What is a WiggleDance?

[opendoor]

Word by word translation of an announcement from Germany (1913)

Public Notice
The so-called
Wiggl- and Shuffle Dances

und the Tango Dance are forbidden by the police.
Contraventions were prosecuted according to § 360,11 of the Royal Criminal Code and are sentenced with 150 Reichsmark or by six weeks of prison.
Uetersen, 26. September 1913
The Police Administration
Muus

You can find a photo of the original document on wiki (enlarge)
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.OD

[RoyHarper]

It's whatever Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Sam do.

[Steve Pastor]

Hey little chil’en.
Listen to me.
Fall in step
and you will see.
There’s a brand new dance
You can take it from me
it’s spreadin’ all around
Well you wiggle
and you shuffle
from bottom to top
Keep in step with the rhythm
and you’re doin’ the bop”

[opendoor]

Thanks, do you have a source or YT link?

[Steve Pastor]

OK, well, I gues I shouldn't have clicked on close tabs, because I just lost a bunch of text. (I HATE that.)
We'll see when and if I have the heart to redo it.

Those lyrics are from this song, written by Geraldine Coker. Alvadean was her daughter.

“We’re Gonna Bop” Alvaden Coker Abbott 176 6636 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood 28, Calif. in Canada by Quality1955]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlMHa96yOCc

Alvadean was 17 at the time, and part of the musical family from Bakersfield, Calif known as the Coker Family, or the Cokers.

Alvadean and her brother "Sandy" (real name Alvis) appeared on the Town Hall Party dance/tv show in Compton, Calif. (source German Wikipedia!)

Same song by "the Abbott Sisters" Big Band treatment with Skip Martin Orch
(Fabor is a sister company to Abbott)
http://www.usaoldies.com/product_info.php?products_id=6797&osCsid=04b59940d8922bc3b0c53ba67c15e385

London Records release
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abaraphobia/4948359249/

Shuffle is often associated with African American dance, although I think it could be just a lazy type of step.

Wiggle is more in the line of African Amercian venacular movement with roots in Africa. It has surfaced in the main stream throughout the 20th century, it seems.

The 1913 versions were probably part of the Animal Dances of the Ragtime Era, based on the 1913 date.