Moonwalker
There’s a big discussion in this yahoo article about who invented the moonwalk, and the answer isn’t Michael Jackson.
I can’t say I much care, although I always thought Jackson’s dance moves were his greatest talent. But the article included this amazing video of Cab Calloway that I’d never seen before, although I’m familiar with Calloway’s singing:
Wow, just wow.
And here’s another video from the article that has a lot of proto-moonwalking on it. But I still think that of all the segments, Calloway’s is the most idiosyncratically impressive:
Cab was a genius in more than one way.
And Jackson was not a genius in more ways than one.
Oh, I do love my Cab Calloway.
When Jackson started the crotch-grabbing thing I had to avert my eyes. Was that his innovation, by the way? Or did it have an “illustrious” patrimony, as well?
Cab was some Crazy Dancer. I remember seeing (when I was a tyke!) a Max Fleischer cartoon of “Minnie the Moocher,” starring a rubber-legged Cab and Bettie Boop.
Y’all will enjoy this: Martin & Lewis in a tap dance duel with the Stepp Brothers. Watch to the end — most people don’t know that Jerry Lewis was a really good dancer.
Two words: Nicholas Brothers
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Wow!! Was that Cab in the first clip of the white suit? Who was the chef? That was unbelievable.
It’s a pity that so much of our modern dance (in terms of rock/pop stars) is just hypersexualized thrusting and the like.