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Bill Bailey

 * Bill Bailey (dancer)
 * What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing By Brian Seibert - Can I get the ebook
 * Cabin in the Sky movie released 1943
 * Bill Bailey performs his trademark sliding step that would become known as the Moonwalk
 * His performance in the film didn't lead to more film work but he remained in demand and highly paid in nightclubs and theaters.
 * Library of Congress - http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.music.tdabio.18/default.html
 * Dates: 1912-1978, Birth Date: Dec 8, 1912, Death Date: Dec 12, 1978, Place of Birth: Newport News, VA, Place of Death: Philadelphia, PA
 * Bill Bailey, considered to be one of the best rhythm dancers of his time, was born William Norton Bailey, his father a preacher in a "Holy Roller Church," where he began dancing; Bailey was older brother to actress and singer Pearl Bailey. As a child, he sang and danced professionally, sometimes dancing with Blanche Calloway, Cab Calloway's sister. He was an avid admirer of Bill Robinson's "up on the toes" and upright style of tap dancing, and also of the flat-footed, paddle-and-roll style of King Rastus Brown; and both style fused in his work. A frequent performer at the Apollo Theatre, Lafayette Theater, and Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, he was a featured performer with Duke Ellington on his first European tour (1933) Dan Healy's Cotton Club Parades at the downtown Cotton Club in 1936 and 1937. He also performed on radio at the debut of the Louis Armstrong Radio Show (1937), the first all-colored coast-to-coast commercial radio program under the sponsorship of the Fleischmann Yeast Company headed by Louis Armstrong and his orchestra; and Ralph Cooper's Jumpin' Jive Show (1942). On television, he appeared on Ed Sullivan's Talk of the Town (1952) and Toast of the Town (1955). On Broadway he was a fetured performer in Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930; and played the role of Cupid in the musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in Swingin' the Dream (1939), choreographed by Agnes DeMille, with swing choreography by Lyn Murray.
 * Gale in Context Biography (Downloaded) "Bill Bailey." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310018445/BIC?u=cmlweb&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=3408fc1d. Accessed 17 Feb. 2022.
 * Sources from the Gale article
 * See Bill Bailey, "Why I'm Dancing Again," Negro Digest, Sept. 1951
 * https://archive.org/details/sim_black-world_1951-09_9_11/mode/2up
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