Retirement’s Comic Relief: Heel, toe, dosey doe, come on baby, let’s go
Birds of Paradise and Peacocks need neither music nor lessons to know how to strut their stuff. They jump and flit around to impress a potential suitor or mate. Other birds build elaborate nests, then wait for the right partner to flutter past. Unfortunately, most humans aren’t blessed with gyration genetics like those of fowl, Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley and are instead impaired by the two-left-footed gene. Luckily, Chubby Checker provided his 1960 rendition of Hank Ballard’s song, “The Twist.” Both the song and the dance swept the country and were further amplified by ...
