An Overview Of Foot Stomping Cheers, Part II - Cheer Examples

Edited by Azizi Powell

[revised November 20, 2014]

This is Part II of a post on foot stomping cheers. This post provides examples of foot stomping cheers from four different categories of those cheers.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-movement.html for Part I of this post. Part I provides a general overview of the textual structure and performance of foot stomping cheers. Part I also includes my theories about the sources of this children's recreational activity.

I coined the term "foot stomping cheers" in 2000 to distinguish examples of that category from other cheerleader cheers. However, it appears from my direct collection and from my online collection that girls usually referred to these examples as "cheers". Sometimes they were called "chants" or "steps".

Also note that these posts on foot stomping cheers aren't about stomp cheers "stomps". The structure (words) and performance (movements) of stomp cheers may be the same as, slightly different from, or very different from the structure (words) and performance (movements) of foot stomping cheers. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/11/how-stomp-cheers-differ-from-foot.html "How Stomp Cheers Differ From Foot Stomping Cheers".

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PART II: CATEGORIES OF FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
I've identified four main categories of foot stomping cheers.
These categories may be combined in various cheers. Those categoriess are
Introductory cheers
Confrontational (bragging, insult) cheers
Other bragging cheers
and
Dance style cheers
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Here's information about and examples of those cheers:

INTRODUCTORY CHEERS
These cheers serve the purpose of introducing members of the group -one at a time- to their imaginary audience. In these cheers girls state their name and/or their nickname, and may also state other personal information such as their favorite color, what they want to be when they grow up, their astrological (sun) sign, their boyfriend's name etc.

Two example of an introductory foot stomping cheer:
Group: Hey, Shaquala!
Soloist #1: Yo! *
Group: Innn-TRO-duce yourself.
Soloist #1: No way.
Group: Innn-TRO-duce yourself.
Soloist #1: Okay.
My name is Shaquala.
Group: Hey! Hey!
Soloist #1:They call me Quala.
Group: Hey! Hey!
Soloist #1: My sign is Aries
Group: Hey! Hey!
Soloist #1: I like to dance
Group: Hey! Hey!
Soloist #1: I wanna be a dancer for the rest of my life.
-T.M.P.; Pittsburgh, PA mid. 1980s; transcribed from audio tape by Azizi Powell, 1997
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*"Yo" was changed to "What" when that vernacular word became outdated.

Notice that there are no confrontational (threatening) or insult lines in this example.

Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWG4AX09mqQ
for a video example of "Introduce Yourself" (prom scene) from the 2006 American cheerleader movie Bring It On: All Or Nothing (Note that the performance movements of this cheer have been significantly modified.)

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CONFRONTATIONAL (bragging/insult) foot stomping cheer
These cheers focus on the chanters confronting (saying threatening words to) an unnamed opponent or opponents. The chanter brags about herself, and also may insult (dis) that opponent

Two examples of confrontational foot stomping cheers:
Example #1: HULA HULA
Hula hula
Now who thinks they bad
Hula hula
Now who thinks they bad
I think I’m bad
‘Cause Acie my name
And toys is my game
Take a sip of my potion
And dance in slow motion
Uh-huh
She thinks she bad
Baby baby don’t make me mad
Un-huh
She thinks she cool
Baby baby don’t act a fool
Uh-huh
She think she sweet
Sweetest person you ever meet
Uh-huh
She thinks she fine
Baby baby I’ll blow your mind
-Barbara Michels and Bettye White, Editors: Apple On A Stick, The Folklore of Black Children (Putnam Juvenile; First Edition November 11, 1983)
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"Bad" here means "very good".

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Example #2: CALL REPUTATION (also known as "Razzle Dazzle")
my name is yonnqa
i'm number one
my reputation has just begun
so if you see me
step a side
cause i don't take no jive
oh think she cool
correction baby
i no i'm cool
i no karate
i no kunfu
you miss with me
i co it on you*
rasasol o dazzo o ox2 **
-yaya, cocojams.com, 2/23/2007
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*"co" here is probably a typo for "do"
**"ox2" probably means "repeat two times.
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"Shabooya Roll Call" is another example of a confrontational foot stomping cheer. Here's a video of that cheer from the 2006 Bring It On: All Or Nothing:

Bring It on: Shabooya Roll Call



Angel Arrieta, Published on Jun 9, 2013

shabooya roll cal from bring it on all or nothing
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"Shabooya Roll Call" is included in Spike Lee's 1996 movie Get On The Bus, it is best known from the 2006 cheerleader movie series Bring It On: All Or Nothing.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/right-rhyming-pattern-for-shabooya-roll.html for a pancocojams post on Shabooya Roll Call.
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The cheer entitled "U.G.L.Y" that was in that same Bring It On movie and was also in the 1986 movie Wildcats doesn't have a call & response structure. Instead, it is said in unison. Therefore, "U.G.L.Y"it's not a foot stomping cheer. Click http://cocojams2.blogspot.com/2014/11/childrens-taunting-rhymes-m-z.html for the words to that cheer.i

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OTHER BRAGGING FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
In some examples in this category, the chanters brag about their group (their athletic team or school). In other examples the chanters brag about their boyfriend/s. These cheers have less insult content then confrontational foot stomping cheers.

Two examples of other bragging foot stomping cheers:
Example #1: L-O-V-E
All: L-O-V-E. L-O-V-E. L-O-V. L-O-V.
L-O-V-E.
Soloist #1: Well, Kayla’s my name.
And love is my game.
I got this boy on my mind.
And Lord knows he’s fine.
He calls me his girl,
His number 1 girl.
I don’t know his sign
But Taurus is mine.
All: L-O-V-E. L-O-V-E. L-O-V. L-O-V.
L-O-V-E.
Soloist #2 : Well Tamika's my name.
And love is my game.
I got this boy on my mind.
And Lord knows he’s fine.
I got his name on my shirt.
And don't call it dirt.
All: L-O-V-E. L-O-V-E. L-O-V. L-O-V.
L-O-V-E
Soloist #3 : Keisha's name.
And love is my game
I got this boy on my mind
and he sure is fine.
Blue is my color
Don't you worry 'bout my lover.
All: L-O-V-E. L-O-V-E. L-O-V. L-O-V.
L-O-V-E
Tazi M. Powell (remembrance of Pittsburgh, PA. in the mid 1980s), Collected by Azizi Powell, 2/1996

