Let's Turkey Trot

About Let's Turkey Trot

Let's Turkey Trot is a popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Jack Keller. Some sources, including the original 45 LP have incorrectly credited the music to Carole King (King was Goffin's wife and usual songwriting partner but had no hand in this song). It was recorded by Little Eva and was released as her third single for the Dimension label. The Little Eva's recording debuted on the charts on February 2, 1963, and peaked at #20 on the Hot 100. It was her third top 40 record. The record features girl group The Cookies on background vocals, with the Cookies' lead Earl-Jean McCrea getting some solo lines. The song's title is a reference to the turkey trot dance step, a step that was only briefly popular fifty years before the song was released; the song is played at a tempo much slower than the one used for the dance in its heyday. Little Eva's "Let's Turkey Trot" was used in the film Easy Rider, but it was omitted from the soundtrack album. The song was covered by Jan & Dean on their 1963 album, Jan & Dean take Linda Surfin. more »

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1968

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Come on let's Turkey Trot
Let's get it while its hot
This dance is really fine
It shouldn't take much time
My grandmother taught this dance to me
She did it at the turn of the Century
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Come on let's turkey trot

People may say your some kind of a nut
When you're lifting your knees and you start to strut
But if your really want to get out of a rut 
Do some turkey trotton' and all your cares will be forgotten

Come on let's Turkey Trot
Let's give it all we got
And when the dance is through
I'll trot some Turkey with you

Oh we're gonna do the Turkey Trot again
Just like they did it back in 1910
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Come on and Turkey Trot

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Oh we're gonna do the Turkey Trot again
Just like they did it back in 1910
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Come on and Turkey Trot
And give it all we got
You'll never want to stop

Come on and Turkey Trot

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Jan & Dean

Jan and Dean was an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940). In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles popularized by the Beach Boys. Among their most successful songs was 1963's "Surf City", the first surf song ever to reach the #1 spot. Their other charting top 10 singles were "Drag City" (1963), "Dead Man's Curve" (1964; inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008), and "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (1964). In 1972, Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of the Nit… more »

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