As a break dancer and robotic dancer who has done the moonwalk for many years, I can say that is some slick and smooth moonwalking talent right there. He gets the 'Cool as' status from me!
Hey Benji! Check out Mickey Rooney break dancing in the 1939 movie “Boys Town”. The scene is near the beginning. Mickey is running away when he spots two pretty girls and changes his mind.To impress them, he does a break dance! He even pops and locks at the end! Super cool! 😁👍
@@jonathandoelander6130 , The dance move has been around since the 1930's. It has multiple variations that are all similar. You can appear to be moving backwards, holding ground, running in place etc. They're all based on the same principal leg movements to create an action, or illusion of an action. Heres a video of several variations of progression going back as far as the 1930's. ua-cam.com/video/EewimARbHpQ/v-deo.html
@@jonathandoelander6130 , Ask Michael Jackson, or whoever coined the term. I assume it was a catchy name to get the attention of rabid fans on MTV. In that sense, it sure was successful. A fifty year old move invented by tap dancers reignited by Michael Jackson, and now mostly associated with him. Gotta give him credit.....he did it well, and at the perfect time: The MTV Awards show in front of millions. That was brilliant.
Same here. Amazing talent. And lets not forget another reason to love Cimino's notorious western Heavens Gate, Ronnie Hawkins is among the stellar cast as a cavalry major!
I still remember reading in the early 1980's when everyone was talking about MJ doing the "moonwalk" a former flapper swore she saw the chorus boys doing it in the ballroom of the Savoy in 1929.
Damn straight it's Levon. Godspeed ... Read Levon's book ... This Wheel's On Fire. There's a bunch in it about his time with the Hawk and even where "the walk" really originated. It predates Ronnie but it was a mainstay of their act.
Shalamar also did a moonwalk back in the day, well before Michael Jackson did his. The move has been around for ages, and makes a fresh comeback every few decades. It's like they say; "There's nothing new under the sun".
You are correct David "Nothing is New" under the Sun.... everything is repeated over and over and over again. Hollywood is a Perfect Example of repeats. rinse,wash and repeat cycle movies. including diseases are repeated.
@@givehonestanswer5508 , You sure said that right. They now come out with the woke PC version of movies on a refresh, and most of the times the movies really suck. Ghostbusters 2.0 is an example. You'd have to pay me to watch that pile of PC dung. Plenty of other garbage to use as examples too.
@@omegaman2767 , I watched the clip on Soul Train. I liked it. Theres even video of the move being performed in the 1950's or so by Bill Bailey, if I remember correctly.
@@omegaman2767 , Here is a video I just found of the Moonwalk being performed as early as the 1930's. Lots of performers did it including Cub Calloway, and Fred Astaire. (The guy wearing the chef's bonnet is killing a dance move. Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/EewimARbHpQ/v-deo.html
@donuntboy25 I'm pretty sure it is, as Levon was with him in the '50s. Hard to believe but Levon is still touring these days promoting his 'Dirt Farmer' album.
The second one around 5:00 nails it with the whole supernatural-like feel, I just wish it had gone another 10 seconds or so. He was in "that element" deep there.
It's a little different. He moves forward while his legs appear to move backwards. Like the Flintstones. MJ moved backwards while legs appeared to move forward. Both pretty cool
Well I guess it's true what they say... Everything old is New Again... I always thought Michael what's the first to do it... I remember in the sixties my parents told me that Jimi Hendrix wasn't the first to record Hey Joe- and other songs made in the 70s that I thought were new... For my age... I thought they were nuts! The older I get the more I see all that is true... LOL
He does it so well , but this was not something Micheal Jackson created. He was taught this by a street dancer. Every person who does the moonwalk makes it their own . Love that it was being done such a long time ago .
@@jtika1978 OK, but I have read a few books about Ronnie Hawkins and they always called it the Camel Walk. I know what you mean though. I have seen a few videos for the Camel Walk where it really does look more like how a camel would do it.