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Example #2: FLY GIRL
All: Fly girl
Fly girl
Fly girl One
Fly girl Two
Pump it up Teresa
See what you do.
Soloist #1:(Oh) my name is Teresa
and I’m a fly girl
It takes a lot of men
to rock my world.
‘cause I can fly like a butterfly
sting like a bee
and that’s way they call me
Sexy
-Tazi M. Powell, (African American female, memories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the mid 1980s (audio-tape made in late 1980s and transcribed in 1996)
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"Fly Girl" means an attractive, hip female (one who is up to date with the latest urban culture fashions, lingo, dances etc)

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DANCE STYLE FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
These cheers provide opportunities for the group and its individual members to show off their dance (and/or stepping) moves. These cheers often mention one or more (then) popular dances. Dance style foot stomping cheers are much less confrontational than cheers in that other category. While dance style foot stomping cheers may include some bragging words, they
usually include little or no insults. Consequently, the cheer performers (stompers/steppers) ddn't act surly or as aggressive as they play act during the chanting of confrontational foot stomping cheers. Many of dance style cheers can be immediately recognizable by the "Hey (person's name) Show me" lines that begin those cheers.

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Two examples of a dance style foot stomping cheer:

Example #1: GET DOWN
Group (including the first soloist) - I saida D. O. W. N
And that's the way we get down.
D. O. W. N.
And that's the way we get down."
Group (excluding the first soloist) - Hey, Shayla
Shayla - What?
Group- Hey, Shayla
Shayla - What?
Group - Show me how you get down.
Shayla - No way.
Group- Show me how you get down.
Shayla - Okay.
[Shayla does a hip swinging dance while saying]
I saida D. O. WN.
And that's the way
And that's the way
And that's the way I get down.
[Group does dance with Shayla and says]
Group - She saida D. O. WN.
And that's the way
And that's the way
And that's the way she gets down.
-T.M.P, mid 1980s, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; collected by Azizi Powell
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This foot stomping cheer starts again from the beginning with the next soloist who says the same soloist lines but traditionally isn't supposed to repeat the same foot stomping/dance routine. This pattern continues until every member has had one turn as soloist.

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Example #2: MOVE GIRL
You betta move
girl you betta move.
[say both lines(3x)]
Now drop it low
Drop it low.
Drop it low
Drop it low
-Shaw High School [transcription of the video given below]
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* Thanks to tknight51, lauren patton, and PrincessAmandaTVfor adding comments to this video's comment thread which indicated that the girls were saying "drop it low".
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Notice that the soloist's name isn't called. And, unlike most other foot stomping cheers, the soloist doesn't speak, but does her own dance while the others chant. "Now drop it low" means to dance down [close] to the ground, and then comee back up.

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Here are two video examples of dance style foot stomping cheers:
Example #1: Shaw Cheerleaders "Move Girl"



Brandon Thurman, Uploaded on Jan 9, 2011

Shaw High School Cheerleaders Before the game hype
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The words to this cheer are given above.

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Example #2: Dailey Tigers "Rock Steady"



daileytigers, Published on Nov 17, 2012

Cheerleaders
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Unlike the "standard" structure for foot stomping cheers, the cheer begins with a soloist's voice.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/rock-steady-childrens-cheer-examples.html for a pancocojams post on the "Rock Steady" cheer.

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This concludes Part II of this post on foot stomping cheers.

Thanks to the unknown composer/s of these cheers. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post, the performers who are featured in these videos, and the publishers of these videos on YouTube.

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How Stomp Cheers Differ From Foot Stomping Cheers

Edited by Azizi Powell

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
In the early part of 2000s I coined the term "foot stomping cheers" to refer to a sub-set of American children's and teenagers' cheerleader cheers. The earliest examples of those cheers that I've found are from the 1970s, and up to at least the beginning of the 21st century those cheers appear to have usually been performed informally as part of the receational activities of two or more African American girls between the ages of 6-12 years old.

The term "foot stomping cheers" refers to the characteristic group/consecutive structure of children's (and less often) teens' recreational (informally performed) cheers. "Foot stomping cheers" also refers to the characteristic manner of performing those cheers, choreographed, synchronized, percussive foot stomps that alternate with individual hand claps, and body pats.

The words of foot stomping cheers may be mostly confrontational and self-bragging, or they may mostly focus on introducing individual nmembers of the group. Other foot stomping cheers simply provide opportunities for the individual members one at a time to show their dance moves.

GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS OF FOOT STOMPS (STOMPS)
The term "stomp cheers" ("stomps") appears to have been coined in the early 2000s as a referent for certain types of cheers and chants that are performed by children and teenagers (usually females), ages 5-18 years old, who are members of athletic teams' cheer squads. Most stomp cheer videos on YouTube feature White American female teenagers.

I believe that stomp cheers are an adaptation of - if not appropriation of- African American originated foot stomping cheers that are often combined with the African American orginated cheer/chant performance styles of stepping, and, less often, stomp and shake cheerleading. But then again, instead of an appropriation, stomp cheers could be considered a folk processed form of that performance art or performance art forms.

STOMP CHEER THEMES
Stomp cheers may focus on introduction. However, unlike foot stomping cheer, the introduction often is of the cheer squad itself and not its individual members.

The words to stomp cheers may also provide an opportunity for the squad to dance as a group or as individuals. Some stomp cheers are confrontational, but usually not as much as foot some foot stomping cheers. And the bragging that occurs in stomp cheers is often bragging about the athletic team, or the school, and not the individual members.

Stomp cheers also focus on the actual game (for instance calling for more offense or defense.) And those cheers also directly address the crowd (for instance, asking the crowd to repeat a line in a chant.) Since foot stomping cheers usually have no audience, they don't include any references to an audience.

Some stomp cheers may repeat themselves with a new soloist after one rendition of that cheer. However, unlike foot stomping cheers, every member of the cheerleading squad may not get a turn as the soloist for that cheer, or they may not get an equal turn (a turn for the same amount of time.)

