Larry, Interesting to see and a nice tribute. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote: > A couple months ago, it was mentioned on this list that Frankie > Manning (one of the original lindy hoppers) passed away a month shy of > his 95th birthday. Here's a tribute video that was put together for > his birthday party. > > The shim sham is a choreographed dance that dates back to the 20's, > mostly jazz steps. There are a few songs that it is traditionally done > to, the most common are "Tuxedo Junction" and "It ain't what you > do". Though, the dancers in San Jose used to do it to "Mambo #5". It > was kind of like a signature dance for Frankie, and he and his son > Chazz Young would regularly perform it to "It ain't what you do". > > To make this video, dancers from all over the world videotaped > themselves dancing the shimsham to "It ain't what you do", it was then > all edited together. You may not recognize the people in it, but > you'll certainly recognize several of the locations. > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_k_BIA_unI > > > -- > The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post > the wrong answer. > Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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