This was at the height of the Harlem renaissance, also notice how people were dressed. Everybody was dressed up in their best clothes, men with suits, women with dresses and hats and probably gloves too. People back then also dressed up when they went to baseball games, they didn't look like they were on their way to a beach or like they thrown out of a homeless shelter for not passing a dress code. People had pride in their appearance, sadly times have changed, and gotten worse. A lot of people out in public today, don't even look human.
Young people today have no idea what true talent really is. They shot this live with only one take. No computers, no CGI, no synthesized noise, no profanity, just very talented people doing what they loved. I feel sorry for young people today. They are so morbid, so sensitive, so dour. They have no idea how different life used to be before the invention of the internet and the social media circus.
Cab was the first black artist to sell over a million records. The Nicholas Brothers were incredible. Anyone who doesn't think so has never tried to stand up from the splits without using their arms.
Cab Calloway and the Nicolas brothers were not only some of the greatest talent the world has ever seen, but they were class personified! True gentlemen. We’ll never see the likes of them again!
They were running out of time and money, so they had one rehearsal and did All of this in One Take! Fred Astaire said this was the Best dance number Ever put on film.
The Nicholas Brothers brought gymnastics in their routines. They were self taught. Watch Gal from Kalamazoo,Down Argentine Way, Lucky Number(when they were young). Fabulous!! I liked the fact you mentioned the energy and joy, with Cab, the orchestra and the dancing.
I hope you don't take offense at what I am about to say, but be assured it is out of love. I am 80 years old and have been playing jazz since 1949 when I was 6. I played in many venues where I was not only the only white guy in the band, but the only white guy in the building. In the 40's (I was born in 1943) nobody had a TV, very, very few people even had a radio, so the only opportunity they had for entertainment was to dress up "to the nines" as they used to say, and go to a dinner theatre where they could have a meal and dance the night away to music performed by people of this calibre. The people who played this music had begged, borrowed or stolen, an instrument and practiced their asses off until they could play at a level to join a band such as this. Yes, unfortunately it is true that the clubs were strictly segregated. I was never given a hard time being the only white guy there, but I am sad to say that a "colored" musician at the time would NEVER be allowed to play in a white band. In 1961 I enlisted in the US Navy as a musician and was assigned to the Naval School of Music in Washington DC, and one day I was called to the commandants' office. I reported, scared s---less wondering what I had done wrong only to be informed by him that a band playing at a local theatre had a trombonist fall ill and would I be willing to fill in, I said yes, and to my great delight the said band was the Count Basie Band.. Different times, different criteria, but by no means different abilities. I wished you would have commented on the skill of the musicians playing with no auto-tune, or electronic enhancement, but that was expected from those of us in the trenches. Glad you enjoyed this and congratulations on giving a great review. P.S. at 80 years old I am STILL performing.
My mother was a chorus line tap dancer. She and dad met at one of the great ballrooms. They were married the day before Pearl Harbor was bombed. They never had a honeymoon. Still, I remember her tapping all over the house while playing her old 78's of Glen Miller, The Dorseys, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and many others. A collection from 1936 to 1945. I close my eyes and can hear her still.
First of all thank you for your reaction. Cab Calloway was a giant in the entertainment industry of that time. He had his own band in his 20's. they all wore colorful Tuxedos, always very professional and was the house band of the famous Cotton Club. The Nicholas Brothers were one of a kind athletic dance team, very famous even as youngsters, they had their own Chauffeur driven Limo, there is a documentary on their life on You Tube.
I am so glad to see the younger generation being interested in the dancing and music from this era....... my parents era. I am 62 and I love music from this era.... my dad used to sing in Barbershop Harmony groups when he moved down here to South Carolina, I loved that.... and when he passed away in 2019, I got his whole music collection from the 1920's through the 1970's-80's... I have really enjoyed listening to this music.... great energy when you need to clean the house... upbeat and fun! I just subscribed to your channel and I wanted to share a video with you that I found recently of the Nicholas Brothers. The video is from 1936 and the brothers are about maybe 8 and maybe 12 or older, I'm not sure, but they are singing and tap dancing here in this video as well, it is for a radio show. I thought you'd appreciate this one since you didn't know much about them. Enjoy! "Lucky Number .. Nicholas Brothers .. 1936" www.youtube.com/
I love it, i was speechless too when i first saw this. I had never seen anything like it! Skill 1000, Energy 1000, Entertainment 10000000000, its just so good, all of it.
