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