Jitterbug History featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
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This video is a response to Groovie Movie (1944). Funny jitterbug instructional video.
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why we need black history month.
ddsharper 2 years ago
Cuteeeee!
iamthejess 2 years ago
?!? So where's the music?
cha5 2 years ago
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.
7roach 2 years ago
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.
raydog699 3 years ago
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.
sandaglad 3 years ago 2
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).
SteveCarras 3 years ago
FRESH
alminns 4 years ago
Greeeat! Thanks!
RubyKeeler 4 years ago
The girl at the punch bowl in "Square Dance Shiver" is my hero.
sibasaurus 4 years ago 2