The black dancers are Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from the Savoy Ballroom, Harlem. Their routines are from 1941 and before. Frankie Manning is doing most of the acrobatic routines and died 6 years ago at the age of 94. Many of us were fortunate to see him and take lessons from him during the last years of his life. Yes, he could still dance the Lindy Hop in his nineties!
I think this is Norma Miller. I'm watching a special on Norma Miller - "Queen of Swing" on Alabama Public Broadcasting about her life right now. Of course it includes Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and Frankie Manning and the gang.
John Fisher Thanks for sharing the information. This is a priceless piece of history; and I'm green with envy that you got to take lessons from Frankie Manning! :-)
Lol! Those words reminded me of when i did waltzing back when i was little. I use to be able to do that really well, but the partner i always got partnered up with someone who sucked and put little effort into it.
There are groups all over who dance like this. I have several friends who have been part of lindy dancing for decades, especially since the swing revival of the late 90s.
For those people who think that our grandparents couldn't do anything other than the waltz should look at this and realize what real high energy dancing was really like !
My boyfriend and I decided we were going to master the swing, boogie-woogie, lindy hop and such and we did and, trust me, it is much more difficult to flip a man over your back than a woman, but it is utterly doable. It took us some six months and we are quite decent.
One time me and an ex tried to do the end dance from dirty dancing. I weighed around 125 lbs 130 or so. He was a former football player and muscular. He couldnt do the part where he lifts her and balances her horizontally. It takes a TON of strength and energy to actually dance. Kids now have no idea. These cats in this clip could outdance anyone now. That stuff looked HARD!!! Wow
I've just been reading about people who wished they could dance like this and just to lazy to get off their butts and do some thing about it , Great to see you are doing it and you learned it well by the looks of it WELL DONE
This is just fabulous! I would love to see today's youth pull this off. Sure there are some out there that can do that hip-hop spin on the back of their neck thing, but to do this with class and a whole room full of people would be a first for this generation. it can be downright dangerous too, I once pulled my left shoulder swing dancing so so bad, it nearly tore up my rotator cuff, and I had to wear a sling for a few weeks. Then I was dancing to "In the Mood" by the Navy band down in Norfolk, VA, when my date flung out too far, and she fell back and broke her wrist! Her sister who was with us said, OK buddy, you broke her, now you have to keep her, you break it you buy it! So I did, and we were married about 8 months later!
+TheEldoradoKid Well you know swing dancing isn't exactly "in" like it was back in the forties and fifties, but people still do it. In the Twin Cities in Minneapolis there's this place called The Caves for East Coast Swing, a group of friends and I have been making plans to start going there every other week, and they teach ECS lessons for free for an hour, and after that they play an hour of music for people to dance to. Another friend and I do ballroom dance and WCS together, and our dance instructors said that there's a ton of young people there and they get pretty crazy with the dancing. Plus at my school they've started playing some Glenn Miller in the halls during passing period, and I know several people who are pretty interested in Swing, so thank god it's not completely dead. I like to think that because it'll be the 20's again in four years people will start to bring back Jazz and West Coast Swing.
look at the comment of legolasdbk four above you they wanted to do it like the old days so they have been having lessons any body can dance but it is having the will to go out and find some body to teach you, you are not going to find a teacher in dance sitting in an arm chair or playing the computer all day.
Benny Goodman's orchestra with Gene Krupa on drums. These 2 had the rare privelege of this fabulous band to dance to, and in those times people went to huge Dance Halls to dance. It was a very special night !
The folks in these dance clips are fit from having to work hard at life, house work, yard work, kitchen work. Everything required a human effort. The result was that most of the "regular" folks were fit to begin with. Therefore the next step is to learn how to move yourself to the music. Then figure out how to do it with a partner who has also learned his part. Amazing. It is a real pleasure to listen to this and to watch them dance to the beat.!!! Wow.....
