My grandparents used to do this being granny is 85 and grandad is 86 in they 20's he told me everyone wanted to partner with her, its easy to throw small people lol she was the best
THE LINDY HOP. one of the best african american dancing expressions ever, and this was one of the best dance scene in hollywood history, norma miller was only 16 when she did this.
"White Bead" DUZ NOT Mean White People, IT Mean`s Up-Tite Stiff SNOOTY or Upper Crust type & NOT the Color of There Skin ! WAY OLD JAZZ Slang....Mac VOUTY
Black/White... Who gives a rat's ass? I'm not supposed to like it because they are black? Pffff! As if a white couple could do THAT DANCING BETTER? I'm sorry but I DON'T THINK SO! Just enjoy the damn thing, people. Can't we all just get along? Geez! AWESOME dancing. I'm downloading the movie right now! I want MORE!
LOL! You folks still talking about "white/black" ("race") are still living in the Middle Ages. There's no such thing as "race". Don't you know the latest genetic research which shows that ALL of us, no matter when you live or came from on this planet, have the original mutation on our genes from our origins in and migration from Africa? We're all originally Africans...It's just that some of us are lighter than others (adaptation to environment). Welcome to the...ummm...HUMAN RACE! :)
@Astoriaguy23 Black folks are awesome. Man this world would be such a bore without us. Yeah these are the original people. Of course there are many genetic mutations.
@dukeuke1 Yes, "white-bread" can dance. I'm half white, and my white father can dance just as well as anyone on my mom's side of the family. Dancing is colorblind; yall should be, too.
Jimmy Stewart "Too bad they're not in the show." What he meant to say was "Too bad they're black and are way too busy washing my socks to be in the show."
@LaRosaBonita7 I thought I might be able to do this routine (I heard about it) and then I watched it.. and I just went.. "ok I would break this bone, and that and also dislocate very OFTEN)...
@stdepi Frankie Manning (the dancer in the overalls) was considered the father of Lindy Hop and died not too long ago in 2009 right before his 95th Birthday. Every year for his birthday, there was a large celebration with Lindy Hop dancers from all over the world who would come dance in honor of him, and every birthday they would surround him in a circle for a song, and he would dance with as many women as how many years old he was. Thank you, Frankie Manning, for giving us such a wonderful gift
blah blah, it's a dance video, who ever brought up these comments are insecure with themselves and still have guilt from their ancestors...BLACK PEOPLE DOING THE DAMN THING IS ALL U HAVE TO SAY IN THIS VIDE...DAMN! SMH
@shadowgouhl5000 you're hanging out in the wrong dance scenes then. there's groups in almost every major city that get together and swing dance twice a week or so. maybe not this fast(it takes years to do that), but you can still learn to dance like this.
These men and women would be in their nineties now and great-grandparents. How amazing would it be if your great-grandmother danced like that in her day? WOW.
i look at black musicians back then and now and i ask myself how the hell could there be so much racism back then, with so much talent and good people?
@LongLiveLink3 Choreographed is a very loose term here. Yes it's a routine they practiced a lot for this performance, but Whitey's Lindy Hoppers basically took what they were doing on the dance floor and in jam circles and put it into this routine.
@LongLiveLink3 Yeah, it's pretty obvious that you're no dancer. It doesn't matter how much they practice, you're not going to pull some random schlub off the street and teach them how to move like this. Dancing requires years of discipline, physical conditioning and intelligence that an average person does not possess. Contrary to what your mother taught you, you CAN'T do anything you put your mind to if you don't possess the necessary talents to make it possible.
Why does everyone always have to pull the race card? I'm not a big fan of racism, or reverse racism either... And clearly people need to do their research more....
sigh* why is every video with any black person in it. has to have at least 1 racist comment, and always from some white guy who would never say it in anyone's face. This isn't the 1960's, no more peaceful marching. WE WILL FIGHT BACK.
@MajesticRootZ I was quite surprised to find racist comments from both sides (black and white) here. You'd think people would have moved on by now, but it is the internet. People are able to say what they want without being held accountable.
@mrcritic1 I'm afraid it's not the truth, get a life perhaps? People are equal in every way regardless of race. You're being stereotypical and racist.
@NatashaMaryWard The person that replied my comment within minutes, obviously showing that they spend most of their time on youtube, is asking me to get a life?
Hahahaha. #FAIL
"People are equal in every way, regardless of race".
Ok then, if thats what get you to sleep at night.. Go with it.
@mrcritic1 "The most talented and blessed"? I think the world would be a lot better off if people such as yourself accepted that their is talent and blessing from all social groups, African, Asian or Caucasian. Talent has no genetic link, you are just as bad saying that as any white eugenics believer.
@mrcritic1 I'm asking you what the significance of the 10% you're leaving alive is......
Though trying to find any logic in a racist is a fruitless endeavour. You want white people gone because of the racism imposed upon black people throughout the times, yet your own racism obscures your ability to understand that it is counter productive to wish death on a group of people simply because of their skin tone.
@MacSweenz If, looking back at our history, 90% of whites were destroyed dont you honestly think the world would have turned out a whole better? Atleast be honest about that.
The 10% are the whites that are not racist from the core up. I think 10% is abit generous, but hey!, im a nice guy.
