Archive film shows Belfast kids going wild to Hippy Hippy Shake in 1964

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Archive film shows Belfast kids going wild to Hippy Hippy Shake in 1964
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Recently rediscovered BBC footage of an exuberant Sunday afternoon disco in Ardoyne has gone viral

In 1964 it was the moment the children of Holy Cross parish in northFor the price of a few pence they would pack the hall, the music would start and for the next few hours their world was a sublime realm of dance, joy and rock’n’roll, especially when the Hippy Hippy Shake played.long vanished – until last week when the BBC unearthed archive footage of one such disco.

In the clip they dance to the Hippy Hippy Shake, a 1959 song by Robert Lee “Chan” Romero that the Beatles recorded in 1963. Two young girls in particular have transfixed viewers with vigorous moves that might have caused whiplash in anyone older.

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