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<p>"<strong>Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin')</strong>", initially titled "<strong>Slow Dancing</strong>", is a song written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tempchin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jack Tempchin</a>. Under the title "Slow Dancing", the song originally was a minor US hit in 1976 for the band Funky Kings (of which Tempchin was a member). The song became much better known as "Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancin')" in a 1977 cover version by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rivers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnny Rivers</a>, which became a top ten US hit. It was Rivers' last top 40 hit in the United States, and became his second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_record" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gold record</a>.</p><p>In 1979, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Duncan_(country_singer)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnny Duncan</a> covered the song under its original title "Slow Dancing", and had a top ten hit on the country charts with it in both the US and Canada.</p><h2>Content</h2><p>The song describes a young man <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_dancing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">slow dancing</a> in the middle of the night with his girlfriend. Nothing needs to be done at the moment; the man tells his girlfriend that he wouldn't want to be anywhere else or be with anyone else.</p>