@@SingleMalt77005 I actually don’t doubt that, really. I’m a dancer & dance teacher (emphasis on hip hop-self trained in that, and then training in many other genres & minored in dance in college so I had to take dance history), i can confirm that maaany moves do end up being called many different things. Especially in solo vernacular jazz like this & hip hop because they weren’t created in a dance studio. And also because many that have name discrepancies evolved from each other. And alllso because different regions of the US sometimes end up calling moves different things. I tend to go with what I learned something as through the years for hip hop, and for jazz (because Ididn’t experience that in real time- I’m not *that* old lol ) I tend to go with the majority consensus. Long way of saying- some people probably did call it the camel walk, even though the general consensus says the camel walk is the three step move. I’ve always known this move (in hip hop) as the cloud walk. What it’s not, and never has been, is the moonwalk! 😂😂
Jackson never claimed that he invented the moonwalk. People have been doing it for millennia. They have unearthed ancient murals from Babylon depicting the popular bard, Simbar-Nabu the Swift doing the moonwalk during his presentations at Nebuchadnezzar's court.
Mate, In no reality was Michael Jackson influenced by Elvis Presley. He never mentioned Presley in one single interview as to being an influence on him in terms of style, singing, artistic vision and most certainly not dancing. Elvis Presley was a comsumate copier of other acts, particularly black acts from shanty juke joints where he picked up their moves, vocal inflections etc....and brought it to conservative white audiences who were ignorant to Black American musical culture. Jackson is in the Song writers Hall Of Fame, The Dance Hall Of Fame and holds over 750 musical achievement awards over the course of his career. Presley does not belong in the same paragraph, let alone sentence with an artist as accomplished as Jackson and I happen to admire Presley. James Brown and Jackie Wilson are the most prominent names that are mentioned by Jackson and his family members when influences are cited.
There has been many versions in the evolution of walking to music. Michael Jackson’s version is distinct & the only version named “Moonwalk” He patterned it after many greats who came before and made it profoundly his own.
WOW! JUST WOW! I'm impressed: & for the record: m.j. had a professional dancer teach him the moonwalk Hence by the time The Motown Special aired: well, as they say is history!!! 👍👍👍
This is not the moonwalk at all more like a robot walk or a reverse moonwalk at best because with a original moonwalk you move backward and not forward and MJ did not claim it he perfected it but this guy has some serious dance skills tho💯
The moonwalk was not invented by Jackson (although it was popularized by him) in fact, several singers and even dancers prior to Jackson did that, even the Mexican comedian and dancer Adalberto "Resortes" did it in one of his films.
thats why that MJ is overrated asf .. because of that thing about moonwalk also he had a decent voice but nothing to be top 10 or 20 singers of all time
This guy also copied this move from the jazz dancers to the 40s. There are black and white videos of dancers who were doing this dance 20 years before this guy.
Exactly! I seen that same video like a year ago. I jus' commented on it. But I can also remember seein' a guy by the name of Jeffrey Danial of a 80's r&b/disco group called "Shalamar" do it at one of their concert like 2 or 3 yrs. before MJ'S "thriller" even came out. So I already knew way back then MJ wasn't the first.to do it.
There were a lot of guys that did it before MJ... he never claimed to invent it. Guys on soul train and pop/lock groups in the late 70's were doing it well before MJ busted it out on the Motown show.
First of all, this is not the moonwalk, this is the air walk. 2. There's videos on UA-cam with the actual moonwalk being done on camera dating back to the 30s and I'm sure it's even older than that but off camera. People been dancing for several thousands of years.
who claimed that he claimed that? i think it was just an assumption by the general public who doesn't have the time or inclination to scrutinize the history of dance.
It's true, and when the "Moonwalk" was taught to Michael Jackson, he spent months upon months practicing and perfecting it until he finally performed the dance move on the Motown 25th Anniversary performance. Albeit, the dance move that Michael Jackson did was widely known as the moonwalk, in reality, it was called the, "backslide".
Michael Jackson already said he took from Jitter Bug, and many other dance forms from the past and put twists on them to make it his own. Yes Michael Jackson took lessons from the past. As well as his music.