Entertainers back then especially black entertainers showed excellence ❤. The Nicholas brothers are my favorite entertainers and I am only 21 years old. You need to check out down argentine way by the Nicholas brothers, you won't be disappointed ❤
The Nicholas Brothers began as street dancers as children. So by the time this was filmed they'd been at it for decades. There are other videos of them dancing. I recall seeing them a few times on TV when I was a kid.
This is truly a cornerstone of american entertainment. I'm enthralled every time I watch it. I think I read somewhere that this was all done in one take too! Outstanding music, outstanding dancing, titans of talent all around. And no, sadly, there's not much call for this stuff these days, but wouldn't it be wonderful if it came back?? Great reaction BYB! and congrats on 1K!!!
While Cab Calloway did do jazz and blues, he also did swing/big band, and I think 'Jumpin' Jive' fits more in the latter category. Some of the slang terms used here, such as 'gators', have gone out of fashion, but some are still in use. The use of rapid-fire nonsense syllables is known as 'scat-singing'. Louis Armstrong, Scatman Crothers, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sammy Davis, Jr. were among the proponents of the form. I suggest you watch the live-action version of 'Friend Like Me'. At the end, Aladdin and the Genie do jump-splits down the stairs in homage to the Nicholas Brothers. I like watching young people view this for the first time. At each point that someone gets impressed, I'm thinking 'You ain't seen nothing yet!' I'm glad you enjoyed this so much! By the way, here are the lyrics in case to want to read along with Cab: Boy? Oh, boy! Panama, Shanama, Swanee shore, Let me dig that jive some more; Boy? Oh boy! The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive Makes you get your kicks on the mellow side. Hep! Hep! Hep! Hep! The jim-jam-jump with the solid jive, Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five, Hep! hep! Hep! Hep! Don't be that ickeroo, Get hep and follow through, And get your steady foo Make the joint jump like the gators do, The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive, Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side, Hep! Hep! Hep! Hep! The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive, Makes you hep! hep! hep! on the mellow side!
Cab is talking scat similar to talking Jive in the 60's. Stormy Weather was a great all black movie, on of the biggest productions featuring an all black cast. The movie is a part of black history and should be watched in its entirety. The Nicholas Brothers were not the first hoofers that featured splits but they are the most graceful in my opinion. We will return to this quality of entertainment once we have full control of our product. Our standards of talent when it comes to music and stage acts has been so watered down, it can be discouraging. But I keep the faith it will get better in time.
I always joke that the Nicholas Brothers make Michael Jackson look like a punk. Fred Astaire, famous dancer of the era and one of the best said this is the finest dance duo ever put on film in this movie "Stormy Weather."
I know today everyone is bigger etc etc. But why have i never seen anyone try this epic performance that the NICHOLAS BROTHERS pulled off on the big screen several decades ago.
@@lindalightfoot9837first time I saw a film with the Nicholas Brothers was I was 9 years old and I was watching TV with my Dad an old film and he explained what we were about to see. Special.
There is a UA-cam channel called Nicholas Brothers Official Videos. Check it out. There, you will find a 1964 performance of the brothers dancing and doing splits down a staircase much like in they did in the movie you posted here. Remember, this was 21 years later. Fayard was 49 and Harold was 43!
It’s great that you mentioned the video for Alright by Janet Jackson and that Cab Calloway was in it, because THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS WERE ALSO IN THAT VIDEO! They were the tap dancing brothers also in that video. Keep in mind that that video came out almost 50 years after Stormy Weather, so you’re definitely seeing history here. All of the Jacksons were influenced by the Nicholas Brothers. Also, if you ever saw the movie The Five Heartbeats, the instructors teach g them to dance were the Nicholas Brothers.
