WEBVTT 00:00:43.714 --> 00:00:51.401 - a little early. Ah, we didn't see you. Well, I did what I usually do. I just thought I'd go and observe 00:00:51.401 --> 00:00:58.275 - a little bit. Ah. Yeah. I noticed that you were calling that dance that you were doing what, 00:00:58.275 --> 00:01:05.667 - the Buck Rogers? Yeah, the Buck Rogers. Well, I'll tell you something. That looks suspiciously like 00:01:05.667 --> 00:01:13.502 - the mashed potato to me. The mashed potato? Yeah, the mashed potato. That's what James Brown done. Right. 00:01:14.018 --> 00:01:22.958 - So you see, things are not as new sometimes as they appear to be. As a matter of fact, if you just think 00:01:22.958 --> 00:01:31.472 - about it a little bit, and I think it'll be demonstrated too, the mashed potato has some moves that 00:01:31.472 --> 00:01:40.241 - look just a little bit like some of the things that were done in the Charleston. You gotta be kidding. 00:01:40.241 --> 00:01:43.902 - You know, if we just go back a little bit, 00:01:44.994 --> 00:01:52.897 - Because dance is the kind of thing that fuses, and it connects years and centuries. We start with something 00:01:52.897 --> 00:02:00.435 - like a cakewalk. And then we have a thing that's called tap now. But it was a buck dance then. And you 00:02:00.435 --> 00:02:07.826 - know what buck dance was. You know? No, what was it? Well, you know, a whole bunch of people got out 00:02:07.826 --> 00:02:14.558 - in the yard, and they didn't have too much grass, see. And they were out there in the dirt. 00:02:14.882 --> 00:02:23.010 - Barefooted, couldn't get too many shoes back then, you see. And they just sort of did what they thought 00:02:23.010 --> 00:02:30.121 - the Irish were doing in their little jigs, see. And it was bucks dancing, big black bucks. 00:02:30.121 --> 00:02:38.249 - Like the slaves. Yeah, just a little bit like that. And then they had a thing that they called the buck 00:02:38.249 --> 00:02:42.782 - and wing, okay. And later on, you see out of all of that, 00:02:43.938 --> 00:02:51.863 - the bucking wing, buck dancing. Then we got a thing called the black bottom. Now, the black bottom was 00:02:51.863 --> 00:03:00.018 - the kind of a dance that it was really kind of sexy. And you just sort of touched your butt just a little 00:03:00.018 --> 00:03:08.251 - bit. See? No wonder it's called the black bottom. Yeah. And then there was a dance called the mess around. 00:03:08.251 --> 00:03:10.174 - Y'all know what that is. 00:03:10.498 --> 00:03:18.088 - Kind of like what the guys do now. Yeah, the mess around. And then the Foxtrot. Now the Foxtrot was 00:03:18.088 --> 00:03:25.905 - kind of smooth, you know. And out of that, they got, did a thing called the Charleston. The Charleston 00:03:25.905 --> 00:03:33.116 - replaced all of them. And it was given credit for everything, for people becoming drug addicts 00:03:33.116 --> 00:03:37.214 - and alcoholics, you know, leaving home. See? And, um, 00:03:38.306 --> 00:03:47.767 - There's another thing that I saw you kind of doing. It kind of reminded me of a dance they call snake 00:03:47.767 --> 00:03:57.043 - hips. The teal? Yeah. See, snake hips, right? And then snake hips, and then you had the slow grind. 00:03:57.043 --> 00:04:06.782 - What I'd like for you to do is just sort of go back in time with me. Go back to a time when these dances 00:04:07.842 --> 00:04:09.054 - Oh, yeah. 00:10:35.490 --> 00:10:43.074 - to Carmel Speakeasy and I am RC the MC. I'd like for everyone to sit back and relax and let me bring 00:10:43.074 --> 00:10:50.882 - you the first act of the evening. I have 10 high stepping toe tapping performers. Ladies and gentlemen, 00:10:50.882 --> 00:10:55.838 - let's give a warm and welcome applause for the 10 Hudson dancers. 00:14:36.418 --> 00:14:44.319 - Thank you. Thank you. The other day I was thinking of a dance that they used to do way back called the 00:14:44.319 --> 00:14:52.066 - Baltimore. No, I think you mean the buzz. No, I mean the Baltimore. I think you mean the buzz. Maybe 00:14:52.066 --> 00:14:59.813 - they might call it the Baltimore buzz. You think so? Yeah, that's it. The Baltimore buzz. Can you do 00:14:59.813 --> 00:15:05.566 - it? I can't do it. Can you do it? I'm not going to try. But maybe the next 00:15:05.666 --> 00:15:14.878 - A group of performers can. Yeah. Let's give it to them. Yeah, let's give it to the Baltimore Buzz. All right. 