What song do you think of when someone mentions rollerskating?

[Archae]

For me it's this one.

At the "Big Wheel" skate center, going around counter-clockwise, trying to skate backwards to show off to the girls and falling flat on my ass.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Chic: "These are the Good Times" 1979

Skating was big, I was just on my way to NY from the Bay Area, skaters everywhere.

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[kwolf68]

2. Interesting question

I roller skated late 70s/early 80s...the songs that come to mind

Lets go-The Cars
Women-Lennon
You Dropped a Bomb on Me-The Gap Band
Celebration-Kool and the Gang
Keep on Loving You-REO Speedwagon
Wonderful Tonight-Clapton

There are plenty more just can't think of right now.

[Ptah]

3. Brand New Key, pair of roller skates

[Arkansas Granny]

24. Great minds and all that stuff. I hadn't noticed this post before I posted mine.

[Callalily]

40. Oh gawd! Haven't heard

that one in a long time.

I had that album too, which had this song on. You could fold up the sides into a box. Actually, this is it: http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=514398

Sad to say got rid of it when I moved, along with many other wonderful classics.

[LWolf]

43. This one.

[rocktivity]

4. The Empire Roller Rink, Brooklyn NY

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Closed only five years ago.

Cherry Cokes, the long subway ride from the Bronx, the longer walk to back to the President Street subway station because your legs were so tired, and jamming to:

rocktivity

[kimsterdemster]

5. dream weaver

aerosmith

medicine park, ok

[sadbear]

6. Are you kidding me?

[kwolf68]

7. Oh god yess....

Forgot this one, but big time skate land stuff

[Archae]

8. The "Big Wheel" is still around...

Just outside of Sheboygan.

But nowadays the kids all rollerblade.

[OxQQme]

9. Robert Palmer

Addicted to Love. Awesome song to skate to.

Ditto about showing off. Did mucho skating in my teens and 20's.
lol Last time I skated was at the rink in Portland at Oaks Park.
That was about ten years ago. So I was 60 yrs young.
Rental skates got all wobbly and crossed causing my feet to come to an abrupt halt. I landed on my face.
Six stitches above my eye.
$350.


http://www.oakspark.com/news.html

[pipi_k]

10. The last time I went rollerskating...

some time during the 1980s, this song was playing...

[Doc_Technical]

11. Roger Miller

[HopeHoops]

12. "Babe" - 8th grade date disaster.

My long-time girlfriend at the time and I went skating and of course we slow skated to Babe. I tried to turn her around to dance skate and it didn't work out so well. We both went down and the ref guy came over and said, "No suicide spins, okay?" We laughed about that every time the word "rollerskating" came up. That's still the first thing I think of.

[femmocrat]

13. "Xanadu"

Wasn't there roller skating involved?

[Archae]

18. Oh yeah.

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[blueamy66]

14. Sugar Sugar

remember my bro in the corner kissing the girls....he had perfectly feathered hair

[Lars39]

15. Two come to mind....

Grand Funk Railroad Locomotion

Jim Croce Roller Derby Queen

[handmade34]

16. an afternoon at the rink always included

the Hokey-Pokey... what memories

[Frank Cannon]

17. Dave Baby Cortez - The Happy Organ

[Bertha Venation]

19. The Hokey Pokey

Much hilarity ensued. (12-year-olds will laugh at anything.)

[Arkansas Granny]

20. "Brand New Key" - Melanie

[femmocrat]

23. That's a great one!

[pscot]

31. That's the one

[Iggo]

35. Dirty, dirty song.

[Denninmi]

21. None.

Before my time for the most part. Never ever tried it. I tried ice skating once, fell on my head and saw stars. Enough of that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. Rick Springfield's "Jesse's Girl"

[whistler162]

25. Jim Croce's Roller Derby Queen of course

[beac]

36. That's the one that popped into me head first too!

But the slower version:

[RiffRandell]

26. Upside Down by Diana Ross

and anything by Air Supply or REO Speedwagon for couples skate.

I used to go to doubles sessions on Fridays and Saturdays!

[grilled onions]

27. It Was The Buddy Holly Movie....

an d the band was playing inside a roller rink and I the song was Mockingbird Hill(I think).

[Tom_Foolery]

28. Loudon Wainwright's "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road"...

I did my skating at United Skates of America.

[rppper]

29. Kool & the gang.....Hollywooooooood....

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[AngryOldDem]

30. "Jump" by Van Halen

There used to be a roller rink across the street from where I worked back in the early '80s. Some of us would go over and spend our lunch hour skating (or in my case, falling on my ass) and that song always seemed to be playing.

[PassingFair]

32. "Roller Coaster (of Love)", "Centipede" and "Xanadu"....n/t

[DearHeart]

33. Dim All The Lights-Donna Summer

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[Iggo]

34. Dancing Queen.

The lead-in just screams roller disco.

[Tabasco_Dave]

37. Dire Straits - Skateaway

[Grantuspeace]

38. Beat me to it. And by far the best answer! n/t

[Kennah]

39. It had to be done

[luv_mykatz]

41. I agree with Tabasco Dave and Grantuspeace!

Skate Away, by Dire Straits.

Love, love love that tune. Makes me want to dig out my skates: street skates, with rubber wheels and toe stops. Yeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!

[HelenaHandbasket]

42. Good Times by Chic and Roll Bounce Rock Skate by I Have No Idea

Disco Rollerskating = Big Fun and Big Falls and Lots of Spandex.

[LWolf]

44. After the most obvious, #3,

it would be this one:

Played over and over the only time I actually skated at a rink in 1976. My time on roller skates was given to sidewalks in the neighborhood.