In my opinion, the "attitude" and "tone" are the main differences between the chanting that's done in stomp cheers and the chanting that's done in foot stomping cheers, historically Black Greek letter fraternity/sorority stepping, and stomp and shake cheerleading. In most of the stomp cheer videos I've seen, when they are chanting confrontational/bragging cheers, the White stomp cheerleaders in those videos don't have the super-confident, don't mess with me, aggressive, come to battle demeanor (play acting or otherwise) that is integal to those cheers. Also, the foot stomping movements often seem to mechanical to me. By "mechanical" I mean that not only are the stomps and other movements in the stomp routine not crisp (tight, sharp, on point), but it often seems as though the cheerleaders are performing the movements machine like, from memory but without any spirit or energy.

STOMP CHEER PERFORMANCE MOVES
Many but not all stomp cheers include the word "stomp" and a brief stomp clap routine. However, the beat pattern of stomp cheers may differ from that of foot stomping cheers. And in some stomp cheers the same beat pattern isn't done in a metronone manner throughout the entire cheer as is the case with foot stomping cheers.

Also, it appears that the stomp cheer performances incorporate, or attempt to successfully incorporate, elements from historically Black (African American) fraternity/sorority stepping, and/or stomp and shake cheerleading.

Apart from whether stepping performances in mainstream cheerleading are done well, I think that stomp cheer squads aren't aware that it is socially incorrect (bad form) to perform, even in a modified manner, the distinctive signature step moves and/or chants/cheers that are associated with a particular historically Black Greek fraternity/sorority or a stomp and cheer cheerleading team. Those moves/chants are only performed by members of those particular organizations, or- with regard to university stomp and shake cheer squads, those cheers and their signature movements may be performed by a high school squad who were taught them by members of that particular university's cheer squad who composed and choreographed those cheers. Of course, given YouTube, it has become increasingly much easier to learn other organizations' and cheer squads' steps and cheers. But performing them instead of creating your own means that the group is considered to be lacking in creativity, and been seen as culturally appropriating cultural products, even though its not illegal to do so.

I'm not sure if cheer squads purposely incorporate the moves, and tunes (if not the actual chants) of fraternity/sorority step teams, or stomp and cheer squads because they weren't aware that there are differences between the way that foot stomping cheers, stepping, and stomp and shake cheerleading is done.

I've also noticed in almost all videos of the foot stomping cheer "Shabooya Roll Call" cheer includes swaying back and forth instead of doing foot stomps (steps). The 2006 Bring It On: All Or Nothing movie which featured that cheer as well as the "Introduce Yourself" cheer that included some "Shabooya Roll Call" lines showed two different ways of performing those cheers. In the cafeteria scene in that movie, two African American girls and one Latina girl do a foot stomp routine that changes to some motions that may have been patterned after exaggerated forms of stomp and shake cheer movements. I think that was probably because stomping was considered to be too difficult for those actresses to credibly perform. Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWG4AX09mqQ for a video of the "Introduce Yourself" scene from that Bring It On: All Or Nothing movie.

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TEXT (WORD) EXAMPLES OF STOMP CHEERS

Example #1:
Cheerleaders: Hey Cherokees!
Crowd: Hey What!
Cheerleaders: Let me see you get down! Let me see you shake it!
Crowd: No way!
Cheerleaders: Jump shake your booty! Jump! Jump! Shake your booty!
Cheerleaders: Hey Cherokees!
Crowd: Hey What!
Cheerleaders: Let me see you get down! Let me see you shake it!
Crowd: Okay!
Cheerleaders: Jump shake your booty! Jump! Jump! Shake your booty!
Cherokees! We wanna see you stomp (stomp) and shake it! (repeat)
-SEXYTAYLOR17, http://cheerleading.about.com/od/collectionofcheers/l/blcheer3.htm
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-movement.html for an example of "Get Down".

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Example #2:
Irish fans in the stands,
let me hear you clap your hands.
(clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap)
Now that you've got the beat, let me hear you stomp your feet
(stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp)
Now that you've got the groove, let me see your body move
Ahuga ahah Ahuga (clap clap)
-SEXYTAYLOR17, http://cheerleading.about.com/od/collectionofcheers/l/blcheer3.htm

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"Irish" is probably part of the team name or part of the name of the high school.

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Example #3:
You may be good at Football
You may be good at Track
But when it comes to Wrestling
You better watch your Back
Cadets Attack!
(Stomp, Clap, Stomp Stomp, Clap, Stomp Stomp, Clap Clap, Stomp Stomp, Clap)
Repeat Once
Repeat Cheer and Stomp and Clap
-no name given, http://cheerleading.about.com/od/cheerschantsyells/a/cheers100.htm

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Example #4:
The one i learned when i was in 5th grade was (out mascot was an eagle so we replaced girls with eagles):

Bang bang choo choo train
Come on Eagles do your thing
Peanut better reese cup
Mess with us, see whats up
To the front to the back to the front back side side
Let me see your butterfly
And shake and shake your funky little hips
Now i want you and you too cheer with me too
-Amanda,cocojams.com, June 21, 2012

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VIDEO EXAMPLES OF STOMP CHEERS
These examples are presented in no particular order.

Example #1: Stomp Cheer



kmt122181, Uploaded on Jul 14, 2008

Stomp Cheer
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The narrator says "You have to remember that the most difficult thing about this cheer is keeping the beat". The neat pattern these girls are using for this routine as superimposed on the screen is
"stomp x stomp stomp x stomp stomp xx stomp stomp x" ["x" = clap]
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There are two standard beat patterns for foot stomping cheers. Those patterns remind consistent throughout almost all cheers. They are either "stomp x stomp stomp x" or "stomp stomp x stomp stomp x">
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I think that if these girls had raised their feet higher off the ground, they would have gotten a deeper bass tone. That bass is what steppers doing foot stomping cheers want to achieve.

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Example #2: Reno Cheerleading Stomp



Anne Goodman. Published on Mar 25, 2013
2011 RHS
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The switching movements that this cheer squad does before they begin their routine reminds me of the switching, preening movements that are a signature feature of the historically Black Greek letter sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpvlfWVYX6s

That type of female preening isn't at all a part of stomp and shake cheerleading. That switching movements also doesn't occur as a prelude to foot stomping cheers - although girls often shake their hips during
their solo portion of those cheers. Also,
for a video of those same movements by those sorors.