That is Levon Helm. That's where The Band came into existance, as Ronnie Hawkins' Band. He had guys from the south in his band. They got homesick for the south, and left one by one. The Band took their places, one by one. How lucky for us! The Band is one of the GREATEST.
@@mikes6970 I believe Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson were original members with The Hawks, which later founded The Band while recording with Bob Dylan
The skill is far older, going back to traveling mimes of old, amusing young and old alike, Decroux, with Barrault, refined l’isolation, the comically exaggerated, slow-motion stylization of isolated actions, with stop-motion cæsuræ that delighted audiences. It demanded exquisite body-control skills. They, and their pupil Marcel Marceau, popularized French Mime world-wide. I don’t think it was called “Moonwalk” until Apollo reminded oldsters of Vaudeville and Silent-Film performances by Chaplin and Keaton.
Lames always trying to make it seem as though Mike claimed he invented the Moonwalk. He just brought it to the masses which can't & will NEVER EVER be taken away from him so 👎🏿 with you haters.
This move is so smooth and timeless when done right. If you look up the live footage of David Bowie for Aladdin Sane from 1974, he also does it on stage and looks so chill with his hand on his hip. You can see his backup singers in the background aren't as good at it as he was, haha. Peter Murphy of Bauhaus used to do it on stage as well, he probably picked it up from their Bowie influence, but another singer that just looks so chill when he pulls it off. Both of those are still before MJ busted it out for Billy Jean.
Is that Fred Carter on the Tele guitar on the left side at 0:05? Levon was a twirling stick mutha back in the day. Love to see this whole bandstand clip.
No need to throw shade on MJ, folks. He was one of the greatest ever. Nonetheless, this dude right here is as smooth as it gets! Thanks for posting, tvjer1.
As a break dancer and robotic dancer who has done the moonwalk for many years, I can say that is some slick and smooth moonwalking talent right there. He gets the 'Cool as' status from me!
Hey Benji!
Check out Mickey Rooney break dancing in the 1939 movie “Boys Town”.
The scene is near the beginning.
Mickey is running away when he spots two pretty girls and changes his mind.To impress them, he does a break dance!
He even pops and locks at the end!
Super cool! 😁👍
I thought to be "moonwalking" you had to be going backwards.
@@jonathandoelander6130 , The dance move has been around since the 1930's.
It has multiple variations that are all similar. You can appear to be moving backwards, holding ground, running in place etc. They're all based on the same principal leg movements to create an action, or illusion of an action. Heres a video of several variations of progression going back as far as the 1930's.
ua-cam.com/video/EewimARbHpQ/v-deo.html
@@davidgraham2673 But what does it have to do with the moon?
@@jonathandoelander6130 , Ask Michael Jackson, or whoever coined the term.
I assume it was a catchy name to get the attention of rabid fans on MTV. In that sense, it sure was successful. A fifty year old move invented by tap dancers reignited by Michael Jackson, and now mostly associated with him.
Gotta give him credit.....he did it well, and at the perfect time: The MTV Awards show in front of millions.
That was brilliant.
Sorry to hear of his passing---he got a great raw feel in his music, always liked his take on things.
Same here. Amazing talent. And lets not forget another reason to love Cimino's notorious western Heavens Gate, Ronnie Hawkins is among the stellar cast as a cavalry major!
I still remember reading in the early 1980's when everyone was talking about MJ doing the "moonwalk" a former flapper swore she saw the chorus boys doing it in the ballroom of the Savoy in 1929.
Yup. There's old ass videos on UA-cam dating back to those times showing the moonwalk.
Well like chuck berry said ain't nothing new under the sun,just like evh wasn't the first to do tapping on the guitar neck
Lol OK
Michael Jackson never claimed to have invented the moonwalk; he was just the best to have ever done it.👑😎
@@richardbranton7396 Chuck Berry might have said it, but it came from the book of Ecclesiastes that King Solomon wrote in his later years.
