Ric Silver (Who is Credited As Being The First Choreographer Of The Electric Slide Line Dance) Shared These Comments About That Dance In A 2012 Pancocojams Discussion Thread

Ric Silver - Dec 30, 2006

The Original choreography for The Electric Slide - Music(Electric Boogie) by permission of Marcia Griffith in good faith for using my Choreography in her earlier videos without permission -snip-
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - The Electric Slide - Single Line version (original choreography)

Ric Silver, Mar 17, 2007

This is not the best video - some of the younger kids got camera shy and made some mistakes - so pls disregard

Music(Electric Boogie) by permission of Marcia Griffith in good faith for using my Choreography in her earlier videos without permission
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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases two YouTube videos that were posted by Ric Silver who is credited as being the first choreographer of the dance that is widely known as "The Electric Slide".

This post also showcases a 2018 YouTube video of Marcia Griffiths' "Electric Boogie" that shows people doing that line dance.

The focus of this post are comments that Ric Silvers added to the discussion thread for the pancocojams post that I published on January 5, 2012 " The History Of The Electric Slide (information & video)"  https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/history-of-electric-slide.html

As of August 30, 2025 at 5: 42 PM EDT, there are a total of 16 comments in the comment section for that 2012 pancocojams post. 

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Bunny Wailer for composing the song "Electric Boogie". Thanks to Marcia Griffiths for her hit song "Electric Boogie". Thanks to Ric Silvers for choreographing "The Electric Slide" and thanks to other people for their choreography of versions of that dance. Thanks to the R&B group Cameo for their song "Candy" which has become one of the songs that the Electric Slide line dance is performed to in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and in some other nations. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/selected-videos-of-electric-slide.html for Part II of this 2012 pancocojam series entitled "Selected Videos Of The Electric Slide".

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YOUTUBE VIDEO OF MARCIA GRIFFITHS' "THE ELECTRIC BOOGIE"

MarciaGriffiths, Apr 7, 2018  #ElectricBoogie

This is the Official Promo Video.

 Audio:    • Marcia Griffiths - Electric Boogie (Audio) 

 Copyright: (C) 1990 The Island Def Jam Music Group

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ADDENDUM TO THE JANUARY 2012 POST ON THE ELECTRIC SLIDE [PART I]
Added on August 30, 2025
From August 20, 2025 through August 30, 2025 I published a number of pancocojams posts on African American (soul; urban, and zydeco) line dances. Click the African American line dances tag below for the links for those posts.

As part of this energy, I was led to revisit this post on the Electric Slide. 

Based on the comments that Ric Silver shared in the discussion thread for the 2012 pancocojams post on the Electric Slide https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/history-of-electric-slide.html , it appears that at one point I had added and then eventually removed information in that post about Ric Silver being the first person to choreograph the line dance that is widely known as "The Electric Slide".

Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia page on the Electric Slide dance that I retrieved on August 30, 2025:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Slide

"The Electric (better known as The Electric Slide) is a four wall line dance. Choreographer and dancer Richard L. "Ric" Silver claims to have created the dance in 1976.[1]

Dance popularity is sometimes attributed to its setting to Marcia Griffiths and Bunny Wailer's song "Electric Boogie", which was written and recorded for the first time in December 1982.[2][3][4]

There are several variations of the dance. The original choreography has 22 steps,[5] but variants include the Freeze (16-step), Cowboy Motion (24-step), Cowboy Boogie (24-step), and the Electric Slide 2 (18-step). The 18-step variation became popular in 1989 and for ten years was listed by Linedancer Magazine as the number-one dance in the world

The original dance was choreographed to be danced in two lines facing each other and in the course the opposite dancers circle each other.[1]

Controversy

In 2007, Silver filed DMCA-based take-down notices to YouTube users who posted videos of people performing the 18-step dance variation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit on behalf of videographer Kyle Machulis against Silver, asking the court to protect Machulis's free speech rights in recording a few steps of the dance in a documentary video posted to the Internet.[6] On May 22, 2007, the EFF came to an agreement to settle the lawsuit: the settlement states that Silver will license the Electric Slide under a Creative Commons noncommercial license[7] and will also post the new license on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide.

The NPR reporter Patricia Meschino wrote: "Broadway Choreographer Ric Silver created the popular line dance the Electric Slide for the song-a routine Wailer nimbly demonstrates in a 1989 video".[8]

In recent decades, there has been some controversy regarding the creation year of the Electric Slide line dance. Silver claimed that he received a demo of the song 'Electric Boogie' in 1976, which he used to create his dance steps.[9] Yet according to Marcia Griffiths, the song 'Electric Boogie' was written for her by Bunny Wailer in early 1980s.[10]"...

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COMMENTS FROM RIC SILVER THAT HE SENT TO THAT PANCOCOJAMS POST'S DISCUSSION THREAD

This section also includes several replies/comments from Azizi Powell, pancocojams editor and one question directed to Ric Silvers from a pancocojams visitor.

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

1. NYCsDancerApril 15, 2016 at 2:13 PM

"I want to thank you for giving me credit for the dance - I have had many complaints because people say How could I have created the dance in 1976 when the song wasn't released until 1982 - well - it was recorded by Bob Marley and his band with Marcia singing and sent to DJs in NYC as a demo (one side pressing) to get feedback - I happened to be a very good friend of one of those DJs and one night as I entered the club on 42nd st. he said he had gotten in a new record that he was sure I was going to love - I did - and as I was leaving that night he handed me the 45 and I took it home and put in on the shelf - a few months later I was asked by my bosses at Vamps Disco to give a re-opening party and "Could I create a dance to premier at that party" - so I pulled the record off the shelf and created the dance - which took off immediately - the club had been designed for Professional Dancers Only - and so I had to create something that was challenging enough for them to enjoy - soon we had lines around the block wanting to get into the club - and the owners decided to open the doors to the general public - at which time I had to pear down the dance to the basics as it would have been too difficult for the average dancer - and so I only taught the 1st couple of sections of the dance - a gentleman from the Chicago area learned the dance correctly - but upon returning home found the dance too simple to have a repeated step (13-16 are supposed to be repeated) and so while teaching the dance he decided to drop the repeat and the dance ended up going around the world as an 18 step dance instead of a 22 step dance which is was originally created as - because my birthday is Jan 22nd - and I wanted it to have 22 steps to honor that"

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2.Azizi Powell, April 15, 2016 at 2:50 PM

"Thank you, NYCsDancer, for your comment which adds information about the creation of the dance now known as "The Electric Slide".