These people enjoyed from the start of the song and must have wished it never ended….this is Jazz and music unmatched….. every instrument played with immense skill, talent and art…
By the way, if you want to see present swing dancing look up William and Maeva. These kids started at 15 and they have been the world champion swing dancers so many times I have lost track. Plus European champs etc. there dancing is fantastic.
That was insane, those black dancers at the start were the best dancers I've ever seen. It looked less like dancing and more like a fight on fast-forward, it was violent, hard core, unreal. Oh My Lord...
Now people just jiggle their bits and call it dancing. Its not that hard to twerk a butt that weighs 20 lbs alone. Geez. I wish i would have lived back then instead. It just seemed more interesting
The fuck. Those black dancers as you call them. Created these moves and that was dancing. Now the white girls and blacks juggle the assess twerk and wanna be like the black girls. ...no you welcome I'll wait
wow great video . my city would swing to this . i live in indiana,pa. and jimmy stewarts home town . one of the best actors there was . he was a colonel i think in w.w.2 we are a patriocic city thanks to hin. love music like this it soothes a troubled world and brings back memories of my grandparents who loved dancing and won a contest once 4 best dancers in indiana. in the 1950s. thanks polwog 690 indiana ,pa.
thank you so much for this awesome video.when I first introduced my old man to you tube his first request was sing,sing,sing. He would have loved this video..Still love ya and miss ya pop's.
I love this video. These people were in Olympic shape; their dancing is awesome. They make the dancers on Dancing with the Stars look like they're dancing in slow motion. So many remarkable things about the video and music. The women's costumes are way before their time. I can't imagine anyone showing that much leg in 1937. It was unheard of back then. This was made when my dad was 8 and my mom was about 5 or 6. You never saw a woman's legs like this even into the 50's. There's 2 couples with maids. The second one is with the guy in overalls and he is just so rough with her; it looks like he could pull her arms right out of their sockets. But then she gets revenge. Ha ha. The music is so exciting. The beat is just so fabulous. Benny Goodman must have been very popular. This is one of those songs that just stays in your head. It does have a lot of history in it including Judy Garland dancing as a child. It's an awesome compilation of videos with great music. Makes me want to see the movie Hellzapoppin and hear more of Benny Goodman and his orchestra. Awesome. One of my all time favorite videos.
Great video.I saw that first couple in another old dance video before.I never had that level of energy when I was 16.LOL.I wonder why WW2 sailors always seemed good at jitterbugging.
I thought they had strings attached to their clothing, oh my gosh foot works body movements and all wow , I'm a Filipina now I know where my old folks got this ideas or dancing mania. I fell in love with these music and always open to any genre.
Damn!!!!!! Is so freaking awesome, funny, and dynamic!!!! I just took 2 lessons of this and I realized how much I love not just jazz, cinema and so on from 20's but also DANCING! So happy to see also pure Judo also here haha since I practise it for my entire life!!! 0:31 Ura Nage 0:39 Tomoe Nage 1:56 Ippon Seoi Nage 2:36 Absolutelly perfect Uki Goshi, better than average practisers hahaha
This was the music of my parents and thankfully I grew up listening to the music of the big band era, my mother could jitterbug on roller skates. Geez. I wish she had some pictures or video of this. Micheline Kribs,Rolla,MO
My nan and pop used to dance to this tune every year at their wedding anniversary….they did it for 65 years..now its our turn to keep up with their legacy. Miss them so much.
Thanks for sharing. This was real music and real dancing. You got to move to the rhythm and not just tap your foot in place. throwing girl in the air, jumping is all part of the dance this music inspired. I still try to move like this at 72.
The first group was Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from Harlem, featuring Frankie Manning, know as the Father of Lindy Hop and the first guy to throw an aerial (in the bib overalls). Superb dancer and really, really nice guy. Taught until just a few years ago.
