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Ed's All Purpose Dance - On the situation comedy
MISTER ED/SYN/CBS/1961-66, the talking golden palomino Mister Ed (voice of Rocky
Lane) would sometimes do a special dance performed exclusively with his hind
quarters.
The steps were simple: step left, together; step right, together. To
create a longer dance, the filmed left and right movements were just
repeated.
To get Mister Ed to do the Horse Hula, all you need was some Don Ho music and
a grass skirt. Add a black wig and guitar and you've got the Twist.
In a 1962 issue of TV Guide, Ed's trainer Les Hilton said "Why, it
would take even a brilliant horse a couple of days to learn the Cooch, which is
what they called the Twist several generations ago. Ed learned it in
20-minutes."
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