Thursday, December 8, 2011

Happy Feet Friday

That consummate swing-meister, Lionel Hampton, performs “Hey Ba Ba Re Bop”.

4 comments:

JorgXMcKie said...

Interesting. I see precisely zero black faces in the audience/dancers. Early 50s?

Paco said...

I think the clip is from a movie, and the scene is supposed to be from a high school dance. If the setting is in some small town in Kansas or Texas or someplace, it's not surprising that everyone in the audience would be white.

Yojimbo said...

Could be from the 40s as well. That whole era featured a number of clubs in Harlem which catered to mostly white audiences and featuring all black talent. That's where most of your big entertainers of that era got their start,

bruce said...

According to this, we may actually be witnessing Alan Freed inventing the concept of Rock and Roll in this clip.