- Description
Tap Dance America is a reference work of bibliographic information and does not point to digitized versions of the items described. The Library of Congress may or may not own a copy of a particular film or video. To request additional information Ask a Librarian.
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Bill Bailey on the debut of the Louis Armstrong radio show / Bill Bailey [radio]
- Title
- Bill Bailey on the debut of the Louis Armstrong radio show [Radio]
- Performer
- Bailey, Bill
- Published/Created
- 1937-04-09
- Genre
- Radio
- Abstract
- The first all-colored coast-to-coast commercial radio program under the sponsorship of the Fleischmann Yeast Company headed by Louis Armstrong and his orchestra, a half-hour show, advertised as an all-colored revue, broadcast with a live audience, introducing a new style of radio entertainment, featured singers and dancers: "Next in line came Bill Bailey (tap dancing). In this case we can proudly say nothing was missing. No better selection could have been made for his spot, and we doubt if any other dancer could have carried the job with more merit. The tremendous amount of applause which you outsiders heard for him was just and deserving."
- 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