Black Bottom 1926, and The Black Bottom Dance
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- The Varsity Drag introduction is an error. The Black Bottom replaced "The Charleston" as the next most popular dance of the 1920's. Released June 28, 1926. Written by Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. In 1925, DeSylva became one third of the songwriting team with lyricist Lew Brown and composer Ray Henderson. De Sylva, Brown and Henderson became one of the top Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the era. Black bottom dancing was for the young and energetic. This song and style of dancing were popular in the1920's. The dancers performing, and the orchestra are from 1956, Rod Alexander Gemze de Lappe and The Dance Jubilee Troupe. Billy Pierce (14 June 1890 - 11 April 1933) was an African American choreographer, dancer and dance studio owner who has been credited with the invention of the Black Bottom dance that became a national craze in the mid-1920s. ORIGINS OF 1920'S DANCES. THE ORIGIN OF THE BLACK BOTTOM DANCE. en.wikipedia.o...
THE CHARLESTON DANCE en.wikipedia.o...
This is what i do when i remember i still have leftovers in the fridge.
Me too, when i eat chocolate. Mmm good 🍫
HAHAHAHAHAH
😂😂😂 saaaame!
Why? I'm glad of leftovers - it's the chocolate that gets me exercising!
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FYI this is a 1920s style song choreographed in the late 1950s, you can tell from the men's clothing, those suits are from the 50s, 20s style suits were much looser, esp in the mid-1920s.
I was wondering about that, too. The film is too modern and the 1920s dresses are not period correct.
Thanks; I was thinking it looked a lot later than the 20s. And not just because there was sound!
@@user-mv9tt4st9k yeah the womens dresses are far too short to be 1920s
ramboram03 I didn’t know that, thank you!🙌✨
It tells you the date of this particular piece in the write up. 1956.
I can say with great confidence and from personal experience that doing this kind of dancing is better than any anti depressant for boosting your mood.
what a stupid comment
I teach this type of dancing, danced it a couple times a week pre-pandemic, and still needed antidepressants.
It helps, yes. It's not a replacement, though. Don't act like a doctor when you aren't one.
@@paulcrenshaw812 If I tried to dance like that at MY age, I wouldn't need an anti depressant, I'd need an oxygen tank! LOL
@@paulcrenshaw812 - Are you familiar with the word hyperbole? If not I encourage you to look it up and then lighten up. 🙄 I'm sure the comment wasn't intended as actual medical advice rather harmless exaggeration and overstating for effect.
@@SoulShines4U Thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately, the advice (hyperbole notwithstanding) is both common and tangibly damaging.
Watching videos of people in a different generation having fun whilst doing something they enjoy makes me really happy. I would have loved to live through the twenties
Yes me too! But I wouldn't want to live through the 30's with the depression unless I had money. Or the 40's because if I were a teenager doing these dances during the 20's most likely I would have been drafted in World War II
Wonderful time for dance and music but a lot of sadness from the recently finished great war, no NHS , no welfare state so not all that wonderful.
Ig if you’re white
You do know that this is a clip extracted from a 1960s comedy show, right?
@@ianwhitcomb Who cares? The point is that it shows the dance. My father was a musician in a band that played for a big party on a riverboat one night, and he said that when they played the Black Bottom and everybody danced, the boat literally rocked from side to side on the water.
Man, that would give me a heart attack, you had to be in good shape to dance in those days
Everytime I come back to this video to listen to the music and watch their dance and get inspired, this comment never fails to make me laugh
Nah, you could do “the Shimmy” back then that shit was easy just shaking your shoulders and leaning back and forth lol
They really out there sweating in the damn suits lol
@Zuma Zuma it’s the random folks that danced it first!
@Mark...Which would include, also, Astaire, Rogers, Kelly, "Cagney, Daily, Charisse, O'Connor, Verdon, Fosse, -- oh, heck, I could go on forever. But, yes, you had to be in good shape!
My mother taught us girls how to do this dance back in the 1950's. Fun.
That sounds like fun (: Hope you are doing well
Oh shoot...we all knew the Charleston..or some variation of it. I'm 80..
WHY ? IT WAS ALMOST 30 YEARS OUT OF FASHIN IN THE 50'S
@@olavwilhelm6843 Hey, styles from the 60s is still cool now! Cool is cool...no matter .
My great grand father Billy Pierce choreographed ,invented / introduced this dance back in the 1020's
Your Great Grandfather was so cool!!! But you don't need me to tell you that!
Wow in the 1020’s what a trend setter
When? He must be VERY old!