I dont see how removing a sly, greedy, manipulative, evil, thieving, murderous group of people, at a larger scale than others, from the earth in anything but productive.
@mrcritic1 Aite basically I think youre blending two fundamentally different principles, i.e. being evil and being white. White people have committed atrocities against black people i agree, but if you have done any study on the 'black struggle', you will find that oppression usually comes out of economic oppression; slavery itself was an early product of capitalism (as seen in the triangular trade). You should be blaming capitalism moreso than white people.
@MacSweenz Also, youre forgetting that white people are also responsible for lots of positive cultural progression as well as black people; you shouldnt consider black people exempt from negativity. Evil is a product of environmental and social constrictions, NOT the colour of your skin. One thing I haven't pointed out is that whilst I am white, I would not be who I am if it wasnt for the influence of black culture as well as white. You're in danger of homogenizing black and white too much.
@MacSweenz In the same swing, no ones denying the evil things black people have done. That would be an idiotic thing to do. Thats why i picked my words carefully.
I truly find it hard to believe that evil is the product of enviro/social constrictions. What enviro/social constriction would lead a man to hang a fellow man? Or calculatedly wipeout a huge chunk of races? Or twist the law to favour himself & detest others? Or... Once again, i could go on.
@mrcritic1 If evil isnt a product of the environment then what hope is there for us to progress? In fact if evil was not a product of the environment then why did JFK pass the Civil Rights Act in the 60s. I think humans naturally want to be superior and dominate other things eg. animals, and when cultures encounter news ones then they want to control them for their own purposes. If blacks had traveled to europe first its conceivable the same thing couldve happened to whites.
@MacSweenz "If blacks had traveled to europe first its conceivable the same thing couldve happened to whites"
This is nothing more but an excuse that whites use to in-excuse their passed (and continued) transgressions on the worlds non whites. Hundreds of years ago the chinese came into contact with non whites but you dont see the level of violence and barbarity against non chinese.There are also numerous of other examples.
@BlacknesUnforgivable What are the numerous other examples? The chinese example you have levelled at me is not proof that white people are inherently racist, it is one example that could have had numerous factors which stopped such a 'level of violence and barbarity'. You also need to take into account the deep socio-economic exploitation of blacks by blacks on the west coast in the 16/17th century. The establishment of many african kingdoms there resulted from the systematic rounding up and
@MacSweenz Want more examples? The Arabs for instance. They were enslaving Sub Saharan Africans centuries before Europeans even stepped foot on the African continent and yet , they enslaved ALL PEOPLES (europeans,turks,jews, berbers,and even other arabs). They didnt declare war on a whole race by exclaiming that peoples on that race can only be slaves (like the europeans did to the africans).
@BlacknesUnforgivable (continued...) enslaving of other africans in order to access resources that white slave traders sold, allowing them to exert power over other tribes in surrounding areas and in central africa. Humans naturally look to control and exert power over others. I think its unbelievable that you would suggest that white people are the only ones who would possibly do such a thing, plenty of cultures have treated others with barbarity, just not on the same micro-structured level
@MacSweenz Africans enslaved other Africans , so what? Slavery goes back to antiquity and was practiced by virtually everybody.What DOSENT go back to antiquity,however, is chattle enslavement (something whites implemented on blacks).African brand of slavery was nothing like the European brand.Slaves wernt slaves for life.One could buy his freedom.One's culture wasnt destroyed. Etc etc Even the arab brand was slavery was more humane than that of the Europeans.
@MacSweenz It is unbelievable that you would suggest that Africans (or anybody else) would have "done the same" to whites had they been the ones to sail to Europe first lollol typical cop out.
@mrcritic1 See how your own argument has progressed into a far more rational, coherent one? Don't get so carried away and make such reactionary statements to make an impact; you now come across as someone who is approaching the point rationally and intelligently. I have enough faith in humanity to think that white people arent evil, but that there are evil people who created racism to justify their own economic and status-based desires. Whites as a whole dont desire to control blacks.
@MacSweenz I could blame capitalisim, but all you have to do is move aside the curtain of capitalism & what race do you find behind it?
Economic oppression? Is that from the AA pov, or America in general. Because ive never known a "poor" whiteman stop being racist when he's "rich" & viceversa.
The evil caused by the whiteman doesnt start/end at just America. We have Asia/Africa/Australia/New Z. I could go on.
No ones denying the legit "good" things that white ppl have done, Legit. Good. Things.
@mrcritic1 Well said. And, I might add, very generous considering all the havoc pink/ "white" people have wrought on the Divine's beautiful planet Earth. The affliction blacks are under in USA is part of curses of Israel during their final exile which was OFF the continent of Africa. It's almost over. Surely U know that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was the final dispersion of the Jews; the Creator said they would be afflicted 400 years in a strange land=USA/Mystery Babylon. Shalom.
@mrcritic1 I'm not Black, but I agree. Blacks have always seem to be ahead of their time in terms of leading the music industry and culture. Something Blacks bring into the mix won't be exploited and overplayed till years later. Blacks tend to evolve America's music from one genre to another and often create new genre's of music that most of the other races follow for the next years to come, but initially not accepted till exploited and by then Blacks have moved on to evolve another genre.
