Has to be one of the greatest performances ever recorded. Amazingly talented, to include Cab. Recorded back in the day when people could dress up, go out on the town, and have fun, leaving politics at home. The good old days. We've replaced class with trash.
There's an expression that describes this well: "cultural confidence". With all the problems the performers had in their professional lives, just think - this was 1943! They were at war, and everyone had men in their lives who could be killed at any time. But they didn't mope around complaining that it was all unfair and life sucks. They still thought life was worth living and doing well, so they enjoyed being and looking their best.
Though Cab Calloway was my grandmother’s cousin I never met him but always admired with pride all his performances. He was a famous bandleader, singer, musician and dancer of his era. Nicholas Brothers!!!!!!! I’ve been a music lover since childhood and music was always in my home. I’m 62 and follow several reactors. I can’t get enough!
My dad was an entertainment specialist and brought Cab to Cuba in the 1950's where he was still immensely popular. They remained friends and after my folks came to live in NY he was a guest at our house on a few occasions and I was lucky to meet him -- aging, but with the same personal charm he portrayed on screen and stage. God rest his soul.
I'm not worthy to be in YOUR presence. Related? Really. Such a great thing. I hope you love to watch them here, we do, Big time. They are so appreciated. : )
It's amazing how many of the old blues artists were pissed off about the attention the "blues Brothers received, not understanding that it was that movie that revived their careers as Blues artists.
@The Jayy Show, this is from the movie Stormy Weather. Cab Calloway is the band leader. Lena Horne also stars in this film. You should really check it out. It'll really blow your mind!!
That's what I used to think. Then I researched it further and discovered it wasn't. For one thing, you can see where the scene cuts are. That's when they stopped filming and set up the next shot. Secondly, the amount of strength and energy needed to truly do this in one take would be physically impossible for anyone to achieve. Ask any professional dancer. It has also been reported that the choreography was improvised on the spot. Another untruth. Much too intricate to be improvised. A *lot* of practice went into this, and every other routine they ever did. Still, there's no denying their talent, and they deserve every accolade they ever received. We will never see their like again.
Great Reaction! Pretty Lady... Glad to see you learning of many different genres of music. Cab Calloway was a Icon of another generation... started his own band when he was in his 20's! traveled all over, was one of a kind always classy. The Nicholas brothers were Rock stars of their time... As young entertainers their parents only allowed them to dance in first class places, also they had their own Chauffeur!, quite a feat for Afro Americans in the 1930's!..their is a documentary on their life on youtube! another fantastic tap dancer is Eleanor Powell check her out! amazing!!
Harold Nicholas (the shorter brother) was the dance instructor in "The Five Heartbeats". He was also married to actress, singer Dorothy Dandridge. Halle Berry portrayed Dorothy in the Movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge". She won a Golden Globe for the Movie along with numerous other awards. It's a very good movie.
@@2007Tarkus The original scat singer and inventor of it was Louis Armstrong. He is the one who taught Cab how to scat. However, Cab perfected it. This is a case where the student became the master. Hmmmmmm, as I proofread this, I read that last sentence in James Earl Jones's voice.
U have been blown into a new stratosphere. I was a dancer too and a great music fan. The 2 together was incredible. I had a garage sale a yr ago and did show this video to some of my neighbors. It was the happiest garage sale ever. ❤ and keep on watching these great videos. RUclips has brought so much back.
What a great thing you did by bringing a spotlight to this. I've seen this before but it's been forever. This was way before my time but I discovered it when I was a teen. Loved it so much. I love it still today. You brought attention to it that's great. You couldn't hang with all of it but you definitely always got the vibe of it for sure. That's highly amazing. It's so many decades later after this isn't it? Wow. Not to mention you crack me up man. You are hilarious. Love your reactions.
You should check out the complete movie."Stormy Weather" tons of great black performers,and great performances. Such as Singer Lina Horn, singer and tap dancer Bojangles Roberson, band leader Cab Callaway. Just to name a few. At least view the clip Stormy Weather. With Lina Horn.😀👏❤️✌️
Big band music and Jazz are two things every American should be exposed to - it's a part of our heritage no matter where our ancestors came from and something we should as a country be proud of-same thing goes for the Blues-young people of every race should know about Americas musical history-Your reaction was wonderful
Big band music is swing, and it's not swing AND Jazz, SWING IS JAZZ, and it's the most popular jazz that was ever made. It was America's popular music in the 30s and 40s.
