This is Amazingly awesome to see Leon James is my Son's Great Grandfather ❤

What a delightful introduction. I’m so glad to experience Minn and James for the first time that all I need is more performances by them. Please give other episodes. They’re so graceful yet so powerful. Thanks to this recording I am blessed.

Happy Fathers Day to my dancing Legend Daddy LEON JAMES!!! and to my uncle AL MINNS TOO!!!

Back in my those days we danced together now all they want do battle each other her..We lack Unity!

This where beat ya feet came from. DC kept this dance alive

Amazing to see after all this time. I was very fortunate to be a student of Al Minns when I was a kid in NY. He taught me how to listen too and feel the rhythm in my head. He was the best!

I am going to learn to dances this way before I pass away! Not all of it! BUT THE COOL PARTS WERE THEY ARE KICKING THERE LEGS ABOUT!

you just don't see enough men dancing together these days, very refreshing.

I found it on an out-of-print videotape called "Chicago and All That Jazz."

this just looks like so much fun

they're brilliant dancers :D

That's OG hip hop right there

props to guy for puttin this up.it"s fantastic !!

amor eterno a estos señores tan elegantísimos.

Freaking awesome..it's got everything, tranky doo, snakehips, california routine. great quality, too! Thanks!

Love these guys.

Ah this stuff is so awesome

they are both very smooh. I need to steal some of the moved.I'd be out of breath in 10 secs lol!

A piece of real joy in our hard days!

What a great video!!!

Leon James is my great grandpa =]

Wow! Thanks for posting this!

The definition of Dance like EVERYONE is looking but you relish the attention

Bailaban espectacular da gusto ver el video

This is great thanks for sharing!

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This is great! I hadn't seen this clip before. Thanks!

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I Love Al Minns and Leon

This is incredible! I love this clip so much. :D

Wonderful.

yes im honored to know my uncle was the begging of something great selah feilds you say tjhis your daady

Excellent!

buenísimo!!!!!!! bravo!!!!

Fantastic, i wish I knew which was which tho!

Lovely!

LOve this video

Nossa, que maravilha!!!

Dope shit. Charleston is a tight dance. Could incorporate it into my Tops if I knew how to do 'em. =/

good dancers

haha wow they really do. i'm 19 and have been known to watch a bit of spongebob but had never seen that!

jajaja es una fiestaa!!! un verdadero despelote!!!

Maaan that s one crazy dancing :D:D

Yeah, this resembles bboy toprocks so much.

ci piacciono mucho!!

perfect

=) you see all modern dance styles in the charlston lol

mmm like it. would like to learn to dance charlestone

LOL! great moves!!

@princesstav tons of us are so inspired by his dancing and ability to entertain! Does your family talk about him much? I've wondered what he was like. If you were able to interview family members who remember your great grandpa James and share, we would be so indebted & excited! =) Frankie Manning lived so much longer, so it was a real honor to hear him talk about his life and the golden era of the lindy hop at the Savoy. Wish we had the same with Leon James.

Leon James is the taller slimmer one. Also known as skinny - I am his son, Oliver, and have the long skinny legs as well!

The real original Kid N Play

Hey kevin My dad was your partner! This is Oliver - one of the many, sons of leon.

This is the way African Americans hid the African martial arts in the dance in North America, see how some of the move resemble the African American Martial Art of Capoeria in South America?

Welp, it's not a mystery as why he's called "Snake Hips". Wow.

Love this video. Do you know what the song is called please?

This would the First version of Carlton dance 😂

Awesome. Uber Classic! After 'After Seben' ofcourse :) No one known which tune this is?

Elvis shore did a lot of snake hip and camel walking.

So that dancing steps at 0:30 was not originated from Africa 🤔

@LindyCompound Krupa does the lip snarl when he's muggin.' xD ..Archer segway.."Why was he dressed up as Hitler?" "wait no, the one with the teeth..Buddy Rich!"

they have vid on worldstarhiphop

@naturegirlfromny Leon James is fun, Al Minns is funK. ;D

whats the music called fookin great

Do you need to stretch before doing this kind of dance? =)

I don't do facebook or anything but my family does - My sister nina would love to hear from a blast from the past- she is on facebook - nina Cecily james.

anyone know the name/s of the song/s????

@IIIDoCIII haha... that is Gene Krupa! Funny, he doesn't even have a mustache. Probably an errant shadow, but yeah I see it.

great video and at 3:17 Adolf Hitler on the drums? lol

Does anyone know what song this is?

Princess Tav - we are related. ??? My dad is leon. I live in NY.

re celquiera (N)

Looks like Elvis got lessons from these guys

It definitly came form swing but i say more like Shaq and not charleston version..

great dance! but, pants are too short

Trippy seeing these guys break into a stripper dance in the middle of their routine. 😬😬

ribbit

MC Hammer? LMFAO?

this must have been so scandalous back then

these guys would be ashamed to see their descendants dance today

7 stupid humans can't do this dance.