Statistics show ur not the most blessed ;) but for the rest, i love the coloured men that made jazz and blues :) way better then the saggy white ones ;)
The accumulated talent here is mind-boggling.I have heard gthat Hollywood got some of the best in the world to perform on screen but this troupe of dancers is beyond the best. I can't imagine how they managed to have these superb professional dancers together at one time. The preparation needed to pull this amazing performance off had to be of the strictest discipline and for a good while. Excellence in perfomance and here for us to appreciate today. Great video.
Some were never tied to life so tied down as others that they knew free MEANS free God love them they keep us alive and so great the combo is of us all and aways will be :)
Great!!! Also besides being physical, there's a lot of Math going on here. Example: how many steps does it take between girl meeting Guy, then Guy throwing girl, girl rebounds and guys catches girl. And the spinning, if you didn't calculate correctly, you got hit in the head, lights out baby!
you don't sound racist, but you are making a generalization, because you said "Back then, EVERY black man knew how to pick up an instrument and swing". That's very untrue, especially when you say, every.
Yes I'm black and I rap but I'm so glad blacks brought America away from compositional music, they brought emotion and feeling into music. I love the blues and jazz. Through music blacks expressed themselves and America learned to express themselves as well. The beat generation, hippies and all the other counter culturalism movements after the liberation of blacks were caused mainly from the influence of music, it literally change America! Blacks play a huge role on why America is America today!
@JRebel617 Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you are saying that American music lacked emotional expression before it was influenced by African Americans.
"...I'm so glad blacks brought America away from compositional music, they brought emotion and feeling into music."
If this is your claim, it is simply unfounded. Whether or not music favors composition or improvisation is irrelevant to whether or not it contains emotion or feeling.
@BlacknesUnforgivable Well, you're arguing a different point, but I'll answer you this: What you just said contradicts itself. If there was no American music before Africans arrived, because it was imported from Europe, then the music you're referring to was simply imported from Africa. Following your line of logic, there can't be American music from either of these two people groups. What I'm trying to say is that different cultures have different music, and all can be expressive and legit.
@jrmckamey No , you are wrong. The first music that you could have called truly american was probably the spirituals of slaves , who combined the christian religion and their African ways of singing and praise.
Prior to the 20th century , most of the of the music that whites listened to was imported from europe for the white american elite (classical and Opera's). Music that you can truly call "American music" must be created in America , not elsewhere.
@BlacknesUnforgivable The Native Americans, the English, the Spanish,the French, and the Portuguese were all living in the Americas at, or before, the arrival of the Africans. These different cultures all lived, and created music during the settlement of what was to become the United States. Your belittlement of these other people is extremely ethnocentric, bordering on racism. Music naturally comes out of culture, and I sincerely hope you learn to tolerate other cultures.
@jrmckamey Maybe the natives, but the whites?Sorry , prior to the Africans , everything here was European.The irish imported their songs. The english imported their songs and so on.For a truly american music to have been created you would of had to have lost your culture ( or have it stripped from you like the case with the Africans) and would of had to take remnants of it and create a whole new one
@BlacknesUnforgivable "...but the whites?" Who's talking about whites? "Maybe the natives..." As in, maybe the "natives" created music, or maybe they didn't? You give away your racist attitude here by generalizing "whites" as if being white were a culture. You also refuse to admit that's you're wrong, even though you know that Native Americans were here before anyone, and you know that they created music. "Im just looking at reality here." What reality do you live in? Is it the same one as I?
@BlacknesUnforgivable If you're talking about reality, then we should talk about the Bay Psalm book which was composed and published in Massachusetts Bay in 1640. That's five generations before before the United States of America even existed. The reality, which we all live in, is that cultures naturally make music. And the American Cultures, even before we became the United States, were all CREATING music. The idea that people imported music is quite silly, really.
Dang that's just about the most crazy thing I've ever seen.
ACJacksongoingoneup 1 day ago
P.S I now want this movie....
clake10000 4 days ago
@clake10000 The movie's actually not that good, but this scene makes up for it.
lindyhop411 2 days ago
How cool is that?
clake10000 4 days ago
4:02 insane
GreenArrow223 5 days ago
@GreenArrow223 That's Frankie Manning's signature air step combo. Look him up!
lindyhop411 2 days ago
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amazing
GNut1980 1 week ago
Yep My GrandPa Is A Beast.... I See Where i Get It From
youngdope3000 1 week ago
DANGGG thats so awesome/crazy XD
lovedd1213 1 week ago
great music!! no pain listening to that!
SusieBarger 2 weeks ago
Why would one have to be patiend because the first half is music!
It's excellent :)
nederland4045 2 weeks ago
DAMN! ultimate swing dancing, look at them acrobatic moves .. great .
Darknessinpit57 2 weeks ago
OMG at 4:05... AMAZING!!!
hotgwailoh 2 weeks ago
If a couple broke into this at a modern dance (ie, a high school homecoming), people would be very frightened.
audball911 3 weeks ago
This is even better than "the Artist" :P
killerburgerprods 3 weeks ago
My grandparents used to do this being granny is 85 and grandad is 86 in they 20's he told me everyone wanted to partner with her, its easy to throw small people lol she was the best
lildee5453 3 weeks ago
THE LINDY HOP. one of the best african american dancing expressions ever, and this was one of the best dance scene in hollywood history, norma miller was only 16 when she did this.
blackimpressions 4 weeks ago 2
@blackimpressions Um, Norma Miller was born in 1919, so she was 20 or 21 when they filmed this. She joined Whitey's Lindy Hoppers when she was 16.
lindyhop411 2 days ago
The start of breakdancing.
