The quality of this video is only beaten out by this stupendous performance! You would be very hard pressed to find this much talent on any stage in 2023.
Just when you think something is new and unique, only to find out people were doing it 80 years ago... What a talented group of versatile entertainers! You could light up a city with that kind of energy! Thnx4 sharing and happy new year... 12-26-24🎉
So much talent in this video. Slim long partnered with Slam Stewart, one of the great jazz bassists. I had the opportunity to mix sound at the Chicago Jazz Festival in the '80s when Slam was a feature. I also got to meet him, introduced by the fine Chicago bassist John Bany. They were friends. Slam had the strongest, fullest bass sound I've ever heard, and Ray Brown was a close second. Slim was a great entertainer, imaginative, very funny. The dancers were also killer.
Wow! All the high tech and modern technology can't even come close to this real talent and fantastic music. Creative genius and talent have disappeared. Love this!😊
So sad these talented musicians got ripped off by record companies. There kids, grand kids and great grand kids could have been doing pretty well and add so much wealth and talent to the USA compared to what we have today!
And of course all of the "spontaneous" performers had to be portrayed as low status workers in menial jobs - no black doctors, CEOs, nuclear physicists or lawyers here, that would never have gotten past the studio brass. And of course they had to run away when they saw that some white people were watching them - because in the real America of the time, they probably would have been fired (or much worse) for stepping out of line. So yes, there are some astonishingly skillful American artists in this clip - who in real life had to live as second class citizens, with most of their rights denied to them. This clip is both joyous and sad.
@@reggieotis2453 I've asked myself that all my life. I didn't understand why my town was segregated, I didn't understand why black kids were kept out of advanced classes in school - I've never understood the American obsession with race, and how people who considered themselves to be good people could do such terrible things to other people just because of racist myths.
I notice the women dancers are not wearing heals, unlike the norm for white women dancers of the time. I always felt heals made women more stiff than their male counter parts, as I'm sure heals made dancing far more difficult. I doubt these dances could have been done in heals.
Stole your culture right under your feet because you refuse to search out the true history of your Fathers; now there MIGHT be one of you onstage and POSSIBLY one of your "Stars" on the panel.🤔🤔🤣🤣
Slim was not only one of the greatest pianist ever but also one of the greatest guitarist and singer as well.
The quality of this video is only beaten out by this stupendous performance! You would be very hard pressed to find this much talent on any stage in 2023.
Just when you think something is new and unique, only to find out people were doing it 80 years ago...
What a talented group of versatile entertainers! You could light up a city with that kind of energy! Thnx4 sharing and happy new year... 12-26-24🎉
I’m 66 years old and I can’t believe I never seen or heard of them. Magnificent!!!!!
How dare you! Is you alive man?
@ I came alive after watching them. How much I would’ve loved to watched them growing up but thanks to TH-cam there’s plenty to see
So much talent in this video. Slim long partnered with Slam Stewart, one of the great jazz bassists. I had the opportunity to mix sound at the Chicago Jazz Festival in the '80s when Slam was a feature. I also got to meet him, introduced by the fine Chicago bassist John Bany. They were friends. Slam had the strongest, fullest bass sound I've ever heard, and Ray Brown was a close second. Slim was a great entertainer, imaginative, very funny. The dancers were also killer.
Slim was so hip, he had difficulty seeing over his pelvis. And Slim was so cool, you could store a side of beef in him for a month.
The best Lindy-Hop scene ever filmed and the only halfway sane sequence in the completely insane movie 'Hellzapoppin'.
That is Frankie Manning and Norma Miller? doing that hop. Went to one of his dance workshops when he was in his 80's
What a way to clean a house. Im.all for it❤❤❤
awesome share. should be required to be seen by all children in school
I'm with you on that I'm already showing this to all of my students
@@yourvocalcoach dope! where r u based? i also teach music
@@pfkmsandiego I was in New York for 20 years now I am in Philadelphia!
@@yourvocalcoach i'm in san diego. darn. always good to kno vocal coach. :)
Wow! All the high tech and modern technology can't even come close to this real talent and fantastic music.
Creative genius and talent have disappeared.
Love this!😊
I don't think that perfection can be achieved today.
Well, I have never............