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Example #3: Sikeston Cheer 2014 Stomp



T&Cs Dad, Published on Apr 11, 2014
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Click for another stomp vide of this cheer squad. Both videos really remind me of the signature, distinctive step style of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. The chant in the video that is embedded in this post also is a lot like (same tune as) a Que (Omega Psi Phi) chant that is well known to those who are familiar with historically Black Greek letter fraternities.

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Example #4: Cheer Squad Stomp During Pep Rally



Shelly Tan,Uploaded on Aug 10, 2010

The 09-10 JV and Freshman Cheerleaders doing a stomp for the Bird Bowl Pep Rally! :)

i had a blast with these girls, some of my bestest friends EVER.
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I think that this cheer squad didn't convey the attitude and spirit that I believe is an integral part of foot stomping cheer performances, or that I think should be an integral part of stomp cheer performances. Also, a cheer squads performance would make the audieence be attentive. The cheerleaders don't have to tell the crowd to be quiet. Actually, in the case of stomp and shake cheerleaders, or historically Black fraternity or sorority step teams, the cheer squad wants to raise the enthusiasm of the crowd (pump them up). They don't want the crowd to be quiet.

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RELATED LINK
http://cocojams2.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-african-american-sources-of-bring.html The African American Sources Of Bring It On (2000 & 2006) Movies Cheers

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Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to those who published these videos on YouTube.

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The Similarities Between "Do It For The Vine/I Ain't Gonna Do It" And Command Compliance Cheers

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post presents my comments about the similarities between "Do It For The Vine/I Ain't Gonna Do It" and what I refer to as "command compliance cheers."

The content of this post is presented for folkloric, cultural, entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to my daughter and all others who shared examples of command compliance cheers with me and thanks to the originator/publisher of the "Do it for the Vibe, I ain't gonna do it" video.

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COMMAND COMPLIANCE CHEERS AND THE "DO IT FOR THE VINE/I AIN'T GONNA DO IT" VIDEOS
Foot stomping cheers are percussive, choreographed, rehearsed movement routines that are usually informally performed by two or more girls (ages 7-12 years) while they chant a composition that has a distinctive call & response structure. The earliest documented foot stomping cheers that I have found are from African American school girls in Washington, D.C., 1976. As such, many foot stomping cheers are not only a category of children's play activities (as a sub-category of children's cheerleader cheers), but many foot stomping cheers (fscs) are also part of the continuum of African American oral and performing arts.

WHAT ARE COMMAND COMPLIANCE FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
Command compliance (CC) is my term for a sub-category of foot stomping cheers which follows this specific pattern:
1. The group commands [demands] the soloist to do something.
2. The soloist either outright refuses (saying something like "no way") or the soloist demurs (saying something like "too shy").
3. The group repeats the same command to the soloist.
4. The soloist complies with that command by either saying "okay" and then doing what was requested of her or the soloist just goes ahead and does what is commanded of her. Usually, the group's command is for the soloist to demonstrate a dance of her choice.
OR
5. The soloist says she can't do the ordered action and explains why
For example, in some cheers the soloist initially says that she is "too shy". When she is commanded (or asks) to perform that same act, the soloist responds "I'll try.). Or in the "very popular "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" cheer, when the soloist is told to "do her thang", she says she can't because "her back is aching" etc.

I consider command/compliance cheers to be a sub-category of dance style foot stomping cheers because usually what the soloist is ordered to do is to show off her dancing or stepping ability. Certain examples of the foot stomping cheer entitled "Get Down" demonstrate this command/compliance style.

GET DOWN (Version #1)
All : I saida D-O-W-N. That’s the way we get down.
D-O-W-N. That’s the way we get down.
Group: Hey, Danielle. (insert 1st girl's name)
Danielle: What?
Group: Show us how you get down.
Danielle: No way.
Group: Show us how you get down.
Soloist: Okay. I said D-O-W-N.
And that’s the way. That’s the way. That’s the way
I get down.
Group: She saidah D-O-W-N. And that’s the way.
That’s the way. That’s the way she gets down.

Performance instruction: Repeat the entire cheer with next soloist who says her name. This continues from the beginning until everyone has had a turn as soloist.
-Tazi M. Powell; memories of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, late 1980s, early to mid 1990s; Collected by Azizi Powell

Editor:
When the soloist says "that's the way I get down", she does some fancy step or dance movement. When the group says "That's the way she gets down", they are doing the same step or movement as the soloist. Each soloist tries to do something different from the dance or steps that other people ahead of her have done.
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Although I refer to these cheers as “command compliance (CC) cheers, the actual pattern is "command, refusal, command, compliance" (CRCC). "Introduce Yourself" and "Rock The Boat" are good examples of CC (CRCC) cheers. I'd categorize these cheers as "dance style" foot stomping cheers instead of as "confrontational" foot stomping cheers because in confrontational cheers the words focus on insulting (dissing) and/or threatening some unidentified person (or when these cheers are adapted to be used during actual sports event, the opposing team and/or their cheerleaders.)

As seen in the examples of these cheers that are [on that cocojams page whose link is given above], in command compliance cheers the words aren't insulting or threatening (apart from the threatening stance that some people have given to the words spoken by the person ordering the person to act. Read my comments about this approach to these cheers in the section on "Do it for the Vine/ I ain't gonna do it" parodies that is found below.)

There are examples of foot stomping cheers in which the group asks the soloist to do something and she immediately does it. "Gigalo" are good examples of that. Click http://cocojams.com/content/foot-stomping-cheers-0 to find examples of that cheer. However, note that Gigalo appears to most often be performed as a hand clap rhyme.

To be clear, I don't consider cheers like "Gigalo" to be part of the command compliance sub- category. To be part of that category, the soloist has to initially refuse to do what is commanded or requested of her and then comply with that command or request. the second time that she is asked.

THE ORIGINAL "DO IT FOR THE VINE/I AIN'T GONNA DO IT" VIDEO
A popular (2014) example of a near-command compliance pattern is the "Do it for the Vine* " /"I ain't gonna do it" video/meme.

*From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(software)
"Vine is a mobile app owned by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short looping video clips. Video clips created with Vine have a maximum clip length of six seconds and can be shared to Vine's social network, or to other services such as Twitter and Facebook."

