Such talent that today's folks can't even grasp! The music, the dancing, the choreography, the acting, the writing, the composing, and everything else. There is nothing today that can compare to the music, dancing, movies, literature, acting and theater that they had back then.
This fits so much better to the choreography than the music in the movie, which the producers plugged in because they were too cheap to pay Basie the royalties to use his hit. It is almost unbelievable that the dancers and choreographer perfected this style of dancing when they were barely teenagers, and practically amateurs at that. I am so glad that Frankie Manning and some of the others lived to see it become famous again.
+OLBICHL Har, it SEEMS like it, but the guy actually liftshim self up or jump to help the girls out, same can be said the other way around. #Themoreyouknow
This is DA BOMB! when my mom told me this was how they danced in her day I didn't believe her at first, that is until I started seeing footage like THIS..WOW!!!!!
WOW! I am amazed at not only the skill these dancers displayed, but the sheer energy it must have taken to dance as they did. I wonderful how many professional athletes could match the superb physical shape these dancers had to have been in to perform like this. This is a terrific video - many thanks for posting! DMM
this is incredibleeeeeeeeee. WOW!!! she even picks up the man at 1:20. WOW amazing. i have never seen such swing moves even today. this is wonderful. i see it is best to learn from the best and the originals.
Ooooooh, Lawd! The fastest speed on my keyboard is 280 bpm, and they're "jumpin'" to music beatin' faster than that! I'm having a heart attack loving this!
@airy3que hahaha thank you so much for those awesome links brother! this scene sure becomes even more magic with the count basie music playing! I loved to see the original scene and loved to see the modern recreation as well!
@EternalOwn All the air steps are performance steps. You wouldn't expect to see those being danced on the social dance floor, except in the jam circles and in the Cat's Corner.
Thank you so much for this. This really makes sense. now we see Frankie's awesome choreo (and dancing) in it's perfect, musical, breathtaking glory. ( i love 1:22) I miss you Frankie.
@flakeyF00nt Actually it's the other way around. The film is normal speed, but the music is sped up. You can find youtubes of the dance scene as it appeared in the film originally and you'll see it's the same tempo. Also you can search for youtubes of the original song--and you'll hear it's much slower and a lower key.
@zoep995: Aren't the two terms essentially synonymous? At any rate, that's some of the finest dancing I've ever seen. I think the youngsters dancing were some of the star dancers from the Savoy Ballroom, who were brought out west to appear in this film.
These people have fire in them, the likes of which is unknown in the dance circles I see around today. They sure can MOVE. Crazy! Christine Vitale The Group Harmony Alley Sundays 6pm to 9pm - EASTERN 89.1/FM-WFDU Teaneck, NJ Catch it streaming live: wfdu. FM A foray into the roots of the R&B/doo-wopp historical experience.
Aaah! Now we can easily see where the Rhythm Hot Shots got their inspiration... I'll have to re-upload that 1992 Can't Top the Lindy Hop video if no one else has it on youtube. When it's up, check out the phrasing of the choreography and compare it here.
@zoep995 don't tell the original jitterbugs they were low energy. They'd show us all up on the dance floor. Check out "Groovie Movie" (1944) for starters. Watch out for all the jitterbug that's not just 6-count too =) Btw, the Groovie Movie jitterbugs in LA were inspired by these Whitey's Lindyhoppers from Harlem, NY.
@flakeyF00nt At 1:17, that's jazz hands. It's not that hard to shake your hands that fast. The video is not sped up at all. From the youtube home page, add this: watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU and you'll see the original scene, at exactly the same speed, which is the speed they danced it at, back then. And here's the original scene, cut with people recreating the scene on stage in 2009: watch?v=OZsjDZlQKIM. Another shot of the recreation: watch?v=JkrvQIiIB4Y. And the orig. song: watch?v=-Iq2N0ZsRo0
@TorgosMaster Thanks! I used the most "common" version: 3:08 (around 240 BPM). So I had to speed it up a lot -- it was around 1.3 times slower. Unfortunatelly I don't really know what version did they use in the first place. Can you name the one you've found?
