Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Whitey's Lindy Hoppers w/ Dancers' Names - Harlem Congaroos
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- Lindy Hop / Swing Dance scene from the movie - Hellzapoppin' - One of the top lindy hop swing dance scenes complete with aerials ever in the movies. www.imdb.com/title/tt0033704/
Featuring The Harlem Congaroo Dancers (a.k.a. Whitey's Lindy Hoppers): William Downes/Overalls & Frances "Mickey" Jones (0:39). Billy Ricker/Chef's Hat & Norma Miller (1:09). Al Minns/White Coat-Black Pants & Willa Mae Ricker (1:29). Frankie Manning/Overalls & Ann Johnson (1:55).
This film footage is to be used as educational use only. Copyright Fair Use Act: Title 17, Sections 107 through 118 U.S. Code.
ABOUT THE DANCING IN THE MOVIE
This movie, based on a hit Broadway play, showcases Whitey's Lindy Hoppers dancing the most famous and most spectacular Lindy Hop scene ever preserved on film. The dancing was choreographed by Frankie Manning.
The scene starts when musicians Slim Galliard and Slam Stewart, in workmen's garb, discover some musical instruments while supposedly delivering a package backstage. They play a few tentative notes, and a spontaneous, swinging jam starts cooking . More backstage 'workers' join the jam, including Rex Stuart on trumpet and C.C. Johnson on the 'bongo drums'. The music builds in excitement until, as if out of nowhere, four Lindy Hopping couples, dressed in overalls and uniforms, swing out into the cameras at a frenetic tempo. Each couple executes amazing acrobatic shines. Then the group unites for precision ensemble work filmed at an angle that emphasizes legwork and speed.
The choreography and the dancing are as near to perfect Lindy Hop as you can see anywhere! The scene will take your breath away no matter how many times you see it. It is no wonder that this film was responsible for the simultaneous revival of Lindy Hop in Sweden and Britain in the 1980's.
An interesting sidenote: Whitey's Lindy Hoppers' routine in Hellzapoppin' was originally danced and choreographed to different music, namely 'Jumping at the Woodside'. But Universal Studios did not want to pay the royalties for the use of the song. They had a composer who was on staff write new music for the routine.
adapted from: savoystyle.com
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AS A BLACK MAN I SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOU SAYING THIS! IM HERE FOR THE BEAUTY OF THIS💯❌💯 My ppl were GETTIN DOWN‼️
Thank you, SwingCat, for the video 'and' the notice.
Thanks for the IDs.
Yes it is. Vanessa
@@vincevilebornear5ona53 Keep crying
The athleticism itself is incredible. The speed is incredible. Combining the two is just stunning.
That's Frankie for you. He was in his late 20's when this was filmed. He was an amazing man.
The SPEED:
The speed was 305 beats per MINUTE!!!!!!!
They were taking names and hauling asses!!!!!!!
Truth
@@Disques13Swing I cant imagine many dancers today who could dance at that speed!!
Thank you for identifying the dancers' names: they are from an era where such great dancers are too easily forgotten or remain nameless.
Yes
exactly because I definitely would've asked .
We should bring this kind of dancing back.
+Jelly Fingers - WE ARE! no matter what city you are in - search for SWING DANCE CLUBS and you too can learn Lindy Hop!
+Jelly Fingers Check out The Harlem Swing Dance Society in HARLEM! We are preserving this culture where it began- facebook.com/The-Harlem-Swing-Dance-Society-127947163905161/
A lot of old trends are starting to come back nowadays. I see endless young guys with high top haircuts. Vinyls are starting to become popular again. Who knows, dancing may become more swing-like
+Smooooth ...ikr? let's cross our fingers AND take a dance class
same.
These dancers generate enough energy to light up all of Broadway!
My favorite era of dancing is the 1930s and 1940s. This is fantastic.
I watch this at least once a year...I find it absolutely fascinating that no one died, lost conciousness, or lost a tooth! Beautiful! I love us! 🖤
Wow! Even in the 40's some of these dance moves were risque! I watched a modern swing competition and some of these dance moves were in it and I thought "Oh no way would they have liked that back then." And now here I am watching these crazy dance moves from the 40's! These are some seriously athletic people though!
Frankie invented the "air step" (what we would call "over the back") and the Snatch, when Ann leaps over him and he catches her calf.
I must have missed the "risque" Steps... All I saw was amazing clean dancing
actually, PLEASE do not do these moves until you have practiced them first with a partner you trust, you can really hurt yourself or more especially your partner if you don't catch her when you do the lift!
I can't stop restarting the video! It feels amazing to be BLACK!
Ya all invented the best dances !
NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE COULD DO THIS TODAY! AMAZING!!!
Of course it can be done today. There are plenty of dedicated,brilliant dancers capable of recreating this amazing showcase.
Then you haven't looked hard enough
Frankie Manning once said Anne Johnson was like a cat, no matter how you threw her she'd always land on her feet
DrShittyBottomHammer your name is funny. My dad was in that troup - Leon james.
