This was the instrumental song that brought global
recognition to the 1975 disco line-dancing craze called "The Hustle" that
was performed in dance halls and clubs all over the world.Van McCoy and his Soul City Symphony
released it and it shot to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and No. 3 in the
UK.It would appear on Van
McCoy's Disco Baby and win him the 1975 Grammy Award for Top
Instrumental Artist.Van McCoy
composed the song after the DJ David Todd told him about the dance at
Adam's Apple, which was a nightclub in New York City.He actually sent his friend Charlie
Kipps to check it out and once he returned and showed it to him, he decided
to use it as the last track of Disco Baby, wrote it in about an hour
and later said he wrote "whatever came into his head".The hustle itself is a 1970s
dance that was first seen in Florida and New York's Hispanic communities
and takes its roots from the styles of the mambo and salsa among others of
that ilk.With the comeback of
70s style music and parties The Hustle is regaining the popularity it held
over three decades ago.
