![]() ![]() 8 at the Broadway Tavern on Route 309 in Mountain Top. Mary McGinnis of Mountain Top estimates she was “born seven years too late” to experience the heyday of ‘50s and early ‘60s music, but that’s not stopping her from helping her husband Steve McGinnis organize the “Memories of Warmland Sock Hop,” set for 6 to 10 p.m. It doesn’t matter if you’re too young to remember the first appearance of those songs and dances. How about when Chubby Checker demonstrated The Twist on “American Bandstand?”ĭo you know how to do The Stroll? What about The Limbo? And if you look closely, you’ll see McGinnis is completing her ’50s look with a varsity sweater.ĭo you remember when Johnny Maestro & Brooklyn Bridge sang “Sixteen Candles,” and “The Angels Listened In?” Or when Lesley Gore insisted “It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To?” Button, in the center, is holding a small-scale model of the Red Caboose that the Mountain Top Historical Society is refurbishing. Party’s free and runs all night.Mary McGinnis, Kathleen Button and Anne Wambold, all of Mountain Top, said they ordered their poodle skirts online and will wear them to the Sock Hop. ![]() Here’s hoping the night goes down a whole lot like that Body Rock tribute to the Native Tongues movement that Riders Against the Storm threw in May, when about 80 people crammed into Hotel Vegas’ tiny confines and rapped along to Busta Rhymes’ verse midway through A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario.”ĭoors at 8pm, with b-boys and b-girls taking to the floor around 10. “That, and making sure the bass is hitting’ hard as hell,” a detail no doubt already considered by Big Daddy Kane. Borghesi added that maintaining “a good mix of up-tempos, slow and lows, and call and responses” will be critical to keeping energy levels inside Hotel Vegas on high throughout the night. “Super dope beats, lyrics, and rapping will never fail!” ![]() “Those beats and samples undoubtedly contributed to the high level of creativity that was exploding back then, and you had great MCs as well. “Hip-hop artists in the Eighties were still able to sample all those dope funk and soul records from the Sixties and Seventies, before they changed the laws,” says Borghesi. Borghesi thought about the two styles for a minute and realized he could be throwing the same kind of party for a different kind of scene. ![]() Similarly, the two have spent the past six years of second Sundays running their soul and doo-wop-heavy Sock Hops, pushing obscure records from the Fifties and Sixties while their vast hip-hop record collections gathered dust. That’s because this weekend marks the first installment of monthly throwdown Cold Lampin’, wherein DJs Shorty Stump (towering White Ghost Shivers string-bender Westen Borghesi) and Second Liner (Breakaway Records co-owner Gabe Vaughn) spin vinyl hip-hop classics from the golden era, 1983-1993, a period best defined by artists like Black Sheep, Heavy D, De La Soul, and Big Daddy Kane. Saturday night offers little in the way of live hip-hop, but if you head to Hotel Vegas, you can groove to vintage wax like DJ Kool Herc always intended. ![]()
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