Purple Charlotte Steppers doing Chuck Baby Line Dance
**** Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases seven YouTube videos of the "Chuck Baby" Soul Line dance. This line dance is always performed to the 2007 Go Go record "Chuck Baby" by Chuck Brown. These videos were published in 2022, 2023, 2016, and 2023.
This post also includes my editorial notes about these videos.
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Chuck Brown for his cultural and musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
**** PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
This pancocojams post documents different ways that groups of female and male adult line dancers from various cities in the United States danced to the record "Chuck Baby". These videos also documents the different ways that one or more individuals within those groups performed more than the basic steps of that dance, "putting their own flavor to the mix."'
Most of the video in this post document soul line dancing before the custom of dancers holding and popping fans began or became widespread. Although a few of these videos showed line dancers holding a closed fan while dancing, none of those videos showed any fans being "popped" (i.e. the action and sound that is produced when line dancers flick their wrist, thereby opening up their fan which makes a popping sound). Prior to the now familiar custom of many soul line dancers holding and popping a folding fan while they dance, some soul line dancers held a short (usually) white cloth towel. That towel is used to wipe the sweat of their brow usually at the completion of a dance. Sometimes line dancers wave these towels, but that isn't shown in these particular videos.
I just happened to include videos that featured dancers carrying one of these towels. I didn't purposely choose videos with that feature in advance and wasn't aware of that commonality until I published and then re-watched this post.
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Video #2, a whistle is heard in the beginning of the dance, but the person blowing the whistle isn't on camera. Soul line dance videos that feature fan popping sometimes also include the sound of one person blowing a whistle to augment the line dance's recorded song.
ADDITIONAL SHOWCASE VIDEOS These videos are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.
SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - Chuck Baby Line Dance
Freda Terry, Sep 24, 2011
Freda Terry (Chicago's Line Dance Instructor) join Juanita
Collins (North Carolina's Line Dance "Down South Shuffle's Instructor) in
Chapel Hill celebrating Juanita's birthday with a line dancing work shop and
her crew. Had a great time doing
"Chuck Baby" and you can, too. -snip- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVtllEg9UNk
@LDFFTV, Jun 24, 2024 -snip- This is a snippet of attendees of the Bull City Sliders Spring Throwback Party doing the line dance, "Chuck Baby", choreographed by Sharon Holmes to the song, "Chuck Baby" by Chuck Brown https://youtube.com/shorts/MZdrbDZjMbQ?si=_YotOa5taSXPo5mr
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 -Chuck Baby Line Dance, an oldie but a good one
@dinahharvey7763, 2023 "I see instead of them stepping up they're kicking up nice
move." -snip- This comment refers to the fact that there are several choreographies for the "Chuck Baby" line dance. In addition to members of a group or class doing the choreography that is accepted by that group or class, individuals can add their own twist to certain steps or moves as long as they remain on beat and don't get too "extra."
PBS is an American public broadcast service. Wikipedia
Chuck Brown performs at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.
Video courtesy of raw Venture Records & Tapes
-snip- Comments are turned off -snip- Chuck Brown's "Wind Me Up" record was first released in 2010
I believe that the crowd at the beginning of this video are shouting 'Wind me up, Chuck" to encourage Chuck Brown and his band to perform that song. Please let me know in the comment section below what you hear that crowd saying
**** Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases Chuck Brown's Go Go song "Wind Me Up"*.
This post also presents some information about Chuck Brown and some information about Washington Go Go music.
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Chuck Brown and his Soul Searchers' band for their musical and cultural legacy. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to PBS News Hour, the publisher of this video on YouTube. -snip- The English language word "wind" in the song title "Wind Me Up" is pronounced like the English language word "wine". In the context of this song, "wind me up " means "excite me".
"Charles Louis Brown (August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012) was an
American guitarist, bandleader, and singer known as "The Godfather of
Go-Go".[1] Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed around the
Washington, D.C., area in the mid-1970s. While its musical classification,
influences, and origins are debated, Brown is regarded as the fundamental force
behind the creation of go-go music.[2][3]
At the time of his death, he was still performing music and
was well-known in the Washington, D.C., area. The song "Ashley's
Roachclip" from the 1974 album Salt of the Earth by Brown's band The Soul
Searchers[4] contains a drum break, sampled countless times in various other
tracks.[5] Brown's R&B hits include "Bustin' Loose"(1979)[6] and
"We Need Some Money"(1984).[7]
[…]
Awards and honors
Brown was a recipient of a 2005 National Heritage Fellowship
awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States'
highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.[22]
In 2009, the 1900 block of 7th Street NW, in Northwest
Washington, D.C., between Florida Avenue and T Street, was renamed Chuck Brown
Way in his honor.
