Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers

Here's a clip from the movie "Stormy Weather" (1943) featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing "Jumpin Jive". After awhile they let the Nicholas Brothers jump in and lend their feet to the action.
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Note that must moderate the comments here now because of some bad apples. Sorry...

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Cab
• Calloway
• Nicholas
• Brothers
• Jumpin
• Jive
• jazz
• stormy
• weather
• Fayard
• Harold

[grapefruitssour]

This is how swag was born

[KrazyKartoonKid]

@chettmansberger Your dad's a hero. Especially now that we're living in a society where it's every man for himself

[JustMeJennyG]

@KrazyKartoonKid I like this & Lady Gaga t-___-t

[woverby1963]

my god ive never seen anything like this! These guys were a super phenomenon, loving this stuff! And they are doing it in coat and tails, amazing!

[DschayBee]

4:12 standing up like a boss

[lesceptique]

Gregory Hines said that a movie couldn't be made of the Nicholas Brothers --because there's no one alive today who can do what they did.

[chettmansberger]

@KrazyKartoonKid

Dear Kid,

Bless your heart! Yes, Dad was able to see into who a person really was for all his 93 years, and passed that gift of love and knowledge onto his kids. If you look up "Zeke Zarchy" on Y.T., you'll see what I'm talking about. It was an interview one of our cousins did as a film-making project, and the photos and backgroud music are pure classics.

Happy New Year, and all the best thoughts to you and yours! :>

[KrazyKartoonKid]

56 people are Lady Gaga worshippers

[1984msmocha]

Amazing dancing....and these guys did it til they were up in age ( the brother on the left mostly was sarge, the choreographer,in the five heartbeats) no one entertains like this anymore.

[26snoopy82]

Man I wish I could dance like that. That's ten times better than how Michael Jackson.

[chettmansberger]

@dal4018

Bless your heart! Yes, he was a great man and father. A musician for 70+ years. Played with Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and so many others. When we lost him two years ago, he'd lived a wonderful life of 93 years.

If you'd like a treat, youtube Zeke Zarchy.  My cousin did an interview as a college project years ago, and it's filled with nothing but fabulous memories, photos, and forties music that he played in (as a background). Happy Holidays!