 Are you Ric Silver? If so, I'm honored that you shared that information on this blog.

Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's page on the Electric Slide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Slide:

"The Electric (better known as The Electric Slide) is a four wall line dance set to Marcia Griffiths' song "Electric Boogie". Choreographer Ric Silver created the dance in 1976 from a demo of the Marcia Griffiths recording and the original choreography has 22 steps.[1]"...

Thanks again!"

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3. Azizi Powell, April 15, 2016 at 2:53 PM
"Here's another excerpt that I found on Ric Silver and the Electric Slide (Electric Boogie): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7492263

..."Mr. RICHARD SILVER (Choreographer, Creator of Electric Slide): It's a series of grapevines to the right, back to the left then straight back and then you step forward and touch and step back and touch and you repeat that step, which is what everybody has forgotten. They don't do the repeat step.

(Soundbite of song, "Electric Boogie")

Ms. GRIFFITHS: (Singing) And I'll teach you, teach you, teach you, I'll teach the electric slide.

MONTAGNE: There are supposed to be 22 steps to the dance because Richard Silver was born on January 22. Most people only do 18.

Mr. SILVER: When I started going to weddings to bar mitzvahs myself and getting on the dance floor to do the dance and people are coming up to me saying you're doing it wrong, I got very upset.

MONTAGNE: So what do you say? Excuse me, I invented it?

Mr. SILVER: Yes."...
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"Also, for the record (no pun intended), Ric Silver, the invention of "The Electric Slide" isn't Black."

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4. NYCsDancer, April 16, 2016 at 8:20 AM
"Yes - I am Ric Silver - but my friends know me as New York City's Dancer - hense the email address.....and for the record - I am 1/2 Portuguese and 1/2 Swamp Yankee (or at least that's what grampa told me- which I found out through Ancestry dot com means a Scottish King's descendant came to America and laid with the Indians, French and whom ever else was around to create my Grandparents. My Grandmother was an Adams - and my Father's mother was a Princess in the Azores from Villa Estrellia"

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5. Azizi Powell, April 16, 2016 at 11:46 AM
"Thanks for sharing that information with pancocojams readers. Ric.

I mentioned that you weren't Black because I thought that you were Black since the Electric Slide is so very popular among Black people, I jumped to the conclusion that a Black person had created the choreography.

Keep on keeping on!!"

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6. Ric Silver, September 3, 2018 at 11:53 AM

"A friend of mine found a 33 1/3 rpm recording on an Island Beats label (undated-listed Radio & DJ Copy) with two versions (3:58 & 6:35 min) that I posted to You-Tube that is the closest I have found to the original Reggae beat I choreographed the dance to."

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7. Ric Silver, September 3, 2018 at 11:58 AM

"the link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSdMG0rNBMo&feature=youtu.be 
or just click on my name here and it will take you there..."

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8. Azizi Powell, September 3, 2018 at 1:17 PM
"Ric Silver, thanks for sharing this link to your original audio file of "Electric Boogie", more commonly known as "Electric Slide".

Here's that link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSdMG0rNBMo&feature=youtu.be.

Thanks for your contribution to dance music!"

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9. Sam, April 22, 2022 at 11:02 AM

"Do you know where the video was shot?"

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10. NYCsDancer, April 22, 2022 at 12:14 PM

"Which video are you speaking of? My video of me teaching the dance was shot here in Niantic, Connecticut -

Marcia shot her videos in Jamaca I believe - but I can't be sure.ears was listed by Linedancer Magazine as the number-one dance in the world"

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Why The "Electric Slide" Line Dance Is Called The "Candy Dance" In The United Kingdom (information, videos, & comments)

RockKG973, May 8, 2013

One of my favorite movie scenes ever!
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This video clip is the end scene for the 1999 American movie entitled "The Best Man".

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This pancocojams post documents the use of the funk group Cameo's 1986 record "Candy" as the music for the "Electric Slide" line dance instead of Marcia Griffiths' the "Electric Boogie" ("Electric Slide") record. For that reason, particularly in the United Kingdom, "Electric Slide" is known as the "Candy dance."

Video #2 in this pancocojams post showcases a video of the Electric Slide line dance that is done to Marcia Griffiths "Electric Boogie" ("Electric Slide") record.

The other videos that are embedded in this post showcases the use of Cameo's "Candy" record for the Electric Slide line dance.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Bunny Wailer for composing "Electric Boogie" ("Electric Slide") and Marcia Griffiths for recording that song. Thanks to Cameo for recording their song "Candy" and thanks to the choreographer/s of the line dance that is used for the Electric Slide. Thanks also to all those who are featured in these showcase videos and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE ELECTRIC BOOGIE (ELECTRIC SLIDE) RECORD & LINE DANCE
From
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jun/11/how-the-electric-slide-became-the-black-lives-matter-protest-dance "How the Electric Slide became the Black Lives Matter protest dance" written by Sanjoy Roy, 11 Jun 2020
" The protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd have spread across the world and as many have said: this is not a moment, it’s a movement. But it is also a moment of movement, as the protests have been accompanied by outbreaks of dancing. A common sight on social media and light news spots are the Electric Slide and the Cupid Shuffle, but you can also see the Cha-cha Slide, Macarena, krumping and the haka dance.

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Right now, the people’s movement of choice looks to be the Electric Slide. Why? Like the Cupid Shuffle and Cha-cha Slide, it’s a four-wall line dance with a 90-degree turn between each repeat, so you can keep it going for as long as it takes. The basic sequence – sidesteps and step-touches – are simple, though the Cupid Shuffle is even simpler. Once you have the steps, you can style the rest how you like.

The dance has a long pedigree, with black roots and widespread branches. The step sequence was first devised by Broadway dancer Ric Silver in 1976 to an upbeat reggae song by Bunny Wailer, Electric Boogie, a hit in Jamaica that went on to become a more mainstream US success for his compatriot Marcia Griffiths, in 1982 and 1989.

