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Re: Sherman Hemsley Dead
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WitchyOoman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
<span style="font-weight: bold">That little dance he used to do on "The Jeffersons"... remember it? It's a variation of the "Philadelphia Mummer's Strut"</span>... a street version of "the Strut", not the official parade version. All South Philly weddings - indeed <span style="font-weight: bold">just about all Philly weddings</span> - aren't complete without everyone getting up and dancing "the Strut" to the Philadelphia Mummers Official song, "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers"... even today. (especially Italian-American weddings, but it spills over across all ethnic and racial and socio-economic divides)</div></div>
Oh, WOW!
My 80-yr-old father's lurking here right now!!
And he just corrected me, too!
Daddy says that I'm half-right... and three-quarters wrong. dwl (Daddy, Dead With Laugh - it's a Jamaicanism of LOL)
That's ^ Philly math for ya! lol
Daddy says that the dance the Hemsley used to do is actually one of the neighborhood-regional-specific versions of a dance movement with black roots circa late 1940s/early 1950s, called "the Slop". but Sherman Hemsley's style, Daddy says, screams South Philly... it incorporates the Philadelphia Mummers Strut steps that I recognized as such. So, Hemsley must have been from (or learned the Slop in) South Philly! :-D
Did I forget anything, Dad?
And what are you doing here, anyhow? Do you even understand half of what's said here, in Patois??
And where else do you lurk online where I am..... hmm
Call me. I'm home so you don't need to dial the cell phone.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WitchyOoman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
<span style="font-weight: bold">That little dance he used to do on "The Jeffersons"... remember it? It's a variation of the "Philadelphia Mummer's Strut"</span>... a street version of "the Strut", not the official parade version. All South Philly weddings - indeed <span style="font-weight: bold">just about all Philly weddings</span> - aren't complete without everyone getting up and dancing "the Strut" to the Philadelphia Mummers Official song, "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers"... even today. (especially Italian-American weddings, but it spills over across all ethnic and racial and socio-economic divides)</div></div>
Oh, WOW!
My 80-yr-old father's lurking here right now!!
And he just corrected me, too!Daddy says that I'm half-right... and three-quarters wrong. dwl (Daddy, Dead With Laugh - it's a Jamaicanism of LOL)
That's ^ Philly math for ya! lol
Daddy says that the dance the Hemsley used to do is actually one of the neighborhood-regional-specific versions of a dance movement with black roots circa late 1940s/early 1950s, called "the Slop". but Sherman Hemsley's style, Daddy says, screams South Philly... it incorporates the Philadelphia Mummers Strut steps that I recognized as such. So, Hemsley must have been from (or learned the Slop in) South Philly! :-D
Did I forget anything, Dad?
And what are you doing here, anyhow? Do you even understand half of what's said here, in Patois??
And where else do you lurk online where I am..... hmm
Call me. I'm home so you don't need to dial the cell phone.
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