Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart - The Harlem Congeroos

Slim Gaillard - piano, guitar
Slam Stewart - bass
Rex Stewart - trumpet
Elmer Fane - clarinet
Jap Jones - trombone
CP Jonstone - drums

Awesome dance sequence that's part of a movie chuck-full of fun stuff and worth the DVD Purchase!!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• ole olsen
• manic
• harlem congeroos
• martha raye
• hellzapoppin'
• hugh herbert
• slim & slam
• chic johnson
• comedy

[danielmatatodo]

i come here just for Rosario Dawson!! : )

[gregoryagogo]

@danielmatatodo That's nice.

[eluminatefilms]

@trailertrashrnr what's done for the movie camera is not gonna be the same as what's done in a hot shot contest. The style, lighting & precision for a film would be far greater. My point was they're dancing the dance these cats came up with in the 30's right now -- it didn't die. We dancers know these were giants as the musicians were -- the top dancers of top ballroom at the height of the swing era. I've taken classes from one of the guys, Frankie Manning - he loved that we were still swinging.

[gregoryagogo]

@eluminatefilms Yes, the magic of editing definitely sends this clip into a new dimension!

[VanCephus]

This dancing is utterly ridiculous. Some of these moves are so fast they are a blur that I would have to slow down to figure out what they were doing. It's like slowing down a Charlie Parker or John Coltrane recording to figure out what they were doing. I'll have to do it 1 frame at a time.

[gregoryagogo]

@VanCephus Totally redic! That's the point!

[sarcasm2k]

Rosario sent me

[SpeedTriple59]

Awesome this should have been the highlight of the film...Cant believe these moves watch the dvd over and over..

[RAMLIA1]

Marvellous!

[TroyOi]

Of the thousands of videos I've seen on YouTube, this is the one I keep coming back to, time after time.

Heck, if I made it a point to watch this every morning, I'd never need caffeine again!

[TheFinlandnator]

@JRebel617 The black population of USA also formed the genre of "detroit techno", the root of all modern techno, house, trance etc. in the 80's.

[eelpieballox]

STUNNING which ever way you look at it,,

[baficchio]

simply the best.....without words

[rhombus0ne]

@trailertrashrnr This May, I heard Norma Miller herself say that she was so excited to watch all the dancers the night before, because we've really gotten it. We're dancing the lindy hop, and making it exciting. And btw, she's one of the dancers in this clip.

[JRebel617]

Yes I'm black and I rap but I'm so glad blacks brought America away from compositional music, they brought emotion and feeling into music. I love the blues and jazz. Through music blacks expressed themselves and America learned to express themselves as well. The beat generation, hippies and all the other counter culturalism movements after the liberation of blacks were caused mainly from the influence of music, it literally change America! Blacks play a huge role on why America is America today!