That was AMAZING!!!!!!
Incredible musicianship and incredible dancing! Whew! I don't think that anybody these days could compete with this amazing talent! :-D
How great is this?! Love it!
I was born in 97 I wasn’t even thought of when this came out but i love this so much very kool
absolutely incredible.
So sad these talented musicians got ripped off by record companies. There kids, grand kids and great grand kids could have been doing pretty well and add so much wealth and talent to the USA compared to what we have today!
The record biz was microscopic back then. Bing and "White Christmas" sold a lot but that was a rarity of the 40s.
They wouldn’t know what to do with money.
@@robcat2075White Christmas came out in 1954
Absolutely Rocking and death defying dancing
Amazing how they were able to come up with music and a dance rueteen that went perfectly with the movie 😮😅😊
Awesome! Crazy, wonderful, beautiful, smokin' hot! 💃
The best! I feel sorry for anybody who wouldn't want this as a supreme accomplishment of their cultural heritage.
Superb, thank you!
Amazing!
Absolutely amazing!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Just amazing
Awesome Slim and company. Coolest 🎉
Extraordinary
Incredible!
They cant do none of this like they did it then. Greatest generation ever!
Fantastic!!
Sensational!!!
That's Frankie Manning dancing in the chef's outfit.
Solid 😀😀😀
...amazing...
Wow!... wow!
Wow!!!!!!
Great superbe bravo
Superbe !
Me quedé como un loooocoooo😂😂 maravilloso ❤❤❤
Does anyone know who the other musicians were? They were all hard hitters.
Uff. Bravo 👌
ONE MORE TIME ""DANCE IS WHAT EMOTIONS LOOK LIKE""
Yo, what be cracking', what's poppin' in the crib, my mufasa? Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor.... Dammm!
i miss the old days, when impromptu dance and sing routines would randomly break out. it was a better time.
Jesus Christ. One small mistake and they would of sent those ladies flying! 😂 so cool!
Watch closely, and you’ll see spotters cleverly worked into the more dangerous stunts.
The dance moves must of been an inspiration for the dance scene in the mask! The song and moves are the same
Trad jazz or hot Dixie wow. Dancin to the moon.😅😅😅
Vout-O-La to the Globe-O-Reety!
Jamie Greco - you speak excellent Slim
Thanks to his daughter Jan... I know what it means...
Slim Gaillard was Marvin Gaye's father in law!!
Wow ! Good to know this!
Yep, he was Janis Hunter's biological father. Peep the resemblance.
INTERESTING!!!!!!!!!
To quote Jim Carrey - "Smmmmmmokin'!"
🧡🧡🧡
😯😯😯😯😯😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
🫠
Dancenastics
Canted Beat them !😅
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Nobody is cosplaying like they used at jams, for better & worse
Deliverycore jazz
And of course all of the "spontaneous" performers had to be portrayed as low status workers in menial jobs - no black doctors, CEOs, nuclear physicists or lawyers here, that would never have gotten past the studio brass.
And of course they had to run away when they saw that some white people were watching them - because in the real America of the time, they probably would have been fired (or much worse) for stepping out of line.
So yes, there are some astonishingly skillful American artists in this clip - who in real life had to live as second class citizens, with most of their rights denied to them. This clip is both joyous and sad.
Why does everything have to be about race?Jesus Christ
@@reggieotis2453 Exactly. In many other parts of the world, everything is not about race - but racism has plagued America for a couple of centuries.
@@reggieotis2453 I've asked myself that all my life. I didn't understand why my town was segregated, I didn't understand why black kids were kept out of advanced classes in school - I've never understood the American obsession with race, and how people who considered themselves to be good people could do such terrible things to other people just because of racist myths.
I notice the women dancers are not wearing heals, unlike the norm for white women dancers of the time. I always felt heals made women more stiff than their male counter parts, as I'm sure heals made dancing far more difficult. I doubt these dances could have been done in heals.
Stole your culture right under your feet because you refuse to search out the true history of your Fathers; now there MIGHT be one of you onstage and POSSIBLY one of your "Stars" on the panel.🤔🤔🤣🤣
Guys, they are not really dancing! It's CGI
That was way before CGI was even thought of.
Bullocks.
Fantastic!