In the original example that sparked this Internet meme, a young Black girl refuses to "Do it for the Vine" two times, saying "I ain't gonna do it" and uses African American arm & hand gestures to emphasize those words. However, the third time she is told to "Do it for the Vine", she complies and "breaks out" in a funky dance that includes twerking movements. The girl's words are edited that third time (and other loops of that portion of the video tape). However, it appears that she is still saying "I ain't gonna do it" while she is doing that dance. Note that if this were a true command compliance pattern, the girl would have said "Okay" before she started to dance.

A YouTube video of the original Vine of the little girl dancing which sparked a number of parodies & compilation videos can be found [below].

WHAT MESSAGES DO COMMAND COMPLIANCE CHEERS CONVEY?
In command compliance cheers, the soloist may not immediately go ahead and do what is commanded of her because to do so would give the impression that she is weak, a push over, and therefore someone who could be messed over. Being weak is the opposite of the self- confident, tough girl ("hard") image that is valued in confrontation foot stomping cheers.

Some of the parodies to the above mentioned "Do It for the Vine"/ "I ain't gonna do it" have the person ordering the individual to "do it for the Vine" resorting to violence (slapping, hitting) the person being ordered when he or she refuses to perform. Other parodies of that video show the person ordering the action holding a knife or otherwise threatening the person to perform. I not only don't find those parody videos funny, I also think that they miss what I think is the reason why the person initially refused to comply with that command - to emphasize that he or she is a person who has free will and thus doesn't have to acquiesce to commands unless he or she wants to. I think that this point of view may be particularly poignant because of the history of African Americans as slaves and because so often African American workers are in subservient employment positions.

DRAMA AND COMMAND COMPLIANCE CHEER PERFORMANCES
it's important to remember that foot stomping cheers are a form of dramatic play. Girls chanting these cheers must look their (often pretend) audience in the eye, speak with a moderate voice (not whisper or whine) and use a disdainful tone of voice. Body gestures such as "talk to the hand" can also be incorporated in these cheer performance to increase that performance's reality factor. However, it's important to remember that just because girls act like they are tough, doesn't mean that's the way they act in their everyday interactions.

VARIANT FORMS OF COMMAND/COMPLAINCE CHEERS
I've come across examples of command compliance cheers where the person is asked to do an action or asks if she (or he) is able to do that action. Using the "Rock The Boat" cheer as an example,asking the soloist to rock the boat (do that particular dance movement) or asking if she an do that dance motion creates a different tone for those cheers and also conveys an entirely different cultural message than ordering the soloist to rock the boat. It seems to me that these are crucial differences.

It's possible that "Can you rock the boat" could be interpreted as "Are you able to rock the boat?" However, in the context of that cheer, I don't think that the soloist's curt "No way" response means "There's no way that I'm able to do what you are commanding me to do." Instead, "No way" means that "There's no circumstances which would make me do what you ask. (There's no reason why I would do that.) The differences between commanding a person to do that action and politely asking the person to do it or asking if her or she is able to perform that action are important to the intended nature and purpose of these cheers.

I think that in "traditional" examples of these cheers, the fact that the girl initially refuses to do what is demanded of her demonstrates the value of being independent and not (immediately) acceding to orders (or expectations) that others have for you. In contrast, in a number of more contemporary examples of these cheers, the soloist's refusal to do what is asked of her comes across as rude or bad mannered, not to mention the violent responses to that refusal that may be found in re-enactments of these types of performances.

Although I believe that there are cultural values embedded in these types of cheers and their video/Vine off-shoots, I doubt that most people who chanted/chant these "demanding" command/compliance cheers or who make those "I ain't gonna do it" video are consciously aware of the cultural messages that those compositions/performances convey.
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Visit that cocojams page for text examples of command compliance cheers, including the "Introduce Yourself" cheer from the 2006 Bring It On: All Or Nothing cheerleader cheer movie. A video of that cheer performance is also included on that page.

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FEATURED VIDEO: Do It For The Vine Vine by Diamonique Shuler



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Pre-The Dozens Girls' Foot Stomping Cheer "Hump De Danda"

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post provides two examples of the foot stomping cheer known as "Hump De Danda" and "Hump De Dump".

The content of this post is presented for folkloric and recreational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to my daughter Tazi, and thanks to Cocojams.com visitor Tia for sharing the version of this cheer that they know with me

If you know this cheer or a cheer that is similar to it, please comment below and add demographical information (geographical location, decade you chanted this cheer, and any other information about this cheer's performance.) Thanks!

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FEATURED EXAMPLES
Example #1: HUMP DE DANDA
Group
Hump De Danda.
Hump Hump De Danda.
Hump De Danda.
Hump Hump De Danda.
Soloist #1:
(Well) My name is Tanisha*
Group:
De Danda. Hump Hump De Danda
Soloist #1:
I'm super cool.
Group:
De Danda Hump, Hump De Danda
Soloist #1:
You mess with me
Group:
De Danda Hump Hump De Danda
Soloist #1:
And you're a fool.
Group:
De Danda. Hump Hump De Danda
Soloist #1:
I'm goin down
Group:
De Danda. Hump Hump De Danda
Soloist #1:
To touch the ground.
Group: De Danda. Hump Hump De Danda
Soloist #1:
I'm comin up
Group:
De Danda. Hump Hump De Danda
Soloist #1:
To mess you up.
Entire Group:
Humpty Dumpty
Sat on ah wall
Humpty Dumpty
Had ah great fall.
Oosh**, ain't that funky*** now.
Oosh, aint that funky now.
Oosh, ain't that, Oosh ain't that,
Oosh, ain't that funky now.

[repeat from beginning with next soloist and continue until every member of the group has had one turn as the soloist; chanted while performing a routine of bass sounding foot stomps, and individual hand claps]
Source: African American girls (ages 6-12 years old; Lillian Taylor camp, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, collected by Tazi Powell, 1992 or 1993 (transcribed from audio tape by Azizi Powell, 1997)

*Substitute each soloist's name or nickname.
*The word "oosh" is an onomatopoeia word that imitates the sound the wind makes as the dancer moves in a fast motion to the side.
*** "funky" here means "very good"

Note: I initially incorrectly wrote on my cocojams.com page that "Hump De Danda" was one of the cheers that I documented from my daughter's remembrance of the foot stomping cheers that she and her friends did in the mid 1980s.

