For a lot of people today, things like barber shop quartet singing and tap dancing is unbearably nerdy and fuddy-duddy-ish.
It wasn’t always so. There was a time when both art forms were alive and vibrant. And in particular, tap dancing was at one time an incredibly demanding, athletic style of dance.
In this clip from the movie Stormy Weather, the great Cab Calloway is singing Jumpin’ Jive and before long, two dancers jump up to take over.
A lot of people probably didn’t realize that they were the famed Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold.