The Capitols--Cool Jerk (1966)

     As with all popular music for centuries, dancing to music seems to be a natural thing to do. By the early 1900's, there always seemed to be a dance for musicians to capitalize on and make popular. The decade of the 60's however was about the last decade that artists wrote for particular dances. One of them was performed by a group out of Detroit.
     The Capitols had their beginnings as "The Caps" in 1962. They were signed to a local label and released an album and single, which although showing musical promise, never caught on and after several years disbanded. Two of it's members, Ralph Julies Jones, and Don Storball was seeking to capitalize on a new dance in the clubs of Detroit. It was a version of "the jerk", but a bit more sexual in nature. It was called, "the pimp jerk", but given the potential problems with the name, changed it to the "cool jerk". Jones and Storball wrote the song and hastily reformed The Caps and renamed them.
     "Cool Jerk" was released in the spring of 1966 and shot up to #7 on the charts. The group released eight more singles, which two of them reached the lower rungs of the top 100. They disbanded in late 1969....