@@oliverleslie7382, oh my, you are Leon James' kid? He is my absolute Authentic Jazz hero!
I love his dancing so SO much.
Him and Al Minns, too - their style and skills and humor have been inspiring me for years now. And I show their videos to everyone who's up for it. THIS is Jazz dancing.
All the best to you!
Yeah, I recently came across some footage of him actually talking about dance moves etc. I think it was on the Hugh Hefner TV show. All the best to you as well!
This one?
czcams.com/video/LA-u7rp-SrU/video.html
It's great, just sadly quite crappy audio quality.
Yes, that's the one. There is a version/copy of the same footage with better sound and also without the timetrack at the bottom. Somewhere I have a link in one of my texts from my sister from some years back.
I wish our younger generation took the time to learn and appreciate our culture especially those who paved the way.
sigh
Lol some of us do. The only reason why i took lindy hop lessons is because my grandmother actually passed this down. Too many adults from that generation and my parents generation refused to teach their kids about the culture and now complain that it isnt continuing. I have so many black friends who only found out that their grandparents were musicians or dances AFTER they died. Im grateful that my family educated me and passed it on
@@keepinitkawaii well said
It’s not the younger generations fault if our parents and their parents never taught us about our culture fr. I personally as a African American don’t even know any of my ancestors past my grandparents. With my great grandparents it’s a blur what they were like because I only seen them from a picture and didn’t get any detailed storyline about their life.
It's your fault we don't learn the culture. It's literally 100% your fault.
What wonderful black culture! The dancing is amazing!
The amount of physical strength and coordination for this many people to simultaneously do this at the drop of a hat is nothing short of astounding
if I could burn that many calories...
I love that everything black people do, we do it our own way. We dance different, we sing different, we play sports different, we are only in competition with ourselves.
What it is is simply great talent!, Im old and white and from the UK but anyone can appreciate the contributions to music, dance and every other high art black artists have made
To say anything else would be simply ridiculous. In my comments on this above I say I am very uncomfortable with the forced { supposed } black facial expressions and mannerisms these artists were obviously made to do, We live in a far better time today. It's great they are actually named here too, so many great artist of color were not even credited in many movies like this
Actually all the dances from that era were American adaptations and transformations of European dances, like Jazz itself. We, are the Americans. We are the One of One. Black, and other superficial, foreign references, have nothing to do with what we are. In fact by continuing these false identities, which your statement does, you reinforce the lies. You're still caught in the race/skin color matrix so you can't imagine these truths....but you will. Feel free to engage this discussion.
@@cavaleer well first you make out we are all one to water down and diminish black contributions to the American art from and then with staggering hypocracy default to the "europeans created everything" mantra?? Feel free to discuss your white bias..and jazz was not a european invention, you can cut that out right now..
Well, I dunno. I'm white, European and middle-aged. But many of the artists -- from all fields -- I most admire are black. So are some of my closest friends (please forgive the cliché) So is my GP, the brilliant guy who fixes my car and two of my nephews. Please forgive me if I don't see any of those people - and I could cite very many more - as "different".
Hell yea black power my
Bruddha!
This never gets old. Some of the most talented people I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch. They are so amazing! ❤️💕❤️
WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE BRING THIS SHIT BACK!!! (Okay, I'll do it. ;) )
+Robyn Baylor Checkout The Harlem Swing Dance Society ; its the premiere organization preserving this culture in Harlem and has access to the legends from the 1930s to the 1990s facebook.com/The-Harlem-Swing-Dance-Society-127947163905161/
+Robyn Baylor Girl, I need to find me a man who 's nice and slim and can move. I' want it back too!
Our bitches have to lose weight!
We feed them too much🤷🏽♂️
Ain't out here tryna pop a collarbone
@@og-greenmachine8623 um we still dance lindy hop. There are literally clubs in almost every major city😂 we be getting down
This makes So You Think You Can Dance look like child's play...
they trained for two weeks before doing the take.
REAL dancing.
REAL music!!!!!!!
The energy from the dancers is off the charts ! Bravo !
I'm 23 and I love lindy hopping and swing jazz period, long live the big band era.
When I get tired of life and too cynical for my own good, I watch this or Secretariat winning Belmont by thirty lengths. Sometimes we need to be reminded of the miracle of Beauty and Grace.
Pure beauty...
They's dancin' so hard they's CLOTHES fallin' off! Yee ha!
lol
The speed of their dancing is incredible, holy shit.
You can't help but smile watching them go!
Thanks very much for providing their names. They are superb and deserve to be known.
My grandmother use to do this type of dance and I use to love to see her and friends do it in person with their huge smiles fun times
I love how even through all the BS that we had 2 put up with living in this country at that time especially, we could still be joyous and have fun.
We have swing dance lessons in my school and on the first day of class the teacher said, "this is exactly what we'll be learning so watch carefully" And then showed us this. Such a good prank.