HuggiMa 4 weeks ago
@HuggiMa
i was thinking the same thing. reminds of what 'les twins' are doing right now.
nem700 2 weeks ago
@HuggiMa Look up the Nicholas Brothers and the Berry Brothers to see where breakdancing comes from. ;-)
lindyhop411 2 days ago
It's like using ladies as morningstars. SWING DANCE FIGHT.
MarsalaWicklow 1 month ago
"White Bead" DUZ NOT Mean White People, IT Mean`s Up-Tite Stiff SNOOTY or Upper Crust type & NOT the Color of There Skin ! WAY OLD JAZZ Slang....Mac VOUTY
dukeuke1 1 month ago
neat n_n
Applgrl91 1 month ago
oh my god lol
Applgrl91 1 month ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS SHIT IS SO FUCKING TRIPPY!!
zikrett 1 month ago
Black/White... Who gives a rat's ass? I'm not supposed to like it because they are black? Pffff! As if a white couple could do THAT DANCING BETTER? I'm sorry but I DON'T THINK SO! Just enjoy the damn thing, people. Can't we all just get along? Geez! AWESOME dancing. I'm downloading the movie right now! I want MORE!
ottoelperro 1 month ago
Urge to play Fallout rising...
TheDrunkenMantis 1 month ago
LOL! You folks still talking about "white/black" ("race") are still living in the Middle Ages. There's no such thing as "race". Don't you know the latest genetic research which shows that ALL of us, no matter when you live or came from on this planet, have the original mutation on our genes from our origins in and migration from Africa? We're all originally Africans...It's just that some of us are lighter than others (adaptation to environment). Welcome to the...ummm...HUMAN RACE! :)
Astoriaguy23 1 month ago
@Astoriaguy23 Black folks are awesome. Man this world would be such a bore without us. Yeah these are the original people. Of course there are many genetic mutations.
PatsBooks 1 month ago
This is fabulous! ("Jimmy Stewart"?? Jimmy Stewart's not in this video.)
Astoriaguy23 1 month ago
IF it were an "Olympic Event" the USA would take the GOLD every Time ! Can White-Bread Dance ?
dukeuke1 1 month ago
@dukeuke1 Yes, "white-bread" can dance. I'm half white, and my white father can dance just as well as anyone on my mom's side of the family. Dancing is colorblind; yall should be, too.
5poundsofcrazy 1 month ago
hahaha, my favorite part is the ass-kick at 4:20. this video is epic
Rjlonergan 1 month ago
Wow.. This is by far the best dance routine I've ever seen lol. XD
Justreallime 1 month ago
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too many tricks, not enough real dancing... reminds me of monkeys hopping around in the trees.
Witherwings790 1 month ago
@Witherwings790 Says the person that can't dance.
lindyhop411 2 days ago
Jimmy Stewart "Too bad they're not in the show." What he meant to say was "Too bad they're black and are way too busy washing my socks to be in the show."
neonlight2000 1 month ago 2
Hearing the music come together put a big ol smile on my face. Then the dancin part I was literally like this the whole time (0_0)
awesome!!
LaRosaBonita7 1 month ago 2
@LaRosaBonita7 I thought I might be able to do this routine (I heard about it) and then I watched it.. and I just went.. "ok I would break this bone, and that and also dislocate very OFTEN)...
sarabjarnveig87 1 month ago
i think its amazing that in such an era of sadness these ppl still found ways to have fun and enjoy themselves. totally awesome
iRawr1011 1 month ago
Looks like fun making the hard look easy. The zone!
yantravimana 1 month ago
3:50 hurricane kick 40 years before street fighter. This video is awesome, one of my favorites parts in the whole movie
Jaizensama 1 month ago
Well, there goes all my self esteem as a swing dancer...
AdventureGirl2011 2 months ago 23
@AdventureGirl2011 You can get it back. Just need to learn Lindy Hop!
lindyhop411 2 days ago
If I can learn to do even a quarter of this routine, my life will have had meaning.
OhRishtopher 2 months ago 5
they are doooooope, so amaizing
the best,
FeverTJ 2 months ago
Looks positively painful! LOVE IT!!
MegaNubianqueen1 2 months ago
isnt this the lindy hop?
Nimosayshi 2 months ago
@Nimosayshi yes
MegaNubianqueen1 2 months ago
One of the greatest lindy hop sceane EVER!
blackimpressions 2 months ago
@stdepi Frankie Manning (the dancer in the overalls) was considered the father of Lindy Hop and died not too long ago in 2009 right before his 95th Birthday. Every year for his birthday, there was a large celebration with Lindy Hop dancers from all over the world who would come dance in honor of him, and every birthday they would surround him in a circle for a song, and he would dance with as many women as how many years old he was. Thank you, Frankie Manning, for giving us such a wonderful gift
AlyxYesWithaY 2 months ago 10
WHAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?! Everything about this clip is awesome!
chmo78 2 months ago 2
And then they created DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)
CrazyBoy8866 2 months ago
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CrazyBoy8866 2 months ago
Love it!
agonzague17 2 months ago
Black people be drinking their milk!
jacobap23 2 months ago 2
blah blah, it's a dance video, who ever brought up these comments are insecure with themselves and still have guilt from their ancestors...BLACK PEOPLE DOING THE DAMN THING IS ALL U HAVE TO SAY IN THIS VIDE...DAMN! SMH
Sakeyha 2 months ago
loved it!