Cab Calloway main contributor of Jazz especially Big band Jazz along with Duke Ellington....they were the gods of jazz music. Scat is the style of singing that Cab was singing which is t he early stages of "Rap." Nicolas Brother were the best Tap Dancers in the world. Because of The Jim Crow Laws were not commercial or heavy advertised. It was back then 'a white world."
The amazing thing about the tap dancing in this that most people don't realize, that was all done in one take!! There was no oh they messed up let's redo it!! That was just perfection from start to finish!!
The drummer seen at the beginning is J. C. Heard. I spoke to him a few times on the telephone back in the mid-1980s when I was an announcer at a jazz radio station in Trenton, NJ. He was a really nice guy and was excited that my station was playing his records. (He was leading his own big band out of Detroit at this point.) I first saw this dance clip when I was taking swing dance lessons in the mid-1990s. The Nicholas Brothers aren't only incredible dancers but outstanding athletes as well. They knew how to both control their muscles and take care of them, too. Nobody does stuff like that without getting injured unless they knew proper stretching, warm-ups, etc. This dance is a marker by which all other dances need to be measured. Yeah, JAYY, this is what jazz is all about! Fun, surprising performances (one jazz writer called jazz "the sound of surprise.") For more fun, immerse yourself in the world of jazz from the 1920s up through the 1950s. You'll enjoy it!
I see so many people impresses by the splits themselves. When I was younger and much more athletic and flexible, doing the splits were pretty easy. But pulling back up and so smoothly too, that is phenomenal. Just the sheer strength and making it so graceful to boot. There is a reason they are considered to be in the top tier of dancers of all time.
See this is what I'm talking about ,these brothers and cab were very talented 😁 brothers you should see your expression, this is good your ancestors at work ,Enjoy!
They were so in sync with the orchestra that even jumping over each other down the curved staircase was on beat! One rehearsal and one take. The word Amazing is used often; however when describing these legends that word falls short of describing them
5:14 The moment you realize your great grandparents were lit! And you know it says a lot when dancers like Fred Astaire (or was it Gene Kelly?) said that this performance was the best dance routine ever to be caught on film. Seriously, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Cyd Cherisse, and Dorothy Dandridge were who influenced (and taught) Michael and Janet Jackson. Hell, even James Brown, MC Hammer, and even Maurice and Gregory Hines looked up to The Nicholas Brothers... To the point that Calloway, Cherisse, and the Nicholas Brothers all appear in Janet Jackson's video "Alright". And they were still pulling this off, in their 70s!!
For more HAPPY dancing watch 1940's dancers doing the "Lindy Hop"! Their rhythm, acrobatics will blow you away! I tried it when I was young..couldn't do it. AMAZING. There are videos on RUclips.
Yes girl, so glade you enjoyed this! I mean how can one not. So much fun. Was going to suggest this till I came across that had already thanks for reacting to this.
Louis Prima wrote Sing Sing Sing recorded in the 1930s by Benny Goodman and his orchestra with the great Gene Krupa on drums. The greatest Swing song ever. Rock and Roll before there was Rock and Roll. Check it out.
Cab Calloway was a talented showman. The Nicolas Brothers were the best dancers, bar none, including the likes of Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Sammy Davis Jr.
That was crazy good :) I love Cab Calloway, unfortunately I had never heard of the Nicholas Brothers, but holy cow they were amazing dancers, I bet if one of em kicked me I would fly 20 feet across the room lol
I used to show my students this and at first they would grumble because it was old but by the end they reacted just like you. I loved watching all of THEM react too! 😂 They are the greatest that was and ever WILL be!
I was born in the early 50s one of the best things back then was tv was new so what you saw on Sundays and late night was movies from anywhere from the 30s,40s, and the 50s A lot of old musicals, comedies, and mysteries. A lot of the time some Classics. Angles with dirty faces, Maltese Falcon. We saw all of it for free on a daily basic sometimes because the local stations used it for filler until the network went on channel
The Nicholas Brothers did that in 1 take! Gregory Hines (R.I.P) said if it was done today, no way could anyone have done it in 1 take & Gregory Hines was a fantastic tap dancer himself & he was also an actor in the movie Waiting to Exhale. Cab Calloway was also in Janet Jackson's video "Alright". The younger brother was also married to the gorgeous actress Dorothy Dandridge. Halle played her in her life story.
It's great seeing how happy this made you. And this is a particular kind of jazz called Big Band Jazz. It is a great genre of music that dominated the late 1920s through the 1940s.
