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lightning struck when lisa leonard

dalton performed her sleepy dance back

in 1975.

now some 40 million views later the

video's still going strong hi i'm

stephen smith of the king of the house

media youtube channel the one and only

sloopy girl that's lisa leonard dalton

will be joining us momentarily for her

first ever on camera interview i'm

looking forward to it it should be great

can you hear me i can hear you okay i

can hear you i cannot see you yet oh

there you are lisa if you can just move

the camera down a tad bit so it's more

focused on you i think we're good to go

lisa now that we're both connected to

zoom let me get to the first question

fans have asked why it is that after

several years of anonymity you revealed

your identity as a sloopy dancer in the

2021 viral video deconstructing a myth

sloopy girl can you explain your timing

on that how it came about well um

years ago i was never a big

youtuber

um the first time

that i saw it as the video stated in

december of 2013

i was like wow

and i would show it to people um i never

really thought about

pursuing getting my identity out there

one day when i brought it up i did see

someone else's name

on the video

i did not like that at all

i was very determined at that time

to get the word out that who i am i am

the dancer

and

uh by starting to make comments back is

how i eventually got in contact with you

stephen smith

um

and here we are today

getting that word out yes i remember

when you and your family first began

commenting on my sloopy related content

at youtube and some other websites that

was a couple years ago so i know that

your sloopy girl reveal was a gradual

process and not an overnight thing

we can't really tell your story without

talking about bizarrey's the hollywood

nightclub you very literally danced your

way into the role of sloopy girl by

winning dance competitions at gazarys

there was the weekly dance contest then

the finale where you were crowned miss

gazari for 1974

and that brought you to the attention of

the people in la working with rick

garringer on his

1975 hang on sloopy film now gazari

sounds like it was an exciting and a

cool place to be lisa do you ever miss

the atmosphere in that 70s scene at

gazari's i would love to go there again

that was a lot of fun

they always had good music

it was always very crowded

um and me i just i hear good music and i

just want to dance all the time

uh

people have made comments at me

at various places i'll be standing here

a little music and i'll start moving

around

and

they look and they smile they like that

it's pretty funny but gazaris

had the lights up on the ceiling and

like i said a lot of crowds um

i got to know the owner

mr gazari he was very kind to me as well

he's the one that encouraged me to

partake in the pizzari dance contest

and i continued to go there even after i

won the contest i uh

we just really enjoyed

enjoyed that place lisa you mentioned

that when you hear music you sometimes

spontaneously start dancing well it's my

observation that you don't need to hear

music to start moving grooving and

bouncing about you're pretty animated

even in this interview maybe that's the

dancer and you're trying to escape what

do you think sitting still has never

been a strong point of mine

you can ask anybody yeah

my grandmother paid me to sit still when

i was a little kid

because she didn't believe that i could

sit still

she gave me 10 cents to sit still for 10

minutes

and it about killed me but i did it

and i took my little sister laurie and

ran down to the candy store with my 10

cents and bought us both some candy

it was uh that was funny she she got

would get upset about that because she

said how come you got paid i was always

the good one

that was lori and um i said well but i

did share it with you she said yeah you

did

yeah

we were together a lot as kids we would

uh be taken to a grandparents or whatnot

when my

parents would go on a nice vacation or

something you know away

oh yeah that's that's just a really i'll

never forget that story it's pretty

funny

paid me to sit still

and on that note we probably gotta call

this a wrap the time flew by just so

everyone understands we're recording a

number of short interviews versus one

long marathon session everything will be

uploaded to lisa's sloopy girl youtube

channel viewers can leave questions for

lisa in the comments and we'll try to

respond in future videos thank you

everyone for joining us in this the

first interview appearance by lisa

leonard dalton the authentic sloopy girl

we'll see you next time around and i'll

talk to you later lisa nice to meet you

no

bye steven thank you

bye

you