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Jitterbug History featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

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Uploaded by on Aug 21, 2007

Here's a fun look at the history of the "Jitterbug" dancing by Tom Herbert and Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. Music by Stan Kenton. Transfered from an original reverse-title "Soundie"

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  • why we need black history month.

  • Cuteeeee!

  • ?!? So where's the music?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • FRESH

  • Greeeat! Thanks!

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

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