Dance historians who research such things credit American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway for coining the term “jitterbug.” In 1934, he recorded a lively tune, “Jitter Bug,” that some credit for kick-starting an energetic dance craze that swept the nation. Here’s a clip of the song from Calloway’s 1935 short film, “Jitterbug Party”: TheContinue reading “The 1930s jitterbug craze had South Bay youths dancing all over the place”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
