Jitterbug History featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

[ddsharper]

why we need black history month.

[iamthejess]

Cuteeeee!

[cha5]

?!? So where's the music?

[7roach]

fyi, the name of the dance troupe from Harlem's Savoy Ballroom is "Whitey's" Lindyhoppers not "White's" =)

Awesome vid! I'd never seen it before.

[raydog699]

Stan Kenton does the history of the Lindy-Hop....I'll have to take that over Wynton's Tomism. You can hear Alan Greenspan and Leonard Garment wailing in the background.

[sandaglad]

Thanks for posting this fun video. Loved it. The music is Stan Kenton's "Harlem Folk Dance." Ted Herbert, the hilariously prissy, bumbling "professor," is no doubt the look-alike brother of comedian Hugh Herbert, who made dozens of films in the 30's and 40's, and who played a similar simpering, giggling character.

[SteveCarras]

Lster, Kenton would renounce his dance band history. The late Guy Lombardo (1902-1977) once sia din 1964 that "WStan Kenton...said if he'd caught people dancing (evne jitterbugging? :)) to his songs he'd be a failur" (1964, to Booton Herdon, "The Sweetest music this side of heaven",pp.86-87, "To Thine own self be true!")(Finally found the passage).

[alminns]

FRESH

[RubyKeeler]

Greeeat! Thanks!

[sibasaurus]

The girl at the punch bowl in "Square Dance Shiver" is my hero.

[aklamo]

Wow! Thanks. I'd never seen that in its entirety.