@Brandon Greenleaf
Stupid, Google it.
Do you have any video of him doing it. Very awesome! Plus do you ever find yourself dancing like this? 😊
Put your hands in the air, and wave ‘em like you just don’t care! 😁
Love this piece. Performed almost 60 years ago, it still seems fresh and exciting. Love it.
It was filmed and performed at the University of Washington in 1978, I’m the one with the glasses.
I remember my Uncle Claude had this song on an old 78 record! Us kids loved to hear it back in the mid 1960’s!
I have a 12 and 15-year-old teenagers that like listening to this. There are kids that really enjoy this music.
EXCELLENT dancers doing the black bottom dance!!! LOVE IT! Thank you so much for posting. 1920s were hip! (I am a dance teacher with a bachelor's degree in dance education)
What a fun number and never fails to make me smile. Such a talented group of dancers!
Boy, they sure can dance!
Agree
If you are ever in Tasmania when Tasswing organize a ball, like the other night, as part of the winter swing festival, a group of dancers will form a Charleston circle and do this. It is not choreographed, and anyone who knows some of the moves can join in. It is huge fun, and practically impossible to stop smiling.
This is why they didn't need to go to exercise gyms back then!
Lol true
Also because they ate real food, and worked real jobs...
Yeah that and no high fructose corn syrup either.
@@isunlloaoll IDK, for the former, pull up Billy Murray's cover of Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You Someday(year 1916) :o I'm actually Shocked they live so thru such fare.
Cissy2cute Most people didn't dance like this. If you watch old footage of night clubs most people are just doing very basic simple steps and not nearly this energized or fast. Everyone wasn't taking advanced dance lessons twice a week. So I find this somewhat misleading. Yeah, you would see this at a theater production or something.
Awesome classic all-in dance group doing the Black Bottom with 1920s style !
Essa sim era uma época em que tudo acontecia saudades do que eu nunca vivi
I agree
Eu também queria ter nascido nessa época, hoje a sociedade está uma porcaria e ainda mais com esses militantes.
The twenties must have been a blast. The age of dances and music like this, art deco design, women wearing those hats that always covered the forehead, men in knickers and those Fair Isle sweaters, refrigerators with the compressors on top, cars like Packards and Lincoln’s and Pierce-Arrows, travel to Europe on luxury ocean liners - of course many could not afford these things but you could always aspire to them - but it still looked like a lot of fun at least on the surface.
"Men in knickers" - this was obviously written by an American. To British ears, he is talking about men in panties.
My grandma was dancing to this back then lol
What a fun looking dance! I love it! Makes me want to dance again!! 🎼🎵🎶
My grandma told my mom that because the rhythm of the footwork was synchronized there were incidents where the dance floors collapsed.
My Dad says soldiers break cadence when crossing bridges for the same reason (at least when they crossed wooden bridges).
Fl Quirk So its necessary to walk left and right legs not semaltaniously.
I was in the Army and I never knew about breaking cadence for fear of collapsing an overpass Veddy interesting.
Train invading armies in advanced Black Bottom Dance choreography. What country could hold fast, when they saw that coming up the beaches and across the bridges?
There were many places that banned the Charleston, Varsity Drag, and other similar dances due to collapsing floors. When I was really young our extremely large family threw a get together of about 100 people. All of the older crowd starting doing the Charleston, and it happened. I watched as they collapsed the floor. The manager of the hall had a fit and wanted to throw everyone out.
utter rubbish quite a lot of dancing steps are synchronized so dance floors would have been collapsing for well over a hundred years funny enough non have as of yet.
and as for soldiers having to break step over bridges yes there were signs requesting it to be carried out Albert Bridge in London is one.
My fathers regiment defided the order once just to see what would happen going over Albert bridge.
And all that took place was a very very slight wobble.
What a great excersice no wonder people were in such great shape!!
Good lord you had to be like an athlete to go out dancing back in the 1920s! If these dances were still in today clubs would have to have oxygen, defibrillators & stretchers near the dance floor!
I could dance all night in the seventies. Now a days it is fun to watch, the body pays with all that fun, and I would still do it again.
What a work out!
After sex best there is ;)
“Crazy maaaan! Ain’t it the cat’s pajamas?!”
its the bees knees!!!!
Go man, go!!
I have that on 78 and yes it is an excellent version, Johnny Hamp is one of my favorites from that era.
to think at that time, that was modern, new, refreshing and now 100 years later no one is alive to tell us of those times and to see these people now reminds us of what will become of our dances and traditions 100 years later, the cycle repeats
Wow! Ordinary people did dance a simplified version of the black bottom. This is an athletic event that not everyone can duplicate.