Interestingly, Silver tried very hard to authorise his original 22-step sequence (his birthday being 22 January, he was very attached to the number), but despite takedown notices and copyright claims, it’s an unauthorised 18-step version that took hold. You can see why the people’s version won out. After a regular 16 counts, those extra 2 to swivel are like a cute little touch, sending you a notch round the phrase; add in another 4 and you’ve lost the tickle.

In the 1990s, the sequence was styled for American line-dancing and became a genre staple. It got another big boost through the 1999 black romcom The Best Man, here danced to Cameo’s 1986 hit single Candy. It has become massively popular at parties and weddings, and is often called the Candy Dance."...
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Ric Silver is a White American dancer/choreographer. Two comments from Ric Silver are included in this post from the YouTube discussion thread for Video #7.
  
Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Slide  for more information about the "Electric Boogie" ("Electric Slide")

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INFORMATION ABOUT CAMEO’S RECORD “CANDY”
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_(Cameo_song) 
" "Candy" is a song by funk group Cameo, released as the second single from their 1986 album Word Up!. The song features a solo by saxophonist Michael Brecker. "Honey", a reworked version with different lyrics was included on their next album, Machismo.

Charts

In the US, "Candy" reached number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the R&B charts in 1987 in the U.S.[1] "Candy" also made the Top 10 on the US Dance charts. It also reached the top 40 in the UK, peaking at number 27 on 30 November 1986.”…

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WHY THE "ELECTRIC SLIDE" LINE DANCE IS CALLED ”THE CANDY DANCE” IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Line dancing is choreographed dance steps that are done in a horizontal line to recorded music.  Line dancing can be done to actual line dance records that are specifically made for that dancing or line dancing can be done to records  that aren't specifically made for line dancing.  Records that are specifically made for line dancing (that I refer to as "actual" line dance records) have "call outs" throughout the entire record or through most of the record. "Call outs" are instructions that tell people what to do. As such, line dance records are a modern form of the African American originated tradition of square dance and contra dance "callers".

There are fewer actual line dance records (i.e. records that have call outs/dance instructions throughout the entire recording or through most of the recording) than there are records that are used for line dancing. Records that are used for line dancing can be from almost any music genre.  Usually, a specific choreographed step sequence becomes recognized as the way that people are "supposed' to do the line dance to that specific record.

The line dance that is known as the "Electric Slide" was originally done to the record of that name that was released in the early 1980s by Jamaican singer Marcia Griffiths. However, by at least the early 2000s, thanks in part to the 1999 American movie The Best Man, it appears that Cameo's record "Candy" is the record that is usually used for the Electric Slide dance.

Neither the "Electric Boogie" (Electric Slide) record nor the "Candy" record have call out dance instructions. Therefore, according to the definition for line dance records that is given above, neither "Electric Boogie" ("Electric Slide") nor "Candy" are actual "line dance records". However, they are certainly examples of records that are used for soul line dancing. Cameo's "Candy" is line danced the same way that the Electric Slide is danced.

In the end scene of the hit 1999 African American movie The Best Man, the cast is shown doing the Electric Slide (line dance) to Cameo's record "Candy". It's possible that the custom of doing the Electric Slide to Cameo's "Candy" may predate that movie scene, but there's no question that the use of Cameo's song in the line dancing scene that ends that African American movie helped popularize the custom of doing the Electric Slide to Cameo's Candy record in the United States and in the United Kingdom (and elsewhere)  Read Showcase Video #7 comment #28 below in which Ric Silver, the choreographer for the 22 step version of "The Electric Slide" writes that The Best Man's use of the record Candy for the Electric Slide (line dance) introduced the United Kingdom to the use of that record for that dance. 

Although Cameo's "Candy" record is often used for the Electric Slide line dance in the United States (particularly by African Americans) instead of Marcia Griffiths' record "Electric Boogie" ("Electric Slide"), based on my experience, and based on comments from people in the United States writing in YouTube discussion threads for Candy dance videos such as some of the comments included in this pancocojams post , I believe that few people in the United States call that dance "the Candy dance".

In addition to Cameo's record "Candy being used as the end scene for The Best Man movie, the Wikipedia page on that record notes that "British comedian Javonne Prince finishes each episode of The Javone Prince Show with 'Candy Time', during which the audience and cast dance to the song" (2015) and "The song [Candy) appears as part of a line dance at the end of Ep.4 of Series 2 of the British comedy-drama, This Way Up"  (August 29,2019)

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/11/19th-century-black-americans-created.html for the pancocojams post entitled "19th Century Black Americans Created The Tradition Of Calling Steps & Figures In American Square Dancing".

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/12/seven-soul-line-dances-with-most.html for the pancocojams post entitled Seven African American Line Dances (also known as "Soul Line Dances") With The Most YouTube Views (as of Dec. 20, 2023). That post showcases the top seven "call out" soul line dance videos with the highest numbers of YouTube views at the time of that post's publication.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - How to do the Electric Slide

 
Brendan Eggers, Jun 26, 2015

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ADDITIONAL YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF THE CANDY DANCE

These videos are given in no particular order. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

SHOWCASE VIDEO #3 - Candy Electric Slide Dance to Cameo's 80s song

 

Shom, Nov 28, 2016

A well executed electric slide carried out at a wedding in the Brewery Moorgate London. If you don't know the dance then now you do. The original electric slide is actually from Marcia Griffiths - Electric boogie song in 1976 (released 1982)

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 - The best wedding candy dance/electric slide - High Quality

Allure Events, Mar 11, 2020

Amazing UK wedding electric slide / candy dance. I hope this video brings a smile to your faces. Learn the candy dance steps from the few. Electric slide your way through life.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 - Cameo Candy/ Electric Slide Wedding Dance

 

Syrena L'Aimable, Jun 2, 2018  WARLIES PARK HOUSE 

Adam & Katie’s Wedding 28.05.2018

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 SHOWCASE VIDEO #6 - Notting Hill Carnival - Candy Dance with Police Officer

Magda O, Aug 26, 2018

Candy Dance with a Police Officer at Notting Hill Carnival 2017

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #7- Candy Dance @ Capital Xtra



CandyDance UK, Dec 9, 2013

Do You Know The Candy Dance???

Have you ever seen a whole street packed full of people (teenagers and Adults), from the top to the bottom of the street, doing the same dance in Unison? Join Candy Dance UK to be part of the FIRST EVER RECORD ATTEMPT of the Candy Dance!!!