On September 4, 2011, Brown was honored by the National
Symphony Orchestra, as the NSO paid tribute to Legends of Washington Music
Labor Day concert - honoring Brown's music, as well as Duke Ellington and John
Philip Sousa - with a free concert on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Brown and
his band capped off the evening with a performance.
In 2014, the Chuck Brown Memorial Park in Langdon
neighborhood, Washington, D.C., was built to honor Brown. It features a
memorial wall honoring his life and achievements, as well as a sculpture called
"Wind Me Up, Chuck", signifying the "call and response"
associated with go-go music.[23][24]
[…]
Genres
Go-go, funk, swing, hip hop, neo soul, jazz-funk blues
Instrument Guitar
Years active 1960s–2012"...
**** INFORMATION ABOUT WASHINGTON D. C.'S GO GO MUSIC
"Go-go is a subgenre of funk music with an emphasis on
specific rhythmic patterns, and live audience call and response.
Go-go was originated by African-American musicians in
Washington, D.C., during the mid-1960s to late-1970s. Go-go has limited
popularity in other areas, but maintains a devoted audience in the Washington
metropolitan area as a uniquely regional music style and was named the official
music of Washington, D.C., in February 2020.[2]
Performers associated with the development of the style
include Rare Essence, EU, Trouble Funk, and singer-guitarist Chuck Brown.[3]
Modern artists like Charles "Shorty Corleone" Garris continue the
go-go tradition in D.C.[4]
Description
The most important part of the go-go beat is the bass/snare
pattern.
In technical terms, "go-go's essential beat is
characterized by a five through four syncopated rhythm that is underscored
prominently by the bass drum and snare drum, and the hi-hat... [and] is
ornamented by the other percussion instruments, especially by the conga drums,
rototoms, and hand-held cowbells."[5]
Unique to go-go is instrumentation with two standard congas
and two junior congas, 8" and 9" wide and about half as tall as the
standard congas, a size rare outside go-go. They were introduced to Rare
Essence by Tyrone "Jungle Boogie" Williams in the early days when
they couldn't afford full-sized congas and are ubiquitous ever since.[6] Its
name arises from the persistent percussive beat, but it incorporates elements
of many other genres.[7]
Origins
Although Chuck Brown is known as "the Godfather of
Go-Go", go-go is a musical movement that cannot be traced back to one
single person, as there were so many bands that flourished during the beginning
of this era that they collectively created the sound that is recognized as
go-go of today. Artists such as Marvin Gaye, Van McCoy, Billy Stewart, Peaches
& Herb, Black Heat,[8] Experience Unlimited (E.U.), Vernon Burch, Sir Joe
Quarterman & the Free Soul, the Moments, Ray, Goodman & Brown, True
Reflection, the Unifics, Terry Huff & Special Delivery,[9] Act 1, the
Dynamic Superiors, Skip Mahoney & the Casuals, the Choice Four, and the
Fuzz that played soul music during pre-go-go era.[10]
The term "gogo" (as it applies to a music venue)
originated in France in the early 1960s, at the Whiskyagogo nightclub, named
after the French title for the British comedy "Whisky Galore!".[11]
The club also featured go-go dancers. In January 1964, capitalizing on the
emerging popularity of "go-go dancers", the name was licensed to a
Los Angeles club, the Whisky a Go Go, and from there the term "go-go"
spread nationwide.[12] The Cafe Au Go Go in NYC was also in business during
that time, gaining notoriety when Lenny Bruce was arrested there in April
1964.[13] By 1965, "go-go" was a recognized word for a music club, as
evidenced by the TV show Hollywood A Go-Go (march 1965-1966), or the song title
of that year's hit Going to a Go-Go by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
(released November 1965). At a go-go club, dancers could expect to hear the
latest top 40 hits, performed by local bands and DJ's. (The French Whiskyagogo
had been one of the first venues in the world to replace live music with records
selected by a disc jockey.)[11]
In Washington D.C., minor group the Young Senators were
formed in 1965, beginning a fierce competition with Chuck Brown and Black Heat
on the local club circuit. The Young Senators later became known for their song
"Jungle" released in 1970 by Innovation Records.[14][10][15]
Guitarist and bandleader Chuck Brown is widely regarded as
"the Godfather of Go-Go".
