Tapping Tuesdays

Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton in MGM's  "I Dood It" from 1943.

Back when entertainment was entertaining

Dean Martin, Buddy Ebsen, Lee J. Cobb, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Jackie Vernon taps and are longing for girls - and they all get lucky in the end.

(Thanks to Anthony Vitamia)

Most Important Meal of the Day

The Three Chefs perform Breakfast in Rhythm

Chain Gang Tap Dance

Chain Gang Tap Dance - The Holst Sisters (from the 1936 short movie "Amuse Yourself")

(Thanks to Barbro Norman.)

John W. Bubbles

Music from the effervescent half of the vaudeville duo Buck and Bubbles, who was also the first Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess.

John W. Bubbles - I Won't Dance

The Softer Side of Sammy

Here's a little history lesson for those of you who think of Sammy Davis Jr. only as a Rat Pack lawn ornament, or Republican ass-kissing Candyman Smarm-King (and of course I mean that in the nicest possible way)....at one time the guy could really dance, and he did some snappy (late) big band era tunes.

Sammy Davis with Sy Oliver's Band--Decca 10045-6
French Fried Potatoes and Ketchup
Goodbye, So Long, I'm Gone

The Women Wicki-Wacki-Woo

Don Redman and His Orchestra, featuring Red & Struggy, performing "Nagasaki", 1934.