just wanted you to know: http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-tap-dancing-was-popular-Nicholas-Bros-with-Glenn-Miller#comment-545210 is dead again

>> ^deedub81:
My opinion of this song: Pop music has a place in the world and fulfills a certain demand. Although it might not be the most well written, most complex song ever, it is VERY catchy. The chorus is very good stylistically, but the lyrics are lacking.
Come to think of it, other than the chorus the rest of the song is basically worthless.

My roommate and I got quite a few laughs when I performed this acoustically while he improvised an interpretive tap dance at an open mic.


Get a recording of that on the Sift!

My opinion of this song: Pop music has a place in the world and fulfills a certain demand. Although it might not be the most well written, most complex song ever, it is VERY catchy. The chorus is very good stylistically, but the lyrics are lacking.

Come to think of it, other than the chorus the rest of the song is basically worthless.


***My roommate and I got quite a few laughs when I performed this acoustically while he improvised an interpretive tap dance at an open mic.

Clown walk? I've only heard of Crip Walk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crip_Walk

"It is also largely believed that the C-Walk was used as a warning to other gangs of a future attack by the Crips, or as a signal in a robbery. For example, the lookout would stand outside of the store and act as surveillance, while the robbers would lay in wait and await the signal: the C-Walk. Allegedly, Crips would also C-Walk after shooting or killing a rival gang member in celebration." - Wikipedia

It's interesting how the Crip Walk evolved from a gang sign used by criminal thugs to a gangsta rapper dance to this. Next step is legitimate academic recognition as a form of urban tap dance.

It reminds me of the myth of the "noble savage", because an observer from far enough away might marvel at the dance, song, and ritual that these mythical "Crips" from "Compton" created, without realizing they were instruments of a brutal culture.

He should have followed his heart and gone to tap dancing school.

Top-ranked submission fetishist neuralnoise summarizes what happened:
Little guy was all "my god where is my teeth" And big guy was all murder and stuff. Suddenly "zipt" and big guy is tap-dancing with his hands or he won´t dance again. He never, ever expected or saw that coming. wow.

I tap danced on top of an M113C troop carrier in front of an entire armor corps regiment

upvote for the tap dancing.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Singing, Rain, Good, Morning' to '1952, 50s, musical, gene kelly, donald o connor, debbie reynolds, tap, dance' - edited by swampgirl

Tags for this video have been changed from 'tap, dance, bill, bailey, michael, jackson' to 'tap, dance, bill, bailey, michael, jackson, 50s' - edited by swampgirl

Bet he sucks at tap dancing and moonwalking.

As you may know Ive created a playlist of many of the dead videos on the sift. As its been there for awhile, and there have been quite a few views of it, very few vids have been fixed or discarded. I thought a list just of yours might be of some help. The list below are all your videos on my playlist. There may be a few errors, but I gave it my best shot.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Beetles--Letter-B-Classic-Sesame-Street
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Original-Mahna-Mahna-1969
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bobby-Badfingersyes-hes-serious
http://www.videosift.com/video/Betelgeuses-Sales-Pitch
http://www.videosift.com/video/Carol-Burnett-crashes-the-Match-Game
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sean-at-the-Office-Mad-TV
http://www.videosift.com/video/Kriss-Kross-Jump
http://www.videosift.com/video/Stewie-tap-dances-with-Gene-Kelly
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ashlee-Simpson-at-the-Orange-Bowl-mercifully-short
http://www.videosift.com/video/Monty-Python-Management-Training-Interview

Japanese tap dancing livestock....Nii buzoku shoujo, not in the house!!!

(What did I say plastique?? Did that sound silly??)

Related to http://www.videosift.com/video/Stewie-tap-dances-with-Gene-Kelly ... "A clip from the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh. Gene Kelly dances with Jerry from the carton series Tom and Jerry."

Don't get much "creepy" entertainment value out of this, sorry.
If a drag queen who was ravaged by polio and severely beaten as a child wants to dress up and tap dance, good for him.