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Example #2: HUMP DE DUMP
Hump De Dump
hump de dump,
hump, hump, de dump
my name is ___,
de dump, hump, hump, de dump
and if you watch me,
de dup, hump, hump, de dump,
I'll show you you I'm cool
de dump, hump, hump, de dump.
(Then you do your dance)
-Tia; (from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's East Liberty section), sent to http://www.cocojams.com/content/foot-stomping-cheers-0 on August 25, 2005
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Here's the comment that Tia sent along with that example:
"I am a cheerleading coach in Georgia, I moved here from Pittsburgh (East Liberty) when I was about 10. We used to do all of the street cheers that you have listed back during the mid 80's, they brought back wonderful memories and that is something that I do not remember the girls from down south doing once we got here. I remember one called "Humpty de Dump" "
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My interpretation of that note is that Tia remembers "Humpty de Dump" from the 1990s along with cheers from the 1980s that I included on that cocojams.com foot stomping cheer page.

Also, given the racial composition of the East Liberty area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during those decades (and now), my guess is that Tia is an African American female.

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GENERAL COMMENTS
To date, I've only found two text versions of this cheer- one from my daughter and her friends (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, mid 1980s) and the other from a woman residing in the state of Georgia but originally from the same East Liberty section of Pittsburgh that my daughter (and the rest of our family) resided/resides in.

Unfortunately, I haven't found any videos of these foot stomping cheers. However, the somewhat monotone, singsong/chanting delivery of the first two parts of "Humpty Danda" are similar to the way that most foot stomping cheers are sung. Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0pnufDOxgU&feature=endscreen&NR=1 for a video example of the foot stomping cheer "Hula Hula". Text examples of "Hula Hula" are found on the cocojams.com foot stomping cheers page whose link is given above.

Information about the beat pattern for foot stomping cheers is also given on that same cocojams.com page.

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SOURCES
I've no doubt that the source of "Hump De Danda"/ "Hump De Dump" is the hit 1990 Hip Hop song "The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground. (Both "hump de danda" and "hump de dump" are folk etymology forms of "humpty dance").

Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humpty_Dance for information about "The Humpty Dance" record. Here's a brief excerpt from that page:
""The Humpty Dance" is a tribute to Humpty's sexual prowess despite his ridiculous appearance.[3] Humpty introduces the appearance theme with the opening line, "I'm about to ruin the image and the style that you're used to," a protest against the uniformity among successful rappers of the time.[4]

In the final verse, Humpty describes the Humpty Dance itself as a loose, easy dance, "like MC Hammer on crack ... Anyone can play this game." The contrast is with the precision dancing in MC Hammer's videos. The song ends with an invitation for people of all races to join in the dance.[5]"
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WARNING: Some of the lyrics of this song and some of the scenes of the song's official video are at least mildly sexually suggestive.

The name "Humpty Dance" alludes to the vernacular term "humping" meaning having sex. However, I think that many children chanting those cheers presented in this post didn't understand that allusion and thought that the word "Hump de" in the cheer only referred to "Humpty Dumpty", the nursery rhyme character.

Most of the words in the "Humpty Dumpty sat one a wall" portion of "Hump De Danda" is from the Mother Goose nursery rhyme of that name.

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TEXT ANALYSIS: HUMP DE DANDA
"Hump De Danda" is an example of what I categorize as a taunting/bragging foot stomping cheer*. I've also used the term "confrontational" foot stomping cheer to refer to cheers in this category. This style of cheer is similar in "attitude" to the African American taunting/bragging game called "The Dozens".**

However, "Hump De Danda" the chanters do dance movements for while chanting some of the words (the "going down to the ground" and the "coming up to mess you up) words as well as the words in the "Hump de dumpty sat on the wall" section. For this reason, "Hump De Danda" can be considered a combination taunting/bragging cheer and a dance style cheer.

There are three distinct parts to the "Hump De Danda" cheer:
1. the beginning of the cheer to the line where
2. The line beginning with the soloist chanting "I'm goin down"
3. The line beginning with the entire group chanting Humpty Dumpty/Sat on a*** wall

Like all foot stomping cheers, the cheer begins with the group and continues with each iteration until every one has one (equal length) turn as the soloist. "Hump De Danda" is an example of a foot stomping cheer in which there is only minor changes to its cheer with each repetition i.e. the soloist's name or nickname.

The same lines or similar versions of the lines "I'm going down to the ground/I'm coming up to mess you up" can be found in other confrontational foot stomping cheers. Among those cheers is one of the earliest examples of foot stomping cheers that found -"Hollywood Now Swingin'/Dynomite", which is included in the 1978 vinyl record Old Mother Hippletoe, Rural and Urban Children's Songs http://www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80291.pdf
"Foxy Brown!
You mess with me,
I'll shoot you down!
Down, down,
To the ground,
Up, up,
CALL: Just out of luck!
RESPONSE: Dynomite, dynomite! (Twice)
-Barbara Borum and other Washington, D.C. schoolgirls, recorded in 1976 in Washington, D. C. by Kate Rinzler, album notes Kate Rinzler

*Click this page of my Cocojams cultural website to find information and examples of what I consider to be the different categories of foot stomping cheers: http://www.cocojams.com/content/classification-foot-stomping-cheers-examples

** Click http://www.elijahwald.com/dozens.html for information about Elijah Wald's book The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
I shared information and examples with that author about what I refer to as "pre-dozens" foot stomping cheers -cheers whose words and whose role playing performance of a person with a confrontational "attitude" help prepare their chanters for actual dozens contests.

* the word "a" is pronounced "ah", a pronunciation that is very common in African American vernacular English.
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TEXT ANALYSIS: HUMP DE DANDA
In contrast to "Hump De Danda", "Hump De Dump" is a dance style cheer (with no taunting, confrontational language.) The purpose of dance style cheers is to provide an opportunity to show off the groups' dancing [and/or stepping] skills.

While the contributor of this cheer didn't give this information, as is the case with "Hump De Danda", it's likely that with each repetition of "Hump De Dump" the new soloist repeats what was said before except for the addition of her name or nickname.

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ADDENDUM: HUMPTY DANDA (MOVEMENT SONG)
Here's another version of Humpty Danda that I made up. The tune is similar to the nursery rhyme "This Is The Way We Wash Our Clothes"

Group sings together. The order of the action words (verbs) that are used in this song are either pre-arranged or a leader chooses the verb as the song is sung and the rest of the group joins in.

