The Jackie Gleason Show: June Taylor Dancers June Taylor Dancers performer Television/Video 1967-10-14 Jackie Gleason Show June Taylor Dancers opening number is formulaic: a tableaux of sixteen girls subdivided into groups of eight, four and two dancers make good designs for the television camera: visual tricks in this show include ending with a unison kick-line; it seems the whole number is about making those designs in space move; no taps in this one; a break in the design makes an entrance for Gleason, a framing of him to say, "How sweet it is!" Additional singing and dancing numbers with the June Taylor Dancers, who open and close the show: ending is a Ziegfeld-Follies-styled promenade that turns the girls into maids to prepare for Reginald Van Gleason III skit; ending with a line up for all the performers: Johnny Mathis who sings several songs in this show. An interesting note is that there are sixteen dancers each in the June Taylor Dancers and in the Apollo chorus line of the 1930s-1940s. Perhaps because a theater stage and the camera stage hold sixteen dancers nicely and that the group can be subdivided into groups of 8 and 4 dancers. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Museum of Television and Radio Broadcasing: Museum of Television and Radio Broadcasing. (). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html June Taylor Dancers (biography) loc.music.tdabio.115 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.1958