Damn straight it's Levon. Godspeed ... Read Levon's book ... This Wheel's On Fire. There's a bunch in it about his time with the Hawk and even where "the walk" really originated. It predates Ronnie but it was a mainstay of their act.
He called it the camel walk
Shalamar also did a moonwalk back in the day, well before Michael Jackson did his. The move has been around for ages, and makes a fresh comeback every few decades. It's like they say; "There's nothing new under the sun".
You are correct David "Nothing is New" under the Sun.... everything is repeated over and over and over again. Hollywood is a Perfect Example of repeats. rinse,wash and repeat cycle movies. including diseases are repeated.
Yep, Jeffery Daniel of Shalamar taught Michael Jackson the Moonwalk! MJ once seen JD doing it on Soul Train, and wanted to learn it himself!
@@givehonestanswer5508 , You sure said that right. They now come out with the woke PC version of movies on a refresh, and most of the times the movies really suck. Ghostbusters 2.0 is an example.
You'd have to pay me to watch that pile of PC dung. Plenty of other garbage to use as examples too.
@@omegaman2767 , I watched the clip on Soul Train. I liked it. Theres even video of the move being performed in the 1950's or so by Bill Bailey, if I remember correctly.
@@omegaman2767 , Here is a video I just found of the Moonwalk being performed as early as the 1930's.
Lots of performers did it including Cub Calloway, and Fred Astaire. (The guy wearing the chef's bonnet is killing a dance move.
Here's the link:
ua-cam.com/video/EewimARbHpQ/v-deo.html
But he does it like he was made for it! Too smooth!🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥
ua-cam.com/video/Ui-xsWZq4fk/v-deo.html ,
Gonna miss you Ronnie, RIP.
it's been called the buzz, the backslide, camel walk, etc. mj has been credited with renaming it to the moonwalk, and the rest is history
Bullshit is a history he saw a dance and he stole it he stole a whole new skin wouldn't be surprised
The Camel Walk is a different move entirely.
@@Wally-H So what was the name of this particular move prior to MJ
@@xsiri3022 The backslide. The camel walk is a forwards move. Watch Sammy Davis execute it perfectly here ua-cam.com/video/87Mjj0kmC_A/v-deo.html
@donuntboy25 I'm pretty sure it is, as Levon was with him in the '50s. Hard to believe but Levon is still touring these days promoting his 'Dirt Farmer' album.
"ELVIS PRESLEY",,,"DOES THE SIDE WAY MOON WALK",,, "IN THE HIS MOVIE LOVING YOU"!!! "IT'S IN THE DINNER SCENE".
The Hawk..!
The second one around 5:00 nails it with the whole supernatural-like feel, I just wish it had gone another 10 seconds or so. He was in "that element" deep there.
Who knew Jethro Bodine could moon walk?
That moonwalk is smooth
Its like a moon Walk/ Air walk hybrid.
Boy ! He’s got that hunky tonk moon walk. Wild …..,what a man.
WOW.......
Well, there you have it folks...
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It's a little different. He moves forward while his legs appear to move backwards. Like the Flintstones. MJ moved backwards while legs appeared to move forward. Both pretty cool
yes, after more research, you are absolutely correct.
This guy is credit with the first moon walk
ua-cam.com/video/y71njpDH3co/v-deo.html
It still looks better when there's that backwards motion...
Naw as a lover of dance it's WAY SMOOTHER going forward with it
Well I guess it's true what they say... Everything old is New Again... I always thought Michael what's the first to do it... I remember in the sixties my parents told me that Jimi Hendrix wasn't the first to record Hey Joe- and other songs made in the 70s that I thought were new... For my age... I thought they were nuts! The older I get the more I see all that is true... LOL
Michael would be going physically backwards while appearing to be walking forwards.
What was the name of the song on the first clip?
Tap dance move called back slide.
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Pero Nadie lo hace como Michael Jacson !!!
There's No Slide Action Tho?