Billie Holiday lived in the 30's to the 60's, watch the whole movie:Stormy Weather: full of great entertainers and music The Nicholas Brothers:Lucky Numbers "
(new subscriber) What Calloway did which were not lyrics is called "scat" -- Ella Fitzgerald, for one, was an excellent scatter. This is from the film "Stormy Weather" but it is how it was "back then" -- nightclubs for dinner, a show similar to this, & dancing afterwards -- a real fun evening out. Unfortunately that seems to be all lost & young people don't know how good it was to have that -- looking on a phone screen, or even at a video, just doesn't cut it - it ain't the same. If we weren't doing this in a club, we saw it on the big screen in the theater. We also lost all of those great instruments that were always a part of our music -- the great saxophone, the horns, a real piano, etc. that was part of the Big Band era, '50's doo-wop. Suggestions if you're interested for happy bouncy dancing musicals from 2 very enjoyable movies w-the great Gene Kelly: Gene dancing w-cartoon character Jerry Mouse (yes they paired Gene w-a cartoon character - ingenious) ua-cam.com/video/LZKNX1iKaMY/v-deo.html called "The Worry Song" 1945; & Gene dancing on roller skates ua-cam.com/video/th1PfgT09-g/v-deo.html in 1955. Professional dancers are always dancing, practicing, it keeps you limber w-strong muscle tone. Some famous people who were not known as dancers but were very good were Johnny Carson, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra (taught by Gene Kelly), famous actress Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth (great dancer/actress) & of course Patrick Swayze & John Travolta. Thanks for your reaction, it was enjoyable to watch you.
One of the best, if not the best, dance scenes ever filmed. It was done in one take in 1943 during World War 2. They didn't have enough film for a second take.
@@jnagarya519 obviously 🙄 but a take is when the camera is on and film is being used. It was filmed on one take. Not enough FILM for a second take . Film was being used in large amounts for war purposes. Little was available.
@@davidfryer9218 I doubt you have a source for that. And it means very little as some sort of "boast" because the routine was planned out and rehearsed in advance of being filmed. Regardless period, most films are rehearsed before filming; it costs less.
Oh yes the nicholas brothers! One of the best of all time. Some people actually compare nicholas brothers with the les twins. Thise are some good groups
Thanks BYB! Cab was a huge talent (singer, dancer and musical director) ... and influence ... the Nicholas Brothers were just... DAMN! (Harold and Fayard.. they started as children.. and have been lauded by many famous dancers.. including Fred Astaire, and others) Appreciate your reaction.. (yes, it is "tap" but so much more... check them out in another film.. 1940! they not only dance, but SING.. and in Spanish.. they boys had it all!) ua-cam.com/video/I9kiqd38kvQ/v-deo.html (notice the moves that later became called "break dancing".. lol)
I loved your reaction to this! Even when you were silent, your facial expressions said it all. lol Since you liked this, I'd suggest Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in Hellzapoppin' when you have time - if you haven't seen it already. It's from the same era and I think it might leave you awestruck, as well. Like this, there are versions in black and white and color. Again, great reaction!
Hello again.... I thought you might appreciate another video I just found. It is a clip from the movie "Tap" in 1989 with Gregory Hines.... an incredible tap dancer, who was challenged by the all time great Sammy Davis Jr.,,,, then by "Sandman", the Nicholas brothers and a few others. Since this was in 1989... I would have to say that I believe the others are in their 70's or 80's in this movie..... now watch these all time great dancers dance against Gregory Hines.... truly amazing! I thought it would be a special treat for you to see this.... Enjoy!! Tap (1989): Challenge Scene www.youtube.com
One thing I noticed about these reaction clips. They seem to not wanna Google or do any research on their subject. She doesn't know what year that was?
Welcome to the for real world girl. Just like you are probably one of the people who discovered "the Moonwalk" was Michael Jackson and the one who really discovered it was "Charlie Chaplin' and there were many, many others who did it afterwards. Then Michael Jackson copied it. But anyway even Fred Astair complimented "The Nicholas Brothers" when he saw them perform this number. And if not at this "All Black Night Club" well somewhere else. The Nicholas Brothers were performing everywhere especially in New York. Just like old romantic love songs girl. Honestly, when was the last one that you heard that was not from the past? They just don't make them anymore. Adios.
