@AverageJoe1
Great stuff, Joe. I loved the dancers - that whole section, but there was an obvious snub to the best dancers of the era,
The Step Brothers, and Heinz, Heinz, and Dad. What great tap dancers they were
@earl-of-trumps saidUh, oh,,,,,tap dancers. Now no one will watch it!!!! There are none, folks.
@AverageJoe1
Great stuff, Joe. I loved the dancers - that whole section, but there was an obvious snub to the best dancers of the era,
The Step Brothers, and Heinz, Heinz, and Dad. What great tap dancers they were
@AverageJoe1
My 50's memories were listening to records like Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers All I have to do is dream, or Wake up little Suzi wake up or the Platters' Great Pretenders or Tears on my pillow by Little Anthony and the Imperials so I guess I was an outlier, wasn't much interested in tap dancing but I recognized their obvious talent like Bojangles, AKA Bill Robinson, enshrined in song by Jerry Jeff Walker later and sung by the Nitty Gritty dirt band and at least 15 other folks.
@kevcvs57
I knew one thing when my family and I were living in Escondido, blacks can work there but they better be out of town by 5PM. That was a fact.
It pisssed me off no end when I heard about that, even if I was only 17.
I LOVED blues, studied acoustic country blues, my hero's were Rev Gary Davis, whom I saw in concert and invited by the proprietors of the coffeehouse, Circie's Cup, run by Jack and Marilyn Powell, I guess I was the kid with the widest mouth open to hear Gary Davis. I spent the evening recording him along side another kid who also was invited to their place upstairs, we both drove home, got our old tape recorders and two mics in Gary's face, Wait, Slow that down when he was playing Candy man, not even CLOSE to the Sammy Davis version which was pap to me, Gary Davis was the real deal. And Libba Cotton, great lady, played a right hand guitar left handed, drove us crazy, she fed me a nice chicken dinner and I TRIED to show her my awful version of Candyman, and John Jackson, I'm a bad bad man, nobody knows how bad I am, or my teach Mike Stewart, AKA Backwards Sam Firk, who rediscovered Mississippi John Hurt along with his pal Fang, AKA Tom Hoskins,
I got one of three volumes of Harry Smith's three record set of folk music and on it was Mississippi John Hurt and I played his cut, Avalon Blues and Candyman till the grooves wore out🙂
I was aghast when my dad, divorced from mom, takes me to a cafe and I put in a dime for some music, I think it was Tears on my pillow, and he goes 'You like that Nggr shyte? when I was maybe 12 or so and that taught me right then to try to be better than he was.