Please take videos of this and post them. You will want to watch videos of yourselves doing this in the future, and I'm sure plenty of others will enjoy seeing you as well!
Nope Jitterbug is the simplest of all types of swing. It's a 6 count dance and you'll often find older couples doing it because it's so low energy. This is Lindyhop which is classified by it's iconic "swingouts". Being dancing Lindy for quite awhile now myself and worship Frankie Manning, the best Lindyhopper there ever was!
funny that - how the people with the enormous pram look so bored, and the people getting to know each other still having fun - as long as pram-types not looking... (shhhhhh!) h.
AMAZING! How do they do it?! I'm in The Louisville Leopard Percussionists, and we play this song. We can't dance to it....but we can play it ALMOST as fast as them!
sorry - 'pram' is slang for the kind of wealth that lets you sit in the audience being bored while other people have fun on your behalf. I think when I posted the comment, I was also watching Josephine Baker dance with all those yawning girls in the background... and then the CecilTheSeaMonster comment was the final trigger. Hope that doesn't just make it more confusing... Helen
Man I wish I found places I could be taught this :D so friggin cool . Sad to say, all I find in clubs is Latino, Salsa or hip hop dancing, meh why not this?
Such talent that today's folks can't even grasp! The music, the dancing, the choreography, the acting, the writing, the composing, and everything else. There is nothing today that can compare to the music, dancing, movies, literature, acting and theater that they had back then.
This fits so much better to the choreography than the music in the movie, which the producers plugged in because they were too cheap to pay Basie the royalties to use his hit. It is almost unbelievable that the dancers and choreographer perfected this style of dancing when they were barely teenagers, and practically amateurs at that. I am so glad that Frankie Manning and some of the others lived to see it become famous again.
Imagine if this was how high school dances were these days. Epic.
These girls are frukin amazons.... carrying the guys like they're weightless! Amazing!
+OLBICHL Har, it SEEMS like it, but the guy actually liftshim self up or jump to help the girls out, same can be said the other way around. #Themoreyouknow
This has got to be the coolest thing I have ever seen! Many thanks for sharing and a hats off to you. Best & cheers...
This is DA BOMB! when my mom told me this was how they danced in her day I didn't believe her at first, that is until I started seeing footage like THIS..WOW!!!!!
WOW! I am amazed at not only the skill these dancers displayed, but the sheer energy it must have taken to dance as they did. I wonderful how many professional athletes could match the superb physical shape these dancers had to have been in to perform like this. This is a terrific video - many thanks for posting! DMM
Yes, was thinking the same thing! I can’t imagine the rehearsals with them doing it over and over again.
this is incredibleeeeeeeeee. WOW!!! she even picks up the man at 1:20. WOW amazing. i have never seen such swing moves even today. this is wonderful. i see it is best to learn from the best and the originals.
Incredible! Thank you for posting this wonderful video, such talent
This dancing and music is way better than the stupid dancing and music we have today.
WOW...nothing more needs to be said!
Part dancing, part acrobatics...amazing!
this is unreal. Not to mention.. amazing, cool, fresh, exciting. Thanks for putting this up
So freakin amazing!! My vocabulary cannot describe how I feel by just watching this. Awesome awesome !!
wow, thanks for setting this choreography to its original song! the musicality really pops out-- it's such a better fit.
Wow! Some of the finest displays of Jitter Buggin' I've ever seen.
Who can possibly dance like this.
I come back every week to watch this video. This shits all over 'So you think you can dance'.
omg we played an arranged version of this at my school.. this is just plain amazing. I LOVE JAZZ
wow!!!! it seems almost aggressive uh?,,,it lokks as if they are fighting!! hahah soooo cool!!! and sooo talented!!
Ooooooh, Lawd! The fastest speed on my keyboard is 280 bpm, and they're "jumpin'" to music beatin' faster than that! I'm having a heart attack loving this!
