Dorothy Dandridge and Nicholas Brothers Chattanooga Choo Choo

[FUNKTHEYEARS]

3mins 40,,wish it was 340mins,,just so magic...

[donniedamicman]

WHAT CHU KNOW ABOUT THESE DUDES....NOTHING! AND THIS AINT EVEN THE HALF OF IT THEY DID THIS IN THEY SLEEP....EASY! EARLY! GTFO HERE...lol

[circusking]

jaw dropping

[Mantroglodyte]

right at the end you hear some faint applause. If I'd been there I'd have been wooping and stuff.

[2ndviolinist]

@Mantroglodyte Don't know flic but looks like rehearsal scene, no audience, just band members or onlookers clapping.

[strawberries404]

That the first woman I saw who could keep up w/ the Nicholas Brothers.

[ccaammiiittoo1]

@strawberries404 You've got a point. Dot could certainly tap. But there's an artist we rarely hear about these days, unless the Schomburg Library in New York has rare footage of Jenny Legon, who's career years take place about the same era as the Nicholas Brothers.

[innit27]

they would be really good at parkour looked how they jumped the rail

[eriks74342]

Seen in the context of the entire clip, this is really once of the greatest bits of big-bandery every caught on film. The first few minutes (which aren't presented here, but which can be found elsewhere on YouTube) are really a straight "white" version of Chatanooga Choo-Choo. This clip is really a wild whacked-out comment on what had come immediately before. Seen as one piece, the whole thing is amazing -- sort of an extended play version of one of the greatest big band tunes of all time.

[SuperStarsNStripes]

Is that Benny Goodman?

[ccaammiiittoo1]

@SuperStarsNStripes Benny Goodman.

[jor99912]

Who's singing for Dorothy! I saw the Harlem dancing girls on TV back in the 70s. They said that in SHOW BOAT a white girl sang for Dorothy. One of the Andrews sisters they said was a great mime! She could sing Black!

[dorothyjeandandridge]

@jor99912 DD is singing..no miming

[jor99912]

@dorothyjeandandridgeI Thought I may have confused Dandridge Sis with Andrews Sis. But I was sleeping on the couch in the 1970s. Woke up to A SHOW BOAT documentary. A fat matronly White Lady sang a course of CANT HELP LOVIN THAT MAN OF MINE. ("BLACK") style. I, went, WOW, that was the most Beautiful thing. That must have been an aged ANDREWS. & SHOW BOAT requires Great" NEGRO SPIRITUAL operatic type singers I guess.

[dorothyjeandandridge]

@jor99912 :)

[ccaammiiittoo1]

@dorothyjeandandridge Yes, that's Dot singing. There's a signature in her pronunciation. Take a listen, for example, to her singing "Whatcha Say?" with Louie Armstrong and you'll hear it. I so wish she hadn't gone to Hollywood. A waste of her time and life!

[SuperStarsNStripes]

@jor99912 She also did live shows in Vegas, she could sing.

[xvrit]

They tore that shit up!!! The best dancing I've ever seen in my entire life.

[newyorker2581]

Brilliant!!!

[Born2sing28]

PERFECTION!!!

[jimaroo100]

Thanks for posting. She was a great entertainer.  I was aware of her talent but only discovered the Nicholas Bothers on YouTube. Wow they are great - I really love their routines. Thank you for posting.

[dorothyjeandandridge]

@jimaroo100 Thank You and My Pleasure! jaz

[ladysnow1]

i love dorothy...hate that she had to when she did. GORGOUS woman

[hootskc]

Thank you so much for this upload. What a wonderful treat. The Nicholas Brothers & Dorothy Dandridge............dancing to the jamming music of Glenn Miller. It's hard to sit still watching this.

[dorothyjeandandridge]

@hootskc My pleasure!

[jaymiket]

i had no clue Ms. Dandridge could tap! just fell in love all over again :)

[gjohnsoningary]

@jaymiket She wasn't a bad hoofer!

[ccaammiiittoo1]

@gjohnsoningary You got that right. Dot could burn up some shoes!

[LeonaInnocentia]

this is what entertainment means ♥ this is amazing!

[riitade644]

WOW!! They were ALL so talented!! Can't hold a candle to anyone today, not even close!

[mgyan93]

You leave the Pennsylvania station bout a quarter to four (quarter to four)

Read a magazine and then you’re in Baltimore

Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer

Than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina

When you hear the hoof hoof blowing into the bar

Then you know that the Tennessee is not very far

Shovel all the coal in, got to keep it rolling

Wooo Chattanooga that’s where you are

Chattanooga choo choo there you are!

[herafan5]

i THOUGHT that the 2 dancing males had a ridiculously fine chemistry with Dorothy in this clip...and then I read up on her and realized one was actually married to her! haha, that was his adoration for her shining through then I guess

[PrissiMa06]

I LOVE HER... DD is my idol along with Mj and Whitney Houston. thank you for uploading

[summerbabetoo]

SHE WAS PERFECTION! WHAT A LOSS TO THE WORLD :(

[dorothyjeandandridge]

@summerbabetoo yes

[PrissiMa06]

@summerbabetoo i know right.