Shimmy

Shimmy In the early 1920s, the shimmy , introduced by Gilda Gray (1898–1959), was the craze in vaudeville and on Broadway. Ethel Waters started her career as a shimmy dancer before she began singing and acting. Joe Gold and Eugene West summed it up in their song “Everybody Shimmies Now” (1918), which had a photo of Mae West on the cover. The dance was still going strong four years later, as evidenced by Armand J. Piron ’s “I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate” (1922).