I'm pretty sure it never even occurred to me to dance when listening to records -- I've never had any talent or desire to dance, and I find it weird to see people do that compulsive head-movement thing when they hear a song, because I don't feel any sort of inherent urge to convulse to the beat :-P But I do remember processing around the hearth-rug being the various different animals in "The Carnival of the Animals", chiefly as the Elephant, using one arm alongside my nose as the waving trunk, and the fish :-) (The Kangaroos would presumably have caused the record-player to skip like anything, but I suspect they weren't encouraged in the living-room!)
When I was a tot I loved to dance. I danced all the time, and dreamed of being a ballerina. I had a portable record player that was *mine* (a rarity in a house with 6 children) and a few 45s I played endlessly.
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Date: 2022-07-12 10:26 pm (UTC)But I do remember processing around the hearth-rug being the various different animals in "The Carnival of the Animals", chiefly as the Elephant, using one arm alongside my nose as the waving trunk, and the fish :-)
(The Kangaroos would presumably have caused the record-player to skip like anything, but I suspect they weren't encouraged in the living-room!)
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Date: 2022-07-13 02:28 am (UTC)