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This article is about the Five song, for other uses see Let's Dance.
"Let's Dance" was the first single released from Five's third and last studio album Kingsize in 2001.
This article is about the David Bowie song, for the album by the same artist Let's Dance (David Bowie album), for other uses see Let's Dance.
"Let’s Dance" is the title album track on David Bowie's album Let's Dance. It was also released as the first single from that album in 1983, and went on to become one of his biggest-selling tracks.
This article is about the Nikki Webster song, for album by the same artist see Let's Dance (Nikki Webster album), for other uses see Let's Dance.
The second single from Nikki Webster's third album Let's Dance released in 2004. It was written by the famous Delta Goodrem and Mark Holden. It peaked at #37 on the Australian Aria Singles Chart June 2004.
This article is about the radio program, for other uses see Let's Dance.
Let's Dance was a Saturday night radio music program broadcast by NBC in the mid-1930s.
Sponsored by the National Biscuit Company, it aired for three full hours, starting at 10:30pm on the East Coast. This late-night timeslot gave the program a much larger audience on the West Coast when heard earlier in the evening. Let's Dance was a five-hour broadcast from New York, yet calculated so that all time zones heard three hours of music. The East Coast and Central Time zones got only the first three hours. Mountain Time zone listeners tuned into the second, third and fourth hours. Hours three, four and five were heard on the West Coast.
The series premiered December 1, 1934, showcasing three different regular bands. The mellow music of Kel Murray (a pseudonym for Murray Kellner) and the Latin rhythms of Xavier Cugat made Benny Goodman's group stand out as "downright thrilling," according to George Simon. It was a turning point for Goodman, who had more than 70 Fletcher Henderson swing arrangements by the time Let's Dance went off the air May 25, 1935.
George Spink, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, described the crucial role of Let's Dance in launching Goodman as the "King of Swing":