Its going to be AMAZING!!!
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Here are selected comments from this video's discussion thread, with numbers added for referencing purposes only: 

1. @blueberries147, 2015

"This the electric slide. Not the "candy dance""

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2. @TheIraqiforce, 2015
"No it's the candy dance, here in the UK we call it the candy dance"

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3. @blueberries147, 2015
"+Taha Hasan in America its the electric slide"

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4. @TheIraqiforce, 2015
"blueberries147 fair enough, but just like in America you call football soccer we call the dance candy dance which does sound slightly better than electric slide."

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5. @blueberries147, 2015
"+Taha Hasan fair enough"

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6. @jackpea7102, 2019
"In the the 70s, it use to be called the Hustle."

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7. @Monaedeezy, 2019
"floppy disc it’s crazy because in the black community in Chicago, we particularly love dancing the electric slide to cameos song. For the longest time I thought it was an isolated dance in the Midwest from the disco era. But hey!

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8. @dandycult, 2015
"Only English people would call it the candy dance lol. Electric slide people."

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9. @jirt87, 2017
"Exactly! The dance got a song its called the electric slide!"

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10. @tinkercedes, 2017
"Lol have I been living under a rock? Lol when was this called candy dance? It's the electric slide"

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11. @zhane1611, 2018
"mercedes corral UK WAY"

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12. @madjames2392, 2019
"Its basically referenced that off the movie best man

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13. @robakin1225,2017
"We do it all over the world U.S Africa,Caribbean,South and Latin america.LBB love being black.I have nothing against others but damn we bring it to the world mostly without other recognizing it.just like some whites in the U.S they change it to Achy-Breaky heart line dance.Give Credit where its do"

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14. @noors7754, 2019
"cb 97 they are expressing positivity stop ruining the fun ."

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15. @ainsbrittain8954, 2019
"I'm a black person and this dance isn't just about black people."

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16. @hello-it4vw, 2020
"@ainsbrittain8954  um chile anyways..."

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17. @ne3371, 2020
"hellooo 😭😭😭"

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18. @aaliyahdenny5695, 2022
"@ainsbrittain8954  nobody said it was but who created the dance? Oh okay"

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19. @NYCSDancer, 2022
"@aaliyahdenny5695  The Dance "The Electric" also known as The Electric Slide was created by ME !!!!   Ric Silver - and I'm English and Portuguese.....  I Beg Your Pardon!"

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20. @patriciahawkins7867, 2019
"Look at them doing "The Electric Slide" to the candy song! 😏"

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21. @AnniePJones, 2019
"it may be the electric slide but its great with the candy!! love it! I call it either!!"

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22. @blackamericanlesbianprofes4357, 2020
"The title of this video needs to be changed. This line dance is called The  Electric Slide. Obviously someone watched the movie The Best Man (1999) and didn't know this is The Electric Slide. In the movie The Best Man (1999), the ending scene where the movie characters do the line dance The Electric Slide to the song Candy by Cameo at the wedding reception. Thumbs down to this video."

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23. @doopdapps1088, 2020
"Lighten up, in the UK we call it the candy dance, just like you call soccer in the USA we call it football"

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24. @blackamericanlesbianprofes4357, 2020
"@doopdapps1088  I am Black American living in the UK for 5 years now so you aren't telling me anything new, Doop dapps. And some British individuals  know it is called the Electric Slide."

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25.@michaeltackson4154, 2021
"Imagine my surprise when I clicked on this video to see a dance I've never heard of called The Candy Dance, and see my people doing The Electric Slide that we've been doing at EVERY family gathering FOREVER 🤣😂"

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26. @Feliososarky, 2021
"Soooo yall been doing the electric slide to candy this whole time?!?! When was this a thing?

I NEED ANSWERS "
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27. @MegaREALdiva, 2021
"At least for 20 years

Lmao

I learned it when I was 7ish (in the 90s) to this song and I’m  30 now

If this song isn’t Available then Before I let you go might work 🤦🤣"

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28. @NYCSDancer, 2022
" @MegaREALdiva  "The Electric" (c)1976 was done to this song "Candy" in the movie "The Best Man" and was the first time the British got to see the dance and so they called it The Candy Dance..."

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29. @bruelelungu1056, 2021
"Every black wedding ive been to this has always been there and everyone knows the dance 😂"

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30. @michaeltackson4154,2021
"Yes. It's called The Electric Slide"

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31. @keepingitreal.544, 2023
"Every predominantly white wedding,party,get togethers it's played too... Great song and dance"

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32. @CAPOEIRYDA, 2021
"ELECTRIC...

SLIDE!!

Yall need to stop with this Candy Dance crap"

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33. @shademanirvanipour6870, 2022
"This video recording done in west end of London near Piccadilly Circus and Regent street"

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Five YouTube Videos Of The Electric Slide Performed To Cameo's Record "Candy"

Jon Williams, Jul 21, 2015

Movie: The Best Man 
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Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Man_(1999_film) for information about this1999 American movie.

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This is Part III of a three part 2022 pancocojams series about the line dance that is known as The Electric Slide, and some other names.

This post showcases several videos of people throughout the world dancing The Electric Slide to Cameo's song "Candy".

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-electric-slide-candy-dance-came-to.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I presents information about "The Electric Slide" line dance (also known as "The Candy dance" and other names. That post also presents information about Marcia Griffiths' "Electric Boogie" and Cameo's "Candy". These are just two of the records that dance is performed to. for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I presents information about "The Electric Slide" line dance (also known as "The Candy dance" and other names.

This post also presents information about Marcia Griffiths' "Electric Boogie" and Cameo's "Candy". These are just two of the records that dance is performed to

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/04/black-people-arent-werent-only-ones-who.html for Part II of this 2022 pancocojams series. Part II presents a compilation of selected YouTube discussion thread comments about people throughout the world dancing The Electric Slide. 

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.   

Thanks to Bunny Wailer for composing the song "Electric Boogie" and thanks to Marcia Griffiths for her hit song "Electric Boogie". Thanks to Cameo for the song "Candy" and thanks to Ric Silver for his choreography of the earliest version of the "Electric Slide" line dance. Thanks also to all those who are featured in these videos, thanks to all those who are quoted in this post, and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.

