Newtown Goes For A World Record By Dancing The Macarena

NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — The McCaffrey's Newtown Holiday Parade may have set a new world record on Sunday

At the conclusion of this years parade, the Newtown Business Association invited Parade participants and watchers to join them in the middle of Sycamore Street to dance the Macarena.

It was all part of an attempt to set a new Guinness Book of World Records for having the most people in one place dancing the Macarena.

“Two thousand two hundred and nineteen is the current record. Based on our participant list and based on all the people we had here I think we came pretty close if not breaking it,” said Dan Petty with the NBA. “We think we entered the record books today.” The current record is held by Eggbuckland Community College in Plymouth, United Kingdom on July 7, 2011.

Newtown dances the Macarena in an attempt at a World Record on Sunday. (Jeff Werner/Patch)

The energy out in the street was amazing during the dancing, said Petty who demonstrated the dance for the crowd as overhead drones caught the scene below.

Petty said they should know in about three to nine weeks. "Based on all the people who said they were going to be here we should have broken it.”

A remake of the song by the Bayside Boys reached No. 1 for 14 weeks between August and November 1996 sparked by the dance craze that became a cultural phenomenon throughout the latter half of 1996 and early 1997. The Macarena joined a history of dance crazes that includes the Twist, the Locomotion, the Mashed Potato, the Hustle, YMCA and Walk Like An Egyptian.