Chuck Brown was a fixture on Washington and Maryland music
scene with his band Los Lotinos as far back as 1966. By the mid-1970s, he had
changed the group's name to The Soul Searchers, and developed a laid-back,
rhythm-heavy style of funk performed with one song blending into the next (in
order to keep people on the dance floor). The beat was based on Grover
Washington Jr.'s song "Mr. Magic,"[16] though Brown has said in
interviews that both he and Washington had adapted the beat from a gospel music
beat found in black churches.[17]
[…]
History
Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers released their first
go-go hit "Bustin' Loose" in late 1978; it reached number one on the
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs R&B charts and held that position for a
month during February and March 1979 (peaking at #34 on the Pop chart).
Experience Unlimited (a.k.a. E.U.) who originally formed in
1974 was a band more influenced by rock (their name a nod to the Jimi Hendrix
Experience[18]), that started out in the 1970s. After witnessing Rare Essence
in the late-1970s, they modified their style to incorporate the go-go beat.
Kurtis Blow's "Party Time" subsequently put them on the map to be
later tracked down by Grace Jones and to take the King of Go-Go Production,
Maxx Kidd to an international music adventure with Island Records, to make E.U.'s
greatest hit "Da Butt" for the soundtrack of the 1988 film School
Daze, written, directed and produced by Spike Lee.
[..]
1980s
In the 1980s, some go-go bands such as Chuck Brown, Trouble
Funk, EU, Rare Essence, Hot Cold Sweat, The Junk Yard Band, AM/FM, Redds and
the Boys, Slug-Go achieved local success. Trouble Funk put out a few records on
New Jersey–based label Jamtu before signing with one of the more powerful hip
hop labels, Sugar Hill, where it released a six-track LP called Drop the Bomb
in 1982, which included the hit "Pump Me Up" which had already been a
regional hit years before. Maxx Kidd founded go-go label T.T.E.D. Records in
1982.
E.U. got its big break in 1986 when it was booked to play a
party celebrating the release of Spike Lee's debut film, She's Gotta Have
It.[23] Lee liked what he heard, and tapped the band to perform a song in his
next movie, School Daze. "Da Butt" (written for the film by Marcus
Miller and E.U. keyboardist, Kent Wood) made it to number one on Billboard's
R&B chart (No. 35 Pop) and scored the band a Grammy nomination (they lost
to "Love Overboard" by Gladys Knight & the Pips)”… -snip- "Washington D.C.'s Go Go music isn't the same music that was played for "Go Go dancing".
The full video of the high school stomp and shake cheer
battle at a high school game. Absolutely love these young ladies 💯❤️ -snip-
total # of views as of March 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM = 838,581
total # of comments as of March 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM -1,264
**** Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video for the 2023 middle school & high school stomp and shake cheer "You Don't Want No Problems. You Don't Talk Like You Do" This post also includes the words of those showcased cheers as well as selected comments from those videos' discussion threads about what the commenters liked about those showcased cheers.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, and recreational purposes.
Thanks to the unknown composer of this cheer. Thanks to all those who are featured in this video and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post. -snip- Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/05/north-wests-rap-miss-westie-in-kanye.html for the pancocojams post enitled "North West's Rap "Miss Westie" In Kanye West's Song "Talking" Includes A Sample Of The Stomp & Shake Cheer "You Don't Have No Problems, You Just Talk Like You Do"". That post includes the same video of this stomp and shake cheer that is showcased above as well as some comments from that video's discussion thread that aren't included in this 2025 pancocojams post. Those comments focus on Kanye's daughter's use of a sample from that video in her debut song.
**** WORDS TO THIS CHEER "LYRICS: “You don’t want no problems / you just talk like you do.
2x: Let me / show you / that you don’t want no problems / you just talk like you do. / Say it to our face / knuck if you buck. / So step up out them bleachers / wassup? / Get buck!”
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒" -posted by @antoinettebefree, 2023
**** PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S SUMMARY Here's my summary of what some commenters in this video's discussion thread liked about this middle school and high school stomp and shake cheer performance (given in no particular order and numbered for referencing purpose only).
1. They liked that the words and sentiments of the cheer were so realistic. (Those sentiments might have been what the cheerleaders were reallyfeeling at that time and may also apply to other aspects of life such as to where a person works.)
2. They liked the energy and vibe of the cheer (how the cheerleaders performed it)
3.They liked how the cheerleaders said what they said i.e. their "attitude".
4. They liked that the cheerleaders' tone, facial expressions, and actions really fit (matched) and emphasized their words 5. They liked that this cheer reminded them of Black cheerleading cheers from the 1990s or earlier.
6. They liked that the cheer got them hyped (excited).
7. They liked that the cheerleaders cheered as one. (i.e. They were well coordinated)
8. They liked that the cheerleaders was racially diverse (i.e. There was one White cheerleader in the squad)
9. They liked that the beginning line of this cheer was used (sampled) in Kanye West's daughter North West's song called "Talking", but they expressed a concern that the cheerleader may not have been paid for that sample.