There are some incredible routines by them you can react to that are on RUclips, which,again will leave your mouth open- just type in Nicholas Bros. routines and make a pick,and enjoy. A solo routine by Harold Nicholas (1944)- incredible!
so ya wanna dance then? lol ..Cab Callaway was one of the more famous "scat" style singers of his era. the only scat singer that i feel could give Cab a run was Scatman John. he had a one hit wonder called 'Scatman (Bi-bop-di-bop)" that got him recognized. The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Jump Jive An' Wail is an artist/song you should also check out. loving your journey girl...keep it rockin' lol
This was done in 1933 and used in a movie . Watch one of the Nicholas brothers interview. They started when the short one was about 3yrs old and his brother was about 10yrs older
It makes everyone happy. If you want to see Cab do his thing when he was in his 80’s, check out the movie the Blue Brothers. It’s pretty funny but also has great music. ( including a song and dance byAretha Franklin. )
When my grandfather came back from WWII he took a young Catholic lady to see Cab and his Orchestra. She was scandalized for going to see a black musician! Unheard of for a white Catholic girl in 1946. In her defense, she married my grandfather not long after. Not the greatest enlightenment story from that generation, but thats all I got. Great video!
Not one take. Many, many takes. You can easily spot where the camera cuts are, which is when they set up the next shot. Also, ask any professional dancer, and they'll tell you a routine requiring such amazing physical strength as this would be impossible to pull off in a single take. Even knowing that, their skill is rightfully legendary.
No joke, they were Michael and Janet Jacksons dance instructors later in life! I can totally see where Michael got the footwork and performance perfection attitude from. Goes to show there's always been legends!
You should check out Kid Creole And The Coconuts, they took a huge amount of influence from Cab Calloway and the styles of that time. Stool Pidgeon, A Night In New York.....
One of the greatest performances in music and dance. From the movie Stormy Weather with an incredible cast of talented artists, including Lena Horne.
You have officially been blessed by Calloway! Wear it loud and proud
the joy on your face watching them dance
I've seen this scene at least 50 times and she the best reaction I've ever seen. By far. Her expression at the end was priceless.
The Nicholas Brothers were dancers like world class athletes!
The look on your face at the end was priceless! 😯
Fred Astaire said he thought this was the greatest dance routine ever recorded.
Has to be one of the greatest performances ever recorded. Amazingly talented, to include Cab. Recorded back in the day when people could dress up, go out on the town, and have fun, leaving politics at home. The good old days. We've replaced class with trash.
There's an expression that describes this well: "cultural confidence". With all the problems the performers had in their professional lives, just think - this was 1943! They were at war, and everyone had men in their lives who could be killed at any time. But they didn't mope around complaining that it was all unfair and life sucks. They still thought life was worth living and doing well, so they enjoyed being and looking their best.
Though Cab Calloway was my grandmother’s cousin I never met him but always admired with pride all his performances.
He was a famous bandleader, singer, musician and dancer of his era. Nicholas Brothers!!!!!!!
I’ve been a music lover since childhood and music was always in my home. I’m 62 and follow several reactors. I can’t get enough!
A good friend of mines ex wife is related to Cab Calloway.
My dad was an entertainment specialist and brought Cab to Cuba in the 1950's where he was still immensely popular. They remained friends and after my folks came to live in NY he was a guest at our house on a few occasions and I was lucky to meet him -- aging, but with the same personal charm he portrayed on screen and stage. God rest his soul.
I'm not worthy to be in YOUR presence. Related? Really. Such a great thing. I hope you love to watch them here, we do, Big time.
They are so appreciated. : )
Greatest dancers ever
I love Cab Calloway. He was featured in the Blues Brother's movie. A legendary cast in that movie. 👍👍😎❤✌
It's amazing how many of the old blues artists were pissed off about the attention the "blues Brothers received, not understanding that it was that movie that revived their careers as Blues artists.
@The Jayy Show, this is from the movie Stormy Weather. Cab Calloway is the band leader. Lena Horne also stars in this film. You should really check it out. It'll really blow your mind!!
@@helenjackson8413 Sounds like a good movie. I'll definitely give it a watch. I like old movies. I hope Jayy does too. Lena Horne is wonderful.
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My Dad saw Cab Calloway live in Harlem back in the 30’s! He was a German immigrant and loved the jazz greats.
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& The (true) Kings of TapDancing is always be
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Love Cab Calloway, and those Nicholas Brothers were the best of the best!
The Nicolas brothers were so ahead of their time. The BEST
I was born in the 60s but I love the culture of music and movies of the 40s and late 30s. Love the Nicholas brothers
Filmed in one take. That's how awesome and amazing this is.
