"Dancing Girls" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was the third single from his debut studio album, Human Racing, and released on 2 April 1984 by MCA Records. It charted on 14 April 1984, and reaching a peak position of No. 13 in the UK singles chart. It stayed on the charts for nine weeks.
Kershaw explained the song to Number One magazine in September 1984:
In a 2012 podcast interview with Sodajerker, Kershaw remembers writing the bassline spontaneously on a Roland Juno-6 synthesizer, using the arpeggiator function, and programming a rhythm on a Roland TR-808 drum machine â it was to this musical basis that the lyrics would be written.
The external street scenes for the music video for "Dancing Girls" were filmed in the dead-end section of Woodberry Grove, Finchley, North London. It depicted Kershaw as the subject of the song's lyrics, an advertising executive, imagining himself dancing with a group of middle aged dancers, including a six foot tall traffic warden, deliberately juxtaposed against Kershaw's 5'3" (160 cm) frame. The video was intended to be light-hearted, following on from the much darker video for Kershaw's previous single, "Wouldn't It Be Good".
7" Single (MCA NIK 3)
12" Single (MCA NIKT 3)<br/> There were four different UK 12" releases for "Dancing Girls", all sharing the same catalogue number
Reviewer Paul Sinclair of website "Super Deluxe Edition" said of the song:
Lisa Kalloo of Somojo2 said: