Crazy Downtown

"Crazy Downtown" is a song written and performed by Allan Sherman.

Adult Contemporary chart and #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965; it was Sherman's last top-40 hit.

[1] The song is sung from the point of view of a father whose teenaged children have gone "frooging" downtown with their car and money.

At first, the parents are relieved that they can now use the phone and the bath tub but, as the hours pass, they get increasingly nervous.

He then vows to ground the teenagers and go downtown with his wife, where he promises to do "very nice dances" including the tango, waltz, foxtrot, and bunny hop, instead of the dances of the younger generation such as the Frug, the Swim, the Mashed Potato or the Jerk.