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Willie and the Hand Jive
"Willie and the Hand Jive" is a song written by Johnny Otis and originally released as a single in 1958 by Johnny Otis Show, reaching #9 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and #5 on the Billboard R&B chart.〔 The song has a Bo Diddley beat and was partly inspired by the music sung by a chain gang Otis heard while he was touring. The lyrics are about a man who became famous for doing a dance with his hands, but the song has been accused of glorifying masturbation. It has since been covered by numerous artists, including The Strangeloves, Eric Clapton, Cliff Richard, Kim Carnes, George Thorogood and The Grateful Dead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allmusic.com/search/track/Willie+and+the+Hand+Jive/order:default-asc )〕 Clapton's 1974 version was also released as a single and also reached the Billboard Top 40, peaking at #26. Thorogood's 1985 version reached #25 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
==Lyrics and music==
The Johnny Otis Show original version of the song produced by Tom Morgan has an infectious Bo Diddley beat,〔 much of it provided by drummer Earl Palmer.〔Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, forward by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999〕 Johnny Otis biographer George Lipsitz describes Jimmy Nolen's guitar riff on the song as "unforgettable".〔 The music was based on a song Otis had heard a chain gang singing while touring, combined with work Otis did as a teenager when he was performing with Count Otis Matthews and the West Oakland House Stompers.〔
The lyrics tell of a man named Willie who became famous for doing a hand jive dance.〔〔 In a sense, the story is similar to that of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode", which tells of someone who became famous for playing the guitar and was released two months before "Willie and the Hand Jive".〔 The origin of the song came when one of Otis' managers, Hal Ziegler, found out that rock'n'roll concert venues in England did not permit the teenagers to stand up and dance in the aisles, so they instead danced with their hands while remaining in their seats.〔〔 At Otis' concerts, performers would demonstrate Willie's "hand jive" dance to the audience, so the audience could dance along.〔 The dance consisted of clapping two fists together one on top of the other, followed by rolling the arms around each other.〔 Otis' label, Capitol Records, also provided diagrams showing how to do the hand jive dance.〔
Despite the song's references to dancing, and despite the demonstrations of the dance during performances, would-be censors believed that the song glorified masturbation.〔 As recently as 1992, an interviewer for NPR asked Otis "Is 'Hand Jive' really about masturbation?"〔 Otis was frustrated by this misinterpretation.〔
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