-snip- Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/history-of-electric-slide.html for Part I of a 2012 pancocojams post entitled "The History Of The Electric Slide (information & video)". 
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/selected-videos-of-electric-slide.html for Part II of this pancocojam seies entitled "Selected Videos Of The Electric Slide".

Also, click http://zumalayah.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-electric-slide-in-usa-caribbean-and.html for the post entitled "The Electric Slide In The USA, The Caribbean, And In Africa" on my Zumalayah blog.

**** ADDITIONAL YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF PEOPLE DANCING THE ELECTRIC SLIDE TO CAMEO'S RECORD CANDY Video #2 Dee Dan, Jan 1, 2010

NYE @ an event called 'Beautiful' held in the Park Plaza Hotel. This event / dance Hall has been running for three years consecutively as you can see from the general turn out. I must add who ever say's we can't work together is wrong. This clip was captured by chance to illustrate the general power of the people who wanted to demonstrate happy times, culture and community. Need I say more? It is what it is so view for yourselves and appreciate a common goal we all share not forgetting a classic moment of dancing formation in style bringing in the 2010. This stuff is starting now - Just keep doing what you do... -snip- This event was in the United Kingdom. ****

Video #3: Candy Dance at Nana & Russell Nii Odartei's engagment party

akua ofosuhene, Oct. 13, 2009
10-10-09 will always stay in my mind, because that's the day Nana & Russell Odartei Evans had their traditional wedding at home. Then in the evening they had what will go down as the best engagement party ever!!!! & the crowning was everyone joined in the CANDY DANCE !!!. -snip- Here are two comments from that YouTube video's discussion thread: Littlelambism, 2011 "The ghanaian parties are the best!!!"
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My guess is that this event occurred at a Ghanaian party in the United Kingdom.

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theoloyla, 2015
"Danced all over the world as The Electric Slide since the 90's"

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Video #4: Cameo - Candy @ Notting Hill Carnival 2014 ..spontaneous crowd dance

J Saul Kane, Aug 26, 2014
**** Video #5: Candy Electric Slide Dance to Cameo's 80s song
 

Shom, Nov 28, 2016

A well executed electric slide carried out at a wedding in the Brewery Moorgate London. If you don't know the dance then now you do. The original electric slide is actually from Marcia Griffiths - Electric boogie song in 1976 (released 1982)

**** This concludes Part III of this pancocojams series. Thanks for visiting pancocojams. Visitor comments are welcome.

Black People Aren't (Weren't) The Only Ones Who Dance/d The Electric Slide

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part 2022 pancocojams series about the line dance that is known as The Electric Slide, and some other names.

This post presents a compilation of selected YouTube discussion thread comments about people throughout the world who remember dancing or who still dance The Electric Slide.

This post also includes some comments about where The Electric Slide was danced - for instance, as part of some schools PE (physical education) classes. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-electric-slide-candy-dance-came-to.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I presents information about "The Electric Slide" line dance (also known as "The Candy dance" and other names. That post also presents information about Marcia Griffiths' "Electric Boogie" and Cameo's "Candy". These are just two of the records that dance is performed to. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/04/youtube-videos-of-electric-slide.html for Part III of this pancocojams series. That post showcases various YouTube videos of people throughout the world dancing The Electric Slide to Cameo's song "Candy".

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.   

Thanks to Bunny Wailer for composing the song "Electric Boogie" and thanks to Marcia Griffiths for her hit song "Electric Boogie". Thanks to Cameo for the song "Candy" and thanks to Ric Silver for his choreography of the earliest version of the "Electric Slide" line dance. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. **** PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE While reading YouTube discussion threads on The Electric Slide I was surprised to learn that it wasn't just Black people in the United States and in the Caribbean who considered The Electric Slide to be a must have dance for their parties and other social events. I've compiled these selected comments because I want to share this point with other pancocojams visitors.

I chose to exclude any examples in this compilation of the numerous comments in these "Electric Slide" discussion threads about racism in the world, racism in the music industry, cultural appropriation, giving credit to Black people for our music, and whether or not White people can  dance.

**** SELECTED COMMENTS FROM VARIOUS YOUTUBE DISCUSSION THREADS

These discussion threads are numbered for referencing purposes only.

Some of these discussion threads include multiple comments that refer to specific races, ethnicities, nationalities etc dancing The Electric Slide.  These discussion threads also include multiple comments about where The Electric Slide was danced.  This compilation only includes selected examples of these comments.

DISCUSSION THREAD #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jBkoEM0SSE

Marcia Griffiths- Electric Boogie (The Electric Slide) (Promo) (HQ), Mickey Mouse, Oct 4, 2012

COMMENTS

2018
1. Rhazael A
"the official filipino party song!!! 😩😂🤙🏼"

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2/ Chicken Broccoli Rice
"It's a law to play this in conjunction with the Cha Cha Slide at every black birthday party and wedding."

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3. Konnor, Rock Konnoisseur
…"My family’s white af and this is at all my relative’s weddings and B-day’s"

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2019

4. mrsora16
"When I was elementary school the gym teachers would make us dance to this along with the cha cha slide lol"

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5. nut
"oml i have a dance unit in PE and i have to do this dance"

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6. Des Maree
"Im african so i came here to see what all my american friends were talking about. looks cool tho."

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7. Zion Malaki
"Played at Every Polynesian Party"

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8. The Maniak
"A piece of African American culture right here💯💯💯✊🏾"

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9. isaac Heres
"Kids today won't understand this song how it was overplayed in the early 90's in weddings and bar-mitzvahs. This song was an addiction....Admit it you got up to dance with a group of others dancing choreographicly to this song"

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10. Sydney
"My black cousins and uncles and I stayed doing the most to this song, we used to wild out at family reunions. I was an awkward, lanky little biracial girl raised mostly by my white family, but damnit I tried my best to kill it! Best years of my life."

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11. malcolm taylor
"No black family reunion or any bar-b-que is complete without this ‘feel good song’. This song also gave rise to several popular dances along the way. It remains a staple in the black community and is still popular at weddings and other gatherings to this very day. In the Deep South, we could always tell when it was last call and last dance in nightclubs because the deejay would put this on the turntable, signaling that the lights would be coming on and the club was closing for the night - usually around 2:00 AM ....... A Classic"

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12. sreggird60
"The first time I heard this I was stationed in Italy. I remember dancing to it in a club in Naples. Half the people in the club didn't even understand the words but the music is universal."

