{"id":20932,"date":"2015-03-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=20932"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:04:43","slug":"cover-me-dancing-in-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/28\/cover-me-dancing-in-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t second guess Bruce’s choices very often. He’s the artist, and I’m not even a musician.<\/p>\n

Still, I shake my head in wonder and that he ever thought it was a good idea to arrange “Dancing in the Street” as a Steel Mill guitar jam.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure it’s possible to improve on the original, which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when Martha and the Vandellas rode the charts with it in the summer of 1964.\u00a0 Goodness knows some great artists have tried, from The Mamas & The Papas to The Kinks to Van Halen to David Bowie and Mick Jagger.<\/p>\n

But the original remains the standard, becoming one of Motown’s signature songs, preserved by the Library of Congress in the United States National Recording Registry.<\/p>\n