Thursday, October 16, 2008

Happy Feet Friday

Tommy Dorsey and his band give a joyous rendition of “Hawaiian War Chant”, featuring some fabulous work by Ziggy Elman on trumpet and Buddy Rich on drums (from 1942; toward the end, you get an eyeful of the dancer Eleanor Powell, who, for my money, had the best-looking pins in Hollywood).




Hey, today only: two for the price of one! Speaking of Eleanor Powell, here she is in a dance routine from the early '40's; the first minute is a solid big band boogie-woogie blowout (and again, what a great set of gams she had).

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not only a great pair of legs, but what a tap dancer!

Paco said...

You're quite right, RJ. I'll be posting videos of some of her other routines down the road (there's an extended one of her doing a hula dance that is fabulous).

Anonymous said...

Legs that go all the way.

Strange set though, starts off boogieish and then the violins set to halfway through.

Anonymous said...

Oh, that's right, wimpy, there was music, wasn't there?