Sakeyha 2 months ago
Now that is some dancing. We have become horrible dancers now a days.
shadowgouhl5000 2 months ago 3
@shadowgouhl5000 you're hanging out in the wrong dance scenes then. there's groups in almost every major city that get together and swing dance twice a week or so. maybe not this fast(it takes years to do that), but you can still learn to dance like this.
bigcheese226 2 months ago
damn dont miss a move or somebody's gonna frikin die. POW
brianbrianbrianavant 2 months ago
woah. this is so fascinating!
superbondii 2 months ago
holy shit
that was ridiculous
bsolod 2 months ago
stupid us! ( modern people ), trying to recreate this wonder of that time....no way!
raysupernova24 2 months ago
one word, Wow!!! :)
racheltobias2025 2 months ago
The only people that dislike this video are the people who attempted these dance moves and broke their bones! XD
phophjoph 3 months ago in playlist phophjoph's favorites 50
@phophjoph Yeah, wonder if there were any broken bones in the making of this scene :D
snaip 2 months ago
To this day, the best swing dancers cannot even come close to this level of skill.
banewulfe 3 months ago
@banewulfe Have you seen my videos? :-)
lindyhop411 2 months ago
'be patient though, the first half is music.'? WTF
beanabus77 3 months ago
@beanabus77 The dancing doesn't start till half way through the song.
lindyhop411 2 months ago
@lindyhop411 You can listen to music as well as dance to it. The dancing is amazing. So is the music.
beanabus77 2 months ago
I don't know how many times during the video I said "What."
dumbdim 3 months ago 2
this has to be the coolest things i've ever seen
lawnboy280 3 months ago
These men and women would be in their nineties now and great-grandparents. How amazing would it be if your great-grandmother danced like that in her day? WOW.
stdepi 3 months ago 47
@stdepi If only people were this genuinely awesome these days.. nothing is original anymore. :(
XxShadowvalkyriexX 2 months ago
@stdepi, my grandmother did dance to music like this. and she told me they would dance non-stop all night.
the greatest generation.
Ecosse57 2 months ago
This is very very cool
drgeert 3 months ago
Just unbelievable.!!! I love this !!!!!!!
coyotesong 3 months ago
OmG... Some Figures i are so awesome that i cant believe that its true.... LOL
kostasrdg 3 months ago
i look at black musicians back then and now and i ask myself how the hell could there be so much racism back then, with so much talent and good people?
8Maik 3 months ago
@8Maik Yeah I know I am sorry to say black people have talent now but they truly had a huge amount of Natural talent back then!
IamDottieDandridge 2 months ago
@IamDottieDandridge its because all of the natural talented people back then actually had a heart for it and loved what they did.
Sakeyha 2 months ago 4
best thing ive ever seen in my life!
jamsvtgirl 3 months ago
I Lyndy hop and I never get tired watching Frankie dancing he's is just the greatest.
I also had the chance to take a workshop with him I wasin heaven .)
RIP FRANKIE MANNING THE LINDYHOP AMBASSADOR
Lindyhopper67 3 months ago
*jawdrop*
korjeniz2 3 months ago
Damn, i'm having a heart attack just watching them!
ivegottaheadache 3 months ago
Yeah, it was good. DANG good.
But the thing about this is - it's choreographed.
Any n00b can do this with enough practice.
The TRUE pros are the ones who come up with equally - if not MORE - dazzling performances impromptu.
LongLiveLink3 3 months ago
@LongLiveLink3 Care to name any? :)
LuthienMoonLight 3 months ago
@LuthienMoonLight Look up Max Pitruzzella and Annie Trudeau
lindyhop411 3 months ago
@lindyhop411 I'm glad you do know some excellent dancers, Kevin and Jo are great too, as are Skye and Frida. :) (Not to mention a ton of others)
LuthienMoonLight 3 months ago
@lindyhop411 Although, between you and me, I like Dax and Sarah the most!
LuthienMoonLight 3 months ago
@LongLiveLink3 Choreographed is a very loose term here. Yes it's a routine they practiced a lot for this performance, but Whitey's Lindy Hoppers basically took what they were doing on the dance floor and in jam circles and put it into this routine.
lindyhop411 3 months ago
@LongLiveLink3 Yeah, it's pretty obvious that you're no dancer. It doesn't matter how much they practice, you're not going to pull some random schlub off the street and teach them how to move like this. Dancing requires years of discipline, physical conditioning and intelligence that an average person does not possess. Contrary to what your mother taught you, you CAN'T do anything you put your mind to if you don't possess the necessary talents to make it possible.