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He does it so well , but this was not something Micheal Jackson created. He was taught this by a street dancer. Every person who does the moonwalk makes it their own . Love that it was being done such a long time ago .
Actually, it was called the "Camel Walk" although it is easy to confuse with the 'Moon Walk"
Like 'Bop-a-lena!
No it’s called the Cloud Walk. Camel walk is nothing like this. Camel walk is 3 steps alternating slides and forced arch, repeated.
@@jtika1978 OK, but I have read a few books about Ronnie Hawkins and they always called it the Camel Walk. I know what you mean though. I have seen a few videos for the Camel Walk where it really does look more like how a camel would do it.
@@SingleMalt77005 I actually don’t doubt that, really. I’m a dancer & dance teacher (emphasis on hip hop-self trained in that, and then training in many other genres & minored in dance in college so I had to take dance history), i can confirm that maaany moves do end up being called many different things. Especially in solo vernacular jazz like this & hip hop because they weren’t created in a dance studio. And also because many that have name discrepancies evolved from each other. And alllso because different regions of the US sometimes end up calling moves different things. I tend to go with what I learned something as through the years for hip hop, and for jazz (because Ididn’t experience that in real time- I’m not *that* old lol ) I tend to go with the majority consensus. Long way of saying- some people probably did call it the camel walk, even though the general consensus says the camel walk is the three step move. I’ve always known this move (in hip hop) as the cloud walk. What it’s not, and never has been, is the moonwalk! 😂😂
BILL BAILEY did the original MOOK WALK ever. He invented it
Michael Jackson just took it to another level.
lol
Neil Armstrong did the actual moonwalk first.
Yup, right there in the Nevada Desert and Damn was it HOT in those Fake Space Suits too.
No one mentions the smooth stick trick the drummer did in the second clip.
It was called the camel walk
Forget Ronnie. Who's that drummer in the back twirling the sticks look and cool as hell. Love to know his name!!! Yes I'm a drummer...lol!!!
Jackson never claimed that he invented the moonwalk. People have been doing it for millennia. They have unearthed ancient murals from Babylon depicting the popular bard, Simbar-Nabu the Swift doing the moonwalk during his presentations at Nebuchadnezzar's court.
NOT THE MOONWALK! None of you can dance if you think this is the moonwalk, lol
It's a type of moonwalk, there's different styles there's about 20 years difference between this and MJs one
He put it in Drive(D) and MJ put it in Reverse(R)
Everybody talking about Michael Jackson when James Brown was doing his thing way before mikey
Technically aMJ was influenced by Elvis, Ronnie Hawkins and James Brown.
Jackie wilson
And wasn't influenced by Hawkins because this isn't the moonwalk
James Brown, Yes. The other 2 is not definite.
Mate, In no reality was Michael Jackson influenced by Elvis Presley. He never mentioned Presley in one single interview as to being an influence on him in terms of style, singing, artistic vision and most certainly not dancing. Elvis Presley was a comsumate copier of other acts, particularly black acts from shanty juke joints where he picked up their moves, vocal inflections etc....and brought it to conservative white audiences who were ignorant to Black American musical culture. Jackson is in the Song writers Hall Of Fame, The Dance Hall Of Fame and holds over 750 musical achievement awards over the course of his career. Presley does not belong in the same paragraph, let alone sentence with an artist as accomplished as Jackson and I happen to admire Presley. James Brown and Jackie Wilson are the most prominent names that are mentioned by Jackson and his family members when influences are cited.
Well, he tried. Not too shabby.
There has been many versions in the evolution of walking to music. Michael Jackson’s version is distinct & the only version named “Moonwalk”
He patterned it after many greats who came before and made it profoundly his own.
JAAAH: el que luego hizo Michael Jackson...
It's an illusion. 😊
I thought it was Bill Bailey that did it first.
And did he come home?🤓
forward moonwalk
You’ve Been struck by
Marcel Marceau was the first moonwalker after Neil Armstrong..and Étienne Decroux of course
Buzz Aldrin would have something to say about that
Mj is not the creator of moonwalk.. He just improvise it
its called the air walk.
