Mashed Potatoes (Steve Alaimo album)
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Mashed Potatoes was Steve Alaimo
's second album for Checker Records
. Like his previous album, it capitalizes on a dance craze, only this time the Mashed Potato
.
Steve Alaimo
Steve Alaimo was an American teen idol pop singer in the early 1960s who later became record producer and label owner, but he is perhaps best known for hosting and co-producing Dick Clark's Where the Action Is in the late 1960s...
's second album for Checker Records
Checker Records
Checker Records is an inactive record label that was started in 1952 as a subsidiary to Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois. The label was founded by the Chess brothers, Leonard and Phil, who ran the label until they sold it to General Recorded Tape in 1969, shortly before Leonard's death.The label...
. Like his previous album, it capitalizes on a dance craze, only this time the Mashed Potato
Mashed Potato
The Mashed Potato is a dance move which was a popular dance craze of 1962. It was danced to songs such as Dee Dee Sharp's "Mashed Potato Time". Also referred to as "mash potato" or "mashed potatoes", the move vaguely resembles that of the Twist, by Sharp's fellow Philadelphian, Chubby...
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Side 1
- Mashed Potatoes, Part 1
- Ooh Poo-Pah-Doo
- She's My Baby
- I Like It Like That
- Peanut Butter
- You're So Fine
Side 2
- Mashed Potatoes, Part 2
- Ya-Ya
- Hully Gully With Me
- Heart Break
- Baby What You Want Me to Do
- I Got a Woman