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One evening in 1927, following Lindbergh's flight
to Paris, a local dance enthusiast named
"Shorty George" Snowden was watching some of the
dancing couples. A newspaper reporter asked him
what dance they were doing, and it just so
happened that there was a newspaper with an
article about Lindbergh's flight sitting on the
bench next to them. The title of the article read,
"Lindy Hops The Atlantic," and George just sort of
read, "Lindy Hop" and the name stuck.

In the mid 1930's, a bouncy six beat variant was
named the Jitterbug by the band leader
Cab Calloway when he introduced a tune in 1934
entitled "Jitterbug".

Page by Rene

03/01/05