WOW! JUST WOW! I'm impressed: & for the record: m.j. had a professional dancer teach him the moonwalk Hence by the time The Motown Special aired: well, as they say is history!!! 👍👍👍
The most important part of the footage is the footwork and its cut off
This is not the moonwalk at all more like a robot walk or a reverse moonwalk at best because with a original moonwalk you move backward and not forward and MJ did not claim it he perfected it but this guy has some serious dance skills tho💯
THE CAMEL WALK.
Sooooooo... This yt guy invented the Moonwalk????? The world just turned upsidedown.
Why am I am seeing now
damn he’s smooth with it
Smooth criminal smooth
The moonwalk was not invented by Jackson (although it was popularized by him) in fact, several singers and even dancers prior to Jackson did that, even the Mexican comedian and dancer Adalberto "Resortes" did it in one of his films.
Thanx, geek
David Grant was the first to do it in a pop song
They used to call it the space walk
ua-cam.com/video/NFXN2cu-hzI/v-deo.html
thats why that MJ is overrated asf .. because of that thing about moonwalk also he had a decent voice but nothing to be top 10 or 20 singers of all time
This guy also copied this move from the jazz dancers to the 40s. There are black and white videos of dancers who were doing this dance 20 years before this guy.
Exactly! I seen that same video like a year ago. I jus' commented on it. But I can also remember seein' a guy by the name of Jeffrey Danial of a 80's r&b/disco group called "Shalamar" do it at one of their concert like 2 or 3 yrs. before MJ'S "thriller" even came out. So I already knew way back then MJ wasn't the first.to do it.
There were a lot of guys that did it before MJ... he never claimed to invent it. Guys on soul train and pop/lock groups in the late 70's were doing it well before MJ busted it out on the Motown show.
True af. MJ was just mainstream at the time and he killed it. They all kill it. God damn I love music and the way it makes us feel and move.
First of all, this is not the moonwalk, this is the air walk. 2. There's videos on UA-cam with the actual moonwalk being done on camera dating back to the 30s and I'm sure it's even older than that but off camera. People been dancing for several thousands of years.
ua-cam.com/video/NFXN2cu-hzI/v-deo.html
@@daltonlayman2019 🍻😂
@@daltonlayman2019 No, MJ was dancing like a robot.
Neil Armstrong did the first real moonwalk in 1969. Period.
Yeah on a Sound Stage in Hollywood.
@@therealawakener7 Tell us the Earth is flat, too.
@@therealawakener7 It's been proven to be a sphere.
@@therealawakener7 I have a brain.
This is a classic case of cultural appropriation. Ronnie obviously stole this from MJ. I'm reporting this to PETA. 😡
I don't know that MJ ever claimed he invented the move.
He never claimed he invented it
Sometimes not claiming is the best way of claiming.
He never claimed.
He learned the move from Michael Chambers aka Boogaloo Shrimp from the Breakin' Movies.
who claimed that he claimed that? i think it was just an assumption by the general public who doesn't have the time or inclination to scrutinize the history of dance.
It's true, and when the "Moonwalk" was taught to Michael Jackson, he spent months upon months practicing and perfecting it until he finally performed the dance move on the Motown 25th Anniversary performance. Albeit, the dance move that Michael Jackson did was widely known as the moonwalk, in reality, it was called the, "backslide".
Michael Jackson already said he took from Jitter Bug, and many other dance forms from the past and put twists on them to make it his own. Yes Michael Jackson took lessons from the past. As well as his music.
Cool ass Crazy Ronnie Hawkins...
Great footage....freakin Legend...
Well, just like Van Halen didn't invent finger tapping, he made it a thing...same with MJ and the moonwalk
exactly ! and neither one ever claimed to have invented it.
Lol, I've just written that before seeing your comment.
@@jokes881 yet masses believe they did.
MJ did not invent the moonwalk, and he never claimed that he did. He perfected it and made it his signature move.
