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'Boot scooters,' salsa musicians aim for record books
March 15, 1997
Web posted at: 10:20 p.m. EST (0320 GMT)
(CNN) -- You win some and you lose some in the world of world record-setting.
In Australia, nearly 3,000 "boot scooters" had a good time trying to break the world record for the largest simultaneous dance, as they helped kick off an annual fund-raiser for the Australian Red Cross Saturday.
About 300 dancers lined up outside the Sydney Opera House as thousands of others gathered at locations across New South Wales. They danced to the "Boot Scootin' Boogie," played by several radio stations.
It was enough boot scootin' to make the Red Cross happy, but not enough to break the record of 3,062.
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But it was a different tune in Havana, Cuba, where some 2,000 musicians played 100 continuous hours of salsa music for the dancing pleasure of about 1,000 couples.
The marathon that ended Thursday eclipsed the old record of 30 hours, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The nonstop salsa was played at La Tropical, a Havana dance hot spot.
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