Black Network
Nicholas, Fayard
performer
Nicholas, Harold
performer
Nicholas Brothers
performer
Film
1936-05-05
Vitaphone/Warner Brothers
Roy Mack, dir.
Vitaphone short subject film featuring Fayard and Harold Nicholas. In central scene set in a radio station, the brothers sing "Lucky Number tap dancing the second chorus, continuing the two-as-one theme by trading steps and synchronizing moves; the combination is marked by light and airy moves that brings the brothers to the ball of their feet with running flaps and back-hopping cramp rolls; and weighted, close-to-the-floor digs, stomps, chugs, slides, drags, and rubbing tack-Annies (with the ball of the foot literally scraping the floor on the crossback).
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts
Hill, Constance Valis: Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers. New York: Oxford University Press (2000).
Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990).
Tap Dance America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html
Nicholas Brothers (biography)
loc.music.tdabio.144
tda
IHAS
151216
loc.music.tda.5