Dancing Girls (song)


"Dancing Girls" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was the third single from his debut album, Human Racing, and released on 2 April 1984. It charted on 14 April 1984, and reaching a peak position of No. 13 in the UK Singles Chart. It stayed on the charts for nine weeks.

Lyrics

Kershaw explained the song to Number One magazine in September 1984:

Video

The external street scenes for the music video for "Dancing Girls" were filmed in the dead-end section of Woodberry Grove, Finchley, North London. It depicted Kershaw as the subject of the song's lyrics, an advertising executive, imagining himself dancing with a group of middle aged dancers, including a six foot tall traffic warden, deliberately juxtaposed against Kershaw's 5'3" frame. The video was intended to be light-hearted, following on from the much darker video for Kershaw's previous single, "Wouldn't It Be Good".

Track listing

7" Single
12" Single

There were four different UK 12" releases for "Dancing Girls", all sharing the same catalogue number

Charts

Reviews

Reviewer Paul Sinclair of website "Super Deluxe Edition" said of the song:
Meanwhile, Lisa Kalloo of Somojo2 said:
However, she was critical of the extended mix: