Though he didn't gussy up his music, he knew how to keep people engrossed all the same: A master of stride and boogie and bebop, he'd string his listeners along just by dancing around the theme, and then at just the right moment, he'd lower the boom, delivering a line so dazzlingly improbable that the common response was a gasp.
And then some of them are kind of heartfelt, and some are just for dancing.
"Just picture dancing around a daggone big fire, dancing around with their spears, " he told Morning Edition in an interview.
After all, there is nothing earnest about a "talking" bus from which you are encouraged to wave at passersby or to cheer for that gentleman in a navy-blue suit who just started tap dancing down 42nd Street.
"It was kind of amazing just to see people dancing to some of the music we were playing, " Byrne recalls.
And you also may want to not take out your dancing shoes just because you grew your Twitter followers by X%.
His "Harlem Shake" video (which features no dancing, just his full song and an image of his name) has only a fraction of the streams accumulated by the most popular clips, including the gyrations of the soldiers in Norway, and the swimming and diving team at the University of Georgia.
The rain dancing is really just a bit of lighthearted fun for crying out loud!
She's also looking to expand the Summer Streets program, which shut down a 7-mile swath of Manhattan roadways to traffic on three Saturdays this summer, so New Yorkers could do yoga, take salsa dancing classes or just drink in the car-free cityscape.
Ultimately, Noble and Black Wolf say they're just happy to have fans up and dancing.
We really just wanted something that would get everyone dancing.
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During the ride to the hospital, the paramedics asked her name, and Ms. Prida instead of repeating her information, responded by telling them that she was just at a party and she was dancing -- that she was dancing for joy.
However, I can well imagine just such a Russian company thinking that it might be a good idea to offer middle aged businessmen the thrill of a candlelit dinner with a pretty dancing girl: nothing physical, just that enjoyable evening.
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Women are dancing to a frenzied beat, believing just because they can, they should.
Just across the road from Elmayer is another famous dancing institution: the Spanish Riding School, home of the dancing horses.
That sort of intimacy, that sort of physical closeness, the fact that they were dancing when we were playing, I just thought was so beautiful.
Just look at JLo she went from back up dancing, to acting, to singing, to talent judging to dating a backup dancer talk about life going full circle.
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And when this 12-year-old stares at herself dancing in the studio, she no longer just sees her eyes.
With just the right lighting, patterns and colors would reveal themselves dancing across the film.
Just like other sports events the kids are cheering, there are mascots dancing (as well as the judges, MC and many folks in the stands) and there is excitement with each match, that pitch 3 robot alliances against each other.
There are just some things we still want to see live, especially sports events and contests like Dancing with the Stars and American Idol, and those things make actually cutting the cord difficult.
Then he and Fido could have dreamed of the Ritz as they rested their tootsies back home, just as the sight of my ill-gotten Argentinean laundry bag has me fantasizing about dancing the tango at 2 a.m. in the grand ballroom of the Alvear Palace.
Depending upon the dirty dancing between West Virginia and the Big East Conference, Missouri may have to wait just a little bit before getting down and dirty in the SEC.
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Conquering nerves before dancing naked on stage and being ordered to 'get out' by a ghostly woman are just two of the memories which make up a new audio archive at Bristol Old Vic theatre.
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