The Stroll was both a slow rock 'n' roll dance[1] and a song that was popular in the late 1950s.
[2] Billboard first reported that "The Stroll" might herald a new dance craze similar to the "Big Apple" in December 1957.
[3][4] In the dance two lines of dancers, men on one side and women on the other, face each other, moving in place to the music.
It was used in the film American Graffiti (1973) during the scene at the high school dance and is mentioned in some of the lyrics in the musical Grease.
The Stroll was an integral part of most episodes of the dance TV series Soul Train, where host and creator Don Cornelius dubbed it the "Soul Train Line."