I cannot stop watching this video. Frankie Manning (the guy in the white jacket in the second couple) was phenomenal. I love that little girl's face when she's dancing with the sailor. I also enjoyed that woman who flipped over her partner at the end(ha-ha, revenge is so sweet!). I dream of accidentally walking into a building and realizing that it was secretly a tardis (for all of you whovians out there) and it transported me back in time to a swing dancehall. Please don't tell me that I'm the only one who thinks about this multiple times a day?! What happened to these days?
I thought about my parents dancing like this during WWII. My mother told me that my father and she could cut a rug back then. I wish that they could be here today to watch this. I would have to say that they would take a stroll down memory lane.
Tereas Downes Oh, geeze, no comparison!! Can't believe you even gave us a choice!! Justin Bieber should slink out of the room with Swing dancers and musicians being there!!
Imagine trying to do The Swing, The Jitterbug, The Lindy Hop etc to today's music. It would literally make you ill. The big bands of yesteryear were the thing and that was music. I grew up with this music, along with other genres of music and the music of yesteryear cannot be matched. I was a child of the 60's,a teenage boy of the 70's, and just got longer in the tooth by the 80's and so forth. I love all the yesteryear music and the bitter sweet memories it brings to me. Am a bit buggered up by Osteoarthritis, but I can still get down on it. I remember learning how to do the Lindy Hop at school and still can burn it up on the dance floor. You're never too old to dance, you get old because you stop dancing. 💃🕺💃🕺💯💯🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵🎶
Back when couples actually danced together; you couldn't do these dances by yourself. Today, everyone just twerks and flosses by themselves and have no idea what they're missing.
Just have to share this. When I was in my teens dancing I would lose four pounds dancing what we called jitter bug. Also in those days we danced with many partners. Couldn't have imagined a more boring evening than dancing with only one person the entire night
Wow, these moves are so gorgeous and impressive. The sequences performed by Whitey's Lindy Hoppers are perfect in every way! Black people are the best dancers because they really feel it in their heart and soul, so they give it all they've got! Makes my heart pound :)
That is the ABSOLUTE truth, thanks for your post, I appreciate it. The internet is not a bad thing, but these smart phones are ridiculous, even though I know how to use them inside out. They cause vehicle accidents all the time, mainly by the younger generation who feel that they MUST be texting all the time. People my age ARE strictly dedicated to driving while on the roads.
To all those who say, "What has society came to?" It is not dance's fault, its music's fault. The beat of jazz inspires swing dancing, and the beat of today's music, well that inspires the conduct of today... You couldn't even call it dancing, you don't even move your feet! Why does society like music with the booming bass? I don't know, but that is what we are stuck with in the 21st Century, and all I have to say is the United States culture is shooting itself in the foot by forgetting how to dance. It creates a vicious cycle of devolution, and it pains me to be a part of it, that's why I am here on this video. I want to learn to swing, and revive this lost culture! Plus it looks fun!
It's Lindy Hop. And there are classes you can take. If you can find any group or private lessons in your town, there are instructional videos all over RUclips. That's how I learned most of the moves I know.
The black dancers are Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from the Savoy Ballroom, Harlem. Their routines are from 1941 and before. Frankie Manning is doing most of the acrobatic routines and died 6 years ago at the age of 94. Many of us were fortunate to see him and take lessons from him during the last years of his life. Yes, he could still dance the Lindy Hop in his nineties!
Shame even the best lindy hoppers can't do what they did 70 years ago...
This is a great piece of historical knowledge.
Thanks for the info. Dancing in his 90's ? Love It. Thanks M
I think this is Norma Miller. I'm watching a special on Norma Miller - "Queen of Swing" on Alabama Public Broadcasting about her life right now. Of course it includes Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and Frankie Manning and the gang.
John Fisher Thanks for sharing the information. This is a priceless piece of history; and I'm green with envy that you got to take lessons from Frankie Manning! :-)
>This is the pinnacle of trust, fitness and dance skills< If only this was a thing nowadays.
