(quite possibly the vaguest) song i.d. request (ever)

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okay. here goes:

i'm looking to identify a song from the 1960s (?) that i most remember as being in a film (can't remember which one) in a nightclub scene that's awash in ameoba lights and filled with people frugging.

the two things i can remember about said song is that (1) it has the same organ sound that's featured in steppenwolf's "born to be wild" at the end of that song's verses. (an estimation of the sound i'm looking for would appear at the end of, for example, "lookin' for adventure" [bblooooommmmp] wherein the [bbloooommmp] is the organ sound), and (2) that it may be an instrumental that repeats the organ sound throughout.

is this a steppenwolf song? is this incidental music that i'm crazy for remembering? is this some lost musical turd that i'm ashamed to not know?

― tony bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, it was definitely a Steppenwolf song.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

which one?

― fly (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

The scene you describe sounds like Midnight Cowboy.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

if it is midnight cowboy (which is what the description of the film sounds like), the track is old man willow by elephants memory. the track is kind of like a mix between broadcast and king crimson.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

frugging?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

FRUG: The Frug was born from a dance called the Chicken which had a lateral body movement and was used as a change of
pace during the Twist. So as the kids grew lazier they decided to do less work, and started moving only their hips while
standing still. As the hips swing from side to side they started making up arm movements for the dance. From this came the
Swim, the Monkey, the Dog, the Watusi, the Waddle or Wabble and the Jerk. Some of these dances are named with localities.
What we call the Frug is often called the Surf, Big Bea and Thunderbird, with the Swim being born out of it. What we call the
Watusi is also known as Wabble and Waddle. The Monkey, Dog, Bump and Jerk fall roughly into the same category.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Huh. Interesting, hadn't heard of that one before. I pick The Smurf.

When I read this thread, I thought tony might be thinking of The Trip which has an instrumental soundtrack by Electric Flag. Too bad Amazon doesn't have sound clips.

Electric Flag definitely had organ, but I don't recall its Steppenwolfian quotient.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Amazon does now. 'Fine Jung Thing' is the Electric Flag track.

The Trip is quite an enjoyable film and the soundtrack has it moments e.g. 'Senior Citizen', which wouldn't be out of place in one of Woody Allen's slapstick comedies such as Sleeper.

Could it have been the Pigeon Toed Orange Peel sequence from Clint Eastwood's Coogan's Bluff? Is there any definitive on-line list of classic 60s dance/frugging scenes?

― Bob Six, Thursday, 21 May 2009 06:55 (sixteen years ago)

The description in the original post really makes it sound like the Pigeon-Toed Orange Peel.

― everything, Thursday, 21 May 2009 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 21 May 2009 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

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