There was a cartoon when I was little that sang ,"everybody does the varsity drag!"
The one with the dancing frog?
Very beautiful music for dancing in this 2023
Those people sure dance good.My grandma could do the Charleston and black bottom dance in the 1920's as a young adult.
I wish dance halls were still popular among the youth. It’s better than grinding everywhere at nightclubs!
Damn kids with their wild dancing! We weren’t like that back in my day!
People think of wild times. The 20's were a veritable Madhouse.
I love these guys! I wish there were places in my city, where I could learn dancing like them, and dancing clubs where I could practice.
I remember in high school about 40 years ago I was a member of a historical club and my 11th grade English teacher taught us how to Charleston! She of course learned it as a kid when it was still popular!
This is literally the best thing ever.
Mariama Corneh of course it was. It was nothing as long as blacks were doing it. Let a few whites start doing it and it becomes world famous.
Mildrid J Here we go...🙄😏
Mildrid J yup
@@mildridj3423 why do you bring race into this.
Stono River Look on the bright side: could have been Trump and Mel trying to dance without flatulant noises from Ole Big MacDonald himself and Mel trying to sing in that Slovenian English sort of, accent. Or worse, Pickle Puss Pence and the Missus trying to unstiffen on the dance floor. Setting: Some State dinner for the 1 per cent ers in the- House of Whites!!
This looks like so much fun! These dancers are really good and their energy is infectious!
I admire dancers of all kinds tremendously - you need energy, discipline and an awful lot of hard work.
It makes me cry! Pink or Lady Gaga don't have anything as exciting or HAPPY ss this.Where have we gone wrong? It's my opinion and young people can argue but I will never agree with them .If I was 90 I'd dance the black bottom if I could. I am born WELL after the 20's but to me they are MORE exciting and vibrant than the depressing self absorbed days now
This is the dance invented by Ma Rainey, the singer in the Netflix movie Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Nominated for Oscars this year.
Love the faces the lead male dancer keeps making .
Johnny Blackhart Do you know what his name is I like to research them
Wonderfull. ..wonderfull wonderful
Совмещение приятного с полезным. Это называется красивый спорт. 😘😂👍
I just love the whole genre... with the rolled down silk stocking etc. So cute.
It's not a mistake - the song is Varsity Drag, but it's a typical example of a "Black Bottom" which is a style of music, not an individual piece. Like today "Hip Hop" isn't one song, it's a style.
the music reminds me of the tom and jerry show.the dance was adorable and alluring
I was thinking the same thing 😂
You remind me of a Cartoon yourself.
You know that parents in the 1920s were freaking out when their kids went to parties and danced like this. They thought that this free and exuberant style with short skirts would lead to all sorts of other things and it did.
Looks a lot more fun than the b.s. dancing we did when I was young, back in the 70s and 80s.
William S. Looks like Alfalfa and Eddie Cantor.
wtf 70's and 80's we fantastic, nowadays shit is a real crap.
criticalhard I grew up in the 70's and 80's and I hated the music and so-called dancing of those years!! Ugly, ugly, and stupid!!
T25S40 I remember our high school jazz band and their rendition of Glenn Miller's "In The Mood".
What a helluva band it was, too!! Our class of 1978 loved that number so much that we made "In The Mood"our class song!!
Maybe I wasn't the only one who couldn't stand progressive rock et al!!
I am so glad that we have TH-cam so I can still get Swing music and bop around the house any time I wanna!!😊😊😁😉✝️⚜️
But what dance styles were there in the 70s and 80s to compare with this? It was all just shuffling from one foot to the other in amorphous disco-style........
Such a silly dance from such a silly time. I love it!
+FunkyHigh And yet, nothing "silly" about high spirits, and the fun and health benefits of the sustained kinetic energy and muscle tonings and strengthenings of such dancercise.
They said they loved it....they meant “silly” as in “care free fun” lighten up, buddy, jheeze lool
FunkyHigh not so silly if u recall that they had recently survived a brutal world war.
Yaz a silly dance from a silly time. Unlike the break dancing and slam dancing and moonwalks in the 1980's when I was a high school and college student! 🤣😂
@@mymanjosquin Actually I think these are supposed to be high school or college age kids. They were too young for World War I because they would have been born between 1905 and 1910ish.
Great job guys and gals I love the dancing of that era and also the music
They were so energetic and happy! Wore me out watching the energy lol!
