Flashback to the Disco days.

[CassTechGrad]

I came across this by accident, a tragic event for sure. I remember going to Harpos, the old Harper theater, and some smaller places during 1970’s. Jealousy, alcohol, guys can go crazy protecting their territory.

[MikeM]

The Freaky Deaky was hazardous to your health.

[MikeM]

The first mention of the dance I've found in local papers is from August 1978:

[Zacha341]

^ Suggestive dancing? Murder!? Grand that we've progressed beyond those dark decades to girls singing along and twerking to WAP and Sexy Reds inspirational Pound Town!

[Lowell]

Freaky Deaky made a big splash in it’s time. Even Detroit crime novelist Elmore Leonard used it as a title for one of his novels. Although the novel doesn’t seem to reference the dance.

[Henry Whalley]

The Freaky Deaky was hazardous to your health.

In in my prime I was freaky just standing still. Not to brag, but freakiness was a cross I bore without complaint. But now that I'm an old fart, discos are safe for distaff as I devote my remaining days to keeping Metamucil out of bankruptcy.