That's what I used to think. Then I researched it further and discovered it wasn't. For one thing, you can see where the scene cuts are. That's when they stopped filming and set up the next shot. Secondly, the amount of strength and energy needed to truly do this in one take would be physically impossible for anyone to achieve. Ask any professional dancer. It has also been reported that the choreography was improvised on the spot. Another untruth. Much too intricate to be improvised. A *lot* of practice went into this, and every other routine they ever did. Still, there's no denying their talent, and they deserve every accolade they ever received. We will never see their like again.
That’s big band music combined with jive, jazz and scatting. The 1930’s and 40’s was the heyday of it all. Legends all of them.
The Nicholas Brothers were something else!
you just saw the greatest dance moves ever. Love those Brothers
Great Reaction! Pretty Lady... Glad to see you learning of many different genres of music. Cab Calloway was a Icon of another generation... started his own band when he was in his 20's! traveled all over, was one of a kind always classy. The Nicholas brothers were Rock stars of their time... As young entertainers their parents only allowed them to dance in first class places, also they had their own Chauffeur!, quite a feat for Afro Americans in the 1930's!..their is a documentary on their life on youtube! another fantastic tap dancer is Eleanor Powell check her out! amazing!!
Harold Nicholas (the shorter brother) was the dance instructor in "The Five Heartbeats". He was also married to actress, singer Dorothy Dandridge. Halle Berry portrayed Dorothy in the Movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge". She won a Golden Globe for the Movie along with numerous other awards. It's a very good movie.
They definitely were legendary! My favorite tap routine ever!
Cab in his later career was in the Iconic movie called The Blues Brothers with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as their mentor.
Can Calloway was doing what’s called ‘scat’ with that fast singing.
Cab Calloway the original Scatman
The original rap..
@@2007Tarkus
The original scat singer and inventor of it was Louis Armstrong. He is the one who taught Cab how to scat. However, Cab perfected it. This is a case where the student became the master.
Hmmmmmm, as I proofread this, I read that last sentence in James Earl Jones's voice.
@@novusmundi You are quite correct and I stand in shame, but for ten points who was the scat cat in Lady and the Tramp ?
@@2007Tarkus
Was it Peggy Lee? I know she wrote and sang the Siamese cat song.
My legs are burning just watching
U have been blown into a new stratosphere. I was a dancer too and a great music fan. The 2 together was incredible. I had a garage sale a yr ago and did show this video to some of my neighbors. It was the happiest garage sale ever. ❤ and keep on watching these great videos. RUclips has brought so much back.
Those folks back in 1932 would be so happy to know how much you enjoy there performances...89 years later!!!
True talent.
My eyes started to water when they did those "Splits" SHEEESH !!!!!
What a great thing you did by bringing a spotlight to this. I've seen this before but it's been forever. This was way before my time but I discovered it when I was a teen. Loved it so much. I love it still today. You brought attention to it that's great. You couldn't hang with all of it but you definitely always got the vibe of it for sure. That's highly amazing. It's so many decades later after this isn't it? Wow. Not to mention you crack me up man. You are hilarious. Love your reactions.
You should check out the complete movie."Stormy Weather" tons of great black performers,and great performances. Such as Singer Lina Horn, singer and tap dancer Bojangles Roberson, band leader Cab Callaway. Just to name a few. At least view the clip Stormy Weather. With Lina Horn.😀👏❤️✌️
Absolutely. It also has Fats Waller singing, Ain't Misbehaving.
"Lena" (sorry).
Lena Horn was a Legend!!!
lol your face at the end tho....priceless! and it's even more amazing when you consider they did that in ONE TAKE
.....and to think that they did it all in ONE take! Their talent will not be seen again in this lifetime
My thighs ache on their behalf.
Big band music and Jazz are two things every American should be exposed to - it's a part of our heritage no matter where our ancestors came from and something we should as a country be proud of-same thing goes for the Blues-young people of every race should know about Americas musical history-Your reaction was wonderful
Big band music is swing, and it's not swing AND Jazz, SWING IS JAZZ, and it's the most popular jazz that was ever made. It was America's popular music in the 30s and 40s.
Cab Calloway main contributor of Jazz especially Big band Jazz along with Duke Ellington....they were the gods of jazz music. Scat is the style of singing that Cab was singing which is t he early stages of "Rap." Nicolas Brother were the best Tap Dancers in the world. Because of The Jim Crow Laws were not commercial or heavy advertised. It was back then 'a white world."
