
ORIGINS OF THE MOONWALK Dancers (in alphabetical order): Fred Astaire, Bill Bailey, Buck and Bubbles, Cab Calloway, Clark Brothers, Sammy Davis Jr., Daniel L. Haynes, Rubberneck Holmes, Patterson and Jackson, Eleanor Powell, Bill Robinson, Three Chefs (only the feet), Tip Tap and Toe (feat. Ray Winfield), Earl Snakehips Tucker Video edited by CFJ Originally uploaded on my former channel on June 2, 2008 and had got about 1220000 views until the channel got deleted on December 8, 2010. The 2nd in my MJ trilogy. The following is the original description I wrote for the video. --------------- My second Michael Jackson related video. Since the first one "Fred Astaire in Smooth Criminal" seems quite well-received, I decided to make another one. This time the theme is "who devised the moonwalk?". As some people already know, a dance move called the moonwalk (aka backslide) had been existed before it became the "moonwalk". The video features the ancient moonwalkers and other greats who possibly influenced MJ's style of dancing. The most well-known dancer as the "orignal moonwalker" should be Bill Bailey who performed it in the film Showtime At The Apollo (1955), which was also featured in the movie Tap (1989). But actually Bill Bailey, pupil of Bill Robinson, performed the very same step as early as 1943 in the movie Cabin In The Sky, which you can see here as well as the 1955 film. The various scenes used in the video are from 1929 to 1955 (except Sammy Davis Jr. from '65 and <b>...</b>
Moonwalk
Michael
Jackson
Billie
Jean
Smooth
Criminal
Fred
Astaire
Bill
Bailey
Buck
John
Bubbles
Cab
Calloway
Sammy
Davis
Jr
Eleanor
Powell
Robinson
Bojangles
Tip
Tap
Toe
Nicholas
Brothers
Fayard
Harold
Berry
Four
Step
hoofer
Jimmy
Slyde
Savion
Glover
Gregory
Hines
James
Brown
Prince
Abeja
Mariposa
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