+gabriel waer It is. Lindy hop is still hot.
i just went to a lindy hop social.... it was great. check out dance clubs in your area. and facebook
Lol! Those words reminded me of when i did waltzing back when i was little. I use to be able to do that really well, but the partner i always got partnered up with someone who sucked and put little effort into it.
How to do the swing dancing
Nowadays it's about who can shake there ass the fastest.... lmao
its such a shame that people don't dance like this anymore ,I would give anything to go back to then just to dance with them
There are groups all over who dance like this. I have several friends who have been part of lindy dancing for decades, especially since the swing revival of the late 90s.
if it makes you feel better, i really doubt such extravagant swing dancing was common amongst regular non-trained dancers at the time lmao
Yey hurra war time
My grandmother tells me about all the great times she's had in the 40's. makes me wish I was born in the 19th century. I'd be so much happier!!
Cowlan Aj omg you're right haha my mistake
My dad danced to this when he was in school
It was mid 20 th century
Yea apart from the two world wars, famine and genocide that happened
Hugo Cabret yes, I think people were kinder back then...
I swear that dance is so great that it's impossible today because most of us have forgotten how to dance this great
For those people who think that our grandparents couldn't do anything other than the waltz should look at this and realize what real high energy dancing was really like !
Deep trust in your partner.
ya got that right
Lacking in society today.
i wish this would make a comeback i love dancing like this
actually swing dancing has made a comeback
My boyfriend and I decided we were going to master the swing, boogie-woogie, lindy hop and such and we did and, trust me, it is much more difficult to flip a man over your back than a woman, but it is utterly doable. It took us some six months and we are quite decent.
That's so cool
In those days people were good at this sort of dance nowadays a man could flip a girl up and he wouldn't be there when she gets back
Eddie Power not if you were black or had another skin color besides white
One time me and an ex tried to do the end dance from dirty dancing. I weighed around 125 lbs 130 or so. He was a former football player and muscular. He couldnt do the part where he lifts her and balances her horizontally. It takes a TON of strength and energy to actually dance. Kids now have no idea. These cats in this clip could outdance anyone now. That stuff looked HARD!!! Wow
I've just been reading about people who wished they could dance like this and just to lazy to get off their butts and do some thing about it , Great to see you are doing it and you learned it well by the looks of it WELL DONE
I feel like I lost 10 pounds just by watching this video.
Those 10 pounds must have flew on me.
lol
FreedomWriter thanks 🙏 I'm standing still
It seems to me that you are pretty fast on your own feet! Cool!
LOL!
This is just fabulous! I would love to see today's youth pull this off. Sure there are some out there that can do that hip-hop spin on the back of their neck thing, but to do this with class and a whole room full of people would be a first for this generation. it can be downright dangerous too, I once pulled my left shoulder swing dancing so so bad, it nearly tore up my rotator cuff, and I had to wear a sling for a few weeks. Then I was dancing to "In the Mood" by the Navy band down in Norfolk, VA, when my date flung out too far, and she fell back and broke her wrist! Her sister who was with us said, OK buddy, you broke her, now you have to keep her, you break it you buy it! So I did, and we were married about 8 months later!
+TheEldoradoKid you wonder how that over the head toss went the first time lol
+TheEldoradoKid Yeah. folks now would take any opportunity to sexualize the dance...it'd be all grinding and twerking.
I actually learnt to dance to a song like this and it was amazing!
+TheEldoradoKid Well you know swing dancing isn't exactly "in" like it was back in the forties and fifties, but people still do it. In the Twin Cities in Minneapolis there's this place called The Caves for East Coast Swing, a group of friends and I have been making plans to start going there every other week, and they teach ECS lessons for free for an hour, and after that they play an hour of music for people to dance to. Another friend and I do ballroom dance and WCS together, and our dance instructors said that there's a ton of young people there and they get pretty crazy with the dancing. Plus at my school they've started playing some Glenn Miller in the halls during passing period, and I know several people who are pretty interested in Swing, so thank god it's not completely dead. I like to think that because it'll be the 20's again in four years people will start to bring back Jazz and West Coast Swing.
look at the comment of legolasdbk four above you they wanted to do it like the old days so they have been having lessons any body can dance but it is having the will to go out and find some body to teach you, you are not going to find a teacher in dance sitting in an arm chair or playing the computer all day.
