Cab Calloway & Nicholas Brothers - Jumpin' Jive (First Time Reaction) What A Performance!!! 🙌🙌🙌 

Cabell Caloway III, known professionally as Cab Calloway, was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. Fayard Antonio Nicholas was born October 20, 1914, in Mobile, Alabama, and Harold Lloyd Nicholas was born March 17, 1921, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Harold Nicholas played the role of Ernest "Sarge" Johnson in the movie the Five Heartbeats. Harold was also the first husband of the actress Dorothy Dandridge. This is a form of Jazz called "Swing". The people in the video are members of The Silent Generation, those born 1928-1945 with the end of WW II. The women are not "Flappers", that was during the Roaring 20s. This movie was during the "Jazz Age", the in-crowd were called "Hep cats" for the men and "Kittens" for the women. In 1939, the jazz singer Cab Calloway published Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary: Language of Jive. A hep cat was "a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive." The hep cats and hepsters Calloway described would in the following years become known as hipsters. Those who were hip eventually became Hippies by the mid 1960s.

I had dinner with Cab Callaway. My Dad was friends with Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, (a famous Black Dancer). Mr. Bates built a Resort in the Catskills (Upstate NY) that welcomed all races but catered to a mainly Black Clientel as this was the only resort that welcomed Black people at the time. Most of the resorts in the Catskill catered to an all Jewish Clientel. Mr. Bates frequently invited our Family to come up to see the shows at his resort. Sometimes we were the only White people in the nightclub but we always felt welcome . After Cab Calaway performed he came over to eat dinner at the table with Mr, Bates. What a nice man and a great Entertainer, This has to be an old video as Cab was much older when I met him. Watch his "Minnie the Moocher" video. Cab was a big part of the "Blues Brothers" movie starring Dan Ackroyed and John Belushi.

This is from 1943 fam. This is the GREAT Nicholas Brothers. They were the Hands down best tap dancers of All time

This is even more impressive when you realize this was done in one take, no rehearsals.

20 years ago?! Show me anyone with this talent within the last 20 years... 🤨

This is from the 1943 film entitled "Stormy Weather." It may have been enhanced somewhat for purposes of the video -- but know that b&w films years ago were of good visual quality as were the excellent quality of the 1950's MGM musical films. At any rate, that's where this particular scene originates from.

It's from the movie Stormy Weather, made in the 1940s. The Nicholas Brothers have been dancing since the 1930s.

I've watched this countless times. Watch Down Argentine Way, Gal from Kalamazoo and Lucky Number(when they were young). Just fabulous talent. They added gymnastics moves to their routines.

Cab was a master of the Jazz form called Scat. One take. The Nicholas Brothers were contemporaries of Fred Astaire, Buddy Ebson and Bojangles Robinson. The up and coming kid of the day was Sammy Davis Jr. 1943 movie, no errors.

Cab is a whole other level of entertainment. ❤ I love him. They even used him in cartoons by tracing his dance moves frame by frame.

1943...1take...no rehearsal...

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I've seen this a few times, and l'm always amazed. It makes me happy to know that this is recorded forever.

Pure joy to watch this. So glad these old films were saved. It is just amazing.

This was an AMAZING performance by the Nicolas Brothers! I read they did this in ONE take

Nobody could match them today.

I’m so glad that you enjoyed this! This is truly an amazing piece.

Thats not Broadway! Thats REAL night club entertainment! Thats when singers where singers and dancers where dancers! They grabbed you by the throught and through you into a chair! Even if you where not in the area of the night club! You walk any wheres in ear shot and you just wound up there! I wished I was born than just for the music allone

It's a true old school movie. 1940s.

Love this!!!! So talented!!! I visited Cab Calloway's resting place in September. Cool guy!

It's from the movie "Stormy Weather", in 1940. You'd be surprised what people have been capable of in movies since even the early 1900s.

When you talked about Tom Jerry “ Is you is or is you ain’t my Baby..” Tom & Jerry got that from Louis Jordan hit record a few years before. You are watching history that hasn’t been duplicated 81 years later. The dance routine was from the movie “ Stormy Weather “ 1943.

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I watched them when I was little with my mom.We loved them they were so talented.

Cab was the first black artist to sell a million copies of a record.

The Nicholas Brothers were a galactic class act! To say a world class act would not do them justice! Love Cab Calloway too!

This film is around the 1930s...

WOW!

My mother was a dancer and teacher. What incredible talent the Nicholas Brothers had. Unbelievable. ❤😂🎉

That's when music was MUSIC! It had meaning, it was fun & oh all those instruments that aren't even used anymore -- damn shame. Singers & dancers HAD to have natural talent -- no auto-tune, no faking the dancing -- it was all live w-just a couple of re-dos to get it perfect.

Filmed in one take

How about 81 years ago, 1943 from the movie stormy weather

This is kick. Cab Callaway was badass.❤❤. Tom and Jerry.

This isn’t video. It’s film. Specifically during the WW2 years. See the men in uniform. It is from the same time period as Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby!

Tom and Jerry!

1943 film called Stormy Weather, an all black film (segregation was in effect).

You are SSSOOOOOO wrong, this was pre 1950s! FOR SURE! Also NNNNOOOOOO One makes music and dance like these guys did and people from their generation!

Love the GREAT music! HATE IT when you start chatting part way through the song! This was the real American music along with 1960s Country! You need to listen to Fats Waller!