Bill Bailey Moonwalk 1943
In 1943 bill bailey performed the first backslide on screen in the movie the cabin in the sky.
Bill bailey moonwalk 1943. Billbailey tapdance harlem moonwalk apollo apollotheatre 1955. However the moonwalk might have been a later incarnation of a dance move allegedly invented by tap dancer bill bailey. Dick van dyke performed a moonwalk move in the 1950s in his mailing a letter on a windy corner comedy skit. The moonwalk was recorded as early 1943 in a performance by tap dancer bill bailey.
Bill bailey december 8 1912 december 12 1978 was an african american tap dancer. The pioneer of the moonwalk kmjq never out of a job in his heyday he became even more popular in the 1940s to an even broader audience by having a major part in the 1st major market movie for blacks that featured the most popular black entertainers of their era eddie rochester anderson lena horne ethel waters louis. The moonwalk was recorded as early 1943 in a performance by tap dancer bill bailey. Bill was the first person to be recorded doing the moonwalk although he referred to it as the backslide in the film cabin in the sky 1943 starring ethel waters eddie rochester anderson and lena horne.
This dance move most closely resembles the renamed moonwalk1944 judy garland and margaret obrien featured something like the move in their performance of under the bamboo tree in meet me in st. In marceaus famous walking against the wind routine he moonwalked as he pretended to be pushed backwards by a gust of wind as he tried to walk forward. Original sound cmarro66. The moonwalk was recorded as early 1943 in a performance by tap dancer bill bailey.
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