“Leave my hands on your hips” by Adamo (1965), or the goal of slow

2023-08-12 17:00:01

All summer, we talk about a great love song every day. Today, a sentimental song to dance for two, to explain what is the point of dancing together.

Here is undoubtedly the slow that speaks best of the slow. So, you will tell me that there are more effective slows, more romantic, more syrupy, sweeter, more spicy – ​​what do I know – and you’re right.

A few decades after the slow erosion – even extinction – of this social practice among adolescents, we do not necessarily classify Leave my hands on your hips among the peaks of the genre. But there is something tautological in this chorus: leave my hands on your hips, it’s the classic position of the boy for slow dancing, the girl putting her hand on his shoulders, even behind his neck; and we hear an almost missionary prayer: “Don’t make those glaring eyes”. Let’s listen carefully to the beginning of the song, before the first chorus.

In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:

Savior Adam, Leave my hands on your hips, 1965

Michel Polnareff, Love with you, 1966

Savior Adam, The snow falls, 1964

Savior Adam, When the roses, 1964

Savior Adam, Do you allow, sir? 1964

Savior Adam, Girls by the sea, 1964

Savior Adam, The night, 1965

Savior Adam, The bearded man without a beard, 1965

Savior Adam, My hands on your waist, 1966

Savior Adam, Don’t sulk me, 1966

Savior Adam, Leave my hands on your hips, 1965