The absolute joy and energy these people express.. Incredible
I glad this was preserved. It's incredible.
Thanks for posting & thanks for providing their names. :)
Absolutely amazing moves I love these old time recordings so lovely to see our people from the past these are great moments in time
holy jesus!!!!!!!!!!!! Man the closest I see to this type of energy is the house dancers from the early 90-2ks. This is awesome stuff!
Timeless performance and boundless energy from these swing dancers! I hope people remember this hundreds of years from now.
choreography and cinematography combined perfectly... pure brilliance
I love my people so much. This is so awesome and amazing. It brings me so much joy. The energy in this dance sequence is extraordinary.
Rhythm and athleticism takes intelligence...in my opinion...this goes so much deeper than natural ability although that is a part of it, you still have to think fast and plan ahead quickly.
No doubt. The old days like this, I wish I could just have a small glimpse into.
This is absolutely fantastic!! Now this is entertainment, at its best!! ♥️x
No words can describe these blessed people!!
The amount of trust and physical stamina and strength to do this is crazy.
This took my breath away, my heart was beating so fast! This is AWESOME! Trust is a must to dance this way! FANTASTIC!
Absolutely amazing!I love it!
Big smile and love for these talented people!
No matter black or white but those moves are super energetic. :)
Wow, I enjoyed that. Thanks for posting this.
Amazing!
This is beautiful
I loved this so much. Thank you.
Love everything about this. I find myself holding my breath at some parts lol. Incredibly how seamlessly the spotters are choreographed in the background
Awesome. I love this clip.
WOW!! WOW!! WOW!! AND I DO MEAN . . . . .WOW!! EXCELLENT!! SUPERB!! I, TRULY, WISHED I HAD BEEN THERE!! *IN THAT TIME/ERA* I, REALLY LOVE STUFF LIKE THIS. I, ESPECIALLY, LOVED THE "LAST COUPLE" - FRANKIE MANNING & ANN JOHNSON. PERFECTLY DANCED. 100%
.0. Holy shit that looks like somebody could get seriously injured with all that swinging the girl around and slinging her around while dancing I would've broke a tail bone doing that stuff or would've broke my back.
Superb nothing as good as this done again as far as I'm aware. Awesome energy
Amazing talents.....thanks for sharing:)
Love this in its entirety, but the front climb shoulder flips by chefs and then nurse hat a short while later had Me ecstatic. The kick in the pants was also quite amusing.
Pretty sure this is one of the sources of inspiration for Spilke Lee’s ballroom dance scene in Malcolm X.
It definitely was. Ms. Norma actually helped choreograph the movie.
Pure athleticism. Damn!
Гэта проста неверагодна! Вялікая павага да гэтых майстраў, вышэйшы узровень танцу.
we are learning this dance rn at school in PE i absolutely love it ❤❤
All I can say is 'WOW'
Beautiful!
Super stellar!
The ending was perf 😂👌🏽
Really enjoyed watching from New Zealand. 8/12/19. Too good!! 😀
That was insane!!!!!! 10/10 better than TikTok
Incredible. What a fantastic talent.!
This is always a joy to watch!!
I like how the focus dancers are applauded by the back drop dancers like they glad to take turns and be happy together... it's not like today's club scene where the competition gets a bit cut throat and sharing the dance floor just isn't a thing anymore.
GOD they are ALL so VERY good. fantastic
The Lindy Hop dance that was seen in the Hellzapoppin movie was cool. : )
great movie clip thanks for the name of the movie .
I was so scared that they would fall🤣🤣 but that was really creative
I Love the way they dance,…Really good music video
Zombie James
My Golly what Amazing Dancers!!!! Incredibly Talented!!!!
the best video i saw in 21
Amazing
Wow! Thank you!
Great dancing and you can tell there are some martial arts in it as well.
Incredible!
I’m out of breath just watching mannnn looks very athletic beautiful moves
Mind. Blown.
The classics are still the best.
BRILLIANTLY TALENTED 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
That melanin on deck. Def that super power.
I love how they run from whitey at the end of the clip. So accurate.
omg i cant believe i finally found this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is amazing im so happy rn
Reading the autobiography of Malcolm. Just wanted to see what he, Laura and. Shorty were dancing when “Red” was 16. Man!, they had to be in shape back then. Maybe they should bring this back!! Great workout!!!
great dancing and epic video I beat those where some great times at that club
Now this is amazing loved it 2017
Dang, I wish this video never ends :(
they were great!
Probably got paid peanuts for all that dancing it's a shame a lot of those artists got robbed but what they brought to the culture is unmatched!!! God bless them all!!!
Those guys and girls are the best dancers in the world. Amazing what they can do with their bodies!
Milagros Vecino
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing guys!!!!!!!!!!!!
ASTONISHING
I could watch this all day but I’ll never even attempt it not even when I was in my 20s or teenage years. Lol
This is around the same time as the Cuban Mambo... and this is how fast paste and flawless how they all dance this period. I'd be sweating my edges out.