“If you go out in the woods today…”
The Hokey Pokey. The Monster Mash. Teddy Bears Picnic. Songs that have reached ‘escape velocity,’ broken free from their own era, and are now part of the American Songbook. By the time he penned “The Teddy Bear Two-Step” in 1907, Tin Pan Alley composer John W. Bratton had already made a name for himself the…