The Johnny Otis (Iannis Veliotes) Show issued "Willie And The Hand Jive" (Johnny Otis) in 1958. The single peaked at number nine on the Top One Hundred and number one on the R&B chart. Wikipedia: "The origin of the song came when one of Otis' managers, Hal Ziegler, found out that rock'n'roll concert venues in England did not permit the teenagers to stand up and dance in the aisles, so they instead danced with their hands while remaining in their seats. At Otis' concerts, performers would demonstrate Willie's "hand jive" dance to the audience, so the audience could dance along. The dance consisted of clapping two fists together one on top of the other, followed by rolling the arms around each other."

Eric Clapton's slower cover of "Willie And The Hand Jive" appears on the 1974 album "641 Ocean Boulevard". This time the song reached number twenty-six on Billboard. The song has been recorded by almost everyone from the New Riders of the Purple Sage to George Thorogood.