Jitterbug can be used as a noun to refer to a swing dancer or various types of swing dances, for example, the Lindy Hop,Jive, and East Coast Swing. This has led to confusion within the dance community, because jitterbug can refer to different kinds of swing dances. It can also be used as a verb to mean the act of dancing to swing music.
Various editions of Arthur Murray's "How To Become a Good Dancer" contain the following text: "There are hundreds of regional dances of the Jitterbug type"; "A favorite with young New Yorkers is the Lindy Hop" (1947); "Whether it's called Swing, Lindy or Jitterbug..." (1954); "Formerly called Jitterbug, Lindy Hop and various other names in different parts of the country... Swing is the newer title" (1959).
The term jitterbug comes from an early 20th-century slang term used to describe alcoholics who suffered from the "jitters" (i.e., delirium tremens).[citation needed] The term became associated with swing dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of the dance. In popular culture, it became generalized to mean swing dancers themselves, or a type of swing dance – for example "they danced the jitterbug", or the act of swing dancing – "People were top-notch jitterbugging, jumping around, cutting loose and going crazy".
Derek Hough ( /ˈhʌf/; born May 17, 1985) is an American dancer, choreographer, musician and actor. A world champion in Latin American Dance, Hough has appeared since September 2007 (Seasons 5 - 11 and Season 13) on the hit U.S. television series Dancing with the Stars, where he is currently a three-time champion (with Brooke Burke, Nicole Scherzinger, and Jennifer Grey), one-time finalist (with Ricki Lake), three-time semi-finalist (with Jennie Garth, Joanna Krupa, and Maria Menounos), and a quarter-finalist (with Lil' Kim). Hough has earned three Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Choreography (2009 and 2010 ) for his work on the show.
Prior to joining Dancing with the Stars, Hough starred as Ren in the 2006 original cast production of Footloose: The Musical at the Novelo Theatre in London's West End, as well as on the 2006 U.K. national tour. Hough's West End performance earned him a nomination as The Stuart Phillips London Newcomer of the Year in the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards. Hough made his Broadway debut on January 8, 2010, starring with Kym Johnson and Mary Murphy in Burn the Floor for the final four performances of the show's Broadway run. A founding member of the Ballas Hough Band (formerly Almost Amy), Hough shares lead vocals, plays guitar and has several songwriting credits on the band's self-titled debut CD, released by Hollywood Records in March 2009.
Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis.
In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
Lewis has won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 2005, he received the Governors Award of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors, which is the highest Emmy Award presented. On February 22, 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Lewis the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
IT'S THE SWEET and LOW-DOWN(...and how they swing it!) ON THE NATION'S NO. 1 SONG! (original poster)
IT'S THE SWEET and LOW-DOWN(...and how they swing it!) ON THE NATION'S NO. 1 SONG! (original poster)
Plot
Colonel Breckinridge Martshall ('Walter Catlett' (qv)), a self-appointed southern colonel, brings his two daughters,Melinda ('Gloria Jean (I)' (qv)) and Susanna ('Martha O'Driscoll' (qv)), to New York City so they can sing at Carnegie Hall. He buys a haunted house from Chambers ('Walter Kingsford' qv)) a crooked real estate dealer. The "ghosts" start their work on the first night and Susanna runs next door to a nightclub owned by Olsen ('Ole Olsen (II)' (qv)) and Johnson ('Chic Johnson' (qv))and they agree to help her...and set out to rid the house of the ghosts. They have little trouble getting rid of the tap-dancing ghost but the remaining ones intend to stay.
Keywords: bound-and-gagged, carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-city, chase, colonel, comedian, comedy-sketch, criminal-gang, debut, disguise, drunkenness
Just Between Us GHOULS...It's SCARE-OOUIE!
ELLA MAE MORSE - Radio's Blues-Not Honey of Song!
Plot
Colonel Breckinridge Martshall ('Walter Catlett' (qv)), a self-appointed southern colonel, brings his two daughters,Melinda ('Gloria Jean (I)' (qv)) and Susanna ('Martha O'Driscoll' (qv)), to New York City so they can sing at Carnegie Hall. He buys a haunted house from Chambers ('Walter Kingsford' qv)) a crooked real estate dealer. The "ghosts" start their work on the first night and Susanna runs next door to a nightclub owned by Olsen ('Ole Olsen (II)' (qv)) and Johnson ('Chic Johnson' (qv))and they agree to help her...and set out to rid the house of the ghosts. They have little trouble getting rid of the tap-dancing ghost but the remaining ones intend to stay.
Keywords: bound-and-gagged, carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-city, chase, colonel, comedian, comedy-sketch, criminal-gang, debut, disguise, drunkenness
Just Between Us GHOULS...It's SCARE-OOUIE!
ELLA MAE MORSE - Radio's Blues-Not Honey of Song!
Plot
Colonel Breckinridge Martshall ('Walter Catlett' (qv)), a self-appointed southern colonel, brings his two daughters,Melinda ('Gloria Jean (I)' (qv)) and Susanna ('Martha O'Driscoll' (qv)), to New York City so they can sing at Carnegie Hall. He buys a haunted house from Chambers ('Walter Kingsford' qv)) a crooked real estate dealer. The "ghosts" start their work on the first night and Susanna runs next door to a nightclub owned by Olsen ('Ole Olsen (II)' (qv)) and Johnson ('Chic Johnson' (qv))and they agree to help her...and set out to rid the house of the ghosts. They have little trouble getting rid of the tap-dancing ghost but the remaining ones intend to stay.
Keywords: bound-and-gagged, carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-city, chase, colonel, comedian, comedy-sketch, criminal-gang, debut, disguise, drunkenness
Just Between Us GHOULS...It's SCARE-OOUIE!
ELLA MAE MORSE - Radio's Blues-Not Honey of Song!