Do you know a dance called The Shag?

Question

At Myrtle Beach SC back in the early 60's my friends and I would drive there to the pavilion to dance and have a wonderful time. Shagging had nothing to do with s*x. It was a great dance and there use to be contest of couples to see who was best. I found out just recently that shagging has another meaning. Now I feel embarressed to know that I mentioned shagging in one of my answers. Lol. I thought people our age knew this dance or was it a southern thing? Poppy

Answer 1

I think anyone who hasn't lived in a cardboard box is familiar with this dance. I know what else shagging is. It's funny how different terms and names have evolved into different meanings.  

Answer 2

i don't remember it.

Answer 3

Spent many summers at Myrtle, shagging and "other things" in the 50's, 60's. Ever get a foot-long on the corner?

Answer 4

I have a movie called "shag" (Amazing, one of my all time favorites, DEFINANTLY Check it out), So I knew it was a dance. But, If worded right, I would read it and think something provocative was being said. hahA!

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(Check the movie @ IMDB)

Answer 5

the shag was a bit before my time. I remember the Temptation Walk, after the group the Temptations, the Cool Jerk, the Pony, the Four Corners, the Funky Chicken, the Bump, the Bop (hand dancing)....now when I dance I just shift from foot to foot and pop my fingers LOL......  

Answer 6

I remember dancing the Shag.  It was a pretty good dance and you had to be in pretty good shape to make it look good.  I used to dance all the time and loved all the dances of the day.  I had often wished I had lived a couple of decades earlier where dancing and dining were the order of the day altho' all the craziness of the 60's was quite the place to be too.

I went to Myrtle Beach years ago and I think it was the Pavilion.  It was a great big place and my friend said I want you to hear this band.  They are going to be famous.  It was Alabama.

Answer 7

The last time I was at Myrtle Beach there was still a shag club there.  Yes, I think that it is primarily a southern thing, but it was so popular it did spread around the country for a while.  At one time there were shag clubs at all the eastern beaches from Virginia south.

Answer 8

i guess you could call it a dance

Answer 9

Now Poppy, you're talking my language! Shagging at the beach, nothing better. I remember the dance and no better place than MBSC!

Answer 10

Yes, there used to be a pavilion over the bath house at the community swimming pool and all the young teens would play juke box there and dance the shag and whatever else was current. Think it was early 60's or late 50's. That was in downstate Illinois, a little southern, but not completely.

Answer 11

Had never heard of it till we moved to Virginia Beach and was so glad to find it's just as popular down here in GA, too. Love it when the Swinging Medallions come to town...it's one big shag fest!

Poppy, we have a new radio station here that plays only "beach music" and it's great. I'm going to listen for that song you mentioned last night!

Answer 12

When you come to the BBQ, you have to teach me!!!

Answer 13

of course == i danced it with the best of them at shaw afb nco club!!!

Answer 14

It must have been a southern thing because I never heard of it until the movie came out. I love that movie.

I live in Philadelphia and knew all the dances from watching Bandstand, but I don't remember the shag.

Answer 15

Yes, I remember dancing the shag. What fun. My husband and I won a contest once dancing the shag. We called it the Imperial in our city but it was the same dance and the contest that my husband and I won was in S,C,

Answer 16

Remember it well. We lived in Charlotte and drove down to Myrtle Beach often. Do you remember we shagged to certain groups' songs? -- it was called "beach music."

Answer 17

I used to live in Greenville, SC (Upstate). We had shag clubs, but nothing compared to Myrtle Beach. Great dance! I think it is a southern, beachy thing.

Answer 18

We still shag here in Virginia Beach.