+GetTheGrandFunkOut THE ORIGINAL RECORDING ACTUALLY IS NOT THIS FAST. WHOEVER MADE THE VIDEO DID SOMETHING TO SPEED IT UP.
loveyouall66 I'm STILL having a heart attack loving it!
IT IS A TERIFFIC VIDEO.
Dance like a BOSS!
What amazing athletes! Wish I had this energy.
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the best dancing i have seen in my life!
Fantastic !
@airy3que hahaha thank you so much for those awesome links brother! this scene sure becomes even more magic with the count basie music playing! I loved to see the original scene and loved to see the modern recreation as well!
@EternalOwn All the air steps are performance steps. You wouldn't expect to see those being danced on the social dance floor, except in the jam circles and in the Cat's Corner.
Thank you so much for this. This really makes sense. now we see Frankie's awesome choreo (and dancing) in it's perfect, musical, breathtaking glory. ( i love 1:22) I miss you Frankie.
il diavolo in corpo,BELLISSIMI!
Incredible
and GENE GENE THE DANCING MACHINE from The Gong Show
@notasharecropper Lindy Hop faded out around late 40s. Right now it is experiencing a revival. :)
This speed is ridiculous and unrespectful for the artists that created it.
@flakeyF00nt Actually it's the other way around. The film is normal speed, but the music is sped up. You can find youtubes of the dance scene as it appeared in the film originally and you'll see it's the same tempo. Also you can search for youtubes of the original song--and you'll hear it's much slower and a lower key.
looks fun 2 me!! i don´t know why people dislike?!?!?!!?
coolest dance video..yup sounds about right
@zoep995: Aren't the two terms essentially synonymous? At any rate, that's some of the finest dancing I've ever seen. I think the youngsters dancing were some of the star dancers from the Savoy Ballroom, who were brought out west to appear in this film.
Thank you. That is rad.
Incredible agility and choreography.
thank you, thank you, thank you from my cubicle.
@Fillistar Lindy Hop is the grand-daddy of all swing dances. East Coast, West Coast, etc all come from Lindy Hop.
Amazing to watch such talent
Wonderful!! Thank you!
Outstanding!
INCREDIBLE...These guys make breakdance look like menuet....
THIS IS FAWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
Now THAT'S dancin'!!!!!
These people have fire in them, the likes of which is unknown in the dance circles I see around today. They sure can MOVE. Crazy!
Christine Vitale
The Group Harmony Alley
Sundays 6pm to 9pm - EASTERN
89.1/FM-WFDU Teaneck, NJ
Catch it streaming live: wfdu. FM
A foray into the roots of the R&B/doo-wopp historical experience.
at least today were trying to bring this back with electro swing. but i agree with you
Holy Toledo !!!
good video, excellent!!
I love how black people dance!!!! Ain't nothin' changed...(except that I would love us to bring back live music!)
Aaah! Now we can easily see where the Rhythm Hot Shots got their inspiration... I'll have to re-upload that 1992 Can't Top the Lindy Hop video if no one else has it on youtube. When it's up, check out the phrasing of the choreography and compare it here.
the old ones had some much LIFE in them!
Super!
@airy3que the film is sped up for sure, you can see it clearly in several moments, but it's most clear at 2;17 when the audience claps their hands!
Sensational!
Nice!
LOL..Lindy hop took alot of energy!! They have that in this one.!
@zoep995 don't tell the original jitterbugs they were low energy. They'd show us all up on the dance floor. Check out "Groovie Movie" (1944) for starters. Watch out for all the jitterbug that's not just 6-count too =) Btw, the Groovie Movie jitterbugs in LA were inspired by these Whitey's Lindyhoppers from Harlem, NY.
You're right. It's the same crew.
THAT is better than todays lindy hoppin. Amazing!
I agree.
now that what i call emancipation!!!!!!!!!!