Wasn't there cocaine in the cola back then?
This is just terrific! Thank you so much for posting this!
Oh wonderful, just wonderful, that's really made me smile!
A dance, popular in the 1920s is interpreted by TV studio dancers in the '50s. And, now, that performance is over 50 years old. If we interpret the term "oral history" as being "non-textural history", then clips like this are becoming a modern version of oral history. Thanks, MaynardCat.
--F Brep
What wonderful happy human beings!
Pure American culture for us all,that the world happily embraced then.
Such a delightful dance! Those were happy days
This is fantastic..simply not too long away from the 20s to look like people today dancing in costumes.... :) luuuuuve it ;)
This is a fantastically complicated version of “The Black Bottom.” Surely your average Archie and Mabel were doing an easier version down at the neighborhood speakeasy.
I know this a carefully choreographed 1950’s version but did they even dance like this? It’s astonishing!
Yes they did dance like that.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS WONDERFUL ROUTINE! PLEASE SEND IT TO SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE AND MAKE TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO REPLACE THEIR DREADFUL JIVE CATEGORY WITH THE BLACK BOTTOM! THIS IS SPECIAL!
This is great....those flappers sure had a lot of fun in those days!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT! I'm dancing as I type!😁 My thanks for posting one of the greatest dances of the 1920s and 2020s!😉
My mother got herself expelled from boarding school for doing the black bottom on her bed, in the middle of the night. Headmistress not amused.
haha!
I submit that the black bottom cannot be performed on a bed....unless that bed is made completely out of wood. Someone is pulling your leg.
You've never danced on a bed?
Double Ghod
The horizontal mambo😝
haha I can just picture that and good on her, headmistress was jealous
Weren't those the days...I just love them ..
High quality!!!!Class!!!!!!
Love IT... Do this today! It will make feel better !!!
Me too
excellent quality film footage from 1926. great dancers.
It was from a 1950's TV film!
I like it. It doesn't look any sillier than any other dance, and the dancers seemed to be having fun.
Some of the most difficult choreography I've ever seen.
We were dancing to this recently. If I can do it at 63 anyone can😂
Absolut großartig.!!!!!
@crooner62 Performed in 1956 by Rod Alexander and The Jubilee Dance Troupe
brilliant made my morning
Es increible como 103 años a la distancia , para muchos abuelos o tios bailaban esa música ,llamada los " locos años veinte" me parece fué una época moderna con esa moda revolucionaria post primera guerra mundial, un paso para muchisimos cambios de estilo de ver la vida.
This video and dancing is one of the greatest cures for the blues you could find. Love it! I wonder how many takes it took such energy and pep for so long it would have to be in many takes
This is why these kinds of dances were for YOUNG people! It took at LOT of energy and stamina. During that time period, people like my great grandparents stuck to waltzes! LOL
I first heard this song on the “Lucy Show” where Lucy, her daughter and Ginger Rogers danced to this.
Thank you for the information regarding the date maynard cat. Much appreciated. Just wish I was young and energetic again. So much fun x
Love the dance and love the music.
Very cute and so energetic!
Wish I lived in those days!
This is the year my FATHER was born!!!
The Varsity Drag is the name of the piece played in the background. The Black Bottom Stomp is the name of the dance.
And they we're worried about rock and roll , 😂😍💕✌️
I am amazed! Thanks so much for sharing! Beautiful. Cheers from Winnipeg, Canada.
Great video - amazing to think that in 1956 when the video was made, the 1920's were only 30 years ago - as far away as the 80's are now... And there were more than enough people alive in the 1920's who could remember the Victorian 1800's... All of this must have been pretty shocking for them... You can find the Dance Americana video by doing a search on Rod Alexander and the Jubilee Dance Troupe
I was 7 years old when this wonderful film was made in 1956. These are obviously professional dancers, likely in their mid to late 20s at the time. It's sad and sobering to think that these young and vibrant dancers would be over 100 years old if any of them were still alive today. They were likely children and teens during the depression and WWII. It seems to me that the professional dance teams of that period came across as more capable masters of their craft (they not only did it well, but made it look effortless) then a lot of the more modern dance troupes today, who seem to mainly be about transitioning from one sexy pose to another, rather then complex, fast moves, expertly done like the video above. But that's probably just me being an old curmudgeon!
Just beautiful!!!!!
TH-cam is not to be satisfied until I see everything at least once.