The amazing thing about the tap dancing in this that most people don't realize, that was all done in one take!! There was no oh they messed up let's redo it!! That was just perfection from start to finish!!
The drummer seen at the beginning is J. C. Heard. I spoke to him a few times on the telephone back in the mid-1980s when I was an announcer at a jazz radio station in Trenton, NJ. He was a really nice guy and was excited that my station was playing his records. (He was leading his own big band out of Detroit at this point.)
I first saw this dance clip when I was taking swing dance lessons in the mid-1990s. The Nicholas Brothers aren't only incredible dancers but outstanding athletes as well. They knew how to both control their muscles and take care of them, too. Nobody does stuff like that without getting injured unless they knew proper stretching, warm-ups, etc. This dance is a marker by which all other dances need to be measured.
Yeah, JAYY, this is what jazz is all about! Fun, surprising performances (one jazz writer called jazz "the sound of surprise.") For more fun, immerse yourself in the world of jazz from the 1920s up through the 1950s. You'll enjoy it!
Bruno Mars Old MOVIE STARS DANCE TO "UPTOWN FUNK"
Thanks for the recommendation...just watched it. Amazing
Imagine the strength it takes to slide up from the splits only using your legs.
I see so many people impresses by the splits themselves. When I was younger and much more athletic and flexible, doing the splits were pretty easy. But pulling back up and so smoothly too, that is phenomenal. Just the sheer strength and making it so graceful to boot. There is a reason they are considered to be in the top tier of dancers of all time.
And to do it over and over again, one right after the other... they were phenomenal.
The movie The Five Heartbeats the small brother Harold Nicholas played the man who taught the Heartbeats how to dance.
OUCH! 😖🤣. Whoo wheeee! Purse talent! And flexibility!!🧐😳😆. 💜❤️✌️✨
Cab..was so COOL AND SO AHEAD OF HIS TIME
Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher is still on my Playlist. It always makes me smile 😃
See this is what I'm talking about ,these brothers and cab were very talented 😁 brothers you should see your expression, this is good your ancestors at work ,Enjoy!
They were so in sync with the orchestra that even jumping over each other down the curved staircase was on beat! One rehearsal and one take. The word Amazing is used often; however when describing these legends that word falls short of describing them
Cab Calloway was awesome! And the Nicholas Brothers weren't no slouches neither!
Cab is a genius!
I love watching all you're reactions... Awesome response! you;re grrrreat!
The Nicholas Brothers were so good that they actually changed the standard for tap dancing and performances.
5:14 The moment you realize your great grandparents were lit! And you know it says a lot when dancers like Fred Astaire (or was it Gene Kelly?) said that this performance was the best dance routine ever to be caught on film.
Seriously, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Cyd Cherisse, and Dorothy Dandridge were who influenced (and taught) Michael and Janet Jackson. Hell, even James Brown, MC Hammer, and even Maurice and Gregory Hines looked up to The Nicholas Brothers... To the point that Calloway, Cherisse, and the Nicholas Brothers all appear in Janet Jackson's video "Alright". And they were still pulling this off, in their 70s!!
OMG I luv ur visual reactions and Iam so excited to see this.
For more HAPPY dancing watch 1940's dancers doing the "Lindy Hop"! Their rhythm, acrobatics will blow you away! I tried it when I was young..couldn't do it. AMAZING. There are videos on RUclips.
It's called Big Band and/or Swing, but yeah, it fits under the Jazz umbrella, pretty damn good too.
Glad to see someone who knows that jazz has many subsets. As to the clip, the brothers were fantastic, and the tune Jumpin Jive is absolute fire.
I was lucky to have seen Cab on Broadway in The Pajama Game with Barbara McNair in 1979
I loved the look on your face at the end of that! Great!
Notice how Cab graciously walked off the stage.
Can Calloway was a jazz legend from the swing era. He was a pretty good dancer too.
My early exposure to Cab Calloway came from watching Betty Boop Cartoons.... loved em then, love em now! Great stuff
Yes girl, so glade you enjoyed this! I mean how can one not. So much fun. Was going to suggest this till I came across that had already thanks for reacting to this.
Now...
That's whatcha call a ballbuster routine!!
Louis Prima wrote Sing Sing Sing recorded in the 1930s by Benny Goodman and his orchestra with the great Gene Krupa on drums. The greatest Swing song ever. Rock and Roll before there was Rock and Roll. Check it out.
