Pardon My Sarong Tip, Tap, and Toe performer Four Ink Spots performer Winfield, Raymond (uncredited) performer Green, Sammy (uncredited) performer Frazier, Teddy (uncredited) performer Film 1942-08-07 Universal Pictures A Universal Pictures musical comedy screenplay by True Boardman, Nat Perrin and John Grant. Directed by Erle C. Kenton. Original Music by Gene de Paul, Don Raye and Frank Skinner. Dances originated and staged by Katherine Dunham. Screwball bus drivers Aly (Bud Abbott) and Wellington (Lou Costello) travel off course from Los Angeles to join the crew of Tommy Layton's (Robert Paige) yacht. A hurricane detours the craft to an unchartered island that is inhabited by innocent natives and a sinister Dr. Varnoff (Lionel Atwill). In an early scene in the film that takes place in a nightclub ballroom, The Four Inkspots sing "Shout, Brother Shout" as the team of Tip, Tap and Toe (Raymond Winfield, Sammy Green and Teddy Frazier) perform rhythm and slide atop an oval platform. The choreography structured as a series of trades in which each of the dancers jumps on the platform to solo, picking up on the previous steps and one-upping with their specialties. In the first two A sections of the tune (AABA) arranged as a medium tempo swing, Winfield, in a white chef uniform with a giant puff-pastry hat, leads off with close-to-the-table rhythm tap with slips and slides that extend and accent the off-beat, leaving the last two-bar breaks as a transitions for Green, who trades off with Frazier who performs six-bars of one-legged wing. All three are atop the table for the second chorus with sliding variations of the shim-sham and a finishing falling off the log that knocks two two off the the table;, leaving Winfield sliding forward, backward, sideways and around as if he had buttered feet on a hot stove in a miracle of gravity-defying balance. The third and last chorus speeds the tempo as each shine in their solos: one with slides, wings, and trenches, with a sliding, splits, and a strutting exit. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990). Smith, Ernie: Selected List of Films and Kinescopes. In Jean and Marshall Stearns' Jazz Dance (1968). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Tip, Tap, and Toe (biography) loc.music.tdabio.177 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.220