I need oxygen just to watch that completely brilliant routine ;-)
I might be the only one who came here from downton abbey, i love how accurate this series is
No, this is definitely the "Black Bottom"
"Black Bottom, the new twister
It's sure got'em and OH! Sister!
They clap their hands and do a raggedy trot. (HOT!)
Old fellows with lumbago, and "High Yellows", away they go!
They jump right in and give all that they've got..."
as opposed to:
"Here is the drag, See how it goes.
Up on the heels, down on the toes.
Everybody do the varsity drag!"
Entirely different meters.
In addition, the "Black Bottom" predates the "Varsity Drag" by several years.
At the risk of sounding like the biggest nerd on the planet, I'll confirm this is black bottom. I took organ lessons as a kid in the 70s and had to learn this song. I can't remember to put my garbage out Wednesday mornings, but for some reason I'm able to recall all the words to this song.
What does Black bottom mean
@@baronsorgi1, what do you think?
Definitely not "Varsity Drag." In my dance lesson years, our instructor taught us a dance to "Varsity Drag." I can't remember the steps, but the song is stuck in my head forever.
CriticalListener Well I really don’t know what to think that’s why am asking does it refer to someone sitting in the mud and their ass is black do they shit their pants and their ass is black are they black people and their ass is black Do tell
Looks like lots of fun!
I can see why it was popular. I also see why people still learn the Charleston to this day instead of the black bottom.
My friends: ur crush I’d here act normal
Me:
cet air était celui sur lequel nous dansions, et nous l'adorions.
if you needed to know why they were called the Roaring 20s, this dance explains it all !! LOL
This clip is actually from the 50's
I did all those dances when I was 16 years old as O was told by my dramatic class teachers that O was a natural actress diner dancer and did everything with perfection. Yes. I started acting when I was 6 u ears old. O was the main character. In school plays. I finally recieved the hopes of my dreams to be cast in our Cedar Rapids Community Theatre play as the center chorus line Floradira girl in Hello Dolly. I acted with 5 other gals and also did a vaudeville scene with Mike Campbell. Those are The Roaring 20 s 70 s Days. We didn t get paid but all of we actors had an absolute ball! Thank you Absolute Oddity Researcher of these Floradora chorus line girls! We did the Mother song . My letter on my underwear was H for her heart if purest gold then we turned our bottoms to the audience and flipped up our dresses. We on our first performance had 3 standing ovations. Curtain call after curtain call. INCIDENTALLY the tickets were $50.00 each and we had a full house with standing room only. All the tickets were sold out for all 6 performances. Best of all I and my chorus team were all choreographers with dance lessons behind them. I didn t have one lesson but my director told the Debbie Jaque to show me the Ball and the Jack and I took it on.I was the comedian and had to chew my gum fast and be funny like Lucille Ball. Two years agony family honored me by surprising me with a Ziegfeld theatre ticket. I dressed in a sparkling green jacket with a velour long kick pleated skirt and the silver heels I d worn on stage in my follies dolly heels. I was 1 of the Winter bridesmaids and wore a ice blue silk gown made just for me and I wore a headdress that I had to balance descending a steep 27 steps in the dark. It was pure Grandview to be honored as the old gals that I viewed on the stage were dancing with walkers and stumbling allover the stage. It was a gas!!!! My kids sat by me and kept looking at me while they pointed at the Floradira girls that they had mimicked me as My age of 70 years old. My children saw me act in the 1972 production and loved my performance then and now. I even got to take a backstage pass and met the performers before they appeared on stage for us. That is the most wonderful memory I ever had second to hearing 5 fantastic children of my own. I also played in The Children s theatre as a fill in for Playtime Poppy once. What a scream! I hope you view and like my real life experience with professional dancers. I never thought I'd pass the chorus line. What an honor I had bestowed on ! Thank you so very much....
Muy divertida la coreografía, pero lleno todo de anacronismos. Debe ser una película de los años 60. Porque los trajes de ellos son de esa época, así como las corbatas, zapatos y cortes de pelo. Los vestidos de ellas lo mismo, jamás fueron tan cortos, siempre por debajo de la rodilla como máximo, y esas medias jaja, tampoco. Años 60 todo.
Dancers are marvelous.
El Fondo Negro sustituye "The Charleston" como el próximo baile más popular de la década de 1920. Publicada el 28 de junio 1926. Escrito por Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown y Ray Henderson, pero esta rutina de baile y la versión de la canción fue grabado en 1956 y los bailarines en la representación, y la orquesta son de 1956, Rod Alexander Gemze de Lappe y The Dance Troupe de Jubileo
Blazing Saddles brought me here!