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13. youtubeabuser
"Black cookouts and wedding receptions haven’t been the same since ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾"

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14. Finius Wideman
"White cookouts and weddings ad well. This is one of only three songs that will make any group of people at any function get up and dance."

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15. Konnor, Rock Konnoisseur
"I’ve been to white, black and Latino weddings. All three for a fact get down to Electric Slide, Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, and Wobble"

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16. Finius Wideman
" @Konnor, Rock Konnoisseur  damn right, people of all races appreciate great music v"

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2020

17. Michi Kaili
"Hawaii party's play this at the very ending.."

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18. Joice Lineth Rodriguez
"En Panamá lo bailamos hasta el cansancio...en los saraos del colegio"
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Google translate from Spanish to English:
"In Panama we dance it to exhaustion... at school soirees"

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19. Perfect Fade
"Every samoan party 🌴"

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20. Dana Edwards
"I remember this from the 80s and 90s white Jewish bar mitzvahs at the tavern on the green. The DJ liked this and hands up baby give me your heart lots."

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21. old guy
"Damn I wished I could do that, but I'm just an old white guy!"

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22. Judith Bennington
"You CAN do this! This song and dance is not just for us black people but it's for all races. I believe you can do it! 😉"

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23. old guy
"@Judith Bennington  Thanks for your confidence Judith I hope to do the electric slide for our 50th wedding anniversary next year."

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24. aplsed
"Every Caribbean cookout on the freaking planet."

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25. Hidden Shinobi
"Everyone talking about cookout and family but does no one remember this playing at literally any Amusement park and just automatically having a great time hearing this!!!??? My childhood was at Amusement Parks"

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26. Adam RJ
"Finally found this song... I was on a cruise in 2005 from Miami and every night this used to come on in the disco, and all these Americans who knew the song used to jump up and do this dance... now I know why...great times...hahaha 👍"

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2021

27. Electra Herz
"They closed down the skating rink I went to as a kid that played this song every weekend I went. I remember dancing to this at every school dance and prom I went to. It gives me such nostalgia now. I just wish I could dance to it again"

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28. Noodle Mink
"Man I remember being at Disneyland in the 90s with my family. I was only what, probably 5 years old. This song was on a big screen outside and we were in a big group of people and everybody was dancing! Such a carefree time!"

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29. Leon Woods
"Wow they did  the electric slide in Mexico ? Amazing."

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DISCUSSION THREAD #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w2Anvecs6s The Best Man Electric Slide Scene( Candy- Cameo) Dance; RockKG973, May 8, 2013

COMMENTS 

2016

1. Cali4ah
"If the electric slide doesn't break out at every black family function there's something wrong hell we even did it at my graduation party 😂😂 #ILoveMyCulture"

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2. Maria Teijmul, 2019
"American not any Black function because that is like saying other Black countries too. I love this dance and look at it and would like to go to a function where this line dance was actually done several times so I could pick up the steps and really participate and get this feeling"

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3. trinigyul, 2022
" @Maria Teijmul Girl you're wrong, we did it at my wedding and every other black wedding I've been to and we're allll the way in the Caribbean."

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4. OLA. ODUS
"True, it must be a black thing because guys were doing this dance years ago at weddings even in Lagos-Nigeria, and Accra -Ghana too!...................hope Africa gets its act together for all our people.............love!"

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5. Blondelle Straker, 2018
"It’s a black thang lol I love it."

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6. klaudiusz swierczynski, 2018
"Black or not, this song unites us all!"

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7. robakin, 2016
"We do it all over the world U.S Africa,Caribbean,South and Latin

america.LBB love being black.I have nothing against others but damn we

bring it to the world mostly without others recognizing it.just like some

 whites in the U.S they change it to Achy-Breaky heart line dance.Give

Credit where its do"

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2020

8. Prince G Yangi
"We did this at my brother's weeding with the soundtrack of "Danza Kaduro" and our white friends couldn't keep up. 😊"
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danza_Kuduro
" 'Danza Kuduro" (English: Dance Kuduro)' is a Spanish/Portuguese song by Puerto Rican recording artist Don Omar and Portuguese–French singer Lucenzo from Don Omar's collaborative album Meet the Orphans"...

[…]

Originally designed to pay tribute towards the many disfigured and crippled people within the country [of Angola, Southwestern Africa] due to the deadly civil war that ravaged the country and left landmines throughout the region. The dance is meant to not only pay tribute towards these handicapped individuals, but also incorporate their erratic and jerky movements into the flow of the moves.”…

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DISCUSSION THREAD #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnSr-59d5S4 Cameo Candy Dance, TJ Chill, Sep 27, 2017

UK Hip Hop artist TJ Chill marries gospel artist Sophie Agard and their wedding reception guests get down in unison to Cameo's club classic 'Candy' at the La Royale Banqueting Suite in Tottenham, London on 14th Sept 2017

COMMENT 

Jessica lewis, 2021
"This how we do the electric slide in TT🇹🇹 😁😁"

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DISCUSSION THREAD #4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-pKbPw9Zw Candy dance steps, aniks100, Oct 14, 2010

COMMENTS 

2014

1. Uncilro
"How are we calling the Electric Slide the "Candy Line Dance"???? I don't understand."

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2. Ric Silver, 2015
" @Uncilro  In England - the Electric Slide is known as The Candy Dance"

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3. BlackAmericanLesbian Professional, 2019
"Uncilro, you are correct. I am Black American living in the UK for five years now. I have been telling many Black British and Black people in the UK that this is the line dance called The Electric Slide. Which there's a song and music video it goes with titled Electric Boogie (The Electric Slide) (1989 or 1990) by Marcia Griffiths.

Many younger Black people in the UK and Black British individuals know it as Candy Slide. Some older Black British individuals and older Black people in the UK know that it's called the The Electric Slide which they told me after dancing.

I have even played the Electric Boogie (The Electric Slide) (1989 or 1990) by Marcia Griffiths music video for a few younger British individuals to show the line dance to the original song. I would explain the music video is from my childhood in the early 1990s (I was born in 1984). And when it is played anywhere across the USA, anyone jumps up and starts doing The Electric Slide.