**** Here's my summary of what some commenters in this video's discussion thread didn't like about this middle school and high school stomp and shake cheer performance (given in no particular order and numbered for referencing purpose only).
1. They thought the cheer was too realistic (i.e. that it was too confrontational and might cause a fight or fights during or after the game) and was therefore was an inappropriate cheer for that age group.
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SELECTED COMMENTS
Numbers are added for referencing purposed only.
2023
1. @diamondrandolph7014 "I love that cheerleadering energy those vibes I love it a lot .Makes me want to try out for cheerleading."
** 2. @ulovit1 "90s kid here and this brings me back. Our cheer squad was 🔥 like this. Had us so hype 😂"
** Reply 3. @berrey7 "Be Agreessive B B Agressive... & Pork Chops, Pork Chops greasy, greasy...We can beat them .... easy, easy."
** Reply 4. @prombs1231, 2025 "Yes! I was just saying this. 🎉"
** 5. @Jimfundercover2 "When I went to school a long long time ago trash talking cheerleaders were everywhere."
** 6. @nonir670 "Wouldn't want to have to get into an altercation with these youngins😅"
** 7. @unicornmadness6286 "Straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"
** 8. @nokimping4631 "This went hard"
** 9. @alex13taylor "So much better than our "were number one, we won't be number two, cuz we're gonna beat the WOOPSIES outa you!!" Back in the late 90s/2000s Lmao 😅"
** 10. @conniefindley9064 "The other cheerleaders are (in my mind's eye) sitting there like, 'Huhhhh??? Karen what just happennnedddd?Oh my gosh!!! I feel threatened!' 🤣🤣"
** 11. @lezliegradyholmes1208 "I absolutely love it!!! Being a former cheerleading
coach, my girls used to tear it up & sit the other cheerleaders down"...
** 12. @mustbherpersonality "Love how they are one entity! Awesome! 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽"
** 13. @GG-uz7zh "YES!!! I miss cheering & this got me hype! lol"
** 14. @minicestra.x "Why can’t the cheer team at my school be
like this 😭"
** 15. kertreain "Man I wish. When I was in school they
banned calls like this"
** 16. @tiffanydegoya "I didn’t understand what they were saying but I understood they meant business 😅 Ty for the lyrics 😂"
** 17. @bartdude82 "Bruhhhhh this took me back to 2007-2012
YouTube when these kinds of videos went viral omg 😂😂🔥🔥"
** 18. @johnjohnson2660 "Man I commented on this cheer before and every time I hear
it I love it the more ❤️😂 These young girls
have a bad bad bad cheer here especially when your team is losing 😂😂😂"
** 19. @ajq4389 "The black girl w/the glasses in the
first row closest to the audience, when they deliver that last line and she
goes up on one foot! She meant that!!😂👏🏽"
** Reply 20. @mzmel1 "White girl in the middle earned that
spot up front. She was the realest one out there. And she started grinning as
soon as she was finished. The little sisters on the ends definitely look like
they don’t mind throwing hands."
** Reply 21. @yacoabreu9 "yup that white girl delivers the message
the words don't with them hands and that air she's throwing!
** 22. @jaymorgan "Lol those cheerleaders 📣 look like they really had some personal beef."
** 23. @RayvenJaeCreepn "Props MAJOR PROPS 👏 🙌 👌 💯 to the coach teaching these queens how to properly cheer!!! I love this one!!"
** 24. @dashone52727 "Maybe my school was a lil hood cuz this energy would've been handled out back after the game unfortunately 😂"
** 25. @SugarBear74Chi "Yeah...that's the rough high school that don't get invited to stuff.😅"
** Reply 26. @LDTun "Nah u wrong for this😭😭😭😂"
** Reply 27. "NAH YOU BOLD FOR THAT"
** 28. @Suzuzu1 "I guess “We got spirit. Yes we do we got spirit. How about you? …” is long gone"
** Reply 29. @tyinva1212 "Yeah. I got out of school 25 years ago, and that cheer was old"
**
30. @Grimloxz "LOLOLOL The BOOSTERS!!!! I remember this from High School!!! You got the cheerleaders then you got these girls, the BOOSTERS!! LOLOLOLOL"
** 31.@pameladonardo5 "The opposing team at my son's basketball game
tried to perform this cheer and failed miserably...the original is so much
better!!! 💕🤭😌"
** 32. @corybynum4685 "They got active! Shorty who jumped it off had some conviction behind those words😂😂😂😂😂"
** 33. @wandawynn8370 "At the end, Lil Bit in the middle on the second row threw her arms up like, "Now what?..Sup?!" Big ups 👍🏾💙 Lil Bit!!😅"
** 34. @wandamajette5000 "The one who started is ready to finish it also."
** 36. @Chrissy_loves_animals "I remember these days in Band battle and Cheer battle.
I’ve had plenty fights. One fight, we all fight. Hood Schools. 🤦🏽♀️’’’ -snip- "Hood schools" is an informal, not really acceptable referent for public schools in poor and working class, predominately Black and Brown United States communities.