@Fillistar Lindy Hop is a kind of Swing dance. As well as Balboa, East Coast Swing, Shag and others
@notasharecropper it faded out when bepop and the twist became popular.
9 People must be just "Mad at the World" to not like this...I hope they have a clear digital version saved for eternity........
uplifting....I watch this at least twice a day...I like the part when the white men applaud because we all know how blacks were treated back then!!!!!
awesome!!...when did this style of dancing fade out?
yes it is
Revival?? Lindy Hop is alive and bursting at the seams!! :)
@flakeyF00nt At 1:17, that's jazz hands. It's not that hard to shake your hands that fast. The video is not sped up at all. From the youtube home page, add this: watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU and you'll see the original scene, at exactly the same speed, which is the speed they danced it at, back then. And here's the original scene, cut with people recreating the scene on stage in 2009: watch?v=OZsjDZlQKIM. Another shot of the recreation: watch?v=JkrvQIiIB4Y. And the orig. song: watch?v=-Iq2N0ZsRo0
geezus!
it is a speeded up classic Basie version.
so well
@TorgosMaster Thanks! I used the most "common" version: 3:08 (around 240 BPM). So I had to speed it up a lot -- it was around 1.3 times slower. Unfortunatelly I don't really know what version did they use in the first place. Can you name the one you've found?
Me and my girlfriend dance like this all the time, except on Sundays.
Please take videos of this and post them. You will want to watch videos of yourselves doing this in the future, and I'm sure plenty of others will enjoy seeing you as well!
Nope Jitterbug is the simplest of all types of swing. It's a 6 count dance and you'll often find older couples doing it because it's so low energy. This is Lindyhop which is classified by it's iconic "swingouts". Being dancing Lindy for quite awhile now myself and worship Frankie Manning, the best Lindyhopper there ever was!
Genial!!!
@bicheamo Swing. Definitely.
some of those dances look like they were in the Marx Bros. "A day at the races" when they were hiding in the barn.
funny that - how the people with the enormous pram look so bored, and the people getting to know each other still having fun - as long as pram-types not looking...
(shhhhhh!)
h.
@notasharecropper
no clue but i sure as hell can tell you why: too many people broke their backs!
The lady gets the rough deal.
Now lets see if Soulja Boy can dance like this!
@zoep995 It's not the Lindy Hop either. It's Swing
AMAZING! How do they do it?! I'm in The Louisville Leopard Percussionists, and we play this song. We can't dance to it....but we can play it ALMOST as fast as them!
How.. just HOW did this dance routine get past the censors?
DAMN! IT IS CALLED FLUID MOVEMENT.
Damn some straight luchador type shit lol
0:38 lmao!!
sorry - 'pram' is slang for the kind of wealth that lets you sit in the audience being bored while other people have fun on your behalf.
I think when I posted the comment, I was also watching Josephine Baker dance with all those yawning girls in the background...
and then the CecilTheSeaMonster comment was the final trigger.
Hope that doesn't just make it more confusing...
Helen
Man I wish I found places I could be taught this :D so friggin cool . Sad to say, all I find in clubs is Latino, Salsa or hip hop dancing, meh why not this?
+Tammie Puopolo , where do you live?
Tim Johnson
uhhh why? That's personal and a bit on the creepy side
+Tammie Puopolo Well, I'm a Lindy Hop dancer and a scene leader. I wanted to help you find a place to learn.
Tim Johnson
oh , sorry about that now I understand. I'm from the cambridge MA area so any places in Boston would be good.
@aarfeld Thats not Jitterbug, it's Lindy hop!
You'll throw a hip doing that! :)
If you like acrobatic dancing, check out The Ross Sisters, "Solid Potato Salad"
@aarfeld Well these are one of the finest Jitterbugs of all time :-)
Which version is this (and if not Bassie and Band, who is playing)?
@xsubst whats the diff between Lindy Hop and Swing?
@GumboRon Sorry, you are totally wrong here. These dance scenes are in real time and jump moves are real.
Try and do that Dancing with the Stars!