Wonderful clip of early African American Dance, with many called variations as well as the "Texas Tommy Swing dance" as it was called and appeared in print in 1910. The most famous song for this dance was called King Chanticleer. for more information read Tom Stoddards book "Jazz on the Barbary coast".

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Interesting film that shows couples dancing in a dance hall, I wonder what kind of music they were playing? They seemed just a wee bit too self-restrained for jazz, maybe ordinary big-band? I don't know. I'd love for some sort of historian to come on here and straighten me out. Anyways, after a lively dance routine, we get a pair of (special atttraction?) dancers who perform a bit more complicated routine, and that gets everyone applauding. Oh yes, a dog somehow wanders in...

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