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Leslie Uggams on CBS radio station / Leslie Uggams [radio]
- Title
- Leslie Uggams on CBS radio station [Radio]
- Performer
- Uggams, Leslie
- Published/Created
- 1954-03-13
- Genre
- Radio
- Abstract
- Announced in the Chicago Defender that child singer and dancer Leslie Uggams with Teddy Wilson are regular members of the Peter Lind Hayes Show, a 30-minute informal variety program broadcast on Saturdays at 1:30-2:00 pm EST (first telecast November 23, 1950 on NBC) on CBS radio. The ten-year-old Uggams and Wilson are probably the only Negro entertainers employed as regular members of a radio network show, featured in a non-Negro role. In Swingin' on the Etherwaves there are four photos of Uggams, one showing her with caption: "Leslie takes tap dancing lessons at Oliver McCool's studio on Broadway." The photo shows an old white man wearing a suit and tie and tap shoes dancing next to Uggams in short skirt and silver mary-jane tap shoes. Uggams also at the time studied tap dance at the Wally Wanger studios in midtown Manhattan, where Constance Valis Hill took ballet and tap classes as a child.
- 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