GEN Z SISTER FIRST TIME Reacting To Jumping Jive (SHOCKED!)

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  • @TheToscanaMan
    @TheToscanaMan Місяць тому +11

    I always enjoy seeing young people watch this. I'm glad that this performance was filmed and is still available to watch. No one would believe it if they didn't see it.

  • @GonRogue-85
    @GonRogue-85 Місяць тому +9

    The young lady is correct. This era was the golden age of Hollywood.

    • @Great-Documentaries
      @Great-Documentaries Місяць тому +2

      Yes. 1930 to the late 50s. That's what they called it. But in reality, it was a complete sham that did not reflect the reality of the world we lived in. And at least some movies should in every generation. Thanks to the Catholic Decency League (an oxymoron if ever there was one), movies of that era were heavily censored.

  • @vorkosigrrl6047
    @vorkosigrrl6047 Місяць тому +5

    It just gets better every time you watch it, doesn’t it? I’m 68, and this was made before I was born, but I could watch this every day and not get tired of it.
    And it feels so good to share it with someone else who hasn’t seen it, doesn’t it? That’s why people watch reaction videos. We enjoy getting to share it with someone new to it. 😀

  • @aldobelli8300
    @aldobelli8300 Місяць тому +3

    Back when entertainment included talent and class!!!!!!

  • @smokymthiker
    @smokymthiker Місяць тому +27

    In their later years the Nicholas brothers taught dance. Janet and Michael Jackson were two of their students. Now you know where Michael got some of his moves. Cab Calloway and the Nicholas brothers had cameos in Janet's 1990 music video 'Alright.'

  • @JPMadden
    @JPMadden Місяць тому +5

    Fortunately, they lived long enough (2000 and 2006) for them to be properly appreciated for their talent.

  • @BAD46660
    @BAD46660 Місяць тому +12

    Movies during this time were glamorous and had songs and dancing. Escapism from the aftermath of the depression in the US before WW2.
    It looks effortless because of all their hard work and dedication.

  • @rebeccarobb4121
    @rebeccarobb4121 Місяць тому +2

    Best dancers in Hollywood and their best routine. Love them!

  • @ReleaseTheQuackers
    @ReleaseTheQuackers Місяць тому +17

    Cab Calloway's maternal grandmother was my grandmother's nanny when she was a small child in the 1930s. I still have the pure vinyl album she gave my grandmother in the late 1930s. It is 72 rpm and one of my most precious possessions.

  • @SD-mw1hz
    @SD-mw1hz Місяць тому +5

    This era was amazing, the glamour, the music, the musicians, the dancing, the elegant clubs. It was before my time but must have been so much fun going out.

  • @joematherly8966
    @joematherly8966 Місяць тому +1

    One of the most incredible performances that I've ever seen! Also great reaction thanks for bringing some real classic entertainment.

  • @steveasher5849
    @steveasher5849 Місяць тому +8

    I'm 62 years old and this was totally my parent's Era. So these types of musicals and their music were always on in our house growing up. The Hollywood studio MGM made hundreds of great musicals with amazing dancing and singing throughout the 1940s and 50s. Thanks for reminding us!

  • @tonycocchiola7192
    @tonycocchiola7192 Місяць тому +6

    They did this in one take.

  • @DolaPrice
    @DolaPrice Місяць тому +3

    The big band era! I used to babysit for a man who was a drummer in a big band. He had great music and was really fun to know.
    Their moves and poses, including their shadows were in old black and white cartoons.

  • @mikekelly5491
    @mikekelly5491 Місяць тому +8

    Great entertainment never dies.

  • @perrymalcolm3802
    @perrymalcolm3802 Місяць тому +2

    What you’re watching is from the peak of genuine entertainment culture in America.
    This was the end of the great Vaudeville era where live acts went on the circuit to theaters across the country, honing their acts to perfection or else sinking! Those audiences in some places might throw tomatoes or something.
    Those acts started flooding to Hollywood and took roles as leads, bit players or spotlight numbers.
    Cab and the Nicholas Brothers (very young here!) did some of this but also had residency at the infamous Cotton Club in Harlem, all black acts for white customers n run by the mob.
    As young as everyone is, they are immaculate, perfectly trained and honed and FULLY ADULT! No slacker shite.
    An awesome, standard-setting time capsule of a bygone time, yet not that long ago!

  • @patriciacanadiansenior8130
    @patriciacanadiansenior8130 Місяць тому +13

    When entertainment was entertainment.

  • @StevenW1958
    @StevenW1958 Місяць тому +3

    Every time the Nicholas Brothers perform the splits, I’m hurting! 😅

  • @laurakali6522
    @laurakali6522 Місяць тому +2

    My knees and hips hurt just watching.