Hump* de danda
Hump hump de danda
Hump de danda
All night long

Jump de danda
Jump jump de danda
Jump de danda
All night long.

Stomp de danda
Stomp stomp de danda
Stomp de danda
All night long.

Hop de danda
Hop hop de danda
Hop de danda
All night long.

Sing** de danda
Sing sing de danda
Sing de danda
All night long

[continue by substituting the verb with other verbs]

*Dance will singing the word "hump"
** Do the American sing language action for sing [Hold your right hand palm up and wave the palm of your left hand over it.] http://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/SING/766/1

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RELATED LINK
http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/four-foot-stomping-cheers-their-r.html
"Four Foot Stomping Cheers & Their R&B/Hip-Hop Sources"

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Examples of "Hollywood Swinging" Hand Clap Rhymes From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post presents four text examples of "Hollywood Swinging" hand clap rhymes that I collected between 1998-2008 from African American girls (ages 7-12 years) in various sections of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These examples demonstrate how different textual versions of a rhyme or cheer may be chanted during the same period of time within the same city. The content of this post also demonstrates how the words of a rhyme performance activity for a rhyme or cheer can change over a period of time, and how the performance activity of a rhyme or cheer can also change over a period of time.

The content of this post is presented for folkloric, cultural, and recreational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

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WHAT "SWINGING" MEANS IN THE CONTEXT OF THESE 'HOLLYWOOD SWINGING" PLAYGROUND RHYMES
In my opinion, the word "swinging" in "Hollywood Swinging" rhymes means that there is always something going on (always some fun thing to do) in Hollywood. "Hollywood" refers to the "famous district in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is prominent for its place as the home of the entertainment industry, including several of its historic studios. Its name has come to represent the motion picture industry of the United States. Hollywood is also a highly ethnically diverse, densely populated, economically diverse neighborhood and retail business district. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS RHYME
The earliest example of "Hollywood Swingin" rhymes that I've found is included in the 1978 vinyl record "Old Mother Hippletoe, Rural and Urban Children's Songs. That example, titled "Hollywood Now Swinging" and combined with another rhyme entitled "Dynomite" was collected in 1976 by Kate Rinzler from "Washington DC school girls"* in 1976. It's significant that Rinzler made no mention of these girls doing hand clap routines while performing this and several other rhymes. Instead,
Rinzler wrote that the girls "imitating cheerleaders" who they had seen on television during the Olympics by doing dance and acrobatic movements.

Another early example of a "Hollywood Swingin" playground rhyme is found in the 1983 book Apples On A Stick: The Folklore of Black Children" bu Barbara Michels, Bettye White, editors (Coward-McCann, Inc, 1983; p.14). The editors indicated that they collected the rhyme examples included in that book from school children in Houston, Texas. However, no performance activities for those rhyme was given in that book.

The examples of this rhyme that are mentioned above can be found on this page of my cocojams website: http://www.cocojams.com/content/foot-stomping-cheers-0.

Examples of "Hollywood Swinging" hand clap rhymes can be found below. Additional hand clap examples of that rhyme can be found on this cocojams page: http://www.cocojams.com/content/handclap-jump-rope-and-elastics-rhymes

*Given the racial composition of Washington, D.C. in the late 1970s, it's reasonable to assume that these "Washington D.C." school girls were African American.

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PERFORMANCE ACTIVITY
All of the examples of this rhyme that I've found are performed as hand clap partner routines. However, I recall an early version of that rhyme [the same as Example #1 below] being performed as a foot stomping cheer*. In my opinion, the textual structure of certain "Hollywood Swinging" rhymes in which the words are voiced by one person at a time reflect that hand clap rhyme's foot stomping cheer origin. The group/soloist call & response style of those "Hollywood Swinging" hand clap rhymes contrast with the unison voice that is found in almost all other hand clap rhymes.

*"Foot stomping cheer" is the term that I coined in 1999 as a referent for an informal recreational activity that may be considered a sub-set of cheerleader cheers. "Foot stomping" ("doing stomps" or "doing steps") is characterized by two or more children (usually girls between the ages of 6-12 years old) chanting a distinctive textually structure of cheer in which the group voice is heard first, and is followed by a soloist. The cheer is repeated from the beginning with a new soloist until every member of the group has the same [equal length] turn as the soloist. The chanters perform synchronized, choreographed routines that emphasize the creation of bass sounding foot stomps. The stomping routine is performed in a metronome like manner throughout the entire cheer. Click http://www.cocojams.com/content/foot-stomping-cheers-0 for information about foot stomping cheers.

Note that I've not collected playground rhymes in person since 2008. I'm not sure if any foot stomping rhyme is still performed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or in any other community.

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RHYME SOURCES
The core lines of these rhymes [Hollywood swingin/Hollywood swingin"] have their source in the 1973/1974 R&B/Funk record "Hollywood Swingin" by Kool & The Gang. Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Swinging for information about that song. Also, find a sound file of that Kool & The Gang record below.

The taunting/braggadocio line "if you see me walkin down the street/you better speak" that is included in Example #1 of "Hollywood Swingin" below is similar to these lines from the 1966 hit R&B record "Cool Jerk" which was originally performed by The Capitols: "when they see me walkin down the street/when the fellows they want to speak". This line has been misquoted in a number of online lyric pages.

Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Jerk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Jerk for information about the song "Cool Jerk". Also, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27PydomerjM for a sound file of "Cool Jerk" by the Capitols. A pancocojams post about the song "Cool Jerk" and the dance "the Jerk" will be published ASAP.

Another example of the "if you see me walking down the street" line is found in versions of the rhyme/song "She's My One Black Two Black".

The song "She's My One Black Two Black" is based on an early (1928) Jazz tune "Chocolate To The Bone". However, the "if you see my girl walking down the street/you better leave my girl alone" lines aren't a part of that song. I'm not sure when "One Black Two Black" was made into a rhyme or whether was a part of the earliest versions of that rhyme. And I'm not sure where the walkin down the street" lines originally came from.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/12/examples-of-rhymesong-shes-my-one-black.html for more information and examples of "She's My One Black Two Black" rhymes.

