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[Daily Post] Tip Tap and Toe – Samuel Green – Tip, Ted Fraser – Tap, Ray Winfield – Toe

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Enjoy the Specialty Trio Act Tip Tap and Toe in the 1937 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation film You Can’t Have Everything.

Directed by Norman Taurog with Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen as Screen play writers.

The film starred Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche and Tip Tap and Toe among others.

 The Trio were well known in the 1930’s and 1940’s, they danced in Vaudeville, Broadway and Movies.

Their act was mainly performed on an elevated small platform that barely fit the three of them, watch the magic they create, feel the Smoothness of their Tap Dancing,

Listen to their Rhythmic Musicality, Joy Of Sheer Music Style and Class.

Enjoy (Tip) Samuel Green, (Tap) Ted Fraser, (Toe) Ray Winfield – Considered the creator of the slide..

Among their Film credits  Hi, Good Lookin’! – 1944, Honeymoon Lodge – 1943, Pardon My Sarong – 1942, You Can’t have Everything – 1937, By Request – Short – 1935

 

[Daily Post] Gregory Hines

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Did you know that the First Tap Dance challenge scene took place in the 1984 film The Cotton Club.

The film is about the famous 1930’s Harlem Jazz Club The Cotton Club. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.

The film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Choreographed by Henry LeTang and starred Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Bob Hoskins, Larry Fishburne, Nicholas Cage among others.

The Tap Challenge – Gregory Hines, Charles Honi Coles, Maurice Hines, James Buster Brown, Ralph Brown, Harold Cromer, Bubba Gaines, George Hillman, Henry Phace Roberts, Howard Sandman Sims, Jimmy Slyde, Henry LeTang, Charles Young, Tip Tap and Toe – Skip Cunningham – Luther Fontaine – Jan Mickens.

[Daily Post] Tip Tap & Toe

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Enjoy the Specialty Trio Act Tip Tap & Toe Tap Masters and National Treasures.

They were well known in the 1930’s and 1940’s, they danced in Vaudeville, Broadway and Movies.

Their act was mainly performed on an elevated small platform that barely fit the three of them, watch the magic they create, feel the smoothness of the Tap Dancing, No Hard Hitting, Stomping, or Snap Bangs.

Listen to their Rhythmic Musicality, Sheer Music not just steps. Enjoy Tip – Samuel Green, Tap – Ted Fraser, Toe – Ray Winfield.

Green, Fraser and Winfield are like cliffhangers on that tiny deck, watch how close… Aaaaahhh!!! they get to the edge of it,

Entertainment at its Best… Let’s Get There…

[Daily Post] Tip Tap and Toe

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Enjoy the Specialty Trio Act Tip Tap & Toe, well known in the 1930’s and 1940’s danced in Vaudeville, Broadway and Movies.

Their act was mainly performed on an elevated small platform that barely fit the three of them.

Still watch the magic they create, feel the Rhythmic Smoothness of their Tap Dancing.The clip is from the 20th Century Fox Film Corp. 1937 comedy musical film You Can’t Have Everything directed by Norman Taurog, staring Alice Faye and Don Ameche among others.

(Tip) Samuel Green, (Tap) Ted Fraser, (Toe) Ray Winfield.

[Daily Post] Tip Tap and Toe

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Once more, sit back and Enjoy the Specialty Trio Act Tip Tap & Toe, Tap Masters and National Treasures.

Their Act was well known in the 1930’s and 1940’s, they danced in Vaudeville, Broadway and Movies, their act was mainly performed on an elevated small platform that barely fit the three of them, Still watch the magic they create, feel the smoothness of the Tap Dancing.

(Tip) Samuel Green, (Tap) Ted Fraser, (Toe) Ray Winfield. Singing and the band The Inkspts. This clip is from the Abbott & Costello movie Pardon My Sarong 1942.