Neither did EVH invented fret board tapping, jazz musicians were doing it in the 20's and 30's
@Skelley-Priest thanks bro
Look at the Levon flash so much feel, LEVON an all around class act and a beauty.
He copied it off Jackson obviously! 🙄
That's not even the same move, he is walking forward awkwardly or standing still at best
That is Levon Helm. That's where The Band came into existance, as Ronnie Hawkins' Band. He had guys from the south in his band. They got homesick for the south, and left one by one. The Band took their places, one by one.
How lucky for us! The Band is one of the GREATEST.
Thanks for the interesting background! I had NO CLUE that was Levon!
Only levon was a southerner the rest where Canadians only he hauled ass initially and he also joined Dylan later than the others
Must been early cause the great ... roy buchanan joined to help (ended up mentoring an oler robbie ) onnie and the hawks ....
@@mikes6970 I believe Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson were original members with The Hawks, which later founded The Band while recording with Bob Dylan
You mean Levon was the drummer in these clips, cuz that’s definitely The Hawk singing
It was Bill Bailey who invented the moonwalk in the 20s.
That's right. Folks should punch in Bill Bailey moonwalk into their UA-cam search.
I would have to agree with this. It's not perfected but definitely the earliest iteration I've ever seen.
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” -Pablo Picasso
Thats what Elvis Presley did .
He didn’t steal it from this guy. He took it from black tap dancers and added his own style to it.
Losing Levon was a sad day :(((
Did you ever find him???
Similar, but not the moon walk, Jackson moved backwards.
Bill Bailey- African American Tap dancer {Born 1912/1978} Nice try but no cigar; thanks for playing!🍻😂
guy is a straight rock n roll demon floating on stage
Jackson's moonwalk was actually the backslide.
So this is not comparable
Bill bailey.
No one cares. Michael never claimed to invent it. He popularized it and did it better than all of them
The skill is far older, going back to traveling mimes of old, amusing young and old alike, Decroux, with Barrault, refined l’isolation, the comically exaggerated, slow-motion stylization of isolated actions, with stop-motion cæsuræ that delighted audiences. It demanded exquisite body-control skills. They, and their pupil Marcel Marceau, popularized French Mime world-wide. I don’t think it was called “Moonwalk” until Apollo reminded oldsters of Vaudeville and Silent-Film performances by Chaplin and Keaton.
Lames always trying to make it seem as though Mike claimed he invented the Moonwalk. He just brought it to the masses which can't & will NEVER EVER be taken away from him so 👎🏿 with you haters.
Sun Tzu actually created the moonwalk at his book signing. There was an artist and a stenographer to record this event live.
People have been doing it for decades. It was originally pioneered by Dog walkers who stepped in shit.
RIP Hawk
This move is so smooth and timeless when done right. If you look up the live footage of David Bowie for Aladdin Sane from 1974, he also does it on stage and looks so chill with his hand on his hip. You can see his backup singers in the background aren't as good at it as he was, haha. Peter Murphy of Bauhaus used to do it on stage as well, he probably picked it up from their Bowie influence, but another singer that just looks so chill when he pulls it off. Both of those are still before MJ busted it out for Billy Jean.
White people are awesome.
Agreed. We invented all the best stuff.
Man come on thats not the moonwalk he's not moving backwards. He's just stopping in place... Get it right!
Hey Elvis Presley even did the moonwalk but sideways
Europeans invented the Moonwalk.
Bob Fosse, moonwalk + black suit + white glove
Wait a minute wait a minute when did Michael Jackson ever go to the Moon
Dick Van Dyke also did it before Michael Jackson
so did marcel marceau
That’s not the ‘Moon walk’, Culture Vultures
That’s the “Cloud Walk” not the Moon Walk
1929 moonwalk is 10X better
Is that Fred Carter on the Tele guitar on the left side at 0:05? Levon was a twirling stick mutha back in the day. Love to see this whole bandstand clip.
No need to throw shade on MJ, folks. He was one of the greatest ever. Nonetheless, this dude right here is as smooth as it gets! Thanks for posting, tvjer1.