- Description
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See Also:
- Cotton Club Girls (biography)
- Four Step Brothers (biography)
- Chocolateers (biography)
- Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates (biography)
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The Cotton Club Parade: Fourth Edition 1938 / Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates [theatrical performance]
- Title
- The Cotton Club Parade: Fourth Edition 1938 [Theatrical Performance]
- Performers
- Bates, Clayton "Peg Leg"
- Chocolateers
- Four Step Brothers
- Flash and Dash
- Cotton Club Girls
- Ellington, Duke
- Published/Created
- 1938-03-10
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Cotton Club downtown, Broadway and 48th Street
- Abstract
- (Through June 9, 1938) Opening March 1938, the 4th Cotton Club Parade on Broadway and the first to have a score entirely by Duke Ellington. Performers included the Peters sisters, the one-legged tap dancer Peg Leg Bates, featured in "I'm Slappin' Seventh Avenue With the Sole of My Shoe"; Mae Johnson, the Chocolateers, Aida Ward, Aland & Anise, the Four Step Brothers, Cracker Jacks, Flash and Dash, Billy Maples, and Will Vodery's Jubileers and Duke Ellington and Orchestra with Ivy Anderson. In the program, "Black Magic" was performed by Flash and Dash; Peg Leg Bates dancing his specialty and performing "I'm Slapping Seventh Avenue With the Sole of My Shoe" with the Ensemble; the Four Step Brothers performing "Rhythm in Waltz Time"; and the Chocolateers performing "Clowns in Color"; and all in the cast performing in the Grand Finale, "Doing the Skrontch" (New Dance) with the Ensemble and the Entire Company.
- Source
- Strattemann, Klaus: Duke Ellington: Day by Day, Film by Film. Copenhagen: Jazz Media (1992).
- Hill, Constance Valis: Constance Valis Hill, personal collection of tap dance materials. ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015