong.

[@BrassLock]

@@kristinburton4953 Mostly when in (RIP) Ernie Sigley's orbit.

[@lilajagears8317]

It beats the hell out of disco.

[@user-jp8ez3ih3h]

Looking back, the dance craze that followed ago go, SOUL, a slo mo variant of ago - go is more aesthetic!😆🙃

[@helenconstantinides4929]

Bring Back the Go Go dance!!

[@kristinburton4953]

Great to see Ding Dong Drysdale in the year I was born.

[@m_i_c_h_a_e_l]

This is how you hold power to account.

[@samsneadd]

Well ddnt know i needed to learn that today. Kinda interesting and cool. Seems like it was an actual movement.

[@alanmalcheski8882]

It wasn't.

[@Sean-me4fv]

Fantastic! And the dancing looks terrific!

[@sarahharris2729]

Ive done some Go go dancing, its truly awesome. 💚💚💚 esp if you get to do it for your fav bands.

[@marshalmcdonald7476]

Go go dancing and the Shuffle Dance....two great innovations....

[@HOOKZIE]

Its only great music that resonates with the body that creates great dancing and all of that stopped in the 90's. From 1920's -1990's produced great music and dancing

[@brianmcd9492]

Great introduction and now I must Go Go 🙂

[@freaker126]

now imagine your nanny do the agogo now ..:p

[@Naqsipsaq]

taking notes!

[@romuloVG]

Cardio classes today should be like this.

[@thebenefactor6744]

This is the apex of female form presentation and movement.

[@frankhernandez6883]

*Oh yeah...I'm looking at their faces* 😋

[@johnfellows2867]

No fat, no inkings, no piercings and no phones, time machine please NOW !!

[@dankamp2872]

"Of the 300 girls that attended lessons, not a single one had tattoos, colored hair, or was morbidly obese."

[@gerrygsoeriasoemantri3440]

cool

[@MarkHenstridge]

Oh, the humanity...Ding Dong

[@cz3249]

Lots to learn

[@user-jp8ez3ih3h]

Eat your heart out Jane Fonda of the mid 80s AEROBICS!

[@daniellestaub3189]

The songs?

[@RickyRicardo-jd8ed]

💋

[@abellgmn1936]

Music name please🙏

[@alekk6956]

Looks like a Zumba class

[@TheSkete]

ANY dance class. They all look the same...

[@inunicornswetrust8367]

what's the song at the end called?

[@rogiserus]

you found it?

[@AnRa-bl4me]

😻🖤✨

[@RickyRicardo-jd8ed]

Rock On

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

[@gony92]

what's the name of the son in the beginning?

[@justingriffin2546]

Wow comments are open for nonsense but closed for anything that matters... Go ABC

[@BoyKissBoy]

That's because in this day and age, anything that matters draws so much hatred and incivility… ☹️

[@MarkHenstridge]

@@BoyKissBoyDitto

[@aussiejubes]

If people could bang on their keyboards and keep their heads screwed on it'd be a different story. If you have so much to say about what matters to you, start a channel, create content, or do something that matters like actual real life activism. Comments don't matter.

[@justingriffin2546]

@@aussiejubes the irony...

[@aussiejubes]

@@justingriffin2546 oh sweetheart. Don't pretend you know anything about me. I knew there'd be a comment like yours, deliberately missing the point 😄

[@kelvinperkins5864]

O I C THE COMMENTS ARE ENABLED ON THIS VIDEO, HOW ABOUT ENABLING THE VIDEO CALLED (FOX AND THE BIG LIE) 🤔

[@glennquagmire1747]

Didn't know cows can dance hahahahahahhahaha🤣🤣🤣

[@TheWaveGoodbye-Music]

$20 an hr? and boomers complain we get paid too much for doing actual hard work

[@DarklinkXXXX]

I doubt you could dance vigorously for a few hours straight to music you didn't prepare for. But anyways, kinda comparing apples to oranges here because a dancer can't expect to get a high paying gig every day. I'm sure only the pretty in demand ones can expect to do it for a living reliably.

[@D.VA_00]

No offensive but the other girl seems like a better dancer. This chick makes me feel like I might pull my back

[@fundifferent1]

lol that shady as voice over narration.

[@CanYouRememberWhen]

Hate to break it to you, but the boys weren't looking at your smile.

[@rhys2792]

When the epileptic kid sees a strobe light

[@knotzed]

Of course they practice w no music! Bahaba smh This is the epidemiology of white ppl dancing!

[@nnicollan]

Thats how choreo is practised in every dance studio, if you watched till the end they turned on the music to try it out