Pre-Lindy Hop?

[trubratt]

this video just rocket my world! thank you so much for posting!

[uthant]

That is most definitely NOT Scatman. That is Earl Snake-Hips Tucker, who also appears later in this film.

[alexf1225]

lindy hop was in full swing in Harlem when this video was made

[Dancefusion]

tadhg64 please don't quote Stearns book "Jazz Dance", it has several sections of information that are not accurate

[PREZ150]

The man danceing is a young Scatman Crothers.

[RhythmJunkie]

Thanks for the correction, i haven't been on here in a while.

[Dreambro1]

I think, it all started with the Waltz,,Like Tadhg64 said,, and African Americans sped and jazzed it up, and the rest of america followed,,as it usually happens,,African americans usually lead in fancier dance steps, African americans may have been dancing steps decades before main stream america caught on!

[Tadhg64]

Indeed. Read a book called, "Jazz Dance, The Story of American Vernacular Dance' By Marshall and Jean Stearns.

[Tadhg64]

See! It's not about steps and moves pre-arrainged choreography. It's about being in waltz hold with a pretty lady and moving together and counterbalancing to the music of the day.

[Tadhg64]

Nice.

[bugjuiced]

oooh so lovely!

[PREZ150]

For those that want to know that's a young Scatman Crother's danceing. Snake Hips is also in this Duke Ellington video.

[troach]

Snake Hips Tucker, eh! Thanks twobarbreak for identifying the mystery lead. Who's the follow though?

[twobarbreak]

I think its Scatman Crothers dancing with unknown lady...