“Dancing Days” by Led Zeppelin

"Dancing Days" struts across Led Zeppelin's 1973 album Houses of the Holy, and its wriggling, sideways groove traces back to an Indian tune that got under Jimmy Page's and Robert Plant's skin in Bombay. They cut it at Stargroves in England in 1972 with Page producing, John Paul Jones on bass and organ, John Bonham on drums and Plant out front, and Eddie Kramer mixed it.

The band couldn't sit on it: in Seattle in June 1972 they played it twice in one night, once in the set and again for the encore, months before anyone could buy it. Atlantic made it the album's first track for radio, Rosko premiered it on his Radio One lunchtime show in March 1973, and in the US it rode the flip of "Over the Hills and Far Away". Once the record was out, though, it mostly left the set, turning up only as a short acoustic version on the 1977 US tour.

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