The Nicholas Brothers were great singers too
This was at the height of the Harlem renaissance, also notice how people were dressed. Everybody was dressed up in their best clothes, men with suits, women with dresses and hats and probably gloves too. People back then also dressed up when they went to baseball games, they didn't look like they were on their way to a beach or like they thrown out of a homeless shelter for not passing a dress code. People had pride in their appearance, sadly times have changed, and gotten worse. A lot of people out in public today, don't even look human.
agree with you 100 % I can't stand seeing some people out shopping in literally their pajamas and slippers!
Young people today have no idea what true talent really is. They shot this live with only one take. No computers, no CGI, no synthesized noise, no profanity, just very talented people doing what they loved.
I feel sorry for young people today. They are so morbid, so sensitive, so dour. They have no idea how different life used to be before the invention of the internet and the social media circus.
Cab was the first black artist to sell over a million records. The Nicholas Brothers were incredible. Anyone who doesn't think so has never tried to stand up from the splits without using their arms.
Cab Calloway and the Nicolas brothers were not only some of the greatest talent the world has ever seen, but they were class personified! True gentlemen. We’ll never see the likes of them again!
They were running out of time and money, so they had one rehearsal and did All of this in One Take! Fred Astaire said this was the Best dance number Ever put on film.
Sorry. That makes absolutely no sense. Where did you see that?
The great ballet dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov called them "the greatest dancers he'd ever seen in his life".
The Nicholas Brothers brought gymnastics in their routines. They were self taught. Watch Gal from Kalamazoo,Down Argentine Way, Lucky Number(when they were young). Fabulous!!
I liked the fact you mentioned the energy and joy, with Cab, the orchestra and the dancing.
They did this in nightclubs. One take, no stopping. The Nichols Brothers were two of the best dancers ever.
THIS is what dancing REALLY is. You don't see anything like this anymore, maybe once in a great while.
Wasn't so much jazz as jive. What he's doing is jive talk. My advice: Listen to all The Cab that you can. You'll love it!
Remember these scenes are from the movie Stormy weather which was released in 1943. 80 years ago!!! Classic movie!!
Fred Astaire considered the Nicholas Brothers the greatest tap dancers who ever lived.
I hope you don't take offense at what I am about to say, but be assured it is out of love. I am 80 years old and have been playing jazz since 1949 when I was 6. I played in many venues where I was not only the only white guy in the band, but the only white guy in the building. In the 40's (I was born in 1943) nobody had a
TV, very, very few people even had a radio, so the only opportunity they had for entertainment was to dress up "to the nines" as they used to say, and go to a dinner theatre where they could have a meal and dance the night away to music performed by people of this calibre. The people who played this music had begged, borrowed or stolen, an instrument and practiced their asses off until they could play at a level to join a band such as this. Yes, unfortunately it is true that the clubs were strictly segregated. I was never given a hard time being the only white guy there, but I am sad to say that a "colored" musician at the time would NEVER be allowed to play in a white band. In 1961 I enlisted in the US Navy as a musician and was assigned to the Naval School of Music in Washington DC, and one day I was called to the commandants' office. I reported, scared s---less wondering what I had done wrong only to be informed by him that a band playing at a local theatre had a trombonist fall ill and would I be willing to fill in, I said yes, and to my great delight the said band was the Count Basie Band.. Different times, different criteria, but by no means different abilities. I wished you would have commented on the skill of the musicians playing with no auto-tune, or electronic enhancement, but that was expected from those of us in the trenches. Glad you enjoyed this and congratulations on giving a great review. P.S. at 80 years old I am STILL performing.
My mother was a chorus line tap dancer. She and dad met at one of the great ballrooms. They were married the day before Pearl Harbor was bombed. They never had a honeymoon. Still, I remember her tapping all over the house while playing her old 78's of Glen Miller, The Dorseys, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and many others. A collection from 1936 to 1945. I close my eyes and can hear her still.
It is called true talent, everyone in the video.
This clip is from the musical "Stormy Weather" an all black super stars of the day. Includes Lenor Horn Bojangles Robinson. And Many more.✌️❤️
First of all thank you for your reaction. Cab Calloway was a giant in the entertainment industry of that time. He had his own band in his 20's. they all wore colorful Tuxedos, always very professional and was the house band of the famous Cotton Club. The Nicholas Brothers were one of a kind athletic dance team, very famous even as youngsters, they had their own Chauffeur driven Limo, there is a documentary on their life on You Tube.