** 36. @me.1796 "I love hood cheers 😂"
** 37. @Bonelesswatrmelon1 "Nothin screams tough like a bunch of hs cheerleaders 😂"
** 38. @KtotheG "When did cheerleading become so confrontational? Did the Bring It On franchise start this or has it always existed?"
** Reply 39. @tiffanybarnes8286 "With black culture it has always existed. Nothing some white film director created."
** 40. @Trollingizlife "The whole point of Bring It On is that the White cheerleaders were stealing cheer styles from Black cheerleaders. We’ve been cheering like this for decades."
** Reply 41. @mrjonsey "This isn’t confrontational lol these girls ain’t out here fighting. It’s just a like taunt. Almost everything in life is a competition."
** Reply 42. @arisboba "@Trollingizlife Thank you, lmfao, someone w a brain."
** Reply 43. @tiffanybarnes8286 "@arisboba Um did you just make a comment against me as if I said something wrong?? Like tf did I do? I said this type of cheerleading has always been in our culture and it wasnt created by Bring It On, so it didnt just "START" when the movie was released. I dont see your comment anymore but whatever"
** 44. @NeoSelah "THEY ATE YES LORD" -snip- "They Ate" = "They did a really good job"
** 45. @skb4055 "I am here for this squad right here! Reminds me of my squad
cheering for the girls’ basketball team back in the day. This school must be a
Vo-Tech!" -snip- "Vo-Tech" = "Vocational Technical" public schools. These schools were usually in poor and lower income working class neighborhoods.
** 46. @MrDFJohnson "That cheer is an oldie but goodie that has been done by black cheerleading squads going
back at least to 2000. But it still hits hard!"
** 47. @BcominRihari "I need a movie about theses girls. The diversity of these
young women would make for a great film. They look like a squad that you don't
wanna mess with. Colour don't matter here. Love it."
** 48. @LaSombraCandia "Shorty w/ the afro pony tail on the second row look like she
bout to hop the bleachers fr looks deeper than a cheer for her lol ...
blessings"
** 49. @SagPurpleMoon "I wanna use this at work when somebody calls my line getting buck.
However, that’s just a distant dream considering I’d be fired so bad🤣🤣"
** 50. @unknownunknown9296 "And I also say this...I hope they can fight. Don't talk that talk, if you can't walk that walk."
** 51. @unknownunknown9296 "The other cheerleading squad: OH HELL NAW!!!!! FORGET THIS GAME...FORGET THE CHEERLEADING!!!!.....MEET US OUTSIDE!!!!! LMAO. 😂😂😂😂😂😂"
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2024
52. @ShannonMichelle7937 "The energy, attitude, and diversity all contribute to this being the best chant I’ve ever seen/heard. I love them ❤"
** 53. @Kamari-g4y "The way the white girl in the middle looked at the other team looked like she really had a issue with the other team and when they clapped she looked at them like they really don't want problems"
** 54. @avionwithaa-_-781 "Kanye daughter def took her voice sound just like her (song:
TALKING)"
** Reply 55. @nicoleblu5764 "I hope a check was issued"
** 56. @yongbloods "Hardest clapback i ever seen😮"
** 57. @hillydilly474 "Wow it’s the 🍀 CLOVERS !!! 🍀" -snip- "Clovers" is the name of the predominately Black high school cheerleader squad in the first movie in the Bring It On" cheerleader series.
** 58. @GenXcellence77 "Man I went to an inner city school, this cheer is def on
point! lol"
**** 2025
59. @makeitmakesense2616 "Nah we fighting if i was the other team😂😂😂😂 especially with all that handclapping in my face and what not, nope we going outside. Y'all aint disrespecting me like this in a whole basketball gym😂😂"
** 60. @rejaeeffa1805 "BABY IN THE MIDDLE DID NOT COME TO PLAYYYYY. everytime I see this video, it’s her for me 😩😩😩"
** 61. @random22026 "Attitude for miles--luvvit 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎"