The reason why in the UK, this line dance is known as Candy Slide is because someone obviously watched the movie The Best Man (1999) and started playing it at dance parties but didn't know it is called The Electric Slide. At the end of the movie, all the movie characters at the wedding reception do The Electric Slide to the song Candy by Cameo. I have explained this to several people here in the UK.

I have told people when you go visit or live somewhere in the USA and ask to play the Candy Slide, no one will know what you are speaking about. But if you mention The Electric Slide, absolutely people would know! :)

j Pat, this is definitely not The Hustle line dance. I have seen and tried The Hustle which I believe it goes with the song The Hustle (1975) by Van McCoy. If you are speaking of that, there is a complete 360 turn you have to do whereas the The Electric Slide doesn't. And other different movements.

Ric Silver, how cool that you are the creator of the line dance The Electric Slide. I believe you because of the details with describing the choreography of the line dance. :)"

 
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2015

4. Abigail Adejokun
"they play this song a lot in nigerian partys"
-snip-
In this discussion thread, "this song" refers to Cameo's 1986 Funk record "Candy".

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5. Ang Ang10
"They play this in Greek weddings to"

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2018

6. Minor Ears
"Jamaicans, Nigerians, they play this at black parties."

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7. Fent, 2019
"They play it at white parties too"

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8. Aksaifulazmi Saiful
"Wow.. malay call poco poco dance"

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2021

9. lit reubz
"If your black you done know this and if you’re white and know big up you"

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This concludes Part II of this 2022 pancocojams series on The Electric Slide.

Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

How The Electric Slide (The Candy Dance) Came To Be Danced To Cameo's Song "Candy"

Brendan Eggers,June 26, 2015

By Brendan Eggers, Kevin Doyle, Victor Davidson, Stefanie Ewing

**** Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part I of a three part 2022 pancocojams series about the line dance that is known as The Electric Slide, and some other names.

This post presents information about "The Electric Slide" line dance (also known as "The Candy dance" and other names.

This post also presents information about Marcia Griffiths' "Electric Boogie" and Cameo's "Candy". These are just two of the records that dance is performed to. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/04/black-people-arent-werent-only-ones-who.html for Part II of this 2022 pancocojams series. Part II presents a compilation of selected YouTube discussion thread comments about people throughout the world dancing The Electric Slide. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/04/youtube-videos-of-electric-slide.html for Part III of this pancocojams series. That post showcases various YouTube videos of people throughout the world dancing The Electric Slide to Cameo's song "Candy".

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.   

Thanks to Bunny Wailer for composing the song "Electric Boogie" and thanks to Marcia Griffiths for her hit song "Electric Boogie". Thanks to Cameo for the song "Candy" and thanks to Ric Silver for his choreography of the earliest version of the "Electric Slide" line dance. Thanks also to all those who are featured in these videos, thanks to all those who are quoted in this post, and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.

-snip- Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/history-of-electric-slide.html for Part I of a 2012 pancocojams post entitled "The History Of The Electric Slide (information & video)". 
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/selected-videos-of-electric-slide.html for Part II of this pancocojam seies entitled "Selected Videos Of The Electric Slide".

Also, click http://zumalayah.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-electric-slide-in-usa-caribbean-and.html for the post entitled "The Electric Slide In The USA, The Caribbean, And In Africa"

on my Zumalayah blog.

**** INFORMATION ABOUT THE ELECTRIC SLIDE ("THE CANDY DANCE") DANCED TO MARCIA GRIFFIN'S ELECTRIC BOOGIE Excerpt #1 From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Slide [retrieved April 10, 2022]
" 'The Electric (better known as The Electric Slide)' is a four wall line dance set to Marcia Griffiths and Bunny Wailer's song "Electric Boogie".[1]
 

Choreographer, pianist and Broadway performer Richard L. "Ric" Silver created the dance in 1976 from a demo of the Bunny Wailer recording. There are several variations of the dance. The original choreography has 22 steps,[2] but variants include the Freeze (16 step), Cowboy Motion (24 step), Cowboy Boogie (24 step), and the Electric Slide 2 (18 step). The 18-step variation became popular in 1989 and for ten years was listed by Linedancer Magazine as the number-one dance in the world."...

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Excerpt #2: 
From https://www.essence.com/entertainment/the-best-man-changed-black-weddings-forever-thanks-to-one-song/ How the Electric Slide became the Black Lives Matter protest dance

This is a moment of movement: as people gather to push for change, collective dancing has become activism in motion

by Sanjoy Roy, Thu 11 Jun 2020 
"The protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd have spread across the world and as many have said: this is not a moment, it’s a movement. But it is also a moment of movement, as the protests have been accompanied by outbreaks of dancing. A common sight on social media and light news spots are the Electric Slide and the Cupid Shuffle, but you can also see the Cha-cha Slide, Macarena, krumping and the haka dance

[…]

Right now, the people’s movement of choice looks to be the Electric Slide. Why? Like the Cupid Shuffle and Cha-cha Slide, it’s a four-wall line dance with a 90-degree turn between each repeat, so you can keep it going for as long as it takes. The basic sequence – sidesteps and step-touches – are simple, though the Cupid Shuffle is even simpler. Once you have the steps, you can style the rest how you like.

The dance has a long pedigree, with black roots and widespread branches. The step sequence was first devised by Broadway dancer Ric Silver in 1976 to an upbeat reggae song by Bunny Wailer, Electric Boogie, a hit in Jamaica that went on to become a more mainstream US success for his compatriot Marcia Griffiths, in 1982 and 1989.

Interestingly, Silver tried very hard to authorise his original 22-step sequence (his birthday being 22 January, he was very attached to the number), but despite takedown notices and copyright claims, it’s an unauthorised 18-step version that took hold. You can see why the people’s version won out. After a regular 16 counts, those extra 2 to swivel are like a cute little touch, sending you a notch round the phrase; add in another 4 and you’ve lost the tickle.

In the 1990s, the sequence was styled for American line-dancing and became a genre staple. It got another big boost through the 1999 black romcom The Best Man, here danced to Cameo’s 1986 hit single Candy. It has become massively popular at parties and weddings, and is often called the Candy Dance.

And that’s the Electric Slide. Rooted in black culture, very widely known, accessible, adaptable, inclusive. Why not learn it? It could be fun, you can make it funky, but it won’t just be frivolous.”

