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Summer's here and the time is right...

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Summer's here and the time is right for dancin' in the street.

Martha and the Vandellas first hit. They must have been amused by the totally lame...er...rhythm-challenged white kids!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2wSiOs2rs8

Big hair and better dancing six years later on Soul Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK5Lu759llk

The Grateful Dead covered the tune as part of their standard repetoire. Ignore the idiotic voiceover in this 1967 clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97JXkUK6NsM

Twenty years after the song's debut, the aging white boyz can dance at last.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y-x2fWKbmo

Now here's the strange seque...

In the summer of 1518 people danced in the streets of Strasbourg until they fell down dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518

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