  • @sarablack2547
    @sarablack2547 Місяць тому +15

    The fitness, flexibility,strenth, mobility and takent involved is ridiculous.
    They have a dance number with gene kelly in the pirate a 50's mivie.

  • @katrinaprescott5911
    @katrinaprescott5911 Місяць тому +7

    She is correct. The 1930s were considered the golden age of cinema.

    • @GonRogue-85
      @GonRogue-85 Місяць тому +1

      The 30s through the 50s.

  • @wesalker3479
    @wesalker3479 Місяць тому +3

    Lena Horne's performance of the song "Stormy Weather", from this movie, is one of my favorites of all time. You should check it out. . . . .

  • @KC-gy5xw
    @KC-gy5xw 4 дні тому

    Me and my brother made sure his boys and the nephews and nieces watched and learned this and other stuff when they were very young. They KNOW.

  • @lisahumphries3898
    @lisahumphries3898 Місяць тому +5

    The Nicholas brothers were absolutely fantastic!
    However, I will say this was not ahead of that time, this WAS a great example of that time. My parents’ generation and I grew up watching these types of movies. My mom always said that people dressed up back then, even to run a quick errand.

  • @kennethfrawley
    @kennethfrawley Місяць тому +4

    Mate, again, love your cultural exploration. Nicholas Brothers dancing is amazing. Yet, knowing that they lived until the early 2000s is astonishing. Fred Astaire was brilliant, but these chaps? They are tops, full stop!

    • @kwanshiyin
      @kwanshiyin Місяць тому +2

      Fred Astaire himself said this sequence was the greatest dancing he had ever seen on film.

  • @renee176
    @renee176 Місяць тому +5

    This was done in one take. They were running out of film for the movie and didn't have any other time left for filming. This was and is truly amazing!😊

    • @Great-Documentaries
      @Great-Documentaries Місяць тому +1

      THIS WAS NOT DONE IN ONE TAKE!!! That is a LIE. It is OBVIOUS where the 8 different takes are spliced together. Pay attention, it is SO obvious! They were the best, but they were not superhuman. And it would be foolish not to record it over and over and then take the best bits for your movie. Just stop with the lies. The Nicholas Brothers do not need embellishing.

  • @JeanW-d5i
    @JeanW-d5i Місяць тому

    😯 I don’t have a blue heart! I could watch The Nicholas Brothers all day. ❤

  • @davidhaen2743
    @davidhaen2743 Місяць тому +1

    I believe this scene was recorded in one take.

  • @michaelway7936
    @michaelway7936 Місяць тому +3

    Yall need to check out a clip from 1941's Hellzapoppin of the Lindy Hoppers to see the bruhs and sistas do some serious dancing

  • @AntaresSelket
    @AntaresSelket Місяць тому +2

    I enjoyed watching you two react together. 💙

  • @jeffreypbrown4729
    @jeffreypbrown4729 Місяць тому

    I don't care what age you are, who you are, this is great music, great performance. Great music spans time and space. And those dancers? This is REAL talent. No mumbling, autotuned fakery here. LOVE IT~

  • @joyfulzero853
    @joyfulzero853 Місяць тому

    There was some great dancers around in those days.

  • @jeffreyetherton3185
    @jeffreyetherton3185 Місяць тому

    And lers not forget that not only was Cab Calloway an amazing star in the forties but he was still a star forty years later staring in the film the blues brothers.

  • @blessed5545
    @blessed5545 26 днів тому

    The Nicholas Brothers were the "BEST" tap dancers in the world. No one and I mean no one in 2024 could even come close to pull this off. This was nothing but GOD given talent.

  • @theblackwidowchronicles
    @theblackwidowchronicles Місяць тому

    You only get that energy level if you've been at the Colombian marching powder...Hell yea

  • @eTraxx
    @eTraxx Місяць тому +2

    You guys are young so I'll simply smile at being surprised people in the 1940's had style etc. Today mostly just morphs things from the past .. hundreds of years ago princes would woo actresses, musicians were admired by Kings and Queens (some Kings were also Queens ... but that is another story). Talent has been recognized for as long as we have written records. Remember .. culture, science all that changes .. but people are pretty much people wherever and whenever.

  • @Nomad-vv1gk
    @Nomad-vv1gk Місяць тому

    I think the dance the people are doing at the end is called "The Lindy Hop". Fred Astaire told the brothers that the “Jumpin' Jive” number in Stormy Weather was the greatest number he had ever seen on film. He would have been more impressed had he known that the choreography was filmed all in one take.

  • @michaelgarden6554
    @michaelgarden6554 Місяць тому

    Looks like swing dancing. Super athletic. Add in the tap. Check out couple doing swing dance, please 🙏.