These couples are not just dancers, they are terrific athletes! Great video.
No wonder why Steve couldn't dance this... damn
I GOT THAT REFERENCE!!!😍😉
I can totaly imagine Bucky dancing with the girls while tiny steve is of in a corner awkwardly... 😂😅😎😜💙💙
OMC! Yeah, did you realize you have made a reference straight off the bat?
HAHAHAHA!!!
If he ever did try dancing, Steve probably had an asthma attack
+:: Grace and Caitlyn :: I wanna dance with Bucky 😍😍😍
Benny Goodman's orchestra with Gene Krupa on drums. These 2 had the rare privelege of this fabulous band to dance to, and in those times people went to huge Dance Halls to dance. It was a very special night !
SALUTE TO ALL GRANDPARENTS WHO LIVE IN 20 CENTURY!!
I just swallowed 12 Tylenol and 6 Advil to make it thru this video. Y'all surely could dance.
Live? We are in the 21st century now...
It's the fox! Lived
грэндпэрентс не смотрят ютуб, дурачок
@@lil_weasel219 I don't think he's an english native
The folks in these dance clips are fit from having to work hard at life, house work, yard work, kitchen work. Everything required a human effort. The result was that most of the "regular" folks were fit to begin with. Therefore the next step is to learn how to move yourself to the music. Then figure out how to do it with a partner who has also learned his part. Amazing. It is a real pleasure to listen to this and to watch them dance to the beat.!!! Wow.....
Hello Linda, How are you doing?
Did that in Jr, High School, and College! Talk about neat! My dancing! ;-)
These people enjoyed from the start of the song and must have wished it never ended….this is Jazz and music unmatched….. every instrument played with immense skill, talent and art…
This is unbelievable! Absolutely incredibly the best, bar none! That goes for that wonderful fantastic music too!
Hello Linda, How are you doing?
Don't ever tell me my father's generation couldn't swing. This is HOT, almost primal.
People in these times were a different breed. Where did all this energy come from 😂
By the way, if you want to see present swing dancing look up William and Maeva. These kids started at 15 and they have been the world champion swing dancers so many times I have lost track. Plus European champs etc. there dancing is fantastic.
Hello Kate, How are you doing?
Black Culture....priceless!!! There were no dance schools to teach this? Just like all the other great things blacks are the Authors of? Amazing!!!
Found the oppressed
FABULOUS......Those were the days.... magic.... Thanks for posting this super share.
That was insane, those black dancers at the start were the best dancers I've ever seen. It looked less like dancing and more like a fight on fast-forward, it was violent, hard core, unreal. Oh My Lord...
Now people just jiggle their bits and call it dancing. Its not that hard to twerk a butt that weighs 20 lbs alone. Geez. I wish i would have lived back then instead. It just seemed more interesting
The fuck. Those black dancers as you call them. Created these moves and that was dancing. Now the white girls and blacks juggle the assess twerk and wanna be like the black girls. ...no you welcome I'll wait
@@NativeAmerican10 Work on your sentence structure and punctuation.
@@NativeAmerican10 wait for what? Christmas?
wow great video . my city would swing to this . i live in indiana,pa. and jimmy stewarts home town . one of the best actors there was . he was a colonel i think in w.w.2 we are a patriocic city thanks to hin. love music like this it soothes a troubled world and brings back memories of my grandparents who loved dancing and won a contest once 4 best dancers in indiana. in the 1950s. thanks polwog 690 indiana ,pa.
R.I.P. Miss Norman Miller 💝 Dec 1919- May 5,2019. I just saw a documentary about her last week.