GOD still makes us that way. The problem is lack of discipline and an aversion to hard work and patience.
I can't take my eyes off Harold (the younger, he's on the left, for the most part) -his cheeky grin the whole way through! He was only 23 here.
I am so glad to see the younger generation being interested in the dancing and music from this era....... my parents era. I am 62 and I love music from this era.... my dad used to sing in Barbershop Harmony groups when he moved down here to South Carolina, I loved that.... and when he passed away in 2019, I got his whole music collection from the 1920's through the 1970's-80's... I have really enjoyed listening to this music.... great energy when you need to clean the house... upbeat and fun!
I just subscribed to your channel and I wanted to share a video with you that I found recently of the Nicholas Brothers. The video is from 1936 and the brothers are about maybe 8 and maybe 12 or older, I'm not sure, but they are singing and tap dancing here in this video as well, it is for a radio show. I thought you'd appreciate this one since you didn't know much about them. Enjoy!
"Lucky Number .. Nicholas Brothers .. 1936"
www.youtube.com/
I love it, i was speechless too when i first saw this. I had never seen anything like it! Skill 1000, Energy 1000, Entertainment 10000000000, its just so good, all of it.
Cab Calloway was super big in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Artist HAD TO BE talented then. There was no faking it.
This is a clip from the classic 1943 movie Stormy Weather. You need to watch the whole thing; it's really great.
Thank you for the information! I think I just might.
Entertainers back then especially black entertainers showed excellence ❤. The Nicholas brothers are my favorite entertainers and I am only 21 years old. You need to check out down argentine way by the Nicholas brothers, you won't be disappointed ❤
The Nicholas Brothers began as street dancers as children. So by the time this was filmed they'd been at it for decades.
There are other videos of them dancing.
I recall seeing them a few times on TV when I was a kid.
This is truly a cornerstone of american entertainment. I'm enthralled every time I watch it. I think I read somewhere that this was all done in one take too! Outstanding music, outstanding dancing, titans of talent all around. And no, sadly, there's not much call for this stuff these days, but wouldn't it be wonderful if it came back?? Great reaction BYB! and congrats on 1K!!!
I would love for this to come back!!
try cab calloway songs...MINNIE THE MOOCHER...AND REEFERMAN
Nicolas brothers were the two best tap dancers that ever lived
While Cab Calloway did do jazz and blues, he also did swing/big band, and I think 'Jumpin' Jive' fits more in the latter category. Some of the slang terms used here, such as 'gators', have gone out of fashion, but some are still in use. The use of rapid-fire nonsense syllables is known as 'scat-singing'. Louis Armstrong, Scatman Crothers, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sammy Davis, Jr. were among the proponents of the form.
I suggest you watch the live-action version of 'Friend Like Me'. At the end, Aladdin and the Genie do jump-splits down the stairs in homage to the Nicholas Brothers.
I like watching young people view this for the first time. At each point that someone gets impressed, I'm thinking 'You ain't seen nothing yet!'
I'm glad you enjoyed this so much!
By the way, here are the lyrics in case to want to read along with Cab:
Boy? Oh, boy!
Panama, Shanama, Swanee shore,
Let me dig that jive some more;
Boy? Oh boy!
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive
Makes you get your kicks on the mellow side.
Hep! Hep!
Hep! Hep!
The jim-jam-jump with the solid jive,
Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five,
Hep! hep!
Hep! Hep!
Don't be that ickeroo,
Get hep and follow through,
And get your steady foo
Make the joint jump like the gators do,
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive,
Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side,
Hep! Hep!
Hep! Hep!
The jim-jam-jump with the jumpin' jive,
Makes you hep! hep! hep! on the mellow side!
Wow! Thank you for the lyrics and the information!
Also (believe it or not) Bing Crosby started out as a scat singer(and I much prefer it to his later crooning)
This was classic . All people these days know how to do is twerk.
Cab Calloway was in the Blues Brothers movie.
I was lucky to have seen Cab on Broadway in The Pajama Game with Barbara McNair in 1979
I saw him in " Bubbling Brown Sugar" at Westbury Music Fair in the early 1970's. Incredible!
