Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest revision - December 18, 2023
This is Part II of a three part pancocojams series on "The Madison". The Madison is an African American originated late 1950s/early 1960s line dance.
This post showcases a sound file of Al Brown & The TuneToppers' "Madison" record and the Ray Bryant Combo's "Madison" record. Part II also showcases six videos of the Madison line dance and record. A sound file of the Al Brown & The Tune Toppers and the Ray Bryant Combo "Madison" records are also included in the Addendum to this post.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-madison-line-dance-got-its-name-and.html for Part I of this series. That post provides information about the origin & early years of the Madison dance and records. Lyrics for Al Brown & The Tune Toppers' "The Madison" and Ray Brown Combo's "The Madison Time" are included in this post. The Addendum to Part I features a video of the Birdland dance. The Birdland jazz/swing dance is one of the calls in Al Brown's Madison record.
Click ___ for Part III of this pancocojams series. That post showcases YouTube videos of The Madison dance along with selected comments from those videos' discussion threads. Most of those videos were previously included in Part II of this pancocojams series, but I removed them on December 18, 2023 to and republished them in a stand alone pancocojams post.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
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The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Al Brown & His TuneToppers and the Ray Bryant Combo for their musical legacies. Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to the publishers of these examples on YouTube.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/black-teens-and-buddy-deane-show-1957.html for a related post on Black Teens And The Buddy Deane Show.
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SHOWCASE EXAMPLE #2 - Al Brown's TuneToppers - The Madison - Mo' Madison 1960
ksdaman, Published on Feb 1, 2013
Featuring Cookie Brown.
Before The Twist for a brief period of time the dance craze was line dancing to "The Madison". This song and Ray Bryant's "Madison Time" were both chart topper's at the same time, This song unfortunately has now been overlooked as Ray Bryant's version now is the one that people most remember. This is both side A and side B. Here is the dance being performed in 1960.
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I chose to showcase the Al Brown record first because it is one week older than the Ray Bryant record.
Here are some comments from this sound file's discussion thread:
seywhut2985, 2014
"I only remember here this once or twice. It was Ray Bryant's version that was the monster hit. I loved doing the Madison. You always did it really cool like you were bored to death to be there doing it. LOL. There were changes to the Ray Bryant version. They were both good."
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The word "here" in that first sentence is probably a typo of the word "hearing".
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2016
Buick Le Sabre
"the original version and the writer of The Madison is of course Ray Bryant !"
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Reply
ksdaman
"+Buick Le Sabre Not quite. Ray Bryant's was released a week after this.
http://www.columbusmusichistory.com/html/madison_1.html
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ksdaman
"I think this got popular locally with people making an array of different calls on the dance steps. Maybe Bryant and Brown took those calls and finally formed the dance step
progressions and put them on record so everyone could follow along easier."
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Reply
Buick Le Sabre
"+ksdaman .. the story goes that some coloured teens made up the steps by them selves at some Hops and then Bryant (lol) came along. Something like that .. There,s a documentary about all the dances in the 50s...."
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I edited this comment as (it appears to me) that the remaining portion was the commenter suggesting a few late 1940s and 1950s Blues records that he likes.]
"Coloured" ("Colored" is the American spelling) and Negro are no longer used referents for African Americans.
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Example #2: It's Madison Time Part 1 & 2 Ray Bryant Combo '60 Columbia 4 41628
doowopAmnon, Uploaded on Oct 22, 2011
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Selected comments:
2014
merriell brown
"Wow..Thanks for posting this..wish there was someone around that still knows how to do the Madison..I miss dancing this jig with my mom !!"
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FerrariCarr
"I LOVE part 2! Reminds me of when my friends and I used to drive around the industrial parts of town, near the train tracks late at night listening to one of the old jazz stations."
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This concludes Part II of this series.
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