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A VIDEO OF BLACK PEOPLE DOING THE ELECTRIC SLIDE TO MARCIA GRIFFIN'S RECORD "ELECTRIC BOOGIE"

Electric Slide At A Black Wedding Newport News, Rhode Island, USA

ramuandthecrew2011, July 10, 2011 

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INFORMATION ABOUT CAMEO'S RECORD "CANDY"

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_(Cameo_song)

" "Candy" is a song by funk group Cameo, released as the second single from their 1986 album Word Up!. The song features a solo by saxophonist Michael Brecker. "Honey", a reworked version with different lyrics was included on their next album, Machismo.

 Charts

In the US, "Candy" reached number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the R&B charts in 1987 in the U.S.[1] "Candy" also made the Top 10 on the US Dance charts. It also reached the top 40 in the UK, peaking at number 27 on 30 November 1986."...

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE USE OF CAMEO'S SONG CANDY FOR THE ELECTRIC SLIDE LINE DANCE 
From https://www.essence.com/entertainment/the-best-man-changed-black-weddings-forever-thanks-to-one-song/ ‘The Best Man’ Changed Black Weddings Forever Thanks To One Song *

If You've Ever Been To A Black Wedding, Then You Understand The Sheer Hysteria That Occurs When The DJ Plays "Candy" By Cameo

By Kimberly Wilson, Updated October 23, 2020
"Let’s face it — Black folks love a good line dance. The Cha-Cha slide? The Cupid shuffle? The Wobble? The Nae Nae? Seriously, the list goes on and on. And if you’ve ever been to a Black wedding, then you understand the sheer hysteria that occurs when the DJ drops the OG of them all — the “Electric Slide.”

But ever since The Best Man came out nearly 20 years ago, the concept of the electric slide has changed forever. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the film centers on a college clique, who reunite when two of the friends — Mia and Lance, played by Monica Calhoun and Morris Chestnut —  decide to get married. History was made on that fateful day at Mia and Lance’s wedding, which almost didn’t happen thanks to the couple’s messy best man, played by Taye Diggs. In the film’s final scene, one man knew what he was doing when he said, “I’m going to get it going on, y’all.” And the rest was history! The entire wedding party was on the floor electric sliding through the credits. But they weren’t two-stepping to Marcia Griffiths’ and Bunny Wailer’s “Electric Boogie.” Instead, the iconic dance was brought to life by Cameo’s “Candy.”

Though the original song will always remain in our hearts, it’s safe to say that “Candy” is now the unofficial Black wedding jam for the next generation. Because ever since that film, we’ve been electric sliding to “Candy” on every dance floor from Harlem to Hollywood. But let’s give respect where respect is due. The Electric Slide started with the song “Electric Boogie.” Written and recorded by Wailer (of Bob Marley’s reggae group The Wailers) in 1976, the song first garnered attention when Griffiths, a member of Marley’s famous backing group the I-Threes, covered it in 1982 and sent it to the top of the Jamaican charts.

To this day, it remains the biggest selling record for a female reggae singer ever. …. Thank you to The Best Man for giving us another spin to a dance that will forever be ingrained in our culture. We salute you!”
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*This article includes photographs that aren't given in this reprint.

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Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.

Selected Videos Of The Electric Slide

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post is a continuation of the pancocojams' post "The History Of The Electric Slide" http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/history-of-electric-slide.html

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE ELECTRIC SLIDE
The Electric Boogie is a song that was written by Jamaican Reggae artist Bunny Wailer. That song was first recorded in 1976 by Bunny Wailer & Marcia Griffiths and was released again in 1989 by Marcia Griffiths.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Slide, "The Electric aka The Electric Slide is a four wall line dance set to the Marcia Griffiths' song "Electric Boogie" and created by choreographer Ric Silver created the dance in 1976.

In the United States, the Electric Slide is a highly participatory dance. When that record comes on at weddings, parties, and other social gatherings, the expectation is that a lot of people, regardless of gender or age, will come on to the dance floor and join in that danc.anyone who wants to join in that dance. It should be noted that the Electric Slide isn't just a feature at African American social gatherings, but is also done by White Americans and Americans of other races & ethnicities. While the Electric Slide dance was first done to Marcia Griffiths' "Electric Boogie", particularly among African Americans the 1986 record "Candy" by the Funk group Cameo appears to be the record that is most often played for that dance. This is due in part to that 1986 record being used for the Electric Slide scene at the end of the American movie "The Best Man" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168501/. A video of that scene is given below as Example #1.

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FEATURED VIDEOS
(These videos are presented in no ranking order.)

Video #1: Terrence Howard in dance scene 'The Best Man'



kiowasioux1980,Published on Jul 24, 2012

Terrence Howard cutting the rug in this dance scene 3 3 3
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"Electric Slide" to the song "Candy" by Cameo.

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Video #2 - It's Electric.... Slide to Classic R&B



Uploaded by davistheband5 on Jan 6, 2011

Davis Family Band motivates physical activity through music and dance.

Electric Slide is contagious...

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Video #3: No Joke! 103-year old grandma does the Electric Slide. Better than you



Uploaded by BEEBOB3 on Oct 26, 2009

Grandma Mary struts her stuff at great grand son's wedding. She still can move on the dance floor

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Video #4: Electric Slide



DianeSL, Uploaded on Aug 24, 2007

Big guests and little guests do the Electric Slide dance!
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The group dance that is done in the beginning of this video is the Cha Cha Slide. The Electric Slide begins at 3:12. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/wooble-other-line-dance-videos.html for a pancocojams post that includes a video of the Cha Cha Slide.

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Video #5: The Best Dance - Electric Slide At Six Flags



Uploaded by raychey69 on Jul 2, 2009

this is my cousin james. he decided to join in and do the electric slide at Marine world. and added his own flavour into it. this guy has no shame. i tried my best too:D Me and my brother are vistors from australia.Camera man is my brother Michael

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RELATED LINKS
Click this post on my Zumalayah blog for videos of The Electric Slide In The USA, The Caribbean, And In Africa http://zumalayah.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-electric-slide-in-usa-caribbean-and.html

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"The Electric Slide" was also performed during the Flash Mob that was held in Times Square, New York, in tribute to Don Cornelius and the long running SoulTrain music & dance television show.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/02/soul-train-line-formation-video.html for 2.33-2.47 of the video "Soul Train" flash mob tribute to Don Cornelius - New York

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