1930s-1940s (and into the 1950s) big band music is the swingingest, boppingest coolness ever.
Cab Calloway was a talented showman. The Nicolas Brothers were the best dancers, bar none, including the likes of Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Sammy Davis Jr.
Amazing! Timeless!
That was crazy good :) I love Cab Calloway, unfortunately I had never heard of the Nicholas Brothers, but holy cow they were amazing dancers, I bet if one of em kicked me I would fly 20 feet across the room lol
I love you. You had the right response to that genius.
This was the role of entertainment industry during tough times. This stuff made folks forget about the depression for awhile.
I used to show my students this and at first they would grumble because it was old but by the end they reacted just like you. I loved watching all of THEM react too! 😂 They are the greatest that was and ever WILL be!
I was born in the early 50s one of the best things back then was tv was new so what you saw on Sundays and late night was movies from anywhere from the 30s,40s, and the 50s A lot of old musicals, comedies, and mysteries. A lot of the time some Classics. Angles with dirty faces, Maltese Falcon. We saw all of it for free on a daily basic sometimes because the local stations used it for filler until the network went on channel
The Nicholas Brothers did that in 1 take! Gregory Hines (R.I.P) said if it was done today, no way could anyone have done it in 1 take & Gregory Hines was a fantastic tap dancer himself & he was also an actor in the movie Waiting to Exhale. Cab Calloway was also in Janet Jackson's video "Alright". The younger brother was also married to the gorgeous actress Dorothy Dandridge. Halle played her in her life story.
Can Calloway was an entertainer. Impossible to not like Can Calloway
ONE TAKE.....SUPERNATURAL!!!🔥🔥🔥😳🙌
It's great seeing how happy this made you. And this is a particular kind of jazz called Big Band Jazz. It is a great genre of music that dominated the late 1920s through the 1940s.
There are some incredible routines by them you can react to that are on RUclips, which,again will leave your mouth open- just type in Nicholas Bros. routines and make a pick,and enjoy.
A solo routine by Harold Nicholas (1944)- incredible!
Awesome reaction, way to diversify and dive into an old genre!
Incredible.
so ya wanna dance then? lol ..Cab Callaway was one of the more famous "scat" style singers of his era. the only scat singer that i feel could give Cab a run was Scatman John. he had a one hit wonder called 'Scatman (Bi-bop-di-bop)" that got him recognized. The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Jump Jive An' Wail is an artist/song you should also check out. loving your journey girl...keep it rockin' lol
There's a clip of the Nicholas Brothers much younger performing a number called Lucky Number, I think, also delightful.
'What the fiddlesticks!! ...exactly!
All in one take, and they didn't break a sweat.
This is swing music aka big band and it's amazing
This was done in 1933 and used in a movie . Watch one of the Nicholas brothers interview. They started when the short one was about 3yrs old and his brother was about 10yrs older
These guys. Olympic athletes.
The music is called "Swing Jazz".
It makes everyone happy.
If you want to see Cab do his thing when he was in his 80’s, check out the movie the Blue Brothers. It’s pretty funny but also has great music. ( including a song and dance byAretha Franklin. )
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Blown away...
Jazz rules...
When my grandfather came back from WWII he took a young Catholic lady to see Cab and his Orchestra. She was scandalized for going to see a black musician! Unheard of for a white Catholic girl in 1946. In her defense, she married my grandfather not long after. Not the greatest enlightenment story from that generation, but thats all I got. Great video!
Wow they had talent
Word was that they didn't have the money for extra film so this was a ONE TAKE deal...better get it right the first time and they did. WOW!
Not one take. Many, many takes. You can easily spot where the camera cuts are, which is when they set up the next shot. Also, ask any professional dancer, and they'll tell you a routine requiring such amazing physical strength as this would be impossible to pull off in a single take. Even knowing that, their skill is rightfully legendary.
Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher from the motion picture, The Blues Brothers.
Now those were the days
They didn't even appear to break a sweat!
Oh wow, you're digging into the classics now. Love it. Find some Betty Hutton next -- Murder, He Said maybe!
No joke, they were Michael and Janet Jacksons dance instructors later in life! I can totally see where Michael got the footwork and performance perfection attitude from. Goes to show there's always been legends!
Whaaaaaaa??!!!!
You never see the Blues Brothers (original )
One of the greatest movie soundtrack
You should check out Kid Creole And The Coconuts, they took a huge amount of influence from Cab Calloway and the styles of that time.
Stool Pidgeon, A Night In New York.....
Ta hun like 999 love it.