When I Was Younger: Part V

This is a neat application that Mel showed me. Mixwit! You can find an old song (or any song or number of songs), put them together and make yourself a mixtape.

Why not “take it back old school”, find all your old (or new) favorite jams and make your special person a mix-tape? I bet they would like it. I know I would…

I chose to make a tape of Neneh Cherry’s Buffalo Stance. Give it a listen… (refresh the page if you don’t see the little tape)

Do you guys remember this song?

I’ve been on a “80’s trip” lately, trying to find all the fun songs from that time era. While researching online for “Top 80’s Hits”, I found Buffalo Stance and it took me back… all the way to the 3rd grade at Lampton Elementary School.

So, WHY does it take me back? Well, because Buffalo Stance was the song that me, Joan and our (then) neighbor, Crystal danced to for the school talent show.

Talent show?! Me?! I KNOW!! Weird, huh??

I don’t know how they talked me into doing it, but I did. It was pretty nerve-racking and we couldn’t dance to the entire song. We just didn’t have enough moves.
Some moves that I DO remember doing was:
- Playing with our hair when Ms. Cherry said, “Nasty curls”
- Tuggin UP on the shoulders of our shirts when she said, “Padded bra”
- Walking up and down the stage, then turning to “Gigalo, huh.. sucka!”
- Crystal flipping me. I was skinny.

Oh, my…
I wasn’t sure if Ate was embarassed of me or not.

Here’s a self-drawn doodle of what our cafeteria looked like as the 3 of us performed.

You see all the kids that watched us? It was actually a lot more.
You see those “door way” looking things by the sitting kids? Those were actually tables that would fold out of the wall. But, since no one was eating, they kept them up.
There’s like a little room in the back of the picture. Welp, since we’re in a cafeteria, that was where all the food was prepared.

But, we didn’t just perform once. Our cafeteria was pretty small, so we had to perform many times: for the kinder, 1st and 2nd graders; 3rd and 4th; 5th, 6th and 7th.

I laugh about it now, and actually performed some of these moves in front of Mel, Jho and John. Now that I’m older, I can definitely come up with more, fun moves for this song.
Don’t believe me!? I’ll show you…
PSYCH!
I can’t really dance very well.

Thinking back to the talent show, I DO remember 2 performances that stuck out:
Two girls dancing to Janet Jackson’s “Escape”, wearing the spandex, black shorts and black, glitter caps (bills flipped up).
“…Es-ca-pade.
We’ll have a good time!
Es-ca-pade… leave your worries behind.”

And a guy dancing to Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal– white glove included.

They all got huge claps! Standing ovations, even!

We got like… 3? ALRIGHT! 2 claps!