Slow Drag
Slow Drag may refer to:
Slow drag (dance)
The Slow drag is an American ragtime jazz musical form and the social dance for which the music was written. It has been resurrected as part of blues dancing. Music written for the dance is often short-handed into the song title as a "Drag"
History
Slow drag or "Drag" has a history both in the music written for the dance, and the dance itself. The music has endured in many jazz standards, while the dance as it was originally performed has all but faded from modern performance.
In Music
Ragtime composers, including Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and others, wrote a number of slow-tempo tunes appropriate for the dance.
A cornetist who played during the 1890s described the music where the Slow drag was done, in the "less fashionable groups in town", as "more raggy" than the music that was played for the more "high-toned" dances. "They did the Slow drag all over Louisiana."
Slow drag was one of ten dance themes Joplin included in "The Ragtime Dance." "The Ragtime Dance" was written in 1899 and consisted of a vocal introduction followed by a series of dance themes introduced by a vocalist.
Slow Drag (album)
Slow Drag is a jazz album by trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label as BST 84292.
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Podcasts:
Slow Drag
Hmm, closer
I wanna be closer to you
(I like to get close)
Closer
(I like to get close)
Like to be close to you, baby
Lyrics courtesy Top40db.
(I like to get close
To the one I love)
Oh, baby
I like to get close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
My girl, she asked me
How come I don't do the boogaloo
(Boogaloo)
I told her, baby
'Cause I can't get close
Enough to you
(Close to you)
(Closer, closer)
I told her
That's the only dance
That I like to do
It's a dance
I can hold her yet
Steal a little kiss or two
Oh, baby
I like to get close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
And I want to slow down
With you, baby
I like to close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
My girl
She asked me out to the party
Her friends told her
That I was a drag (drag)
Just because I don't do the dance
The way they want me to
Can't they see
That I'm in a different bag
Oh, baby
I like to get close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
And I want to slow down
With you, baby
I like to close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
Ooh, hold me close
Hold me closer to you
And all you got to do
Is squeeze me, baby
And hold me closer to you
Oh, baby
I like to get close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
And I want to slow down
With you, baby
I like to close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
I like to close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
I like to close
To the one I love
So I slow drag
I like to close
To the one I love