Tap Dancing/Indiana Jones ''Anything Goes''

[FedoraFan112390]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L5UY3oVJBY

Hey, are there any actual 30s songs that feature lively tap dancing over a big band sort of sound like in this song from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (which was set in 1935)?

 

[dhermann1]

There are gazillions of them. This is one of my favorites, which I think I first saw posted here. It will lead you to more 30's dance routines than you ever knew existed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dlbkWBRfPo

 

[LizzieMaine]

Both Fred Astaire and Bill Robinson made records featuring tap solos during the thirties. For Robinson, look for "Doin' The New Low Down," recorded for Brunswick in 1931, and for Astaire, prime recordings would be "Top Hat," recorded with Johnny Green and his Orchestra for Brunswick in 1935 or "No Strings," recorded with Leo Reisman and his Orchestra that same year. Most of Astaire's 1935-36 records feature tap solos of one sort or another, but these two may be the best.

 

[Shangas]

Tapdancing was incredibly popular in the 30s and 40s and there are literally hundreds, dare I say it, thousands of recordings, of songs with tap-dancing in it.

Tapdancing comes in a bit later, but Freddy 'Staire was famous for being a great dancer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFabjc6mFk4&feature=related

Oh, and one of my favourite song & tapdance pieces...

Bojangles Robinson and Fats Waller in "Living in a Great Big Way".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87e8UPd0rsk

Robinson in the three-piece suit; Waller in the light-coloured bowler hat and the overalls.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

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[Yeps]

This is a little off topic, but it is a great scene with some of the golden age greats a little while later. Fun note, the little kid in the movie is Savion Glover, who is probably the best dancer performing in modern times.
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[Chas]

Chester Whitmore is a wonderful dancer; he also choreographs, teaches, leads a big band and plays the Cicada Club in LA from time to time. He was a student of Hines, I believe. Here he is with my pal Rusty Frank at the Cicada Club last year. The art form is alive and well. He choreographed a wonderful show I saw some years ago with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orch. that was a Cotton Club recreation. Incredible stuff; he has chops as a dance historian.

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Bill Robinson also recorded "Keep A Song In Your Heart" where he names the various tap steps as he does them. I play that occasionally on my radio show. The Nicholas Brothers also recorded songs with taps in them, and there are probably more that I can't think of at the moment- Buck And Bubbles, et.al.

 

[Shangas]

Chester Whitmore is a wonderful dancer; he also choreographs, teaches, leads a big band and plays the Cicada Club in LA from time to time. He was a student of Hines, I believe. Here he is with my pal Rusty Frank at the Cicada Club last year. The art form is alive and well. He choreographed a wonderful show I saw some years ago with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orch. that was a Cotton Club recreation. Incredible stuff; he has chops as a dance historian.

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Bill Robinson also recorded "Keep A Song In Your Heart" where he names the various tap steps as he does them. I play that occasionally on my radio show. The Nicholas Brothers also recorded songs with taps in them, and there are probably more that I can't think of at the moment- Buck And Bubbles, et.al.

Doin' the Uptown Lowdown!

I love that song. And what great dancing!