  • @JonathanCalvert-p2c
    @JonathanCalvert-p2c Місяць тому +1

    James Brown... Night Train, one to watch, you guys will love it.

  • @yvonnelopez9407
    @yvonnelopez9407 Місяць тому

    The singer was cab calloway

  • @MamaGaea
    @MamaGaea Місяць тому

    You need to watch Tap with Gregory Hines. It is the ultimate tribute to Hoofers of the day. One of the Nicholas brothers is in it as well as Sammy Davis, Jr, Sandman Slim, Jimmy Slide, and others. AND the first appearance of Savion Glover when he was 13 or 14.

  • @jueneturner8331
    @jueneturner8331 Місяць тому

    Concerning the filming: this dance was done in ONE Take! No stops! And I've read there wasn't a great deal of rehearsal, if any.

  • @headache1959
    @headache1959 Місяць тому

    💙

  • @gimptf9273
    @gimptf9273 Місяць тому

    Fred Astaire said their routine in the film Stormy Weather was the best he'd ever seen on film.

  • @BReNĐN-c6n
    @BReNĐN-c6n Місяць тому

    Cab Calloway

  • @ChristopherRobinson-l5v
    @ChristopherRobinson-l5v Місяць тому

    Those are a solid 2.5 foot steps and they CRUISE up them.
    They both must’ve had 45 inch plus verticals.
    NBA level athleticism.

  • @ivylasangrienta6093
    @ivylasangrienta6093 Місяць тому +1

    This wasn't the era where "baby boomers were having babies", boomers WERE the babies being born in the 50's and early 60's, to the Silent Generation.

  • @FavoriteMovieDate
    @FavoriteMovieDate Місяць тому

    The Swing Years, Big Band and the Harlem Renaissance. This wasn’t ahead of their time. This was THEIR time. Incredibly sophisticated and classy compared to today.

  • @ChristopherRobinson-l5v
    @ChristopherRobinson-l5v Місяць тому

    Janet Jackson’s favorite artist.
    The great Cab Calloway.

  • @socalpaul487
    @socalpaul487 Місяць тому

    This was filmed in ONE take. Fred Astaire called it the greatest dance routine ever filmed.

  • @sirrex9982
    @sirrex9982 Місяць тому

    back in those days you had to have talent to be in hollywood

  • @Scheherizade
    @Scheherizade Місяць тому

    The Golden Age of Hollywood.

  • @RussellJudkins-v1h
    @RussellJudkins-v1h Місяць тому

    Need to watch Lena Horne sing Stormy Weather from this same movie

  • @methonn
    @methonn Місяць тому

    Imagine an average person now just walking up those stairs.

  • @arvelallen8874
    @arvelallen8874 Місяць тому

    6:03 Your actually right. It wasn't Rehearsed. All in 1 take. They we're like that.

  • @yvonnelopez9407
    @yvonnelopez9407 Місяць тому

    Done in one take 8:07

  • @dougca7086
    @dougca7086 Місяць тому

    That kind of singing is called scat singing if you want to see modern day scat singing react to Edgar and Johnny Winter performing Tobacco Road live

  • @TheJohnnywbred
    @TheJohnnywbred Місяць тому

    When people tell you yesteryears folks weren’t as athletic as the modern era show them this video .

  • @andyleclerc3600
    @andyleclerc3600 Місяць тому

    Sir Isaac Newton took one look at the Brothers and said, "Forget everything I wrote about the laws of physics!", and tossed his book in the river

  • @kenneth2875
    @kenneth2875 Місяць тому

    This video is from a movie

  • @gagecarty4290
    @gagecarty4290 Місяць тому

    filmed originaly in Black and white , that was how black people dressed

  • @margiewilson4324
    @margiewilson4324 Місяць тому

    Please watch Gregory Hines tribute to Sammy Davis Jr.

    • @MamaGaea
      @MamaGaea Місяць тому

      Tap is the best tribute Gregory Hines ever made.

  • @steveclapper5424
    @steveclapper5424 Місяць тому

    Small wonder they never had children!

  • @michaelcoleman6228
    @michaelcoleman6228 Місяць тому

    Have you thought of watching the movie?

  • @parkiwi4787
    @parkiwi4787 Місяць тому

    When the Nickolas Bros do the splits down the stairs every guy thinks hell no.

  • @parkiwi4787
    @parkiwi4787 Місяць тому

    I struggle getting out of a chair, those Nickolas Bros piss me off.

  • @parkiwi4787
    @parkiwi4787 Місяць тому

    Who invented rap? My man Cab.

  • @duncanny5848
    @duncanny5848 Місяць тому

    💙