CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Tuesday night's rollicking roll call wasn't the first time Democrats danced at a political convention.
WBBM takes a look back on a political gathering that serves as a 90s time capsule.
1968 was the year the whole world was watching. 1996 was the polar opposite.
The economy was growing, inflation and unemployment were low, and the rest of the world was largely quiet.
President Bill Clinton had a comfortable lead in the polls over Republican challenger, war hero, and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
“That was part of the most uninteresting political year I’ve ever lived through,” historian and political analyst Jeff Greenfield said.
He called 1996 the least important election of his lifetime.
It was also the summer in which the dance remix of a 1993 pop song “Macarena” was number one on the pop charts for four weeks.
The delegates danced. WBBM editor Leon Colvin was on site at the 1996 DNC and said it was impossible to get the song out of his head.
“It was the ‘Baby Shark’ of the 90s,” he chuckled.
Clinton went on to win the 1996 election in a 379 electoral vote landslide, and the macarena has been voted the greatest one-hit wonder of all-time.
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