I see some folks been visiting those Harlem Clubs, although they slowed it down a bit!😅

Yowwwzer😅

Eso si era baile mucha diversion y emosion y elegansia wooo que época mas marabillosa

What moves! I used to love to watch my Mom, her sisters & Cousin at weddings, etc. on the dance floor doing the Lindy. They all taught me, but at 66 still never found any women that could cut a rug like my female relatives.

Очень похоже на современный суд в США.

Are you barely kicking to teach the class the basics or is this not collegiate shag?

Thank you for uploading these videos. Dean Collins was my Uncle and I have very fond memories of him growing up and being in his ballroom in the house in Glendale Ca. My Tia (aunt) Mary just passed away at 96 and we are going to use one of the videos of Tia and Uncle dancing at her memorial 3/9/24. Thanks again.

And that my friends is what won WW2!

Is that Linda scott singing?

Hep-Hep!

I'm glad I discovered this after just hearing Sylvia talk about her lessons with Dean. It's great to see Jonathan there too. Much gratitude and respect to them 👍👍👍👍

Very good Orchestra.

Thank you for wearing a mask 😅

HOMO DANCING AUTÉNTICUS ÑIS. ESCANDON CDMX.

I could do without the pointless dancing.

HOMO DANCING AUTÉNTICUS ÑIS.

Hola Nick, me puedes decir el nombre de las películas. Un saludo gracias.

HOMO DANCING AUTÉNTICUS ÑIS. MÉXICO TEPITO-ESCANDON.

"Smoke Rings" is a favorite song

Really inventive compositions by Jean Negulesco, using light, shadow and mirrors.

So dreadful that I liked it.

Great music and crisp camera work.

Fabulous historical footage!

OMG, I have never.

Young Buddy Rich listened keenly Tony Briglia and mentions his name on several occasions.

Awesome 🤩

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing this critical historic footage Nick!

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing this critical historic footage Nick!

Great historical footage. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing this historical footage!

Exelentes estanpas de los 40s ..

Thank you from Amsterdam. Great!

❤️

PS: to the few who said the band was past it's prime by the time this short was filmed, go back to the end of the class.

This short has some distinguished credentials behind it judging from the credits. Not well known today, the Casa Loma orchestra was one of the seminal swing bands and played a very influential part in that genre of music. Thanks for sharing this! 👏👏👏

I can only dream of what it would have been like to dance to big bands of that calibre.

Bons tempos, estar com o mestre é gratificante, principalmente para aqueles que o conheceram. maneco- Porto Alegre-RS -Brasil.

Cute. It's always good to hear MSc from the big band era.

Stick around mediocre white big band swing musicians, Bird and Dizzy are on their way there to help send you packing and back to big band swing drawing board..

Mediocrity.

Either you knew the owner of this privately-owned land or you were trespassing on private property. If the latter, it appears you cared less about that.

Could you please tell me where to start this hike

Awful, how bout' an egg?.

They're tired and boring. HEY GET SOME BLACK DANCERS IN THERE!

They're tired and boring. HEY, SEND IN BLACK DANCERS IN THERE PLEASE!

This was swinging, driving music--until the arrival of a handful of supremely gifted musicians who exploded on the scene with the most shocking, inventive and 'in you're face' style of Jazz that hadn't been seen or heard before or since. The genius and brilliance of technicians Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, Howard McGhee, Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Ray Brown, James Moody, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins etc. burst onto the scene and created a Jazz style whose sheer virtuosity inspired many to listen to, almost exclusively, which made it particularly challenging to dance along with.. Rather, it articulated a unique and previously un-charted Jazz form that skillfully and masterfully utilized breakneck tempos, complex chord progressions, raised fourths, flatted fifths and other daring devices that could not be so easily imitated or perhaps plagiarized by far less talented white musicians and ultimately sent many Big Band Swing musicians packing and back to the Big Band Swing drawing board-- to which they never recovered. Modern Jazz or Bebop or simply 'Bop' changed the face of Jazz forever. 'Bop' LIVES!

These tired looking mediocre dancers may have just gotten wind from Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom where they watched, observed, learned and perhaps plagiarized the super-slick Lindy Hop dance moves performed by supremely gifted Black dancers, before going elsewhere (the cameras at this dance hall in this video maybe) gaining their white privilege attention from hollywood, the media and the record industry.

Love the cinematography. Very 40s with light and shadow.

Man, what I wouldn't give to have danced with Jewel McGowan.

She was a fantastic dancer, and absolutely gorgeous too.