LOL... today you would have to be in shape to run a triathlon to dance like that !
Wow. People were healthier before they knew smoking was bad for health.
Best comment ever!!
no fast food, no a chemical drugs, even without advanced medicine they were living healtier
DreamVikings Things just made a little more sense back then.
t e a c h e n l e ; uh no we had chemical drugs... Real drugs. You guys don’t know what’s drugs. And they were cheap.
Paul Greening also not true, we had hot dogs back then and burgers and salami and what not, all processed.
...it just puts a smile on your face!!!! ... CLASS!!!
thank you so much for this awesome video.when I first introduced my old man to you tube his first request was sing,sing,sing.
He would have loved this video..Still love ya and miss ya pop's.
This is the best swing music EVER!!!
(This song even gets 3 exclamation marks!!!)
Wowie. Gene Krupa on drums. Blasting the song.
TOP OF THE TOP.....WITHOUT ANY DRUGS....EXCEPT LOVE OF DANCE
Sam Ziouche
Drugs were common then. How do you know nobody was high?
Sam Ziouche
The only thing new about drugs is their illegal staus
they did drugs back then - the drummer Jean Kruppa was a big coke head LMFAO
Wow, are they having a blast!!! That must have been so much fun!!!!!
Hello Jacquelyn, How are you doing?
people from past times surely were pretty strong!
I love this video. These people were in Olympic shape; their dancing is awesome. They make the dancers on Dancing with the Stars look like they're dancing in slow motion. So many remarkable things about the video and music. The women's costumes are way before their time. I can't imagine anyone showing that much leg in 1937. It was unheard of back then. This was made when my dad was 8 and my mom was about 5 or 6. You never saw a woman's legs like this even into the 50's. There's 2 couples with maids. The second one is with the guy in overalls and he is just so rough with her; it looks like he could pull her arms right out of their sockets. But then she gets revenge. Ha ha. The music is so exciting. The beat is just so fabulous. Benny Goodman must have been very popular. This is one of those songs that just stays in your head. It does have a lot of history in it including Judy Garland dancing as a child. It's an awesome compilation of videos with great music. Makes me want to see the movie Hellzapoppin and hear more of Benny Goodman and his orchestra. Awesome. One of my all time favorite videos.
Hello Susan, How are you doing?
Great video.I saw that first couple in another old dance video before.I never had that level of energy when I was 16.LOL.I wonder why WW2 sailors always seemed good at jitterbugging.
Great Dancers; Great Videoclip!!!.
0:27 wooow I love how the woman's hair tie starts to unravel so she catches it, waves it then throws it without missing a beat. Pure finnesse!!
my grandmother use to do that, she was a extra in asome films back when doing these dances
Winning WW2 isn't the only reason they were called the greatest generation!
Thank you for sharing these videos out of this world and bring a smile to your face
😄😄I TRULY ENJOYED ALL THE PERFORMANCES..😂😂LOL!!THOSE WERE SOME SWINGING BROTHERS& SISTERS!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
I thought they had strings attached to their clothing, oh my gosh foot works body movements and all wow , I'm a Filipina now I know where my old folks got this ideas or dancing mania. I fell in love with these music and always open to any genre.
Damn!!!!!! Is so freaking awesome, funny, and dynamic!!!! I just took 2 lessons of this and I realized how much I love not just jazz, cinema and so on from 20's but also DANCING!
So happy to see also pure Judo also here haha since I practise it for my entire life!!!
0:31 Ura Nage
0:39 Tomoe Nage
1:56 Ippon Seoi Nage
2:36 Absolutelly perfect Uki Goshi, better than average practisers hahaha
? isn't this from the 40's
This was the music of my parents and thankfully I grew up listening to the music of the big band era, my mother could jitterbug on roller skates. Geez. I wish she had some pictures or video of this. Micheline Kribs,Rolla,MO
Simply incredible!
Speechless 😍 I just can't stop watching it, this is insane!!
