A snippet from http://NicholasBrothers.com :

[...] the Nicolas Brothers opened at the Cotton Club in 1932 and astonished their white audiences just as much as the residents of Harlem, slipping into their series of spins, twists, flips, and tap dancing to the jazz tempos of "Bugle Call Rag". It was as if Fayard and his still younger brother had gone dance-crazy and acrobatic. Sometimes, for encores Harold would sing another song, while Fayard, still dancing would mockingly conduct the orchestra in a comic pantomime that was beautifully exaggerated. They performed at the Cotton Club for two years, working with the orchestras of Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Lunceford. During this time they filmed their first movie short, "Pie Pie Blackbird" in 1932, with Hubie Blake and his orchestra.

wonderful!!

thanks for posting this!

This is a great clip. It was great when I posted it [http://videosift.com/story.php?id=3588] a few weeks ago too!

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

tsk tsk, sorry timefactor (and oohahh) *discard

timefactor: dang it. And to think I voted for your post before, too. Don't know how I blanked on the fact that it was uploaded before.

*sigh*

Someone please mark it as a dupe and I'll upload my second favorite Nicholas Bros clip tomorrow.

Discarding this video (discard called by gold star member dag)