Flowers and props to that band also. They ripped that.
Yes, they did!
7:37 You never get over what the Nicholas Brothers did here.
talent beyond and absolute grace
I watched this when i was 11 and still play it from time at 34. Love it!
Cab is talking scat similar to talking Jive in the 60's. Stormy Weather was a great all black movie, on of the biggest productions featuring an all black cast. The movie is a part of black history and should be watched in its entirety. The Nicholas Brothers were not the first hoofers that featured splits but they are the most graceful in my opinion. We will return to this quality of entertainment once we have full control of our product. Our standards of talent when it comes to music and stage acts has been so watered down, it can be discouraging. But I keep the faith it will get better in time.
As you like this try this clip:- Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Whitey's Lindy Hoppers w/ Dancers' Names - Harlem Congaroos
He is singing scat
This is Swing Bebop Big Band sound.
Jive was also slang for cannabis during the Swing Jazz Era.
I always joke that the Nicholas Brothers make Michael Jackson look like a punk. Fred Astaire, famous dancer of the era and one of the best said this is the finest dance duo ever put on film in this movie "Stormy Weather."
One of the Brothers married Dorthy Danridge.
I know today everyone is bigger etc etc. But why have i never seen anyone try this epic performance that the NICHOLAS BROTHERS pulled off on the big screen several decades ago.
Top dancers have said no one could replicate that per
@@lindalightfoot9837first time I saw a film with the Nicholas Brothers was I was 9 years old and I was watching TV with my Dad an old film and he explained what we were about to see. Special.
@@makingthecoin3647the whole segment is marvelous, from the flamboyant musicians to the shadows to the sheer happiness.
It's sad young people don't know any history
Yes, myself included. I mean, I don't know everything but I try to learn as much as possible about who and what came before me.
This film was made in 1943.
There is a UA-cam channel called Nicholas Brothers Official Videos. Check it out. There, you will find a 1964 performance of the brothers dancing and doing splits down a staircase much like in they did in the movie you posted here. Remember, this was 21 years later. Fayard was 49 and Harold was 43!
Fun reaction to a great video!
Doing that all in one take.
It’s great that you mentioned the video for Alright by Janet Jackson and that Cab Calloway was in it, because THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS WERE ALSO IN THAT VIDEO! They were the tap dancing brothers also in that video. Keep in mind that that video came out almost 50 years after Stormy Weather, so you’re definitely seeing history here. All of the Jacksons were influenced by the Nicholas Brothers.
Also, if you ever saw the movie The Five Heartbeats, the instructors teach g them to dance were the Nicholas Brothers.
Wow!
The Movie Stormy Weather, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Lena Horne
Billie Holiday lived in the 30's to the 60's, watch the whole movie:Stormy Weather: full of great entertainers and music
The Nicholas Brothers:Lucky Numbers "
Ok. Try The Nicholas Brothers-Down Argentine Way & I've got a Gal in Kalamazoo.
Thanks! Added to my list!
(new subscriber) What Calloway did which were not lyrics is called "scat" -- Ella Fitzgerald, for one, was an excellent scatter. This is from the film "Stormy Weather" but it is how it was "back then" -- nightclubs for dinner, a show similar to this, & dancing afterwards -- a real fun evening out. Unfortunately that seems to be all lost & young people don't know how good it was to have that -- looking on a phone screen, or even at a video, just doesn't cut it - it ain't the same. If we weren't doing this in a club, we saw it on the big screen in the theater. We also lost all of those great instruments that were always a part of our music -- the great saxophone, the horns, a real piano, etc. that was part of the Big Band era, '50's doo-wop.
Suggestions if you're interested for happy bouncy dancing musicals from 2 very enjoyable movies w-the great Gene Kelly: Gene dancing w-cartoon character Jerry Mouse (yes they paired Gene w-a cartoon character - ingenious) ua-cam.com/video/LZKNX1iKaMY/v-deo.html called "The Worry Song" 1945; & Gene dancing on roller skates ua-cam.com/video/th1PfgT09-g/v-deo.html in 1955. Professional dancers are always dancing, practicing, it keeps you limber w-strong muscle tone. Some famous people who were not known as dancers but were very good were Johnny Carson, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra (taught by Gene Kelly), famous actress Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth (great dancer/actress) & of course Patrick Swayze & John Travolta. Thanks for your reaction, it was enjoyable to watch you.
