Put on your dancing shoes! Dance Instructor Tim Pattison is back at the Y and excited to be teaching 50’s jitterbug dance. Classes will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays, Oct. 5, 12, and 19. Y ...
Dance historians who research such things credit American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway for coining the term “jitterbug.” In 1934, he recorded a lively tune, “Jitter Bug,” that some credit ...
Jitterbug proper is a dance that was made famous by Cab Calloway (of "Minnie the Moocher" fame). But, as I always understood it, jitterbug is also a general term for any kind of swing dance. They say ...