Masterof7s 3 months ago
Why does everyone always have to pull the race card? I'm not a big fan of racism, or reverse racism either... And clearly people need to do their research more....
pdgmusician 3 months ago
That Kicked Ass,
DavedatCre8s 3 months ago
that was fucking awesome
claireerobertson 3 months ago
Yooo. They was goin at it. Awesome
DetectiveTuesday 3 months ago
These were truly DANCERS! They made everything look effortless! I need to learn a few moves from them lol
Placed1rst 3 months ago
@Placed1rst You're in luck! Lindy Hop is very much still popular today. Just try searching your city/state and "Lindy Hop" and see what pops up!
lindyhop411 3 months ago
3:16 my new sex position. Lmao
MajesticRootZ 3 months ago
sigh* why is every video with any black person in it. has to have at least 1 racist comment, and always from some white guy who would never say it in anyone's face. This isn't the 1960's, no more peaceful marching. WE WILL FIGHT BACK.
MajesticRootZ 3 months ago
@MajesticRootZ I was quite surprised to find racist comments from both sides (black and white) here. You'd think people would have moved on by now, but it is the internet. People are able to say what they want without being held accountable.
jrmckamey 3 months ago
the Birth of Bboying & BGirling! I love this vid! great post!
"679"
RandomRaptor679 4 months ago 4
Its funny how society likes to put down blacks in every way, but we're the most talented and blessed.
Hmmmm.
mrcritic1 4 months ago 6
@mrcritic1 word
Bloodsport1 4 months ago
@mrcritic1 Hey, that's racist!
JKollberg 4 months ago
@mrcritic1 keep your racist opinions to yourself!
NatashaMaryWard 4 months ago
@NatashaMaryWard Truth hurts, darling.
mrcritic1 4 months ago
@mrcritic1 I'm afraid it's not the truth, get a life perhaps? People are equal in every way regardless of race. You're being stereotypical and racist.
NatashaMaryWard 4 months ago
@NatashaMaryWard The person that replied my comment within minutes, obviously showing that they spend most of their time on youtube, is asking me to get a life?
Hahahaha. #FAIL
"People are equal in every way, regardless of race".
Ok then, if thats what get you to sleep at night.. Go with it.
mrcritic1 4 months ago
@mrcritic1 "The most talented and blessed"? I think the world would be a lot better off if people such as yourself accepted that their is talent and blessing from all social groups, African, Asian or Caucasian. Talent has no genetic link, you are just as bad saying that as any white eugenics believer.
MacSweenz 3 months ago
@MacSweenz Im sure the world would have been a whole lot better if most white people were wiped off the face of the earth.
But alas, I dont have the ability to change history. Dang!
mrcritic1 3 months ago
@mrcritic1 its a shame people such as yourself as exist.
MacSweenz 3 months ago
@MacSweenz Its a shame 90% of white people still exist.
If only that could be changed.
Hmmmmm.
mrcritic1 3 months ago
@mrcritic1 90%? Is there a holy 10% of white people who still fit in to your plans of racial culling? What an idiot haha
MacSweenz 3 months ago
@MacSweenz Simple mathematics would answer that question for you.
And im the idiot.
Go to sleep.
mrcritic1 3 months ago
@mrcritic1 I'm asking you what the significance of the 10% you're leaving alive is......
Though trying to find any logic in a racist is a fruitless endeavour. You want white people gone because of the racism imposed upon black people throughout the times, yet your own racism obscures your ability to understand that it is counter productive to wish death on a group of people simply because of their skin tone.
MacSweenz 3 months ago
@MacSweenz If, looking back at our history, 90% of whites were destroyed dont you honestly think the world would have turned out a whole better? Atleast be honest about that.
The 10% are the whites that are not racist from the core up. I think 10% is abit generous, but hey!, im a nice guy.
I dont see how removing a sly, greedy, manipulative, evil, thieving, murderous group of people, at a larger scale than others, from the earth in anything but productive.
But please, enlighten me.
mrcritic1 3 months ago
@mrcritic1 Aite basically I think youre blending two fundamentally different principles, i.e. being evil and being white. White people have committed atrocities against black people i agree, but if you have done any study on the 'black struggle', you will find that oppression usually comes out of economic oppression; slavery itself was an early product of capitalism (as seen in the triangular trade). You should be blaming capitalism moreso than white people.
MacSweenz 3 months ago
@MacSweenz Also, youre forgetting that white people are also responsible for lots of positive cultural progression as well as black people; you shouldnt consider black people exempt from negativity. Evil is a product of environmental and social constrictions, NOT the colour of your skin. One thing I haven't pointed out is that whilst I am white, I would not be who I am if it wasnt for the influence of black culture as well as white. You're in danger of homogenizing black and white too much.
MacSweenz 3 months ago
@MacSweenz Ofcourse no race has a monopoly on evil , but you gotta admit , whites are in the running.
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
@MacSweenz In the same swing, no ones denying the evil things black people have done. That would be an idiotic thing to do. Thats why i picked my words carefully.
I truly find it hard to believe that evil is the product of enviro/social constrictions. What enviro/social constriction would lead a man to hang a fellow man? Or calculatedly wipeout a huge chunk of races? Or twist the law to favour himself & detest others? Or... Once again, i could go on.
mrcritic1 3 months ago
@mrcritic1 If evil isnt a product of the environment then what hope is there for us to progress? In fact if evil was not a product of the environment then why did JFK pass the Civil Rights Act in the 60s. I think humans naturally want to be superior and dominate other things eg. animals, and when cultures encounter news ones then they want to control them for their own purposes. If blacks had traveled to europe first its conceivable the same thing couldve happened to whites.