00:18:32.514 --> 00:18:40.946 - like the Charleston, and what my mother used to call the jitterbug. Yeah. As a matter of fact, it was 00:18:40.946 --> 00:18:49.212 - the Charleston, some of it. And that dance that somewhat resembled the jitterbug was the Lindy Hop, 00:18:49.212 --> 00:18:57.644 - the forerunner of the jitterbug. And actually, the jitterbug came out of the Irish jig too. You know, 00:18:57.644 --> 00:19:01.694 - the Irish brought quite a bit here, didn't they? 00:19:02.274 --> 00:19:11.495 - They had something to do with the Charleston. They had something to do with tap and the jitterbug, 00:19:11.495 --> 00:19:21.369 - the Lindy. So that what you were watching was a mixture of several dances, the Lindy hop, the Charleston, 00:19:21.369 --> 00:19:30.590 - and what came later to be called jitterbug. It was during that time too, the 20s, when speakeasies 00:19:31.010 --> 00:19:41.647 - were at their height, right? I mean, you know, people drinking that bad gin and whatever else they could 00:19:41.647 --> 00:19:52.182 - get. And dance was really the big thing. Well, the Cotton Club was the club that really put dance where 00:19:52.182 --> 00:20:00.286 - it is today and where it was back then, along with the music of Duke Ellington, 00:20:01.826 --> 00:20:11.025 - and some of the baddest tappers in the history of the world. You know, tap dancing was really a big 00:20:11.025 --> 00:20:20.315 - dance at one time. You had dances such as Honey Cole, and some of you know these names, Bunny Briggs 00:20:20.315 --> 00:20:29.790 - and Baby Lawrence, you know, not to mention Bo Jangles, but all of you know that name, right? But see, 00:20:30.338 --> 00:20:38.587 - Fred Astaire sort of took over, and we didn't know too much about some of these other people. Now, 00:20:38.587 --> 00:20:47.253 - in the 30s, we still get the Charleston, and we get this dance. You saw a little bit of it, the shimmy. 00:20:47.253 --> 00:20:55.835 - There was a whole lot of shaking going on in the shimmy. You get the Camel Walk truck. How many of you 00:20:55.835 --> 00:20:57.502 - remember the truck? 00:20:58.882 --> 00:21:05.882 - Yeah, that's it, yeah. See, I want to be out there on 18 now. Yeah. You got, that was a dance called 00:21:05.882 --> 00:21:12.952 - the Big Apple, which was like the forerunner of some of the lion dances that we have now, except that 00:21:12.952 --> 00:21:20.022 - was done in a circle, right? It was a forerunner of like the Trunk-A-Doo. Remember the Trunk-A-Doo of 00:21:20.022 --> 00:21:27.646 - the Madison? I'll tell you what, why don't we take a look at some of this and see what it was like back then. 00:22:17.826 --> 00:22:18.302 - Yeah. 00:23:20.994 --> 00:23:30.090 - Thank you. Yeah, let's give it to them. Yeah, that was nice. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the 00:23:30.090 --> 00:23:39.097 - Cotton Club. And this evening, we have some performers, eight beautiful women. And they have a show 00:23:39.097 --> 00:23:46.302 - for you this evening. Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the Simpson Steppers. 00:24:24.354 --> 00:24:40.286 - You. 00:26:12.066 --> 00:26:19.382 - Ladies and gentlemen, we hope that you're enjoying yourself very much, because we have a very nice show 00:26:19.382 --> 00:26:25.854 - and store for you. And now, let's give a great big round of applause to the Hudson Dancers! 00:26:44.610 --> 00:26:57.942 - What good is melody? What good is music? If it ain't possessing something sweet? It ain't the melody. 00:26:57.942 --> 00:27:07.614 - It ain't the music. There's something else that makes that tune complete. 00:28:37.762 --> 00:28:50.362 - Oh, yeah, that was nice. That was real nice. And for the next group of performers, we have the Sarah 00:28:50.362 --> 00:28:56.350 - Lee Glitters. Let's give it to them, everybody.