One of the best, if not the best, dance scenes ever filmed. It was done in one take in 1943 during World War 2. They didn't have enough film for a second take.
Just knowing it was only ONE take is amazing!
@@bybshenanigans melted my brain when I found d it out.
It was obviously planned out and REHEARSED -- including camera angles -- before it was filmed. So not exactly the first performance.
@@jnagarya519 obviously 🙄 but a take is when the camera is on and film is being used. It was filmed on one take. Not enough FILM for a second take . Film was being used in large amounts for war purposes. Little was available.
@@davidfryer9218 I doubt you have a source for that. And it means very little as some sort of "boast" because the routine was planned out and rehearsed in advance of being filmed.
Regardless period, most films are rehearsed before filming; it costs less.
Cab Calloway also sang about "reefers".
If this doesn't kick-ass rock then what does?
You should also check out "The Andrews Sisters".
I think I've heard of The Andrew Sisters. Don't quote me, though. It sounds familiar. I'll check them out.
@@bybshenanigans They began in the 1930s and were the soundtrack during WW II. It's said they sold more records than "The Supremes".
Oh yes the nicholas brothers! One of the best of all time. Some people actually compare nicholas brothers with the les twins. Thise are some good groups
Never heard of the Les Twins. Going to have to look them up!
@@bybshenanigans you should check out their world of dance 2014.
Thanks BYB! Cab was a huge talent (singer, dancer and musical director) ... and influence ... the Nicholas Brothers were just... DAMN! (Harold and Fayard.. they started as children.. and have been lauded by many famous dancers.. including Fred Astaire, and others) Appreciate your reaction.. (yes, it is "tap" but so much more... check them out in another film.. 1940! they not only dance, but SING.. and in Spanish.. they boys had it all!) ua-cam.com/video/I9kiqd38kvQ/v-deo.html (notice the moves that later became called "break dancing".. lol)
About the last generation of that class of hoofers were Sammy Davis, Jr. and Greg Hynes.
I loved your reaction to this! Even when you were silent, your facial expressions said it all. lol Since you liked this, I'd suggest Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in Hellzapoppin' when you have time - if you haven't seen it already. It's from the same era and I think it might leave you awestruck, as well. Like this, there are versions in black and white and color. Again, great reaction!
Do a reaction to the complete Stormy Weather musical 👏👏👏
If it's like this, I might have to!
*I loved Harold in The Five Heartbeats and Uptown Saturday Night
My legs hurt just by watching
Lol
Hello again.... I thought you might appreciate another video I just found. It is a clip from the movie "Tap" in 1989 with Gregory Hines.... an incredible tap dancer, who was challenged by the all time great Sammy Davis Jr.,,,, then by "Sandman", the Nicholas brothers and a few others. Since this was in 1989... I would have to say that I believe the others are in their 70's or 80's in this movie..... now watch these all time great dancers dance against Gregory Hines.... truly amazing! I thought it would be a special treat for you to see this.... Enjoy!!
Tap (1989): Challenge Scene
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They do have his now - tap dancing (not usually near as good as these brothers)
Check out, if I have the names right, Savion Glover and Gregory Hines
Black folks had more soul, energy and inspiration, in previous generations.
You will hear about Rodger and Fred Aster. But they had nothing on the Nicholas brothers and they were 10 times better
One thing I noticed about these reaction clips. They seem to not wanna Google or do any research on their subject. She doesn't know what year that was?
Well....why don't you tell them? It's not going to hurt. Stay well my friend lol.
Welcome to the for real world girl. Just like you are probably one of the people who discovered "the Moonwalk" was Michael Jackson and the one who really discovered it was "Charlie Chaplin' and there were many, many others who did it afterwards. Then Michael Jackson copied it. But anyway even Fred Astair complimented "The Nicholas Brothers" when he saw them perform this number. And if not at this "All Black Night Club" well somewhere else. The Nicholas Brothers were performing everywhere especially in New York. Just like old romantic love songs girl. Honestly, when was the last one that you heard that was not from the past? They just don't make them anymore. Adios.