MacSweenz 2 months ago
@MacSweenz "If blacks had traveled to europe first its conceivable the same thing couldve happened to whites"
This is nothing more but an excuse that whites use to in-excuse their passed (and continued) transgressions on the worlds non whites. Hundreds of years ago the chinese came into contact with non whites but you dont see the level of violence and barbarity against non chinese.There are also numerous of other examples.
BlacknesUnforgivable 2 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable What are the numerous other examples? The chinese example you have levelled at me is not proof that white people are inherently racist, it is one example that could have had numerous factors which stopped such a 'level of violence and barbarity'. You also need to take into account the deep socio-economic exploitation of blacks by blacks on the west coast in the 16/17th century. The establishment of many african kingdoms there resulted from the systematic rounding up and
MacSweenz 2 months ago
@MacSweenz Want more examples? The Arabs for instance. They were enslaving Sub Saharan Africans centuries before Europeans even stepped foot on the African continent and yet , they enslaved ALL PEOPLES (europeans,turks,jews, berbers,and even other arabs). They didnt declare war on a whole race by exclaiming that peoples on that race can only be slaves (like the europeans did to the africans).
BlacknesUnforgivable 2 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable (continued...) enslaving of other africans in order to access resources that white slave traders sold, allowing them to exert power over other tribes in surrounding areas and in central africa. Humans naturally look to control and exert power over others. I think its unbelievable that you would suggest that white people are the only ones who would possibly do such a thing, plenty of cultures have treated others with barbarity, just not on the same micro-structured level
MacSweenz 2 months ago
@MacSweenz Africans enslaved other Africans , so what? Slavery goes back to antiquity and was practiced by virtually everybody.What DOSENT go back to antiquity,however, is chattle enslavement (something whites implemented on blacks).African brand of slavery was nothing like the European brand.Slaves wernt slaves for life.One could buy his freedom.One's culture wasnt destroyed. Etc etc Even the arab brand was slavery was more humane than that of the Europeans.
BlacknesUnforgivable 2 months ago
@MacSweenz It is unbelievable that you would suggest that Africans (or anybody else) would have "done the same" to whites had they been the ones to sail to Europe first lollol typical cop out.
BlacknesUnforgivable 2 months ago
@MacSweenz (continued) Read "Iceman Inheritance : Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression"
BlacknesUnforgivable 2 months ago
@mrcritic1 See how your own argument has progressed into a far more rational, coherent one? Don't get so carried away and make such reactionary statements to make an impact; you now come across as someone who is approaching the point rationally and intelligently. I have enough faith in humanity to think that white people arent evil, but that there are evil people who created racism to justify their own economic and status-based desires. Whites as a whole dont desire to control blacks.
MacSweenz 2 months ago
@MacSweenz I could blame capitalisim, but all you have to do is move aside the curtain of capitalism & what race do you find behind it?
Economic oppression? Is that from the AA pov, or America in general. Because ive never known a "poor" whiteman stop being racist when he's "rich" & viceversa.
The evil caused by the whiteman doesnt start/end at just America. We have Asia/Africa/Australia/New Z. I could go on.
No ones denying the legit "good" things that white ppl have done, Legit. Good. Things.
mrcritic1 3 months ago
@mrcritic1 Well said. And, I might add, very generous considering all the havoc pink/ "white" people have wrought on the Divine's beautiful planet Earth. The affliction blacks are under in USA is part of curses of Israel during their final exile which was OFF the continent of Africa. It's almost over. Surely U know that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was the final dispersion of the Jews; the Creator said they would be afflicted 400 years in a strange land=USA/Mystery Babylon. Shalom.
2dasimmons 1 month ago
@mrcritic1 I'm not Black, but I agree. Blacks have always seem to be ahead of their time in terms of leading the music industry and culture. Something Blacks bring into the mix won't be exploited and overplayed till years later. Blacks tend to evolve America's music from one genre to another and often create new genre's of music that most of the other races follow for the next years to come, but initially not accepted till exploited and by then Blacks have moved on to evolve another genre.
iceclipse99 3 months ago
@mrcritic1
Statistics show ur not the most blessed ;) but for the rest, i love the coloured men that made jazz and blues :) way better then the saggy white ones ;)
MaltWisky 3 months ago
@MaltWisky History shows that you are the most violent evil people to ever walk this earth
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
@MaltWisky Elaborate please.
mrcritic1 3 months ago
@mrcritic1 hahaha no good sir no.
nristoify 2 months ago
The accumulated talent here is mind-boggling.I have heard gthat Hollywood got some of the best in the world to perform on screen but this troupe of dancers is beyond the best. I can't imagine how they managed to have these superb professional dancers together at one time. The preparation needed to pull this amazing performance off had to be of the strictest discipline and for a good while. Excellence in perfomance and here for us to appreciate today. Great video.
gcpropertymanagement 4 months ago
Some were never tied to life so tied down as others that they knew free MEANS free God love them they keep us alive and so great the combo is of us all and aways will be :)
_/ said that
11111111jws 4 months ago
This is THE best dance scene I've ever seen from a movie, fer sure!
suesjoy 4 months ago
The black man's dance
funnyman90 4 months ago
remember breakdance fighting from zoolander? this is like that.. but swing dance fighting
theycallmetwinkie701 4 months ago
there is nothing CG about that, lol
withthemostcake 4 months ago
You can totally tell it's CG.
