VP Records, Sept. 25, 2009
Music video by Elephant Man performing Willie Bounce.
This is Part III of a five part pancocojams series about Jamaica's Dancehall Reggae dances.
This post showcases a YouTube video of the Dancehall dance "Willie Bounce" and presents information and comments about how the Dancehall dance "Willie Bounce" got its name.
This post also presents information about the Dancehall recording artist Elephant Man who first recorded "Willie Bounce" in 2006.
This pancocojams post also showcases a bonus video of Elephant Man teaching his top ten dances.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/05/jamaicas-dancehall-reggae-dances.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. This post presents some online excerpts about the history of Jamaica's Dancehall dances. A partial list of and descriptions of some of Dancehall dances are also included in this pancocojams post.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/05/how-dancehall-dance-willie-bounce-got.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. That post presents information about legendary Jamaican dancer/choreographer "Mr. Bogle" ("Mr. Wacky") and showcases three YouTube videos that feature Mr Bogle.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/05/jamaican-dancer-latonya-styles.html for Part IV of this pancocojams series. That post showcases a YouTube video demonstration of some of the dances that were created by Dancehall dancer/ creator "Mr. Bogle". Selected comments from that video's discussion thread is also included in that pancocojams post.
Click
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/05/comments-about-some-dancehall-dance.htmlfor Part V of this pancocojams series. That post presents online article
excerpts and discussion thread comments about some Dancehall dances that
inspired or are similar to or the same as certain African American Hip Hop
dances.
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All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Mr. Bogle for his cultural legacy. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/05/excerpts-about-history-of-jamaicas.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "Excerpts About The History Of Jamaica's Dancehall Reggae Music".
Also,click the Dancehall Reggae tag below for other pancocojams post about that music and dances.
**** HOW "THE WILLIE BOUNCE DANCE" GOT ITS NAME Excerpt #1 From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Haggart"William Augustus Moore (14 March 1961 - 18 April 2001), also known as The Chief Of Staff, was believed to have been an underworld kingpin, and the reputed leader of the Black Roses Crew.[3] Because of his nature, as a young man he was given the nickname "Willie Haggart", a patois corruption of "hog-heart".[4]
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Black Roses Crew
Around the early 1990s, Haggart was invited by Bogle to join his entertainment/party crew Roses which made him popular within the dancehall community worldwide. The 'Willie Bounce' dance move was created and named in his honour."...
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Excerpt #2
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUSsEE4gh8 "Who was WILLIE HAGGART - William Moore? 🇯🇲" published by Teach Dem,Dec 10, 2019
"Willie Hogheart not Haggart, yes he had a vicious temper kicked elephant man in his backside one time. Dons usually stayed out of the limelight, but this don was overt. "...
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Reply
Barrington Hall, 2019
"Teach his father was a butcher and he steal from him and they say he stole a hog's heart by mistake... So his name came about... Not by badness... Bless up"
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Career
He started out his musical career in 1995 as a member of the
Scare Dem Crew, later continuing as a solo artist. He was later characterised
for several trademarks, such as his dyed yellow-orange hair, his unique low-key
voice, and his stage performance, which included jumping and running, or even
climbing on stage props and monitors.[citation needed] His acoustic trademark
is a low, raspy grumble singing voice and light lisp.
Bryan had his first international recognition when he and Puma settled a contract for using his single "All Out" for its Olympics commercial campaign in 2004.
His song "Willie Bounce" appeared on several mixtapes in early 2006. It used the first few bars from "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor. "Willie Bounce" has been described as one of Elephant Man's most recognizable songs, with the corresponding dance still enjoying popularity as of 2015.[2]"...
Boomshots TV, August 2, 2016
"Dance Move time stamps
1:11 Pon di River, Pon di Bank
1:51 Signal di Plane
2:29 Nuh Linga
3:26 Gully Creeper
4:25 Crazy Hype
5:10 Sweep
5:44 Gangsta Rock
6:06 Willie Bounce
6:30 Bogle Move
7:33 Jiggy" -snip- Here are two comments from that video's discussion thread:
1. Joel Ranglin, 2017 "Some of them, a lot of them were made by Mista Wacky, who died a few years back now, he was like a choreographer in Jamaica. When he died the dancehall “dance” music started to die also" -snip- "Mr. Wacky" is another name for dancehall icon "Mr Bogle" (Gerald Levy). Mr Wacy was killed January 2005.
** 2. africarib, 2021 "No he didnt create these dances. Most Jamaican dances are created by other people or dancing crews then dancehall artists make them popular by singing about the moves to show everybody." -snip- "He" in this comment refers to Elephant Man.
**** This concludes Part III of this pancocojams series.
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