It is not very often that a silly little dance song can do something that is more than just

brief entertainment, can do something that impacts the sexuality of a nation and its culture,

but a song did that way back in 1960.

We always have an odd woman in the crowd, so it's kind of odd.

I'm excitedly odd.

Isn't that strike you as a little bit odd? No, it doesn't strike me as a little bit odd. It's the Bob and Sherry Oddcast, stuff we wouldn't, couldn't, or shouldn't do on the regular show. Now, here's the odd cast. All right, Bob Solo here. Sherry is off right now. Max has the unenviable job of putting together a lot of different pieces for this oddcast that I think you'll really enjoy. And thank you to Doc who tracked them all down.

I've done a series of podcasts now about the story behind the story with famous songs. And this one is really unusual

because not only is it about the song, it's about a famous nightclub that was run by

gangsters in New York City and how this nightclub propelled this dance craze that took over America

way back then in the early 1960s.

So it began this way.

There was a musician named Hank Ballard.

He was a singer and he was also a songwriter.

And he was famous for a few songs.

Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Finger pop in time.

But before that, he had a couple of records that were called a race songs. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Finger pop in time. But before that, he had a couple of records that were called race records. That's the term that was used. These were songs

that were not, they never made it to the playlist of white radio stations, but they were played

in a lot of African American radio stations, black radio stations

throughout the country.

The lyrics were pretty salty on his first hit.

The song was called Work with me Annie.

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