The Big Broadcast of 1936 Nicholas Brothers performer Nicholas, Harold performer Nicholas, Fayard performer Robinson, Bill "Bojangles" performer Film 1935-09-20 Paramount's sprawling potpourri of variety entertainment includes the Nicholas Brothers playing Dot and Dash, two multitalented radiomen working at station WHY. In an early scene, Harold teaches a weekly tap dance lesson, singing to a recording of "Miss Brown to You" (by Ray Noble and his Orchestra) which segues from Harold singing and tap dancing the tune on a miked wooden platform to a barbershop where Bill Robinson is being groomed. Robinson picks up the tune, dancing from the barber chair out into the street where he draws a parade of hat-waving, hip-swaying, black city folks. Then the scene cuts from Robinson in the park to Fayard and Harold at the radio station tap dancing the lesson with more complicated rhythmic combinations. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (biography) loc.music.tdabio.154 Nicholas Brothers (biography) loc.music.tdabio.144 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.1636