Tasukeru 4 months ago
@Tasukeru Quit yer trollin'.
Masterof7s 3 months ago
the blacks slacking again,lol
snaglog 4 months ago
I'm pretty sure most of them are secretly master of judo :P
iaut2 4 months ago in playlist iaut2's Favorited Videos
The original swing!
BoomBoomStockings1 4 months ago
I think I just came up with some new pro-wrestling moves.
Eigenheimer00 4 months ago
Dam what kind of sex must these people be having O-O
urbaninjas 5 months ago 3
Great!!! Also besides being physical, there's a lot of Math going on here. Example: how many steps does it take between girl meeting Guy, then Guy throwing girl, girl rebounds and guys catches girl. And the spinning, if you didn't calculate correctly, you got hit in the head, lights out baby!
tpss123 5 months ago
@tpss123 What a square explanation of the concept of rhythm.
lindyhop411 4 months ago
This is by far one of the most incredible things i've ever seen. So much soul. Oh how times have changed.
DHScherocha 5 months ago
(Not trying to be racist... yeah yeah, I know, it's not going very well)
Back then, every black man knew haw to pick up an instrument and swing.
Escereon 5 months ago
@Escereon
you don't sound racist, but you are making a generalization, because you said "Back then, EVERY black man knew how to pick up an instrument and swing". That's very untrue, especially when you say, every.
withthemostcake 4 months ago
@withthemostcake Geez, it was a joke. Notice how every black man in the video could swing or play an instrument...
Escereon 4 months ago
They gettin a lil to crazy.
joshescooo 5 months ago
These folks were obviously in amazing shape to be able to pull this off. So few "dancers" today can come even close to this.
Vagrarian 5 months ago
Yes I'm black and I rap but I'm so glad blacks brought America away from compositional music, they brought emotion and feeling into music. I love the blues and jazz. Through music blacks expressed themselves and America learned to express themselves as well. The beat generation, hippies and all the other counter culturalism movements after the liberation of blacks were caused mainly from the influence of music, it literally change America! Blacks play a huge role on why America is America today!
JRebel617 5 months ago 35
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@JRebel617 Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you are saying that American music lacked emotional expression before it was influenced by African Americans.
"...I'm so glad blacks brought America away from compositional music, they brought emotion and feeling into music."
If this is your claim, it is simply unfounded. Whether or not music favors composition or improvisation is irrelevant to whether or not it contains emotion or feeling.
jrmckamey 4 months ago 3
@jrmckamey There was no American music before the Africans. Most of it was imported music from Europe
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable Well, you're arguing a different point, but I'll answer you this: What you just said contradicts itself. If there was no American music before Africans arrived, because it was imported from Europe, then the music you're referring to was simply imported from Africa. Following your line of logic, there can't be American music from either of these two people groups. What I'm trying to say is that different cultures have different music, and all can be expressive and legit.
jrmckamey 3 months ago
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BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
@jrmckamey No , you are wrong. The first music that you could have called truly american was probably the spirituals of slaves , who combined the christian religion and their African ways of singing and praise.
Prior to the 20th century , most of the of the music that whites listened to was imported from europe for the white american elite (classical and Opera's). Music that you can truly call "American music" must be created in America , not elsewhere.
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable The Native Americans, the English, the Spanish,the French, and the Portuguese were all living in the Americas at, or before, the arrival of the Africans. These different cultures all lived, and created music during the settlement of what was to become the United States. Your belittlement of these other people is extremely ethnocentric, bordering on racism. Music naturally comes out of culture, and I sincerely hope you learn to tolerate other cultures.
jrmckamey 3 months ago
@jrmckamey Maybe the natives, but the whites?Sorry , prior to the Africans , everything here was European.The irish imported their songs. The english imported their songs and so on.For a truly american music to have been created you would of had to have lost your culture ( or have it stripped from you like the case with the Africans) and would of had to take remnants of it and create a whole new one
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
@jrmckamey No belittlement at all on my end. Im just looking at reality here.
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable "...but the whites?" Who's talking about whites? "Maybe the natives..." As in, maybe the "natives" created music, or maybe they didn't? You give away your racist attitude here by generalizing "whites" as if being white were a culture. You also refuse to admit that's you're wrong, even though you know that Native Americans were here before anyone, and you know that they created music. "Im just looking at reality here." What reality do you live in? Is it the same one as I?
jrmckamey 3 months ago
@jrmckamey Who said that natives wernt here before everybody else?
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable If you're talking about reality, then we should talk about the Bay Psalm book which was composed and published in Massachusetts Bay in 1640. That's five generations before before the United States of America even existed. The reality, which we all live in, is that cultures naturally make music. And the American Cultures, even before we became the United States, were all CREATING music. The idea that people imported music is quite silly, really.
jrmckamey 3 months ago
@jrmckamey
The book you've mentioned is nothing but a compilation of palms that early settlers brought with them from EUROPE , so how is that AMERICAN music?
BlacknesUnforgivable 3 months ago