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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Saturday Night YouTubing
Posted by Jill | 10:09 PM
Wow...what a find! Check out fifteen-year-old Harold and twenty-two-year-old Fayard Nicholas, from 1936:




More here. (Who knew the Swedes were so much into swing? This incredibly cool blog MUST be blogrolled. There. Done.)

Of course the Nicholas Brothers went on to become famous for this incredible dance number from Stormy Weather, eleven years later, which Fred Astaire dubbed "the greatest dance number ever filmed":


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