Now that’s f@#$&*ing talent!!
The moves the dancers made to the music, and the clothes they wore are timeless.
Hello Annette, How are you doing?
how tf are they not out of breath they over here throwing each other all over the floor 😂 now I feel like my grandma is more talented than me
My nan and pop used to dance to this tune every year at their wedding anniversary….they did it for 65 years..now its our turn to keep up with their legacy. Miss them so much.
I got tired just watching this lol great stuff!
We are dancing to this at school!
Thanks for sharing. This was real music and real dancing. You got to move to the rhythm and not just tap your foot in place. throwing girl in the air, jumping is all part of the dance this music inspired. I still try to move like this at 72.
I don't think this will ever lose its energy... I wish we had more of this kind of music in 2017
Now that's JIVE. Best ever.
The first group was Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from Harlem, featuring Frankie Manning, know as the Father of Lindy Hop and the first guy to throw an aerial (in the bib overalls). Superb dancer and really, really nice guy. Taught until just a few years ago.
I cannot stop watching this video. Frankie Manning (the guy in the white jacket in the second couple) was phenomenal. I love that little girl's face when she's dancing with the sailor. I also enjoyed that woman who flipped over her partner at the end(ha-ha, revenge is so sweet!). I dream of accidentally walking into a building and realizing that it was secretly a tardis (for all of you whovians out there) and it transported me back in time to a swing dancehall. Please don't tell me that I'm the only one who thinks about this multiple times a day?! What happened to these days?
Frankie Manning was the last guy--the one in overalls.
I thought about my parents dancing like this during WWII. My mother told me that my father and she could cut a rug back then. I wish that they could be here today to watch this. I would have to say that they would take a stroll down memory lane.
I wonder how the hell they are so light on there feet! I would a been tripped over some guys foot or even my own foot 😱😂😂
which is better
Justin bieber or this swing music
Tereas Downes Oh, geeze, no comparison!! Can't believe you even gave us a choice!!
Justin Bieber should slink out of the room with Swing dancers and musicians being there!!
practice
Wisdom Stepped in? LOL! 😆
Jack be nimble , jack be quick
Imagine trying to do The Swing, The Jitterbug, The Lindy Hop etc to today's music. It would literally make you ill. The big bands of yesteryear were the thing and that was music. I grew up with this music, along with other genres of music and the music of yesteryear cannot be matched. I was a child of the 60's,a teenage boy of the 70's, and just got longer in the tooth by the 80's and so forth. I love all the yesteryear music and the bitter sweet memories it brings to me. Am a bit buggered up by Osteoarthritis, but I can still get down on it. I remember learning how to do the Lindy Hop at school and still can burn it up on the dance floor. You're never too old to dance, you get old because you stop dancing.
💃🕺💃🕺💯💯🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵🎶
Now that's jamming back in the days.
excellent video.....one of my favorite songs from this time period
Back when couples actually danced together; you couldn't do these dances by yourself. Today, everyone just twerks and flosses by themselves and have no idea what they're missing.
JUST FANTASTIC,GREAT MUSIC,THANKS FOR SHARING
Looks like fun, but after that I be saying, "Pass me the Bengay"!LOL!
Wow it amazes me how quickly they move! Wow wish we had songs like this nowadays!
And people say that women back then were forced to be dainty things. BTW the end part with the guy dancing with the little girl is sooooo adorable. :)
Today that wd b termed immoral!
The blondie at the end who straight up flips a man then dusts off her hands gives me life.