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FREATURED VIDEO EXAMPLE

Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang (1973)



djbuddyloveoldschool, Uploaded on Sep 2, 2010

"Hollywood Swinging" was a song by R&B/funk band Kool & The Gang from their 1973 album "Wild And Peaceful". The song became their first number one R&B single, reaching that position in June of 1974. It proved to also be a successful crossover hit, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart...
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Unfortunately, to date, I've not found any video performances of the playground rhyme "Hollywood Swingin".

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FEATURED TEXT EXAMPLES OF "HOLLYWOOD SWINGING" (FROM PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA)
These examples are posted in chronological order based on their collection date (by Azizi Powell) with the earliest collected examples given first. All of these examples are hand clap rhymes.

Example #1: HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGIN'
[Both girls]
Hollywood.
Hollywood.
Hollywood goes swingin.
Hollywood goes SWINGIN.
Swingin for the good times.
Swingin for the bad times.
[One girl]
My name is Teneisha
and I’m number 9.
I’m kickin it with Ginuwine.*
If you ever see me on the street,
you better speak.
“Long time, no see.”
Sexy as I wanna be.
Some hittin me high.
Some hittin me low.
Some hittin me in my-
Don’t ask what.
My b u t t b u t t butt.
That’s what.
-Teneisha (10 years) and Antoinette (11 years) (African American females, East Hills section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1998; collected by Azizi Powell, 1998
Editor:
* Kickin it" means "relaxing with" ; "hangin" with (socializing with).

"Ginuwine" is a popular young African R&B singer. Three other late 1990s variations of this line that I have heard are “Kickin it with Busta Rhymes" (the name of a popular male Hip-Hop star) “Kickin it with Scooby Doo (the name of a canine cartoon figure) and “Kickin it with Winnie the Poo” (the name of a fictitious bear in children's stories).

The lines "If you ever see me on the street/you better speak" is taunting/braggadocio statement that the presence of that girl should be acknowledged by all those who see her. "Long time, no see” is a common saying that African Americans (and other Americans) use when greeting a person. The line "sexy as I wanna be" isn't something that a person would say out loud. Instead, I believe that that line just reflects why the chanter believes that she is worthy of attention from people walking down the street. That line can be interpreted to mean "I'm real sexy".

I was surprised to see this rhyme performed as a hand clap routine as I had previously seen it performed as a foot stomping cheer. Those two girls don’t remember that “Hollywood Goes Swinging” ever being performed as a foot stomping cheer. As a matter of fact, no one I've asked remembers that rhyme being performed as a cheer. That includes my daughter who is the source of most of the mid 1980s foot stomping cheers that I've collected, and who has a very clear memory of those other foot stomping cheers. But she only vaguely remembers "Hollywood Goes Swingin" being performed as a foot stomping cheer. However, apart from the performance of the earliest example of that rhyme that I've found (the 1978 Mother Hippletoe record) being described as "girls imitating cheerleaders", it seems to me that the foot stomping roots of "Hollywood Swinging" rhymes are evident in the fact that some of its lines are recited by one person at a time. In contrast, hand clap rhymes almost always recited in unison. In the case of this example of "Hollywood Swinging", the first girl says most of the rhyme while she and the other girl does hand clap routine. The girls then repeat the rhyme with the other girl saying the same words or slightly different words.

I asked Teneisha and Antoinette if they ever chanted "Hollywood Swinging" while doing foot stomps. They weren't sure what "foot stomping" meant so my daughter who was part of the game song program that I'm conducted demonstrated how to do the steppin performance that I call "foot stomps". The girls said that they didn't ever "do" "Hollywood Swingin" that way and they had never seeing anyone else perform that rhyme in any way other than as a hand clap game.

For the record, my daughter lived and I still live in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that is very close to the Garfield section of that city.

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Example #2: HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGIN' (fragment)
Hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood goes swingin
Hollywood goes __ swingin
Swingin for Northside.
Swingin for the Eastside.
My name is Rita.
I'm Number 9
Going down Chicago line.
If you see me on the street
You better speak
[I'm uncertain about the next words that were spoken]
Hey hey, you think you cool.
Hey hey, cool enough to rule your school.
Hey hey, you think you bad.
Bad enough to [didn't remember the rest of the words to this rhyme]
-African American girls and boys; Northview Heights Buddy Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1999; collected by Azizi Powell

Editor:
This rhyme was performed as a two person hand clap routine. The girls who shared this rhyme said that the line might be "Hollywood keeps swingin". The dash means to pause one beat. The girls said that in another version of "Hollywood Goes Swingin" they say "swingin for the good times /swingin for the bad times/ swingin every time".

"Northview Heights" is a sub-section of the Northside section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The term "Eastside" wasn't used then and is still not used now to refer to a section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The "East Hills section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is about 40 minutes by car from the Northview Heights section of that city.

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Example #3: HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGIN' (fragment)
Hollywood (clap clap clap)
Hollywood (clap clap clap)
Hollywood goes swingin.
My name is Shanika.
I'll bust it out.
I'll party to the left
I'll party to the right.
I'll party all night.
I'll party all day.
My name is Sandra.
I'm number one [don't remember the rest]
I'm busting all day.
I'm busting all night.
She's busting to the left.
She's busting to the right.
-Shanika and Sandra (African American females, under 11 years old) ; Garfield section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; November 1, 2000; collected by Azizi Powell, November 1, 2000

The Garfield section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is located in the East end part of that city. That section is approximately 25 minutes by car from East Hills, and approximately 40 minutes by car from Northview Heights. It should also be noted that the Garfield and East Hills section of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are separated from Northview Heights by a river, highway, and two bridges.
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"Busting" and "bust it out" here means something like "moving forward or doing something (like dancing) with a lot of swagger and confidence".

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HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGIN' (Version #4)
Both girls:
Hollywood, Hollywood
Hollywood goes swingin
Partner #1:
My name is Raya and I'm number 2
Kickin it with Scooby Doo
Hit me high
Hit me low
Hit me where you wanna go.
Repeat the entire rhyme with the partner #1 saying the lines that partner #1 said, but substitute her name or nickname and (preferably) change the number rhyme
-ConRaya E. (11 years); Sha'Ona K. (11 years); African American girls; Garfield section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 12, 2008
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"Scooby Doo" is a cartoon dog.

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