- Description
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Harlem Salute to Amos and Andy Show on Radio / Bill "Bojangles" Robinson [radio]
- Title
- Harlem Salute to Amos and Andy Show on Radio [Radio]
- Performer
- Robinson, Bill "Bojangles"
- Published/Created
- 1930-07-04
- Genre
- Radio
- Abstract
- Radio listeners throughout America Friday evening, July 4 heard Bill Robinson, Adelaide Hall, Ada Brown, Shelton Brooks, James Lilliarde and Cab Calloway and his Missourians over the National Broadcasting Company's network of stations during the half-hour program of Harlem's salute to Amos 'n' Andy. Robinson was the Master of Ceremonies who ended the show giving his well-known tap dance steps over the mike. His feet simply talked. Bill, by the way, was in the Windy City [Chicago] last week for two days demonstrating to the annual convention of dance masters the correct way to use their feet to make music, where he tap-danced for one hour and five minutes without repeating a single step.
- Source
- Sampson, Henry T.: Swingin' On the Etherwaves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Broadcasting, 1925-1955. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press (2005).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015