Just have to share this. When I was in my teens dancing I would lose four pounds dancing what we called jitter bug. Also in those days we danced with many partners. Couldn't have imagined a more boring evening than dancing with only one person the entire night
Marie McCowan Wow...you were a dancing machine!! God bless you!
that sounds so cool!! i wish my generation did stuff like that!!
this is fantasic👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Your a blessing to have with us today...xxx
real talent and flipping ....great music and instrumentals
Wonderful love this wish I had a tardis and I could time travel
Me, too gal! Carol Cody
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Cab Calloway was the greatest! Ms Carol
Wow, these moves are so gorgeous and impressive. The sequences performed by Whitey's Lindy Hoppers are perfect in every way! Black people are the best dancers because they really feel it in their heart and soul, so they give it all they've got! Makes my heart pound :)
Those black dancers can really dance. Great!
now thats what you call dancing ... fantastic !!!
Hello Debbie, How are you doing?
😂😂😂❗️Qué fantástico ...
Uno se divierte solo de verlos. ¡Imagínense lo que sería bailar como ellos❗️
Just watching this epic so wonderful love to have lived in those days thankyou for sharing bless xx
Holy crap, if somebody messed up 1 move there could be a lot of fatalities.
Wow, just wow! Those dancers are freaking AMAZING!
@1:32. Woman holds up a 190-pound man with no problem.
This looks like so much fun.
If only I wasn't a lazy potato.
Holy shit these people are elastic!!!
+Paula Maki what do u mean by "THESE PEOPLE"
BlueMoonLightDreams Oh, good Lord, she means, These People" in an obviously complimentary fashion!!!🎉💖🇺🇸✝️⚜️
wow this is amazing !!!! the way she was able to hold him and flip him !!!!
The great Gene Krupa on drums.
there are still lindy hop competitions around the world. and lindy hop is what this division of swing is referred to for those who don't know
the dance now is sad compared to this xD
Fabulous swing is the key !!!
Hello Isabelle, How are you doing?
Now that is dancing
Hello Kathleen, How are you doing?
I saw them dance years ago and nobody Can Dance The Lindy Hop like they do they are brilliant just loved watching them
The reason why they were so fit back then is because there was no internet or smart phones to distract them lol.
Or because they're black
Thanks the Lord there was not Inet or Sm. phones!
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I Create Carnage. Or rap music.
That is the ABSOLUTE truth, thanks for your post, I appreciate it. The internet is not a bad thing, but these smart phones are ridiculous, even though I know how to use them inside out. They cause vehicle accidents all the time, mainly by the younger generation who feel that they MUST be texting all the time. People my age ARE strictly dedicated to driving while on the roads.
the music and the dancers s so greatly awesome.Thank You..John Rapp
Lindy Hop. Bring it on baby.
I've always wanted to dance like that, loved every minute of it.
Hello Linda, How are you doing?
To all those who say, "What has society came to?" It is not dance's fault, its music's fault. The beat of jazz inspires swing dancing, and the beat of today's music, well that inspires the conduct of today... You couldn't even call it dancing, you don't even move your feet!
Why does society like music with the booming bass? I don't know, but that is what we are stuck with in the 21st Century, and all I have to say is the United States culture is shooting itself in the foot by forgetting how to dance. It creates a vicious cycle of devolution, and it pains me to be a part of it, that's why I am here on this video. I want to learn to swing, and revive this lost culture! Plus it looks fun!
Ben Harder You're so right, and it IS fun!
+Ben Harder How can you not hear the bass in this track?! Those drums are bouncing! Young or old, let the music play!
+13 Videos Cept those bass sounds were created by a "real" instrument, not electronic distortions.
Yes of course, but the dancing is still on human feet.
that's absurd to blame music. music is art and depicts the times and social aptitude
They all look like energized sticks of gum, just bouncing around. Absolutely amazing!
Me after removing all the little oat pieces from Lucky Charms:
oskaveli662 Yo I spat my soup HAHAH
Man.... the music was a amazing
i think people had more fun then, they didn't have money like the kids do today but man did they dance
Dance and swing! My father's day, and my mother didn't rock'n'roll. Ms Cody
Who has money?? I don't have any money.
It's Lindy Hop. And there are classes you can take. If you can find any group or private lessons in your town, there are instructional videos all over RUclips. That's how I learned most of the moves I know.